Conversations while asleep
Posted on September 29, 2006
Ever do this? I have been sick with a horrible cold for the last few days. I took some day-quil this afternoon, and put Ava to bed for her afternoon nap. Well, supposedly that stuff is non-drowsy, but I have to disagree. I laid down to read a book and I must have fallen asleep about 2 pages into the chapter. I woke up two hours later and I was on the phone talking to a videographer I recommend to my brides. I have no idea what I had already said to him. I just kind of went on with the conversation and acted as if nothing strange had just happened to me. I got off the phone and I realized he could have asked for 50% of my profits and I could have just went along with the whole thing!! I have no idea! I don’t remember hearing the phone much less answering it. I don’t even know if I said “Hi” or if I mumbled my way through the conversation! I’m a bit embarassed and I can only pray that my mind filled in the blanks for me and I didn’t make a fool of myself! So, next time you take Day-Quil, just know they are lying when they tell you it’s non-drowsy!!
Location, location location!
Posted on September 27, 2006
I hate where I live. I like the town. I like the house. I even like where the town is, even though it takes about 30 minutes to get anywhere. I just hate my street and the fact that it’s literally a block from the train. I can look outside my front window and see the train. It wouldn’t be so bad if the train didn’t blow its whistle every single time it comes past our house. And it must be a loading station too, because the train sits there for hours sometimes and then when it gets going, it must blow its whistle at least 5 loooong times. They blow the whistle early in the morning too. Sometimes at 5am. Its so annoying! Then there is the traffic. This street is so busy at any given time. The speed limit is 30, but it’s a residential street. I feel like it should be 20, but because it’s a bit of a main street, it will never be that low. It doesn’t matter anyway, because no one goes 30 anyway. Everyone goes at least 50 down this street. I’ve seen people go so fast down here I could feel the house shake when they went past. We had a couple kids hit by a speeding car just down the street a couple years ago. I don’t know if they made it or not. I lock the front screen door so Ava doesn’t decide to learn how to open it and take a walk outside. It’s only about 15 yards to the street. That scares the hell out of me.
So, we’re looking. Not sure if we will be moving anytime soon, but the thought is in our heads. Problem is, what we want out of a house and the locations we’re looking at, the cost for a house is around $200,000. I’m not sure we can afford that. Our house now cost about 89,000. We were pretty lucky on that. The previous owners had it on the market for over a year I guess. They had it going for $140,000. However, my opinion is, they were absolutely horrible with interior decorating. Pink and teal walls, huge floral wallpaper, blacklights for bedroom lighting (??). So anyone coming in here must have thought “Oh this is going to be a lot of work.” and it was, and still is three and a half years later. It’s not so much hard work as it is expensive. We really couldn’t afford a fixer upper. It’s much better now though. We might be able to get $150,000 for it, but it’s still much less than what we’re looking at. Plus, our credit isn’t what it should be. So it will be at least a year before we can even seriously look.
All I can do right now is pray that it would be sooner. And try to be happy with what I have. Some people are lucky enough to have a roof over their heads. So we’re blessed, and I’m being greedy. I just can’t help it. Everytime a car or a train goes by, I’m reminded of how much I hate this street. And thats at least every 5 seconds.
Plant Hijacker!
Posted on September 18, 2006
So I’m not a green thumb. My mother-in-law gave me some herb plants and this pepper plant and I’ve been doing pretty good with them, but I started to notice my pepper plant was not doing so good in the last couple days. Little did I know it was cuz of this guy! I walked out into my kitchen this morning and saw my plant “moving” out of the corner of my eye! Of course I freaked for a second…because how many plants move? Then I look close and there is this BIG caterpillar! I’ve never seen one like this. I don’t know when the heck he came into my kitchen or if he’s been there since my mother-in-law gave the plant to me a couple weeks ago, or what. I’ve been watering them everyday too, so you would think I’d notice, but he is the same color as the leaves. Or what’s left of the leaves. Either way, I thought he was pretty, so I took a few shots of him before I evicted him. I looked him up and he’s a Tomato Hornworm. See the little “horn on his back end? It’s not a stinger, as I thought when I first saw it. I guess their pretty hamless. He didn’t seem hamless when I was trying to get him off the plant. Little guy hung on for dear life and kept “snapping” at the spatula I was using to pry him off! LOL! I guess they like tomato and pepper plants. It’s just weird to me that he’s been a stow-away in my kitchen for like 3 weeks! Oh well, no harm, no foul right? Unless you’re a pepper plant…
She’s officially walking!!
Posted on September 17, 2006
So, after her first steps last month, she didn’t take any more. So we kinda discounted them, because it was more like falling forward. LOL! Anyway, on 9-14 she FINALLY decided to just go for it! I was laying on the couch reading a book and she was by the coffee table. I look out of the corner of my eye and I see her just standing there. I look at her and she puts her hands straight up in the air, gets this HUGE grin on her face and starts walking towards me, giggling the whole way! She took 6 steps just like that while I was practically bouncing up and down on the couch cheering for her! I just picked her up and hugged her and told her about a billion times that she is a good girl. She was laughing and hugging me back saying “doo dir” (good girl). I set her back down and cheered for her again and she did it about 3 more times. I think my favorite part, even more than her walking was after each time, I’d pick her up and hug her and she would hug me back. She hasn’t done that much lately except to Todd & I’ve been feeling neglected! It was awesome! So, I got a few pics of it and made a timeline. GOOD TIMES!! 
Crying octopus!
Posted on September 16, 2006
I got Ava’s haloween costume in the mail today and I of course had to put it on her. LOL! She looks so darn cute, but she HATES it! Maybe I’ll put it on her once everyday so she get’s used to it. Here’s a picture of her bawling her eyes out. Of course it was naptime, so maybe it won’t be so bad later. I think it was the hood. But she looks adorable!! I can’t wait for Boo and The Zoo & Halloween!!
My payback for the mice
Posted on September 14, 2006
When I was little, I used to go out in the yard and find mice and worms and bring them in the house to show my mom. Oh boy did she love that! Well, now my payback is here. Ava likes spiders! Yesterday, I showed her a huge garden spider and she laughed and squealed and got so excited. Then today, she was in the bathroom checkin out the tub and I look to see her reaching for something in the tub. Her little feet were dangling so I ran to go grab her (amazing how many times we save their lives huh?). She starts giggling and pointing and reaching for something in the tub, and I look to see whats in there. Lo and behold, theres this big nasty scary spider dangling from some invisible web inside the tub! (Yes, I do make use of the tub…don’t start) So, now she’s going to start finding them and bringing them to me, I’m sure of it. Not cool!
Where were you when it happened?
Posted on September 11, 2006
I was sleeping. I slept through the whole thing, from the first plane hitting, to the last tower collapsing. My mom called up to me to tell me to get downstairs because the World Trade Center had been destroyed. I thought “What is she talking about? I just want to sleep, leave me alone!” My mom watches the news all the time so she reiterates avery segment. So, I turned on my radio and on the morning show I listen to, Eric and Kathy were talking about it. Eric was just saying “They’re gone…the towers are just gone!” I was so confused, I honestly didn’t know what the World Trade Center was. When I went downstairs and saw what was going on, I just sat on the couch and cried with my mom. I couldn’t believe someone was doing this and I was so scared because Todd was a medic and he was working downtown. My sister Fran worked in downtown Chicago and I was so scared for her. She came home, but Todd had to work. I just wanted him to be careful. I was glued to the TV for the rest of the day. I even remember my work calling early that morning saying not to bother coming in, that the store was closing for the day. I had forgotten I had to work, I wasn’t even planning on coming in. We went to a prayer meeting at my church that evening and I just cried. I knew no one in those towers, but I didn’t have to. It was the fact that it was something commited against humanity. All those people. It was just awful. Still to this day, seeing those images, watching some of the specials on TV about it, I just cry, because I still can’t believe it.
I’m boring!!
Posted on September 10, 2006
That’s why I haven’t posted lately. I haven’t had much of anything to do lately, so I can’t think of much to talk about. I’ve actually been stressing about what to blog about! I know! Forward emails!!
Now, I’ve had a few people who send me forward emails before, and I don’t mind them. If it comes from my sister or my sister-in-law, I usually read them, because they are usually good. But there is one person who sends me forwards all the time. It drives me nuts. Aren’t forwards considered tacky now? Especially the ones that say “send this to 134154091 people in the next minute or you will go to hell!”. Ugh thats annoying. And now, they are all over MySpace too. The bulletins drive me crazy sometimes. I will only click on the bulletins from people I know are legitimately sending out a bulletin. I heard one person suggest, for forward emails that is, instead of sending the email back to 15 people in the next 10 minutes, to send it to the person who sent it to you 15 times. Oops! Must have read it wrong! What a great idea! I think I’m going to start doing that!
Ava says hi!
Posted on September 10, 2006
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Thank you, Ava! That was very profound!
Where are my boobs?!?
Posted on September 1, 2006
Seriously….who took them!!?? I get dressed this morning and look down and I feel like I’m missing something. Shirt, check. Bra, check. Boobs….?? After I had Ava I thought for sure I would never be the same. They were way too big! I felt akward in some shirts because I felt like everyone was getting a show. If you saw pictures of Ava’s birthday party, you’d see what I mean. Well, then this morning, I look down and I feel like I’m in high school again! I was made fun of for being flat chested. I feel like I’m right back where I started! Oh well, guess that’s just another part of being a woman. A woman’s body is like the weather in Chicago. If you don’t like it, stick around for 5 minutes, it will change.