childofares

Whoever invented the baby monitor was a genius.

Just in case anyone on my flist likes sweepstakes as much as me,

http://instantcashsweepstakes.com/invitations/ref_link/5353

Tis fun.

So Mom, Jack and I were sitting around Christmas Day and Mom and I were laughing because her best friend friend sent her a paper from Ohio that we were reading. We were so excited to get actual NEWS in a paper and started comparing our local paper to that of the Akron Ohio paper and I came up with the idea of sharing my local Kentucky small town paper in all it's horribly written pieces and batshit insane idea of what constitutes as "news". Tomorrow or sometime this weekend I need to go record video to use as an opening trailor and find royalty free music to use that sounds small townish. I think I might ask my friend Nate to make me a tune.

So that is the idea. I'm collecting articles already from past newspapers and plan on actually recording in the next week or so.

Joe Biden as what CNN calls "The Middle Class Czar?"

As much I reluctantly like Biden I have to say...REALLY?

Whoever coined this phrase needs to be shot.

We spend 60 bucks on a bouncer seat with a million shapes, colors, moving parts, and Kane wants to stare at the cable modem for an hour.

I want him to freeze in time right now. He is changing too fast and I want to enjoy the newborn time for a bit!

This weekend we are putting up the crib as he HATES the bassinet. As for me..I'm starting to worry that I have no conversation other than the baby. Sure ChaCha provides hours of entertainment and some income, but not many actually know what what ChaCha is so that convo is kinda limited. I need to hurry and finish my offers so that I can get paid on my other work at home site. That one is easy if you are an organization freak and keep detailed records. Which reminds me I have to call the post office. The left a note saying they left a package but they didn't! I have a box next to the front door specifically for packages that don't fit in the mailbox and it wasn't in there. Blah. At least this is a small town where a long line equals 4 people tops.

I am appalled that I have to celebrate Christmas this year. Jack is insisting as well as my Mom. Blah. I'm going to put a good face on it but Christmas? Materialistic stressed out time for people? Really? I also have no idea what to get Jack. I have 2 things but he already knows about them so that isn't very special is it? "Here ya go honey..exactly what you knew you were getting!"

I'm getting my Mom a Spa Day I think. She has been talking about how much she misses the spa. I'm not sure what else to get her though. Maybe just some giftcards for Target as she loves Target.

I want my ring re-sized but I'm thinking this isn't a great time as odd parts of my body are still a bit swollen. The great news is that my boobs are now milk-free! No more pain! I can take a bra off at night! Woot!

Head hurts. Trying to look at the screen is excruciating but I have about 2 more hours of work to do. Damn migraine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw

That is all.

The baby is on a different sleep time than me. He is awake...whenever I'm sleepy. Now that I'm fully awake after my 4 hours of sleep, he is snoozing next to me dead to the world.

The cats are surprisingly not the issue we thought they would be. Rusty could care less, Baby keeps his distance, and Tally, while interested in Kane, doesn't get too close. That is actually relieving as I was worried because the cats like to crawl on you and snuggle. Even better news is that they don't go near any of his stuff like the bed, his changing table, or carseat. Woot!

Jackson's alarm just went off so I'm going to get snuggles before he has to get ready for work. Poor man...6 weeks of no sex and possibly longer. If I didn't have a matching sex drive I'd laugh harder but as it stands...this blows!

"It was such a great time!"

I heard this from women when talking about their own pregnancy time and now that I'm done with carrying the baby I have this to say,


LIES!!!!!!!!!! LIES I SAY!!!!

OMG I'm so glad to not be preggo anymore! The constant backaches, the body temperature issues, the moving insides, the swollen...everything!

Perhaps because my epidural was done so well I didn't have the hormone flush or maybe I'm just one of those folks able to focus and not forget the negative even after something great. I'd dwell on this but meh.

So even with the epesiotomy (sp?) (for those that don't know due to my horrible spelling I mean where they slice the opening of the vagina, in my case practically to the anus, so the baby's head doesn't tear you) I was thrilled to be able to actually sit up without shooting pain in my back. Now that my boobs are milk-free, I'm even more thrilled to be not only able to sleep in whatever position I want, but be able to breath while doing so! Imagine! Being thrilled to be able to take in oxygen!

Everyone told me I should have blogged this stuff while being pregnant but I'm somewhat glad I didn't. Misery loves company and all that rot but inflicting my misery on the unsuspecting is a different thing.

Just a quick update but Kane Michael was born November 29th :)

We are both doing great and Jack has been GOLD!! Seriously, I don't know what I would have done without him the past week. I put up a quick video on YT of the baby if anyone is interested!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4XQECqjhz0

I hate moving.

That is all

Went to the doctor today. out of the 3 things they were worried about 2 are no longer a worry! The cysts they saw on the brain area are completely gone. They said that can happen a lot so that's a big worry off my mind! Also they didn't see any spots of blood on my uterus either. The only thing that was confirmed was the single umbilical cord which isn't really that uncommon and they are just going to monitor the baby's weight. Right now he is a BIG baby..in the 79th percentile for size so that is also a HUGE relief. I managed to webcam the 4d ultrasound so if anyone wants to take a look (it's way cool how clear it is) here is the link to my 12 second channel

http://12seconds.tv/channel/Childofares/13920

I'm sitting here wondering if I have a job at 3:30 this afternoon. Long story short, because of the preg issues my doctor placed me on light duty. Good thing, my #1 priority is making sure the baby is OK and healthy. However this took away the protection I had under FMLA as FMLA only protects the job I have, and now I cannot do it. So either they honor my light duty (which the don't have to, and they lose money as I will have to be paid my average AND still pay me for maternity leave, or they say they have no position available with my limitations and fire me.

Just in case, I asked my friend Danae for a copy of her light duty order as they have sent me running around for 4 days now saying it wasn't specific enough, needed time frames, then saying it still wasn't specific when it said NO bending, lifting, pulling. I've pulled out Travis's number (my lawyer) and depending on what they say to me today, may contact him as Danae said all her light duty said was no bending without specifics and they honored it. True she has only unpaid FMLA and no paid short term disability when she goes to have the baby so they seem more apt to want to keep her, plus her average isn't nearly what I make as she is newish. Blah

Worse comes to worse, i guess I take my happy ass to unemployment, get a health card as i won't be able to afford my insurance etc. I'd be OK..but I've never been fired in my life and really don't want to start now.

My doctor is furious as she said "I can't understand why, with everything going on right now, they think is OK to add this extra stress"

Me either Doc, me either.

So apparantly when i upgraded to Firefox3 it messed up the codes on my layout. The email i got said :
In order to resolve the issue, you will need to fix the CSS code in your
GLOBAL_HEAD override. There are two issues in particular which could cause
browsers to display the page incorrectly,

In some cases you have code such as "color: #FDE7C1;!important;", in which the
first semi-colon is not required. Instead it should be "color: #FDE7C1
!important;", otherwise the "!important" part will be ignored by most browsers.

The second issue is regarding the body { ... } section, in which it appears two
separate sections have merged, as there are too many "}"'s before the part where
you specify a header image.


I have no idea what they are talking about. I tried to fix, not my text is tiny and black instead of white :(

Help?

EDIT: K I got the font back to white. I forgot i had copied the entire layout code to an entry in case i need it. Still can't see the sidebar or the header :(

I'm home from work today and not by choice. We had a doctors appointment today and apparently there were a few things on my ultrasound that has the doc worried. I have an appointment Aug 11th with a specialist for some tests. They found two cysts on the baby's brain. They SAID they aren't that worried because the one negative thing it could be was a negative result when i had the quad test done and there doesn't appear to be anything wrong, the lobes are even, the line thingie is straight etc etc. I'm trying to not worry til I have a reason to worry. They said a lot of pregnancies get some abnormalities, but I had 3. 3! My umbilical cord has only 2 blood vessels instead of 3, and I have a little blood outside of the placenta. They said that is their least worry as it looks like I separated a tad and then fused back where I was supposed to be.

So yeah..not freaking out at all

look at me not freaking out

*whistles*

I'm having a boy! We had the ultrasound done about a week ago!

Ooops. So I have a nasty habit of using copyrighted music in my YouTube videos. On my very first video, like..a year and a half ago I used the song "A Town Called Malice" by The Jam. Well..the owners of that song claimed my crappy, bad lighting, no sound video. Hee. I guess i couldn't ask for a better company because they didn't demand I remove the video..just tagged it that the music rights were owned by them. I should look up all the song rights they own and only use their songs :)

Oh and the election thing here on LJ was EXACTLY the wank-fest I thought it would be. LOL I got such jems as "fandom people all condone pedophilia!" (this was my personal favorite!) and "Fandom cheats! At least we ED people aren't shady" (I swear to everything holy that was actually said)

I've discovered that I am one of those women that dislike other overly excited, glowing, picture perfect prgnancy, "I love being pregnant" type of women. Screw you all. Between the pipes being backed up (literly..milk of magnesia has been my best friend), mood swings, morning sickness so bad I'm on Zofran (thank god for insurance as it's 547.00 for 30 pills! And that's generic!) and overall a feeling of disgust towards myself for every ounce gained, I am going to assume I'm one of those that pregnancy isn't a beautiful extension of self.

In better news I think we picked out names...ironically none from the last list lol

Girl: Morgan..possibly Morgan Elizabeth.. I decided I liked it while watching Stargate. Dont ask. But he also likes it and likes it more that Katya which was my fav before this so...yay

and boys name: Kane. We were standing at a bookstore chatting with the clerk when he answered the phone and HIS name was Kane..we both kind of looked at each other and were like "what a great boys name!"

so there we are.

Happy memorial day!

Ashton (we both like this one)
Pierce (I like this one)
Chase
Conner
Wesley (Again I like this one...he doesn't :P)
Skyler
Damon

I hate Kentucky sometimes. Not because of the weather, or the people, or the accents I'm developing that obliviates my Ohio speech...no it's the pest problem. More specifically..ANTS

evil skin crawling creepy things. The people I rent from are SUPPOSED to spray around our building as we are all ground floor..but nooooooo. Because I hace a cat and her food stays out it's pretty difficult to keep em out too. I already put chalk around her food so they all kind of circle it without being able to cross the line. I take particular pleasure in killing them while they failed to get food out of my house. They are uninvited guests after all. So tonight I couldn't take it anymore..I realized every time I open my sliding glass door they are coming in.Irritating. So I bought both traps and spray for both inside and outside. Now I wonder if it would be out of line to send my reciept to the rental place and insist they reimburse me because they failed to do what is in my lease that they do.