Long time no see....

I have not posted here in a LONG time. Probably because it's way more fun to blog when you have an audience. Applause please.

A brief update:
Gan is a big boy. Pretty darn tall, and a badunkadunk like daddy. Right now he's in his room hummin' away refusing to nap. He needs to though, or I will start pulling out my hair. :P He's climbin' on everything, pushing every button, pulling every cord......and chewing on them too. Yep...he's a one year old all right. He my puddin' pop, and his giggles need to be collected in a box for safe keeping. :D

What else?

I am havin' this awful back/side pains for a while now. Thought it was a kidney stone, but the doc ordered some tests and it's not. Soooooooo no clue. Might just be muscle. :P PLUS when it's nearing that time of the month I get horrid cramps for days before I start and even days after I end. SO yea....somethings not right. :P If I do a lot during the day I'm just in pain all evening.....yea....sooooooooo.....I'm dying!!! :P Slightly exaggerating there. :P :P :P

If Todd doesn't get promoted soon the army will only let him be in for 15 yrs, and then we're out. That's a scary thought. SO he's gonna see if he can re enlist under a school option. We'll see how that works. More on that later......gotta go get that baby. :P

That is my life.....Gotta go get that baby..... ;)

Where have I gone?

Gannon is 6 monthes old!


I haven't posted in here in FOREVER. I did some on myspace again, cuz that's where I get the most responses. Sucks ass. ;)

SO this week I was getting cabin fever. Get me outta the house! Ahhhh! The walls are closing in!

I'd want to do so much during the day w/the abode, but Gan is doing this separation anxiety thing. I leave a room and he SCREECHES. It's a lovely high pitched shriek of horror flick proportions. If that made any sense. :P

What is he doing? Lots of activeness! Ahhhhhh! lol.

He likes his sippy cup, but doesn't quite tip it high enough to drink out of.
He babbles while examining his toys.
He's gettin' hair! And it's Daddy's color!
He's eatin' all his good baby foodness. Plus Mum mum rice crackers. Helps him grab food. :)
He'll try to hold his bottle, but again doesn't tip it high enough so he'll give up.
He'll walk around if I hold him up. He loves his walker. :P
Ummmmm...
His eyes aren't quite brown yet. They are still kinda hazel-ly.
He's TALL. So I've been told. A waitress today asked how old he was and when I told her she was flabergasted. She couldn't stop talking about his height.
I bought him an activity table for $10 on a yardsale site for the area. It rocks. I just took off the legs so he can play w/it on the floor for now.
He does this excited thing. He'll shreik and flail his hands....plus put in a little bounce.
He LOVES his big boy tub. He thinks water is awesome, and doesn't mind it in his face.
I LOVE morning grins...w/his excited dances....

As for me........meh. I need to find stuff to do for myself. Tomorrow I might do a spa day w/Sam, and then we're having a girly movie night at her abode.

JAC I have more capris for you!

Tidbits.

Gan has a bottom tooth comin' out. I was trying to find the tooth in his mouth w/my finger. He bit down and BAM..pokey. A tooth! He'd been chewin' like crazy, and fussy. :P Little boy's gettin' teeth. Awwwwww.

Gan likes rice cereal w/bananas, or peaches.

Gan has decided when he is tired, or cranky he will shriek.

What Gan thinks is funny: Playing w/the carpet, hands patting the floor, odd noises w/your tongue, pens dancing, laughing at him, kissy noises making train noises....basically everything.

I SWORE he said momma today. He goes around saying "ma", but that's just him trying out sounds. Then today I heard Momma. I SWORE I did. Probably not, but I can be delusional for a bit.

I want a Wii. Then I can get Wii Fit. I tried it out at this girl's abode I just met. It makes working out actually fun. Who would have thunk it.

There's this adorable long haired black cat that hangs out behind the fence. It's not quite grown, and it's super tame. I fed it pepperoni. I want it to be mine, but Todd is against it. :P I shall make it my outside pet. :D

I want our taxes back already!

I finished the first Twilight book. It's still written kinda meh, but the storyline is intriguing enough to go onto the next book. Bella gets all whiny and annoying "I want to be a vampire...vampire...why can't I be one??? I want, I want!!!" WHINNNNEEEEEEEE<--I really want to slap her whiny ass.

Twilight, and Dollhouse.

Gannon is my Sweet Pea. Though he doesn't LIKE sweet peas.......he'd rather eat sweet tators. :)

So I read a good 1 1/2 hours before bed last night. Twilight is gettin' a little more interesting. I think I'm halfway thru. I tend to skip the paragraphs where it's describing worthless stuff in detail. Like the forest....ok....there's trees and stuff.....get to the point. What I get from the story is Edward isn't a vampire that is usually portrayed. Hence, he goes to school. So sunlight doesn't burn him away. :P And his "clan" or whatever doesn't feed on humans....they go hunting for bears and mountain lions to help w/the "hunger". Plus he reads minds.....but for some reason he can't read Bella's. Which makes me believe later on she isn't a regular human. So I'm to the point where Bella and Edward are discussing him being a vampire. Bella isn't phased one bit. :P Odd shit. Plus she's all "inlove" w/him, not even knowing him long....but that's teenagers for yea. ;)





Joss Whedon is fabulous. Todd and I watched Dollhouse last week. It was decent. Lots of Whedon fans thought it was awesome. I wasn't AS impressed with the first show. I can't get past Eliza being another character other then Faith. There isn't the usual Whedon humor so far either. SO I'm gonna continue to watch it and see how it pans out. It's on FOX though, and they are notorious for cancelling television shows w/out giving them a chance to work out the kinks.





We're doing our taxes the 20th. Hopefully we'll get quite a bit back. With that we're hoping to pay off the washer/dryer, firestone, and possibly the truck. THEN I'm hoping to get Flo a giftcard or something for sending me Otto's clothes. She's sent me 2 pretty big boxes full so far, and I wanna show my gratitude. :)

Mmmm Mmmm Good.

Tonight is lazy supper night! Which means we will be having chicken patty sandwiches, and tator tots! *drools over the supper goodness*

I'm thinkin' of gettin' rid of myspace and joinin' back onto LJ.

I always "think" of gettin' rid of myspace, and not succeed. ;) There are peeps on there that still blog that I need to read, so I just haven't got rid of it quite yet.

Gan is totally cute. Duh. :P He wants to play w/everything. His toes are his favorite thing to put in his mouth. He laughs over everything. He wants his fingers in the dog's mouth. He shrieks w/delight. He babbles w/his tongue sticking out when he's gettin' hyper tired.

He's starting to sleep on his side. Gotta watch him and make sure he doesn't flip himself over yet.

Todd got me a rose, and I got him a big hershey kiss for Valentine's Day. We don't go all out, cuz our anniversary is the 20th. We'll do something cool then.

I bought meat at Dillions! :P That was my excitement of leaving the abode.

I started reading Twilight, and it's *zzzzzzz*. I heard it gets better, so we'll see. It's written kinda meh. I also heard the 2nd and 3rd books are better. Again we'll see. I'm just to the point where Edward offered to take Bella to Seattle. Yea, see not very far. :P

Time for food. laterz!

Mommy Clothing Curse, and aol's tv top 10...

The mommy clothing curse! I have basically lazied up in wearing sweats, and tees all day long....every day. I don't care how I look, or even attempt to look decent. :P Oh what has become of me! :P My hair is always in a pony, and I wear slippers.........
Who wants spit up on their good clothes anyway? ;) Well my "better" clothes anyway!
I should make the goal of the week be to dress in something other then what I described above. :P I should also make the goal of shaving my legs! Whoo hoo! 2 goals concerning the way I look! You can't get me to take down my pony though.......
I was reading AOL's top 40 television shows of the 90's. I don't wanna write out all 40, so I'll just do the top 10.

10. The Sopranos----They barely made the list, cuz the show started in 1999. It lasted 8 yrs. I never watched it, and really don't want to.

9. The Larry Sanders Show---92'-98'. Again never saw the show. Forgot it even exsisted until I saw it on the list.

8. Homicide: Life On The Streets----93'-99'. What is this show? Where was I? Oh wait, watching something else....

7. Roseanne---88'-97'. BEST show EVER. I think it should've been at least #2. It was freakin' hilarious, and easier to relate to then other shows.

6. The X-Files---93'-02'. Wow, it went pretty long huh? I actually enjoyed the first couple seasons, but then stopped watching. Wasn't a bad show, just lost interest.

5. Friends----94'-04'. It's amusing, and reruns a ton. Can't really diss the show, cuz I didn't hate it.......just annoyed w/all the reruns!

4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer---97'-03'. HAHA! My Buffy beat out Friends! Buffy is and will always be my favorite show of all time! It's hilarious and dramatic w/a supernatural kick.

3. The Simpsons---89'-present. His show was good the first 5 yrs or so, and now just needs to end.

2. ER---94'-09'. I actually loved watching it until Dr. Green died. After that a lot of the original cast disappeared, and I kinda stopped watching. Was a good doc drama.

1. Seinfeld---90'-98'. For such a popular show I thought it was on 10 yrs? Guess not. I've seen a few episodes, and they were mildly amusing. Not surprised it's #1 cuz America seemed to love it so much.....bleh.

I'll have to post my top 10 later....from this list I agree w/Roseanne and Buffy. :P

Gan's is sillyass.

Gan gets very excited when he sees the camera. He laughs and stares right at it for delightful pictures.

It's wild how a babes can be so different in just a week's time!

So Gan's sillyness is his babbling. He's definatly found out that talking is awesome. He'll shriek, squeal, and babble w/his tongue sticking out. So we have conversations now. Below is Gan during one of his babble sessions. :P Notice all the drool goodness....He wants his food NOW! :P He'll get upset if you don't get it to him fast enough. He gets REALLY excited about eating food off a spoon. Doesn't matter what it is, he'll eat it. He'll kick and go "mmmmmm, hmmmmmm!" loudly out of pure enjoyment.

He LOVES Lady Bird. He'll open his mouth really wide so she can lick inside his mouth! I try to catch her before she does it. Then he'll hold out his hands so she can lick his hands. He babbles at her w/excitement. Below is Lady and Gan bonding. :P

Gan is startin' to sit up decently on his own. Plus he'll lean against things standing up until his legs get tired and give out. :P

He is also thinking everything is hilarious. He touched the quilt on the couch and laughed. He laughed when Lady Bird sneezed. He laughed at his toy after he touched the string on it's head. He laughed at his jumper. He's just thinkin' the world is hilarious......

Saturday we had a family day. We just kinda stayed home in our jammy's. :P We took Lady and Gan for a walk, since it was a whoopin' 65 degrees outside! We walked to the grocery store w/Gan to get stuff for supper, and Gan was memorized the whole way.

He's gettin' so big so fast. :P

What else is new? NOTHING! :P Well I am peeved cuz they are giving 7500 to people who bought their homes between April 08'-July 09'.....we bought our house in March 08'. JUST missed it! Grrrrrrr! That would have been sweet. We get our taxes done the 20th. :P Gonna pay of debt, and possibly get me a diff. car. :D

Anything else? Not really..............

A LONG week.

Finally the week is ending! This week just seemed long, and really uneventful. I had a daily routine everyday, and nothing changed. :P Except today....

My day was interrupted by taking Todd to work and picking him up. Not a big deal right? Wrong-o. Both times ran into Gan's naps. SO I had a cranky-ass babes who got a total of 1 1/2 hours of naptime for the whole day. :P Oy vey. Now I see why babies are on a schedule...take them off and it's chaos!

Now when Gan is SUPER tired he'll babble REALLY loud and do his little shrieking noises. Yes, he's found out he has a voice....and it goes HiGh. He could so do the girly screams in a bad horror flick. He's off his eczema ointment this week, so his skin is flaring up bad. :( It's very sad.....

I started gathering and pricing potential yardsale stuff. :D So far it's mostly clothes....and a dvd stand. Whoo Hoo, show me the money! :P .50 here.....$1 there......I'll be rollin' in the moo-la.

My goal is to buy a ottoman w/storage inside for Gan's toys. I love storage! Organization is fun!

Did I mention Clean House is an awesome show??? :P

Scrapblog w/Gannon.

*inner snore*

He's Gan playin' w/his new blocks......He's such a sweetie. What he's doing now is babbling. He'll wake up in the mornin' and babble in his crib until I get him. He'll also babble at his bottle. :P Plus he's lovin' sweet potatoes. He'll kick his feet like crazy for a bite! :P

I'm TIRED. I have no idea why I would be so tired and achy. It's like I'm pregnant again....oh hells no. *crossing fingers for the curse this month*

Yesturday I had a girly day w/Sam. We went to Topeka! Ate at Ruby Tuesdays and discussed our drama and non-drama filled lives. Guess which one mine was?

After that we checked out the mall. WAY better then Manhattan's by FAR. I am now in love w/Burlington Coat Factory "we're more then great coats!". It's two stories full of cheap great stuff. They have a HUGE baby depot area. Sam and I went crazy......

We then checked out this flea market/huge yardsale place called Joyland. Our kind of store! LOTS of discarded junk for our taking! I found lots of old trunks I adored, PLUS they had futons! I need one! They had 8 Tracks too......lots of old crap everywhere! *faints*

We found the Salvation Army but it was closed. :(

We ended the day w/her husband mad cuz he had the kids all day and couldn't "handle" it. Geez. He needs to buck up and deal cuz she's w/this kiddoes ALL THE TIME, and he freaks out if he has them 5 hours alone. I felt sorry for her going home. My hubby was mad cuz I didn't get back in time for him to get a haircut. :P Geezzzzz....So besides those things Sam and I had a lovely day. :P

I need to sort thru a lot of stuff to have a GIGANTIC yardsale! :P Well big anyway...

Wallpaper of the day.......

Just colorful little creatures. :)

Laziness.

We are offically guest free for awhile now. I'm tired. *zzzzzzz* It was fun havin' family around, as always. Sis and I finally had a girly day today! We got haircuts and went shopping! Horray! Well my shopping consisted of diapers, toilet paper, baby wipes...essentials like that. Target is fun to shop at when all you have is Wal Mart in your area. Different things to look at! Target has the cutest baby stuff too. Kudos Target....kudos.

Aria was trying to bottle feed Gan yesturday. :D

We think Gan is teething. He's beginning to be quite cranky, and always wants something in his mouth. He's droolin' like a leaky faucet.

Gan loves squash.

I need to start scrapbooking again. It's gettin' myself started that's the problem. Once I start it'll be ok....but it's gettin' the motivation to do so!

Todd and I are both sittin' on the couch, w/our feet up, tv on, and laptops on our laps. Now that's what I call a good lazy time.....

Gotta make my calls tomorrow to friends since I've been mia for a week or so....

Dawn is heading to Korea tomorrow. :( I hope she buys lots of good cheap electronics....and purses. :D And doesn't eat dog.....

Apple crisp anyone?

Today is a better day.

Gan is doing his naps pretty well today! He slept from 8:15pm-4:30am before wanting a snack. Then he got up around 7:45am and started our day! He's been sleepin' an hour each nap, and only crying a couple minutes until he plops to sleep. Better day for sleepin' Gan-o.

I'm obsessed w/this site called Ft. Riley Yard Sales. I have a free account for a month and I can post all my shit! I've been posting stuff Gan doesn't fit anymore. So far I've made about $6.50. It's way fun having a yard sale online. :P Whatever I don't sell I'll just sell at my "real" yard sale. :D Yard sales RULE.

So I want to do an aeorbics class in the evening. I just gotta find one onpost that's free! I need to get my butt into shape. :P As in make it smaller....and this gut. I want to fit into my summer capris! Oy vey. So my goal is to find a class, and convince Sam to go w/me. ;) That should be easy cuz she wants to work out too....though she doesn't need to. :P Damn that young people's metabolism. ;) I miss eating whatever I want........

My sweet tooth dessert has been Jello w/Fat Free Cool Whip. Fat Free ALL the way....

We have my sis, bil, and niece coming for a 5 days or so. Guess what? Our groceries budget is only $150 to feed all of us. SO it's time to get creative w/cheap food. Plus I gotta try to fix our big air mattress, cuz for some reason it leaks air......and I don't know where......

Here's Gan in his cute hats. :P

Wallpaper of the day...Friday.

This wallpaper is called Utopia Land. Can you see why? Rainbows, and blue skies! Love all around! White clouds and butterflies! Birds and sunshine!

Don't understand the stars really. :P

Wallpaper of the day....Thursday.

Castle! I was just thinking "Gee I'd like to see a castle up close and personal." So on that thought here is the wallpaper of the day!

I especially like the castle's reflection in the water. BEAUTIFUL!

Gan's Sleeping Habits.

Up and down. Up and down......Oy vey.

Gan was on a good sleep schedule, and this week he's decided to go against everything we've been training him to do. :P

We didn't even have to sleep train him much. The cry out method wasn't even used, becuz he was going right to bed. I thought it was odd he was going down so easily. Now he's decided to put up a fight at bedtime. What's hard is his bedroom is what we walk thru to get to our bedroom. So it's pretty hard to block out his crying, especially since Todd has to get up at 4:15am. So this week has been a challenge. We need to get him moved into the other room as soon as it warms up!

I miss his going to bed at 8pm, waking up between 5-6 for a snack, and then goin' right back to bed for a couple more hours. Oh Gan WHY go against this now?!?!?! *sighs* ;)

Last night he fell asleep at 8:30pm. Got up around 1am cuz he kicked off his covers and was chilly. Went back to sleep maybe around 1:40ish. Got up again around 4:15am cuz Todd was stomping thru his room. Went back to sleep around 4:45am. Got up AGAIN at 5:45am for a snack. Went back to bed around 6:15 and slept til 8am. It was a rocky night.

Plus! He's not easily goin' down for his naps anymore! He'll take mini naps thru the day. Only sleeping around an hour at a time. Stinker. I was readin' a book Jac gave me and it said that was pretty normal, so I'm not too worried about that.

We're havin' company soon, so we'll have 2 crying babies.....cuz I'm afraid mine will wake up the other. :P

On a better note Gan likes Green Beans as well as Carrots. Mmmmm...mushy veggie slop.

Gan is also today deciding that when mommy leaves the room it is horrid! "nooooo, pick me up! pick me up!" It's just one of those days.....

Gan likes his exersaucer!

Wallpaper of the day--Tuesday

Wallpaper of the day is a row of beautiful, colorful houses in a tropical setting.

I would kill to own one of these abodes.

Very Vibrant!

Wallpaper of the day.....

I have a favorite wallpaper site. It has hundreds of fabulous wallpaper for one's desktop. Here is what is on my desktop today.

A Four Day Weekend...

Todd had a four day weekend. The ups and downs.......

Todd needs to get out of gaming mode. I was in Iowa too long perhaps. He'll just jump on the stupid computer and play his game til I yell at him to get off. Hello! Baby needs fed! Help me w/shit! :P Good thing we had this four day weekend, cuz that shit stopped fast. :) Mean ol' wifey I am.....

We had a lovely discussion, and he began to understand. It seems his mind just couldn't comprehend why I was getting upset. So in the end the weekend ended just fine. That's a lot of "ends" in that sentence.....

Guess what??? Saturday Todd took the baby to a friend's house for 4 hours! I was home alone! What did I do w/my time? I was brain dead. It seems I have forgotten what I liked doing by myself. How sad is that? I'd lost who I was as an individual for the moment, cuz I'm getting used to just being "mom". This is what I did: Ate a sandwich. Played a couple games online. Cleaned the house. Talked on the phone. Watched the Style network. Almost took a nap. Wanted Todd and Gan to come back......:P I got bored. AFTER they got back I was thinking "well, I could've read my book, worked on my scrapbook, and did a scrapblog." DOH!

I think James Earl Jones is the announcer on the Inauguration. Or a sports announcer....

Also during the 4 day Todd and I took baby for a walk twice. We have this doo-hickey thing you strap on yourself and carry the baby infront of you so he can look around. It was funny, cuz Gan would kick his feet during the walk as if to say "GO FASTER!" The second walk we took Lady as well. Our little family walk was refreshing, and quite the "kodak" moment. :P

Todd and I are addicted to Game Show Network. So many gameshows! So little time!

More tomorrow........