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I'm recovering fine for the most part. Swallowing remains a chore, especially if it is something warm. Noticed my left ear constantly aches now, like there is pressure that I can't relieve. If it hasn't stopped by Monday, I'm gonna be calling the doc office. The only time it doesn't hurt is when I've got my pain meds working. And they do for the most part. I just try not to take them all the time, as they are really strong oxy.

Wee man is doing great. He's growing like a weed. He's actually trying to 'talk' talk now. As in he's trying to use real words. He's got hi, bye (as in wave bye), buh bye (as in go buh bye), and mom down. He's working on dad, bottle and daiper.

Some may know or may not know, but I had my tonsils out today. While it doesn't hurt to talk, it hurts to talk loudly.

Currently I'm trying to get food down so I can take my meds. Pain meds + empty tummy = big mess.

What I'm to understand the surgery went well.

I'm stuck at trying to figure out how to explain to my honey that I wouldn't mind his solo gaming at a friends every Friday after work, if I also got a day/evening a week to play parental hookie. I've gotten less than one handful of evenings/afternoons of being able to go play without a kid in tow since the wee one was born. He's been getting every Friday evening for about 2-3 months now. Not counting the evenings he just went over to a friends place after work and lost track of time. Even when he is home, I'm still the one who changes 95% of the diapers and does the feeding of the wee one. So I can't just go paint for hours. I keep having to stop to check on the baby.

I also (kinda) understand the desire to escape when Jake comes over for the weekend. Jake was hard to deal with before he hit the teen years, and now he has, he's even worse. But when he vacates the apartment, I end up with both of the kids, leaving me feeling abandoned.

I know our social circle is shrinking due to life. People grow, develope different interests, move for work, etc... I've gone through this before, but my honey hasn't. (Heck, I barely have any contact with my high school buddies. The only one I still have contact with, I talk to about once a month, see maybe twice a year.) But the few 'offers' we've gotten to expand our circle of friends has been for him alone. IE friends wanting to take him away for an afternoon when Jake is here. But that just leaves me feeling alone and resentful. It seems like the only ideas for expanding our social scene that he likes are for him alone. And any that I give out that could expand BOTH of our social circles gets shot down...

Right now my 'social life' consists of ims (rarely outside of the game group or Lyne), mmo's that I usually end up soloing, working for Lyne, maybe 2-3 times of going out to eat a month, trips to the grocery store, and game.

I just don't know how to tell him what I've been feeling without getting him on the defensive. *headdesk*

Hi all,

Long time no post. Wee Man is growing like a weed. He's not quite talking yet, he makes babble talk, but nothing with reconizable meaning yet. He's even gotten a hair cut.



I have started getting my teeth fixed, but due to costs and what my insurance would cover, I've ended having to go with dentures. Blech. Got my teeth pulled today, not fun. And on the way to the dentist, the car went kaput. When it rains, it pours.

Jake is gonna be fine. Nothing major is wrong. Am much relieved.

Jake's stepmom told me this evening that he came home from school with a rash that looked like hickies on his temples. Over the course of the evening, it spread. So his dad took him to the doctors office. The doctors office sent him to the local hospital er to be tested for strep and meningococcal. It's gonna take a while to get results back. Will try to keep folks updated as I get updated.

well the surgery went off without a hitch. the surgeon said that the gb had scar tissue from previous inflamations. so it was a good thing that it is out now. with my meds, i'm currently at about the same pain level on any given day. no lifting wee man for the next couple of days.

Just realized that I haven't been keeping up here about what is happening in my life.

Since just before New Years, I've been dealing with abdomen pains, both high and low. Well, the upper abdomen pain is finally gonna be taken care of. I'm going in to have my gall bladder and the stones therein removed this Friday.

Wee Man is growing like a weed. Though both he and I have been sick of late. Me more so than him. He's just been having a runny nose, while I'm not keeping food down.

I'll try to give folks an update after the surgery.

clickie clickie!

eggie!

bred two of my dragons and got this one.



Pinkie hatched!

got a pinkie eggie!

I blame perky. :P

I was wondering if anyone knew where I might be able to find a plushie ball? I want to get a small, fuzzy ball about the size of a large grapefruit to play with Wee Man.

As of this Saturday, my wee man Vinnie will be a year old. It's kinda hard to believe it's been a year already.

He has 4 teeth, all across the top front. He's been walking for close to 3 months now. He's starting to figure out how to climb. That scares me, a lot. There are 3 words in his vocabulary so far. Bahbahbahbah, mahmahmahmah, and dahdahdahdah, bottle, mommy, and daddy respectively. He knows other words, but doesn't say them yet. When asked 'where is your blankie?' he runs to his favorite blanket.

According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.

The instructions:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ.


1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman only part of the first book
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert only got about 70-90 pages in before i set it down and never went back
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

It's now official, the wee man has cut his first tooth. I'd been keeping an eye on the bottom cause I saw one sitting just beneath the surface of the gums. But when I checked on things yesterday, I noticed that one had come through on the top. The little bugger snuck it past me.

The wee man is in the process of cutting his first tooth. It's currently sitting just beneath the surface of his gums. So far, so good. Vinnie hasn't been too terribly fussy. So I'm counting myself lucky on that.

my boy is getting so big.