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Month: May 2006

How To Start Your Day Off Right

Published by dee on May 31, 2006

Step 1: Wake up already!
Step 2: Stumble into the bathroom and examine the huge dark circles under your eyes, all the while trying to figure out why in the hell you didn’t go to bed earlier.
Step 3: Put contacts into burning eyes, pee, brush teeth, shower, etc.
Step 4: Get dressed (put jeans on even though it isn’t jeans day because you have no clean undies that won’t show through the only pair of clean khakis in the laundry basket).
Step 4: Search for shoes.  Put on slightly too high-heeled black slides because the jeans are long and this will make you look slimmer and not quite so sloppy.
Step 5:  Hear baby waking up.  Ignore baby and take dogs outside before they pee on the carpet.  Notice puppy made a big mess in her kennel overnight.
Step 6: Get baby up and dressed.  Fix cup of milk and sit baby in the highchair while you clean up dog mess.
Step 7: Lock dogs up in respective day areas (kennel and basement).
Step 8: Grab Coke Zero from fridge.  Wait.  Remember you forgot to put the Coke in the fridge.  Say words baby should not hear.  Grab water instead.
Step 9: Drop baby off at day care in a rush because on the way there you realize you forgot to stop and get gas lastnight and that stupid light won’t quit flashing at you again.
Step 10: Stop at gas station.  Fill car up.  Go inside and buy 2 bottles of cold Coke Zero and a danish that you totally don’t need.
Step 11: Drive to work holding phone in one hand while listening to mom blab about her screwed up web site, trying to eat danish, and drink Coke with other hand.  Steering mostly with knees.
Step 12: Arrive at work only a little late.  Brush crumbs off of clothes. Get out of car.  Walk toward office building.
Step 13: Somehow manage to get bottom of jeans all caught up in too high-heeled black slides, fall on face (or knees), scrape up hand, watch Coke fly across parking lot.  Look up to see somewhat cute guy trying not to laugh as he picks your Coke up and asks if you are ok.
Step 14: Hobble up steps quickly hoping nobody else saw what happened.
Step 15: Tell the whole internet about it because even though you were totally embarrassed, it was kind of funny.

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Sweet Dreams

Published by dee on May 30, 2006

What’s better than dreaming about your former BFF apologizing for not speaking to you in 5 years?  Dreaming about Chris Daughtry telling you that he totally has the hots for you.  What’s even better than that? Dreaming about those two things happening in the same freakin’ dream and totally blowing off the former BFF for Chris.  I don’t often even remember my dreams, but that was one I really didn’t want to wake up from.

Unfortunately, the dang alarm didn’t want me to conutinue my awesome dream and kept going off, no matter how many times I hit the snooze button.  So, here I am back at work after an awesome Memorial Day weekend.  It wasn’t nearly as relaxing as I wanted it to be, but I suppose that is my own fault.

Friday night we hung out with some friends.  Our drummer friend just joined a new band and we got to listen to them practice a little bit.  I haven’t really formed an opinion of them yet, but it does sound promising.  I really miss going to see the local bands play so maybe this will encourage hubby and I to get out a little more often.

Saturday I decided to have a barbeque and invite a few friends over.  I set up a little pool for the babies and a sprinkler for the older kids.  They all had a blast playing in the water.  We had a TON of food, plenty of beverages, and perfect weather.  Overall, I think everyone had a great time.  We’re planning to do the same thing next month for Zach’s birthday, so it was kind of nice to have a trial run.

Sunday after church, my dad treated us to a movie.  We all went and saw Over the Hedge, which was pretty cute.  I ended up missing a lot of the movie because Zach just wouldn’t sit still.  He was tired but in one of those moods where if he started getting too comfortable he had to squirm to keep himself awake.  I don’t think I’ll be taking him to another movie for a while.  Maybe we’ll try again when he has more than a 2-minute attention span.

Sunday we had planned on a day of eating and swimming at my mom’s apartment.  We did plenty of eating, but the swimming got rained out so we ended up just vegging out and watching movies instead.  The kids had a great time playing together.  I spent most of my time chasing after Zach and trying to keep him out of the things he shouldn’t be into.

Also, I finally got my new laptop that I’ve been wanting so badly.  I got it yesterday morning and haven’t really had a chance to get it all set up the way I want it so I’m really looking forward to getting home tonight and messing around with it.

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Eleven Months

Published by dee on May 26, 2006

Dear Zachary,

It has been eleven months now since the day that we first met. You would think that I would know you pretty well by now, but you still continue to surprise me every day. Boo!Just when I think I have you figured out, you go and do something completely different than what I am expecting. You really surprised me one night when I looked up to see you standing all by yourself without holding on to anything but your sippy cup.

One of the most exciting things I have noticed about you recently is that you have started reacting to praise, which also means you are starting to understand words and physical cues a little better. You have been trying really hard to get some new words out, but I still can’t understand most of what you say. Sometimes it sounds as if you are trying to imitate the words I say and other times it just sounds like jibberish. One word you definitely understand is no. Every time I say "no" to you, you start saying "nonononononononono" may_06 033and shake your head. I never realized that I was shaking my head when I said no until you started doing it too. Now I catch myself doing it all the time. It’s just too bad you don’t comply and stop whatever you are doing when I use that word. I suppose that will come with time…hopefully.

I have really been having fun praising you when you do something good. Every time you do something new I now have to clap my hands and say "yay Zach" and you get so excited. You just think it is the coolest thing ever and when you do the same action again, you wave your hands in the air and holler to get my attention and show me what you have done. This has become quite a ritual at dinnertime. I got excited the first time you actually placed your cup (right side up) in the cup holder part of your high chair tray, so now every time youmay_06 042 do it you expect the same level of excitement. And, really, it is still exciting-even after the twentieth time.

We have also been playing a really fun game almost every night after your bath. Daddy and I both get down in the floor with you. We sit across from each other and then you walk back and forth between the two of us. You started out only able to take about two steps at a time, but a couple nights ago I counted nine whole steps before you stumbled and fell to your knees. You get really excited about this whole process, giggling and squealing the whole time. I have really loved watching your progress. When we first started doing this, only a couple weeks ago, it seemed that you were just stumbling as you fell forward. Now you may_06 003have taught yourself to slow down and re-gain your balance as needed so you can take a few more steps.

We had a couple of really bad weeks this month while you were teething. You now have a total of 7 teeth, with the eighth about to appear any day now. During the same time you developed a cold and a very bad ear infection. Mommy was up with you several times a night while your little body was working through that. You finished off another bottle of anti-biotics and now seem to be feeling much better. I’m still trying to catch up on my sleep, may_06 024but you are back to your normal sleep schedule. In fact, you are sleeping even longer than usual since I finally got some curtains up in your room to darken it a bit.

There is only one more month left before you turn one year old. June is going to be a big month, and althought I’m looking forward to it, I wish I could freeze every moment I have with you right now. You are so much fun to be around. Your personality and character are really coming out as you discover this big world in your own little way. I could spend all day just watching you and never get bored. I want to savor every single moment I have with you. These last eleven months have been the best of my life.

Love always,
Mama

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Lips Of An Angel

Published by dee on May 25, 2006

I’m not really a big fan of Hinder. Something about the lyrics to "Get Stoned" just kind of turned me off of them even if it is a catchy tune. But, there might be a little room for redmeption.  I heard this song the other day on the radio and I just can’t seem to get it out of my head. Sometimes you can just relate. Add that to the many other reasons why I’m kinda bummed that I’m not going to Rockfest with hubby this year. 

Hinder~Lips of an Angel  
Honey why you callin me so late
It's kinda hard to talk right now
Honey why you cryin
Is everything ok
I gotta whisper cause I can't be too loud

Well my girls in the next room
Sometimes I wish she was you
I guess we never really moved on

It's really good to hear your voice
Sayin my name 
It sounds so sweet
Comin from the lips of an angel
Hearin those words
It makes me weak

And I
Never want to say goodbye
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel

It's funny that you're callin me tonight
And yes I dreamt of you too
Does he know your talkin' to me?
Will it start a fight?
No, I don't think she has a clue

Well, my girls in the next room
Sometimes I wish she was you
I guess we never really moved on

It's really good to hear your voice
Sayin my name 
It sounds so sweet
Comin from the lips of an angel
Hearin those words
It makes me weak

And I
Never want to say goodbye
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel

It's really good to hear your voice
Sayin my name it sounds so sweet
Comin from the lips of an angel
Hearin those words
It makes me weak

And I
Never want to say goodbye
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel

Never want to say goodbye
But girl you make it hard to be faithful
With the lips of an angel

Honey why you callin me so late?


			
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Google Is My Friend

Published by dee on May 25, 2006

A while back I finally gave in and started using those cool RSS feeds that people have on their blogs.  I had toyed with the idea of using a feed reader for a while and checked out a couple but never really found one that I liked.  But, because of this I was determined that I would find a way to reduce my blog reading time and I figured that using a reader would help.  During my search for the best feed reader ever, I discovered the Google Reader.  I’ve become rather fond of Gmail recently, so I figured I would give it a shot.  It was really easy to add new feeds and I loved the simple, easy-on-the-eyes look of it.

In the last month or so since I’ve been using it, I have totally fallen in love with it.  I don’t spend nearly as much time checking and re-checking my favorite sites for updates.  All I have to do is go to my reader and the newest updates are already there.  The best part is, whether I’m at the office or at home, I can log in to the site and read up without trying to remember everyone’s web addresses.  Plus, I just discovered that I can also read it on my phone, but the speed of my cellular internet connection makes that pretty much pointless.

The only downside that I have found to using the reader is that I don’t comment on other blogs nearly as much as I used to.  When I read a post I think that I’ll go comment later, but I usually end up forgetting.  Plus, I also miss looking at everyone’s cool blog designs.  Maybe I think too much like a designer, but to me, I think you get more of a person’s personality through their design and the "extras" on their blog site.  That’s not enough to get me to stop using the reader though.  I still click through and visit the original sites occasionally.

I kind of feel like I’m cheating on Yahoo! a bit, because I have always loved Yahoo! but Google is starting to win my heart a little bit.

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