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Have you ever programmed something without thinking too much about what you’re doing. You understand what it’s doing just enough to program it. Then you test it and it actually works. I love that.

Scott is working today so that means lots less work getting done. I feel inspired to work, though, in our newly arranged living room (see extended entry for pics). I love that I can see all around the apartment from my little corner at the computer. And I like that Emma’s toys are right here by the computer now. I like that we have a kitchen table set up now. I like that you see the front of the couch when you come up the stairs. I really like it. Scott likes it too and he says we should have arranged it like this a long time ago.
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Ok, I really hate my picture plastered at the top of this page, so maybe I’ll post another entry to push it down.

We didn’t do anything spectacular this weekend up at home. We did finally get to visit with our friends D&D that has twin girls. The girls are still smaller than Emma even though they are almost 4 months older. They didn’t really play together, just around each other. I don’t think they are all old enough for that yet. D is starting to show as she is a couple months pregnant. I bought a pink necklace from her. It’s quite a weakness when I go over there. I usually end up buying one. She makes them just my style! I need to show some pictures of some she has done for me. Actually, she made that necklace I am wearing below with the green sweater.

Thursday night Emma locked herself in our bathroom. It was one of the scariest moments I’ve had with her. Just last week Scott and I were saying this was going to happen. Lately she has been closing doors. And often she closes herself in a closet, screams and I let her out. Thursday night I went looking for Emma because I didn’t hear anything (that alone spells trouble). Sure enough, the light was on in the bathroom, the door was shut and I couldn’t get in because she had also opened the first drawer with makes a block to the door. I could open the door about 1/4″ (maybe even smaller) but that was it. She wasn’t making a sound so I called into her. Nothing. I started panicking. I went into the closet and got a clothes hanger, just what I told Scott I would do if this happened and called Scott at work to tell him to come. I barely got the hanger in and somehow got enough friction on the side of the drawer to push it in. I still didn’t hear a peep out of her and when I got the door open she was sitting playing with a bag of makeup she had pulled out of the drawer. I was shaking all over for several minutes afterwards. I have no idea what we are going to do to prevent this. We need to have the door open the way our air ducts work and I think even with a drawer stop, it would still block the door. That can not happen again. My heart can’t handle it.

I did absolutely nothing at work today. Sat in meetings and training. I had hoped to get a lot accomplished while I was there. One meeting was quite constructive but that was it.

I ran into the previous branch manager of my consulting company. She left after we had our merger and the new company sucked the life out of her. She is starting the East Coast branch for a California company. We are trying to work out a way for me to work with her again. She is an absolute sweetheart. She actually cares about you and really cares whether you get placed in the right contract. I totally trust her with my job. And several people from our company have left to go work for her. I hope it will work out!

MIL had “the tone” with me tonight and I about jumped out of my skin. Ugh! Poor BIL has been taking the brunt lately and I haven’t had to hear it.

Ok, I finally got all of our W2s and then realized I haven’t gotten our interest income form from our bank. Argh! I did find some more deductions. Our return is looking quite good right now. I’m expecting $2500 or so. The thing is, we have no big plans for this money except we are saving for a new car this year or a house down payment. I guess those are big, just not immediate plans. I really don’t know why I stress myself about these things.

I bought the book The Strong-Willed Child for some wisdom on disciplining Emma. She is becoming more and more obstinate. I know this is normal for this age, but I’d rather get a handle on how we’re going to handle it now instead of when she’s 4 and uncontrollable. It’s funny, it’s these kind of posts that I think I’ll look back on and laugh.

Scott is sleeping from work last night and Emma is sleeping since we came back from church. Have I ever mentioned how much I like getting out at 11:15 instead of 12-12:15? It is incredible how much difference 1 hour makes.

Church was really good this morning. The pastor talked about a Christian’s view of the world. We should not be separated, in it, controlling it, but connected with the people of it. Jesus dedicated his life to people and that should be our purpose. Sometimes I wonder if Scott and I are going to be called to missions. I don’t know why I think that but then I realize we are all called to missions. Whether it is in Russia, Africa, or our own back yards, Christians are called to spread God’s message. I know, how corny and redundant that sounds, but the truth of the matter is I’m really tired of being hesitant or even ashamed to talk about it. Fear stops me from talking about the one thing in my life that is most important to me. It’s ridiculous and I’m a coward. You know, people are always talking about having tolerance and being proud of you who are. But most of the time, when they think of being tolerant of someone, they think of someone gay, or an atheist or just someone different than “the norm”. Well, you know, I need to be proud of who I am and be able to say that I’m a Christian (which by the way, is not so much “the norm” anymore. only 2% of my generation claims to believe in Christ) and yes, I do believe that I’m right about what I believe and I do believe people should not only be tolerant of me but even listen to what I have to say. I’m not saying I want to shout on the rooftops what I believe and “push it down people’s throat”. I’m just saying I want to have faith in my faith and not feel foolish about it or embarrased. I think I’m so busy being tolerant of others, I’m not even tolerant of myself.

Anyway, Scott brought me home his W2 yesterday. Yeah! Which I am happy to report looks like it’s going to be better than I thought as far as the return is going. And of course, now it is February 1 and I STILL do not have my W2 and it is driving me up the wall. It better come tomorow. I’m not quite sure what I’ll do about it, but… LOL

Oh! Dinner last night turned out really good! The roast was just as yummy as Mom’s. Even my dad commented that it was a good meal. And the cool thing was it was so easy to cook it in the crockpot! Anyone have any other good crockpot recipes?

Since my parents and sister are coming this evening, I thought I would make us some of my mom’s yummy pot roast. I knew it wasn’t hard but didn’t know what kind of meat to get. I finally found the chuck roast I was supposed to buy. I don’t know how many pounds it was, but it was like $14. And let me tell you, standing in line at the check-out, I felt like a woman buying that thing. I had a big piece of meat and I knew what to do with it! LOL