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Looking Like a Lobster

Published by dee on April 25, 2006

apr_06 174 We had a really great weekend, followed up by a not so great Monday.  I ended up getting sick and staying home on Monday.  Normally, that would have been great, but Zach decided that he did not want want to nap and instead, would sit around shrieking all afternoon while mommy wanted some peace and quiet.  Had I known he was going to do that all afternoon, I so would have gotten dressed and taken him to day care.  I figured I could handle keeping him at home because he is normally the world’s easiest baby to take care of.  I guess I should have known better.

Saturday, we went up to Platte City to watch my nephew play his last two soccer games of the season.  They always have a "tournament" on the last day and serve free hot dogs and chips.  I put Zach in the stroller with a shade over the top so he wouldn’t get too much sun.  Apparently, he wasn’t completely shaded like I thought he was.  He got a little bit of a sunburn on his face and his legs and is now sporting a totally sexy sock line.  Yes, I did have sunscreen with me.  No, I didn’t put any on him.  I really thought that he was totally shaded.  I honestly don’t know how he got burnt.  It wasn’t a bad burn at all–just slightly pink– but I felt really bad about it.  At least he wasn’t completely fried like I was.  You would think after 28 years of having pale white-as-a-sheet skin I would learn to put sunscreen on.  I’m still hurting.

 

apr_06 173 On Sunday, my dad had other obligations so we didn’t have our normal Sunday dinner at his house.  Instead,my sister and I decided to pack a picnic lunch and take the boys to Penguin Park to play for a while.  You know, I needed a little more sun on my crispy skin.  I did at least put the sunscreen on both Zach and myself so we didn’t burn more.  Zach had his first peanut butter and jelly sandwich and seemed to really enjoy it.  After we finished eating, we went over to the baby area of the park and let the little ones play for a while.  Zach absolutely loved the swings.  Then I took him over to try out the slides.  I was amazed to see him crawl right up the steps to the slide.  He has never been on stairs before and he figured out right away how to get up them. 

apr_06 216The little guys tired out pretty quickly, so we went over to the older kid area so my other nephew could play for a bit. I took the two babies and sat them in one of the play cars that was there to take a couple of pictures. When I looked over at Zach, he was falling asleep sitting up. We decided we better get headed home. 

Zach completely crashed in the car on the way home and didn’t even wake up when I got him out of his carseat.  I decided I needed a nap too, so while he was sleeping I went and laid down and took a 2 hour long nap before Zach woke me up.  It was absolutely heavenly!

Other than a quick trip to the grocery store, we had a pretty relaxing evening on Sunday.  I even managed to FINALLY finish the book I was reading!

I realized again this weekend how blessed I am to have my family so close and to get to spend so much time with them.  Sometimes I get tired of always being on the move and doing so much on the weekends, but I love the time I spend with my family. 

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I need an intervention

Published by dee on April 21, 2006

Recently I have been adding a lot of new blogs to my blogroll (my personal bookmarks, not the list on this site cause I can’t seem to keep up with it).  The list has been growing so quickly that I can barely keep up with my daily reads anymore.  I have to make a choice every day which ones I am going to read and which ones I am going to skip.  That is a very difficult decision.

Finding new blogs has become an addiction with me.  I go to read my regulars and then I find links either in the posts or in the comments and I just can’t keep from clicking on them.  Sometimes I’m not real impressed with the content and click the little red x, but sometimes I get totally absorbed in the new site and add it to the blogroll.  That has been happening a lot lately.  And that is why my list is getting so long.  There are just way too many talented writers out there and I cannot say no.

Just a few weeks ago I went through and cleaned out my list.  There were a few that were no longer updating or that had simply lost my interest that I was able to remove.  The list was much shorter and much more manageable.  Then yesterday I started really looking at the list again and it is even longer now than it was before the clean-up.  Will somebody please send help?  This might explain why it has now taken me 10 months to read a real book (that I’m not quite finished with yet).

And, in other addiction news, I have found a new source to feed my music addiction.  It turns out that the new girl in the office has rather good taste in music and a rather decent sized cd collection as well.  She loaned me a couple of cds to check out today.  I see our friendship becoming much closer in the near future.  Well, even without the cd collection, she’s a pretty cool chick anyway.

Also, thank you to all of you who offered advice and suggestions about the money issues.  I’m hoping to implement some of your suggestions in the near future.  Have I told you lately how much I love you? 

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Housekeeping, Money, & Miscellaneous

Published by dee on April 20, 2006

First of all, a couple of general housekeeping things:

  1. I have finally decided to come out of the closet a little bit and start using the name that most of you know me by anyway, dee.  I’m getting a bit tired of the hardtoimagine name.  Even though there is some deep meaning  and lots of good memories tied to it, I think it is time to become a little less anonymous and just be myself.  I feel good about this for now, until someone that I don’t want reading finds my site anyway.  But, that is the risk of putting it out on the web.  It is not like I hide it very well anyway with all the pictures I post!  I will still keep the old name on tblog for those of you that read there also.
  2. I’m sure you’ve all noticed by now, but when I changed the site around, I also added some ads.  I thought long and hard about doing this because ads on blog sites have always annoyed me.  But, given my current financial situation, it was a choice of trying to find a way to fund my web sites or give them up.  I’m not really wanting to give them up, so now there are ads.  I’m hoping that it will at least help a little bit with my hosting costs.  I know at least one of my web sites will be closing down soon because it just never became what I wanted it to be and I don’t have the time to get it there right now.  So, please feel free to click away on those ads and help me keep this site running because out of the 4 sites I run, this one is the most important to me.

Now, on to the money and miscellaneous parts.  I was sitting there lastnight staring at my budget spreadsheet and trying to figure out where in the heck all the money is going to these days.  I figured out that we are currently spending about $400-500 a month more than what we are bringing in.  That is an estimate because hubby’s paychecks always differ in the amount.  His checks should be going up soon because they are hitting their busy season and he should be getting a lot of over time.  That will make up for the difference over the summer months, but when we hit fall, we’ll be in the same boat we are in now.  Hopefully we can get some things paid off before then so it won’t be quite so bad.  The thing that is really killing us right now is day care.  That really makes up the difference of what we are behind each month.  What really stinks about this whole situation is that I am realizing that there is no way in hell we should even be thinking about having another kid.  And, I had just kind of decided that I was going to be ready to start trying again in June.

Then, while I was sitting there contemplating this whole situation, my brother calls me and tells me about this great employee discount that his company has been offered through Dell.  Apparently through the end of April, they can get 35% off, plus another 12% off of Dell computers.  He called to tell me because I’ve been questioning him about laptops lately because I desperately need to replace mine.  It is slowly dying and I’m afraid that it is just going to give out any day now.  If I bought one through Dell, right now, I could get almost half off.  I want this so bad I was practically in tears because I know I can’t buy anything else right now.  Next to Zach, my laptop is probably the most important thing in my life.  I know I can live without it, but I will always be upset that I missed this opportunity.

Brother also hooked me up with the new Tool cd.  I’m not really a huge Tool fan, but I don’t mind listening to them on occasion.  I haven’t even heard the whole thing yet, but so far it sounds pretty good.

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Civic Duty Completed

Published by dee on April 18, 2006

My jury duty is officially completed.  I did not get chosen for the jury, so I basically just got a free day off work and had to do a bunch of sitting around.  Not so bad really.  I actually got to read quite a bit of the book that I started way back in July.  Now I’m to the point of no return where I can’t put the book down until I finish it.  I almost wish I would have been chosen just so I could sit around and read during the breaks.

The best part of my day was lunch.  We ended up getting almost an hour and a half for lunch and it was an absolutely beautiful day outside.  I grabbed a quick lunch accross the street from the courthouse and then spent the rest of the time listening to Pearl Jam and walking around downtown.  I was really upset that I didn’t have my camera with me because it would have been the perfect opportunity to take some great pictures.  I snapped a few with my cameraphone, but they’re not even close to what I could have taken with a real camera.

The trickiest part of the day was navigating my way back home.  I absolutely hate driving downtown because I always manage to get lost.  I do fine getting where I need to be, but almost always get turned around when I try to leave.  One way streets are not my friends.  I didn’t get home exactly the way I had planned, but I did make it without getting totally lost.

It really wasn’t a bad experience, but I’m glad that I have another three years before I have to do it again.

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Reader Survey Numero Uno

Published by dee on April 17, 2006

Tomorrow I will be MIA around here because I have jury duty.  Blah!  I’m really not looking forward to it at all.  I’m sure the $6 pay will not even cover the cost of downtown parking, much less my lunch.  Hopefully I will get dismissed right away and be able to go home and play hookey the rest of the day.  My dad’s wife is a lawyer and she tells me just to raise my hand for every question.  We’ll see what happens.

Since I’m not going to be around, I’m leaving you all a homework assignment while I’m gone.

I totally stole this idea from Dad Gone Mad so please forgive me if you wander over here.  I just thought it would be fun and they say imitation is flattery, right?

Here’s a short survey for my readers (yep, all two of you).  Please answer the following questions in the comments:

  1. What is your drink of choice?
  2. What is spinning in your cd player (or on the Ipod) right now?
  3. Describe the last photo you took.
  4. What is your favorite spot on the web?
  5. How much time a day do you spend reading blogs?
  6. What three cds could you not live without?
  7. What is the best book you’ve ever read?
  8. If you were throwing a dinner party, what would you serve?
  9. What is the first thing you do when you wake up?
  10. What is the last thing you do before you go to bed?
  11. What is your opinion of required jury duty?
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Happy Easter!

Published by dee on April 17, 2006

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Holidays are so much more fun when you have kids (or in my case, a kid).  I have always loved Easter, but the years in between when I was a kid and when I had a kid of my own just weren’t quite as much fun.  We spent the entire weekend with my sister and her family and had a really great time.

Friday night we attended the Good Friday service at our church.  It is always a rather somber service, but you certainly couldn’t have figured that out by the noise our kids were making.  Between Zach, my two nephews, and the other little boy behind us you could have sworn you were standing in the middle of a playground during recess.  They were all hyped up for some reason.  After church my sister overheard a couple of older church ladies being negative nancies and commenting on the noisy kids.  It’s a good thing the preacher doesn’t seem to mind.

After church, my dad went with us to our new favorite eating establishment, Granite City Brewery.  The food there is great and from what I hear the beer is too.  Too bad I can’t stand the stuff.  After dinner we went back to my sister’s house, where my mom met up with us and watched movies until we were all falling asleep.

Saturday morning we took the boys to church for the annual Easter egg hunt.  They all seemed to have a good time.  Zach figured out how to pick up the eggs pretty quickly, but every time we made him put his eggs in his basket, he got really upset and started crying.  He didn’t quite get the concept that he had to put one egg down before he could pick up another one.

After the egg hunt, we had lunch and then went bowling.  It was interesting trying to bowl while passing two babies back and forth in between turns.  I think I bowled the worst two games I have ever bowled in my life.  My 6-year-old nephew even had a higher score than I did.  Of course, he had the benefit of the bumpers though (that’s what I keep telling myself).  I don’t even remember what my score was now because I’ve been trying to erase the memory from my head ever since it happened.

Sunday morning we got up and went to church.  Apparently the Easter Bunny decided to visit the boys at my dad’s house, because when we got there after church, there were Easter baskets and eggs everywhere.  Again, Zach didn’t really like putting the eggs in his basket, so the other two boys ended up with most of the loot.  Zach didn’t seem to mind though, he was much more interested in the toys and books that were in his basket.

We had a nice dinner and a relaxing afternoon at my dad’s house.  Zach and I even got a quick nap in.  Then we headed back home and back to reality where there were dirty dishes and a ton of laundry to be done.  I sure do miss the days when I got the Monday after Easter off and could sit around being lazy and eating chocolate all day.

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