Monday, January 25, 2010

Facebook

Another shot of my poor baby being tortured by that ugly star. I just know he will be scarred for life.

You notice his friend (who is a month older, and the same size...) he is not crying. Why?

BECAUSE HE DOESN'T HAVE DALLAS COLORS ON!!!!

I found Facebook. I'm a bit amazed at this place. I found people who I "used to know" way back when. And I can talk to them, and they can talk to me. Even without knowing each others phone numbers, emails, etc.

I really am star-struck.

I have been living under a rock.

I still haven't figured it all out yet.

But it's fun.

Sunday, January 24, 2010


My poor, poor baby being tortured by the rash that you can't see, but it's there... My hands had a rash on them, too. But you can't see that, either.
But we can feel this rash - anyone who puts on Dallas paraphernalia (I even spell checked this word, but it still doesn't look right...), or assists in the putting on of it, breaks out in rash. Don't they?
Wow, my high school English teacher would give me an F on this one...
Can't you look in his little face and see the tortured look in his eyes, pleading -- "Please, please, someone help me out of this ugly, itchy shirt! Pleeeeeeeze!".
OK - I'm done. Yes, I'm the one in the background wearing the beautiful colors of the Redskins. Proudly. Yes, proudly. I'm not a "fairweather" fan. If I were, I would certainly have hung up anything with those colors way, waaay back in the back of the closet, not to be brought out for another 3 years or so, which is how long it's going to take to recover from all the change. But I love my 'skins regardless.
Speaking of football - I can't wait for the games this afternoon!! I want the Jets and the Saints to play in the Superbowl. I don't know who I want to win, though. They can't both win. I like Sanchez, (partly because USC is my#2 college team). I would love to see a rookie win a Superbowl. But I also like Drew Brees. He does the best pregame pep thing in the NFL. Yes, that is the technical name for it - "pep thing".
I don't want Brett Favre to win simply because - he is a DIVA. He has caused so much drama, that I don't even like him anymore. I can't take anything away from him, though, because he is awesome. But...... any man who causes THAT much drama, just needs to go crawl under a rock somewhere. Sorry, Brett.
So, I'm off to the grocery store - hopefully my little bundle will be a little bundle of joy in the grocery store, and not a little bundle of wow, how can lungs that small make that much noise.
Wish me (and the Jets/Saints) luck!!

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Why, oh why, can't this be easy!!


I must say, I am a bit frustrated right now.
I was on the internet yesterday, checking my email. Low and behold, I have an email that tells me I can receive a whole year's worth of diapers. All I have to do is answer a few questions. HA!
I answer all the questions.
Now, all I have to do is sign up for 2 free offers, then I will receive my year's worth of diapers. Double HA!!
I signed up for 2 free offers. (These free offers cost me $11.49, by the way.)
Then, I was prompted to click the "next" button to claim my free diapers. Triple HA!!!
When I clicked "next", I was then prompted to sign up for "just 9" free offers to claim my free diapers.
WOW. I wasted alot of time. My precious baby is sleeping, and I thought I would be doing my budget a great service by signing up for these 2 free offers, then getting free diapers for a year. It would be well worth it to use my limited time doing this (instead of, say dishes, laundry, shower, sweeping, etc.). NOPE - big fat waste of time.
How many of you have been caught in this terrible, misleading scam? I feel completely stupid. I even had to go back and make sure I had read it all correctly the first time. I had read correctly. There has to be someone I can yell at, right? I need to be able to yell at some big-wig who is sitting in his plush office somewhere, laughing at all these poor people who sign up for "just 2" "free" offers in order to get something for free. (I'm not sure that using double parenthesis is grammatically legal, please forgive me if it is not..)
Thank you for indulging, and feel free to share any frustrating stories about getting "stuck" in one of these "short survey" nightmares, only to get nothing in return...
PS - I did double space between paragraphs, but can't get it to post that way - have had this problem before - sorry!!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

I'm back.... at least for today















Hi, everybody!! Wow, I just saw the last time I blogged it was October!

I've been a bit busy. As most of you know, I was pregnant last time I blogged.

Well, I was eventually put on bed-rest. This was the exact moment that I decided I was tired of my wonderful husband doing all the cleaning and laundry, the exact moment that I decided I wanted to do all these things myself.....

That's when the doctor told me I was not allowed to do any of these things. Yay me.


It was all worth it - on November 24th at 1:24 pm I had my baby Joel Thomas via c-section. He was 9 lbs 6 ozs and was 20 1/4 inches long. My very own butterball!! Best Thanksgiving ever, coming home with that little bundle of joy.

I can't say how often I will be able to blog, I go back to work the 25th. Today I have left my baby with my mother for a few hours to try to get used to us being apart. I'm sure he is doing fine. Me, on the other hand, well....

Hopefully I will be able to find time to devote to this, because I do really enjoy it, but in the meantime, I have some pics of my beautiful baby, who at 8 weeks weighs 15 lbs!!! My linebacker!