- Kevin is now a Systems Architect. YAY!
- Max got the second lead in the first grade musical. YAY! He is a great white shark who helps a little fish learn that ‘special’ friends (like a seven-legged octopus) are just as great as non-special friends. The teacher forgot to include a whole page of dialog! Max and I caught the error fairly quickly, so no major harm done.
- Brian is speaking up a storm, learning his letters, and loves to draw the clues along with Steve or Joe while watching Blues Clues. YAY! He knows about a third to a half of the alphabet. It’s only been in the last month that he has really shown any interest. He is even starting to draw some of the letters too. So far his favorite seems to be ‘B’.
- I had brunch with some friends yesterday. YAY!
- We have new neighbors finally. YAY! It’s a cute family of three and the wife is expecting baby #2. She is also a stay-at-home mom and the daughter is Brian’s age. So we now have three two year olds in a row in our town home cluster. It should be extra fun in the Spring. The husband was extra chatty when I introduced myself, so he should get along with Kevin well. Plus, they didn’t shovel right away after the snow storm. I love that in neighbors, honestly. That way I am not peer-pressured into shoveling before a reasonable time has passed.
Author: jclawver
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Life Update
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Seriously, WHERE IS HER MOTHER???
Britney proves that ROCK BOTTOM isn’t the lowest you can get: Britney shaves her head.\
I feel so badly for Britney. Whatever her problem, she is obviously crying out for help. Why isn’t her mother helping her? My mom would never let me get that far gone. Poor girl. -
Happy Friday!
FYI, Kevin forgot his sidekick at home. It keeps growling at me every 2 minutes when he gets a new message. I don’t like the buzz feature. Mm, I guess it’s actually called vibrate. But whatever. It sounds more like a buzz.\
Today is the second unnecessary snow day in a row. Booo. But I totally got to sleep in until 10 am, so YAY! My van is stuck behind a huge ice wall still, so while I am out and about tomorrow, I am totally taking the Volvo. Oh, yea. :)\
TV was awesome last night. I laughed so hard during Supernatural I couldn’t breathe.\
Kevin bought me an iHome, which is an iPod speaker and alarm clock thingie for our room. I have been playing on iTunes ever since, making new playlists. I could have one for everyday of the week! Yippee. Monday’s would be Manic Monday on repeat for 10 times. Tuesday has Veronica Mars, so the playlist would feature something from the show. Wednesdays would HAVE to include My Humps, of course. Hmm, what would Thursday’s contain? Friday would be super happy music, starting with Friday I’m in Love. I am actually in love everyday of teh week, but that song is a Friday classic. Saturday would have something jazzy and nice, something pilfered from Kevin. Sunday would be mellow and calm, but not overly emo. Poor Thursday is still empty. I must think on it.\
Happy Weekend everyone!\
ETA- Eh, I am over the weekdays’ playlist idea already. Though I have been enjoying Tegan and Sara’s Monday, Monday, Monday today. -
This tickles my funny bone, though it kind of scares Kevin:
The World Weekly News, has an article about the characters from Supernatural as if they were real people. Which is awesome in so many ways. Of course the boys would use a source like that to hunt down man-eating-cows. Heeee. Supernatural’s all new tonight, btw, on The CW at 9 pm EST.\
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Happy Valentine’s Day
I hope your day is filled with lots of chocolate and kisses!\
We are having a white Valentine’s Day, which is kinda cool. It would be neater if Kevin and I were at a romantic, mountain retreat. But, I’ll take what I can get.\
Poor Kevin couldn’t get his car out of the parking spot, so he is valiantly working at home. Not even simply pretending to work, but actually working. Such a good boy. -
Done!
I am done for the day!!! If you need me, call someone else, k? Thanks. Bye.
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Good News! (Mostly)
Brian was much perkier this morning. His eyes were open most of the way, whereas yesterday they were only open a sliver. His fever broke sometime in the night, too. YAY! He is still sick, but he played with a toy and only slept at nap time.\
Ooooo, cute story from yesterday. So we’re driving along, poor sicko Brian in his carseat, his puffy, swollen eyes barely open and suddenly he lifts his arm. After a minute I realized he was playing the road trip game we played on the way to Mississippi where we’d lift our arm when we went over bridges. Even totally sick and worn out, with his eyes barely open, Brian saw that we were going over a bridge so he lifted his arm. We played all the way to the hospital and all the way home. It made my heart smile.\
We went back to the doctor today. Brian has something going on in his upper right lung, so the doctor put him on oral antibiotics, his ear infection looks worse, and he is a little dehydrated. We have a follow-up on Friday. I am really thankful I don’t work. I am not sure how working parents do it. As it was, Kevin had to work from home so he’d be here when Max got home because the dr’s appointments have been interfering with bus-drop-off time.\
In case you missed it in all the above wordiness, the good news is that Brian is getting better!\
Also, more good news:\
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Not me too!
I cannot get sick, I must not get sick, I refuse to get sick, I will not get sick.\
Oy, I think I am sick too.\
Brian is super sick. Took him into the doctor today, then shuffled on over to the hospital for a chest x-ray and lab work, and then back to the doctor’s office for injections of antibiotics. He has THE FLU (not to be confused with, “Boss, I can’t come into today because I… cough cough… am sick. I think I have the flu.”), a double ear infection, his white count is elevated so maybe something else too, I don’t know, and the doctor is worried about pneumonia. Brian looks so bad- his eyes are red and puffy and they are constantly leaking tears. His nose is also constantly running, so Brian has dried snot in various places around his face. His clothes and my clothes from this past weekend were frequently wet. Eww, gross, I know. He is lethargic and just wants to be rocked. He isn’t eating well but he is drinking his juice and Gatorade, so no worries. I spent all day (and most of the weekend) but for 20 minutes and while I was driving, with Brian in my arms. I should have Kevin take a picture of the poor little guy. He looks like the poster boy for some charity. It’s really pathetic. My left arm is killing me from holding him for so long. Brian weight 38 pounds, which is officially the size of a 4 year old. I think doctors need new charts. -
Awesome!
The news and entertainment shows have been showing that crazy bride video after I linked to it. My new motto should be: shares crap first. It turns out that the crazy bride video was a fake, posted by a wanna-be actress, which is ok by me because I questioned its authenticity in my post. Had I not, I would have been embarrassed. Also, I don’t think the bride was so great, but her friends did an awesome job of acting. Major kudos to them. They felt so real to me, I wanted to bitch-slap two of them and pet the third.\
Here is another awesome video totally worth one minute and ten seconds of your time: The Liberation of Katie Holmes. It’s an oldie, but a goody.\
Max is back at school. Hope he is doing ok. Cross your fingers! But he passed his cold to Kevin. Boooo! And to Brian. Super booooo! We ran out of baby cold medicine this morning. “Oh noes” heard all around the Lawver house this morning. Until I realized that Brian isn’t a baby. He is old enough to actually take most of the same medicine Max can. Then a whole new type of “Oh noes” were heard being wailed.\
In other awesome news-\
Supernatural kicked ass last week. Kicked. Ass. Literally. Figuratively. Lots of ass, lots of kicking. The CW is streaming the episode online if anyone is interested. A new episode airs tonight. Yippeee!\
Veronica Mars has been super cool since coming back from holiday hiatus. It, too, is being streamlined on the web.\
That’s all I got. What’s being awesome in your life?
