Monthly Archive for February, 2004

100th entry

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on 02.28.04
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My 100th entry! lol

Well we went to see the Passion of the Christ last night. All I can say is GOOD MOVIE. Very biblically/historically correct, very spellbinding, very good production - just Very Good. Words cannot describe what I felt during the movie and afterward, and even now. However, I am planning on writing something up on this movie, it’s just not done yet. But even if you are not a Christian, this is still a very good movie. I suggest you go see it, before you judge.
More later

annoyed

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on 02.27.04
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Just a little annoyed tonight. So I go over to a friend’s house to help her get her website set up. I get back at 11. Steve’s all mad because he wants to be in bed and Elijah was apparently grumpy. He’s mad because he didn’t get to unload the wood out of his truck yet. He’s all, “I can’t get anything done while I have to take care of him.” And so I’m like duh, now you know what I go through every day! “It’s not the same.” Bu-ull.
Oh well.
So now I am waiting for E to go to sleep so I can go to bed. I have yet another doctor appointment in the morning and so I’m not going to be able to go back to sleep after Steve leaves for work. Blah.
Mortgage is due in a couple of days, another blah. I have a feeling this is going to be another week of no money. :( Oh well.

7 Mo Photos

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on 02.25.04
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Elijah’s 7 Months Photos are now posted: Click here
(see last 6 photos in gallery)

The poetry section (APC) is now open: click here
[edited 5.25.04: now closed]

I am excited

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on 02.24.04
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about Saturday. We are going to go with our church to see The Passion of the Christ. The more I see and hear about this movie - the more excited I get about Saturday. I know it’s not going to be fun or entertaining, but I am excited nonetheless. After we see it, I plan to review it, so stay tuned.

Today was a better day than yesterday. Elijah’s better mood made up for yesterday, he’s been in a good mood almost all day. Except for when he got his picture taken lol. I’ll post those in a minute, we got the photo disk again. Next month he goes for the Easter pictures with baby chicks, real ones, for his 8 months.
I can’t find the baby diary pages I had from when I was pregnant. I guess I deleted them good. Gonna have to look and see if the IA Archiver has em. But I think I told them to bug off….. ?

GRRRR

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on 02.23.04
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Two things are driving me crazy today… well, three, I guess:

1. Elijah has been so stinking crabby for like the last four days. He’s in a good mood for like the first hour he’s up and then the day goes to pot. Up until a half an hour ago, I had been holding him for two hours straight, rocking him, and he would not sleep. I finally laid him down - I think he’s cried himself to sleep. I’ll have to go check.

2. My guestbook. Can’t seem to get rid of the horizontal scrollbar. (Click sign) It’s driving me nuts. I must be missing something totally simple there. Anyone out there care to help? It’s Megabook.

3. The church website. The stupid host, old company, will not transfer our domain and it’s starting to get on my nerves. Well, it has been on my nerves. The site was down for a couple of weeks or more until today- but it’s up under .com, we usually use .org. I just bought .com the other day because I was sick of this. When everything’s set up, I’ll make .com point to .org. But in the meantime…. GRRRR

Oh, I guess there’s….
4. I think I still have that stupid infection. I know this is gross and you prolly don’t wanna hear it, but this is driving me crazy as well, and where else can I write about this? I’m sick of this. I want it to go away. So it’s not caused by diabetes, good. Now what is causing it? GO AWAY!!!!!!!!

Saturday:
Did nothing. Then went to A & C’s for supper. Yum yum turkey. Then helped A register their church’s site with CP, too. If the people all list me, that will give me 3 referrals under my belt. Of course I don’t think they actually do anything for that lol. And what belt?

Sunday:
Steve worked. Elijah and I stayed home because we both felt like crap. Forgot to mention that we felt like crap on Saturday, too. I’ve got a cold, which thankfuklly is now dissapating and he’s got a perpertually runny nose (teething or cold? teething or cold? hmmmm) and like I mentioned eariler is really stinking crabby.

Today:
Didn’t get mucha nuttin done due to the church’s website. Been messing around with that. I worked on a new layout to only realize it looks like crap in 1024×768. Dunno what to do now. And of course, in the evenings, I don’t do anything anyway lol. Work is for daytime. I guess if I’m doing a website for someone else…. that constitutes as work… right??

sigh

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on 02.21.04
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So I can’t sleep right now, due to reasons I dun’t wanna discuss.
I’m tired though, I may go back upstairs in a minute.

Today [Friday] the satellite guy came. He actually came early, 2 1/2 hours early, that’s probably a first for installation guys lol. He hooked us up pretty quickly… After looking in the basement and saying,
“So, your husband’s an electrician?”
“Yes.”
“Couldn’t tell.”
LOL
I knew he said that because our wiring down there is old and… well, messy. It drives Steve crazy, but we haven’t had the time or money to change out the service yet. It’s gonna take him $$ for a new panel and stuff and a day off work (unless we want to be without electricity all weekend because the company will have to shut off power for him to do this. So he would have to take a day off, have them shut off the power inthe morning, work all day, and make sure they get it back on before they close in the early evening).
I told Steve what the guy said and he laughed and said something about working on everyone else’s houses but not his own.
So now my life is no longer VHS, DVD, CD only, but now includes regular tv again and HBO. :-) Although we’re not sure why we have that, I guess it’s a promo or something, probably won’t last long.
But this is good. There is an MXC marathon coming on on Monday. :-D

What else?
Um… went to Walmart and did crap. Got Elijah’s new carseat. Hope this works out well. Though he’s really heavy and hard to carry in it, we’ll no longer have the baby carrier to carry him around in, or put on the shopping carts.
Steve wants to buy a new tv. There is a 31 inch for sale for just under $200. We’re thinking maybe lay-away might be good for that. We never did it until this carseat and it worked out great. For those of you who don’t know, our tv of 3.5 years died in January. It was a rather large, old tv that was in one of it’s own set-ups, so we didn’t need a console. Now we have our “upstairs” tv down here and it’s smaller and needs a console. So it’s sitting on the “coffee table.” The coffee table is actually a no-cedar chest. I guess it works out, cause now there’s more room in the middle of the room and if Elijah ever starts crawling, he won’t bump into that chest… hopefully. So that’s my messed-up house.

Anyway, here I am babbling on about nothing. I guess if I’m gonna be up I might as well go work on something productive….

2 good newses

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on 02.19.04
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Actually, three….
1. Elijah’s head is definitely a-okay. I was finally able to talk to a nurse and she said everything was fine. I had assumed so though…
2. Me: no diabetes!! However, now we must figure out what the problem is…
3. Mom: no cancer! She’s got some cysts, but the doctors aren’t worried about them.

So, aside from my busted foot, which is keeping me from walking normal and getting much of anything done where I have to be walking or standing, today has been a good day.
I think Elijah’s got a cold, but he’s not bad, just a pretty stuffy/runny nose. He screams every time I try to wipe it though lol.

We went up and saw K and the baby tonight. The baby looks like K!! She’s so cute. K is having a rather hard time getting her to nurse, but they will be fine in a few days, I’m sure. It sounds like Em is taking the baby very well so far.

Been working on a photo gallery tonight. Downloaded a script from a site, and it’s really nice but simple. Only the creator doesn’t include any instructions at all, so I’ve been figuring it out on my own. :-) It’s in php. I’m not sure if I’m going to use it yet, though. I was just thinking about it. Maybe starting some kind of gallery. I also had some ideas earlier on things I wanted to add to this site, but dummy me didn’t write them down, and like everything else lately, I’ve forgotten.

Well I must go to bed now. I have been putting it off, even though Elijah went to bed rather early, because it’s hard for me to get up and down the stairs right now. My foot/ankle/shin are just totally “killing” me. Oh well.

owwww

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on 02.19.04
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Looks like I REALLY did something to my ankle.
Last night, Steve asked me how it was. I said:
“It still hurts, but a few more hours off of it and I should be fine.”
Wrong. Dead Wrong.
This morning I got up to fix his lunch before he went to work and I can hardly walk on it, it can’t support my weight without great pain.
GRRRRR. This is the same foot on which I had a fracture the end of August 2002. I was out of martial arts for 2 months. And just recently, the pain has stopped on days before rain comes.
This is not good. I have so much stuff to do - only half this house looks decent. I want the whole house, at least the downstairs, looking decent before the satellite guy comes tomorrow. Maybe if I ask real nice, after Sheila’s math, she’ll sweep for me. That’s the big thing to do, really. Steve brings in TONS of mud and dirt everyday. X-P
N-e-way. I think Elijah’s up…. gg