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18th
March
2008
Kyra is a very responsible 2 year old. I know that is hard to believe, but she is obsessed with feeding the dog. This being said I got her a pet bunny. I have pictures of her with it, but am not home now, so will have to post later. This rabbit has been the center of the universe since we got it on Sunday. We have probably held it and petted it 6 or 7 hours since we have gotten it. It is a 6 week old little guy. Kyra named him “GRAPE”. He is black and white. He should be a pretty good sized bunny when he is full grown.
We had a great weekend though. I didn’t sleep Friday night though so Saturday I was dead tired through the day.
Sunday we went to Emma’s birthday party. Kyra had a lot of fun. I admit I was jealous though, I wanted to jump on that trampoline thing that they had. This party was at a gymnastics place. The parents just stood around watching the kids have fun all taking pictures. I didn’t even take my camera duh me. I was planning on jumping around and doing cartwheels etc. I heard one parent complain that just getting in there was enough exercise….oh my goodness. I could hardly believe that. I was there sitting still trying not to participate. LOL…
Yesterday, Stephen cooked us dinner of stroganoff. It was pretty good. I never seen it made from scratch like that before. He is a pretty good cook. There was a lot of food though, so we didn’t nearly eat it all. His grandmother was in the hospital, so he was stressing about that as you would expect. She got a good report though today and is going home. That is good news. She is a really cool lady. She sometimes reads books and stuff with Kyra. Kyra thinks that she is her grandma. Kyra talks to my parents on the phone, but thinks she is talking to Stephen’s gram. She is all confused, but it is okay. We will straighten her out when she will understand.
I went to doctors yesterday for this same infection again, this is the 3rd visit for the same infection. They gave me this combination antibiotic that they said should take care of it, but this is my 2nd full dose of antibiotics. I really am uncomfortable with medications, so it all sucks. I am a bit sick to my stomach today, but I am sucking it up and blaming this drug.
Anyways, there is my update. I do have lots of photos on my camera, so photos should come sometime when I have time at home to work on them. Have a great night.
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10th
March
2008
So, this weekend went so fast. My weekends are now my “Kyra” time which is pretty great. It is really new to only have this time for extended time with her. I mean yeah mornings and evenings are nice, but Saturday is all day long.
We baked a cake, painted, took a walk, took a nap, drawed, counted together, watched TV, cooked dinner, and all the little things between. It is fun.
I haven’t turned my computer on that much since I have been working. It isn’t because I am sick of it or don’t want to, but wow. Where does time go??
Stephen had a bachelors party to go to Saturday, so he was gone all day. It was just me and Kyra. I had a great day.
Sunday came and we slept in til after 8. It was great. I love sleeping in. We played blocks and watched probably 3 shows of Berenstein Bears. They are so very cute except I wish Sister and Brother Bear had names beyond Sister and Brother. That is so annoying to me. Kids are smarter than that too.
Well, have a good day.
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6th
March
2008
We tell our kids to not talk to strangers, so what does mom do?? I am about sick of talking about insurance and anything insurance related. I am sick of it. So, I went to Robin’s bar, ate dinner between these two old guys and talked about anything except insurance. I feel better now.
Oh, the rest of my day yeah, and the last 3 days. Get up get in the shower, go to insurance office, work, but study in the down times, go get Kyra, come home, go to Stephen’s eat super, come home study insurance, go to bed, wake up, do it again.
Is that a run on sentence if you ever saw one?? LOL…
I am about insuranced out. I am taking the pre-test test next Thursday though, so I only have a week left of this and I really need to pass. I am taking a break and then off to study more, crazy that I am writing on my site for a break though isn’t it. LOL…
Kyra is doing wonderful. She is having these really funny conversations with objects that I should tell you all about, but I really have to get studying. She had one with the washcloth in the bathtub though where she was telling it to quit following her. It was so funny. LOL…
Anyways, I hope everything is going well for everyone out there.
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4th
March
2008
Well, busyness is the new normal. Go to work, do the 9 to 5 thing. I get to come home sick of insurance at that point and study insurance so that I can take a state test and hopefully pass.
I feel like I am short changing everyone with my time even though there isn’t that much less of it really when you come down and figure it out. It is just dispursed differently. It still feels badly to me. I feel like I never see Kyra even though she is with me each morning when I would have used to been driving. We are usually up and playing and getting showers now during that time.
I have made new friends at work, but I almost desperately miss my old driving friends. It is sort of like I am torn, but I know I can’t go back. I can’t afford it, nor do I really want too. I just have to go forward with a big smile else I will maybe loose what is left of my mind.
Here though is our snowman that we made on Sunday. It is now Tuesday and it is all but melted. It was fun to build though. I never realized they were so easy to build, not taking up that much snow at all.
Have a great day.
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1st
March
2008
You would think that I was some sort of cruel mom to have my kid sleeping in the dog kennel. Everyone should know though that she puts herself and 1/2 her owned toys in the kennel all by herself. She just happened to fall asleep in there a couple of days ago, when I didn’t post here.
Where have I been you ask? Well, my new job is taking over my life so it seems. I work til 5, but don’t get home until after 6 usually. I also have to study for my state license exam which I am trying to do at least a chapter of this boring book each night.
I am in addition trying to play more in the evening with Kyra. I am still feeling the sadness of leaving her at childcare. I do think that she is in a good place though when I leave her it is more my issues.
We made pizza again this week. She only ended up with 4 pieces of pepperoni on the whole thing from the about 20 piece I gave her to put on it. Yeah, she likes pepperoni. It is cool.
So everything is basically going well, it is just the normal business of life that is causing me to not be around as much as I once was. I am not fully adjusted to my job yet and when I get to be, things should ease off a little. I still feel this huge pressure to do all this learning at work, but I have to study this big boring book too. It is all information over load really. Getting online and reading my usual 200 sites is sort of relaxing, but more information at the same time. I am reading them though, but not as active in commenting and all that now.
Hope you are having a great weekend.
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26th
February
2008
Today was my 7th day at my job. I think my boss has a warped view of how long I have actually worked there because I was there almost all of the time I was in my two week notice. I was studying these insurance tests though and not learning basically anything of my job. If you count those days, this is like my 13th or `4th day there.
My days seem to be going quicker than they were last week. I am learning things each day here, so getting so I can do more and more without help. I still of course need my share of help. This stuff is very complicated.
Kyra had a rough day today. She didn’t use the potty at the babysitter’s today. She instead peed her pants twice. Now, Kyra is potty trained. She just simply doesn’t do this. She is past accidents for the most part and if she does have accident at home it is standing in front of the toilet unable to get her pants down. We are going to try to leave the light on in the bathroom there tomorrow thinking maybe she wouldn’t go in there with it dark.
It is wonderful to go get her though. I walk in the door to the big announcement “My Mom” sort of like “Woo Hoo”. It is comical. I wisk her away and home we go.
We played blocks a long time tonight, she can do towers with her Legos now. She really likes them. We ate super and that is pretty much it. The evening goes so short. We have mornings too though. We play in the mornings too and get our showers. It is a really different day dimension than it used to be.
Oh, yeah…I have to rename this site. Do you have any good ideas for it?? I have a couple, but would love your input.
Have a great night.
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24th
February
2008
I am glad I took this job that I have every weekend off. Weekends now rock. Yesterday we rode 4-wheeler for like 2 hours. We went and got my car serviced and all that mess. We baked cookies. It was all around a great day.
Today we went to CR Bucks with Lyn and her family. We stayed about 30 minutes longer than they did looking at the deer and playing with the trains that they have set up for kids. We went shoe shopping after, which I got a pair of dress shoe flats for work. I had been wearing boots all the time.
We went to the mall and got another pump for my basement.
We got home played like crazy both inside and out. I am dead tired.
I could have fell asleep already, but Kyra keeps me awake. LOL… I made super and Tom came out to visit. He is looking for the spin wheel for the rock show. I did have it so woo hoo…that is found. We are ready for the show, I think. Now I just have to post it every where around the internet in the next couple weeks.
Hope you had a nice weekend too.
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22nd
February
2008
I slept so well last night that this morning when Stephen woke up. (He gets up at 4:30.) I couldn’t go back to sleep, like I usually would.
I instead got up and worked on here. I changed the colors of my site and the header image, what do you think??
I also got the call from the school that they closed school. I am not off of the mass calling list yet. That is okay though, but it makes me glad to not be a bus driver anymore. There is like 2 inches of snow and they canceled school. That means I wouldn’t have gotten paid for today and I would have to drive on a day when I would rather have been doing something else. It’s good to not be driving.
My new work is torturous though. I really look forward to knowing what the heck I am doing. I am still feeling somewhat lost. I have read and studied a lot about insurance and know a lot about policies, with how it all works. What is covered, what isn’t covered all that fun stuff. It now sort of sits in my brain as unused knowledge because I don’t know the systems in place to get this to the people that need it. I don’t know how to look up what coverage a person has versus doesn’t have.
The study material for me to study to be able to get my state agent license has came in, so I will be doing even more studying of policies and procedures, probably more than learning other stuff I think I should know. I feel somewhat worthless and sometimes even distracting while I sit in the office that I may eventually call mine. It has other occupants as of now, so I and they share.
Kyra is doing exceptional so far with all this coming at her. She is an amazing person. I miss her though, so very much. I was going to let her stay with her dad tonight all night, but who knows if that will happen. It feels like I have hardly seen her. I know tomorrow is our day, but I have to go get my oil changed in my car which now is getting driven actually. That won’t be bad though. I should also do some house cleaning, so maybe she can help me with that. She is probably better at it than I am, she gets lessons from her father.
Anyways, I off to get shower and get ready for work. Woo Hoo… it is Friday, so I can wear my jeans. I like Friday’s already. Have a great day!
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21st
February
2008
It takes longer than I thought to get the childcare stuff all going. I leave here about an hour before I have to actually be to work. It takes that long to get Kyra to the substitute me for the day. I am in a different office in the afternoon and it takes well over an hour to have retrieved her.
In the mean time, my dog has been cooped up for all this time. I am now feeling sorry for him. I think Stephen is going to stop and let him out everyday for a few minutes when he is home from work. This is only like 2 hours before I get home though.
The crazy thing is that his dog is cooped up too, he was earlier than mine. He just won’t be for the same length of time. It is very crazy.
My job is going well though. I think I am learning fast, but I generally learn fast anyways. Kyra is doing exceptionally well. Things are going well except where does the time go, this is the part that will take some getting used to by me. Surprised that I am not behind on laundry and things like that. It is taking all my computer time and I am not competent enough at work yet to have time to use that one. Yes, I am competent at the computer, but not at the stuff I am working on to have time to stop that at the moment.
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18th
February
2008
It was long, I forgot what 8 hours felt like. It was a long day. I did good though. It is a lot of information to learn and it isn’t very entertaining.
I learned I have to figure a way to get some exercise, this could be rough on my toosh. I won’t over eat though, so should be good.
I am still nervous for tomorrow with Kyra going to childcare for the first time. I think she will be fine even though I am nervous. She will probably have a really fun day.
I have actually been working on my site here a few hours tonight. I have tried out different looks and well, I don’t like them. I like this one. I have decided that I am going to work on changing this one out to fit my new needs versus using a totally new look.
What should I put as my picture at the top though, I have no idea. I am thinking of doing something like spring flowers or a photo of some thing from my rock collection. I don’t really want a picture of me there nor a picture of Kyra even though I think we are both sort of appropriate for here, we both change our looks almost daily. LOL…
Well, I am going to bed. Night.
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