I think it's the west nile, or maybe the mad cow disease. Whatever it is, it sucks eggs and I am on day 5 of disease hell.
School is back in full swing and my classes are pretty tough this go around. I spend most of my out of school time studying, so basically I suck and have no life. I am getting into the new schedule and starting to make plans again, so don't think I have forgotten about you if we have talked about making plans, I can see the light of day and as soon as the plague finishes rampaging through me and the kids we will get together.
Alex just finished a school project that required her to come up with some household item that would protect an egg dropped from three ft in the air. The winning tool . . . a baby diaper (further proving that baby football is completely safe).
I am going to bed. Saturday is workday and momma needs a new pair of boots.
Tommorow I head back to school. I only have to say about this the same thing I always have to say at the start of a new semester, and that is that I am looking foward to making progress so this is a good thing.
I have had some interesting insights over the last few weeks and I am also happy for the progress. I feel that it can only serve as knowledge that will better the quality of my life.
I have enjoyed seeing all my friends over this break! You guys are awesomeness. If by some chance you missed me or if you just want to see me again, I only have one class on Mondays from 10-11 so it's a good day to catch me for lunch.
I have finished my first video blog. It was fun and I hope you enjoy it. A footnote here would be that upon discovering during editing that I cannot in fact flip video clips with my software I was constrained with what I had available. I shoot video with my camera and if you are not in this film and you are involved in my life then the reason that would be is that editing limitations probably cut you out of what I had available (Hey, I'm learning). Despite that I am pleased with how it turned out and I so plan on making another around Thanksgiving/Christmas.
Today started like any other. My alarm clock going off, me hitting snooze, the alarm clock going off again, me hitting snooze again, you get the idea. .. Gavin wonders in and asks for breakfast so I drag myself out of bed and fix the kids breakfast.
After breakfast Gavin decides he wants to watch the Spiderwick Chronicals so I think "awesome, I get to lay around for awhile." About 20 min into the movie he starts saying that he feels "weird" and so I asked him what was wrong. He tells me that he wants me to get him a Wal-Mart bag and of course I asked why. He says he feels sick and then grabs his stomach and crumples to the floor.
At this point I am thinking maybe he needs to go to the restroom or he has a stomach virus..... and so I suggest that we get him a dose of Pepto. When he went to stand up he cried out in pain and doubled over. I start getting a little worried.
So then he goes to the restroom and I am right on his tail thinking he's going to hurl and he pees and starts crying instead. At this point I am still worried but fine and then comes probably the scariest parenting moment I have ever had...He looks up at me and his lips turn WHITE, I mean WHITE. I have seen people go pale and get white around the mouth a little but his lips where the color of a sheet of paper. I didn't even know that was possible.
Now I am freaking out inside a LOT. Tell him we are going to the doctor and he starts crying because he WANTS to go to the doctor. This is the kid that wines the whole way to the doctor and from the docter when he has to go. This is the kid that when they have to give him a shot myself and the whole staff have to hold him down. So now I am really, really freaking out inside.
I throw on pants and a tee shirt and decide I am going to throw some clothes on gavin because Alex is getting dressed and I had a min. I am getting him dressed and he is swaying and is disorented. I had to move his legs and arms to get him dressed and I am talking to him and he's not answering and he's still pale. Alex is freaking out on the outside now. I tell her we are leaving now. The whole time I am thinking, "he's going to pass out on me and I am going to freak out on the outside if he does."
I floor it on the way to the hospital. I am crying and trying to keep it quiet so I don't scare Alex any more than she already is. We pull in and I am yanking him out of the car and I am telling myself to suck it up because he needs me to talk to the doctors. Even as I am telling myself this he is stumbling around like he is drunk as we are headed into the emergency room.
We did the hospital thing. You've been there probably. Waiting what seems like forever for blood tests to come back. The doctor is nice. He's nice when he is examining Gavin and even nicer when he tells me that everything came back fine except for Gavin's sugar levels. He wants me to follow up with Gavin's doctor.
His appointment is Monday. We'll see. The doctor said it could be that or it could be viral or it could be the beginning of something else. He's fine now. I have really limited his sugar today and he's played and laughed. I am a little nervous about him starting school on Friday but I think that's just parent anxiety.
That was my day before lunch.
Sometimes life just hands it to you, you know.
Hope life has been more gentle with you and yours....
I. Get my B.A. in Business Administration - Human Resources
A. Get my A.A.
1. Finish Summer Semester- Complete! 2. Finish Fall Semester 3. Finish Spring Semester
B. Get my B.A.
1. Finish Fall Semester 2. Finish Spring Semester 3. Finish Summer Semester 4. Finish Fall Semester
Awwww... my first goal checkoff, sombody get me a cookie. The week of finals is at an end my friends and I get three whole weeks off. My plan is to catch up on non-school reading, watch movies, work on some more of my goals, and spend time with my little Ytisahcs. I have also said I would finish up my video blog over this break. I need to enjoy it while I can because fall semester looks to be a b*ch.
Those of you who have been trying to make plans with me will get a "fo sho" rather than an "I'll try" over the next three weeks, so have your people call my people...
I also got through the hell that is school shopping pretty well. I have never seen such a bunch of winey little brats.... and their kids were not much better. The kids start this week, so no sleep in days for me. Oh, well.
Football season begins soon! Yay. I have to work on Saturdays. Boo. Looks like I'll be recording on Saturdays.
That's all I have to say for today, I am going to enjoy my break!
May the force be with you.
Ytisahc
Currently
listening
:
School's Out
By
Alice Cooper
Release date: 1990-10-25
As most of you know I am usually an annoyingly content and happy person who enjoys her life very much. About once every three months or so I hit a state of depression.
Is it PMS..... No.
We call this FINALS
During finals I hate my life and everyone in the world, just like the rest of you. I hit some sort of weird emotional state where I am glad the semester is over, but I am aware that another, more difficult one is ahead. I have finals Friday, so at the moment you suck (even though I love you very much).
Yes, this is the time where I feel like college is NEVER going to end. In the fall, I can look foward to classes such as accounting, statistics, and calculus. Not to mention the fact that I get to spend three hours a week with a professor that can't stop looking at my tits AND I get to cut open animals in biology II (which as a vegetarian, I am so looking foward to).
So there's my *itch session for this three months. I have to go stop my cat from trying to eat my jacket belt. Screw you and have a good day.
Currently
listening
:
Headstrong
By
Headstrong
Release date: 2002-02-19
Chillin like a __________ (noun).
Current mood: creative
Thanks to "Bubba" my air conditioning has been saved. "Bubba" was the second guy out. The first guy was a newbie and a few min. after hooking the thingy bob in the whatsi who I look over to see the freon leaking out of the tube thingy. I said, "Um, is that white gas supposed to be leaking out of there?" Newbie quickly put the cap back on and grinned at me with the, "I am smiling at you so that maybe you will not notice that I am a moron" look. I grinned back with the, "I did notice you are a moron and if my AC unit runs out of freon I will have your ass" look. I added on the "Oh, and thanks for screwing the environment a little more too by leaking posionous gas into the atmosphere *sswipe" brow furrow for good measure. Luckily "Bubba" the more experianced AC dude came to install the part.
I am very happy to have the air back. I have decided that if for some reason the world loses power, I will have to live in a cave. I'll grease myself down and wrestle a bear for it if I have to. Seriously.
The weekend looks to be pretty uneventful. Work, homework, and kid time. I have a little over a week before I get my break. YEeSssss!
Much love,
Ytisahc
Currently
listening
:
Hotel Chill, Vol. 2
By
Various Artists
Release date: 2008-01-15
The blasted AC is broken and the Sears dude will not be here till MONDAY.
I have decided that I will pull on my Native American roots and think of it more as a "sweat lodge" because that makes it sound better. A sweat lodge "purifies" the body and that way instead of thinking of it as "heat stroke" I can think of it as "purification."
Being as I spent most of my summers growing up in Florida without AC I know I will in fact not die, at least not without some sort of warning (dizzyness, blackouts, ect. )
Lucky for me TN is like the pit of hell this time of year so I should be extremely pure by Monday. I am countering this with small/large amounts of alcohol because I firmly believe that too much purity can cause miraculous conception and old age.
As long as I don't "purify" on my electronics, I should be ok.
I am in fact only middle-class without AC because my nieghbors have a swimming pool and I do know how to work a sprinkler.
May you have air conditioning so that you don't have miraculous conception.
The trip was an adventure to say the least. I had a blast even through the "interesting" moments. I learned that I suck at gambling but I only lost $15 dollars, so I am ok with that.
We drank TOO much on Friday but not too-too much. Mojitos!
I am exausted. The good kind of exausted, but exausted. We toured Cherokee, Bryson City, and Nanahalie in NC. Terry stayed at the Teddy Bear Inn and we ate dinner after the casino at a crappy Chinese buffet called "Yummy."
I got some WAY wicked tank tops with women with wings and sh*t on them.
I played in fountains and fed fruit to bears.
I drank a rootbeer and watched the sun come up.
I learned how to make a rock into a candle and that I still seriously suck at navigating a trip.
I have had a bad*ss birthday this year. Thanks oh so much my friends! You guys are awesome!
It's official. I am 30. It's been a great birthday and I feel fantastic about it all really. Thanks birthday partiers and well wishers for showing love on my big day. You rock.
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