i had some time
if the theories in the pyramid code are accurate i should be able to build a mini pyramid in my backyard, dig the right tunnels, turn on the sprinkler system and get off the grid. it explains the obvious giant lightbulb hieroglyphics but not the helicopters and torpedo-shaped flying machines.
morgan and maisey
patrick and cerys
my mom, natalie, and me
lowri
me and lukey
cerys doing easter eggs
me and pat's easter eggs
crashing out with cerys at a birthday party
me and patrick
my grandparent's renuptials in january
my backyard is awesome
i'm going to be an aunt again at the end of may :) my sister is due around the 19th. it's a boy! my mom is going up for the birth but i'm going to wait until july to visit. i don't want to crowd her when everyone else is swarming all over. and once i get to hold my nephew, i don't want to share. she's coming in august but me and patrick might be going to chicago the first week of july for a wedding. if we do he might come straight home while i go to brooklyn for a couple days.
patrick and i have been trying to get pregnant since right after we got married, but we haven't had any luck yet. it's really difficult for me to get bummed out about getting my period when the trying is so much fun :) patrick gets a little sad when it shows up, but he's also way more nervous about having kids than i am. he worries about money and accidentally screwing up our kids. i'm not the least bit worried about those kinds of things. i think we'll both make very good parents, and people with WAY less in resources manage to raise troops of kids.
we ought to have our house paid off before any kids we have will need to go to college. we make an extra payment twice a year and pay a little more every month to make it three extra payments per year. patrick has set up several different accounts with money going in and out automatically. it makes him worry less and we save more. when i ask him now how much money we have (meaning how much available to spend) he tells me the balance in the account attached to my card. the 'spending' account. i ask about once a month how our savings is doing. i watch our electric bill and have made a hobby out of bringing it down. patrick is a coupon queen. he can save more than he spends on a trip to publix. i'm sort of serious about the mini pyramid....
if i'd gotten pregnant this month, my due date is christmas day. kinda glad we're not. the only advantage to having a baby at christmas is all of our family would already be here.
my body is trying though. we were messily active while i was ovulating and i spotted right when i should have been having implantation bleeding. then i got heartburn only for the third and fourth time in my life, my armpits and side-boobs were sore and tender and my period was one tantalizing week late. all the tests were coming up negative but since i was having symptoms i can only assume my body is practicing for the real thing. i told patrick if we still haven't had any luck by our birthdays, we'll both go get check-ups and see if there are any problems. it will have been about a year by then. no point in getting too worked up before then. after the twinges this month i'm a lot more confident we'll get lucky eventually.
i have been working my way through five seasons of the kids in the hall and i'm still in mad, cross-dressing, dork love with them, even after all these years.
i bought a sewing machine for $40 from a lady i work with and have rag quilt and some baby outfits in the works. i also got two sets of knitting looms and have made matching hats for my sister and the baby, and i have four panels of a blanket finished. i also let cerys pick out a yarn and made a hat for her. winter hats, just in time for summer! whatever, my crafts are usually a few seasons off. the looms are SO much easier than using needles. my stitches are finally all the same size. i'm cranking out hats about one every two hours. still not cooking though :) that's patrick's talent. unless he had a mad scientist night and the kitchen is a merry wreck, i clean up.
my regional manager wants me to go into training for a store manager position. i told him i wasn't interested in moving up right now, but would let him know if that changed. what i really want to do is stay where i'm at for another year or two, make a baby or two, and then get a job with the city or county. i made a few good contacts with my last job that might help with that. i like 25 hours and three days off a week. it frees me up to spend all the rest of my time trying to keep the house clean.
we've had one room rented out to a friend of patrick's from work since we moved in, and he's been fighting with his ex to get partial custody of their daughter for over a year. it's all over now and he's got every other weekend and holiday, and five weeks in the summer. she's only two and hadn't seen him for a year until a couple weekends ago. she ran right to him calling him daddy, daddy! so happy for him! :) her grandmother has really been trying to keep her dad in her life even though her mother has been trying to keep him out. we're all really glad. her visits start end of may.
we've got the other two rooms rented to patrick's best friend and his two kids. i was having some major issues with how messy they are and how little they help around the house....until the morning there was a giant spider on my bathroom wall and his friend was the only one home. once it was gone, all was forgiven. and pest control was called an hour later. they're helping a little more and trying to be less messy. i'm trying to be less anal retentive about how neat my house is at any given moment.
the giant spider:
i found out three weeks after the fact that my friend robin in england committed suicide near the end of february. i found out through his daughter on facebook. really sad :( he was a good man, and i'll miss him.
morgan and maisey
patrick and cerys
my mom, natalie, and me
lowri
me and lukey
cerys doing easter eggs
me and pat's easter eggs
crashing out with cerys at a birthday party
me and patrick
my grandparent's renuptials in january
my backyard is awesome
i'm going to be an aunt again at the end of may :) my sister is due around the 19th. it's a boy! my mom is going up for the birth but i'm going to wait until july to visit. i don't want to crowd her when everyone else is swarming all over. and once i get to hold my nephew, i don't want to share. she's coming in august but me and patrick might be going to chicago the first week of july for a wedding. if we do he might come straight home while i go to brooklyn for a couple days.
patrick and i have been trying to get pregnant since right after we got married, but we haven't had any luck yet. it's really difficult for me to get bummed out about getting my period when the trying is so much fun :) patrick gets a little sad when it shows up, but he's also way more nervous about having kids than i am. he worries about money and accidentally screwing up our kids. i'm not the least bit worried about those kinds of things. i think we'll both make very good parents, and people with WAY less in resources manage to raise troops of kids.
we ought to have our house paid off before any kids we have will need to go to college. we make an extra payment twice a year and pay a little more every month to make it three extra payments per year. patrick has set up several different accounts with money going in and out automatically. it makes him worry less and we save more. when i ask him now how much money we have (meaning how much available to spend) he tells me the balance in the account attached to my card. the 'spending' account. i ask about once a month how our savings is doing. i watch our electric bill and have made a hobby out of bringing it down. patrick is a coupon queen. he can save more than he spends on a trip to publix. i'm sort of serious about the mini pyramid....
if i'd gotten pregnant this month, my due date is christmas day. kinda glad we're not. the only advantage to having a baby at christmas is all of our family would already be here.
my body is trying though. we were messily active while i was ovulating and i spotted right when i should have been having implantation bleeding. then i got heartburn only for the third and fourth time in my life, my armpits and side-boobs were sore and tender and my period was one tantalizing week late. all the tests were coming up negative but since i was having symptoms i can only assume my body is practicing for the real thing. i told patrick if we still haven't had any luck by our birthdays, we'll both go get check-ups and see if there are any problems. it will have been about a year by then. no point in getting too worked up before then. after the twinges this month i'm a lot more confident we'll get lucky eventually.
i have been working my way through five seasons of the kids in the hall and i'm still in mad, cross-dressing, dork love with them, even after all these years.
i bought a sewing machine for $40 from a lady i work with and have rag quilt and some baby outfits in the works. i also got two sets of knitting looms and have made matching hats for my sister and the baby, and i have four panels of a blanket finished. i also let cerys pick out a yarn and made a hat for her. winter hats, just in time for summer! whatever, my crafts are usually a few seasons off. the looms are SO much easier than using needles. my stitches are finally all the same size. i'm cranking out hats about one every two hours. still not cooking though :) that's patrick's talent. unless he had a mad scientist night and the kitchen is a merry wreck, i clean up.
my regional manager wants me to go into training for a store manager position. i told him i wasn't interested in moving up right now, but would let him know if that changed. what i really want to do is stay where i'm at for another year or two, make a baby or two, and then get a job with the city or county. i made a few good contacts with my last job that might help with that. i like 25 hours and three days off a week. it frees me up to spend all the rest of my time trying to keep the house clean.
we've had one room rented out to a friend of patrick's from work since we moved in, and he's been fighting with his ex to get partial custody of their daughter for over a year. it's all over now and he's got every other weekend and holiday, and five weeks in the summer. she's only two and hadn't seen him for a year until a couple weekends ago. she ran right to him calling him daddy, daddy! so happy for him! :) her grandmother has really been trying to keep her dad in her life even though her mother has been trying to keep him out. we're all really glad. her visits start end of may.
we've got the other two rooms rented to patrick's best friend and his two kids. i was having some major issues with how messy they are and how little they help around the house....until the morning there was a giant spider on my bathroom wall and his friend was the only one home. once it was gone, all was forgiven. and pest control was called an hour later. they're helping a little more and trying to be less messy. i'm trying to be less anal retentive about how neat my house is at any given moment.
the giant spider:
i found out three weeks after the fact that my friend robin in england committed suicide near the end of february. i found out through his daughter on facebook. really sad :( he was a good man, and i'll miss him.