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[Wednesday
01/08/20 at 11:42am] |
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[Wednesday
11/25/09 at 3:37pm] |
I wish you could see me now
I wish I could show you how
I'm not who I was
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[Monday
11/23/09 at 5:05am] |
Reo speedwagon was this past saturday.
I was soooooo excited about it, but I have to admit, I was disappointed.
They played alot of songs from when they first started, so I wasn't able to sing along like I thought I would have been able to.
and, the singer is itty bitty.
I thought he was going to collapse if he sang too hard.
Even though reo let me down, I was thoroughly impressed with the other two bands.
Night Ranger and Styx.
They were absolutely amazing. They made a great show.
and I think I now have a crush on one of the singers of styx [the one that plays the keyboard]
He was a great entertainer with an amazing voice and I think if he was younger, would be very attractive [maybe not though]
I miss being crafty.
I have not knit, crocheted, or sewn anything in months.
Show me a picture of something you have made or something you would like to make!!!
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[Saturday
11/14/09 at 10:53am] |
Melody has bronchitis.
She has to take a breathing treatment every 4 hours and it has been rough.
She is getting better, but it has been a rough way there.
Sean [one of the managers at work who is transferring stores] called me a few nights ago asking if I am up for working at his store next thursday and friday.
Of course I'll do it, as long as I am not working at my own store.
He worked it out with Thomas, our new manager, so I am working thursday and friday and sean's store and there is a possibility that it may become a permanent thing.
I am very excited about this.
I get the best of both worlds.
It isn't a definite yet, but I am excited about the possibility.
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[Sunday
09/27/09 at 9:50am] |
I have stalled when it comes to making things.
I have so many projects lying around that I can probably finish in a day, I just have so many other things to do.
Melody sits up now!
She can't get to a sitting position by herself just yet, but she can balance herself for a while!
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[Friday
08/21/09 at 7:31pm] |
Brandon has a cousin who played soccer for LSU while she was in college about 5 years ago.
Her back was hurting her, but she didn't tell her coach so she could continue playing.
When it was finally unbearable, she got her back checked out, and she discovered she had spinal cancer.
It is an extremely rare form of cancer. They told her she had maybe a year to live.
I didn't know her then, but everyone says she did amazing and was determined to overcome it and she did.
A few years after that, it came back. :[
It its scary enough to find out you have cancer, but she overcame it. That must have felt amazing,
and then it comes back.
I can't imagine how discouraging that is!
Well, it has been steadily getting worse and brandon told me today that she is in the hospital hooked up to oxygen and they have given her a few pints of blood.
I think they are expecting her to die this weekend.
Its sad on so many accounts.
She is only 28 or so, has overcome it already, and it came back and will be the thing to kill her.
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[Sunday
08/09/09 at 9:38am] |
I went tiki tubing with my family yesterday. Brandon had to work, but he didn't want to come anyway. :[
It was a 4 hour river ride but it was fun. We had to watch out for trees and logs that fell into the river during the hurricanes last year, but that was half of the fun.
I put sunscreen on most of my body but then it got passed around for everyone to use and it never made its way back to me. I still had the bottom part of my legs to do so my thighs are white, and then my knees down are really really red.
oh well.
this morning, brandon put a new battery in his mach 1 and we are taking it to have breakfast at waffle house [but going anywhere for us is a 30 minute drive in any direction, so by the time we get there, we will be STARVING]
and then after we get home from breakfast, WE GET OUR LITTLE LADY BACK.
She has been at brandons parents house since friday morning. I need her back!!
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[Friday
08/07/09 at 9:49am] |
She is so big now!
I have the book "what to expect the first year" and by everything I am reading.... Melody thinks she is closer to 6 months than 4 months.
I honestly think she will be crawling before too long.
She puts all of her weight on her legs, we only hold her balance.
She has FOUR teeth breaking through
She holds her head level with her body when she is moved around or picked up from laying down.
ok, enough with the baby talk. Most of you don't care about baby milestones so I won't make an entire entry about it.
I guess most of you don't care about crafts either, but it's the only other thing I have. :]
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[Wednesday
08/05/09 at 10:17am] |
old canes picture.
I met up with Veronica yesterday.
Veronica was my roommate for a few months when I was on the New Store Opening team with canes.
It was so much money, but we were away from home for months at a time living in hotels and off of fast food.
Veronica was my favorite person I met through cane's.
She lives around new orleans so I don't see her much at all.
She is opening the stores they are opening around here so I had lunch with her yesterday and it was wonderful seeing her.
Her faith is such an inspiration to me.
Up until recently, she was waiting for her first kiss to be at the alter.
WHAT? most people can't even save their virginity until marriage and she was saving her first kiss!!
that was amazing, but I learned yesterday she finally kissed a boy.
She is on her 14th store opening with a few more to go before she can return home and it made me realize that if I had stayed with canes, I would be making that money too.
I quit after I opened 7.
But it is something that I could not do now, I have a little family now, I can't be gone for that long!
Tomorrow night, the general manager from the opelousas store is taking out all of his managers and their significant others so everyone can meet each other before the store opens next week.
This would be really exciting if I had never been with canes, but now it is just something else to remind me of working at canes.
Remind me that no matter how hard I worked, I would have never gotten the position of management which I am still very bitter about.
I'm trying to get that same sense of accomplishment at community coffee, but it just isn't happening.
I knew EVERYTHING about canes, but at ccs, when I try to learn it, I get fed corporate bullshit and don't get the answers I was looking for.
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[Sunday
08/02/09 at 9:53am] |
My parents are getting another foreign exchange student today.
At least this time it is just one.
I moved out when there was my parents, my two brothers, me, and FOUR foreign exchange students living in one house.
The house was big enough for it, it was just ridiculous.
she had 4 that year, 2 the next year, and hopefully just 1 this year.
He is from Brazil [and we are the only place that spells brazil with a z instead of an s]
and that is all I really know about him.
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[Thursday
07/30/09 at 10:09pm] |
So, since I found the 4th giant spider, I have been convinced that they are out to get me.
I am scared to sit on my couch because I just know that they are hiding behind the cushions and are going to crawl out and eat me.
When I got home from work today, the first thing brandon told me is that he killed another one this morning.
WTF?
so now my fear is even more irrational.
Every house creaking noise I am hearing is a big spider moving things around.
My keys fell off of the counter, and I am sure that a spider pushed them off.
I'm being extremely ridiculous but I am terrified.
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[Tuesday
07/28/09 at 9:49pm] |
Yesterday, there was another gigantic spider, but this time IT WAS ON MELODY'S PLAYMAT!
Luckily, she wasn't on it.
but my god, these things are huge:
this is the 4th one in the past month.
I am terrified.
I keep turning my clothes inside out multiple times before I put them on
and I bang my shoes pretty ridiculously before I put my feet in them.
Another thing if you are interested,
it is a search engine that you get rewarded for by using it.
swagbucks
so far, I have gotten 1 swagbuck per day and I am just using it for a few searches.
There are ways you can get codes for more, but I haven't come across any yet.
what i intend to redeem is $5 credited to your paypal account but there are lots of rewards.
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[Tuesday
07/21/09 at 6:58pm] |
Alright, so maybe I am just furthering my old lady status.
I already have a room full of yarn and go to bed at 9:00 [well, before I had melody]
All I need to add is 17 cats and become a coupon cutter.
Well, I have no interest in getting any cats,
but I do want to save as much money as I possibly can,
and just in case anyone is interested...
I am going to track it here so you can save too if you would like.
the very first thing is Treasure Troopers
I have signed up for a few different "paid to take surveys" sites and this is by far my favorite so far.
Some of them are a bit time consuming and for the cash offers you have to put your address to fill out the form but they will not send the mail, it will cost them too much. But if you are paranoid about your information being out there, then just stick to the surveys.
Or ignore it all together, I just want to post the things I am doing so you can benefit from it as well.
But if you do, be sure to use an old email address as you will get lots of things sent to it.
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[Tuesday
07/14/09 at 9:39am] |
My very first sewing project.
I bought a size too big and tried to alter it but it being my very first sewing project...
it is not without flaws.
I was able to make the top fit, but I figured the bottom could stay as is because dresses are flowy.
well, I was wrong.
The excess just bunched up in between the pleated areas in the front and it makes me still look pregnant.
It would be a great maternity dress, but I just had a baby, I don't want to still look pregnant.
on another note,
I was trying to cut the grass this morning,
and there are skipped spots everywhere in my yard due to 70864363 banana spiders EVERYWHERE.
[warning: if you don't know what banana spiders are, I advise you DO NOT google it!]
My yard looks ridiculous,
but I am terrified.
Luckily the belt slipped on the lawnmower so I don't have to finish now.
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[Monday
06/15/09 at 6:39pm] |
I have been wanting to make a curtain for Melody's room
and possibly a shower curtain.
in my search for a pattern, i came across this:
isn't it perfect?
I am excited to start on it.
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[Saturday
04/25/09 at 5:23pm] |
Melody Rose Landry
April 22, 2009 8:02PM
I woke up Wednesday morning hurting in my back, but honestly, it felt like bad gas or period cramps.
I still wasn't feeling my stomach tightening so I wasn't too sure if it was contractions or not.
I woke brandon up a few hours later and by the time he woke up and showered, it was getting more intense so we went to the hospital.
I was a little worried i wasn't going to have made enough progress into labor for them to admit me and they won't send us home.
I was due to be induced the very next day so I was that day was my last chance to have spontaneous labor.
well, we got there and I was 4cm dilated so that was exciting!
that was around 11am
time went by and contractions were getting much more intense [but I never felt my stomach tightening like i was always told I would]
I felt most of my labor in my back and it was terrible. all of the nurses there kept telling me that back labor is the worst kind and it makes pushing much more painful and much longer.
thanks, that isn't scary at all!
by 7:30ish, I was about 8 1/2 centimeters dilated.
8cm is what they call the transition stage because everything changes. everything gets much more intense and it is much harder to not push with the contractions, but you really can't push until you are closer to 10cm.
If I would have had labor pains mainly in the front, I could have handled it,
but it being in my back was unbearable. I did not give into an epidural, I was definitely determined to not give into that
but I did decide to take half of a dose of nubain which is something they put into the IV to take the edge off.
It seemed to make the contractions seem shorter. still as painful, but not for as long.
ten minutes or so after that it was time to push
and pushing is actually the better part of labor because you can relieve the urge to push.
Of course it still hurt, but it wasn't in my back anymore.
I can't really explain the pain of crowning,
I remember it being a strong burning sensation but it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be
I don't know if it was because of the pain no longer being in my back, or just the excitement of it.
I was told you don't really feel yourself tear during labor and I thought that was ridiculous.
I tore a little bit, and I really didn't feel it during.
with the burning from everything else, you really can't tell that is a different pain.
I thought the shoulders would hurt even more than the head,
but I guess because the shoulders can wiggle, the head was the worst part.
just a few more pushes and everything was done!
we had a baby girl!
that part was exciting because I really had no idea as to what we were having, brandon had a feeling it was a girl, but I had no idea.
she weighed 8lbs 3oz. THAT IS A BIG BABY.
her cheeks were sooo big.
now, a few days after birth, she is smaller so she has more to her face than just cheeks.
she is such a good baby so far,
so far she sleeps, wakes up to eat, but goes back to sleep after.
she isn't a cranky baby at all.
the hardest part right now is how sore I am but that is getting better.
everything worked out perfectly,
she is a perfect healthy baby and she came the day before I was supposed to be induced so I got to have the natural labor I wanted.
the only thing I would have changed is the fact that i did give into half of a dose of medication but my main thing is I did not want an epidural which is something I did not give into even though everyone told me I would.
The doctor that delivered her was not the doctor I had during pregnancy, I had never met this one before.
Most people would have hated that, but I was much happier about it. I didn't like my doctor to begin with and the delivery doctor turned out to be very friendly.
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[Monday
03/24/08 at 6:12pm] |
went to dallas for easter.
brandon met that part of my family and it was lots of fun.
I can't wait to marry that boy.
He's hopefully going to be getting a job at home depot
their starting pay is 9.00.
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