Today was a beautiful day. It started out cold and gloomy, but sometime mid-late morning it warmed and cleared up, with no clouds in sight. It was warm enough that I didn’t need a jacket, but cool enough to keep me from sweating my butt off. I decided to go out and enjoy the nice weather by helping out with some yard work. It was really nice.
I found this theme earlier and fell in love with it. I set out looking for a temporary theme to put up until I felt like making my own, but now I think I’ll just stick with this for a while. I did end up downloading an FTP program, Filezilla–which is funny because somebody recommended it to me on my last post not too long after I installed it. Now I’ll upgrade WordPress. I’m still running version 2.3.2! Heh. I’m not going to get to that tonight, though. I’m pretty darn tired. I didn’t sleep too great last night and had to get up before 7AM for school. This was the first time I regretted an early Saturday morning class.
I guess I’ll take a quick shower and then jump in bed to watch Sweet Home Alabama for the millionth time. Between the DVD and USA, I’ve seen it a LOT. Still love it, though. 
Filed under: Daily, School, Site on April 26th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Teresa is holding a new contest over at her personal blog. Those entering have a chance at winning a lovely and uniquely designed dandelion handbag by Rebecca Weis. Teresa is willing to ship this item anywhere, so anyone can participate.
Normally I wouldn’t do a blog post about a contest, but this purse is TOO CUTE. I browsed through the designer’s Etsy store and she has more items in the same Queen Anne’s Lace print. I love it.
Filed under: Random on April 26th, 2008 | No Comments »
I attempted to upgrade WordPress earlier but failed. I’m sure it’s not hard, but I don’t use a FTP manager and uploading the files one by one in cPanel’s file manager was taking for-freaking-ever. Someday it’ll get done.
The babies came home last Thursday and everything is great. They aren’t really having many alarms and when they do they are able to correct it themselves before we can even get to them. Erin was right–the alarms seem a lot scarier than they actually are. It’s like taking care of regular newborns. You just have to carry a bag with a monitor in it around when you have a baby and try not to trip over cords constantly. Heh.
I filled out the FAFSA earlier for the 2008-2009 school year. I hate having to dig all of my parents’ tax stuff out in order to do it. Now I just need to mail in the data sheet to the college and I won’t have to worry about it for another year.
Filed under: School, Site, Work on April 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Not much has happened in month since I last blogged (Yikes, has it been that long?!), which is why I haven’t been around. My life is far too boring. I wake up, go to work, come home, do nothing, and go to bed. One the exciting days (hah!) I throw class into the mix.
I’m not doing as bad in biology as I thought, apparently. She passed out our grades last week and it looks like I have a B. I am flabbergasted–I was sure I was failing! My test scores had been so low. I got an A on my lab test and I guess that, along with turning in my labs, helped a lot. I’m feeling a heck of a lot better now that I know I’m doing okay.
The babies are doing well. Both are around 5lbs and they should be coming home in the next few weeks. They will be coming home with monitors, which is a little scary. I had to go to a class a few weeks ago with Jeff and Shannon on how to work the monitor and what to do if the alarm went off. We also had to go over infant CPR, which I am happy about. It had been a long time since I last went over it. I’m pretty confident now about taking care of them. Now I just have to wait until they finally get to come home…
Filed under: School, Work on April 13th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Once again, I must say that I’m a horrible blogger. I remember wayyy back to my early LiveJournaling days when I updated at least once a day, sometimes more. I wonder what has changed in the past five years. I’d say I have more going on now than I did in high school…
Biology is going to kill me, I think. I don’t spend enough time studying so my last few test scores have been less than perfect–horrible, actually. I’m almost afraid of going tomorrow morning because we’re getting our lab test back and I know I didn’t do well. :/ Thank God the semester will be over in a month and a half.
The babies are doing good. Both are around 3lbs 12oz. They’re homecoming date has been pushed back to mid-late April. The doctors and nurses don’t know who said that they would be home by the end of March or why because they never expected them to. While they are both doing extremely well for preemies born at 28 weeks, they won’t be ready to try eating from a bottle for a few more weeks and then they’ll need to be weened from their caffeine. The homecoming date will be here quickly, though. I can’t believe it’s already been 5 weeks since they were born!
I love Daylight Savings time. I’m a day person and DST makes the day seem longer. I got out of class last night and it was still bright out. Unfortunately it was dark by the time I made the 30 minute drive home. I enjoyed the warm weather (55°!) and it was actually sunny!
I suppose I should go work on some homework and not wait until the very last minute to do it like I normally do. Heh.
Filed under: School, Work on March 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I can’t believe it’s been nearly three weeks since I last blogged. I can’t say I have an excuse. Since Shannon came home from the hospital my work days have gotten shorter and I’ve even had several days off (today included). I forgot, I guess.
S got home on Monday the 11th. I was driving her to and from the hospital and to doctors appointments, but on Monday she was cleared by her doctor to drive and pick Mia up again. My hours have been cut quite a bit and won’t be any better until the babies come home at the end of March. While I’m looking forward to having Tuesdays and Thursdays off, I can’t stop thinking about how much lower my checks are going to be. There’s going to be a lot of penny pinching this next month. :/
The twins are doing great! Both have been off of their breathing machines since the day after they were born. C went back on his for about 24 hours on the 12th but he’s off it now and doing great! One of the nurses had put his umbilical IV in wrong and it was putting fluids into his abdominal cavity, which made him pretty sick. They figured out what was wrong with him quickly and he perked right back up. Neither of them even have IVs anymore. Because of that, they can actually wear clothes. The preemie outfits are WAY too big for them so the nurses suggested getting clothes from Build-a-Bear. Haha. I’ve been meaning to go get them each an outfit from there but haven’t made it yet.
E is doing better than C, even though both are doing good. C had made it to 3lbs but on Monday they found that he had lost weight and was down to 2lbs 14oz. E is 2lbs 13oz. When I was up to the NICU last Thursday there was a 7 ounce difference between the two (E being smaller) and, as weird as it sounds, C actually looked chubby! Compared to E, at least. I have a couple pictures of the twins on my Flickr, but you need to be marked as a friend on there to see them.
School is going well, I suppose. I haven’t been studying as much as I should for Biology so my tests and quiz scores are lower than I’d like, but I’ve been doing well in my labs. I really don’t mind getting up so early on Saturday. I love being up early in the morning and seeing the colors that come with the sunrise. I love the pastels.
I changed my layout to one that I temporarily used in December. I was getting sick of the other one. I might make another one sometime, but I’ll probably browse a few design sites and snag a free theme. Right now, though, I’m heading for bed.
Filed under: School, Site, Work on February 26th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The twins were born last night, twelve weeks early. Each weighed under three pounds. Jeff didn’t elaborate, but he says that they are doing great. Even with him saying that, I can’t help but feel a little scared for them. Just last week in my Human Growth & Development class we were talking about preemies and the problems that they face after birth and throughout their lives. Maybe I’ll call Jeff and make him update me. I’m going crazy here.
Edit: Jeff told me that E came off of her breathing machine this morning! Hopefully she won’t need to go back on it. He also told me their actual weights and lengths–E is 2lbs 11oz, 15 inches long and C is 2lbs 15oz, 15 1/2 inches long.
Filed under: Special Occasions on February 8th, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I wish I had the ability to be witty, in my [rarely updated] blog and offline. I read blogs like Erin’s and Elizabeth’s and am jealous at how well they write and keep my attention, while updating daily at the same time. I update once a week or less and my blog is boring as hell. I couldn’t imagine doing it daily and actually having something interesting to write about.
I love it how I always get the urge to clean late at night when I need to start getting ready for bed. No wonder my room is a pigsty–I only feel like cleaning at inconvenient times.
Filed under: Random on February 3rd, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I donated blood this evening. I actually felt perfectly fine afterwards, whereas I usually feel a tad bit woosy. They still made me sit down drink water and eat crackers, though. I was one of the last to donate so one of the ladies in charge of the food and drinks sent me home with a ton of the leftover crackers, Oreos, and shortbread cookies. No complaints there! I just took the medical tape off that kept the gauze in place to keep pressure on the vein and I swear that a layer of my skin came off as well. Ouch!
Shannon is back in the hospital and will stay there until the babies are born. I took her to the doctor’s on the 15th for her appointment and they sent her straight there because her cervix had thinned out even more. She’s 28w3d now and they’re hoping she’ll make it to 30 weeks. It’s been crazy with her not around the past couple of weeks and it has definitely taken a toll on the Drew. He has been extremely moody and, while I certainly understand, I’m getting sick of it. He didn’t go to school yesterday because he simply didn’t feel like it (Jeff isn’t strict with Drew’s school attendance and he misses school and is tardy a lot for this reason, which I completely disagree with. That’s another story.) . When I was younger and stayed home from school I couldn’t do anything. I was allowed to lay in bed and that is about it. Drew played with his toys, ran around, and played the Wii all freakin’ day. When I made him turn the Wii off he had a spaz attack. Then I tried to make him eat lunch. OH NOES! I told him that he couldn’t have any snacks until he finished his lunch so he yelled about how much he hated me before I sent him to his room. Thing is, I know Jeff would’ve just given him some candy and turned the Wii back on. I miss Shannon. She actually enforces the same things that I do.
Mia, on the other hand, is cuter than ever… unless she wants a Capri Sun. Bleh. Yesterday she got really close to my face like she was going to give me a kiss but when she got a big mischeivous grin, I should’ve known better. She licked my face (her tongue was covered in Goldfish crumbs, might I add…), laughed harder than I’ve ever seen, and ran away. It was funny, but I wish it would’ve been a kiss instead of goldfish slobbers.
School is good. The Saturday morning class really isn’t too bad. I’m usually up early on the weekends anyways. My teacher has let us out by 11AM each class, which makes it go a lot faster than I thought it would. I think if the class actually lasted until 12:50PM I’d be saying something different.
I had a crapload of things to do today but haven’t gotten anything crossed off my list. I guess I could go do my laundry. I was ready to do everything before I went to the blood drive but now I just don’t feel like it. I have to be to work early tomorrow, which hopefully means that I’ll get home earlier and will actually feel like doing it…
Filed under: Daily, School, Work on January 29th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Work the past week or so has been crazy. I’ve been working around ten hours a day and now have to take care of Shannon, too. She was in the hospital on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th and is now on complete bed rest until the twins are born. Her cervix has shortened to less than 1cm and she was starting to dilate. She’s only 25 weeks now. The doctors did some test that said that the babies won’t be born before the 19th, but after that it could be anytime. Hopefully the bed rest is working and they won’t be here for a while!
School starts back up this week. I’m only taking two classes this semester because the other one, Algebra, was canceled due to low class-enrollment. I have Human Growth & Development on Thursdays from 5:45PM until 8:20PM and Biology on Saturday mornings (blech!) from 8AM until 10:50AM, with labs immediately following and lasting until 12:50PM. I really would’ve preferred not to do Saturday mornings, but it is the only one that worked with my work and other class schedules. I still haven’t gone to get my books, but I’m supposed to go with Katie later. I think I might take some of my old textbooks with me to sell them back to the school.
Ashley spent the weekend with us. Friday night I took her to see Bee Movie. I really enjoyed it–more than Ashley did, I think. Halfway through it she poked me and said “Is it almost over? I’m tired.” Heh.
Dinner should be done soon. I’m starving, and the smell of lasagna drifting into my bedroom isn’t helping any. While waiting for it to finish, I’m going to practice crocheting. I taught myself single crochet over the weekend and now want to learn a few other things. I can’t wait until I’ve learned enough to make some cute Amigurami!
Filed under: School, Work on January 14th, 2008 | 2 Comments »