Amy

What the heck did Travis do on the Bachelor last night?? I can not believe he got rid of Sarah. I totally did not see that one coming. I really thought going into the rose ceremony it was any of the other three. Now I’m confused as to where his head is and I’m sort of thinking he is liking Sarah from Tennesse just because she is the most down to earth. But I’m not seeing much hope for any of the other three once they leave this. Not seeing any Trista and Ryan’s yet.

So I got a airbrushed tan yesterday. I was SO scared when I left there. My face was so dark, my teeth were shining. I didn’t even want anyone to see me. Scott saw me and said, I didn’t want you THAT tan. So I was really bummed all evening but I finally got my shower and most of it came off. And now, I have a nice tan left. My face doesn’t even looked like it got any which is good to me. I prefer my face mostly natural. My hands seem a little dark but I’m really happy with the rest. Very nice and even and not orange-y at all. I will probaby get it done again next week before we go out. No one warned me that the spray was so crazy cold though. The lady was really, really nice and professional and I didn’t feel uncomfortable at all being completely nude in front of her. Now, I have to psych myself up for a Brazilian wax. Yikes!

Lexi is cutting a tooth. Just her 7th one. Bottom left right beside the center ones. That would explain the irritability lately and maybe even the fever. She has slept through the night the past two nights too. Although I can’t say the same for Emma. She keeps getting up and wanting to get in our bed or wanting me in her room. It is VERY tiring and seemingly uncalled for. I can never figure out that she needs anything except that she just wants to be close to someone. And when you have a queen size bed and a 3 year old kicking you in the back, you just don’t want to snuggle with them at the moment. Scott actually gets pretty irritated and usually takes her back to bed when she falls asleep but I am so tired and wanting sleep, sometimes I would just rather have her in our bed.

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Lexi’s cold has gotten worse. I think it’s down in her chest now. Not sure if I should take her to the dr or not. I had left over antibiotics from December that don’t expire until next year and some breathing treatment stuff so I’m loading her down. Not sure if I should be giving it to her but I figure the dr wouldn’t do much else. So I didn’t go to church. We went to Mom’s to eat though and they let me take a nap. I didn’t get much of one but I did get an hour or two break in a big comfy bed. Mom still takes care of me 🙂 That’s exactly what I needed. I was stressed to the max last night. Had a little breakdown. Too many people needing too many things from me. So I holed up in my bedroom and watched an online sermon from my old pastor. It helped bunches and Lexi slept through the night last night so today I’m feeling much better.

Oh, yeah, go Steelers, right?? I don’t really watch football but since my parents grew up in Penn/MD, I’ve always felt a need to support them too. Since Lexi was sick and I didn’t go to church, I got to see the whole thing. Sort of boring for me and really bad half time but I did enjoy the Brown and Bubbly song! Is that really pathetic I wouldn’t mind hearing that again on the radio? The guy dancing at the end was so funny. And I loved the baby horse commerical. I literally had tears in my eyes at the end. OK, so I said I was emotional last night. Did I mention I did get my period the other day which would explain all the emotions I’ve been going through the past couple of days?

Grey’s was good but too medicine-y for me. Wished I could have had more stuff about them in there. Although I really liked Derek’s line, waiting for it to pass. And I guess Alex and Izzy getting back together was sort of a “development”.

Can’t wait for Bachelor tonight. Seems like the families are going to reveal some good stuff.

Oh, and you can go to Google Video to see all the Superbowl commercials.

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OK, things got at least a little better since yesterday morning. Scott woke up early to help me with the kids. But I was really wiped out so I went ahead and signed off of work at lunch yesterday. We ended up eating a late lunch out with Mom and then I took a two hour nap and then went to the gym. Yeah, that was nice. I felt mucho better after that. So I cleaned a small amount last night and this morning. Of course, you can’t tell a bit now. At lunch, D&D and family came over. The boys stayed with the kids to play while D&I went shopping for our V-Day dresses.

We had a really tough time finding dresses actually. Scott requested a short dress and apparently short, hot dresses aren’t in style now. Everything was right below the knee with some funky hem or really long like for prom. I finally found one in the junior department of Dillard’s of all places. It’s brown with a plunge v-neck, has some gold sequins at the bust line and then has some gathered fabric out of that and then it’s just straight down from the rest of the dress. It’s pretty short, falling 6-8?? inches above my knee. Best news of all? It was on sale for $30!! We went looking for shoes for me too and I found a pair of Guess shoes that were PERFECT but they were $95. I think I still might get them seeing that I only paid $30 for the dress. So we of course bought more stuff than the dresses. I got a pair of dress black pants, another pair of my new favorite Limited Jeans, two HOT pair of heels and a tank. One pair of the shoes are slip-on heels brown suede with some detail on the front. The other is zebra print with some leather on the top. D gasped so loud when she saw them on me that everyone in the store thought something had happened and looked at her. Needless to say she bought a pair of them too. So D had no luck finding a dress at the mall. We went to every store possible. On the way home we stopped at Ross just to make sure and she found a dress for $12.99, people! That is insane. It’s a cute strapless black dress with sequins at the top and these fluffy things on the bottom. She says she’s going to keep looking just in case but it was really cute on her.

So while I was at the mall, Scott called and said Emma had gone off with in-laws and Lexi was burning up with a fever. He gave her medicine and by the time I had gotten home, she was no longer hot and seemed ok. Not sure what that was about.

Oh, and I didn’t give Lexi any M&M’s before bed last night and she got up for just a minute at midnight last night and didn’t get up like she had been the couple nights before that so now I know no sugar before bed! I guess I learned that one the hard way!!

Scott went to S.’s house to watch Ultimate Fighting. Which, if I realized was not really just a guything, I would have asked Heather to stay with the kids while I went with him. Not that I care about Ultimate Fighting, I just thought it would be fun to hang out with everyone.

I’m guessing I don’t go to church tomorrow since Lexi had a fever. Which is a bummer. I’m stuck at home again. I really, really need to clean the house really well tonight. I know I would feel tons better in the morning. I’ll have to see if I can muster up the energy after I get off here.

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I am about to LOSE MY MIND. Lexi was up again at 12:30-2!! I had to bring her out to the living room and we watched tv for a little while, she drank some yogurt and just toddled around. She finally started laying down on the floor acting sleepy so I put her to bed about 2. And of course Emma had woken up and was with us. THEN, she woke up at 3 and we went through the same thing except I fell asleep in the recliner and she fell asleep in the floor. When Scott got home at 5am, we were still in the same places in the living room asleep. Emma had come out at 3 and had gone back to my bed and was still there. And they woke up at 8am! I am ill. I don’t want to work. I don’t want to fix breakfast. I’m not that tired I just need to get away!! Thank goodness it’s Friday. I think Mom’s coming to get the kids for a little while and Scott is off the rest of the weekend. I AM going to the gym today and tomorrow D & I are going shopping for our v-day dresses.

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Lexi has grunted and cried off and on the entire day. I knew she wanted M&M’s but wouldn’t give them to her because last night she was up twice wide awake. I finally gave in and gave them to her and she is HAPPY AS A LARK eating them, people. This is insane. Not a peep out of her since I gave her them. I don’t know what I’m going to do when she runs out of what I gave her.

Scott was wiped out today. He slept until 1 and then went back to bed I think at 2:30 until like 4. Nice to see ya today.

I’m thinking about taking off early tomorrow. But I got more work to do this afternoon and I guess it depends on how long that takes. I just feel tired of work this week and I’ll have enough hours as of tomorrow at lunch. I know some overtime would be good but I’m just not into it. Everyone is moving cubes tomorrow at work and I have a feeling it will be kinda crazy anyway and I won’t even be there.

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Lexi has a cold. Again. Right now it’s just a cold, nothing green yet. Nice intro to today, right?

Emma is at school right now, I have conference calls all morning. Scott is at the church for a security meeting.

He goes back on nights tonight. I hate when he is on nights. He becomes a cranky monster sometimes. And I’ve got the mornings by myself with the kids and can’t get a shower and get ready until lunchtime unless I make an effort to get things prepared the night before to do so in the other bathroom. And since I have to do bedtime with the kids by myself too when he is working nights, that rarely happens. Yeah, I’m happy about this.

Scott is getting his wisdom teeth out soon. He has a consultation in a couple weeks to do so. For some reason I thought about him getting put to sleep and it scared me. I never get scared when I think of me doing that and totally don’t get nervous at stuff like that but for some reason, I got nervous for him to do it. So hopefully they’ll get it done soon and be over with it.

I started a group for Christian Women on myspace.com. Did I mention it’s addictive? lol I don’t have the link right now, but I will post it. I’m planning on using it like an online bible study group thing. Maybe. Not sure what it will turn into if anything but I’ve been trying to find an outlet for some ideas I’ve had and maybe this is it.

I had an old friend email me today. I miss him lots and for some reason we’re really bad at keeping in touch over the past couple of years. He’s getting married in July–which I told him he would marry her like after their first date–and I think I was replaced ;).

Scott and I went to the gym together last night. Only second time. He showed me how to do the machines and I worked out my arms. I took him to the spinning room and we cycled for a few minutes and I showed him some of the stuff we did in class. I so wish he would go to class with me to see how hard it is! Lifting weights seemed so easy last night! Try to do jumping jacks and push ups at the same time, buddy! I’m jk, I know lifting weights can be quite a workout when you do right, which apparently I was not.

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I’m feeling agitated today. Not sure why unless I have PMS which quite possibly could be the case. Lexi was up at 4:30am. Yeah, that was fun. She ate and played for about an hour. Scott relieved me halfway through because he couldn’t go back to sleep and he knew I would. Which was right.

Scott is off with our youth pastor who wanted to buy some mace for his wife and they had to go to the Christian bookstore too. Good combination, huh? So Scott has to go help Mom this evening do an installation and it kind of ruins my gym plans. I may have to take them to Child Watch again if I want to go to the spinning class I was planning on going to.

Did I mention MySpace was addictive? LOL. I think I check that as much as I check my email now! I’ve caught up with people I haven’t seen for 10 years since high school. It’s weird actually.

So 6 of us are planning to go out for Valentine’s Day. I’m not sure if we’ll do it on Tuesday or go out Saturday. I’m guessing Saturday for babysitter purposes. I can’t wait! We’re supposed to go dress shopping this Saturday!

Bachelor was good last night. The teacher – what is her name – grew on me a little last night. I didn’t think there was anything between them but I could actually see them together last night though. Scott still likes Susan but I am pretty sure that he is already fallen for Sarah from Canada. I really don’t think Mulana is as bad as everyone makes her out to be. I don’t think she’s his type either but I don’t think she’s purposely mean.

Ok, Lexi is not napping, I gotta go get her out of her crib.

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Not so exciting day. Nothing bad, nothing good, just same ‘ol, same ‘ol. Emma went to school this morning. I worked all day. I actually worked really hard. I was ready to quit for the day by 3:30. So we went to Target and spent another $100 for no apparent reason :). Except I got a really cute bra/underwear/robe set. I went to the gym this evening. Tried Rock Bottom with a new instructor. And that instructor had a sub. I didn’t like this one quite as well. It was great for tonight because she added a bunch of cardio to it and I really need it right now but normally, I like a little more concentrated sculpting than what she did. I was going to stay for part of the spinning class too but they were out of bikes already. I came home while Scott went to the gym and gave the kids a bath and we’re watching our shows tonight. So, see, normal day around here.

I think I have another poem whirling around in my brain but I don’t think I quite have enough concrete ideas yet. Before last month, I never wrote poems but I have found it quite therapeutic.

Oh, and Lexi has been saying cracker the past couple of days. It’s more like ca-kah. But she says it the same consistently so that has made me feel better about the whole situation with her talking.

Emma got her first pair of actual tennis shoes today. I’ve always gotten her Keds as tennis shoes. But today she got some like my Nikes. She says they are the same as mine even though they are different colors. She looks so old in them though. She is really starting to lose her baby/toddler look. We bought her a capris outfit with flip flops that she picked out at JCPenney and she looked no less than 5 years old. It was heart-wrenching. I just couldn’t understand where my little baby went! I think in a way we’ve been so concentrated on Lexi growing up the past year we’ve not realized how much Emma has grown too. My baby!!

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