In the process of updating … excuse the mess ..

Anyhoo. New Layout. I also added the total entries & comments in the credits section waaaay at the bottom. The graphic needs more. I was just tired of looking at WHITE and RED. I like this cool Mexican-inspired one for now!

PS – We’re not going out of town for the weekend, but thanks for the open leg vibes & keep ‘em coming! Nevermind.

Today was pretty much a repeat of yesterday, except we watched the VMAs. Fun, fun. It was pretty boring, I must say. I was disappointed.

We’re going out of town for the long weekend. We’ll be back on Monday and Tuesday is our ultrasound!! I am SO excited now. I wasn’t as excited before – but now I can’t wait! I got to thinking about having a boy and that would be so great! Having another girl would be great as well. Either or – I’m so excited to find out! Send some open leg vibes our way early Tuesday morning!

Have a good Labor Day! See ya next week!

Wow. Today has been the day of boredom. Pure boredom.

I woke up at 759am, just as my husband was getting home from work. Today was supposed to be our second time at the support/playgroup. We started getting ready late (am I ever on time?) and left the house at 953am. Things were supposed to start at 10am. On the agenda today was a guest speaker from Earthfare. Don’t let me sit here and lie to you like I know what Earthfare is .. I have NO clue whatsoever. Anyhow. I got lost. SOMEHOW. We meet in a fairly large hospital and you know they have hospital signs on the interstate, right? The hospital can be seen from the interstate, too. But, I got lost. Don’t know how it happened, but it did. I was aggravated and HOT – my A/C isn’t working and we’re having the hottest weather of the summer this week, ironically. No kidding (it’s 81°F right now – at 1131pm!). After 45 minutes of circling around Downtown Columbia, I decided enough was enough and we came home.

I’d intended to call Saturn so that I could get my car in for diagnostics. They charge $75, so um, NO. Now all of our plans for today were over.

This was now Jaiden’s naptime and she would NOT go to sleep. The girl fought sleep for almost two hours, then ending up sleeping for maybe an hour. Her usual nap is about two hours. I did my daily cleaning during this time. Then, I came and checked out my sites, forums, and email. What else was there to do? I’ve been wanting to start scrapbooking – I have a small collection of supplies – but the only layout I have in mind requires other things. Sheesh. Later in the day I actually pulled out some material and quilting books and was gonna cut out some things for a quilt, but everyone (Hubby & Baby) woke up before that could happen.

I did paint Jaiden’s palms and got her little handprints. Did you know she’s 14 months old today?! It seems like today she was 14 months going on 16 years. She was being a BRAT. Throwing temper tantrums – oh my! The girl was skating on my nerves today. She did go to bed earlier, which means she will be up earlier. Yay (yes, that was sarcastic). The handprint is oh-so-cute, though! It’s done in purple tempera on lavender cardstock. Then, I cut the handprint out leaving a teeny bit of border around it. I used rubber cement to mount it to a darker purple cardstock, then cut it all out with the same amount of border as the first. It looks so cool, but I don’t know what to use it on! It’s on my refrigerator for now (View image). I did both hands, but the left one didn’t come out at good as the right.

More Jaiden-goodness is in Shutterbug .. even some video clips (FIVE of them)!!

I did take a belly shot today – just for my girl Nikki J because she asked! View image

Last night I finally joined the masses and set up a photolog! I have one picture there so far. It looks kinda plain .. I still have to figure out what all I want to do with it. Do I want a sidebar or don’t I? I don’t know yet, but clearly I didn’t want to last night. Here it is if you’re interested (I’ve linked it under my basic information for the future, by the way).

I really haven’t had anything to say lately .. that’s odd. I’m still doing well. I’m just enjoying life and taking advantage of some of the things it has to offer.

Jaiden has been the biggest ham ever lately! I can’t go into all of her antics – too hard to describe – but the photo in Shutterbug shows one of them. I let her play in her room and she actually climbed INTO the toybox to play. She is dancing all around .. stamping her feet and giggling at the Final Jeopardy theme song .. she ‘reads’ now (turns a page and ‘talks’, then turns the page again and so on). She likes to try and dress herself and put on shoes (not hers, everyone else’s!). I think I’ve mentioned this before, but she throws her own diaper away. She can also climb up into the chairs for the table she got for her birthday. Such a big girl now! Hubby and I talked about this this morning. She isn’t a baby anymore! *Sniff*

Our little bun in the oven has been oh-so-active lately. He/she kicks ALL the time. Hubby likes to lay on my lap or put his feet in my lap .. the baby always kicks him. Actually, the baby kicks when anything touches Mommy’s belly. He/she does the same things Jaiden did in the womb. She was really playful – kind of a jokester, really – when she was in the womb and she is still like that. She loves to goof off and tease you!

I have my next appointment a week from today. An ultrasound is scheduled and hopefully we can find out what we’re having. If not, that’s cool too. Hubby is tagging along with me – his first ever OB appointment! I can’t believe I am this far along already. Five months. Twenty one weeks, two days. Know what that means? Only 17 weeks, five days left until this munchkin is due!

This is a sad situation. As it stands, there are six minutes left in the game. Atlanta is down by 16. Vick is out for awhile. This breaks my heart. What REALLY breaks my heart is that they’re losing to Miami. My husband’s team. Ack!

I’m sure they’ll grow on me, but I am not too crazy about the Falcons’ new uniforms. Uh oh! TOUCHDOWN ATL! Ha! Now it’s 21-30.

Hubby had a Dining In tonight. He got all dressed up in his blues – he looked so good! I would have taken a picture of him but I have a million of him in his blues already (from the wedding). I have the largest headache and overall bodyache that I have been laying on the couch since I put Jai down (at 8pm). No wait, I folded and put away clothes, then I laid down. But you get my point. I just feel so .. bleh. I feel like I’m getting sick or something.

Jaiden was really into a lot today. Diapers. Shoes. The entertainment center. Videos. Diapers again. Diaper bag. Shoes again. Garbage. She did have a lot of cute moments, though. When she’s hungry she’ll go into the kitchen and take the pots out of the drawer! I got a picture of her doing this last night. Earlier I was going to the bathroom and she comes in with one of my shoes. She picks my foot up and tries to put it into the shoe (flip-flop)! She is such a ham. While my mom was here, she taught Jaiden to throw her diapers in the trash. We usually clap for her and praise her for doing it and now I have her opening and closing the lid to the trashcan by herself. Tonight after dinner she watches me throw the plate in the trash – we had leftover chimichangas (that I made!) and there was a lot of sauce and some rice left on the plate when I tossed it. This girl goes into the trash, pulls the plate out and drips enchilada sauce all over my carpet! I was SO frustrated. I know that she did it because she wanted to throw the plate away after she pulled it out – she does that with her diapers sometimes. But holy cow.

About the chimichangas. They were SO good! Hubby had duty and I don’t normally cook anything special if he isn’t here, but I was just in the mood to do it last night. His favorite Mexican dish is chimichangas, so I thought I’d try my hand at making them. If they didn’t turn out, he wouldn’t have to eat them. I found a recipe online and modified it quite a bit. I have to say that they were AWESOME! Later on he came home for a minute and tasted them – immediately he said that this was going to be one of his favorite meals (at home)! This morning when he came home from work he was still raving about them! I took a picture, just in case they tasted good I could brag about them: View image.

Here’s the recipe …
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I was really going to leave this private, but I feel the need to defend myself after things were turned around on me earlier this morning.

I’ll begin with telling the story. The responsible party has neglected to mention this part.

As I’m checking my email Sunday, I find an email stating that my password has been recovered for Movable Type (for the family site). I know that this was not something that I’d done. At this point I am just absolutely shocked that someone would do this to me. I didn’t know the extent of the damage at this point, so I went about checking everything I have online and changing every password I could think of. Then, I check my tracker. To my amazement, I find that someone has gone into my site statistics from my admin control panel (through the host). There, they found the URL to my tracker and checked that. Plus, this same IP was at my mt.cgi file. BINGO. But guess who it was? Shanee.

So, I PM her. Initially I am just stunned. I figured it must be some mistake and I prepare myself mentally for the argument that would probably follow. But she apologized. Her story was that she had a friend over, talked to him about me, showed him my sites, and basically led him to believe that she wanted something bad to be done to me. She said, “No worries, he didn’t even get in!” And that makes it right? She claims that he did it and she didn’t realize it until too late.

I am telling the truth when I say I am not mad. I’m not. A little perturbed, yes, but not mad. If I was mad, she would have heard about this sooner.

Meanwhile, I cannot get into my MT to update in my pregnancy journal. I PMed her, asking if she could find out what exactly this person did and explaining that I couldn’t get in. She had annoyed me with her posts about not beating herself up over ‘what someone else did’ or however she worded it. Why? To me, it felt like she wasn’t sorry if the next day she could shrug it off. When she replied she told me just to recover the password again – and hello, I’d tried that. I tried a reinstall and that didn’t work, either.

I never said anything mean. I kept the contact at a minimum. More importantly, I kept my cool and didn’t run off at the mouth. I just barely mentioned it. Really, it was a minor annoyance and truly isn’t the end of the world. I didn’t fully believe the story I was told, but whatever. Who cares, right? What’s done is done and it can’t be undone.

So yesterday I finally get in to MT. Just for kicks, I checked my activity log. Would you believe that they tried for TWO HOURS to get in?! They tried all kinds of things .. even searched Google. Still – I am not mad. I bring it up – copy and pasted the two hours’ worth of invalid logins into a PM for her. To me, the story is a load of bull. Now she claims that she was putting the baby down and took a shower – leaving this person downstairs at her computer for over two hours? Yeah, I doubt that.

I brought all of this to her before saying anything elsewhere. I really wasn’t gonna bring it here, but since she thinks I’m being a snob, I’m going to defend myself. I don’t accept her apology anymore. My opinion is that she’s sorry she got caught. Now she’s trying to flip the script and put it all on me. She’s running off at the mouth trying to convince folks that I am wanting her to grovel and calling me a snob. Apologies are no good if they aren’t sincere. I don’t even want an apology. I want what I deserve – and that is the truth.

And still .. I am not mad. Anger is such a passionate emotion and will not be wasted on someone so undeserving. She can sit there and write all about how I am a ‘snob’ and that I am making myself look bad, but I don’t care. I don’t do things just to make myself look good – and if I did, I am surely not doing a good job at it. Really, what gets on my nerves is not that they tried to get into my MT – it’s that I think she’s lying. She knows she is. But, Shanee is an actress …

She’s asked me why I think that she would do this .. why it would benefit her. I don’t know. I was gone and received several messages asking what was going on, where I was, and even an offer to come down and help me out if I needed it (all from her). Maybe she just wanted to know if I was really around? Who knows.

Anyway, this is my defense and I refuse to enter into another pissing match. I thought, “Hmm .. why stoop down to her level? That’s what she wants ..” After some thinking, I realized I am not going down to her level. I am telling the story in it’s entirety – something she had not done. Everything said here is the truth, unless otherwise noted (and I did make it a point to distinguish between my opinions, my doubts, and the facts).

From the mouth of Christina Aguilera ..
Call me a b—- ’cause I speak what’s on my mind
Guess it’s easier for you to swallow if I sat and smiled

And to reiterate .. the only reason I am posting this is to get the truth out there. I have no intentions of stirring the pot, though I’m sure this isn’t the end of it ..

I finally updated the splash page .. go me .. only three weeks late! Heh.

Go see what I’m talking about ..