Twitter

I have now Tweeted. Twitted. Twatted. Whatever you call it.

It is interesting in concept. It relies too heavily on others, though.

If there were a way to smoosh all the *pages* you like to read together rather than just little bloops they feel like posting every few hours, that would be the Next Best Thing.

And every time I sit down with it, I can't think of a single thing I am *interested* in to look up/follow.

Is there anybody out there?

I just checked my list of blog links as well as my own blog and realized most hadn't been updated since 2009.

I am here to update.

I am weirded out now by public blogs with personal information. I am weirded out by Facebook, but I participate. I have yet to Twitter.

If you are reading this, maybe you want to know that I now live about 30 minutes from Montreal, though still in NY. I can see Canadian flags flapping at the border from my mailbox.

I have 3 kids and one more on the way, circa February 2013.

I am currently a SAHM. It is the best.

The.End

not pregnant

just an update b/c it's time. at the end of july i had a miscarriage.

apparently i am homozygous for C667T. still not exactly sure what that means. but if i get pregnant again, i'll need aspirin and amped doses of folic acid to carry to term. which isn't bad... could be much worse.

just after was horrible, sadness-wise.

by now i'm all right. i'm sure come january when i was due i'll be a mess again.

we aren't 'trying' again but we aren't NOT trying, either. so i guess we'll just wait and see what happens.

~ cqc

pregnant

yup, I am.

haven't gone to the dr. yet (appt 6/10) but pee test positive and blood test confirmed.

estimated due date: 1/15.

shhh! we aren't going to tell anyone until the illustrious 12-week mark!

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CT gay marriage

I just want to quickly comment on CT passing gay marriage, and CA getting all excited about voting on Proposition 8 in a few weeks.

I cannot believe in the United States of America that we can put forth a VOTE as to whether or not to discriminate against certain people.

Maybe we should have a vote over whether women should drive next.

*fluffs up the lining of the handbasket*

pix!

sorry, i suck.

so here are some pix that don't suck.

alex in some bubble wrap and james just hanging out...

it's only been 8 months or so...

okay, long story short, i ended up here today, and realized it's been quite some time since i've updated. so, for the three of you who actually checked this thing on a regular basis and have long since given up on the cq, here's to hope. :)

kids. my kids are cool. doing great. alex is a very smart and beautiful little girl, very feisty at times, sometimes acts 20, sometimes just 2. but either way, i love her. and james is coming along... not crawling yet, a little lazy, but he's a good boy.

i am getting laid off from my job at the end of this school year, so i'm looking for a new job right now. it's very frustrating and discouraging, so i'm trying to stay happy. we are moving closer to buffalo to cut down on our 45 min each commutes, wasting gas but more importantly, valuable family time.

i cannot wait until summer vacation. this school year can't possibly end fast enough for me. i want to just spend some time with my kids. friggin will is going to start kindergarten in september... now i feel like i've been around too long. hahaha

so... that's all... squeezing in jarrod's family while we still live within a stone's throw to most of them. probably only about two months left of that before we move again.

jarrod's convinced it is all for the better, because for some reason, he feels like he has this uncanny luck. i don't see it and i'm married to him, so maybe he's just an eternal optimist and i am the yang. oh, well.

at any rate, everyone is healthy and relatively happy. unstable, nervous, but pretty happy.

so if by chance you swept away the cobwebs in the doorway and made it back here, let me know how/what YOU are doing.

(pix of the kids upon request)

pix per puffy pleading

nice alliteration. yes.

anyway, here they are... alex and james, james and alex. sorry, no will pix... maybe this weekend when he comes again.

1 - big sister alex

2 - little brother james

3 - awww

the mother of all updates

well, i was traipsing around the internet as i tend to do sometimes (rarely of late because of the babes, though), and i found this guy's blog by searching for an old roommate of mine that i wasn't even particularly close with. so that tells you the level of distraction i'm going for here. completing the most abstract and random tasks, like finding every person i've ever known and seeing what they're up to now, probably means i have other things on my mind. oh, well.

anyway, i found this guy's blog and he said something about "white time" being, basically, a tendency to show up on a previously agreed-upon or stated time. and that "non-white time" was showing up not on time, often an hour or more late.

so then i commented on his blog about how i didn't understand where that phrase came from. (i tried to look it up, but came up with nothing. but that isn't the point right now, anyway.) then i realized he might go look at my blog in return, and further realized it hasn't been updated since forever.

so, for those out there that check in once in a while, and for mr. "white time," should you happen to show up, here is a brief synopsis of what i have done in the last month:

~ played with alex
~ squeezed out james
~ hung out with jarrod

now jarrod is back in school and i am home with the kids full time, until i return to work in november when the james is 3 months old.

oh, mr. "white time," i am a HS chemistry teacher, in case you were wondering.

what else... nothing else is very new. today is jarrod's birthday... i got him an autographed picture of joe montana. he liked it. and he had his birthday dinner. and now i'm up waiting for the next time the baby gets up (about 45 min from now) because i couldn't sleep 2.25 hrs ago when i put him down.

i might try to pop in here more often... i feel better and i haven't even said anything yet... watch this space...

more pix

i wish i had a pic of the sonogram clearly indicating it was a boy. it's very hard to believe they can actually see that level of detail. anyway, i don't have one. so here are a couple of alex pix. i was too lazy to connect the scanner, hence the glare of the camera flash on the easter bunny pic. she wasn't happy about him, but she still managed to take a halfway decent picture. (i had to hide her from the girl in front of us who was wailing and screaming in horror at the easter bunny.)

long time...

okay it's been a while.



i started a teaching job and i can't access any fun websites because of the filtering software.



but here is a pic of alex at her 1st bday party (pigtails). (2/18/07)



here is a pic of her about a month later (hair down).

don't tell your mom anything

my advice to the lot of you is never tell your mom anything. at least, not if she's anything like my mom. which means she's a professional nay-sayer. this woman never has anything nice to say. she never practices what she preaches, either, but that's enough cliches. let's talk about her barrage of negativity questions earlier this week that prompted me to say "well, you're being so very negative right now that i'd just rather not even talk to you. so i'm going to go." to which she responded a very mature "FINE, then!" and we hung up on each other.

i don't understand why she can't ever be happy for me. she always has to say "but, what about this?" "but, what about THAT?" and this was in relation to the JOB news.

i am an adult. i make my own decisions. and i think i'm making the decision to never tell my mom anything any more.

especially because she took "i'm telling YOU now because it's too soon to tell people, but i wanted you to know," to mean "go tell everyone you know." (obviously this part was related to the baby.)

eating everything

okay i'm not really eating everything but i probably would if i had more laying around. today i was going to be so good. i mean, just because i'm pregnant doesn't mean i can eat everything i want. (trust me, i did that last time and i'm still paying for it).

so today for breakfast i had a bowl of cereal. for snack, 4 slices of provolone. for lunch a salad with homemade imitation japanese hibachi restaurant dressing (yum!), and a snack size animal crackers.

i just ate a snack size teddy grahams. now i'm eating peanut butter out of the jar with my fingers for lack of utensils or other peanut butter vehicle.

i need to invest in more snacks.

and? i can't wait until march so i can have shamrock shakes. that is bad news.