TGIF!!!!

Gah, it's been a long week...

I think this week has just sucked extra bad with all sorts of strange responsibilities at work and us being sick all last weekend really sucked. We missed Wacky Water Day, a lazy day at the pool, and I missed a movie night out with the girls which is so rare anyways!!!! I have bunco next week though. Oh yes, and been feeling to sick/icky to go too aerobics since out return. Maybe next week... I get so tired of making fun plans and missing them due to sickness though - such is life with kids. It never seems to end.

On the plus side, and I almost hate to say it, LM has been sleeping REALLY well. Going down at night by himself awake, not waking us up all hours, etc. I know I so totally jinxed it too!!!! Actually I almost dread him sleeping well because we have been talking about moving him out of his crib. If he keeps sleeping well I don't want to do anything to disturb the peace though. He could stay in there I guess, what does it matter.

The baby's room is a cute "baby cheetah" them - quite unique really. I am sad because I think we are going to have to redo the room. I remember how I excited I was picking out the baby cheetah theme back in late 2002 when I was first pregnant. We painted the lower half of the walls a sort of brown color and put a little border around the middle of the room, dividing the walls - top-half white/ lower-half brown. Both babies loved the cheetas and laughed and talked with them on the changing table. But LM has taken to ripping off the wall border. It looks pretty horrid around his crib and around the changing table (or changing area I should say - we didn't waste money on a changing table - just had to say - LOL - we change him on the dresser). But yesterday I Walked in and the border had been ripped off 1/2 of the wall by the crib. Lord knows what was going on in there, didn't ask dh. Actually I think it wasn't *so* bad but it was close enough to the crib that *I* peeled it off a bit more because I did not want LM playing with it - seemed a little dangerous to me. But I couldn't quite bring myself to tear it down entirely. So now I am sad... I have a little frilly matching drape as we went ALL uni-sex with the kids because we planned to have more than 1 and I couldn't wait to 20 weeks along to decorate the nursery - hehe. But it is a little feminine probably for the long term.

We'll probably have to go in this summer and tear down the border and repaint. We could repaint the upper half with the brown - one solid color. But it's not really a beautiful color. I am thinking blue or something. But I don't know how that will work over the 1/2 & 1/2 wall. A few coats perhaps? No more wall border - it was just a pain to put up too. Home improvement is just not our thing, but painting at least we can do. We have some blue paint from the theatre room which I actually think would be perfect.

BM might like some colored walls too. He's just got plain plain white.

But yeah I will have to post some pictures of the nursery - just love it. Will miss it - the end of an era I guess.

The craziness never stops here though. Dh's friend came by yesterday and is staying through today I guess. There was a brand new car parked in front of the house when I got home yesterday and I was SHOCKED. His friend has been out of work for about 2 years, our age, seems content to live at home and hang out, not much job searching I can see. I mean there is no reason he should not be able to find a job. I thought he bought this brand new car and I was wondering what in the hell?????? In the morning though it was gone and I asked if he had left as I really didn't know his schedule, and dh said he was still there, sleeping in the theatre room as they had stayed up all night playing video games (Silly boys!). I Said, I hope his car didn't get stolen. LOL. Since our neighborhood has like 10 times the national average in auto theft - we just NEVER leave our cars outside. Turns out he had taken the train or something, which explains much. I have to say I am relieved he did not buy a brand new car. I was wondering what the heck - LOL.

Oh yes and in other news, hell has frozen over!!!!!!!!!! It must have because my grandma got e-mail! OMG! I am so happy for her. All our other grandparents seem open to technology and digital cameras and e-mail and all that. But my grandma is very lonely and refuses to try new technology. She doesn't want a computer. I have told her many times I could keep in better touch if she got e-mail, and I guess she finally gave in. All these years I have thought it was a shame she refused to try the internet or e-mail, how it could really be positive for her. I don't know how far she'll venture beyond e-mail but I am all excited for her. Yippee!

Oh in other news my dad is probably losing/quitting his job. Has a horrid horrid boss he can no longer stand, which says a lot because he is a pretty easy-going guy, adaptable, etc. I was kind of surprised to hear. So near retirement, but wants to work a few more years all the same, so I hope it all works out soon, that he finds a new job or things work out. Crossing my fingers for him. My dad is in an industry where jobs are very project-based and come and go. I couldn't even keep track how many jobs he has had, but he was laid off around 2003 and was out of work for a long while, as he is now in his late 50s. We worry how easy it will be to find work with his age, after that experience. BEfore this last layoff he had never been out of work more than a month or so, if that. He networks very well and has kept up his skills, etc. so finding a job overall has never been a problem for him. But the economy seems to be bouncing back in the tech industry and all that all the same so hopefully it is easier this time. My parents could so totally be fine if he never found another job, but they worry all the same, they want to feel better prepared for retirement of course. Plus if he doesn't find a job they will likely cash out their house and leave the state entirely. & I don't want that!!!