Paul's Poop

Unknown flying objects…

1.  Holy poop, if we get another robo tele-marketer call then I may disconnect the land line.  At least when it was a real person then you could get satisfaction by hanging up on him or making him/her really uncomfortable.  And I’m pretty sure I signed up for the national no-call list.  Thanks for nothing President Bush/Obama/Alien Overlord, whoever.

2.  I still hate my job but I’ve made peace (reese pieces, lol wut?) with the fact that unless I sleep with the CEO’s wife, slap his family, and kick his dog in the testicles that you really can’t get fired.  I will take the perks of my job – working from home, decent benefits, and no expectations that you’d actually do work and deal with it.  It also helps that I can code faster than 99% of the people at my job.  I know that this sounds really arrogant but I mean in it a way that my previous jobs required me to code faster.  Because ya know, they had deadlines and didn’t like to be late on every project.  So I guess I should say that I work at a faster pace because previous jobs made me not because I’m any good.  Okay, that just made me sound retarded.  Might as well stick with that sentence then.

3.  Just to let everyone know that my blood pressure (because work makes me take it) is 118/79.  That is pretty good especially for a person whose Mom has hypertension.  I also never knew that high blood pressure over time hardens the walls of your arteries which is bad.

4.  Bad Michael Jackson joke that Matt told me…

When Farrah Fawcett got to heaven Saint Peter told her that she gets one wish for the world…

She said, “Keep the children safe.”

Then Michael Jackson died…

Diary

Smiles

today lucas smiled at me 😀

hes been smiling for several weeks, but today was the first time he was smiling cause he was reacting to me.

it started off that he would smile a little half smile in his sleep when he was content. that was as early as one week old. then around 5 weeks old he would smile when we were holding him after his bottle and hed been looking at us and hed crack into a grin. but these smiles were all on his own. today i had him on the changing table and i grinned at him and said “hi baby!” and he smiled back at me in response to me smiling at him and not just cause he was grinning at his own inner thoughts.

Diary

this week

ive spent the past two days formatting all my diary entries on this site from 2005 to now, printing them, and gluing them into my physical diary so that ill always have them. esp since i had only written on here and not actually in my diary since like 2004. it was about 80 full size pages – 160 diary size pages worth of stuff. a couple of times i had recorded my schedule so im going to try to remember to do that tomorrow for comparison.

weds was paul and my’s 3 yr anniversary. as luck would have it, my new laptop was delivered that day! its beautiful. paul had also bought me the Sims 3 even tho we had said we werent doing presents this year (paul made a sim of me and gave it the neurotic trait – hmph). then mom watched lucas while paul and i went to melting pot for dinner and paul had got me flowers. it was a very enjoyable day 😀

on monday (22nd) matt and sarah got married in vegas. i was out with lauren, jana, and kristie to go to dinner/movies (The Proposal), but they had a 24 hr webcam feed so i was able to watch it when i got back home. they got back from vegas thurs and had a party at their house friday night. again mom watched lucas so paul and i could go out (i am sooooo glad my mom lives nearby and not in another state and soo glad that paul works from home or theres a good chance i wouldnt set foot outside my house this whole first year). we didnt stay very long tho cause it was all people from matt and sarahs works that we didnt know and you know how i am about being around people i dont know.

steph is coming home this weekend and we are going to a 4th of july bbq at dads house. grandmother stone will  be there….

speaking of neurotic, im packing up the newborn clothes and swapping them out for the 0-3month size. he can still squeeze into the newborns, but i decided it was time for something a little less snug and something new. i was going thru his pix tho and noticed that most the pix are just him wearing the little undershirts and you dont see too many of his cute outfits, so my mission is to get photos of him in all his newborn clothes before i pack them away.

lucas is definitely tracking movement now. tonight i was walking around the bedroom and his eyes would follow me as i walked back and forth and hed turn his head when i went across the room to watch me.

Diary

im bored

OMG im so annoyed. i typed all this stuff and it got deleted. GRRRR.  paul your laptop sux.

ok so what i was saying was that i should read medicine boxes before i take pills. today i was having a sneezing fit so i took two benadryl cause the front of the box said it was for sneezing. apparently the back said may cause “marked drowsiness” but i didnt read that part and ended up sleeping like the whole day today. not that it really matters cause i like sleeping, esp since i have nothing else to do with my life without a computer to play on and i cant watch tv cause paul doesnt like anything i try to watch. he got especially annoyed tonight when i tried to watch High School Musical.

so we didnt go to rebeccas wedding tonight cause mom ran off to hilton head and i had been planning on having her watch lucas. i felt guilty not going cause i had rsvped that i would and i felt obligated to go. but by not going we saved $300 since paul had to buy a new suit and i would have had to go get a new dress as well. oh well, i doubt theyll miss me.

i bought some new CDs tonight. theory of a deadman, hinder, rev theory, slipknot. my new laptop will have a CD burner in it so i can actually make all the CDs that i promise people.

my fridge is on the blink. my milk kept going bad which virtually never happens to me cause i drink so much milk. i thought since i have been eating less cereal these days (in favor of sausage egg and cheese biscuits) that i wasnt going thru it fast enuf. but then i noticed other stuff isnt as cold as it used to be and the ice cream in the freezer, while still frozen, is soft. this sux cause i was just about to buy a new dishwasher and i still hafta pay for the carpet. knock on wood that the washing machine holds out for now so i can pay off some debt. ive been watching the HGTV home shows and get jealous of their kitchen makeovers. im thirsty.

Dreams

WOW

last night i had a dream that we were all going to play wow – like IRL. there was some floating mob thing i was trying to attack but couldnt figure out how to kill. so i said to it, out loud “i cast smite on you” but smite wasnt working so i went shadow and said “i cast shadow word pain on you”. then i discovered lauren had a wow board game that she was playing and i was mad she didnt tell me about it cause i would have wanted to play that with her instead of standing around saying “i cast smite” which is just lame. then my dream shifted and i was on the computer at my old desk in my room at dads house and i was playing horizons again, only they had majorly updated it and made it way cooler.

i also have a vague memory of another dream i had had where i was at the mall and it was closing time so the stores’ gates were half down but i slipped into perfect place real quick looking for hello kitty stuff, but they only had like two hello kitty items for sale !?

Paul's Poop

Another installment of, "This sucks, I'm at work"

I emptied out my cube last Wednesday because I hate having anything that identifies me at work.  I figure when they either fire me for calling someone an idiot or lay me off because they vastly underestimated the severity of the recession; I won’t have to tote 15 boxes to the car and take the walk of shame 15,000 times.  Enough with all these wonderful thoughts…

Lucas managed to sleep 4-5 hours in between feedings yesterday and going by what I remember only fed about 6-7 times yesterday.  He was able to eat 4-5 ounces at each feeding which is a good thing for everyone.  As much fun as it is to get up every 2-3 hours and feed him, it’ll be nice to get a little more uninterrupted sleep.  SO KNOCK ON WOOD.  KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK.

Additionally, the current recipe for getting Lucas to sleep:  Swaddle him tight enough that he can’t flail his arms and legs.  Give him a pacifier.  Check for additional crying.  If crying then make sure swaddle cuts off circulation to his brain.  Next, check if he wants some more food.  If no more food then check for wet/poopie diaper.  Next, re-swaddle and place in bouncer with pacifier.  This works;  for now.

Diary

Firsts

Last night Lucas had his first real bath (as in he was in a tub full of water instead of the sponge baths you give newborns). He actually seemed to be enjoying it until we got his head wet to wash his hair. If the computer will stay on long enough today ill post some pix.

this morning he said his first word…in baby language. he said “meh” which in English means: whatever, blah, boring, F that shit. definitely takes after his father. actually it was probably just a random sound to accidentally fall out of his mouth and has nothing to do with any advanced developmental genius.