~9-3-04~ Friday

well........

clay had his 2 year check up today. it was fairly simple. he weighs 27 pounds, 45% and he is like 32 inches, he is a shorty! only 25% there. but i already knew that. it is so funny seeing him wear size 2 pants, they are sooooo long on him. they only down side is that she wants him to have another lead test!!!!!!! she wanted me to do it today, but there was no way in hell i was doing that on my own!!! bob needs to be there when needles are involved. last time he got a lead test it was HORRENDOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for some absurd reason they don't do the finger prick thing anymore. so they have to stick a needle in your arm and draw it that way. he got his when he was 9 months old. this dumb ass nurse couldn't get it in or something and she was taking forever. bob and a nurse were holding clay down on the table, he was screaming, i was crying, about to start screaming at the damn nurses.......it was pure torture for me!!!! i DO NOT want to go through that again!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i don't know if we are or not. i mean i know it is for the best to make sure everything is ok. but i really, really, really doubt that he has been exposed to lead in this house. we have painted everything in this house when we moved in, so there is no loose or chipped paint anywhere. so i don't know.

on to my fishes health. i looked at him today and the 2 lumps that were on his sides (opposite each other) seem to have went away, but that third lump seems kind of worse and black. so i don't know what the hell. my beta looks pretty ragged too. the past few days he is like laying on this rock half out of the water!!!! i actually thought he was dead the other day, because of him laying like that, but later he was eating. i just can't believe he lays there with his head out of the water.......so weird!!!! hopefully i'll get to the pet store this weekend.

we are supposed to go out to eat this weekend for bob's belated birthday. we still haven't used our gift certificate for bob "winning" at the myster dinner theater. it is about to expire, so i figured we'd go there. now he might work over again tonight/tomorrow, so we may have to go sunday instead. i feel so bad for all that he has been working. then he said the next time he is on midnights he may be working a few doubles as well. i mean the paycheck is going to be really nice, but i know he is beat. hopefully that lady doesn't call to do any windows for a few weeks!!

i called the dentist last night, cause once again my tooth was KILLING me. i just wanted to get in soon. they called back and said he was going to call me in a perscription for the pain. and i also made an appointment for tuesday at 10AM, poor bob, once again he is going to be short on sleep.....more over time, he will get home at 4am, and then have to get up with clay at 9. hopefully i'll be home by noon then he can go back to sleep for a few hours before he has to go back in at 3.

so lucky me, i get to have my teeth worked on twice next week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am just soooooooo not looking forward to getting my tooth pulled. i am so stressed about that!!

anyways.....i got my perscription, after waiting for like a damn half hour at the counter!!!!! but i had a nifty coupon for walgreens. if you bring in a new perscription they give you a check to spend in the store for $20. so i spent $6 on the perscription, so i got $14! i also had a coupon for hour photo processing for $2.99. i found a roll of film in the spare bedroom. i haven't had a camera that used actually film since right before clay was born, 2 years ago, so i had no clue what was on there.

it was funny. there are like 2 pictures from my wedding 3-9-02. the rest were all from christmas of 2001!!!! that was the year bob made out like a bandit!! i went crazy with the christmas! my 2 cousins look so young, if you see them now!!! there was also a picture of my great uncle, who passed away just after christmas this past year. i have quite a few of my family which i am happy about. i always take my camera so i can get pictures of everyone and then never do it. i always tell myself to take pictures, cause you never know when someone isn't going to be around anymore. i know it is awful to think that way, but when it does happen like this past year, then you reguret not having those memories on film or video. so i am glad that i did that back in 2001. just have to keep it up now.

boy i am rambling!! here is the friday 5. i want to start doing this, if i remember. i found a few for saturday and sunday as well, but i don't think they are current. guess we will see if my brain holds up. anyways, here is this weeks:

Friday Fiver

1. What are you looking forward to this fall?

i am hoping to finally take clay trick or treating this year. it sucks that they made it during the day now, cause it is usually during his nap time! i'm looking forward to wearing fall/winter clothes. since i never lost the weight i wanted to, the more i can cover up the better! haha!

2. What do you regret in the past year?

i regret not doing more this spring/summer with clay. i had it all planned out that soon as the weather got nice we would be walking down to the park everyday. that way i could get clay out of the house, and doing something different, plus i was hoping it would bring on the weight loss i was hoping to acheive this summer. didn't happen!!

3. Who was your favorite teacher?

i've had a few over the years. the ones i really remember are mr. wagely, he was my 8th grade homeroom/social studies teacher. he was so funny and a great guy! i also loved my 7th grade homeroom/social studies teacher mr. fuller. sadly i found out that a few years back, he passed away. i never found out what happend, he was really young, 40's. another one of my favorite teacher's wasn't even actually one of my teachers. mr. miller. he was great. i would have loved to have him for a class! my newstaff/creative writing teacher mr. smith was a trip too!

4. What was your favorite subject?

wow, favorite........hmmmm............i liked newstaff and creative writing alot. i really liked my photography class too. i don't think i really had a favorite. i didn't really hate anything, but its not like i really looked forward to any one either. if i did it was more so for the people, not the actual subject.

5. I've handed you $500 that you must spend new clothing for the fall. Tell us how you'd spend it.

well as i have stated before, i am cheap! i'd probably go to burlington coat factory, or to pluto's closet (resale shop) i've found some cute stuff at fashion bug and dots though too. i don't think i have ever spent $500 on clothes. i'm just not a spend money on clothes type of girl!

well that is it for me...........see ya'll later!