Missed a few days

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I missed a few days of blogging for no particular reason. I don’t have an excuse other than I forgot lol.

Kathleen failed two hearing tests because she had a cold. We went to the pediatrian and she had fluid on both ears. She’s on a round of antibiotics. Hopefully that will clear it up. We’ll take her back for a well check in a bit and check on that and all the other glorious things for a well check.

Sam has an appointment tomorrow to followup on her ear infection. Hopefully she’s cleared up. We are thinking about getting her hearing and speech tested if they are.

Shea’s got an appointment with for his sleep apnea with a doctor in two Tuesdays, we hope he can get a sooner one so he can sleep better.

And my test came back normal. yay! Second year in a row.

More Sleep

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Shea went back for the second night of the sleep test. He says he slept great after he got use to the mask. He said it’s the first time he felt rested, and woke with no headache. So yay!

I too slept better last night despite the massive amount of caffeine I had during the day. I’m sure that the pure exhaustion just took over. But once I fell asleep I didn’t wake until 5:30 when my body woke me up to go to the bathroom.

Maybe the two of us both will get a better nights sleep when he gets the mask. We don’t know when that will be but they will call with another appointment.

No Sleep

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I didn’t sleep well last night. I knew I wouldn’t but that was just a bad night. I went to bed at 9pm as usual and felt I should fall asleep right away, there was no TV. But nope, I was awake at 11pm. I finally fell asleep and I startled myself awake for no known reason. Then it started raining and I had to listen to the rain on the window units. I got back to sleep and Sammi woke up because of bugs in her room. I could however find no bugs. I put her back to bed and I tossed and turned until Shea walked in around 5:30a. We discussed his night and his night wasn’t any better.

He’ll know more later today.

Interrupted Sleep

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Tonight Shea is going in for a sleep test. The doctor he went to see last Thursday asked him a serious of questions that basically boiled down to Shea having sleep apnea. So tonight he’s going in for that test.

I’m not sure how well he or I are going to sleep tonight. He won’t have his bed, and I won’t have him. I’m going to freeze. I’d have the girls come to bed with me if they didn’t wet the bed. But then we’d probably not sleep either lol.

Shea has done his research and he thinks that he might actually have sleep apnea, and it might explain a lot of things. If he is diagnosed with sleep apnea tonight then he’ll go back tomorrow night. So probably another restless night for all of us.

I’m allergic to people… :P

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For a while Shea and I have notice that whenever we snuggle at night I go through a fit of sneezes. It’s not all the time and it’s typically only when we lye down in bed. Figuring it might be shampoo, soap or whatever, but we’ve joked that I’m allergic to him.

I’m beginning to think he might be a little right in that. But it’s not really human skin cells, it’s dust mites. While not officially diagnosed with allergies, if I don’t take my Zyrtec nightly I do have issues.

Casseroles & Slow Cooker

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When Shea starts working. This is not an if, he’s going slowly insane with the not working. Not because of the girls, just because he’s home and not working. So When he goes back to work we’ll both be working. We need to find a new way to make dinner and eat in a timely fashion. So we are thinking casseroles and slow cooker meals.

What we are looking for are healthy casseroles and slow cooker meals that we can throw in the oven or make first thing in the morning for dinner. I have a few slow cooker meals (Taco Soup, Potato Soup, Chicken ala King, Chicken stew, Beef Stew and Roast). However not all of these are with in our budget right now. Though when Shea gets a job they will be.

I have a few casseroles we can make (Tuna Casserole, Chicken Casserole, Smokey Chicken Pasta [Macaroni & cheese with bacon and chicken). Some of these are not very healthy.

So basically this is a call out for recipes. Would love to hear suggestions!

First Check!

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Today around 3pm I got an IM from Shea. He started with “OMG OMG OMG” and that is not something my husband every says so I knew it was internet speak for excitment lol.

He told me that Kathleen got her first behavioural check mark for not working and talking quietly. This is her first behavior mistake at school. It’s a big deal. Shea told me that she was starting her jouney to the dark side. I just laugh lol

Shea has called his parents and my parents and he’d probably call more if he could lol. It’s just a funny thing to pick on her about we are by no means upset at it. It is bound to happen sometime. She still came home with a green, it takes more than one to go yellow. But it’s a milestone.

Frameworks

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There are so many PHP Frameworks out there. I’ve used CakePHP and am using CodeIgniter. There are several other ones out there Symphony, Yii, Kohana and many many many more. I’m having a hard time deciding if I want to learn another php framework.

I really like CodeIgniter. I love the light weight footprint, but it’s missing a few things that I get sick of writing. Namely CRUD features for admin panels. I don’t mind writing the code just if you have a lot then it gets tiresome coding those by hand. I found GroceryCRUD which is nice, but it has it’s own templates, and I’m not sure I can integrate it into ones I’m looking into.

CodeIgniter also lacks an authentication system. There are many written, but I think I’m going to stick with writing one from scratch. While the code will typically the be same, I can at least customize it to my own needs as necessary.

Another plus to CodeIgniter and very few other PHP Frameworks is that the command line is not important. While this isn’t an issue for work related items as I have command line control, my own servers do not, so it makes it difficult to cross things in my learning process.

So I’m thinking of learning some other design framework – HTML5, CSS3 frameworks. I’ve actually been playing with HTML5 boilerplate and integrating it in to a template system.

There is another platform I’m thinking I might look into making apps with – Pokki. It’s like Adobe Air. I never quite got Adobe Air. I’m hoping Pokki will allow me to do things that I couldn’t figure out with Adobe Air. It’ll be interesting.

Strep and other things

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It seems that Sammi has strep AND an ear infection. Poor thing. She’s on an antibiotic and home from school for the remainder of the week. She’s sad she can’t go to school. I feel bad for her but it’s for the best. She seems to be doing well this morning after 2 doses of antibiotics.

As for my appointment I won’t have results for about 10 days. The doctor gave me Natzia, a new BCP. We’ll see how it goes. There looks to be only 2 sugar pills in this one, we’ll see how it works out. I know I’ll have to give it some time but we’ll see how it goes.

And I’m off to work so it’s all I can write right now.

Missed yesterday

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I missed yesterday. But in my defense I worked through lunch as I have to take off 2 hours early for my doctor’s appointment today. I’m working through lunch today and tomorrow to make up the time. Taking a 15 min lunch is the easiest way for me to make the time up and not feel like I’m cheating.

Sammi has a doctor’s appointment today as well, for her ear. She didn’t do so well last night. By the time I got comfortable in bed she was up about 20 times cause she didn’t feel well. I tried to let her stay in my bed so I could sleep but that didn’t work either. I eventually laid down with her for a while till she was sleepy enough to sleep with me gone. Hopefully the doctor will figure something out and we can get this ear taken care off.