Pain

I hurt today. Especially tonight. My hips are killing me. Its hard to walk.

Finding a Place to Poop

Christian has been sick. And such a joy to be around. And I mean that in the most sarcastic of ways.

He went running into his room crying. About what I don't know.

I waited about 15 minutes, then went in there. He was standing there naked. He had taken out all of his clothes in the dresser.

I had to stop myself from bursting out laughing. I asked what he was doing.

Him: "I'm trying to find a place to poop in private."

Me: "Why don't we go to the potty and poop in the toilet? If you need privacy, I will turn around."

Him: "No, I need a place in here to poop."

Mind you, we are still potty training. I haven't even reached the poop in the potty stage. I don't know where he got that from.

Me: "OK. I know you need a place to poop. But the best place to poop is in the toilet. If you are having a really hard time, and don't want to poop in the toilet, you can poop in your pull up. But please don't poop in the dresser or under the bed."

Where do they get this stuff from.

B is For Boy

Last night Christian was taking a bath and we working on his letters. I showed him a "B".

I said: "B is for boy."

He said: "I'm a boy."

Me: "That's right. What am I?"

Him: "You're a mommie."

Well, I guess I am if you look at it like that.

Its Official

I forgot to post this, what with breaking my arm and everything.

We got Christian's revised social security card in. On July 1. It has his official name on it. Its all official.

Heart Attack

My dad started complaining about having chest pains Wednesday night around 8:30. My sister called 911, and they did an EKG. Said it looked abnormal and took him to the ER. They said his enzymes were way out of whack. They told my mom that they would do an angioplasty on Thursday.

We did not know when they were going to do it. I called mom at 6:30 and woke her, she wanted to be at the hospital early to be there for whenever they took him down. She got there at 8:00, and they said there taking him to do the procedure. I got there just in time to give him a kiss and say I loved him.

Two hours later, doc said he had a moderate heart attack. There was blockage in the main artery going to the heart on the left. Put in a splint and immediately he was doing better. There were two little arteries in the middle that were completely blocked. They had slowly closed up over time. That is why he did not feel it. They bypassed themselves. There was nothing he could do, nor worth it.

His legs have something going on, but not life threatening. When he recovers from this, he will have to go back to get another angioplasty done to the legs to see what is happening.

He would not stop bleeding yesterday. He had to stay in recovery for 4 extra hours. Because he is so thin, they were having a hard time. He finally got back to his room, and got to eat.

He is doing much better and will recover. He is 72. It was a rough day. I was totally exhausted and so was my mom. But I don't care, because he is better. I was OK tomorrow when I got more sleep. I went to bed at 8:15 and was asleep when my head hit the pillow.

Broken Right Elbow

I broke my right elbow on July 7. The second to last day of my vacation. I have not been able to type anything to update until about 1 week ago. Also at work, they started blocking blogger.com and I could not get on and post from work. Then, our Internet was down at home. What is weird is I was able to get on and post this from work.

I broke my elbow racing with Christian in the middle of the street. About 8:30 that night. I did it a few times, then told him it would be my last time. Was it ever! My left leg gave out, and down I went. On my left knee, then right knee, then down on my wrists. My right wrist took most of the fall. My head was close to the cement, I turned it and scrapped my left eyebrow almost off, and bruised my eye.

I was laying in the middle of street. Almost passed out. Told Christian to run and get Daddy. Jon thought I was faking it. I could not get up for some time.

My left eye had a black eye on it. Just in the lid. I could hide that pretty well with makeup. I love makeup for that very reason. All I had to do was blend in the eye a little and make the right eye match.

I already had a doctor's appointment on Thursday, so I did not go to the emergency room. I hurt like hell all over. Especially my right arm. I could not get dressed or anything you take for granted.

They took x-rays at the doctor and found the broken elbow. I have been seeing a hand/arm specialist.

I had my mouse switched to the left. It was very frustrating learning to work with my left arm. Stuff that took me minutes, would take an hour. By the end of the day, I simply could not go on anymore. I usually left at 3:00. Frustrated and in pain.

I am healing nicely. The bone looks good. There is a little pain, but that is from a little spot on my right wrist that I did not know was there because I just switched back to the right mouse. Discovered that when I could use my right hand more. So, by the end of the day, I am usually in a lot of pain.

Christian and I have been sticking to games. We are getting pretty good at Spongebob Squarepants Battle for Bikini Bottom. I walk in the door and he says: "I've got the game set up for us." I start laughing. Change, and we start playing the game.

I started therapy yesterday. I have to do specific exercises to make sure the elbow does not freeze up.

All is good.

Problem Solved

One more day at work and I am off for 8 days. Can't wait.

On another positive note, the girl at work that I have complained about before that causes all the trouble, quit. We are all jumping for joy. Solved our problem for us. I am glad there will be no more making up stories and spreading gossip. Now I don't have to come home every night and do a lot of praying so I don't treat her badly. The praying started to work, and now she is gone. I was having a lot of trouble dealing with the fact that she is such a liar.

She just got a new car, and told all of that she was having electrical trouble. I told Mike all along that she was lying. She was interviewing. I was right. She called in late yesterday morning saying her car was broken. She went to do the final touches on her new job.

I just learned that she told someone else here that she was going to North Carolina for a week. Then on to Florida for a month. Then back home, or where ever when done with Florida.

The lies, oh the lies.

Melt Down

I have been feeling good lately.

Last night Christian had a melt down. Poor thing. He was tired. He woke around 5:30 and did not take a nap. When I got home, he was hungry and tired. We fed him, and I played with him for about 30 minutes. The tiredness started to kick in and he started getting angry because I could not understand what he wanted me to do. It was hard to understand because he was crying! He wanted to take his train track and put the Hot Wheels track on it so the train could go on both tracks. I told him it would not work. He tried it and low and behold, it did not work. He proceeded to have his melt down.

I decided it was bath time and bed time at 6:20. I could not take any more, and neither could Christian. He cried and screamed the whole bath. It was so much fun. You should have been there. Jon was getting upset because Christian was screaming and crying. I told him to go outside, because this is how it was going to be until I got him out of the bath. Once I got him out of the bath, I wrapped him in a towel, and held and rocked him. He stopped crying. He was so upset. Sometimes with little boys they get so upset, they can not stop crying. So you have to soothe them. He needed his Mommy for that.

I read him a story. He actually made it through 2 books. I turned off his light, and turned on the night light. He looked at me and said, "I tan't go to sleep." I walked over and told him he could, cuddled him close, off to sleep he went.

I was never so happy to see anyone go to sleep. He needed it.

Then Mommy and Daddy got some quality time together.

Disappoint

People always seem to disappoint me. Our department secretary is not happy and looking for a new job. Why you ask? Because she is being asked to do something that she does not want to do. Poor thing.

Let me give you the back up on the activity. We have uniforms, shirts, etc., that go to our guys who work in the shop and offshore. It is being ordered under our department code and then charged back to each person's job number when they get new clothing. We are doing this because we are going to a warehouse accounted system. We have built a new warehouse onto our building. In a few months all the clothing will be in the warehouse, given out by the warehouse. We will have nothing to do with it after that. But in the mean time, someone has to do it, and she is our support. So......

She is complaining that she is better than giving out clothes. She has worked for 40 years, she should not have to do this. She is not a clothing store clerk. There is no where for her to move up in this department. She is not getting paid very much. This was only supposed to be a temporary job.

Let me give you back up to all those statements.

We used to have an HSE person that no longer works here, that used to give out the clothing. And this person used to complain saying the same things. I went to college, why am I giving out clothing, etc., complain, complain, complain. Secretary said, "Who does she think she is saying she is not going to what the company asks of her?" Is that the pot calling the kettle black or what?

She accepted the wages offered her when the position was given to her. Then raises were coming out 3 months later and she got one. Normally we do not give out raises except yearly. The only reason she got one was because our boss got it for her. She has gotten a raise every year she has been here.

There are plenty of places for her to move up to. All she has to do is take the initiative and ask. She also needs to take the initiative and find out what each job entails, then get the training needed to do the job.

She told me when she got this job that she was a real estate agent and wasn't making any money, and needed to do something else. Temporary, does not sound like it to me. I asked her when her 3 months were up if she wanted to be hired permanent, she said yes. So, she was. She said she would go back to real estate if she had to. Boy, I bet she would make a killing there!

She was so mad about the clothes last Thursday, that she would not even talk to me. Now, I have nothing do with the clothing. That is all our bosses thing. Rude.

Let's talk about earlier this year. She took off starting in February 2 months leave of absence because of personal business happening at home. She was worried that she would lose her job.

She just got back from vacation. She took off last Friday and Monday.

Even though I will be sorry to see her leave, I wish she would just get it over with and go. She has threatened to leave 4 times now. Go already.

This all just amazes me. I have been here 14 years, I have not had that much time off this year, and I have a lot of time.

Social Security

I sent in the paper work to get Christian's social security card changed to his new name about 2 weeks ago. I just it back with a letter stating that they need MY identification. Either my driver's license, state ID, or passport. Well, I can not give them my driver's license, so I am sending them my passport. I have no plans to leave the country soon. I guess I can chalk this one up to my mistake. Maybe someday I will have all the papers back with his name on it.