Security blanket

I'm doing laundry. I just realized that the blanket in the washer right now is one I've had almost my entire life -- I think we got it when I was about 10, and got my first brand-new bed. I took it to college with me. When I practically lived with my boyfriend in college, it went with me to his place and kept us both warm. When I moved out on my own, it, of course, came along.

It's a twin-sized blanket, and we don't even own a twin-sized bed, but I keep it and from time to time it gets used for one thing or another. Most recently, my brother used it when he came to visit and slept on an air mattress. That's why it's getting washed today.

Do you have something that you keep, that keeps you? What is it?

Pregnancy update

( If you're interested )

I know about 5 people with the same birthday as my brother (Jan. 22), six people with the same birthday as my uncle (Jan. 26), including his own daughter, five people with the same birthday as my mother (Nov. 19), including 2 babies born in the past 2 years, and at least 5 people with the same birthday as me (Oct. 13), including two sets of twins. In addition, my dad was born on his parents' anniversary (Aug. 25) and my husband and I had our first date on my Grandma's birthday (Sept. 3). With all these meaningless coincidences in mind, here are some dates I may have this baby:

July 24 -- my parents' anniversary
July 25 -- my friend Zoe's birthday
July 29th -- because it's a Thursday, and I was born on a Thursday, and I used to say for years, "if something's gonna happen, it'll happen on a Thursday," though eventually that stopped being true
July 31 -- full moon. I was born under a new moon. Whatever.
Aug. 3 -- my dad's sister's birthday
Aug. 5 -- my college mentor's birthday, and what I believe to be my actual due date (also a Thursday)
Aug. 8 -- the due date my doctor's office gave me
Aug. 9 -- my friend Beth's birthday, and the popular choice on my poll.
Aug. 15 -- the day my in-laws arrive

Christmas in July

I just remembered -- a little Asian girl (Chinese, I think, but I could be wrong) was singing a Santa song at the doctor's office this morning.