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.
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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?
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!
Mommyhood Unlocked
- ♥My favorite maternity pictures♥
I’ve had this blog set up since I got pregnant last October (2010), and I never got to use it. So I missed out on all the pregnancy blogging. But that’s ok, my pregnancy wasn’t special by any means. It was easy and smooth, so it wouldn’t have been very interesting posts anyway. But I’d like to start this with the birth of my beautiful baby girl Alanna Michelle. Also I would like to point out that when reading the name Alanna, we are choosing to pronounce it as ah-lawn-uh. We found it in an iPhone pregnancy app called Baby Bump while searching for names and liked the way it sounded. No special or sentimental meaning to it, except it’s not a name I hear very often and I like that. Her middle name, Michelle, has a deeper meaning though. It is the name of my Granny. She always watched me when I was little, and I thought this would be a good way to honor her since she’s sick and may not be with us much longer. I was the only granddaughter and now this is her first great-granddaughter. It just seemed right. But let me tell you, coming up with names is bard work! I mean this is a name that will stick with this child forever, so it’s got to be good. Any who, on with my story.
Alanna’s estimated due date was June 4, 2011. But when my doctor gave me the option for induction a week early, as long as I was already dilated 1cm, I went for it. I was ready to meet my baby girl, and so over being pregnant. Seriously, I was done with the swollen feet and only fitting into a small amount of clothes and being all around uncomfortable lol. It took a few days to get a date for me to come in since the hospital was a little busy and full. I guess everyone decided to give birth around the same time. A couple days later we had an opening and I took it.
So at 7:00am on Tuesday May 31, 2011 Mykal and I went up to the hospital to get a room and get this party started. I was so nervous, I’ve never been a patient in a hospital before, so I had no idea what to expect. They had a room ready for us when we arrived, and it was a pretty nice room. It had a tv and a couch and was decorated to feel like I was in a home. It was relaxing, which I guess is the emotion they were going for. It had a balcony area, but the doors were glued shut. That was actually a little disturbing. Did someone jump once and so they had to close it off? Or maybe it was so no one could go out on the balcony for a smoke? Who knows, but it was still a nice room. The only downside to it at all, was our tv. I know, I know, why should I even care about the tv when I’m there to deliver a baby? Well the tv would have helped distract me, not to mention I was being induced, and that can take all day sometimes. The picture worked, but the sound didn’t. We had the maintenance guy coming in periodically trying to fix it. But it didn’t matter, I had so many guests in and out of there all day, that I didn’t have time to watch tv anyway.
It was about 8:30 when they got me settled in and started me on the pitocin. I didn’t like this part at all. The pitocin wasn’t bad, just the fact that I had to have the needle for the IV in my right hand. Of all the places to put it, they put it in my dominant hand, I couldn’t really do much with my right hand the whole time I was there. More than that though, it hurt. I guess the back of the hand is more sensitive cause it was not a comfortable experience what so ever. Induction isn’t a very fast process. They would come in and up the pitocin a little bit every 30 minutes. The contractions were manageable and not really noticeable. Only way I could tell was by looking at the computer screen that was monitoring me. That is, until the doctor came and broke my water at noon.
Once it was broken, everything went pretty fast. My contractions became more frequent and far more painful. I was definitely noticing them now. Every time one came, I would grip the handle on the bed and my friend Gaby and my mom would look at me with sympathetic faces. I didn’t make a sound cause I didn’t want anyone to know how much pain I was in. I was trying to be a badass haha. But I guess my face gave me away, it would show the pain that I worlds hard to keep silent. The nurse came back go check my progress at 3:30pm and I was 4cm dilated. I was trying to hold out on the epidural as long as I could, but by now I was in so much pain I said screw it and told them I was ready for it. Getting the epidural didn’t really hurt, it just felt like a little pinch. It didn’t take long to go numb and it was a weird feeling to barely be able to move and control my legs. My progress was checked again at 4:30pm, and I was already 8cm! In one hour I went from a 4 to an 8, the nurse said that that was pretty fast. She came back to check me again at 5pm, and I was fully dilated! Whoa! Not long now! She told me that they wanted to give me another hour before getting everything ready to deliver, that way it would give Alanna more time to drop down more into the canal to make it easier on me. Around 6pm the nurses came back and said Alanna was lower and ready to go.
- ♥Our first moments with Alanna♥
I watched as they got everything prepped for the delivery. The room went from homely to a delivery room with the push of a few buttons and the wheeling in of a few carts. All the people that were in there with me had to go wait in the waiting room out in the hall. My mom and Mykal were the only ones that could stay with me. By about 6:15pm I was laying there with my feet in the stirrups ready to get things going. It was time, the pushing began. I didn’t even feel it thanks to the epidural, so the whole pushing was easy and painless. It didn’t take long, and at 6:42pm Alanna decided to make her debut into the world. Achievement unlocked: mommyhood. I couldn’t believe it! She was finally here! And she was so beautiful♥ She weighed 7lbs 8oz and was 21 in long. My little string bean. She came out looking just like her daddy, a spitting image. I was jealous. The only thing she got from me was her hair. She came out with a full head, and body, of hair! The world drifted away into a blur when they laid her on my chest to have Mykal cut the cord. All that seemed to be in focus was Alanna and Mykal. I was in awe. It was such a beautiful moment. Singlehandedly the best moment in my entire life. As soon as Mykal cut the cord they took her off me and went to clean her up and get all her measurements.
Now was the fun part . My doctor begins to get everything else out of me so she can sew me up, well here’s where we hit a snag. I was bleeding quite a bit and it wouldn’t stop. I was just hemorrhaging and losing a lot of blood. I was listening as my doctor talked to my nurses and I was so scared. All I could think was “oh god, this is it. I deliver this beautiful little girl and now I’m going to die from blood loss.” All I could do was cry and stare at Mykal holding Alanna a few feet away. He tried to calm me down by bringing Alanna closer to me so I could touch her. But I was still so scared. It took about an hour to get the blood clots I had inside out and stop the bleeding. By now I feel awful. I’m cold and shaking and hungry from not being able to eat all day. Finally I’m out of the stirrups and holding my precious miracle. They did have to give me an IV bag of medicine because I spiked a fever during the hemorrhaging.
I was so tired but it was now time for the family in the waiting room to meet her. They all come in and congrats go around the room and everyone looks at Alanna and says how beautiful she is. They try not to stay long knowing I was tired and that the end of the delivery was a bit rough. After everyone leaves, we get moved to a different room. Smaller, but still nice. The rest of the visit was nice and relaxing. I didn’t get much sleep because I’m stubborn and wanted to be awake with my baby girl the entire time. But I was ok, I knew me and exhaustion would be good friends for a while haha. I love my little Alanna. She is my world. My little blessing and I can’t wait to watch and see how she changes as she grows.
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