Yes wouldn't you all like to know what's been going on that I started this website, put a LOT of time, effort, etc. into doing it... had a lot of people do a lot of work to help me... and now it's not updated. Life has sucked the last week - that's why.
You read about the bug problem... of course all of that happened while TK was away. Then I get back to my house after bug problem and it reeks of the bug stuff and I have to air out my house, try to stay outside, clean everything... Then yesterday and today Sonja was spending time with her family so it's just been me and Kyla. We have been doing fine, I just haven't had time to get to the PC long enough to update the dirt. I can do this journal on the Mac but I can't access the website from this computer...
I was supposed to take Kyla to get her Halloween pictures done the other day and I didn't feel good AT ALL so I just didn't go. I was SO exhausted and thought I might be getting sick... luckily I feel better now, but I felt really bad about missing her photo shoot :)
So today I stopped by Sadie's in the mall - they are doing a free sitting & some free prints for Halloween. I put Kyla in her little costume and couldn't wait to get her pictures done. I had walked by earlier in the day (I spent the ENTIRE day at the mall) and saw all these little cute kids smiling and giggling - so I thought she'd be awesome. She is such a cutie pie and such a happy baby... But no.
I got her bundled up in her costume and she just didn't want to cooperate. When we sat her down in the leaves she just grabbed at the leaves and played with them and stared down at them - would not look at the camera AT ALL. So then we tried propping her up in the little thing they use for infants... nope. She didn't like that either. They took 6 shots of her and only 1 came out OK. She has a puss on her face and looks scared. It isn't what I wanted it to be at all. I am going to load up the nice camera TK has with film and take some this weekend. She is too cute in this costume not to be photographed!!
I got some cute new stuff for her today. Winter is coming and even though it doesn't snow here, it does get chilly and I want her to have some cute winter stuff... again it is weird how all the stores here sell scarves, gloves, hats, big bulky jackets, etc... we don't really need them!!! I don't get it.
I got some Uggs. Yeah, SO LAST YEAR - I'm a little behind. Sorry, I'm not the shoe and lipgloss and handbag queen... but I did see the most adorable Uggs today and I really don't care if they are still IN or not. They are clogs. Not boots, but the most comfortable, soft, perfect-fitting clogs EVER. They look great with bootcut jeans and are just the right height for me. I have such a hard time with shoes bc I can't walk in heels lol... I gave up when I got pregnant and I'm not going back to them. I do need a LITTLE bit of a heel since I am a shorty and it just looks better with jeans - and these are perfect. The only problem is that they are a reddish color - they are totally out of black and brown!! Does anyone know a good place to get Uggs online? I looked - and found nothing. So I guess my entire winter wardrobe will have to match these reddish Uggs!!
I am so sleepy. Kyla is asleep in her swing. OH, her newest thing is... we have this Tigger rattle... it has a little Tigger on it, then a handle, then a ball at the bottom with little bead thingies in it.. and she LOVES it. I mean, I will just pick it up and hand it to her and she LAUGHS. It is the cutest thing!!! She was laughing so much last night I called TK's mom just so she could hear her laugh lol...
More big news soon.... And I promise I'll get to the dirt this weekend.
OK - after one of the worst weeks I can remember ever having in my life.... I am chilling out in my nice fresh clean bug free bed with my little princess sleeping next to me and praying to the baby Jesus that the Sox win the World Series. It is a very strange thing to be sitting here knowing that tonight they are probably about to win. Whether they win tonight, next game, the game after that - unless they completely blow it like the Yankees did, they're going to win... AWESOME.
So - here's the update. We had the house bug bombed. I stayed at Sonja's house Monday night. It is so hard to deal with things like this with no family or close friends to count on - plus TK was out of town... and Sonja was awesome. She helped me pack up all of our things, prepare the house for debugging, etc... then she made me food, watched Kyla so I could sleep at her house, etc. Much as it sucks to live so far away from home, I have been lucky to by chance meet great people who go above and beyond to help me out.
I have a massive headache right now and I have all day... just the stress... I hate being home alone when TK goes away. It just sucks... he does gigs almost every night... and then was away Thurs-Tues.. he was home for a little while on Friday night but got up Saturday morning and left again. It is bad enough to be all alone - woe is me right lol - but to have bugs in the house and nobody to even help me deal with it...
The bugs were little springtails. They are TINY - but there were a lot of them. I am not sure if I mentioned what happened or not... basically because of all the moisture in the walls, etc. they kind of decided to settle there and multiply. They were coming in by the patio door in our room.... and then ended up in the bed because sometimes we throw our pillows over there - so when we threw the pillows by the door where the bugs were, they got on the pillows... then we put the pillows back on the bed and poof - bugs on the bed. GROSS. At least I know they are not bedbugs or lice or anything like that... just pesty bugs but nothing too harmful.
I had to go get new pillows and sheets, etc... even though they killed all the bugs, I couldn't stand to sleep on pillows that I know the bugs were crawling all over. So we have all new pillows, pillow covers, sheets, etc... My bed is all soft and fresh and new :)
The worst thing about all of this is just the stress it put on me. I was in the middle of cleaning out Kyla's clothes that don't fit her anymore... so they were ALL OVER HER ROOM... and then I just had to pick them all up and put them away. I had to cover her toys and put them in trash bags. I have to wash her sheets, blankets, etc. before she can sleep in her crib again... I have been doing laundry nonstop all day and I am EXHAUSTED. I also have no food in the house... I haven't gone grocery shopping in forever. I have sauce, no pasta. Peanut butter, no bread. Things like that. I have some stuff but nothing that can go together to make a meal. I ate some chicken noodle soup earlier but all that did was burn my tongue lol... Hopefully TK can go to Subway on his way home from his gig.
I'm trying to think of what else is going on but I have been so absorbed in this crap I can't really come up with anything else. I need to get away from here for a while... It has been one bad thing after another happening to me - and what did I do? Sometimes I wonder why bad crap always happens to me.
Kyla is great. Unaffected by all of this lol... she's just happy :) Sleeping peacefully now.
Anyway, I am gonna watch the Sox play and chill out.
I am sorry if these bug posts are driving you nuts but this is the HELL that is my life right now and keep in mind this is MY journal lol...
I am freaking out. I nearly had a nervous breakdown today... one thing after another. The job thing, then the new car breaks down, then TK gets in an accident, then I see the roach... now this with the bugs.
I figured out what they are. Springtails. I looked up all kinds of little pests online and finally came to the conclusion that this is what they are. Harmless - they will not bite me or eat anything... however, they multiply like crazy.
I have now realized they are coming in by the porch door in our room - and in the window sill in Kyla's room. Needless to say we are not staying here tonight.
They are TINY. Like little tiny specks, smaller than fleas... but there are a lot of them and my skin is crawling - it sucks.
Thank you to Post where I live for realllllly checking the place for mold, mildew, etc. after all the storms. NOT! That's how they ended up here... they grow in moldy moist places.
Sorry the dirt isn't updated... I spent my entire day trying to handle this problem and doing some shopping.
Now I have to pack to get the F out of this bug infested "luxury" apartment.
OK sorry I have not updated the dirt or this journal.
I think I am going crazy. I am about to become a complete neurotic about insects and little bugs.
Now that the roach problem is handled.... there are bugs in my room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do not know what they are. The other night I noticed a little teeny bug crawling on the bed. I smooshed it and was like ew, whatever. One bug - random.
Last night I saw two more. OK - definitely a problem. My skin starts crawling... I'm itchy all over. I found more on my pillows that were on the floor. There are bugs infesting my bed and my pillows. Nice, huh?
I tried washing everything... put the stuff back on the bed... more bugs. I did not sleep last night. I kept checking Kyla while she was sleeping to make sure nothing was crawling on her. We have no bites. They are not "bed bugs". They are TINY gray bugs. They are not fleas - I have seen fleas before and they are definitely not fleas.
I keep my house clean just FYI... we have cleaning people that come every week and do the sheets, vacuum, etc... so it isn't like I live in a sty.
They are TINY TINY TINY little specks and they crawl. Any idea what they could be? I had pest control come over and of course - not a single bug to be found... which makes me think they are nocturnal little f*ckers.
I am so pissed off - this is the last thing I need to deal with. It's funny - all through college I always had the messiest rooms and NEVER EVER EVER had any bugs... now that I pay people to clean the house, we get bugs. How does that make sense?
So now I don't know what to do. I am so freaked out - and overtired because I didn't even sleep last night... I have to go to WalMart and get some pillow covers and laundry detergent, diapers, and a ton of other stuff... Now I feel lke there are bugs everywhere.
I think that since the patio door in our bedroom leaks when it rains that they are breeding in the damp carpet or something... I have no idea. All I know is that I am not sleeping here until this place is bug free. I can't handle it.
Thanks and have a creepy crawly day.
And no, this is not just a creepy Halloween is almost here I'm going to freak you out story - it's real.
Hi, my name is Dana and I have an irrational fear of cockroaches.
Seriously... Everyone hates them, I mean - nobody likes to see a big fat nasty roach crawling around their kitchen... but most people just shreik and kill and dispose of. I freak out.
When I see a roach, my skin burns. I panic. I tense up. I run. My whole body itches. I then become completey afraid of the room or area where I saw the roach for about 12-24 hours.
Tonight I saw the roach IN the dishwasher. Good thing too because there was nobody here to kill it had it been running about in the kitchen. I slammed the dishwasher door and turned it on. It must be dead by now. It has to be. It burned and drowned and tried to get out as the heat billowed in and the water came rushing towards it... GOOD. I hope it felt the fear I felt.
Now I am upstairs because after seeing that horrid creature I can not even sit in the livingroom without thinking that maybe it survived... or maybe there's more... so I am upstairs and hungry, but I'm afraid to venture back to the kitchen for fear there might be another one chillin' out waiting to get me... and then the fear would start all over again.
My skin is still crawling. I have flashbacks about the roach for hours after I see one.
Is this what would be considered an "irrational" fear? I mean... they're gross and everyone hates them... but to obsess so much. Chances are there are more around - it's Florida and "that time of year"... but is it normal to become so scared of a bug the size of my thumb that I won't even spend time on an entire floor of my house?
Yeah - it's that time of year. That's what they told me at the leasing office when I asked them to come spray my house for bugs. They were here yesterday... I saw this thing tonight. Lot of good that did. AND the cleaning people were just here today - so its not like I live in some bug infested pigsty.
OK, that's enough. Hopefully it wasn't too freaky for anyone... but I bet your skin is crawling right now isn't it?
So the Houston/St. Louis game is on. I want Houston. Roger Clemens. Make him come play the Sox... and he's not a Yankee this time so he can't walk on the field with the same cockiness he did as a Yankee. It will be the ultimate F U to Clemens for the Sox to win the World Series AGAINST him. Doesn't look like its gonna happen though - Cardinals are up 5-2 right now.
OK I gotta go. Hope no cockroaches make their way to my bed tonight... that's how I think after I see a roach. It sucks.
OK I'm going to try to lighten the mood around here a little bit! The political/religious debate was fun for a little while but I don't want people coming here and getting upset. A lot of people read this to have a good time, not to fight with each other... The fun part is when I get into it with people and you read it for entertainment... but this political thing got a little nasty.
So TK is away... can't tell you where, can't tell you why, but he's on a little trip. So this morning he wakes me up at 6am to take him to the airport. I was SO tired I just couldn't get up. I didn't sleep well last night. I had a nightmare that a cockroach was crawling on Kyla and it messed me up and I couldn't go back to sleep...
He was telling me to get up, it's time to go, etc. but I was in a complete DAZE. I couldn't wake up. I don't even remember him leaving... I just know I told him to remember where he parked the car so I could go get it later.
Sonja watches the Food Network a lot and has seen this commercial for Bella's over and over so we were going to go there for lunch after we picked up the car. On the way to the airport we were just chit-chatting about food and couldn't wait to go try their pizza... We figured it would be easier to take 1 car to the restaurant, so she dropped me off... I got the car... then we met back at my house.
By this time we're STARVING. I just had that mmmmmmm... PIZZA thought in my head...
Get to Bella's. Walk in. Guess what the chalkboard at the front of the restaurant says!!!
DUE TO MAINTENANCE ON OUR OVENS - NO PIZZA, NO CALZONES
We both looked at each other like WHHHHHAAAATTTT????? But we were there, we were hungry, so we sat and ate.... That place is GOOD. I have been there once before with my family when they were visiting...
It was just nice to sit and have lunch and shoot the ish. Kyla was a total angel and just sat in her stroller and played with her toys the whole time. I love that she can entertain herself now... As long as she has a full tummy and is rested she's happy!
I am also excited because I got another CPK in the mail today. A little African American Preemie with a pacifier and the CUTEST little jammies. The PJ's are a really hard to find outfit so I am really excited to have it - its SO cute.
I think this whole CPK thing is contagious... Sonja bought one a few weeks ago when we went shopping, and now she wants more... and a girl who reads the journal and used to listen to me just bought two Play Along kids and is bidding on some vintage ones on eBay!! It's catching... CPK's are SO CUTE!!!
And the Sox. Wow. I am so excited. I can wear my "B" with pride!!! Yankees fans are so freaking ashamed right now. It's like the bully taking an ass whipping. I love it!
Oh - so here's something I find interesting... it's been brought to my attention that someone - and I won't name names - thinks that I was picked on a lot in high school and that's why I am so outspoken and bitchy now... Um, not really. I was picked on when I was younger - and yes, that is why I try not to take crap from people... but I think sometimes I take it to an extreme LOL. In high school I was just kinda there. I wasn't popular, I wasn't really a dork, I just hung out and had my friends and did my own thing. I wasn't super smart, but I did well... I wasn't the prettiest girl but I wasn't an ugly duckling. I was just kinda there.
Ok, just wanted to throw that in there...
So that brings me to another question... would you like to see some kind of "formal" - well, not "formal" but like some kind of topics every day or every few days to discuss? Rather than just commenting on my whatever each day, maybe it would be more fun - and more interesting - to use the "Comments" section to talk about something I bring up in a post. Or I can come up with something completely separate... or if you have something on your mind you want another take on, email me and I can post it. Like I'm thinking with this post we could talk about what we were like in high school and how we're different now...
I don't know. Comment as you wish. If the idea sucks, just say it. I won't be hurt LOL.
AHHHH... It feels so good to SAY IT and know that IT IS TRUE!!! All they had to do was win ONE of the last FOUR games and they just couldn't do it... Pretty crazy!!! Now we just need to actually win the World Series!!
I hate this purple dinosaur... I remember when my mom did daycare like 10 years ago the little boy she watched LOVED Barney and I hoped and prayed that Barney would be a thing of the past by the time I had a child.... but nope. Barney is still entertaining 'kids. I love you, you love me, we're a happy family with a great big hug from a kiss from me to you, won't you say you love me too.... But I'm wondering... what happened to Baby Bop? Did they break up? Now Barney's hanging out with some yellow dinosaur thing with red converse sneakers... Did Barney cheat on Baby Bop? SCANDAL!
What should I do to my hair? I am going to get it done in the next few days but I just don't know what to do to it! I have naturally brown hair and I've been coloring it for YEARS and I really want to go back to brown but I don't know how to do it. I don't want to get it colored another shade of brown because it won't be EXACT... and I don't know how it'll look if they just strip the color... Maybe if they strip the color out and I get a few inches cut off it will look good. It will be a HUGE change since I have been blonde for about 5 years!! I think it is time to go back to my natural color though... I am sick of having to keep my hair up and spending like $150 every time I need to get it done... Any ideas?
I need to get the dirt updated... How cool is it that every day - consistently - since I started the new site my hits have gone up by 30-50 a DAY... and that's unique visitors, not actual page views... AWESOME!! Keep spreading the word and putting links to my page everywhere lol.
Oh sweet now Sesame Street is on. I liked that show. Remember Mr. Looper? Mr. Snuffalupagus? :)
So yeah... the dirt page sufferred today because I slept all day and then Ky and I were hanging out. Now she's asleep but I am tired and I'm about to go to bed. I am going to get up and update it before TK goes to work in the morning.
He is ok... but I have a feeling he might feel this pain from the accident for a while. His neck hurts, and from everything I've heard sometimes these things take a while to really set in - only time will tell if its a long-term injury. We are thankful it wasn't worse but it still sucks.
I am really excited that we can travel and see our families for Christmas this year. Last year we couldn't go anywhere... and this year I knew if I was working we'd end up having to stay here and have a "just the 3 of us" Christmas and I really wanted to go home... I'm not sure yet where we will be ON Christmas, but we'll figure it out and see both families around Christmas.
I also realized I need to start collecting ornaments. I have a few from when I was a kid - but I haven't had a tree since I moved to FL! I didn't get one the first year because I went home, and last year we moved 3 days before Christmas and it was just so hectic we never got one... I was a little upset but I was so tired from moving - and being 6 months pregnant - that I didn't feel like doing it anyway... I was looking at the Hallmark store at the mall and at Target and there are so many cute ones!!! One of the things that is so great about having Kyla is that that holidays are FUN again!!!
Yeah... still haven't decided what she'll be for Halloween!!! I think I am overthinking it and trying to come up with the BEST most ORIGINAL thing... I really want her to be a flower. I saw the CUTEST costume at TRU and I just think it'll be adorable... the only other one I really loved was a flamingo costume I saw online but I can't find it in stores and its too late to order it... So she'll be a little flower. I liked the idea of Tinkerbell but all the costumes are too big - and I think she has the rest of her childhood to be Tink or a princess or whatever she wants... so this year she should be a cute little flower... or maybe a butterfly... GOD I DON'T KNOW!!!
What do you do with your kids on Halloween?? I know she is too little for candy but do the malls have Trick or Treat or anything? If I am going to dress her all up in a costume I need to show her off!!
Thanks for all the advice on being a SAHM... I just don't want to bore her lol... Babies love repetition I guess and she has some toys that she LOVES. Lately she is going after the TV remotes like crazy though!! I used to babysit when I was younger but it was always for older kids who got bored quick and needed constant attention... Ky is a perfectly happy little girl so I should just chill out and follow her lead.
She has this new toy that plays a song... and the song reminds me of "What would Brian Boytano do...." from the SouthPark movie. Every time it comes on I just get that freaking lameass song in my head!!! It's a little Fisher Price truck with those blocks... I can't exactly remember the name of it... but she LOVES it!!
OH - and now... my copy of Toy Story on DVD has something wrong with it. Half the movie plays and then it just stops and freezes... so I went online to get a new copy of it and its VAULTED!!! No Toy Story right now... It'll come out when she's 10. Thank the Lord for eBay - I'll try to get it but I am so scared of getting screwed or of getting bad feedback!!
How about them SOX!?! Now, granted they are still a game behind and the chances of them winning 2 more in a row to make it to the World Series are pretty slim - but at least they started playing baseball!!! The end of the game was awesome tonight!! I thought it was bad and then the Hou/Stl game was on and they had a 0-0 score until the end in extra innings!!
I think that's about it... I am sleepy. I need to get my hair done this week but now I don't have a car. If it's not one thing it's another!!
Thanks for the emails and the comments!!!!! It is fun!!!
Today was one of those days I just crashed! Sonja came over to watch Kyla and I planned on doing the website and some errands... I laid down for "just a few more minutes" at around 10am and woke up AT THREE!!!! I guess every mom, whether you stay at home and "do nothing" all day or not needs to catch up on sleep once in a while. I didn't sleep well last night after TK's car accident so I made up for it today...
But now I have that whole disoriented I slept all day and got nothing done I am such a lazy excuse for a human being feeling...
I have a question for other SAHMs... what do you do with a baby all day? We play upstairs, downstairs, she eats, sleeps, watches some Disney channel, but I feel like I don't do much with her at all!! I would take her places but then she is just in the stroller or the car seat the whole time and that can't be fun or "stimulating" for a baby.
I did buy her some finger paints after my friend told me her son made some artwork at his daycare... but she wasn't that interested. What else can we do besides chill out on the floor and play with her toys? I keep buying her new ones just to keep it interesting (for me) lol!
So TK's car is totalled.... now we have to get a new car. Hmmmm... what to get!
He is OK. He went to the doc today and they gave him some pain medicine and will start documenting his pain. He had some headaches and some tingling in his neck. I am BLOWN AWAY by the number of people who have emailed me saying they have also been in car accidents and had injuries like this... I can't stand the way people drive!!
Well... not much else is going on and Ky is starting to fuss. Time for bath :)
Yeah, that's the number TK needs to be calling. Some stupid ho just ran a red light and hit him. He was going to Publix to get us some ice cream and calls me not 10 minutes later... some chick just blew a red light and smashed right into him!!! So he calls me to come pick him up and bring his new insurance card... so I get the baby in the car, drive over there, etc. and this idiot who nearly killed him is just standing there all pissy!!! I brought him his phone and paperwork, had him put some stuff from his car in our other car, and I left. I was about to go off on this woman so I figured I should leave. Apparently she told the officer that she GETS NERVOUS driving downtown. PLEASE. Downtown or not downtown RED MEANS STOP. If you saw the car you would know why I am so upset... she hit him on the back of the driver's side, the rear wheel is caved in, the door caved in, etc... had she hit a foot closer to the front of the car she could have killed or seriously maimed him... People need to learn how to friggin drive. Seriously... I almost got killed last week at that same intersection... some guy took a LEFT TURN from the RIGHT LANE and cut me off as the light turned green... GOOD THING THE BEEMER HAD AWESOME BRAKES or I would have smashed right into him and it would have been HIS fault. Of course I always think the "what if... the baby was in the car... what if... she'd hit him harder or closer to where he was sitting... what if there was more traffic when it happened..." Bottom line - this girl is dumb. She was OBVIOUSLY not paying attention.
So now he is on the phone with the insurance company, refusing to go to the hospital or call a doctor. His neck already hurts and you know what injuries like this from car accidents - it won't hur that much right now but a few days from now he's going to be really sore... and it might even bug him for years... so I am saying GO NOW. Get your injuries documented. The entire car spun around and was facing the OPPOSITE DIRECTION.. obviously that whips your body around. Shit, I'd be suing for emotional distress because those few seconds when the car is spinning and you've just been hit must be like life flashing before you...
The thing that made me the most mad is that this girl just stood there like she didn't do anything wrong. She was on the phone with someone saying "I don't know why you are being nasty to me it was just an accident"... I bit my tongue. I figure me going off on the chick wouldn't make her more intelligent so I just kept quiet. If I had hit someone like that I'd be hysterical, not standing there like I didn't do anything wrong.
Of course TK being the calm, nice person he is "isn't mad". Had she hit me I probably would have gotten out of the car and beat her ass down! Actually, no... I can't fight... but I'd defintely be making sure she was crying.
What a freaking pain in the ass... and now we are both hungry and could REALLY use some ice cream even more and we don't have any lol... not even any soda...
For some reason my back hurts. Yes, there I go again complaining so that other people can read my journal and post comments complaining about how much I complain.
I think it's because I wore heels today... I NEVER wear heels anymore. Once I got pregnant it was like FORGET IT, I'm not getting vericose veins and swolen ankles... and then once you have the baby - you can't wear heels because it's hard enough carrying the child around, let alone doing it in heels - NO WAY!! So today I wore some shoes with a thick heel and I think it threw me all out of whack. Maybe I need to start shopping at Aerosoles or get some orthopedic socks.
OK Fahrenheit 9/11 is a CRAZY movie. Like him or not, Michael Moore's a smart dude and he really has some valid points. You HAVE to see this movie. If you are considering voting for Kerry, it will make you SURE of your decision... if you're thinking of voting for Bush and this movie doesn't make you rethink your decision... well, I am sorry for you!!
It goes into the whole Bush/Saudi money thing... his ties to Saudi money, how Haliburton is making tons of stuff for the war effort, how the Carlysle Group is making a ton off the war, how its all about oil... There are just some horrific scenes from Iraq and what our troops are going through... and all for what? It's all about the benjamins.
I tend to think Moore is one of those complete loudmouth left-to-the-extreme liberal... but he's passionate about all of it and he's right. I guess you have to take some of it with a grain of salt but I don't think he made all of it up. Check it out. It's a good movie... you'll laugh and you'll cry - I did.
Today I went to Countryside Mall to meet a friend and her little kids... they are so cute and they adored Kyla :) We went shopping for CPKs and other stuff and had lunch at the food court. I don't know my way around that mall at all so we were like upstairs, downstairs, upstairs, downstairs... we got a work out!!
I am searching all over for a specific CPK from a specific factory, with a certain hair style, hair color, hair type, eye color, and freckles... I can't find her anywhere!!! It's a fun hobby :)
Kyla is sleeping on my lap right now. Sometimes I get all weirded out thinking about how I am her mom. I know at first there's that HOLY CRAP I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR ANOTHER HUMAN BEING feeling when babies are first born... but now it's different. I can't really put what I am thinking into words but it's a good thing!
OH, and before I forget... LT. COLE from the TPD is the officer who found my keys and brought them to PetCo... THANK YOU LT. COLE!!!! If anyone knows him PLEASE tell him THANK YOU SOOOOOOOO MUCH for me!!
Gotta go... It is hot in my house for some reason!
We're about to watch this movie. I'm waiting for TK to heat up some food and I'm just watching the DVD menu part and already I can tell this is going to be nuts... I haven't seen it yet. They are just showing George Bush standing in front of this classroom holding the book, making faces, etc... I'm definitely Anti-Bush but I also think Michael Moore is a wackjob and he distorts things to suit his agenda. Anyway, time to watch it.....
OK... I'm just curious - why do you read my journal? I am not asking to be rude or suggesting I don't want people to read it... obviously I put a link to it and make it public because I don't mind sharing my thoughts... but I'm just curious to know why on earth anyone cares lol.
I mean I guess the whole scandal between me & my not-as-significant-as-me other played out on the radio was interesting - like reality TV only Tampa Radio... but now I am just a stay at home mom who has been eating WAY TOO MANY COOKIES and I don't do much... yet a lot of people are still checking the journal. It's cool - I'm just wondering what it is that people enjoy about it!
OK, did you know that they make "Barbie" toys for dogs & cats. I went into PetCo yesterday to pick up my keys - read the past journal entry if you don't know what happened to them - and of course had to pick up some toys for Lexi too. Well in the front of the store they had this whole cart full of dog & cat toys MADE BY BARBIE!!! They even had little doggie shirts and doggie sweaters. They had like a pink fuzzy Barbie purse dog toy, a doggie bone with a little heart thing attached to it, a denim with hearts doggie harness, etc... and for cats they have these sparkly little feathery pink & purple toys. I just thought it was cute!! You can find them at www.barbie.com. It's bizarre!!
The CPK with Kyla's name came yesterday! She's so cute - I can't decide if I want to take her out of the box or leave her in. Maybe I will wait until she is a little older and will appreciate a CPK with the same name as her.
I never thought I would say this but I love the fact that its getting cooler out. I have been getting so tired of the heat heat heat all the time... granted I do not want cold and snow - but its nice to be able to walk to the car and not break a sweat. Plus, I am chubby butt now and I want to wear clothes that cover me LOL...
Not much else is up. I have some more work to do on the website today... oh, and my email is now fixed - thanks Don!!
I set up dana@danasdirt.com as my new email address... and for whatever reason EVERY EMAIL that comes to me is considered "SPAM"... and I can't reply to anyone.
So if you've emailed me, chances are I either got it and couldn't respond, or the SPAM blocker control that I can't seem to fix wouldn't accept it.
Anyone know how to fix this?!?! I am using Outlook.
Time to grocery shop. Ky needs green beans, peas, carrots, squash, etc.
Oh, speaking of food... the smell in my fridge I was talking about earlier... chicken. I think I had bought some a while ago and it ended up in the back of the fridge and just went bad in the unopened package. NASTY.
Still need a haircut but now I have no money lol... my hair is awful. I don't know what I want to do to it either... back to brown, or keep it blonde... I will NOT chop it all off though.
I am waiting for a Cabbage Patch Kid to come in the mail. Someone found one named Kyla and is sending it to me!! I NEVER thought I'd find a KYLA on the birth certificate, but I DID!! She's got violet eyes, auburn crimpy hair, and little bunny teeth!!
I need a mommy group or something. I need some friends lol.
It is Friday right? All the days blend together now...
I don't know what is wrong with my site!! Like I've said over and over - I am clueless. I think I might have screwed something up but I have no idea what I did wrong!! It's ALL messy looking - SORRY!! I knew it would be like this for a little while until I learn what I'm doing. I am afraid to even try to fix it because I don't want to screw it up even more. I am going to wait until one of the people helping me can tell me what's wrong.
OK - something smells in my fridge. IT IS BAD. I have no idea what it is... I don't even want to venture in there to find out. I mean, we opened the fridge this morning and EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW!!!! And now it is smelling up the whole kitchen. I HATE when this happens!! Not that it happens often lol... I am usually pretty good about clearing the old crap out of the fridge... but someone else in the house buys all kinds of crazy yucky foods and since I don't eat them, I don't pay attention to them... and then one day they just spoil and GUESS WHO GETS TO stick her nose in the fridge and clean it out - ME! I guess I shouldn't complain since I don't have much else to do today...
So, sorry about the site. I need to figure out why it happened so I don't mess it up again.
I'm eating my breakfast and having some hot chocolate... then venturing into the stinkbomb fridge.
OK, so maybe I just have mommy goggles but I really think my child needs to be a baby model. It would be great if I could just tote her around to shoots and she could make her college money by age 2 lol... Anyone done this? I have no idea how to go about it but I really think Gerber and Baby Gap are missing out on a fabulous model. There are of course agencies all over the place... but they all charge you for pictures and do NOTHING. I'm not looking for that. Check her pics in the "My Little Superstar" section - she's adorable.
She LOVES the camera too. I hope I don't annoy anyone with bragging about how cute she is - there's nothing wrong with being a proud mommy!! She is so playful and pretty much always happy. She's sleeping in my lap right now like an angel.
So anyway, if anyone knows about baby modelling or has a little baby model - email me!! dana@danasdirt.com
We are going to take her to Sadie's to get some pictures done soon. They do the cutest stuff!! I want to get her Christmas card picture taken... yup, I guess now that I have a little girl to show off I just have to start sending the typical kid in a big goofy Christmas outfit picture-card.
What I won't do is send the informal 2 page typed "here are all the amazing things we've done over the last year" insert. Those drive me nuts. When my parents would get them they'd always be from what my dad calls "DINKs". Double-Income-No-Kids. "We travelled Europe while so and so was on sabattical and then we bred our shitzu and built a sauna in our bedroom..." GAG ME. It's like - with all your money why didn't you send us any GIFTS?!?!
It is pretty crazy that the holidays are coming. All the stores already have Christmas stuff out and it's 3 months away!! I don't know what we'll do for Christmas this year. Last year we just kind of had a nice quiet Boston Market Christmas Eve dinner and on Christmas Day we went to a co-workers house for dinner. Hopefully we'll spend it with family this year, whether they come here or we go visit. I hate the cold but it would be nice to bring Kyla to the snow for her first Christmas!
I think that's all for now. I need to get Front Page for the Mac because our PC is SO SLOW and it is a pain to update the site! I can type the journal on here but I need the PC to do the actual website.
Thanks for all the hits... spread the word.
OH, and one more thing lol... I have a tracker on my site that shows a bunch of people linked to my site from the www.babynames.com board... did someone post a link to my site there? It's bizarre!
OMG - I just did this ENTIRE post about the presidential debate and I lost it!!! I am SUCH a moron...
But not as much of a moron as our President George dubbya. He's so not smart at all... I can't stand him. He can't even speak right.
I don't understand how anyone can possibly support this man. Yeah, neither of them are fabulous - but does anyone ever really LOVE a candidate? No. It's like picking the lesser of the two evils - and Kerry is BY FAR the better man for the job.
Here's my little rant about the issues... and please don't be mean lol... I am not a political expert, but I have been paying attention to the debates and I think I know a little bit about where the candidates stand on the things that are most important.
1. Prescription drugs. John Kerry wants to lift the ban on importing prescription drugs from Canada. They are safe - otherwise I don't think they'd be legal in Canada. When GWB talks about it he makes it seem like they're coming from some 3rd world, non-industrialized, country. There are pharamacists, doctors, and scientists in Canada who are perfectly capable of providing safe medicines... seriously. It will make for competition in the market which will keep the costs lower. The bottom line is, the lobbyists for the drug companies do not want any competition from Canada. They want to keep the prices high so they can make money. Plain and simple. Meanwhile, our grandparents are spending their life savings on medicines instead of enjoying their retirements!
2. Assault weapons. Isn't it funny that GWB is SOOOOO concerned about DANGEROUS PRESCRIPTION DRUGS coming into this country from Canada, but he's perfectly cool with MAKING THE MOST DANGEROUS ASSAULT WEAPONS LEGAL!!!! Yes, the ban on assault weapons was just lifted. It was passed by Clinton in an effort to get the most dangerous weapons off the streets. Of course there is always going to be a black market, but at least they became a lot harder to obtain. Plus - HOMELAND SECURITY!?!?! This dude is fighting the "War on Terror" - but just lifted a ban on assault weapons that terrorists who do LIVE AMONG US would love to get their hands on! Instead of making them have to jump through hoops to get them - let's just put them on sale wherever so they can legally buy one! WTF??????
3. Abortion. I personally think abortion is wrong. I would never have one. However, I do believe women should have the right to choose. GWB was flat out asked tonight if he wants Roe vs. Wade overturned and he AVOIDED THE QUESTION ENTIRELY. He didn't say "yes" and he didn't say "no". He said he wouldn't have a "litmus test" for Supreme Court appointments. John Kerry answered the question well. He was honest. He said that while he is a Catholic and follows his faith, his job as a public servant is not to impose his beliefs on others. End of story. Abortion, to me, is horrible - but it should be legal.
4. Gay marriage. OK, for whatever reason both candidates are against this so I don't know why they even brought it up... but the question of whether or not they think gay people choose to be gay was asked. George Bush doesn't know if gay people choose to be gay. I mean, how ignorant can one be?!?! Seriously. I am not gay so I can't speak for gay people, but I don't know any gay person who just decided to BE gay. You can't make me gay, I couldn't be gay if I wanted to, I am straight - so why would anyone think that gay people choose to be gay? If anything, people who know they are gay try to be straight because of society, their families, etc. Just ridiculous. John Kerry is at least enlightened enough to know that being gay is not a choice. Nobody sits around and thinks about making the switch LOL. If you disagree with me and are a gay person who chose to be gay even though you are actually really straight, please email me and let me know what led you to your decision. I would love to meet a straight man or woman who just woke up one day and decided that even though they don't have any attaction to the same sex at all they just decided they'd pretend to. WHAT? Yeah, exactly. When you start to examine the issue it becomes ridiculous... but GWB thinks maybe gay people chose to be gay. Whatever.
5. The 9/11 thing. OK. This is a sensitive issue... but John Kerry put it all into perspective tonight. The president did a great job of speaking after the terrorist attacks. He did what he was supposed to do as a leader - made a good speech to make the American people feel it would be "OK". He said all the right things and the country came together. But that was 3 years ago. It's time to stop dwelling on a speech he gave 3 years ago and how he handled the attacks and talk about what he's going to do for the people who live here NOW. So concerned about homeland security after the attacks... but lifts the ban on the most dangerous weapons. So concerned about the American people and their "security" but he's sending our jobs overseas and refusing to let us have prescription drugs at affordable prices.
6. The chuckle. Yeah, he's got a creepy old man chuckle.
OK we ALL do it. Unless you are a superhuman mommy you must, at some point during the day, allow your child to watch some form of television. We all pretend we don't, as if it's some horrible neglectful thing to do, but I'm saying MY SIX MONTH OLD WATCHES TV SOMETIMES AND IT'S OK. I mean, we played together on the floor, she played alone on the floor, we played upstairs on the floor, she played in her crib, she ate, she took a nap, she didn't want to eat her green beans today, she played on the floor again... Then she just gets fussy and doesn't want to do much. Kind of like after a long day at work you just want to come home and veg out... That's how babies feel!!!
So she's got Baby Einstein but honestly, I get sick of that dingdalingdalingdalingdaling-dah-ling hoot hoot CRAP all the time. It's brilliant, but seriously. So I just put on Toy Story. She's in her swing, chomping on some popcorn, vegging out watching Buzz and Woody. (Kidding about the popcorn thing.) She is laughing. It's so amazing when they start to just laugh at things. Earlier I was tickling her and she busted out this huge, hearty laugh. I mean the first time they crack a smile it's the coolest thing... like suddenly you realize there's a little happy person in there with feelings and the ability to be happy and it's awesome... then slowly the laugh turns into an occasional giggle. Now she laughs at a lot of stuff - daddy making funny faces, her Baby Einstizzle Tiger Puppet, being tickled, Lexi, and of course my CPK's!
Speaking of Cabbies - yes I call them Cabbies now, make fun all you want... did you see they are one of the Top 10 Toys for Christmas this year???? Hello, I knew about this waaaaaay back in May!! I told you they'd be huge. Scoop some up - the craze is about to begin. If you have any of your old CPK's in your basement and want to make some loot, email me - I will buy them, outfits, etc. from you!!
No word on the keys. I guess they're gone. I haven't needed to go anywhere since I lost them so it hasn't really hit me yet that they're gone. Not that I don't have spares of just about all of them... but it still sucks.
OH, I am now allowing comments to be left... I am just curious to see how this goes lol...
So we get this BMW a few weeks ago. It's awesome. Great car. I have no job, yet I drive a BMW. It's kinda cool... Mommy & Kyla are stylin'...
But I'm starting to wonder if this car is just BAD LUCK! I quit the job the day after we got it. Three days later it breaks down on our way home from WalMart... then yesterday I went to the Post Office to mail some stuff I sold on eBay, and I LOST MY KEYS!!!
They're gone. I searched everywhere. I walked out without them... go to the car and realized I'd forgotten them. I figured I'd just left them on the counter, go back in, and they're nowhere. We searched everywhere inside - I even went through the trash!!! The woman behind the counter looked around to make sure they didn't fall. Nope.
So then I start getting paranoid that someone took them while I wasn't paying attention (I had a ton of stuff to ship and was going nuts trying to get all the labels done, etc.) and was going to drive off in the Beemer!! I felt like I should search the PO even more and retrace my steps 100 times - but then I was thinking - What if someone grabbed the keys and was out in the parking lot clicking the button to unlock the car so they could drive away in it!!! Yes - I've got some paranoia issues!
Finally I called Sonja and she and Ky came to bring me the spare keys. I thought there was hope that maybe I'd somehow locked them in the car or in the trunk - but nope. They're gone. Now I hope someone didn't look at my return address on my packages and steal my keys so they can come get me!!!
Here's what I think happened... I am pretty sharp and quite a little investigator if you didn't already know LOL...
At one point I went up to the counter to ship my packages, but the woman told me that since there was still a Priority Mail sticker on one of the boxes I had to take it off in order to ship Parcel Post. I stepped aside and let the person behind me go ahead so I didn't hold up the line while removing the sticker. My theory is that this women grabbed my keys by accident, threw them in her purse thinking they were hers, and walked out. She probably had her keys sitting there too and grabbed them when she left a minute later, not thinking. I do things like this all the time. I HOPE she finds them and realizes she grabbed them at the PO - and is smart enough to realize that someone is FREAKING OUT with out her keys and she'll return them. If not - SHE SUCKS.
So, if you find a set of keys with BMW key, Acura key, mail keys, a house key, and bottle opener keychain - THEY ARE MINE!!
In other news. My little Princess is going to crawl soon!!!! She is on her hands and knees rocking back and forth - she just hasn't been able to take off yet!! She is chilling out on the floor right now with her Brainy Baby toy. Little Miss Independent these days, I swear.
Halloween - thank you for all your suggestions... I STILL haven't decided what she's going to be. I did take some pictures of her in a little pumpkin outfit TK's parents gave us before she was even born. It is 12 months (she is 6) and it FITS!! She HATED being in it, but I got some OK pictures. I'm going to post them later.
I am SO EXCITED about the new site and its so cool to have an "outlet" again LOL... My friend Ty is going to be doing a "View from the Gay Guy" section and it will be a riot. I can't wait to get his link up.
I am still in need of a cartoon of me. Someone emailed me, made a great one - I asked for a little bit of a change to it... and haven't heard back!! I really liked his work but I can't get in touch!
Um, I was just checking out the "Next Blog" deal in the top corner of the screen - if you click it, it goes to another random person's blog... Let me tell you - there are some depressed freakly people out there. And some of them are just cute and funny... So if you ever get bored with mine, click the Next Blog and check out someone else's life.
OK I should go now. More later - I have been going crazy without a journal to share all my thoughts in!
