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.

Party!

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Yesterday was a good day. We went grocery shopping. Sammi and I picked up Kathleen’s cake. Then we went to the roller rink.

We were there a half hour early, we paid for it and the girls put on skates and we made a lap before Mam and Pawpaw showed up. Kathleen went through real skates, plastic ones and then finally real skates due to Pawpaws urging. He took her out and she did wonderful from then on out.

We had three kids from Kathleen’s class show up. They all had a great time. We had the usual crowd of family minus one. One uncle and his family couldn’t make it, but that’s okay. Everyone had a great time.

I have pictures just not off my camera yet.

However we did have a few bumps in the road. Sammi had a fever and an ear ache. Shea took her home early and Mam and Pawpaw gave Kathleen and I a ride home. Kathleen had a blast. The other bump is I hurt my back again. I didn’t skate. I think it was a combination of standing for pretty much 3 hours, rocking Sam on the icky bench in the party room and stooping to talk to the little ones so I could hear them talk over the loud music.

All in all it was a good day. Kathleen’s birthday is officially over! Now to wait for Sam’s.

Health

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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.

Birthdays

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Kathleen’s birthday was the 29th, but her party isn’t until tomorrow. We’ve had 2 possibly 3 (I think only 2) RSVPs from her class. She wants a skating party. So that’s what we did. RSVPs being important with limited number of tickets for the price we have right now. Though not worried, if they didn’t RSVP well then their loss.

Tomorrow we will go grocery shopping. Get Kathleen’s cake and head up to the skating rink at 2pm. Then play “hostess” until 5pm. Thankfully it’s pretty scheduled at the rink so I don’t have much to do, tho I’m a poor picture taker when I’m having to hold Sam’s hand cause she won’t skate by herself. Thankfully Aunts and Uncles will be there too and they can help too.

She picked out a marble cake with a Rupunzel theme. It was the first princess theme she saw.

Jerry Lee’s had a Phineas and Ferb cake this time. So maybe if Sammi’s up for it thats what she’ll have. But she insists on a beautiful race car cake. She loves her cars lol.

Kathleen is 6. It’s really hard to believe. Sam will be 5, it doesn’t so much as boggle my mind that she’ll be 5, it’s that she’s going to be 5 and I can STILL carry her. By 3 Kathleen was too heavy to carry for long stretches. And Kathleen is not fat by any means, she’s dense! Kathleen has meat on her bones and has her little curves. Sam, she’s straight in every direction. She can’t wear pants that fit her length cause they literally slip right off her butt. She ends up wearing high-waters. Might have to learn how to sew on some ruffles to her pants that fit.

Tomorrow will be a fun day I’m sure.

Games and Hobbies

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Shea and I stopped playing WoW months ago. We stopped playing Rift shortly after that. Its mostly a financial situation. Shea played DAoC for a while then got fed up with it. He and the girls are playing a Wii game pretty predominately called Skylanders. It’s a bunch of little figurines that come to life in game. It’s a money sink but the girls (and Shea) are loving it. We have a few more base figures to buy in order to be able to enter all areas of the game. But we have a 5 year old coming up in March so I’m sure we’ll gather some more then. Or some other Wii game that she’d enjoy.

But as far as I’m concerned I’ve not really done much gaming. Work leaves little time for it, and I’d rather watch tv with my hub and the girls pestering me. I’ve tried Lord of the Rings Online again, and it’s eh, only real benefit of playing it is I get to play with Rae. I’ve got a Lineage 2 account. Which is fine and well except for the fact that towns are kinda filled with squatters and makes the lag in that area so very hard to deal with. But it’s an interesting game, we’ll see if I do anything more with it.

This is why I say I need a cheap non-computer hobby. Something I can still do and spend time with my girls. I could read but that gets expensive fast with books to buy and all. I don’t think our library has rental ebooks, and I don’t have a kindle either. Though not sure that’s all it’s set to.

Ah well. Any suggestions for free games? An facebook games don’t count.

Maybe when Diablo III comes out I’ll have some money to spend on it, we’ll see.

2012 Resolutions

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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.

Resolution Review

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Last year I made resolutions. I’m rather impressed with what actually got accomplished.

  • Write 2500 words a week (or 500 words for 5 days each week)
  • Create a postcard/brochure for my freelancing business
  • Find a job
  • Buy an exercise bike (and use it!)
  • Expand my WordPress knowledge
  • Try to make sour dough bread
  • Fine new and creative ways to each well on a small budget
  • Try some new vegetables
  • Learn more jQuery
  • Reduce Allergens in my house/Deep Clean the House

#1 I failed at haha, I started out okay and just feel off the wagon.
#2 I didn’t do it, I started and worked on it and updating my portfolio, but didn’t actually accomplish the goal.
#3 I did find a job. And I love my job!
#4 We did buy an exercise bike, but I barely use it. I hope to try to use it more in the future.
#5 I did expand my WordPress. One of my projects to up my portfolio was Custom Post stuff. Though the latter end of the year saw a decline in WordPress and an incline of CodeIgniter.
#6 I did try to make sour dough bread but it didn’t work out too well. Maybe I’ll try again later.
#7 I don’t think I found any creative ways to eat well on a budget. Maybe this year.
#8 I did learn more jQuery. I’m always learning more jQuery. It’s part of what I use on a regular basis at work.
#9 Sadly yes we did do this. Shea lost his job, and that actually cut out alot of the allergens he was bringing home and we got rid of Bubba. So the two biggest allregen makers were taken care of, however sad it is that both happened. We are all healthier for it. We did not however do a deep clean.

That’s last years in review. I’ll post next about this years resolutions.

Resolutions?

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Do you have any? I do. But I’m still working them out. Kids are in bed. Hubby in the shower. 6am morning wake up call, ugh. And I’m still hashing out the resolutions. I’m not even sure I accomplished any from last year I’ll have to go check it out.

I have a few already set up. One is to try to blog a little every day. We’ll see how that goes. So far 1 and 1.

Sorry so long

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Everythings been so busy I’ve been kinda out of it with my writing lately. For a few months actually.

I love my job. The girls are doing great. I don’t really have much to say.

Christmas was really good. We went to the in-laws on Christmas Eve, so we got to stay home on Christmas. The girls got very few toys, but I think they enjoyed everything they got 100%. Shea and I got them a new flat screen TV for their room, Grandma and Grandpa got them a digital point and shoot camera with accessory. Gram T got them an mp3 player (they got a camera and mp3 player for each of them). Mam and Pawpaw got them their very own towels, some more sheets and a school memory book, among a few other things. The aunts and uncles got them mostly clothes, a new wii game, and Cars 2 and a leapfrog tag book and amazon gift card for music.

Kathleen’s had part of her birthday, he party is on Jan 7 so most of her presents haven’t been opened. But we got her a game called Skylanders. Her and Daddy played on Friday so long that Daddy forgot to cook supper – Bad Daddy. Sammi isn’t so happy with it, but that’s okay I think she’ll get it eventually.

Wish everyone a happy New Year!

The Working Life

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I like my job. I like what I do. And even though it cuts out time on the internet I don’t miss much online. I miss my bestest friend the most. We don’t get to talk hardly at all, but we manage to stay in touch still, so yay!

I don’t so much miss facebook as I miss seeing what my family posts on a daily basis. I do try to catch up first thing in the morning as well as check my email.

Nights I come home, we eat supper, then we snuggle and watch TV or play the Wii. I only have 1.5 hours with the girls before bed time so it’s well spent time. Shea and I then read or watch TV till I need to go to sleep which for mean is no later than 9pm. Other wise I struggle out of bed before struggling the girls out of bed.

We get up in the morning, shower and eat breakfast and then to go school. I come home for about 30 minutes while I wait for my time to go to work. No paid overtime unless it’s asked for and really there hasn’t been a need as of yet.

Work Lunch Work and then we do it all over again lol. I could come home for lunch being I work literally 5 mins from the house, but then leaving is hard. I had to pick Sam up one lunch cause Shea’s truck decided to stop working and it was a pain leaving Sam, she wanted to come with me. While she can she’d be bored out of her mind and I’d rather her stay home with Daddy.

All in all it’s good I like it. The girls have adjusted well.

But it leaves little time to keep ya’ll informed or myself.