Category: Diary

UGH. so first i find out that i have to get a new tree so i didnt get my tree put up until *Dec 16th* (only 2 weeks before xmas!!). then i go to walmart (in the middle of the night to avoid people, i really dont like going to walmart to begin with) and they don’t have any normal colored lights. just boxes and boxes of blue. are there really *that* many people that have blue trees? the one single multi box i found was not enough to cover the tree, so i started over today and went to a different walmart by the mall where i bought a 400 count set of multi lights. i open it tonight to put them on the tree, and they are white instead of green. ungh. so now im heading out to target in hopes that THEY actually have NORMAL xmas lights so i can finally decorate my tree!

update: so i went to target to get more lights. the lights ended up costing me $180 because i love target (so much pleasanter shopping there than at walmart) and found a ton more little gifts for everyone. i think i might be having trouble finding xmas lights because it seems that the thing to get now are the LED lights. target didn’t even seem to have the regular kind, just the LED ones. so i bought multi-colored, green wired LED lights. i dont like them. they are super bright like outdoor lights or something. it’s just too overwhelming. my favorite ones ever i got at walmart a few years ago where each bulb is two colors. splitting the bulbs in half like that actually make them even less bright than the regular ones and i think those are the prettiest because it gives the tree a subtle twinkley color instead of looking like youre hanging traffic lights from your tree. i think the blue bulbs are the worst ones so im thinking about getting an additional strand of clear and replaceing all the blue bulbs with white to tone it all down. for this year tho the tree is staying as is because im fed up. it’s one week till xmas and the tree is just now getting up and decorated. hopefully all the ornaments will distract from the bulbs.

ahhh i’ve really gotta start preparing for xmas in october and november. i feel like im going to lose it this week. i still have sooo much to do and i am *out of time*

lucas has the top quarter of his two front bottom teeth now. we got portraits done at sears and he is so freakin cute. i told paul we owe it to the world to have lots of babies since ours come out so cute.

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i don’t want to hear another word about paul’s mom and “oh i bet she’s so lonely and so sad…she’s all alone…” all that crap that makes me feel guilty that we don’t pay any attention to her. i wnet out of my way and out of my shell to talk to her, locate a therapist that speaks korean and is familiar with the korean culture to meet with and try to mend the relationship between the family, and she doesn’t even care. if she doesn’t care to fix things then she is obviously doing just fine and doesn’t need us. since i already typed all this out to lauren in IM, i’ll paste it here.

so i was watching Definitely, Maybe on tv. in it ‘will’ finds ‘april’s’ book jane eyre at the used book store and gives it to her as a gift. it reminded me of the movie Serendipity where the guy gets the special book as an ironic wedding gift and it made me want to watch it. when the movie ended i scrolled thru the movie guide for something else to watch, and ta da – serendipity was playing! odd coincidence considering the movie is from 8 years ago.

[ser-uhn-dip-i-tee]

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so last month around halloween i received a blank postcard in the mail. the cover is a cat painted like a skeleton. the address label is typed and the postmark is a prepaid sticker. nothing written…nothing to say who or where it came from. it was weird but then i forgot about it.

today when i got the mail i had *two* more. same thing…a blank postcard with a picture of a painted cat on the cover. we thought we had a lead when one of them happened to have a stamped postmark saying boston. but stephanie claims no knowledge of these mysterious postcards.

it is so weird. who is sending me blank postcards?

http://www.whypaintcats.com

yesterday mom was over with lucas while paul and i were at the doc. then mom and i watched The Ugly Truth. when paul went to take lucas upstairs for a nap, mom waved bye-bye to him and lucas waved back! he was trying to move his arm up and down and flex his fingers to copy the motion that mom made. i might have passed it off for a fluke, but then he did it again later for me! same situation, paul was holding him and i waved bye-bye to him and he waved his arm back at me!

i slept alllll day today. i don’t know if it was from the meds or being sick or both or what. in the few hours of awake time i have had, i’ve been “being scrappy” as i like to call it. paul mentioned that dr duff and frank’s wife jennifer were talking about scrapbooking at dinner friday night (the one i didn’t get to go to–oh and apparently mrs duff dragged dr duff to the midnight premiere of new moon, too lol) and paul asked how much of lucas’s i had done. i realized i am very behind on his as i haven’t finished anything past 3 months old so i’ve been working on getting some new pages put together. i need to go buy a 3 ring album like the london book i have rather than these little post bound books that dont hold very much. i just wish they had pretty 3 ring ones instead of just solid leather ones.

i had a dream last night that mady and cara were in my girl scout troop. that they always had been and i never thought anything of it. then Tina, the assistant leader, said she could only come every other meeting and that Jon would be taking her place. then i was thinking how that would mean there would be cameras at the meetings and stuff and i was all freaking out.

so i’m upstairs getting some ice cream (the only perk of being sick) and as i’m trying to open the tub, somehow i manage to pinch the palm-side of my pinky btwn the carton and the counter painfully.

i go downstairs an eat my ice cream at my desk. when done, i get up to take away the bowl and when i turned my office chair i managed to pinch the same pinky btwn the chair arm and the desk painfully and tearing the skin a little on the top side of the pinky.

*sigh*

paul and i went to wellstar this morning while mom watched lucas. i’m negative for strep throat, but my throat is inflamed or something and i have now completely lost my voice – lucky paul. i was given some kinda nasty tasting steroid pills to take over the week. *knock on wood* so far lucas has not caught my cold from me.

lucas is now 27 weeks old. he still sounds so little when you say it like that

haha lucas literally said “ga-ga” to me today. maybe he likes Lady Gaga?

on the 15th lucas started reacting to us leaving him – by crying. he was looking at paul, and paul walked out of the room, and lucas started to cry. so now if he sees either of us leave he gets upset. if he doesn’t see us leave, he doesn’t notice/realize so we just have to distract him before we walk out.

yesterday was the first day he got up on his hands and knees and started rocking. this is something i read about in my baby bulletin last week “Your baby may also be getting up on all fours and rocking back and forth. He is trying to gain the strength he needs to start crawling.” paul saw him do it during tummy time yesterday, and when i came in to get him up this morning he was doing it in the crib. soon my baby will be crawling away and won’t want me to hold him anymore 😦