Core Dump

Gosh...where do I start? So many things to blog about and I haven't had time to do them all in separate entries. So I guess I'll cram them all into one! Let's see...the GOOD highlight of Christmas was spending a wonderful evening with Ben's family at the Oxford Hotel downtown Denver and then spending the next few days at a bed and breakfast in Buena Vista on the Arkansas River. The BAD part of Christmas was that the time at the B&B was too short and the hotel was haunted. Yes, like with ghosts. I didn't find this out until AFTER the fact (otherwise I would never have gone), but I knew something was up when we went to bed Saturday night and couldn't sleep. So we've been knee deep in spiritual warfare the last few days.

New Years Eve was spent with my family in Denver. It was pretty uneventful, and we were all in bed by 9pm. But the neighbors graciously woke us up for the fireworks at midnight...until 12:30am.... Then New Years Day my sister and brother-in-law and their two girls Emily and Lizzy came over for our traditional dinner of black-eyed peas, ham and cornbread. I also spent most of the day (and the day before) eating peel-and-eat shrimp and cocktail sauce. I probably ate my weight in shrimp! Okay...maybe Adri's weight...but it was still a lot! Then after dinner I was putting the food away, and there was shrimp left over. That just can't happen! So I popped a few more in my mouth and just jokingly said, "Somebody come out here and stop me from eating theeeeeeeese!!!!!" And my mother. My LOVING mother yelled out in front of everyone in the house, "What's the matter? Don't you have any self control?" You could literally hear the record screach to a stop. If you need some background on my relationships with food and my mother, click here. As my brother-in-law Michael says, I had SEVERAL hot-sauce words on my tounge. I REALLY need a counselor...NOW....

On the second Adri and I took a trip to the doctor. When it was all said and done, she's tall (30 inches), lean (21 lbs) and smart (18 in head circ.)and very healthy. Her pediatritian's only advice was to work with her on her words since she tends to grunt and point more than try to talk. I don't know...maybe those grunts ARE words and I just am not understanding them. My appointment with the OB/GYN was a little more in depth (no pun intended). He removed a benign pollup from my cervix about the size of tip of my finger. Despite his name (Dr Payne), I like this doctor. He was readily willing to show me what he removed. I know, most people think that's really gross. But remember--my sister is a nurse. We used to watch open heart surgeries on TV at Northland fro fun! He also gave me a referral to their reproductive endocrinologist to manage my PCOS as well as any fertility treatments or meds that I need. I have MOPS this morning, so I'll try to get that appointment made by tomorrow so we can get going on trying to get pregnant.

And my daughter is now up, so I'll probably have to write more later. Oh yes! In all my "spare time" (we ALL know this doesn't really exist), I'm trying to teach myself cascading style sheets. I've only learned enough to edit some of my existing pages, but I'm pretty proud of what I DID manage to do. www.dakuipers.com/aboutme. That particular page has been not loading right, and somehow I managed to fix it as I was changing the more "decorative" properties.

posted by Brandi at 4:34 PM