For some reason this really gives me the willies!!

Little D has an eye infection. I took D to the UC after I got home from work today because his eye was red and oozing. Yeah, pretty YUCK! He's had a slight cold for about a week now and Dr G said it just kind of moved up into his eye. And like most eye infections/pink eye it's highly contagious.

My eyes have been itching and burning ever since she said that word.

We have to keep him home from day care at least one day for the antibiotics kick in so E will be staying home tomorrow. Ick, part of me is creeped out and am glad I'll be at work. His poor eye is gross and he keeps touching it and touching everything!! It's driving me nuts! You know the commercial where the kid comes home and he's sick and he touches the door knob and phone and all the neon germs grow and take over the house? That's exactly what I imaging is happening everytime D touches something. Neon pink eye germs are growing and pulsating until our house needs to be quarantined by haz mat! Yikes!! I normally don't do antibiotics but because he's in daycare and around other children I think it's probably for the best. Let's just nip this thing in the bud right away. If he was a stay at home kid I probably wouldn't give him anything, just let it run it's course and follow him around with a bucket of bleach water but I'm afraid of anything that could get others sick. It needs to be killed!

Oh, and now when daycare puts up a big "Your Child Has Been Exposed To Oozy Eye Illness" I will cringe in shame because that was my child exposing everyone. Sorry other parents, I truly am! But I guess it is what it is, that's what happens when a bunch of little ones get together in one location. Germs happen.

My poor D, he has no idea why I keep shouting for him to keep his hands down on his sides. He keeps telling me that he's trying but he can't.

And I thought the worst he would come home with is lice. My mistake. :-p

Not much to blog about...

Work has been chaotic, I've been spending all my free time picking up stuff and putting it where it belongs, keeping up on laundry, coming up with meals that don't include red meat (that's almost over in a week and a half, thank goodness!).

Life has been busy yet boring, not such a bad thing considering what could be worse.

What is interesting/worrisome is how the days go by so so fast and start to blur together. I've been really trying to slow the weekends down and enjoy them because they too can go by unbelievably fast. I need to spend a little less time on the computer during the evenings though, it is such a time sucker but I never want to miss an update on one of my favorite blogs :)

I'm off to clean up my little bathroom and fold laundry.

Have a good night!

Home Alone Weekend

Alternative title: Movie Time, There May Be Some Spoilers Here.

This weekend was very nice. I just hung out by myself not doing much at all. I went scrub pants shopping, which was not successful at the store but very much on line. I painted my toenails, did a ton of laundry, did house work without a time schedule and watched four movies. I did watch one with E this evening, but I think it still counts.

Here's what I watched (in order of least liked):

Rambo: Yes, ladies, I watched a Rambo movie (with E of course!). The story was decent but the blood and gore is not my thing. Especially when it involves killing children and raping women. I'd give the gore a 25 out of 10 it was so bad. So I give it an 'eh'. It was a short one, only an hour and 20 minutes so it was over quickly. E laughed at me at one point and exclaimed "I can't believe you're watching a Rambo movie!" Me either, Honey, me either.

Twilight: Even though I read the book and make it a habit of NOT watching the movie of a book I really liked, I watched it because I'm going to go see the other movie with the girls at work. This movie is supposed to be a very serious movie, all brooding and full of love but it had me rolling!! OMG, the acting was horrific and the kid who plays Edward is totally NOT HOT!! He reminds me of a young Dolph Lundgren, remember him from Rocky 4 fame? Yeah, no. But by the end of the movie I was glad I watched it because it distracted me while I was folding laundry. That's always a good thing. (I could go on and on of why I didn't like this movie, but that would be just plain mean and childish!)

Obsessed: Oh, silly Beyonce, acting's for actresses! You kookie gal! This movie had potential. The blond from Hero's was pretty good, a convincing crazy lady. The black guy from The Office (NOT Stanley, the new office manager) was pretty cute to look at but kind of a puss. But Miss Thing Beyonce was just...UG. To me she was too diva; sashaying her booty, wagging her finger and giving her man a what for much too often. Please girl, tune it down a notch. What I did like was the (spoiler) kick ass fighting scene between the two women. Yeah, bitch, you lay a pinkie on my baby and I WILL go Rambo on your narrow ass!! No hair pulling and clothes ripping here! Just some good old fashioned punches in the face.

He's Just Not That Into You: Surprisingly I really liked this movie! It had a great cast of characters that intertwine without knowing it. It was funny, interesting and easy to watch. I really don't like Jen Aniston in any way but I really, really love Sc@rlette Joh@nssen (what a doll!) so they counter balanced each other nicely. All the guys were cuties and I even shed tear at one of the end scenes. If I had watched it earlier in my time off I might have even watched it again. I had my doubts and got it on a whim but I'm glad I did.

In staying home by myself I realize I'm a big scaredy cat. I'm scared of burglars, spiders, loud noises yet no noises at all, even my own shadow. But I tried not to let those things bother me and I really enjoyed the time to myself. To do what I wanted to do, to lay around yet clean my house in a leisurely manner, watch what I wanted was a real treat. I do feel really relaxed.

Off to another week ahead. I hope this one is less stressful and I hope everyone has a great one!

Crackin me up

D is just so cute sometimes. I love to hear him laugh, it tickles me so.

I love that he calls any kind of lightning or electrical blast (like on tv, not in the house!) "flash lightning". He's just calling it like he sees it. Too cute.

Right now he's watching Short Circuit, remember that old movie? Like from when we were kids? He really likes it so much and is just laughing and running over to tell me what Number 5 is doing to Number 1 and 2. He likes it so much that he wanted to watch it back to back. That crazy Number 5 will capture any heart.

The only thing is the cussing. Who knew that there were so many dirty words in it?

Oh well, just a lesson for later.

But for now, D's laugh is the best!

Weekend reacap

This weekend was pretty good, we had stuff to do yet it was low key.


E did an 8k...



While we waited on the bleachers...



E ran with a friend while D and I sat and chatted with her husband. He did pretty good, but his friend beat him by a few steps. Hehe, I told her to kick his ass for me cuz I'm a brat like that.

Then we went to a co-ed baby shower. It was pretty fun. It reminded me of the parties that we'd go to with my brother because the people there are in a band and they pulled out some acoustic guitars and had a mini jam session. People singing and getting into the music, it was pretty cool.



Instead of a typical shower cake they had fancy donuts with cereal in the icing. You'd think this would be any kids dream but D found this weird. He didn't finish it. What the heck?? (There were ones with fruit loops too!)

Today has been lazy day. We went out to breakfast and then just hung around the house. We watched Lars and the Rea1 Gir1. Interesting, just interesting. And then laundry and cleaning the house. I want to start the week with a clean house.

D is going on vacation with my dad on Thursday for almost a week. I don't know that we'll do without him since he seems to be the thread that holds us together (what a big responsibility for such a little one). I'll really miss him. I hope he has fun.

I hope everyone had a great weekend. Off to wash this stinky kid!!

:)

I did it and there were no tears!

Even thought it is WAY different then I had in mind, I really love it!! It is so much cooler and looks better than my old hair. It looks like I actually have hair and she colored it dark burgundy. It looks pretty in all this sunshine we've been having.

My old hair was so drab and lifeless. When I put it up everyday in my little twist it was sad. After a couple of hours it would start to frizz out on the sides and look like I never even brushed my hair that day. What a mess! I'm so glad those days are gone for now.

I love that it takes no time to wash, just rub my scalp clean with some shampoo and I just use a dot of conditioner on the back. I am wondering if I need some kind of styling product to help shape it different ways. I'm such a newbie at styling hair.




I imagined a more sleek do but my hair is quiet bendy. Not curly or wavy but bent in different places. Today I didn't get to the drier in time so it was a bit more flippy than these pictures. Whenever I walked past a mirror I did a double take, who was that girl??



The only thing I would have done differently was perhaps donate my hair to something like Locks Of Love. I didn't even think of it at the time because my hair was such a rats nest. Who would have wanted that? But now that I'm thinking of it she cut around 10 inches off easily. It's too bad I didn't think of it at the time.

It is definitely taking some time to get used to but I really do like it. I think I just might keep it short for a while.