It’s been about a month since I last blogged. A lot has been going on that I just haven’t found the time to sit and blog, not to mention that when Ally sees the laptop out she runs right over and starts pushing as many buttons as possible haha. So basically if she is awake, then no laptop. I started a part-time job around the time I posted my last post, and since then I’ve been trying to put in some extra hours. Those credit cards aren’t going to pay themselves, though that would be great if they did. A good friend that I’ve known since elementary school got me in at his job, which goes to prove, once again, that it’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Lucky for me I know a lot of people. Because I know you are dying to know where I work, I’ll just say that I work in a senior living home in dining services. Which has its ups and downs, but that’s a post for another day, today I’m just playing catch up.
Tag Archives: Life
11 Months Already?! How Can This Be?
Oh my gosh! How did this happen?! Where, oh where has the time gone? Ally is 11 months now and on the 31st she will be a year. A year! It’s just so hard to believe. It feels like only yesterday that the nurses were handing her to me and I was holding my sweet baby girl in my arms for the first time. A lot has happened since then, and she’s grown into quite the little determined and inquisitive drama queen. She began walking last week, I was so proud. It was just so amazing to watch her let go of the couch and take off to her play area without any help. Now she’s walking all over the place. I love it! But I know that this just means that there’s more trouble for her to get into, and I’ll need to take baby proofing and turn it to toddler proofing. Yea, good luck with that. Haha. This month will be a busy one. I’m working on her first birthday party, and of course I want it to be perfect. I have a vision in my head and now I just need to make it a reality. Her theme will be Alice in Wonderland, and I’m just so excited! My little Ally in Wonderland, she will be so adorable! I can’t wait!
Life Is Good and Always Getting Better
Hello there, friends! More exciting things happening in the world of Sam. Remember when I mentioned that I was a community manager for Talking About Games? Well, it’s gotten even better. I was asked to be a host on the Talking About Gamers podcast! Sure these things may sound silly to some, and it may be even sillier for me to be so excited about them, but I am absolutely thrilled. I really do love video games and the whole gaming community, and these things just let me embrace that and be more involved with it all. Sure I have been a little apprehensive with it all, I don’t want to intrude on anything. But I think I am going to try to be a bit more outgoing with it. If I cross any lines, I’m sure they’ll tell me. Who knows, maybe the podcast will help with Likes and Followers for TAG. Our first recording will be this Sunday. I am excited and nervous. I hope I do a good job. I better start playing a few new games so I can be up to speed on it all. Continue reading
Hello Again, It’s Been Too Long
Hey there, so we are going on like, what, a month of no new posts? Sorry about that folks. I’ve been meaning to post something and then things just get in the way or I am too tired to do so. There have been a lot of changes going on lately and I’m still adjusting to it all. I guess I could just go ahead and get you up to speed on things. Ready for a mini novel?
Here Fishy, Fishy, Fishy
Seems like the only time I have time to write is when every one is asleep, but by then I’m so tired I just want to crash out as well. I guess that’s the life of a working mother. That’s ok, Ally is totally worth it. While this isn’t the post I wanted it to be, it is something. That has to count right? I’m still working in a couple that I’ve been wanting to post for a week now, hopefully I’ll find some time in the next couple days to finish them up and deliver them straight to you with a big red bow.
Quick update time! Continue reading
The Cup Half Full
Good morning everyone!
I am in a particularly good mood today. Not really sure why, but I feel like I have a special appreciation for life today. Maybe it was because my father in law came to stay with us for the past couple days. Maybe it is because Ally woke up with such a smile on her face that it always melts away my problems. Or maybe it was simply the good bye kiss Mykal and I exchanged this morning before heading off to work. Any way you look at it, it’s a good day to be alive. Heck, it’s a good day to be me!
I know I said that my next post was going to be about gamer girls, but I am still working on perfecting that one. I can be a bit of a perfectionist sometimes, which is funny because I am also a procrastinator. A procrastinating perfectionist… sounds like an oxymoron to me. That’s ok, I’m pretty sure I’m a walking contradiction sometimes. *In my best little girl voice*: It’s what makes me special!
Happy Holidays!
Holy massive followers Batman!
Let me first say how shocked and excited I am right now. Last night I was making some alterations and adjustments to my blog, and I noticed that the subscriber section said I have 97 subscribers! I’m super excited about that. Yes, I said excited, I lead such an interesting life right? Haha. Seriously, thank you to all of you who have subscribed! I really appreciate it.
Now onto more ramblings. Continue reading
Miss Fussy Britches
I don’t know what’s going on with Ally lately. She seems fussier than normal. She fights her naps, kicks her legs and bucks when you lay her down, and just seems all around miserable. I hope she is teething that way I’ll have an answer for this random behavior. She’s always been so good and calm. Maybe I’m bragging about her too much and it’s jinxing me? It makes me feel like a bad parent for not. Ring able to soothe and calm her. I feel even worse when I pick her up from my dads and they say she was a good little angel all day. Does she just hate me? Are they exaggerating so they look like super grandparents? I just don’t know. But I’m going to lean towards teething to make myself feel better about the situation. Oh well, either way, it’ll pass and she will be my happy baby once more.
I want to send out Christmas cards of Ally to everyone. I fear it may be too late, but oh well, I can make them “Happy Holidays” cards so they cover new years as well. Continue reading
Mother. Wife. Gamer.
I always start a post but by the time I get around to finishing it, it’s either no longer relevent or I’ve lost my train of thought. I am going to attempt to do this in one sitting. Please Ally, stay asleep. Anyhoo, a few new things have been going on as of late. Nothing to stop the presses about, but I’m going to tell you about it anyway. To spite you! Bwuahaha! (That’s my evil laugh, just for future reference). Ok, I’m not really evil. I mean you can always not read it if you want, it’s not like I hijacked your computer while you started reading this and made it stay here until you finished… or did I? *Dramatic prairie dog face*
I guess I can start with Ally’s 6 month check up on Thursday. We, or rather I, decided that I wanted Ally to have a female doctor, instead of the male doctor that we were assigned when she was born. He was a nice enough doctor, but I spent more time waiting in the front waiting room and in the examination room, than I did talking to the doctor or his nurses. It was just a little too dingy for my taste. So I found us a new pediatrician. She is very sweet and I liked how she did her check up. I was really impressed with them overall. They gave me a courtesy call to remind me about the appointment and everything. This may sound crazy that I am excited about that, but our last pediatrician did not ever do that. The nurses at this new place were great. Super friendly and made me feel welcome. The location of this place is in a very good neighborhood, so that made me feel even better about our choice. I am probably going to run out of adjectives for how great this place was compared to our last pediatrician. The waiting room was painted like a jungle with trees and animals and had a lot of elbow room. The examination room was bright and colorful with hearts and animals all over the wall. Very cheery place. So I think we have definitely found our new doctor. Now onto the results of the visit. Ally is now 16.7lbs and 27 inches long. My little girl is growing so fast! She is in perfect health and progressing just fine. I couldn’t have been more pleased with how good she is doing.It really is amazing to watch her grow and learn. Makes me feel all warm inside.
Whoa, that was a little all over the place. Hmm… maybe blogging while sleepy isn’t a good idea…? Eh, screw it, you probably stopped reading it after the first sentence anyway. Lately, I have been having a bit of insomnia. Either that or I have realized I am a night owl and not an early bird. Maybe a little of both. I get stressed and wired at night and this sudden burst of energy comes out of no where. Usually it is to clean. Random right? This is when I go all Superwoman and clean the house from top to bottom. I did this Friday night and Mykal woke up and was pleasantly surprised at how the house was in order. I guess I’m also like that because Mykal works so hard that I want to make it feel equal. This is why I would make a great housewife. One day this could be a possibility. I’ll be waiting for that day. For some reason work has been stressing me out lately. It adds to my insomnia. So does bills and a whole bunch of other things. But enough of this random bunch of words. No, this doesn’t mean you can stop reading, it just means I am switching from household talk (or lack there of), and taking a turn on to geeky street.
I’ll admit it to anyone, I’m an achievement whore. I can’t help it. I love to see my gamerscore go higher and higher, and when I see scores higher than mine, it makes me want to run home to my xbox and get to playing. Currently I am 100 points shy of 13,000. I want to get that last 100 so I can be at a nice round number. I also want to go through and fully complete each of my games. That means get every single achievement. Easier said than done, but I am going to try anyway. For the past day and a half, I have been obsessed with Stacking. It’s a xbox live arcade game (and pretty sure its in the PS marketplace as well) that I got on sale a couple of months ago. I finally got around to playing it, and it is fun. I really liked it. It’s about a little boy who had his brothers and sisters taken away to do child labor and he goes to rescue them and bring down the evil Baron. You are a little Russian stacking doll that can jump into other Russian stacking dolls and use their abilities to solve puzzles and get closer to rescuing your family. If you haven’t tried it, I highly recommend it. I’m about to start the expansion for it called The Lost Hobo King. I’ll hopefully get to it tomorrow. Next mini game on my list will either be Ms. Splosion Man or maybe Super Meat Boy, they have both been out for a while, but I didn’t play a lot while pregnant. I also need to get some play time in on Assassins Creed Revelations. I have it, but I was finishing up Batman Arkham City before I started it. I can’t really play more than one big game at a time, I feel like I’m not fully invested in it do. My “to play” list is huge and I;m hoping that I will be able to change that list into my “already played” list.
Well, that’s enough late night blogging. I can feel my fingers get sluggish as they aren’t flying across the keyboard like they normally are. Until next time!
Respect. Self Love. Compassion.
So lately, I’ve decided that I need to be more comfortable in my skin. That I need to love myself and my body the way it is. I see all these young girls, who look great, worrying about their weight. I don’t want Alanna to be that girl when she grows up. I want her to be happy with how she looks. She is gorgeous. This means I need to set the example. I need to embrace my body, no matter what. I do have a horrible self image, but I am working at changing this. Every time I look in the mirror, I criticize what I see. I’ll tell myself horrible things and then when I’m on the verge of tears, I tell myself the suck it up. I’ve always hated how I looked. I’ve never felt very pretty. And when I do feel pretty, it’s only temporary and is gone as quickly as it came. I blame society for its skewed vision of what “perfection” is. A woman is perfect as she is. No matter how she looks. She is a human being and thus perfect.
To help Alanna, I have decided words such as “fat”, “chunky”, “thick”, “gorda”, and anything else that is negative, shall not be used around her. I don’t use those words to describe people anymore either. No more mean jokes. I have people in my family who think they are fat or ugly and I hate that they feel this way about themselves. Any jokes I would make would only be negative towards someone else. Putting someone else down. How would I like it if people were doing that to my family members? I wouldn’t and neither would you. I just don’t want to make fun of people. It’s not nice and all it does is send more negative energy out into the world. The world needs more positive energy, but if we continue to treat people horribly and talk down to them, then this will never happen.
I think Alanna has been the one to bring about most of this change, if not all of it. When I see people in public, I have an out of body experience and I try to image what they may deal with on a daily basis. Surely, some of them have the same worries and concerns I do. I am courteous to others, because I would want them to be courteous to me. It’s funny how this is a cardinal rule that almost no one obeys anymore. “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”. Not in this world. With technology being how it is, it’s very easy to say what you want and put others down. You never see the faces of these anonymous screen names, so you don’t think of the consequences. This may all sound like I’m rambling, and it could be true, I do that a lot, but let me try and bring this back around to my first paragraph to make sense.
Respect. Self love. Compassion. These are traits I wish to teach Alanna. I feel the younger generation has lost its way among the busy Internet highway and forgotten what humanity is like. I know, I know, how can I preach on my soapbox when I too, am on the interwebs posting this? Well, the best way to get any message across is to post it where the busiest place is. Hello Internet. And I don’t care if anyone actually reads this, sure it would be nice, but I do this to cleanse my own soul. And if someone does read it, and they become inspired in anyway, then I’ve done a good job in the world.
So until my next ramble session, please stop and think before you do or say anything, it could be the most important thing you do for someone else.
❤
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