Double Duty

My DD's proving to be the biggest challenge ever and I'm being pulled in a bunch of different ways all the time. Right now we are working on potty training, bringing her speech up to speed and if I can throw in some word recognition that would be awesome but I'm not counting to highly on that. LOL I've started organizing and labeling things so she can see the words and hopefully they will be easier to recognize later on. I point out signs to her every where we go since she started noticing stop signs and now we're working on exit signs and what exit means. I'm not sure she gets it yet but she has a pretty good memory so I just pray it'll stick.

Too Much Furniture!

Our house is super cramped and walking around can become the most irritating part of the day. You end up weaving and moving things out of the way all the time. It always looks really cluttered because we have way too much furniture. It seems that there's a tendency to always cover each wall with furniture as if the wall shouldn't be showing at all. On top of that the stuff we have is too big for the scale of the rooms. The frustrating part is that most of it belongs to my mom and she won't do anything but complain how the house isn't how she wants it, she won't part with anything. After the 10 years or so that we've lived in this house she still forces up to sit in rooms that aren't comfortable thinking that that's the way it "should" be not how things actually are. Then she'll get mad when things get worn or ruined. Go figure. I would LOVE to get a TV show in here to makeover the house and help us get furniture that looks great and functions for us. I love the rooms I've seen done with contemporary sofas and modern accents. You'd laugh if you saw what we have now, it's TOTALLY opposite...and a little scary. LOL

New Paint

This winter seems SO long! I've been wanting to paint our bedroom and think I finally picked out a color but the longer I have to wait, the more times it seems that I change my mind. Normally I wouldn't care if it were cold or not I would do it anyway but since we share the room with DD I have to wait or we'll either die from the fumes or freeze to death. LOL I totally can't wait to paint and freshen things up though. It's amazing what such a small change can make in how you feel and I'm more than ready to start feeling better. ^_^

Back to Being

One of my cousins is a stage actor and last year he had an accident. It was really scary because he was hooked up to those wire things and fell or something and hurt his back. Everyone was really worried that he'd become paralysed or something awful. He lives in New York so he didn't even have family there to take care of him. My aunt was beside herself knowing something could be seriously wrong and there was nothing she could do about it. I don't blame her, I'd be in a panic too. It came down to him considering other alternatives if he didn't heal properly. So many people go outside the country to get surgeries that he considered doing the same thing and started looking at the options of spine surgery Mexico has. Thank God he didn't need to do all that but he is still in pain and will never be the same after that. We're all just glad that it wasn't more serious.

Starting Over

Since we've been kicked off of our crummy insurance I've been looking at free insurance quotes hoping that there's something out there that we can afford. We didn't have great coverage to begin with. I always worry that something bad is going to happen and we won't be able to afford what ever it is. Well, we can't afford anything now either so...LOL. Even with my new job things are still so tight that trying to cover everything we need is difficult. We've always been okay but over the last year like so many others things have gotten really bad. I swear this year will be different because I'm not sure how much more of this we can take!

Irritated

There's this chick i used to be friends with but I got really tired of her and her antics. She's one of those "one upper" people that can't stand it when the attention isn't on her. There's nothing that this girl won't try to "up" you on. Happy, sad, poor or lucky she always has to top you with some story that's more than likely made up. It's really annoying. For some reason I'm still "friends" with her on Facebook and I'm constantly reminded of what an irritating idiot she is. When there's a status game going on she can't ever play or just ignore it, she has to go all out saying crap about it and the people playing before she eventually plays herself so others will laugh or comment making her feel superior. I don't know why I torture myself by still having a connection to her, I think it's time for her to go.

Aging

There are all these products for colon cleansing and I really haven't understood it all yet. My stepdad read a few colon cleansing reviews and thought about trying it so he doesn't have to worry so much about that stuff but I don't get it really. Does stuff really just stay in there or does it get trapped and you have to clean it out? Does it really work? I thought that stuff that got stuck in there had to be removed by a doctor because it wouldn't just sit on the surface, right? See, I don't know much about that part of the body. LOL I'm reaching the age where I'll have to start worrying about all this stuff so my curiousity is starting to perk up a bit.