I love the internet…
The wealth of hilarity on the Internet. Knitters. KNITTERS of all people having blog wars. Yarn Harlot has someone who apparently take patriotism to the extreme. I've never read Yarn Harlot, why would I, I don't knit. But it's making it's rounds on the Internet. I'm guessing from what little research I've done, that Yarn Harlot's home is not in fact America but rather she is Canadian and just happens to live in the United States.
Some woman, which I will not name, but managed to track down, apparently believes that if you live in this nation you must at all times proclaim that it's the best in the world. I've never been of the belief that we should see ourselves as the best nation out there, I think it's highly arrogant to say we are. We have our faults and could stand to make some changes for sure. But that's Anti-America, according to this person and some of my own family as well. Oh well, so sad.
Anyhow this woman who got offended about someone proclaiming Canada as a great country, better than America, a valid opinion even if you disagree, has decided to go to the extreme and leave some of the most vile and nasty comments and email to Yarn Harlot. I just don't get that extreme patriotism. It's the worst of America honestly to be so hateful of those who don't happen to think we're the best. But hey what can you do.
One of the more hilarious things that I saw in all of this is that Miss Extreme Patriot believes that if you meet someone and have a few minute conversation that makes you good friends with them. LOL! Reality that is not.
Anyhow, God Bless the Internet and the wealth of entertainment you give me because frankly everyone can use a good laugh now and then. I do realize that for Yarn Harlot this is quite annoying and probably down right scary, but I think sometimes you have to look at the hilarity of the situation.
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Lesson Learned
So I was getting pretty confident that Kaylee had this potty thing down and for the most part she does. But I stopped asking her if she had to go and it seems to me that I need to continue asking for a little while longer. We've had two accidents today. Both were pee and she said right as she started going that she had to go to the potty. So I need to get her to focus a bit more on when she has to go.
Off to the Zoo…
So today we headed to the SB Zoo. Well we went to the bank first and then got to Moorpark and realized that I forgot my camera so we had to come back to get it so we got off to the zoo pretty late. But we only got there a half hour after opening. The Zoo was good, Kaylee loved it. We spent about 2 hours at the zoo. The SB Zoo is pretty small so you get through it quick. Then we spent another 2 hours just looking for somewhere to eat only to give up and come home instead and eat in town.
Then Kaylee went off with Daddy for a few hours so I managed to catch a movie here at home.
Kaylee didn't nap today and she went to bed at 8:30pm but I stayed in and she wouldn't go down so I left and by 9pm she was asleep so I'm thinking we're going to have to drop the nap so that Kaylee will get a good nights sleep finally. I think that's why she is acting like she is because she's just not getting enough sleep.
Anyhow potty training is going great though. We haven't had an accident in forever. I don't know whether to say she's fully potty trained though. She asks to go and holds it until we get to the potty even when we're out and about. She wears pull-ups to nap and night time but rarely wets them. So I think we've successfully done that. Which is nice.
I'm going to upload some pictures too.
Mom Swag…
I wanted to comment on something that apparently is pretty big in the Mommy Blogging world. Maybe because I don't go to actual websites but read through RSS feeds instead, I don't notice some of this stuff.
Mommy Blogging is pretty big these days. Information tends to get around through the blogs and companies want to take advantage of it. So now they offer up Swag as it's referred to Mommy Bloggers so they can review it, in a positive way.
Of the several Mommy Bloggers I've read that have done this, they've been upfront with the fact that they were given something and why they are reviewing it. But not every Mommy Blogger does this. There is one, once again I won't point out who because I just don't feel like it, that I had been reading for nearly 3 years who's blog has turned into just one big advertisement for the companies that sponsor her. Her site is full of ads, and her posts are as well. Also the focus of the blog has changed as well from being a Mommy Blog to being what seems like a place to go for giveaways and reviews of products now. I stopped reading after a while, because I'm not that interested in that stuff.
But it makes her money so why not? I mean I'd be doing it if my blog was big enough. Mainly because free for me is good, and I'm in need of cash so I would take any opprotunity given to me that allowed me to make money, even if that meant writing reviews for my blog. Some companies don't like people to be outright upfront about the reviews, they want it mixed into the post and non-recognizable. But it's not hard to figure out when someone is posting about a product solely for the products sake.
Anyhow if any companies want to give me free stuff to review, I'll take it! LOL! I'm up to fifty regular readers. LOL! WOOHOO!!
We Like Our Mom’s Night Out!
So I just checked my calendar for August and realized that four of five weekends I'm scheduled to attend a MNO with my group. I kind of RSVP without obtaining a babysitter though so I have to make sure I have someone to watch Kaylee for those nights.
One is a Pampered Chef party which I'm excited about because I love cookware. LOL!! I might take like 50 bucks to help out my fellow mom and get me some goodies.
The next one is a Sex in the City themed MNO. I'll probably dress up for it in my dress I wore to Dianne's wedding. I'll just have to wash it, which luckily it can get washed in the machine.
The next one is a Movie Night Out which hasn't gotten the turn out I'd liked to see but if no one goes I'll just get my sister to go with me.
Then I get a weekend off with no MNO! Maybe someone should schedule one? LOL!
The next one is a Fondue MNO. I'll have to figure out what I'm taking that one.
Then Sept. has several as well. October has already two MNO scheduled. We're just a Mom's Night Out kind of group!
Marriage
So weddings get you thinking about all that you did wrong. I think in particular some things that Bruce said during the ceremony got me thinking as well. In particular that marriage isn't about remembering the bad things and bringing them up constantly. It made me wonder if this applies to huge indiscretions or if it just means things like forgetting to take out the trash or pay a bill. I can't imagine it means forgetting the down right horrible things that happen to you.
Then I wonder if we did it wrong. Perhaps not doing the wedding, by placing such an unimportance on the ceremony and doing it in Vegas made it less of a commitment? Although I'm so beyond grateful we didn't put thousands of thousands of dollars into a wedding just to have the marriage not work out.
I've also been thinking lately about my lack of any real choice in this. Brian keeps saying that I deserve better than him and frankly isn't that my choice, to determine if he's "good enough" or not? I mean why does he get to just say that I deserve better, that he's a "bad" person. And who's to say I'd find better anyhow. I guess I'm just annoyed with the lack of say in the matter. I forgave a lot of what he's done in the past, I did make a commitment to be with him through better or worse and yeah some things were pretty bad but that didn't change anything and the vows I took. I guess people would say that's stupid.
I mean even after this last event, whether he cheated or not, because I don't know for sure because he's told a lot of lies, I was willing to forgive, forget and work on our marriage.
I mean even now, no matter how much I would love to ignore him, if he were to call for help I'd drop everything and go help him. It pisses my mom off that I do that. But frankly whether people believe it or not, I actually do love the guy and I worry constantly about him, and I pray constantly that he gets some peace with his disorder and that he gets the happiness he seems to be looking for. And I'm sad that I couldn't provide that for him.
Anyhow perhaps in general we just went about things all wrong. Who knows. One just hopes that in fact people are right, that I can someday find someone who'll love me. I guess I just don't understand how two people who had so much in common, at least I thought so, and even if he didn't think it I was intensly interested in what he did and liked, just could fall apart like that.
No kids allowed…
So as some may or may not know, the BlogHer 09 convention is going on right now. I'm not cool enough and don't have enough readers to go to it. But basically it's a convention like every other. You go, advertisers and product people everywhere and they have tons of informational stuff and parties as well.
This is where I start my rant. There was a party, hosted by Nikon at the conference. Someone, who I can't name right now because I don't want to look up the info nor do I want to really call her out and what I see as inappropriate behavior, had her infant with her at the conference. Now having a child at the conference itself is not a bad thing. The parties though, some are adult only. So she shows up to the Nikon party with her infant and they tell her she can't come in.
Now this has some Mommy Bloggers up in arms and I have to wonder why? The party was adults only. Did the invitation say that kids were allowed? If not then to assume they are is an error on the part of the invitee not the party host. Perhaps I'm different but I assume that kids are not invited unless otherwise stated.
For instance I was invited to a baby shower a while back. The invitation made no mention of children and whether they were allowed to go. So instead of assuming my child was able to go, I called up the host and asked if it was okay. They said it was fine.
This I feel was the appropriate way to go about things. This way you aren't turned away at the door for having an infant, and also you know what parties you can and can not go to.
Some were saying, "But it's a Mommy Blogger convention! They should expect children!"
Yeah right. Many mothers went without their children. So no they shouldn't expect children and frankly I'm not sure why because of the type of convention it is that people would just think that kids are welcome everywhere. These are parties, with alcohol probably, and who knows how late they start and go.
Another person said, "There is a difference between a child and an infant." And I'm like what just because you can wrap your child to your chest and she sleep the entire time doesn't mean that they should automatically welcome.
Anyhow some of this entitlement to do whatever you want with your kids in tow just bothers me. Kids aren't entitled to tag along with their parents all the time. It's a sacrifice we make. Sometimes we don't get to do the fun stuff. We have to stay home.
He’s Right, they acted stupidly…
Seriously people how is this not stupid:
Professor Gates was arrested on July 16, when the police were called to his Cambridge home after a report of a burglary in progress. The professor said he told the police that he lived in the house and that he was jimmying open a damaged front door. Still, the police report said he was arrested for “loud and tumultuous behavior in a public space.”
So you get a call, some black dude with a cane who looks about 80 is breaking into a house. Police show up. Black dude explains what happens, probably is pissed that the police are called in general so he probably isn't nice about it. So what do the police do?
Arrest the man anyhow because he was loud in a public space? Shit can these police please come to my city and arrest all those damn teenagers who are loud in public spaces all the damn time?
Are you shitting me? So some officer got pissy because he didn't like being talked back to probably and arrested the man.
Sure yeah the guy could have been polite and not been pissy with the police but come on what a waste of time, money and energy all over a pissing contest between two men. So yes they acted stupidly.
Just keep hanging on…
So Kaylee did really well today, perhaps we were too optimistic and we ginxed it or something. But she got up in the morning dry and went potty right away. Then apparently while we were at the gym she asked to go and went potty there. Then she went with GMA Pam and went potty at the park. Sadly she did have an accident but nothing serious, she just got excited and wasn't paying attention. But then a half hour later she said, "Mommy I have to go to the bathroom!" and ran in and went poop so she's been doing well as far as I'm concerned. We didn't go pee before bed because the last accident happened at 7pm and she goes about two to three hours between pees so at 8pm when she went to bed tonight (because she didn't take a nap) it was way too earlier to go potty again. But she's getting the hang of it. I think we'll have it down to perfection by Sept. when she goes to school.
While she was off with GMA I removed the small TV from my room and put my flat screen in and hooked up the PS3. I'm hoping for a little time to perhaps play on it. We'll see. At least we can watch movies on it. We're going to watch Wall-E tomorrow for sure.
I hurt my ankle, a gash, though during the process. So now my foot hurts in general. I've done this once before as well.
Oh I lost weight, well only 2lbs but it's something. I'm hoping to drop a few more by Saturday so that the dress doesn't look so puffy on me. Also I have a hair appointment on Friday at 1pm. I'm going to dye the underside dark brown and then go a more golden blond on top and have her layer it so that you can see some of the brown. This way if I don't maintain it, it won't look so bad.
Did some baking…
Made French Bread to go with dinner tonight. It looks pretty good. I can never figure out how to get a soft crust unstead of a hard shell but I know either way is fine. It smelled so good.
Also Kaylee went swimming again today. Sadly the pool was a bit cold because I had to drain it and wash it out and it didn't get a lot of sun time before she wanted to go in.
We went to the doctor and he heard a humming sound in her chest. This can be explained as normal blood flow sound, some people have it, and it's not serious. But to be on the safe side we're increasing her Diuril because her eyes and face have been puffy lately and also because of this humming. Then we'll go see him in six weeks and get some bloodwork done in 4.5 weeks to make sure everything is fine. I am really happy with this doctor. If this had been the doctor at CHLA she wouldn't have even seen anything wrong because she never in the year and a half we saw her did she order a blood test for Kaylee. It's the only way he really could be sure that the humming probably wasn't related to water retention because her blood work was normal. But it doesn't hurt to up the dose a bit and see if that fixes at the very least the puffy issue.
On the Potty Training front things have gone great today. She woke up in the morning dry and went to the bathroom right away. Then we headed out to the doctor and she stayed dry in her undies the entire time. We got home and she ran in to the bathroom and went potty. Then later she told me, "Mommy I have to go to the bathroom!" and ran in and went number two. Then she took a nap and stayed dry the entire time and got up and went potty. She hasn't yet gone to the bathroom since but she typically goes two to three hours between trips to the bathroom.
In local news it was approved that oil drilling can be done in SB again. Good for them. It should bring in some money. Some people are against it because of the environment. These are the same people that vote down taxes. So we have to get it somewhere and oil drilling it is and more power to them. I wish they could legalize Weed as well, not that I use it or think it should be, but frankly if it's no worse than alcohol why not get some money from it?
Tomorrow, Thursday and Friday I'm going to spend my workout pushing it because I have a wedding to go to and although I have no one to really impress by looking good I'd like to drop a few pounds so I can be comfortable with what I'm wearing. I mean it fit me when I was 10lbs heavier so obviously I'm not worried about that, but I don't mind looking a bit smaller in it. I'll have to figure out how to do my hair though. I also have to find the invitation. I wonder if we'll have to pay for parking? Hmmm.
Also seriously President Obama was not wearing "mom jeans" at that game. I'm not sure what people are making a fuss about.
