Archives for 2006

I got a lot accomplished last night. I took the girls with me to the Y. And I was right, Lexi cried off and on the whole time. But she was coloring (trying to anyway) when I got there and seemed happy. Emma said she cried a lot. Emma was playing in a playhouse with the other kids and acted like she didn’t even want to go. I had a great time. I tried a new class and new instructor and liked her a lot. She was not the one on the schedule so I hope she keeps teaching it. She acted like she taught last week and was going to do next week so I hope so. She did less cardio and more sculpting which is what I want.

Scott got home a couple hours early last night so I didn’t have the entire day with the kids to myself. I ended up doing some initial weekend cleaning. The hall bathroom was a mess so I totally cleaned that. The kitchen was a mess so I did everything but mop the floors. And I started washing clothes. Which might take all weekend. Ugh. I really have got to get a house cleaner back.

So tonight is the big scrapbooking party at my friend MO’s house. My sister is going too which totally makes me more comfortable going. I don’t know why I would be umcomfortable except that they may be drinking. I am SO sheltered when it comes to that. Which I’m grateful for but I kind of don’t know how to handle myself. Not sure if there is really anything TO handle but I know there is some uncomfort there when people are drinking around me. Anyway! I hope tonight will be a lot of fun. I think one of our other out of town friends, MM, is coming too. And, I think MO is working on a high school scrapbook so it should bring back lots of memories. And maybe, just maybe, I’ll get some scrapbooking done.

Today at work A and I talked quite a bit. It’s like we got out in the open that we respect/like each other and now we can just be ourselves. It’s not like G & I kind of talking so don’t think that! I just feel like I have a friend now that will last past our jobs and that’s cool.

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Scott is gone all day today. He left at like 4:30 this morning and won’t be back until after 9 tonight. Long day. He had to go to Spanish class for work in Myrtle Beach. Fun, fun. I’m determined to go to the Y tonight though because I didn’t go last night. I think I’m going to have to break down and put the kids in Child Watch while I go. I wouldn’t mind it so much if Lexi did better in there. But she usually cries on and off the whole time. Emma does well. They have a tv and she usually sits down to watch it when I leave and when I get back she’s usually talking to another little girl.

I’ve started to think about Valentine’s Day. I think I want to make this one special. Usually we don’t put too much effort into it. But I think we need to this year. I was thinking of getting a new dress and going out nice to dinner. Not sure after that…I was even thinking about getting D&D to go with us and maybe even J&W and making a big to-do out of it. It would be nice to get dressed up and go somewhere. I just want Scott to know I love him and feel special instead of letting him do everything.

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Today was good. I went into work. Things seemed back to normal. It felt good. I wasn’t having to try so hard to, I don’t know, restrain myself. This evening though is harder. Me and Lexi are here, I wouldn’t mind someone to just to talk to. But I’m not sure if I trust either of us still. So here I am. Talking to myself again. Today at lunch the guys were all talking about some girl at work who apparently struts by all their desks when she goes by and today her thong was showing. After we got back to our desks, another guy at work A says you should have Mr. Work, let’s call him G from now on, show you that girl. Let me know if we’re crazy. I said, yeah, I want to see her and see my competition. He said, no competition, your gorgeous. And then he said he liked coming to lunch (he moved groups and we arrange to have him meet us to go when I go to the office) OK, how sweet was that?? I am such a sucker for compliments. Of course, that’s what got me in all the trouble I was in to begin with. But really, no men have ever come straight out and told me I’m even pretty. Except G, and Scott of course. And to hear I’m gorgeous…well, it just makes my day.

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This is being posted for all those developers who are running out of process exe in an asp and keep getting the nasty error:

Server object error ‘ASP 0178 : 80070005’
Server.CreateObject Access Error
testOOP.asp, line 12
The call to Server.CreateObject failed while checking permissions.
Access is denied to this object.

Please refer to this article which I found through this link.

Basically, you need to add IUSR account to the default permissions in the DCOM settings. Another developer and myself worked on this issue literally for hours until I finally came across that article.

I just read Emma two books while I’m working. She says Mommy, come play with me. I said, I can’t, I’m working. She says sadly, OK, I’ll go play by myself.

Man, that’s when you feel crappy for being a WAHM.

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Work ended up really good this afternoon. Something I’ve been waiting on for 6 months finally got done. Now I have something to do tomorrow. Wahoo!

I didn’t get to go to the gym tonight and I’m pretty bummed. D ended up going early and I had planned on MIL watching them but she missed my email this afternoon and didn’t come. The good news is I stayed home and got the girls a bath and into bed early. I’ve been working on my gallery web site. Apparently there is a new version of the software I use out so I upgraded and have been playing with some of the new features. It’s pretty cool actually.

Emma is so funny when she tries to use words she hears. We went to my mom’s shop tonight and went into one of the bathrooms. There are two rose colored shaggy bath rugs in there. Emma says, OOO, pink rugs, they’re adorable! Never heard anyone call rugs adorable, but ok. I heard her say something about using her imagination tonight too. And the other day she said we needed to look at the instructions. Pretty big vocabulary if you ask me.

I put Beauty and the Beast on in the van on the way back from the shop and I think Lexi got scared when the wolves started attacking Papa. She kept squirming and sort of acted like she was going to cry. I immediately skipped that part and she calmed down after that. I felt so bad for letting her watch it.

So, we started talking about what we will do with our tax money. Here’s the list right now:

new bed for emma
fence
deck
refrigerator
google stock
floors
backsplash
countertop
dress clothes for scott
landscaping for the front yard
rebuild savings

Not nearly all of that will happen although we are getting a good amount back. Not sure how to prioritize all of that since nothing but the savings and sort of the refrigerator is a necessity. I guess we could have worse decisions to make.

Mr. Work was flat out ill today. According to him, bummed about the game last night. Not sure that was totally it, but it made it easy to be good today.

Scott is still not home. He requalified with 99% on his firearms. Gives you (maybe a false) sense of security knowing if he ever had to shoot a gun, it wouldn’t be a shot in the dark.

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This site is acting as my outlet at the moment. A place to talk to someone when I have only a 14 month old to talk to. Mr. Work would usually be in that role but he’s not logged in at work and even if he was, I’d be safer to talk here.

So the Panthers lost. Big Time. It was so pathetic. I just wanted the game to end. I had a small amount of hope at half time. We could get a couple touchdowns. Sure. By the end of the third quarter, I had lost all hope of making it to the SuperBowl this year. Thank goodness Grey’s Anatomy was on last night. My otherwise good weekend would have ended on a sour note. But, Grey’s saved the day. Mr. McDreamy lives. And Georgie. Aww. He’s so sweet and cute. I seriously doubt the writers will ever let Meredith and him be together but he deserves a woman. It’s odd how much I can relate to that show…work related relationships…yeah.

Scott’s schedule is crazy this week. He had to go to Columbia today and went in 5 hours late. Tomorrow he’s off when he would normally work. Wednesday he’s off but I’m going into work. Thursday he would normally be off but he has to go to Myrtle Beach for a Spanish class. And then he still has to work the entire weekend. I’m hoping I don’t go crazy by the end of the weekend.

Did I mention we watched A Lot Like Love on Friday night? It was a cute movie. We don’t watch a lot of movies anymore so I’m not a great critic. They couldn’t seem to understand why I thought Mr. & Mrs. Smith or Fun with Dick and Jane were both really good. Their only explanation is I haven’t seen many movies and I’m desperate and anything seems good.

Is it really bad that it is driving me crazy that Mr. Work is not logged into work yet? I know he’s downtown for meetings but still. He could at least say good morning.

So I’m getting a little concerned that Lexi says nothing very clearly. She’ll be 15 months in about a week. She totally

–The lady on the radio just said, I’m not even going to talk about the Panthers. We all know it was bad.–

understands what we’re trying to say which the dr. said that was most important but I thought she would be saying something clearly. She tries to say a couple things

no (nah-nah)
bye-bye (buh-buh or something)
Daddy (da-da)
Momma (ma-ma)
PawPaw (only when prompted)
MawMaw (only when prompted)
Emma (eh-mah) she’s pretty close on this one
Dora (door)
BackPack (ba-pa)
Dog (daw)
Belle (beh)

And she can do animal sounds for dog, cat, lion and monkey. She’s going to her checkup on the 14th so I guess I’ll just ask then.

Scott and I were thinking of going down to Myrtle Beach on Wednesday night and making an event of it. I was trying to figure out whether to take the kids which would totally be more stress than I would like having to take them in the car 3 1/2 hrs. both ways in two days and then I thought maybe I would have them spend the night somewhere and me and Scott just go but Lexi has never stayed with anyone else. I know she would be fine with someone but her routine with her bed is so engrained that I don’t know if she would actually sleep anywhere else. Even for naps, I have to come home and put her in her crib. No amount of rocking works. She wakes up if we take her driving. I think the only time she has had a full nap anywhere is one time at Mom’s when they wore her slap out until the late afternoon, took her in the car and managed to keep her asleep and put her on their couch. She will not go to sleep anywhere else. Which is a great thing for us that it is so easy to put her to sleep. But it makes it a little more difficult for her to stay anywhere else. And she has even done fine with someone else here to put her to bed. They just put her in her crib as usual and she’s out. I just don’t see any overnight vacations for us anytime soon. In fact, if we took her to Myrtle Beach I’m not really sure how I would get her to bed. I guess there’s good parts to a routine and bad parts.

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I’m looking for some new reads. Please let me know if you have any suggestions!!

Emma just said to Scott who is typing on his laptop, “When you’re done with your email, you can come play with me in my room.” Think we ever said that when we were 3?

Two things of interest…we have thought for a couple months that Lexi is left-handed. We are almost certain now that she is. She always moves a writing utensil to her left hand. When we were checking out at Wal-Mart last night she had the pen thingy and moved it to her left hand. She will move a fork to her left hand. It’s a pretty sure thing. Two of my dad’s siblings are both left-handed so it’s totally possible.

Also, Lexi hasn’t had a bottle in almost two days now. We tried Saturday morning and she refused. So I’m going with it. This morning when she woke at her normal 5:30am feeding, I just rocked her for a minute and put her back down. She cried for like 2 seconds and went back to sleep until 8:45. Yes! Next is the pacifier. I’m thinking that one will be harder. And I’m not even going to try to take that blanket of hers away. I carried mine to youth camp (didn’t ever use it like a “blankie”) so I have no room to make her give hers up.

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