FireKite

12:09am: Doctor visit update
So I have managed to sprain my carpal tunnel. OH BOY. I have to take 400mg ibuprofen 3 times a day and wear a wrist brace at night. It should take about 4 weeks to heal. Apparently, this injury was brought on by already having some degree of carpal tunnel syndrome.

I need a job that doesn't involve computers. :(

9:59am: Happy late Mother's Day to all the mamas out there!

Jaden started the day yesterday by patting me on the back and saying, "Hello, little baby!" a bunch of times. I'm not sure where he learned that but it must be something someone said to him. It was hilarious!

We went to Josh's parent's house Saturday afternoon and stayed over night to Sunday evening. Sunday morning, we went to a park and jaden had a blast playing in a real sand box (not the big pile of crappy sand in our front yard!) and he was in heaven- making sand-angels, even! Then Jaden had his nap and I got some time to sit down at the computer and research the possibility of getting my AA certificate so that I'll at least have *some* degree until I finish my music degree at SJSU. OH did I mention that I can be accepted to SJSU now that I'm done with that statistics class? YAY.
Then we went to The Old Spaghetti Factory since it was the least crowded of the restaurants in the area. I was in mizithra cheese heaven!! It was also awesome that Jaden loved all the food and he probably ate more there than he has in one sitting for a while! He colored with crayons and had a great time. That makes momma's day.

Now I'm waiting for a roofing guy to come over and give us an estimate of how much it would cost to have a "whole house fan" and roof ventilation installed. Just in time for the hot weather!

OH, and since my wrist/whole arm is starting to hurt even worse, I'm going to the doctor today. It will be a week tomorrow since I injured myself and I need it to get better. I still have the upper back pain from a month ago as well. Help, I"m seriously falling apart. It is painful to do all the everyday things I need to do which totally SUCKS.

More updates later!

Have some dirt, Ma!


We gave him a colored bath tablet (by crayola) in his water. I'm not sure, do you think he liked it? I can't tell.

1:57am: Sweet Fancy Moses!
I plowed through the rest of my homework the past week and I just took the final (at 2am!) and got 83%!

I PASSED THE CLASS!! Final grade: 82%

I did it. I freekin' did it. Don't ask me what I learned though! I really have no idea. OH! I learned how to pause the damn video lectures so that I could take down the exact directions on how to do each problem. That's what I learned. It's probably a blessing I took this class online as it was OPEN NOTE. Seriously, I would never be able to remember all this stuff otherwise. Good lord, no.

But WOOHOO, I'm going to bed with one less stress on my mind tonight this morning!

A big thanks to icis_machine for tutoring and loaning me a book that came in handy several times. (oh, the t-value is in the T-Table? Who knew!)

1:06am: BFF!
Box friends forever!

12:59am: I love interneting from the couch!

*sings* a whole new world...

Oh, did I mention I think I hurt myself again? I'm the queen of injuries that wont heal!! I still have the sharp pain in my upper back from about a month ago, but now I also have a sprained wrist or something. It hurts right now as I type! I tried to shovel dirt last week and I think I may have messed up my arm and wrist when I shoveled into a big chunk of concrete. It's swollen and a little pinkish under the skin. It's been a challenge the last few days to pick up Jaden, cook, clean, etc... sucky!

And did you know you can get a paper cut from aluminum foil? You can!

K, I'm off to bed. Just thought I would ramble a bit on my new laptop first. :D

12:55pm: Holy crap!
Jaden and Marzipan gave me an early Mother's Day gift. Are you ready for this? I got a Dell Inspiron laptop!!! I am so excited about it. now I'm not stuck to standing at the piano to be on the computer. It's far from an ideal set up as far as standing to do homework etc...

I can't believe it, I'm still in shock. I keep looking at it saying to myself, "I have a laptop!"
This means, I'm sending my desktop to the garage "music workstation" area and I will be able to set up some equipment and maybe do some music. AND I can check LJ from the couch. Luxury!

So exciting!!

Thank you, Marzipan and Jaden! I'm sure you used up all your allowance on this one! (Marzi get's a special allowance for marathon lounging and Jaden, for not covering the house in poo)

10:50am: Picture for ewokgirl


I got this in 1994 but I still love it! It's a treble clef with a bass clef (on it's side) wrapped around it. When I was in high school, I came up with the design and I used to carve it into my wrist with a needle because I wanted it to be a scar in this pattern. It always healed too well so I finally got it tattooed when I was 18.

9:30am: Sadistic Statistics
I've been doing my damn statistics class here and there when ever I can. Last night I was up until 3:30am doing a homework assignment and quiz. Man, that last problem of the homework took my teacher 18 minutes to explain on the video and since I can now pause and rewind, it took me about 30 minutes to grasp all the million steps on the calculator, equations, looking up things in tables, etc... My head was spinning when I finally went to bed. ugh.

Jaden was up and talking to himself in his crib at 7:30am but he decided to lay down again until a little after 8am. Ahhh, an extra half hour of sleep never felt so good.


Two more assignments and a final to go and I'm done with this Ess Oh Bee! The thing that scares me is the next chapter has ONE homework assignment. That can only mean bad things! The good news is that I've printed out the final and figured out where each of the questions correspond in the homework assignments, and I took REALLY good notes for each problem... which means I know how to do every question on the final. It's just a matter of sitting down and doing it.

Did I mention I got a 90% on my 3am quiz? :D

7:18am: Flat iron = life-changing


I've used flat irons here and there and it's like, meh. It kinda straightens my wavy hair but it mostly just makes it kinda "fake straight" like it's forced and stiff. When I got my hair cut about a month ago, they straightened it for me after it was cut and it was almost like a miracle! It felt naturally straight, soft and shiny, not frizzy or heavy at all! I realized that with flat irons, you pay for what you get. So, when I got my tax return, I bought the exact same one they used in the salon. It cost me $100 but it is soooo worth it! Now I can have straight hair whenever I want! It's an Infrashine 1-inch model and it uses infrared heat like woa! It takes 5 seconds to heat to 400 degrees. I can straighten and style my hair in a quarter of the time it used to take because the thing works FAST! I love it!!

12:42pm: Happy Hollow
As soon as Jaden wakes from his nap, we are getting out of the house for a while. I'm taking Jaden to the Zoo/playland a few miles from here. I have Jaden's lunch all packed up and I'm ready to go.

Everywhere I look, I'm imagining bugs and roaches... My mind is like, what if you look down into your oatmeal and there's a cockroach in it? What if you step on one? what if they're in this cabinet? What if jaden finds one?

AHHHhhhhhh! I'm all bugged out.

9:41am: today is fired
This day is bananas. B A N A N A S

( This post is about cockroaches. and poo. and ants. and possibly barf? ALL UNRELATED INCIDENTS )

10:05am: Holy crap!
We just watched the season 3 finale of Battlestar Galactica last night. I'm in shock!!

I can't stop thinking about it!!!!

(if you've seen the current season, don't tell me anything! I'm actually thinking of catching up by watching the episodes online because I can not wait a year for the dvd to come out. yeesh.)


Seriously. OMG, the final five??!?!!?!? Frack me.

9:57pm: Jaden, playing in his first dirt

11:33pm: I forgot to mention...
Yesterday, Jaden stuck his thumb in Marzi's butthole.

She was there... she turned around... and he reached out to her and then... *zshump!* thumb in butthole.

We couldn't stop giggling while we washed his hands.

10:11am: Because yesterday's video was like "shave and a haircut" without the "two bits."


*edit* Jaden goes "uh oh!" and laughs every time I get to the loud singing part at the end. I don't know how many times he's made me play it for him. He also goes, "ohda loda lodalo" at the same part where he does it in the video. He must have said that on purpose that first time. I wonder what it means?




oh and I blame icis_machine for this post.

11:11am: ...

11:37pm: Jaden is much better
He hasn't had any more sickness since we started the pedialite routine every 10 minutes at 4pm. He had a very late nap but I just let him sleep because he was a tired little boy. We finally gave him a few pieces of cracker and banana around 9pm. We let him hang out and play until 10pm (way past his bedtime!) and he didn't throw up the food so I think he's over the worst of it. Hopefully now he will sleep through the night and be back to normal tomorrow.

Man, what a weird day. I'm going to go pass the hell out now.

5:39pm: Jaden update
( worse than better )

Thanks for all your advice in the last post!

2:31pm: Need advice from the moms
( barfy details spared for those who don't want to know )

10:35am: In the front yard

12:27pm: You never know how much you miss your TV remote until a certain little boy throws it into a mixing bowl full of water in the sink.

8:11am: Oh, now the midwest's thinks they're all badass
California's all like, psh, don't even front, girlfriend.

Seriously, I can't wrap my brain around earthquakes in the midwest.

4:44pm: I want to eat something peanut buttery, chocolaty, crunchy, creamy, sweet and salty, and um, preferably low calories/fat.

HAAA HAAA HAAAAAAA LMAO

Reese's cereal would do the trick but I don't have any. boo hooo. Seriously, I don't think I can hold out much longer. Do not be surprised if I end up melting chocolate and peanut butter in the microwave and mixing it into something like kix or pretzels or tortilla chips or, oh crap, i think it's that time of the month.

I'm going to make pop corn and see if that cures the munchies for now.

...maybe I'll mix in some melted chocolate.


*sigh*

11:15am: I am an ASSet to Manpowah
Just finished taking the excel test at manpower and scored 98% on intermediate, 80% on advanced. The recruiter was all excited and said that with "skills like these!" he's definitely going to make sure I have a job starting mid-may (that's when I said I'd be available to start) and he told me I'm an asset to Manpower. How asstastic!

8:28pm: pork chops. It sounds funnier the more you say it.


I just applied for a job at cisco and it would be awesome to work there because my former supervisor and close friend just got hired there too.

about a week and a half ago, I really screwed up my upper back and I'm wondering if it's somehow connected with my lungs because it hurts to breathe deep. This morning I had a rattle in my lungs when I tried to take a deep breath while bent over to play with Jaden. It made me choke and cough every time. What's with that? I'm still not sure how I hurt myself in the first place.

On Monday, I had to take Jaden to a mandatory WIC nutrition class in order to keep getting free food. While the teacher was trying to explain why it's better to give your kids fruit of "all colors of the rainbow," Jaden was yelling, "Nanaaaaaaaaaas! (bananas) Berries! Gapes! (grapes) Wah-dah! (water), and in general being a hilarious addition to the otherwise boring class. Go Jaden!