January started off good. But I slacked one too many days and I didn’t get any blogging done. Oh well. Though I will try my best to do at least once a week. My life isn’t very eventful. Go to work, hang with the babies and hubby for a few hours, sleep and then start all over again.

This weekend we have Joyce’s Mardi Gras ball. The girls are looking forward to it. There is a few things we need to do in order to be ready for it. The packing type things, and entertainment for the girls needs to be thought of.

Shea’s doctor appointment with the sleep apnea doctor is tomorrow. Hopefully we’ll get some news on what we can get done, and if we’ll have equipment for a better nights sleep.

We have completed our taxes and getting a refund back. I’ll be getting a new tower for my computer and Shea will be getting a Digital SLR camera to hopefully start a career move. The girls will be getting my pc once I get a new one. Theirs is going out the door. It’s like 6 or 7 years old. It’s Shea’s computer from TWO times ago. Both computers from last time bit the dust. Mine a few Christmas’ ago which is the reason I got this one, and Shea’s bit the dust shortly after he got a new one for not apparent reason.

The rest will go into the rainyday fund until Shea gets a job that we won’t need to pull money out of it to live.

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.

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.

Beware boys, this is female health :P. Last month my pill ran out. Last month I found out they were taking the pill I was on (Sprintec) off the market. My doctor put me on Ocella – a generic Yasmin I think it what it is. While not quite the same I do vaguely recall being on Yasmin between kids as that’s the only time I’ve been prescribed BCP other than Sprintec.

I’m beginning to think the Ocella is causing a hormonal imbalance. I’ve been breaking out more than I usually do despite a shower almost every day. I’ve had foggy thinking. Been talking with Shea and I’ll have trouble getting out what I want to say. Been running to the bathroom a bit more than usual. Yes I do go a lot but I think that it’s a bit more than usual.

Before that during the off week of the bcp I was having a regular migraine. One that was very incapacitating that lasted for several days in most cases. The issue is that last week, 2 weeks into the new BCP I had a massive migraine. Thankfully I didn’t have to work, and thankfully between everything we did to alleviate the headache it went away that same day.

I have a yearly appointment next Tuesday which I will be discussing things with my doctor. The new pill the prior issues and the migraines. My biggest fear is that I’ll go off of the bcp and my health will decline again like it was, and the stress will increase because of the alternate means of birth control. Maybe something else can be done, we’ll see next Tuesday.

Last few days have been about resolutions. Some people are for them others are against them. They are goals I set out before me and I’ll see how much I follow through. When it comes to dieting I suck at it, I know, and I won’t add it to the list even though it is a big wish to lose weight. Though I am going to try to focus on getting the daily required veggies, fruits and grains and cut back on the soda and other not so good things. But we’ll see, but its not a resolution, it’s more of a life change than anything.

My Resolutions

1. Learn a new framework
2. Learn more about Unix System Administration
3. Blog/Journal at least a little each day
4. I’ve signed up for Code Year. It’s a weekly programming project aimed at teaching programming. But it might be something good to keep the mind thinking.
5. Eat Healthier
6. Now that I’m working I need to spend more time with my girlies both together and alone.
7. Find a non-computer, cheap hobby.

The girls have been watching Speed Racer: The Next Generation for the past few days, Shea and I had finished the series a few days ago but the girls have watched it from start to finish again. And that got me thinking about being a kid and the cartoons we watched.

As a kid I only remember two shows that we ever pretended we were those characters, the most easily recognizable one was He-man. Not only did we pretend to be them, we had a billion and one He-man action figures. We got some hand-me-downs and added to our collection. Otherwise we’d probably never have gotten Castle Greyskull at all. But we had it because of family hand-me-downs. yay!

The other one I remember I didn’t remember the name of the show. I’ve thought about it over the years and never really got around to actively looking. Mom had suggested checking Speed Racer out. I didn’t think it was that. I’ve checked out Voltron and various other ones we use to watch but I could never put the names into those shows. I did a 70s 80s cartoon search and came up with a site. And there I started clicking the names of shows I didn’t know or couldn’t place. Lo and behold the first on I clicked “Battle of the Planets” had main characters of Mark and Jason. Bingo! Found it. And now that I think about it I do remember G-Force being part of the pretend play too.

It’s not streaming on netflix or even out on DVD as far as Netflix is concerned so I can’t show it off to the girlies. Tho I’m sure they’d not like it. She-ra and He-man didn’t impress them, hehe, they really didn’t impress me either.

As another note of nostalgia, Dark Age of Camelot turns 10 this October. Holy, wow!