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Preparing For the Norm & Randomness

/ aidan, books, life, work

Things I Meant to do While Aidan Was Gone But Didn’t:
– Clean the house thoroughly (I only kind of straightened up, sorta)
– Put away my laundry (I guess there is still a bit of time to do that)
– Go to the doctor (he didn’t have any appointments ’til next Friday)
– Scrapbook

Things I DID!
– Organized my pictures
– Worked on my writing
– Nice things for people
– Hung out with some of my friends
– Shopped alone (ah, blisssss)
– Got my eyes checked
– Relaxed on the porch almost every evening since it’s been nice out
– Ate ridiculously unhealthily

It’s going to be so weird having Aidan back. I’ve gotten used to having less responsibility, taking naps after work, and shopping alone. He seems to be having fun at his grandmommy’s which helps me to relax and enjoy the “vacation.” 🙂

I miss Aidan, but not all the work!!

We’re getting him Saturday. People are asking about him and wanting to see him. He’s very missed! 🙂 I just want to hug him!

A Typical Exchange at Work:

Ronni’s Phone: ring ring!
Ronni checks, sees that it’s boss #2
Ronni: Yes, honeychile?
Boss #2: I need you to do me a favor like yesterday. Can you come over?
Ronni: You got any money?
Boss #2: I’ve got one thousand dollars!
Ronni: Okay, I’ll be right over.
Ronni goes to Boss #2’s desk.
Ronni: I’m going to need the cash first, please.
Boss #2: RIGHT!

He owes me a lot of money.

Random Sidenote: I’m eating Reese’s Pieces for breakfast. How’s that for 100% bonafide unhealthy? Thank Craig for my horrible diet; he got me one of those huge bags full of ’em. Yummy!

I have to ration them so I won’t eat the entire thing in one sitting.

So, I’m reading this book called The Boyfriend List. It’s really funny and touchingly realistic. I’m enjoying it a lot. 🙂 I think I will write a review on Amazon about it once I’m done.

I have many books to read, this is so great. 🙂 I love reading. I love sitting on the porch in the warm sun and reading after work–I’m going to miss doing that when Aidan gets back. Going outside with him will not entail sitting and reading, that’s for sure. At least, not until he’s older. I suppose we can go in the backyard–but it won’t be warm back there and what if there are mushrooms growing out of the ground? EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!

J.K. Rowling has revealed three chapter titles from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to be:

Chapter Two: “Spinners End”
Chapter Six: “Draco’s Detour”
Chapter Fourteen: “Felix Felicis”

Not much longer… not much longer. I’ve already pre-ordered it and I even upgraded the shipping to standard so I can get it that day. YEAH!

I bought stamps yesterday but I’m not exactly sure where I put them. I wonder if they’re in my car? Speaking of, that needs to be cleaned out like NOW. Ugh. I hate a messy car and mine is full of clothes, board games, CDs, wrappings, all sorts of stuff. Yuck. Maybe I’ll do that tonight. 🙂

National Scrapbook Day is April 30, 2005, I believe! Or is it May 7th? Oh poop, who cares? I need to get some scrapping done ASAP! I have all the stuff; all the pictures, an album, adhesives, new scissors, papers, etc. I just need the motivation to sit down and do it! I’ll be more likely to actually do it if I’m with a friend or more. So (itskels), we should make some plans. Leave the little ones with their dads, head over to Archivers or something and scrapbook like mofos. It’s been way too long, yes?

‘Til Later…

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surya namaskar

/ aidan, yoga

I forgot to mention this the other night:

Since I’m just starting out with yoga, I’m learning some basic, simple things. My favorite so far (besides the Child Pose), is the Sun Salutation. I said to Aidan “Let’s do some Yoga!”

He did the Sun Salutation with me. It was the cutest thing ever.

I <3 my Aidan.

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Random Craziness Times Six. Or maybe not so much. (Pictures too!)

/ aidan, books, friends, life, pictures, videos

Something you don’t hear everyday:

“OOOH! MY BUTT IS WARM!” – said by our own lovely itskels. 🙂

So, I got up Saturday morning and there was snow everywhere. I’d been expecting a dusting; they (meaning the weather people) had forecasted it. But as we were driving up North for Aidan’s vacation (heehee), it was snowing like a mofo. I mean, inches and inches of accumulation. Slushy, slippery, nasty stuff. What in the fresh hell? It’s APRIL. But it’s also Ohio. It could snow in June here. ACK.

And I don’t even know if the darn forsythia bloomed yet, so IT DOESN’T EVEN COUNT.

Oh, don’t tell me you don’t know the legend? Spring won’t officially be here (read: the weather won’t break) until there have been three snows after the forsythia blooms. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t seen one flower yet. Well, no blooms anyway. Saw a few greens. And the poor daffodils that were pushing through–if they survive this, then I’ll bow down to them. Yes, to flowers. Shutup.

for Rob: IT TOO BIG FOR YOU!

So, I’m working on The Bark and Microsoft Word is being a right pain in the arse. Sometimes, I’ll add a line break and four pages of text will disappear! What in the fresh hell? I’m almost done with it, though. I have to make the collage (I’ll do that tomorrow) and get Joe’s cartoon and it should be all set. 🙂

Read “Keeping The Moon” by Sarah Dessen in one day. Wonderful, captivating book. *sigh* I can be that successful if I’d get over this stupid fear. 🙁

I’m going to read Broken China by Lori Aurelia Williams next.

<3 Young Adult Novels!

OOOHOOOH, do you want to see a video of Aidan acting silly?

Clicky and download a zip file,then. Inside is an mpeg file, and it should work with any player. 9.31 megabyte download. 😀 My son is crazy! (In a good way!)

I can’t believe he’s mine! 🙂

And… and PICTURES!! 😀


This is my sweet new car radio. (Head unit?) 😀


Becky and I at House of Japan for sushi and other really yummy stuff. I aime Becky tres much.


What I had. Okay, so I ate one before I decided to take the picture, but you get the point. Yummm.

So why did my husband put on nine pounds of cologne just to go to sleep?

Although I was expecting a huge cleaning project when Aidan was gone–I guess Chris did it all. So, I can spend a lot of time relaxing. Not to worry, there is still plenty for me to do, but not as much now. YAY.

Church soon. Then lunch after, maybe? And I’m not sure about Bible Study–I haven’t been reading and I have to get a jump on this writing and other projects while I have the chance (read: while I have the freedom to do it). We’ll see how tomorrow goes. Won’t be wearing my new outfit, that’s for sure, since the weather is doing that “I’ll be nice when everyone is stuck at work but I’ll turn CRAPPY on the weekends” thing again. Wah.

‘Til later…

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Wow.

/ aidan, church, friends, horoscope, life, mommyhood, music

The Moon in Virgo today may express a more vulnerable side than usual as it reflects a powerful conjunction between aggressive Mars and wounded Chiron. When the directed energy of Mars runs into obstacles, it may remind us of earlier experiences that still hold unprocessed emotional pain. We might even feel as if we cannot complete what we’ve started because the world is working against us. Additionally, sweet Venus is confused by a tense aspect with visionary Neptune, indicating that some of the negativity could very well originate in fantasy.

Wow, only 8am and already this is accurate for me. Had lots of thoughts as I was driving to work this morning. Nothing I want to go into greatly, but wow. Definitely some unresolved issues going on in my life. I’ll probably never get closure on them because the other person did what he thought was right and as far as he is concerned, it’s water under the bridge. I wish I could be as unaffected by things as he appears to be. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t ask. It’s gonna stay that way.

Sooo tired. Got involved in a project and didn’t go to bed ’til one. Then Aidan woke up at 4:30am with another night terror. I feel so badly for him when he has those because there is nothing I can do but wait it out. Once it’s over, he’s back to being cute and all, but during them, it’s awful. He screams and everything scares him and he thrashes about, and he asks for stuff but not really. Last night he asked for juice, for Mickey Mouse. I finally turned on the light in the hall which seemed to calm him down and he finally settled down and made cute little noises before falling asleep. Poor little guy.

The Grove was nice last night.

WARNING: lots of names you won’t recognize coming up!

The Grove was nice last night. Busy for me but good.

I made the slides Monday night, and also photocopied more issues of The Bark to pass out. Last night, I got to the church at six and helped set up for the slide show. Unfortunately, I’d thought that someone would know how to hook my computer to the projector! Tyler is out of town and he usually handles it. Jed D came and hooked it up and showed me how to do it. It’ll be good to know even though we’re moving to the sanctuary next month (hopefully??) and won’t have to worry about setting up like that anymore.

So we got the computers hooked up and the slide show ready. Then Tony wanted to play a video and we couldn’t get the sound to work. So Aaron and some other guys ran out to Meijer to get a certain cable and they got it to work. Christie M had to go and get snacks because the guy in charge of that had a family emergency and couldn’t be there early. Things were getting hectic and just when I thought they couldn’t get any more crazy, Abbie tapped me on the shoulder. It was time to practice for the drama skit!! Yikes. I forgot my line once during the practice–fortunately we didn’t have to say exactly what was on the paper, so improvisation happened a LOT during the skit. I didn’t hear it done the same way twice by anyone, except maybe Christy J. So my actual performance went well. 🙂 Aidan got very excited to see me, Chad, and Christy up front and kept yelling our names. The cheers were actually encouraging. But Chris had to take Aidan out in the hall because it was hard for people to hear. 🙁

Overall, the message was pretty good, the singing was good, but the best part is was seeing my friends and catching up with them. 🙂

My current “can’t get enough of these songs” playlist:

> Twista f. Lil Jon – Let’s Go
> Jem – Falling For You
> A Perfect Circle – Passive
> Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me
> Coldplay – Clocks

TIME!! Why is it running away from me???

There is so much I want to do for my friends but there is never any free time. And the time I do get–I go to sleep! I have three packages to assemble and send out, cards that I NEED to get out ASAP, letters to write, bills to pay, pictures to send, scrapbooks to make, online photo albums to make, a synopsis to edit, agents to query, new chapters to write, character sketches to complete, editing to do. This, on top of church stuff, taking care of Aidan, *trying* to stay on top of keeping the house clean (a mostly futile effort), and working full time. Usually by mid-day Thursdays I am absolutely tapped out. But thanks to Aidan’s night terrors, the tapped out is happening RIGHT NOW.

^^Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. I made the choice to take all of this on and I accept it. One day all of this hard work and investing in my writing career and in people will pay off. It’s already paid off tremendously. I have some amazing, incredible, wonderful friends. Maybe someday I’ll have an amazing, incredible, wonderful writing career.

And dang it, I MISS ROB. I haven’t seen him since Friday, which is unusual. ::mental note – make time for Rob ASAP::

Two friends in particular have skyrocketed to the very top of my prayer list. Their stories are not mine to share, but those of you who pray, can you please ask for God to be with them?

My prayer list is so long–seems like I have very little time to do that anymore, even. 🙁 I have to MAKE TIME for God, but HOW?? He needs to be a priority in my life, even if I’m pissed off at Him or something. If only I could shorten my workday (and still earn my same salary) and increase my free time. Then I’d be able to spend more time with my friends, spend more time with God, spend more time doing what I enjoy. And SLEEP!

Mmm, sleeeeep. Usually I would take a nap during my lunch, but today we’re having a good-bye lunch for someone on the team. BD’s Mongolian BBQ. I hope I make it good this time.

Then tonight is Steak and Shake with some special girls. That will be uplifting, I think. The last time we all ate there it was mind-blowingly awesome. I’m looking forward to that very much.

I’m going to TRY to be in bed by 10:30pm tonight. We’ll see how that goes.

Alright, ta ta for now! 😀

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Interesting Weekend

/ aidan, books, car, church, friends, life, shopping, weekend

Spent Friday night with my brother and Aidan. That was great. It’s always amazing to hang out with Rob. Took them to Max & Erma’s and then we went to Best Buy. I bought Popular The 2nd Season on DVD. Actually, Mommy did. I used the gift card she gave me. 🙂 After that, I went to Craig’s where a bunch of people were hanging out and watching the basketball games. Brackets, brackets, brackets. Lord help me.

Joshua A: Cats gone wild!

Most of the day Saturday was spent with a home improvement guy. We *almost* got what he was offering, but Chris got 2nd thoughts so we decided against it. Saturday evening, Chris and I took Becky out to dinner at House of Japan. We ate sushi! (I am so excited that Becky is into sushi now!) I ate other stuff too; too much food. The chef was hilarious. I took pictures. Will have them up soon, I hope.

After dinner, Chris and Aidan went to Craig’s and I came home. I was tired and not feeling well, so I cleaned my room and did my hair. Then I turned in around 1030ish. Early night for me!

Church was cool. I was disappointed that we were not allowed to sit on the floor in the back anymore. I rather liked it there. Todd A was back in town for the weekend; it was great to see him. Saw Garth too, who I’d missed a LOT. We had lunch at Cheeseburger In Paradise which was quite yummy. I brought a lot home, though. Katie gave me a mini-massage which was incredible. She’s so good! Spent most of the day with Bizzy which was a ton of fun, especially since we spent most of the time in Best Buy speaking in British accents. That was awesome. 🙂 Bible study did not happen–the leader Robbie was out sick, and the few of us that showed up kind of hung out for a bit before disbursing. It’s always good to see Monica, Megan S (megnita), and Katie M.

I got three books at Barnes & Noble. The next two in the Georgia Nicholson series, and a book by some lady whose last name is Sark. The title is too long for me to remember right now, but it looks like it’s going to be great. I can’t wait. And I found my yoga book, which I am totally stoked about. From Best Buy, I bought The Wiz. Only $5.99. And I didn’t actually buy it; I still had money on my gift card! I still do!

I love books.

So I definitely need a new car stereo. I was going to go tomorrow to buy it and get it installed (if the wait wasn’t too long), but I think I’ll just wait ’til the weekend. I’ll go early in the day so they can install it same day for sure. It will be sweet; I already know which one I’m getting. I’m getting the iPod mount too, so I can listen to my iPod in the car. It’ll charge it as I’m driving, so no more iPods dying on me like mine did on the way to church! And no more iTrip to deal with either. Woo.

About 5am Saturday morning, Aidan woke up crying. I can’t listen to my baby cry, so I brought him in here with me. He went back to sleep but was up at 8. This was BAD because I’d not been asleep very long. I had stayed up late downloading free MP3s from http://music.download.com Lots of great stuff there! Lots of amazing trance. I can’t wait to try it all. My iPod is very happy. 🙂 Saturday night, I was in bed when Chris got home from Craig’s, but Aidan was asking for me so he put him in here. Aidan cuddled up to me and said “MommEE MommEE” and kept patting my cheek. Let me tell you. That’s an amazing way to fall asleep. This precious little boy softly patting your cheek. Wow. So he and I cuddled and slept all night in here. He didn’t wake up til almost 10 and that’s because Chris’s alarm went off. He was a great little boy all day; well, what I saw of him anyway. Sundays tend to be pretty whirlwind for me because I’m so busy with church stuff. I don’t see Aidan a lot on Sundays. 🙁

Anyway…

Off to bed with me. I grabbed a short nap, then Becky called (and it’s always a pleasure to talk to her). But I’m going back to sleep now. Byeeeee!

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