Can't wait!

I get to stalk the UPS man next week! Got to talk to a wonderful woman I met when I got hooked on crocheting. Admittedly Vicki lives on the opposite coast, but she is such a sweet, loving person that has always made me smile (and my heartache for her medical issues and what her family has gone through the last couple of years). But out of the generousity of her heart she is sending me a box of yarn and fabric to help keep me busy and pad my almost non-existant stash. Admittedly her hubby has threatened to take stuff to goodwill if she doesn't get rid of it, so I am one of the very lucky recipients of her yarn and fiber holic tendencies. Also please send some positive prayers/thoughts our way. After months of applying for jobs and getting nowhere Michael finally has an interview tomorrow (Friday). It is only 24 hours a week to start, but if he gets it that is that much more money we have to make sure our basic bills are paid and the girls have the extra milk & such they need to stay healthy. I had something else on my mind, but am blanking at the moment. But I have plans for that box...she is sending some flannel and baby yarn so I can make the soon-to-be mom of twin girls some blankets, burp cloths and little kimonos & wash cloths. I've been in her place with having nothing and a little one on the way and I was blessed by my Texas co-workers with a no longer needed crib, bedding, some sleepers and blankets and diapers and wipes, so I'm going to do what I can with this gift box to help her out (don't know her name, she is a friend of someone we got to know well, whom I've given baby girl stuff to for her 5 month old). Enough rambling...just a bit nervous for Michael and praying he gets this job since we really need the income.

A Rant

The title is a warning.
Why in the world to people insist that no matter how much vomit may bother someone...'Once you have kids it won't/doesn't bother you any more.' That's a bunch of malarkey as my Grandmother says. I always and unfortunately have been one of those that hearing another getting sick, seeing it, smelling it...well it makes me want to join and fast. The only reason this is appearing is because my sweet little microdot was sick about 45 minutes ago. Out of the blue, no warning and it was awful (still can't get the smell out of my nose and she is bathed, all the vomit is cleaned up and anything touching it/used for cleaning is soaking in a nice borax and laundry detergent bath).
Melodie never got sick much, if she spit up/vomitted it usually meant/means she's hitting a growth spurt and she will also sleep more than normal. The same is true for Harmony, except for when she was newborn and had a to go through three additional formulas to find one that didn't make her sick (she was fine on the Enfamil from the hospital, but WIC here won't let you use that). But by the time I went back to work she was settled and rarely got sick. Sorry for the side track, but I just normally don't have to deal with vomit much (thankfully). And as I was cleaning up the mess a customer's voice from my old store in Texas popped into my head telling me that in a long list of advice. Okay I could go off on unwanted baby advice and belly touching without permission, but I won't. Sorry just had to let that out after a very stressful day at work (who knew 6 hours could drain one so much). Night and thanks for reading my rant. Take care and have a wonderful week!!!!!
And a few of songs...at odds with each other, but I enjoy them equally.


Bella Luna

Love Me Dead

You Found Me

TSO Beethoven clip

TSO Layla

TSO Dueling Pianos West

TSO Dueling Pianos East

Okay as an aside/addon TSO is amazing on CD and mind blowing in concert. I personally perfer the east coast group...but that could be that I am biased towards Chris Caffery (listened to Savatage as a teen and preferred Chris over Jon for whatever reason)...the Jon Oliva west coast show isn't bad, but I seriously prefer the dueling pianos from the east coast show (better pianists, I think). Sorry for the ramble...enjoy the music!

One more addition...just stumbled across Savio on Myspace...loving Muse, but Senorita is on youtube

Update

I am a bit better. Exhausted, shaky(from medicine) and sore(from coughing), but slowly mending. Evidently I am among a nice sized group in the area with the same issues, but the NP was great and very helpful. I got a small round dishcloth finished while waiting at the Dr's office. I'll try to get a picture and write down the pattern for anyone interested. It is simple knitting and short rows and goes pretty quickly. Most of my other attempts at knitting and crocheting wip's have lead to frogging. So I am making my version of grandma's favorite washcloth for a friend's 4 month old. Then I plan on making a small stack for a woman she knows who is having twins in a month and has next nothing for them. It has taken me over an hour to write this with all the interruptions here and hence I have forgotten a couple of things I was going to type. Oh well. C'est la vie. Take care everyone and thank you!!

A bit more quiet

Thank you for the wonderful pick-me-up comments! Though even if we won the lottery I would still work...just part of who I am (okay would probably be running a yarn store then, but still). I'm currently waiting on a call from the doctors office since the bronchitis seems to be wanting to come back with a vengence. Not being able to hold Harmony for long or walk from the house to the car (maybe 30 feet) without being completely out of breath is driving me crazy. I have some crocheting and knitting I need to catch up on, but have been getting no where. And in all honesty I am burnt out at work. It's to the point that I don't even want to set foot near the store even to shop, let alone go to work. Very bad place for my head to be right now. There is stress here at home with Michael struggling to find work and fighting for unemployment he is due, but that I can handle (been thinking long and hard and am sure of this). It's the work stress that is getting to me. The economy is bad, fine. But what they are doing to all of us is making it much, much worse and I know I'm not alone in these thoughts as a couple of senior co-workers are quietly complaining to those of us they know they can trust. Because of where my head is at the moment I may not be posting much or at all for a bit. I deal with enough negativity at work and I don't want to spread it here. My family/home is my happy little haven, even if we are stressed and worried and I'm going to take refuge here for a bit. I will still be online/around and checking email and everyone's wonderful blogs. Just need some down time. See you all, hopefully soon.
Jenn

Quiet

I have been quiet because I do not want to vent about work here (I could go on and on at this point and that is not something I am willing to do). The bronchitis is trying to come back. And Harmony has been a bit grumpy from teething. I am just very tired and worn out at the moment. I have been enjoying reading everyone else's blogs though. And there is the time spent with my little family to make the days brighter.
Plus Grandma is back from their trip to Cheraw, SC so Melodie will stop asking to go to Grandma's house and us having to tell her she can't because Grandma is away. And I think I am starting to ramble so I am going to say good night and I hope it was a good start to a new week.

For those who asked...two Melodie tops and one Harmony...the rest are in the laundry, same style just different material. Nothing much to say so I won't drag it out. Thank you to everyone for their comments and the followers :)

Happy Mother's Day!

Thank you & other stuff

Thank you for all the well wishes. I am feeling better, though still am not up to walking around our house outside with out coughing like crazy (landlord had to come work on our ac again since it stopped working in the middle of the night...85 inside it a tad too toasty).
Yesterday was wonderful, hubby and I took Mr. R with us to the flea market. We all had a good time and I got a beautifully sewn bag by a local woman for only $7(a steal). It already has my crocheting in it I am doing for Joy (making her a bag). We got lots of good veggies and some super lovely strawberries. We also made a few other stops for Mr. R as he wanted out of his house for a while.
Today has been long, but I finally got to sew. Joy is letting my borrow her sewing machine for a few weeks since she will be having knee surgery soon and isn't using it. I have sewn up three tank tops for Harmony and two tank tops and a dress for Melodie this evening. And the pattern is just free-hand on newspaper. Melodie loves hers and has a tank top on and the dress over top at the moment. She has asked me to make her baby dolls tops too. Might get to one or two of them tomorrow since they will be small and quick.
I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend!

Yuck & yum

It's now official..I have bronchitis and don't get to go back to work til Monday(thank goodness I have some vacation and personal hours tucked away). Keeping Harmony up last night sort of worked. She did go to bed with her sister after the prerequisite two readings of her chosen book for the night(mommy reads & daddy reads or she doesn't sleep well). But since yours truly evidently was wheezing horribly while sleeping and up and down coughing much more than I'd been...I kept waking my little angels up. Though they seem in good moods and grandma said they were good for her while I spent hours taking breathting treatments and xrays at the dr's office.
Now for the yum. Went to the local grocery store for my precriptions (still have to get more info to get one filled). They had blueberries and blackberries for $1.49 a small container...so we splurged and bought one of each. They are super delicious.
And I will be bad tomorrow. I have to go out for a prescription at work (only way to afford the darn thing). And we are going to stop off at the farmer's market on the way home(okay about a mile out of our way). I can't wait to browse what Indigo and Tyler Farms have and get some fresh fruits and veggies. Enjoy your Thursday!

Sleep?

Not much entertaining or interesting here. Still having trouble shaking a cough I picked up, but I probably would be better if I could get a little more sleep. I'm getting the feeling Harmony is to me what, Melodie is to her daddy. Melodie and daddy seem to run on the same sleep schedules and temperatures and if she gets tired she can take her daddy down for a nap with her. Harmony and I took a nap together this afternoon...I only wish I felt as good as she did when she woke. Though my sweet, little Harmony is still not wanting to go to sleep when the rest of us want to which is really wearing me down since I'm lucky to get 2 hours of sleep before I have to go to work. And the whole house is grumpy from lack of sleep(Harmony has a earsplitting set of vocals she knows just how to use). My goal is to keep her up till bedtime (no napping allowed) and see if it helps her to go to bed when she should. She was so good about going to sleep and only waking for milk when her little body told her it was a must for so long. Sorry for the ramblings of an over-tired mama. Hope everyone is having a great week and looking forward to an even better weekend.

Saturday

Nothing special going on or too report. I do live in an adult sleep deprived house though. Sweet, little Harmony has taken it upon herself to reduce her sleep and keep mommy and daddy up all night long. And by all night I mean she hasn't gone to sleep before 5 am the past 3 days. Last night or should I say this morning it was almost 6:30am before she passed out and was up by 11:30am. And she is still awake and happy and playing. I forsee a very long weekend ahead of me.
I have to say as much as I've missed Sara blogging I know she's been busy and overwhelmed and her most recent to posts have made me smile and feel much better about this blogging thing. Thank you, Sara for being you!