Today on the way home from the library Saige told me she wishes we had more babies. I told we do have a baby and between him and their daddy there is trouble enough for five or six babies. She said we should have more though, so he always has someone to play with, because Zailor goes home, and we should have a girl baby next time. I told her you can hope for a girl baby but it doesn't always work that way, not that it matters because we are not having any more babies in the near future. So she said it's okay if we wait two weeks and then if we get a boy baby we can just have more until there are 17 boys and 85 girls. HA
It's tempting when I see adorable sweet little babies, like Amnesty's and Laura's brand new bundle of joy, but then I come to my senses. : )
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
uh oh
Last night was Saige's open house at school. She was remarkably unexcited about it, I learned that her teacher did have her baby over the weekend and they already have the substitute. She didn't say a word and when I asked her why she didn't tell me she said she didn't want us to know. She got off the school bus today limping, said her knee suddenly hurt for no reason. She didn't fall or bump it, it just hurt. It stopped hurting just as fast, she walked fine and when I asked if it was better she played the drama queen and dropped to the floor and proceeded to scootch around. When she did get back up I didn't say a word and she forgot all about it. Later she said she didn't want to go to school anymore, she doesn't like not having one of her parents and she is lonely. She says nothing happened, and she likes her friends but she likes her mommy better and she misses "her" baby when she is gone.
I didn't bring it up again, I set her alarm for the morning and hope she is better about it by then. She must be missing her teacher, I am sure she will adjust but it breaks my heart. She has been so happy and eager to go and about school up until today. I was adjusting well to her being in school but I don't know what I'll do if I have to force my baby to go... pre-K is suppose to be fun. If she isn't happier tomorrow I will go in and see if maybe there is something I can do with the class a bit early. Volunteering doesn't officially start until Oct. at which point I plan to do as much as I can in that regard. Mostly because I want to be part of her schooling but partially so I can leave Rylan with Robby and although I will be surrounded by 4 year olds I will get that 10 minute drive ALL BY MYSELF. LOL I think that is the worst of not having an outside job, I miss driving in the car with the radio cranked all alone.
On an absolutely hilarious note Dish Network called me today. A girl named Rachel who told me she was calling to see why I left and tell me a I was one of there best and oldest customers. LMAO I must be more patient than I thought if my 18 months with them qualifies me to be a highly valued longest standing customers. She just kept saying they offer quality equipment and that the people in India and the Philippines taking my calls are highly trained individuals. I asked her how having all the training in the world helps me in the slightest if I can't understand them? I would make an effort to understand almost anyone... but when I am paying for a service that doesn't work and I need help for the 20th time, is it that far fetched that I would want help that I can translate... I paid enough I shouldn't have to translate and hope for the best. I told her they claimed to offer quality equipment before, it was not, why should I believe her now? She got silent and then offered me free equipment for 4 rooms, free HBO and Starz for 54 months and a 100 dollar credit. I told her that was the same as I was offered as a new customer the first time. Then... I swear to god she offered me free equipment for 4 rooms, HBO and STARZ for 5 months and a 50 dollar credit. Really in that order, I swear. When I got the giggles under control I asked her if she realized that she actually offered me less? Silence again. This was 17:54 phone call, there was a lot of silence, and a lot of laughing.
As much as talking to them use to make me beyond angry, now it's just funny. I was practically peeing my pants laughing at her. After a bit more silence she asked what service I used now... I told her I got a converter box and unless she could beat free, I was not interested. She goes on to say that yes but that doesn't include premium channels that we offer, to which I said other than TWO channels everything I watched was on network tv and they charged me 5 bucks for free TV and that 2 channels does not justify 50 a month. So finally she asked if there was anything at all she could do for me to make me reconsider in the future. I told her that she could see to it that they payed me the rest of the refund I was suppose to get from them (this had come up earlier and she apologized profusely) she got quiet and then she HUNG UP on ME, roflmao. The kids must have thought I was crazy, I practically choked on my tongue I was laughing so hard. I keep getting these recorded messages that I should not be alarmed but this is my LAST chance to lower my interest rates and to take advantage of this incredible offer press 1. It's been my last chance about 200 times this month alone. I always press 1 and harass them right back. It is so satisfying when they hang up on you... and it is so much fun. I'm sorry but if the offer was that incredible they wouldn't need to call me... I ask them if they sleep well trying to scam people like that, or if perhaps they would like to give me their account numbers in good faith, or just ask for a manager, works every time.
I didn't bring it up again, I set her alarm for the morning and hope she is better about it by then. She must be missing her teacher, I am sure she will adjust but it breaks my heart. She has been so happy and eager to go and about school up until today. I was adjusting well to her being in school but I don't know what I'll do if I have to force my baby to go... pre-K is suppose to be fun. If she isn't happier tomorrow I will go in and see if maybe there is something I can do with the class a bit early. Volunteering doesn't officially start until Oct. at which point I plan to do as much as I can in that regard. Mostly because I want to be part of her schooling but partially so I can leave Rylan with Robby and although I will be surrounded by 4 year olds I will get that 10 minute drive ALL BY MYSELF. LOL I think that is the worst of not having an outside job, I miss driving in the car with the radio cranked all alone.
On an absolutely hilarious note Dish Network called me today. A girl named Rachel who told me she was calling to see why I left and tell me a I was one of there best and oldest customers. LMAO I must be more patient than I thought if my 18 months with them qualifies me to be a highly valued longest standing customers. She just kept saying they offer quality equipment and that the people in India and the Philippines taking my calls are highly trained individuals. I asked her how having all the training in the world helps me in the slightest if I can't understand them? I would make an effort to understand almost anyone... but when I am paying for a service that doesn't work and I need help for the 20th time, is it that far fetched that I would want help that I can translate... I paid enough I shouldn't have to translate and hope for the best. I told her they claimed to offer quality equipment before, it was not, why should I believe her now? She got silent and then offered me free equipment for 4 rooms, free HBO and Starz for 54 months and a 100 dollar credit. I told her that was the same as I was offered as a new customer the first time. Then... I swear to god she offered me free equipment for 4 rooms, HBO and STARZ for 5 months and a 50 dollar credit. Really in that order, I swear. When I got the giggles under control I asked her if she realized that she actually offered me less? Silence again. This was 17:54 phone call, there was a lot of silence, and a lot of laughing.
As much as talking to them use to make me beyond angry, now it's just funny. I was practically peeing my pants laughing at her. After a bit more silence she asked what service I used now... I told her I got a converter box and unless she could beat free, I was not interested. She goes on to say that yes but that doesn't include premium channels that we offer, to which I said other than TWO channels everything I watched was on network tv and they charged me 5 bucks for free TV and that 2 channels does not justify 50 a month. So finally she asked if there was anything at all she could do for me to make me reconsider in the future. I told her that she could see to it that they payed me the rest of the refund I was suppose to get from them (this had come up earlier and she apologized profusely) she got quiet and then she HUNG UP on ME, roflmao. The kids must have thought I was crazy, I practically choked on my tongue I was laughing so hard. I keep getting these recorded messages that I should not be alarmed but this is my LAST chance to lower my interest rates and to take advantage of this incredible offer press 1. It's been my last chance about 200 times this month alone. I always press 1 and harass them right back. It is so satisfying when they hang up on you... and it is so much fun. I'm sorry but if the offer was that incredible they wouldn't need to call me... I ask them if they sleep well trying to scam people like that, or if perhaps they would like to give me their account numbers in good faith, or just ask for a manager, works every time.
body doubles?
I just watched the presidential address on the bail out. I'm still not convinced.... I see this leading to the rich and greedy just becoming more so. I can understand to a point but it pisses me off beyond belief that they say universal healthcare is too socialist but this is okay? So it's not okay to help a sick poor child, but god forbid the rich might lose a few bucks. I paid attention when I bought my house, I educated myself on the terms, I have been responsible and now I have to pay for the idiots that weren't? I think they should lose their homes, maybe the lenders were shady but seriously what kind of moron thinks they can afford a 300,000 house when they make 20, 000 a year. If you bought a home while rates were really low... is it not common sense that they will most likely go up? Stupid, stupid people. So now the burden falls on me and the rest of us who were responsible? AND they want there to be no oversight? um very, very scary. Not surprising though.
Why aren't the people getting rich off of these loans, the one getting severance packages larger than what we will make in a lifetime forced to pay up? It was their greed that got us in this mess. I see NO good side to any of this. So Bush says we have to do this or we will be in a recession.... many of us think we are already there. Heating costs are expected to be 30% higher this year... I have to figure out how to afford that and now I have to help pay for greedy stupid people too. Ugh
Anyway... there are rumors that the North Korean dictator Kim Jung Il has been dead for years and what we see is a body double. This whole idea of body doubles is fascinating, it would make a good movie. Watching the address, I am wondering if maybe we have the same thing? Is George Bush dead and we are watching a double? I can't say exactly when the change took place but the last few times I have watched/listened to him he is different. Suddenly he can read a teleprompter, and speak in complete sentences and there is a mysterious lack of UMs. Of course I realize that is a bit far fetched but hey ya never know, lol. Why would that happen when we have a VP? Maybe because the only thing scarier than Bush is Cheney... with the exception of maybe Sarah Palin. I posed my theory to my brother who informed me that I don't give him enough credit, he did after all graduate college. I am of course aware of this, in fact he single handedly made me feel better that my kids wont be missing much since it is highly unlikely we will be able to afford to send them to Ivy League schools. No I don't really think GWB is dead but after all these painful speeches, press conferences and addresses I have listen to over the years, I have to wonder where the hell was this guy who can talk for the last 7 years.
Why aren't the people getting rich off of these loans, the one getting severance packages larger than what we will make in a lifetime forced to pay up? It was their greed that got us in this mess. I see NO good side to any of this. So Bush says we have to do this or we will be in a recession.... many of us think we are already there. Heating costs are expected to be 30% higher this year... I have to figure out how to afford that and now I have to help pay for greedy stupid people too. Ugh
Anyway... there are rumors that the North Korean dictator Kim Jung Il has been dead for years and what we see is a body double. This whole idea of body doubles is fascinating, it would make a good movie. Watching the address, I am wondering if maybe we have the same thing? Is George Bush dead and we are watching a double? I can't say exactly when the change took place but the last few times I have watched/listened to him he is different. Suddenly he can read a teleprompter, and speak in complete sentences and there is a mysterious lack of UMs. Of course I realize that is a bit far fetched but hey ya never know, lol. Why would that happen when we have a VP? Maybe because the only thing scarier than Bush is Cheney... with the exception of maybe Sarah Palin. I posed my theory to my brother who informed me that I don't give him enough credit, he did after all graduate college. I am of course aware of this, in fact he single handedly made me feel better that my kids wont be missing much since it is highly unlikely we will be able to afford to send them to Ivy League schools. No I don't really think GWB is dead but after all these painful speeches, press conferences and addresses I have listen to over the years, I have to wonder where the hell was this guy who can talk for the last 7 years.
Monday, September 22, 2008
cranky
I finally got a night to myself, my parents took the kids Saturday night. I was and still am semi sick... I feel crappy but more annoying than anything else. . I did absolutely nothing, I considered cleaning the house, but instead I took a LONG bath, played online, took a nap and read a book. I had Zailor Friday night and his mom promised some of the money she owed me and then I never heard back from her, grrr, so that added to my crankiness and it hasn't gone away yet. Every morning I am reminded that winter is getting closer and we are going to have to turn on the heat. I really, really, really do not want to do that. I'll have us all in 10 layers and wait until the pipes are about to freeze if I can, lol. The fuel oil bill scares the hell out of me. I am starting to miss my DVR. I am missing Two and a Half Men because there is no signal. Every other channel is coming in perfectly (have I mentioned I love these digital converter boxes?) but CBS is completely black. I have just have luck like that. Boston Legal starts at 10 and I LOVE that show so I fully expect that CBS will suddenly be back and ABC will disappear.
Rylan is teething..... still. I swear this kid has been teething forever we are up to 8 teeth now. Will it ever end? Oh Apparently he really likes apples, a lot. I think maybe he liked apples a bit too much because his diapers are nasty and his poor little hiney is practically bleeding. I'm sure being in real diapers added to it as well. Desitin has not done much to improve his mood, it's really his first rash and he is less than thrilled, lol. He screamed bloody murder when he stole an apple of the counter and I took it away... I think he has had enough, lol. He has one hell of a temper, he slaps whatever is closest when he gets mad, and if there is nothing close he runs with his arm over his head to something he can hit. If he is sitting on the floor doing something he isn't suppose to to and you tell him no, he scrunches his face and slaps the floor. He seems to get over it rather quickly. I know it doesn't help that I laugh at him but it's just funny to watch him.
He tortures Saige (and me) with the TV. We will be watching Word World and he will push buttons. I have a pepsi cap duct taped over the power button. So he moved on to the volume and the channels, I duct taped the door down. He pries it off and turns it on and off all day long. So I had Robby put it all on a power strip so I can just shut off the power completely. He gets so mad... he pried off my cap and gets super mad when the power button doesn't do anything. The first time he threw himself down and had an emmy worthy tantrum kicking and screaming, a minute later he got back up and tried again... it still didn't work, he went back and forth between trying the tv and having a tantrum for a good 45 mins. It's certainly fair to say he is determined.
He hasn't added any new words at all, I don't know if I should be worried or not. He understands just about everything, he will point or do what we ask him but he doesn't talk and when he does it's all babble other than a handful of words and they are almost all B words. He doesn't call me mama or Robby dada. He knows what we are saying but wont say them back. He will occasionally say mama but not to me... if that makes sense. He calls Saige C. She was talking up a storm at his age and I know I shouldn't compare but I can't help it.
Saige is loving school... but she does nothing there. Everyday she gets up all happy to go back and do nothing again and again. She has however finally learned the names of two of the kids in her class. Just two, Sophie and Jacob. Last week she was a bit upset that she will have a substitute while her teacher is on maternity leave. She seems better now that she has meet the sub but she was very sad and told me she wants to see the baby and is afraid her teacher wont like her as much after the baby comes and wont want to come back to school. I asked her if she thought I liked her as much as I did before Rylan and she said yes and was a bit happier after contemplating it for a couple minutes. Of course I have to say, I would hate to be a teacher and have my very first baby. Saige came home sick the very first week.... I think a new mom would go nuts. On the other hand the baby will be super healthy and immune to everything before he/she even gets close to school age, lol. I am sure once she has the sub she will be perfectly fine... I hope so anyway. Maternity leave will fee like an eternity to a bunch of 4 year olds.
On a funny note, we were playing outside today and out of nowhere Saige asked me to come closer, she had a secret. So I got really close, she hugged me and said with the most serious look on her face Mommy, in 6 months I am going to turn into a stuffed animal. I laughed and asked her why she would want to do that. She told me it was because she is really a stuffed animal fairy pretending to be a little girl and she is only a little girl because she waved her magic wand but it only works every 6 months. To think I went through pregnancy and labor and all she had to do was wave a wand to get here.
Rylan is teething..... still. I swear this kid has been teething forever we are up to 8 teeth now. Will it ever end? Oh Apparently he really likes apples, a lot. I think maybe he liked apples a bit too much because his diapers are nasty and his poor little hiney is practically bleeding. I'm sure being in real diapers added to it as well. Desitin has not done much to improve his mood, it's really his first rash and he is less than thrilled, lol. He screamed bloody murder when he stole an apple of the counter and I took it away... I think he has had enough, lol. He has one hell of a temper, he slaps whatever is closest when he gets mad, and if there is nothing close he runs with his arm over his head to something he can hit. If he is sitting on the floor doing something he isn't suppose to to and you tell him no, he scrunches his face and slaps the floor. He seems to get over it rather quickly. I know it doesn't help that I laugh at him but it's just funny to watch him.
He tortures Saige (and me) with the TV. We will be watching Word World and he will push buttons. I have a pepsi cap duct taped over the power button. So he moved on to the volume and the channels, I duct taped the door down. He pries it off and turns it on and off all day long. So I had Robby put it all on a power strip so I can just shut off the power completely. He gets so mad... he pried off my cap and gets super mad when the power button doesn't do anything. The first time he threw himself down and had an emmy worthy tantrum kicking and screaming, a minute later he got back up and tried again... it still didn't work, he went back and forth between trying the tv and having a tantrum for a good 45 mins. It's certainly fair to say he is determined.
He hasn't added any new words at all, I don't know if I should be worried or not. He understands just about everything, he will point or do what we ask him but he doesn't talk and when he does it's all babble other than a handful of words and they are almost all B words. He doesn't call me mama or Robby dada. He knows what we are saying but wont say them back. He will occasionally say mama but not to me... if that makes sense. He calls Saige C. She was talking up a storm at his age and I know I shouldn't compare but I can't help it.
Saige is loving school... but she does nothing there. Everyday she gets up all happy to go back and do nothing again and again. She has however finally learned the names of two of the kids in her class. Just two, Sophie and Jacob. Last week she was a bit upset that she will have a substitute while her teacher is on maternity leave. She seems better now that she has meet the sub but she was very sad and told me she wants to see the baby and is afraid her teacher wont like her as much after the baby comes and wont want to come back to school. I asked her if she thought I liked her as much as I did before Rylan and she said yes and was a bit happier after contemplating it for a couple minutes. Of course I have to say, I would hate to be a teacher and have my very first baby. Saige came home sick the very first week.... I think a new mom would go nuts. On the other hand the baby will be super healthy and immune to everything before he/she even gets close to school age, lol. I am sure once she has the sub she will be perfectly fine... I hope so anyway. Maternity leave will fee like an eternity to a bunch of 4 year olds.
On a funny note, we were playing outside today and out of nowhere Saige asked me to come closer, she had a secret. So I got really close, she hugged me and said with the most serious look on her face Mommy, in 6 months I am going to turn into a stuffed animal. I laughed and asked her why she would want to do that. She told me it was because she is really a stuffed animal fairy pretending to be a little girl and she is only a little girl because she waved her magic wand but it only works every 6 months. To think I went through pregnancy and labor and all she had to do was wave a wand to get here.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
octopus
Saige wanted a sandwich and grapes for lunch today. I made her the sandwich and set it in front of her... instead of thank you I got is where are my grapes?
I can only do so many things at once Saige
But mom you have two hands...
Yes, but I only have one body that both hands are attached to and can still only do so many things at once no matter how hard I try
Well you should be an octopus then so you could do 11 things at once for me all the time
Ummm sure, why didn't I think of that?
I can only do so many things at once Saige
But mom you have two hands...
Yes, but I only have one body that both hands are attached to and can still only do so many things at once no matter how hard I try
Well you should be an octopus then so you could do 11 things at once for me all the time
Ummm sure, why didn't I think of that?
Monday, September 15, 2008
snow day?
There's no snow but Saige didn't have school today. There was a two hour delay, so no school for AM Pre-K. There was a nasty wind storm last night, the yard is covered in still green leaves and twigs. On the plus side there has been a branch stuck in a tree out there for years that we didn't quite know how to get it out.... the wind took care of it. I think maybe that was Ike for us. Amazing how destructive it was on the coast and by the time we saw it, there was a couple sprinkles and some downed trees, we didn't even lose power. A lot of people around us did but ours didn't even blink. PLUS I got to sleep in 3 days in a row!!
Anyway Saige was all excited for school today, excited enough to go to bed at 7:30 last night so it would be here sooner, lol. I had a heck of a time explaining to her why it closed and why daddy told her it was a snow day but we had no snow. I probably would have described it the same... almost all closed days and delays are snow related around here.
The monsters have been keeping me busy... no Zailor today, Rylan is napping and Saige is watching Charlotte's Web for thr 7000th time. It is oddly quiet (knock on wood) Good TV starts this week!!!! I am excited, new House on Tuesday. I have been waiting all summer long.... I am a TV junkie. I haven't missed Dish Network at all this summer but now that it's fall- I think I will start to miss my DVR real soon. I have to find out what I can do... maybe a DVD burner? I'm pretty sure with tivo or DVR I have to pay for the service and that would defeat the purpose of the free digital tv that I bought the converter box for. It would be nice to watch the actual TV at some pint but I have a feeling I'll be watching almost everything online.... Robby is at work when all the good stuff is on so he can't watch it live.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
It's time to get up already?
It seems 7:30 is coming earlier and earlier each morning. I HATE getting up. If I don't have to get up at any specific time I do alright, as far as sleeping goes. However when the alarm is set, be it 5am, 6 am or 9 am.... I can not go to sleep. It does not matter how tired I am, or how early I got up the previous night, I am unable to shut off my brain and no matter how hard I try I just lay there as the minutes slowly tick by. Robby is next to me happily snoring away while I lie next to him hating him for it. Seriously the guy can make himself go to sleep on demand, this is a skill I am incredibly jealous of and as hard as I try I just can not master. I've tried hiding the clock, it does not help. I have tried drugs.... they don't help either and I feel like crap the next day. So when I finally get lucky enough to doze off at 3, 4, or even 5 am it literally feels like minutes before it is time to start all over again :(
Last night there was a car on fire up the road. We stood at the end of the driveway and watched waiting for the fire department. It was scary... I looked this morning and there was nothing in the news. That is a good thing, I take that to mean that no one was hurt. The media are vultures, they are only interested in tragedy so they can exploit it for all it's worth. I don't know how long is was on fire before Robby came home from work and saw it (1/4 mile up, maybe). It was 3-4 minutes between the first cop arriving when we went out and the fire department getting there but that 3-4 minutes felt like forever. No one was stopping traffic, I doubt there was time and cars kept right on driving by and I was just holding my breath hoping and praying it didn't explode. I watch too much tv but cars have gas... gas will explode right? I was thinking if I saw a flaming car.... I would turn around, not drive within a few feet of it. Anyway the fire dept. had it out pretty quickly and then we couldn't see anything other than the black smoke continuing to fill the sky. Miraculously the kids BOTH slept through all the sirens, lights and commotion.
Last night there was a car on fire up the road. We stood at the end of the driveway and watched waiting for the fire department. It was scary... I looked this morning and there was nothing in the news. That is a good thing, I take that to mean that no one was hurt. The media are vultures, they are only interested in tragedy so they can exploit it for all it's worth. I don't know how long is was on fire before Robby came home from work and saw it (1/4 mile up, maybe). It was 3-4 minutes between the first cop arriving when we went out and the fire department getting there but that 3-4 minutes felt like forever. No one was stopping traffic, I doubt there was time and cars kept right on driving by and I was just holding my breath hoping and praying it didn't explode. I watch too much tv but cars have gas... gas will explode right? I was thinking if I saw a flaming car.... I would turn around, not drive within a few feet of it. Anyway the fire dept. had it out pretty quickly and then we couldn't see anything other than the black smoke continuing to fill the sky. Miraculously the kids BOTH slept through all the sirens, lights and commotion.
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