So I think nesting is kicking in! I just went though our fridge and scrubbed the entire thing inside and out... I havent done that in a LONG time. A small wipe here or there, but I scubbed it down completely... lol. also I had no idea we had some jars of things that had expired over a year ago?? EWW. LOL.
Anyway. Can anyone tell me why my husband constantly screams at his video games like its life or death if he makes it though??
I had more in my head before I started this but my husbands screaming has lost my train of thought...... UGH.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
All State can __________ !
Fill in that blank with any explicit phrase that come to your mind!!!!!!!!!!!
So I am back on a rant about All State. I dont know how in detail I got in my very first post about this, but it turns out that Greg NEVER left Gieco, but when he was talking to an All State agent about HOME OWNERS insurance in JUNE, that he would go with their car insurance too, because they quoted slightly lower than Gieco. Well, when Greg called Gieco to CANCEL, Gieco went just a little bit lower. Low enough that Greg decided NOT to cancel! So technically he had All State and Gieco for a week maybe.... He called All State back and said he decided NOT to leave Gieco and to cancel just the car insurance part. The woman on the phone was kinda mad, he said, but said... well I will note that you cancelled, you might get a bill in the mail, but IGNORE IT.
SOOOOOOOOO.... even tho Greg should have done something after months and months of All State bills coming to us, he just said, oh its All State, I cancelled, she told me to disreguard it. Well, I constantly ignore 800 numbers, so if they called, I wouldnt know.... haha... BUT when they told the MVA we havent paid and do not have coverage in NOVEMBER you would THINK the MVA would send us notification of our tags being revoked??? NOPE. (now thats a whole new rant on the efficency of the damn DMV workers of this country)
Anyway, I am on a new rant now because we got a phonecall, and it actually left a voicemail, that there is an attempt to collect a debt and they are willing to settle on a partial payment.... well the company asking for the money is never mentioned, BUT I know it has to be All State, since thats the ONLY bill we are having problems with currently.
When Greg was at the MVA even THEY said we are not responsible to pay them ANYTHING, when Greg explained to them what happened. Is fighting this WORTH the trouble though??????
UGH I am just so mad. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO mad........
So I am back on a rant about All State. I dont know how in detail I got in my very first post about this, but it turns out that Greg NEVER left Gieco, but when he was talking to an All State agent about HOME OWNERS insurance in JUNE, that he would go with their car insurance too, because they quoted slightly lower than Gieco. Well, when Greg called Gieco to CANCEL, Gieco went just a little bit lower. Low enough that Greg decided NOT to cancel! So technically he had All State and Gieco for a week maybe.... He called All State back and said he decided NOT to leave Gieco and to cancel just the car insurance part. The woman on the phone was kinda mad, he said, but said... well I will note that you cancelled, you might get a bill in the mail, but IGNORE IT.
SOOOOOOOOO.... even tho Greg should have done something after months and months of All State bills coming to us, he just said, oh its All State, I cancelled, she told me to disreguard it. Well, I constantly ignore 800 numbers, so if they called, I wouldnt know.... haha... BUT when they told the MVA we havent paid and do not have coverage in NOVEMBER you would THINK the MVA would send us notification of our tags being revoked??? NOPE. (now thats a whole new rant on the efficency of the damn DMV workers of this country)
Anyway, I am on a new rant now because we got a phonecall, and it actually left a voicemail, that there is an attempt to collect a debt and they are willing to settle on a partial payment.... well the company asking for the money is never mentioned, BUT I know it has to be All State, since thats the ONLY bill we are having problems with currently.
When Greg was at the MVA even THEY said we are not responsible to pay them ANYTHING, when Greg explained to them what happened. Is fighting this WORTH the trouble though??????
UGH I am just so mad. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO mad........
Monday, February 14, 2011
The trials of a Pregnant mom with a preemie child
So, this past Sunday, I hit the 34 week mark of this pregnancy. Not without event. Monday morning, (during week 33 still) I wake up with dampness. Now most of you that know me, know Kalvin was born because of a premature rupture of the membranes.... that I was unaware of for days.....
So that morning (wee hours... as in 330) after Superbowl Sunday XLV (a sad Sunday for a Steelers fan btw... lol), I wake up and have unexplained dampness?? Of course my first thought is amniotic fluid!! Then I go through all the OTHER non emergency things it could also be, trying to get myself to sleep. I tell Greg what happened, and even his first utterance was "you don't think it was fluid do you?" Needless to say, I did not get much sleep the rest of that night, and decided to call my OBs office. Of course they want to see me that day. It turned out to be nothing, but the doctor told me, if it happens again, to call again, and then ticked off a bunch of other important reasons to call immediately.
So of course, Saturday, It happens again, but during the day, not as much, but 2 different times that day within hours of each other.... so of course, I call, this time had to use the emergency line since the office was closed for the weekend..... this time I had to be seen at Labor and Delivery, and once again.... everything was fine.
I feel like I am being so over paranoid, but what can I do? With Kalvin I was clueless. I never even thought my fluid would be leaking like that, especially that early on. I totally assumed the lil bugger was just using my bladder as a trampoline, or a punching bag... lol. Nope. It was well worse than that. And do you think my doctors have any definitive answers to why it happened? No. Can they give me any reassurance that it wont happen again? No.
Now, My boy at 34 weeks, was mainly healthy and very little problems at birth. He did not need a machine to breathe, his lungs were good and strong. He was 4lbs which is TINY but he was great otherwise. He had jaundice, which full termers can suffer from. But, he still had to spend 2 weeks in a NICU and I had to leave the hospital without my baby when I was realeased. For anyone else that has had to do this, you know this is about the worst feeling EVER as a new mom to have to experience, and to those that never did have to go through it, can probably imagine. I am actually crying right now from the memories of those long 2 weeks.....
Obviously I was blessed, because especially in the first week, when he was in the more intensive area of the NICU, I saw babies so much smaller and in a lot worse condition and I can remember crying for those parents and babies daily. I spent alot of the first 2 weeks crying actually... I cried when I had to leave. I cried at night when I was pumping to keep up my breast milk supply. I basically cried everytime I was pumping actually, because instead of having a baby in my arms attempting to feed, I was attached to machines like a cow, staring at a picture of my baby trying to produce more milk.....
And now I look at him, and he never fails to amaze me! He is growing like a weed and learning new things and talking more and more and more in full sentences to the point of basically being a normal 2 almost 3 year old boy. He is using the potty and while not 100% trained, a lot of other kids his age are farther behind him in that.
So I guess these 2 runs to the hospital I had this past week wont be the last of this pregnancy, although I hope it is... lol.... at least till after 2 weeks or more from now!!!
So that morning (wee hours... as in 330) after Superbowl Sunday XLV (a sad Sunday for a Steelers fan btw... lol), I wake up and have unexplained dampness?? Of course my first thought is amniotic fluid!! Then I go through all the OTHER non emergency things it could also be, trying to get myself to sleep. I tell Greg what happened, and even his first utterance was "you don't think it was fluid do you?" Needless to say, I did not get much sleep the rest of that night, and decided to call my OBs office. Of course they want to see me that day. It turned out to be nothing, but the doctor told me, if it happens again, to call again, and then ticked off a bunch of other important reasons to call immediately.
So of course, Saturday, It happens again, but during the day, not as much, but 2 different times that day within hours of each other.... so of course, I call, this time had to use the emergency line since the office was closed for the weekend..... this time I had to be seen at Labor and Delivery, and once again.... everything was fine.
I feel like I am being so over paranoid, but what can I do? With Kalvin I was clueless. I never even thought my fluid would be leaking like that, especially that early on. I totally assumed the lil bugger was just using my bladder as a trampoline, or a punching bag... lol. Nope. It was well worse than that. And do you think my doctors have any definitive answers to why it happened? No. Can they give me any reassurance that it wont happen again? No.
Now, My boy at 34 weeks, was mainly healthy and very little problems at birth. He did not need a machine to breathe, his lungs were good and strong. He was 4lbs which is TINY but he was great otherwise. He had jaundice, which full termers can suffer from. But, he still had to spend 2 weeks in a NICU and I had to leave the hospital without my baby when I was realeased. For anyone else that has had to do this, you know this is about the worst feeling EVER as a new mom to have to experience, and to those that never did have to go through it, can probably imagine. I am actually crying right now from the memories of those long 2 weeks.....
Obviously I was blessed, because especially in the first week, when he was in the more intensive area of the NICU, I saw babies so much smaller and in a lot worse condition and I can remember crying for those parents and babies daily. I spent alot of the first 2 weeks crying actually... I cried when I had to leave. I cried at night when I was pumping to keep up my breast milk supply. I basically cried everytime I was pumping actually, because instead of having a baby in my arms attempting to feed, I was attached to machines like a cow, staring at a picture of my baby trying to produce more milk.....
 |
| My teeny guy only a few days/weeks old |
And now I look at him, and he never fails to amaze me! He is growing like a weed and learning new things and talking more and more and more in full sentences to the point of basically being a normal 2 almost 3 year old boy. He is using the potty and while not 100% trained, a lot of other kids his age are farther behind him in that.
 |
| my big 1 yr old boy! |
 |
| 2 years old! |
 |
| today! |
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Late nights and Potty Training....
Ok, so yesterday Greg had to work a "swing shift" from 1130-1030. Kal obviously was in bed before Greg got home. I have been putting pull-ups on Kal JUST for night since we started potty training but I am testing something and decided to take them away even at nights..... 430 I hear Kal crying so I think maybe he wet the bed. I get up, and he is dry... so I ask him if he has to go potty.... he said yes, but when we went we stood there for a good minute with nothing happening. He didn't really need to go, but he wouldn't leave till he squeezed out at least one drop... lol. Anyway, when that FINALLY happened, we went back to bed, but he just kept crying and saying he was "scared" and was pointing to his animal net above his bed and mumbling something I didnt understand. at 430 in the morning I am not so good to go... so this went on for a lil while till Greg finally came in and took over. All was good, but Kal got up soon after Greg came back to bed and we just let him sleep in bed with us for the night.
I notice he does this almost all the time when Daddy has the swing shift (its DONE for good now tho!) which has been every other Saturday for the past few months.... Anyway. I guess its just his routine is being messed with and that Kal didn't get his bedtime hug and kiss by big and bad monster killing daddy? lol.... anyway... on to the Potty Training part of this post.
Potty Training officially started with us in November. We went with the 3 day potty training method. I did not pay for her "ebook" but had a friend send me her info. Anyway, i followed it as best I could to what she said to do but altered it just a bit. Day 1 and 2 were FRUSTRATING! Not gonna lie. LOTS of wet undies, and the other kind too... (YUCK). But Day 3... just like she said, it was like something clicked inside of his mind. I may have changed a wet undie once, or twice that day at most. And the rest of the week got better, and better and better. It really works... I THINK. LOL
Here are the problems. Well he falls off the "wagon" some days and doesn't bother telling me he is walking around wet. Well, we have done a million things to get him to stop that. Well lately, he actually IS going to the potty again, but he is not making his queue on time, and is therefore a bit wet, but at least he is going to the bathroom again when this happens and telling me he needs new undies.
The other problem seems, well, once he goes ONCE, its like his bladder needs to empty every 15 min. Or at least, he ends up wet and running back to the potty a 2nd time 15 min after the 1st "accident". I am just wondering if he is not emptying his bladder completely the first time and doesn't realize it?
And so back to the beginning, and why, in the past I would have just comforted him and turned on his music and put him back to bed because he had a pull-up on, I had him go potty thinking night time training would also help the daytime problems? Of course, the above story about the 2 wet undies in 15 min part happened today... lol.
I can't really complain, because he is at least USING the potty, but I wonder what this "3 day potty lady" would say about it?
I notice he does this almost all the time when Daddy has the swing shift (its DONE for good now tho!) which has been every other Saturday for the past few months.... Anyway. I guess its just his routine is being messed with and that Kal didn't get his bedtime hug and kiss by big and bad monster killing daddy? lol.... anyway... on to the Potty Training part of this post.
Potty Training officially started with us in November. We went with the 3 day potty training method. I did not pay for her "ebook" but had a friend send me her info. Anyway, i followed it as best I could to what she said to do but altered it just a bit. Day 1 and 2 were FRUSTRATING! Not gonna lie. LOTS of wet undies, and the other kind too... (YUCK). But Day 3... just like she said, it was like something clicked inside of his mind. I may have changed a wet undie once, or twice that day at most. And the rest of the week got better, and better and better. It really works... I THINK. LOL
Here are the problems. Well he falls off the "wagon" some days and doesn't bother telling me he is walking around wet. Well, we have done a million things to get him to stop that. Well lately, he actually IS going to the potty again, but he is not making his queue on time, and is therefore a bit wet, but at least he is going to the bathroom again when this happens and telling me he needs new undies.
The other problem seems, well, once he goes ONCE, its like his bladder needs to empty every 15 min. Or at least, he ends up wet and running back to the potty a 2nd time 15 min after the 1st "accident". I am just wondering if he is not emptying his bladder completely the first time and doesn't realize it?
And so back to the beginning, and why, in the past I would have just comforted him and turned on his music and put him back to bed because he had a pull-up on, I had him go potty thinking night time training would also help the daytime problems? Of course, the above story about the 2 wet undies in 15 min part happened today... lol.
I can't really complain, because he is at least USING the potty, but I wonder what this "3 day potty lady" would say about it?
Friday, February 11, 2011
Murphy's Law
What can go wrong, WILL go wrong? or something like that?
Yea thats how I feel today. ANYWAY. I normally wouldnt post 2x in a day, but damn, what a freaking day.
We ordered from Dominos and we got pastabowls. I do not like meat in my sauce so i special ordered mine... it had meat in it anyway. They sent me the correct order when i called and told them the mistake but here it is 8pm and I am finally actually eating it..... they also took over a free 2 liter of coke. caffiene or not I am drinking it right now!! UGH! :)
While I was waiting, ADT called our house. We are on the DNC list. Been on it for quite some time. Needless to say given my day I reported them to the DNC registry....
Yea thats how I feel today. ANYWAY. I normally wouldnt post 2x in a day, but damn, what a freaking day.
We ordered from Dominos and we got pastabowls. I do not like meat in my sauce so i special ordered mine... it had meat in it anyway. They sent me the correct order when i called and told them the mistake but here it is 8pm and I am finally actually eating it..... they also took over a free 2 liter of coke. caffiene or not I am drinking it right now!! UGH! :)
While I was waiting, ADT called our house. We are on the DNC list. Been on it for quite some time. Needless to say given my day I reported them to the DNC registry....
Everyone ELSE is doing it now so....... ;)
(this is old, but this is how i feel about now!)
I open the door, and in the background behind Greg I see our Ford Freestyle on a TOW TRUCK getting backed into our parking space in front of our house... it APPEARS to be in tact. SO..... what is WRONG with it I think???? Greg then proceeds to tell me he was PULLED over and it SEEMS that the MVA insists he has NO Insurance and has not HAD any since NOVEMBER. Well, he switched POLICIES in November.... so WHY does the MVA not have record of the change??? Whatever tho... When THAT happens, they TAKE your TAGS and TOW you. So now Greg has to GO to the MVA and get this all straightened out.
Of course all this drama takes a front seat to my sons nap, so he is on full throttle while Daddy was home figuring out exactly what MVA he had to go to and what he needed....... He is alseep now though, thank Goodness!
So.... trying to calm down right now, and BREATHE, but I am just so freaking pissed and I needed to get out my frustrations, and I had noone to talk to..... So end result was... start a blog like my other friends and get it out that way!!!
To anyone reading, sorry for my tirade, but I feel better now at least.... wonder how my husband is doing, sitting at the MVA waiting in line to deal with their incompetent workers!!!!
ADDENDUM:
Found out Greg payed 275 for the Damn TOW. His tags were gonna be up at the end of the month anyway which would have costed 128, but he had to ALSO pay an extra 72 to get the tags that were TAKEN away back?!?! UGH! so 475 F-ING dollars later.............. WHY? Because ALL STATE claimed he owed ONE more month, even though he had already switched to GIECO by then and TOLD them that, but apparently ALL STATE reported that he has NO insurance, even tho there is PROOF he has insurance through GIECO and has since NOVEMBER. can anyone tell me how this is fair and right??? Is there anything we can do about this?? 475 dollars later? this is unbelievable....
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)