Day 12: A song that you want played at your wedding

2007

Uh, well since I’ve had my wedding how about one I loved while I was dating Jeremy.  (I still love it)

 

 

What If Twitter Existed In 1776? Hilarity Of Course

This is so funny and I found it at Mashable.

 

Like Me People!

So this is some self promotion in order to earn a couple of bucks. I need to get 500 people to ‘Like’ my page on facebook by the end of the year. I know a lot of you have liked it, but if you have not please do so and share the word. Click the screen shot below to head over to the page.

Thanks All!

 

Tweet Of The Day

So a week or two ago JD was able to put three or four discs into the PS3 and it almost broke until Bobbie was able to fix it and pull out the jammed discs and now it works. Trust me these two stories make sense. JD is real particular in the music he likes and I have been playing Weezer in the car and  he likes the ‘Sweater Song,’ but asks for drums since the first few seconds has a heavy drum set.

I sent out a tweet that said JD likes the song, so one my blogging buds at SB Nation knew about PS3 scenario and replied with this:

@JeremySBN If you want to destroy my PS3………….sticks the disks in wrong so they won't eject. <So they won't eject>—
Cowboy Altitude (@CowboyAltitude) November 06, 2010

@JeremySBN She didn't want you to buy a new one. She was going to fix it no matter what. Can't wait till my daughter starts breaking stuff.—
Cowboy Altitude (@CowboyAltitude) November 06, 2010

That is all…

 

The History Of Hip Hop

This is just awesome!

For a better cleaner vision, or until NBC takes this video down go here.

 

Milestones

The entire family seems to be hitting milestones in our lives the past couple weeks.  Here’s a quick update.

• Gwen is now 6 months old and holding her own bottle and loves to roll over.  She will get quite upset if she is in her crib and can’t roll back onto her tummy.  She looks like a turtle on its shell, kicking her legs and waiving her arms while screaming.  One of her favorite things to do is scream and yell, when she is happy.  All of a sudden you’ll hear this loud dinosaur like shriek and you will look over at her and she is all smiles.  I’m not thinking she’s going to be a singer.  :-)  She does however love to coo and sing in the car.
• JD got an official medical diagnosis of Autism on Friday.  While we were prepared for it, it was still interesting to have someone come out say it to us with paperwork involved.  We were a bundle of mixed emotions.  Relief, fear, optimism, sadness… you name it and I’ve felt it in the past 24 hours.  Overall we are thrilled about the doors this can open for treating JD.  He is still doing great with his therapies and was such a sweet boy this morning.  He LOVES colors right now, while we drive we constantly hear him telling us what color everything is.  ”Is it?  A moon.  What color is it? Itsa white moon.” was one of the cutest one-sided conversations we heard the other day.
• Jeremy is enjoying his classes at the U of  U.  The weight lifting class is harder on him than I think he thought it would be.  He used to work out constantly for Water Polo but not often (ever?) by lifting weights.  :-)
• I graduated yesterday!  It’s nice to have it all behind me and to move forward.  I’m contemplating going to UVU with Trish in the fall and pursuing a bachelors degree.  We shall see.  I have really enjoyed school and I do better when I have something driving me in life so we’ll see.  I have loved working at the spa and look forward to a busy summer season.  Hopefully it will go well and we will be looking for a new place to live.  Not that we don’t LOVE being here with mom and dad, but it’s time to move on.

There is a very brief update, hope everyone is doing well!

 

Master Bodyworker Baby

Not only did I manage to pass all my classes but a miracle occurred and I got a 4.0 GPA as well.  How I found time to do the homework and study is beyond me.  I am SO thankful for all mom’s help watching the kids because otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to finish up.  I’m just amazed how much new information was packed into the last 10 weeks and I feel like I gained a TON of experience that will help me excel in the field.  I’m so glad I went through the program and equally glad that I got the opportunity to meet a whole group of amazing people.  I know I’ll be keeping in touch with quite a few of them, and loved all I got to learn from them while we were in all those long classes.

After multiple interviews I did get the job with the Spa at the Hotel Park City.  The drive is an hour but so much more beautiful and relaxing than the hour drive to SLC has been for school.  Not to mention I’ll be getting paid.  The spa itself is so beautiful.  I can’t help but feel relaxed the minute I walk into the doors.  It’s a job I didn’t think I’d be able to get for quite a while and I am so thankful and blessed to have gotten it.  A lot of resort jobs require a lot of experience and I’m so thrilled that they are willing to take a chance on little ol’ me.  :-)  I will start training next week and will be working 4-5 days a week starting in June.

Jeremy started back to school on Monday and it looks like he will be writing for the U of U newspaper.  I don’t know all the details so I’ll let him blog about it later.  So far I think he likes his classes.  His work schedule is kind of off right now since he has to work from 3pm to midnight to make time for classes but we’ve LOVED seeing him during the mornings.  JD’s hero is his daddy so it’s just been a huge blessing to have him around more.  Jeremy is even able to be around for a lot of JD’s therapy appointments now which is great.  JD is a different kid around his dad so its nice to have his imput on things and so that the psychologist gets a good picture of how things are with the entire family.

Come to find out the tube is still in the ear that was draining, so it did NOT rupture.  It was however the worst ear infection I’ve ever seen.  Poor kid survived but is now really jumpy whenever someone touches that ear.  JD is still going through the diagnosis process for the Autism.  It’s a long road but I have been so thrilled at the doors that have opened up for him since we have started this whole process.  The therapies are already making such a difference in our family and I am so optimistic about the future.  He amazes me daily with his intellengence, and he is so endearing.  There have been some hard days, and the tantrums are tough on me (more than anyone else I think), but I’m learning to get a tougher skin and not take everything so personally.  Much easier said than done.  We are quickly learning also that everyone has a oppinion about Autism and what they think it is.  It amazes me what people will say to us without thinking first if it might be offensive.  Like I said, I’m pretty sensitive about things still so I’m trying to relax but sometimes it just gets under my skin.  There are SO many stops along the Autism spectrum.  Sometimes I worry that JD won’t fit in with the Autism crowd or the other kids either, that he might be stuck in limbo.  The therapist says that hopefully we can work with him a ton now and help him to fit in with “normal kids” by the time he is in grade school.  He is on a waiting list for a pre-school that is apparently amazing.  It is all day and incorporates the different therapies in the morning and then in the afternoon they do things that teach the kids how to pay attention (HARD for autism), make friends, sit at desks, etc.  He won’t even be able to attend till next August and there is STILL a  chance he won’t get it.  I talked to one mom whose son was on the list for 2 years and never got accepted.  Tomorrow JD meets a new developmental therapist and next week he also gets a new speech therapist.  The therapist that had been working with him on speech is just going to focus on other areas now.  Right now JD is loving the therapy sessions, I hope it stays that way.  I think his favorite is the Psychologist because he knows we will stop at KrispyKreme and watch the doughnuts get made on the way home.  JD also had his first dentist appointment this past week.  I wasn’t able to go due to finals.  Poor Jeremy had to take him by himself and said it was a nightmare.  I think we may look into a pediatric dentist for him that might be used to working with kids, especially those that hate when strangers talk to them.  :-(

Since it’s been so nice outside we have spent a lot of time out there.  JD asks to go outside the minute he wakes up and doesn’t want to come inside for bed.  I’m hoping that next paycheck we can go get another little hard sided pool like the one we had last year.  He LOVED it and with it getting hotter it’ll be nice to let him cool off.  I have a feeling we will be going through a lot of sunblock this summer.

Gwen is doing amazing.  Her nurse came by today and she weighs 15 pounds exactly.  She is almost 6 months old and I can’t believe it.  We started solid foods and she is a champion eater.  So far she doesn’t like bananas or peas but adores carrots and sweet potatoes.  He smile and laughter are infectious and have actually kept her brother up a few nights now.  I will hear them laughing well past the time they are supposed to go to bed.  She likes to peek over the bumper in her crib and look for JD.  I’m glad they get along so well.  I honestly think the Lord sent Gwen to us to help her big brother.  She truly is a miracle baby and I love her spunky spirit.  She’s rolling over now and can almost sit up on her own.  Her eyes keep changing from blue to almost brown, then back to blue again.  We’ll see where they decided to settle.  She also hasn’t got enough hair yet to know what color it’s going to be.  I’m still rooting for dark hair like her mommy.  ;-)  Her favorite toy is a little Minnie Mouse that she got for Easter.  She loves to play with it.  She’ll squeal and then bite her nose.  It’s so funny!

So that’s the skinny on our little family.  We are as busy as ever but growing closer every day.

 

Pretty Good Day

This morning I was tired of watching Yo Gabba Gabba so I decided to try to have JD watch Wall-E and was surprised that he actually sat through at least 45 minutes of the movie; which was a shock since there are no words for at least the first half hour or so.   I think Ill start putting in whatever animated movie that I may want to watch and he usually is good to watch for half an hour.

Also, before I left to work my amazing 10 hour shift I was getting some food to take and of course JD saw that I was getting some pringles and he HAD to have some.  So, I put a few in his bowl and he sat at the table.  He had Brobee with him so he was set up in the chair and then he went and grabbed his stacking cups and started pretend playing with him by arranging the cups in front of him, and then started to feed him  his pringles.   This is good since the doctors have been asking about his pretend play — which was minimal at best — I was excited for him to do that.

Then I was working today for my first 10 hour shift (Saturday I took 4 hours off) which I was dreading to talk on the phone to stupid, soft talking, know-it-alls, and little kids try to make reservation.  The good thing out of it was that I was able to book someone for a 6 month stay and that basically guarantees me to be in the top 10% and make more money in bonuses — even though it will not be a ton.  I almost had another similar reservation which would have been sweet, but they kept saying they would call back in a few hours, so I tried to do a 24 hour hold but they were not having any of that.  Not a big deal since for the day I think I was at 300% for my revenue per call goal, so not too bad.

Then during one of my breaks I was checking my website (yes a shameless plug) and noticed a ton of hits from CBSSports.com.  Normally I get some from CBS from the team pages that I have related to stories of a certain school, but this was from the front page of the college football section of CBS Sports and within their main article on the expansion topic.  Not bad since of the three links from SB Nation two were from my site and if you have any interest in college football expansion click here and here for the two articles that were on CBS Sports.  That was a cool bonus since this time of year my page views are decreasing.  

Then on the way home I was listening to some random sports show on Sporting News Radio and they have this weird fantasy draft that encompasses everything, and tonight was fast food items.  I was probably hungry from a long day and listened in to this random subject, and at the end the host wanted people to send in their ideas via twitter, so I did.  Partly because someone had the gall to say Chipotle as a choice for their favorite fast food places.  That made me sick because Chipotle is not very good and locally would prefer Barbacoa, so I decided to send them a tweet and mention the BEST BURRITO EVER which resides in a small chain in Texas called Freebirds.

If you are in Houston, Dallas, Austin, or College Station it is required eating to stop there you will not regret it.  My brother had me bring him a burrito from Freebirds before when I traveled to Texas a few years back, yes you heard me right bought a burrito froze it over night (or at least I think it was frozen) and flew it back to Salt Lake.  He said it was still better then anything he could get, and that includes an overnight stay in the freezer and about a six hour time after that en route.

Back to the reason for mentioning the fast food draft(?) was because the national syndicated host mentioned my tweet as well as the name and made a bigger deal by saying he enjoyed my site about the Mountain West, which was probably just some radio talk.  However, mine got the most pub and I did notice he is following me now, if that means anything really.

So, I thought was pretty cool.  The segment made me hungry so I pulled over at JCW’s at Thanksgiving Point and snagged  a three piece chicken tender.

For the record the picture of the dude eating the burrito is definitely not me, but he is making me jealous that he has his hands on a Freebirds burrito.  Any comments that try to say Cafe Rio or anything like those places will be replied with a pat on the head saying ‘nice try.’  The closest thing anywhere to that style is Barbacoa which is really good, but not quite a Freebirds monster burrito.

 

Diapers and More

Today was a busy day so lets just do bullet points, shall we:

• Jeremy managed to pull a muscle in his lower back this morning while he was putting on his pants.  Poor guy, not even a good story about how it happened.
• High Risk appointment was Okay.  We saw a doctor I’ve not seen before (and won’t have to see again) and he was more interested in hearing himself talk than listening to what I had to say or reading my records.  Can’t wait to see the doctor I’m used to again.
• Scheduled Non-Stress tests for the baby twice a week for the next 4 weeks. 
• Pi’ikea came and worked on Jeremy’s back since it was more than I could do right now. (THANKS A MILLION)
• Had to go re-sign paperwork on the car.
• Filled up my car with gas.

The most exciting part of the day was buying diapers.  SERIOUSLY.  We have to use Huggies Supreme diapers for JD or he tends to get diaper rashes really bad.  Trial and error have taught us this.  Sadly they are pretty expensive so I’ve become a queen with diaper coupons.  This week I found a $10 off coupon for diapers.com so I thought I would give them a try.  They happen to be having a HUGE sale right now and I was able to get (all industrial sized):

• 3 boxes always maxi pads (sorry guys, but it’s life)
• 1 box diapers
• 1 box wipe refils
• Glass bottles for Gwen (at almost 1/2 the price I’ve seen them elsewhere)
• Nursing pads (sorry again guys)
• Bubble bath (JD LOVES bubble bath)
• Diaper Genie 2 Refils
• and children’s Tylenol

I saved $24.74 in coupons and the $10.00 off.  I also got free shipping and it will all be here on Thursday!  I’ll let you know if it all comes in one piece.  If anyone is interested you can get $10.00 off your first order by using the promotion code MAUSS during checkout.  I’m so nice eh?

Well I need to go see how poor Jeremy is doing.  He’s had a rough day.

 

Maybe she’ll blog more?

Now that I’m supposed to be on bed rest I’m sure you’ve been wondering if I’ll blog more.  Apparently not.  Here’s the rundown on life since I posted last.

• I graduated!  YAY!!  It was a good day, but sadly it doesn’t mean I will be able to work very much.  I am however certified and hope to be licensed in a week or three so call me if you need any minor work done.
• I’m supposed to be on bedrest, kind of.  “Relaxing and keeping your feet up” is how the doctor put it.  This is VERY hard with a toddler.  I am usually only in bed or resting when JD is napping.  It’s just the way the cookie crumbles right now.
• Our car got fixed!  YAY, until yesterday when it started to act up again.  I’m beginning to wonder how long the dealership is going to keep fixing it before they realize the car is just a lemon?
• I have been going to the wound clinic at the hospital for the biopsy on my leg that never healed.  As of this morning I’m in a semi-hard cast/compression wrap that goes from my knee to my toes.  Oh it’s a load of fun.  Apparently they doctor there believes that the wound isn’t healing because of the edema (excess fluids) in my legs.  I go in once a week and they scrape, clean and measure the sore.  I’m hoping that maybe when I go in next week I can avoid a huge wrap on my leg.  I’m really missing taking showers!
• My cardiologist is giving me whiplash.  I wont post a lot about it here but lets just say I go in one time and everything is ok, and he doesn’t feel like he needs to see me again anytime soon.  Then I’ll go in a month later and the world is coming to an end, I need to terminate the pregnancy and everything is bad news.  I have finally decided to get a second opinion from a cardiologist up in SLC.  That appointment is next Tuesday.
• JD went through a phase where he stopped calling me mom or mama and just called me Bobbie.  It was cute but I’m glad it didn’t last too long.  It was a good sign that he’s starting to pick up a bit more vocabulary.  His favorite thing to say right now happens to be “is it?”.  We’re trying to get him to say what is it but I’m happy with “is it?”.  Funny thing is he usually whispers it.
• Jeremy is working harder than ever and we are lucky to see him on Sundays.  Life just keeps getting more and more expensive and job compensation doesn’t seem to be meeting the task.  It’s why we were hoping to sell the car (I know we JUST got it) but I don’t feel good selling someone a lemon so we’ll see what happens with the dealership in the next few days.  Hopefully I will be able to work soon after the baby is born to help our family get back on its own two feet!

That’s the long 411 for our little family.

Peace, love and gimpy legs.