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Month: July 2006

In Need of a Massage

Sometime in the next couple of days I plan on upgrading my site to Movable Type 3.3.  So, if you come here and everything looks really jacked up, that’s why.  Chances are my templates and stuff will have to be reworked a little to fit with the new system.  In the meantime, I’ll probably be doing most of my blogging over here.

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Anybody Else Wanna VOX?

So the people at Vox have now upgraded all starter accounts to standard and are doing away with starters.  If you get an invite now, you get full access.  So, I have 4 more standard invites to give away.  For some reason I haven’t had too many takers.  If you are interested, leave me a comment.  I prefer to give them to people I know, but I’ll consider those I don’t know too.

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Walk Away

Anyone who reads my site or knows me knows that I love music.  I have quite the extensive cd and mp3 collection and listen to all kinds of music depending on how the mood strikes me.  I came to work today in kind of a mellow mood.  It was rainy and dark outside and I really would have preferred to just stay in bed this morning.  I turned on my computer and sat here trying to figure out what I wanted to listen to.  Eventually I settled on Ben Harper.  I thought he would fit the mood I was in and I was right. 

I lined up a few of his cd’s on my Rhapsody playlist, turned the volume up and let the music fill my head.  As I listened, I found a song that I know I’ve heard before, but I never really listened to.  Today I listened and was happy to have found a new favorite.  That’s the great thing about music sometimes.  You can listen and listen to a song and then one day, when you are in the right mood that song takes on new meaning and becomes something beautiful.

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Stuff About Stuff

I had a really great weekend.  The visit with my SIL and nephew went really well.  I am so glad that they decided to come up.  I have really missed them and it was nice to get to spend some time together.  I only wish they could have stayed a little bit longer.  They left this morning and I miss them already.

Zach has been really testing my patience lately.  I know it’s not his fault, but I’m getting really frustrated with him.  He is hitting the separation anxiety phase really hard right now and I can barely walk across the room without him flipping out.  If I’m not holding him, he’s usually hanging on my legs and I can’t get anything done unless I want to listen to him scream.

He is getting pretty frustrated himself as well.  Now that he is walking pretty much all the time, he gets really upset when he loses his balance and falls down.  I hate seeing the frustration on his face and knowing that there is nothing I can do to help.  He is also getting frustrated that he can’t tell us what he wants.  He does pretty well with pointing and saying "dis" when he wants something, but there are times when I just can’t figure it out or he wants something that he just can’t have. 

Unfortunately, we also found out at the doctor’s office on Friday that he has yet another ear infection.  This is the 5th one, or possibly a continuation of the 4th one, but enough that we definitely need to get him to an ENT for evaluation.  The doctor is pretty sure that he will need to have tubes put in so that his hearing doesn’t end up being damaged.  The thought of having any kind of procedure done on him kind of freaks me out, but I know it is necessary. 

 

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Another Busy Weekend Ahead

I’m feeling bullety today, so here’s what’s going on with me:

  • I know I have professed my hatred for myspace before, but damnit I’m getting so hooked on that shit.  I’m not nearly as obsessive as my sister is with it, but I’ve found quite a few people I know on there, both family and old friends.  Lastnight I found someone that I was really good friends with in high school but haven’t talked to since the last day of my Junior year.  That was a helluva long time ago.  We chatted on YIM lastnight for a while and I really enjoyed catching up with him.  I’m just afraid that one of these days paths are going to cross on there that I don’t want crossing.  Internet and real life friends are mixing and that kinda freaks me out for some reason.
  • I have a ton of work that I should be catching up on right now.  I have to leave work early today to take Zach to his 1-year check-up at the doctor’s office.  I’m still not 100% positive that he did indeed have chicken pox because he only ended up with a few spots.  I’m hoping they can give a little insight about that.  He will also get more immunizations so I can look forward to having a fussy baby for the next day or two.  That should be lots of fun.
  • Tonight my sister-in-law and nephew from Louisiana are coming up for a visit.  I’m so excited to see them!  I’m hoping everything goes well.  We haven’t seen them since the funeral and I’m don’t know how difficult it may or may not be for them to be around hubby.  SIL hasn’t been keeping in touch with the family very much since then.  Our phone conversations have been very short so I’m hoping that the visit will go well.  She did send Zach a nice birthday present and card with a very sweet note in it.  Anyway, like I said, I’m very excited to see them, just a little worried about how emotional things might get.
  • Saturday night we are going down to Springfield to participate in my Aunt’s annual 4th of July bash.  There will be much food and fireworks to enjoy.  I’m really looking forward to seeing my family and showing Zach off some more.  They haven’t seen him for a while so I’m sure they will all be very impressed.  I’m anxious to see my cousins’ kids too.  We just don’t get together nearly often enough.  My SIL and nephew will be coming along for that too.  Hopefully they won’t get too bored around my family.
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Funky Cold Blog

I’m in a little bit of a funk today.  I’m not sure why I just feel rather blah.  I don’t want to work.  I don’t want to write, but at the same time I do.  I’m just confusing myself.  Perhaps it is due to the very small amount of sleep I’ve gotten over the last couple of days.  Maybe I just had to many days off.  I just don’t feel like the usual me.

I think my database that holds all of my blog entries is feeling crappy too as it keeps giving me error messages.  I’m working with my hosting company to try to fix it, but I’m kind of scared of what might happen.  If things start getting screwy around here, you can bet I’m sitting in a dark corner somewhere fighting back the tears.  I love my blog.  I don’t want it to be screwy.  I was trying to add a new plug-in that would allow me to password protect certain entries when I discovered the problem.  I don’t think I did anything to screw it up.  I hope it gets fixed soon.

Speaking of how much I love my blog, this entry by Theresa really got me thinking the other day about how I view my own blog.  I’ve been finding lately that some days I really need to write and some days I don’t (not so much here lately).  Blogging for me is a both a hobby and an emotional release.  It is a record of my life.  It shouldn’t be about how many comments or page visits I get.  I love the comments, but that’s not the reason I do it.  My blog is an expression of me, of who I am inside.  This is where I keep it real.  In a way I think that my blog has helped me come out of my shell a little bit.  The more comfortable I get here, the more comfortable I am in real-life interactions.

I had more to write about this topic, but the words are just not flowing right now.  Maybe I’ll re-visit it later.  Blah. 

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