today has actually been a really good day… seeing that i hate mondays and i am usually dragging all day long, it has been a pretty good monday so to speak… didn’t get much good sleep… shortie wouldn’t go to sleep last night so she hung out with ed outside in the living room..  other than that, woke up earlier than usual, got to work almost half an hour early even though i left home at the usual time..  requested the day after labor day off and my boss approved it !!!     ed and i were talking yesterday and we decided to go to chicago for labor day weekend.  so i was scouring the internet yesterday and found a great price for a roundtrip flight from san jose, ca to chicago, ill…  $188.40…  the best thing of all is that i have enough miles to get a ticket basically for free — i just have to pay the $5.00 for it… shortie gets to fly for free til she hits the big number 2…  i can’t wait!!! i’ve never been to chicago except to catch a connecting flight….  all i remember is that o’hare airport is huge and i got lost…  hehe…  i can’t wait to sample all of the food that ed and his friends from the midwest keep raving about…  i think i might just eat my way around chicago…  lol…

it’s been a bad week for shortie…  not only did she have hand, foot and mouth disease… she’s got a fractured clavicle… also known as a collarbone…  i think she got that when she was in a drug induced state from the tylenol with codeine the doctor prescribed for her on tuesday…  she was taking a nap on my bed and she rolled off… i think she landed on her left shoulder, hence the fracture in her clavicle…  i felt so bad for her yesterday that i let her eat all the junk food she wanted… i know that’s not very responsible parenting but she was having such a horrible time this past week that it was the least i could do to keep this little bruiser child a little bit of fun… 

it has been so miserable lately.. shortie is so sick… and of course she got ed and i both sick… but it’s worse off for her because she has hand. foot and mouth disease… not the ones that animals get… that’s hoof and mouth… but the ones that little kids get from a viral infection… it affects them on the feet, hands and mouth… for shortie her symptoms seem to be sores in mouth (tongue, under her tongue and in the back of her throat), her bum bum and her feet…  needless to say she is cranky and fussy and miserable… ed and i have been trying to do everything we can to make her as comfortable as possible… watching all of her favorite dvds (dora the explorer and elmo/sesame street), eating food she usually doesn’t eat ….   although it doesn’t seem to last for very long…  her diet as of late is as follows:  ice cream, yogurt, juices, milk, water, etc…  you would think that would be a kid’s dream but she’s still miserable… needless to say ed and i haven’t gotten much sleep…. 

bored out of my mind yet again…  watching sesame street on tv with my daughter…  so here i go again doing one of those quizzes just for the hell of it…

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so ed and i took shortie to the park near lake merritt in oakland….  we were supposed to go to children’s fairyland there but we ended up just walking around the park, the playground, the gardens and the area were the ducks were posting… it was cool….  why is it that my daughter is the only baby that was crying and having a fit when i put her in the swing and tried to push her in it?  she never did that before but now she is….  i don’t get it… is this another phase we have to go through and overcome?  anyway, ed and i were patient with her and tried several times until it was obvious that she was way too freaked out… maybe i should take her to the park more often… sheesh… 

anyway, here are some pictures that i took with my camera phone…

the picture on the left is one of shortie and ed…  she looks like she is tilting her head to the left a little and posing… sheesh.. what a little ham…  the one on the right is one i took looking down at her and she’s looking up…  lol… these crack me up… 

it’s been a really long and stressful day… and the funny thing is that it’s not even about work this time…  it’s more personal… well has to do with someone in my family… i don’t think i handled it very well.. but i guess being the eldest of my siblings, i guess you could say what she did was not so smart and i am definitely upset and disappointed with her…  but this time i don’t know what to do to get her out of her jam… the only thing that i can do is just give her suggestions on what to do… i don’t know what to do being in northern california whilst she is in LA…  i only hope that this situation blows away quickly…  lord knows she’s been through enough stuff… she just needs to learn life lessons the hard way i guess…  and all i can do is just stand there and be there if she needs me… but i can’t bail her out everytime.. and that’s what is hard to stomach right now…    i just hope it works out in her favor and this blows over quickly…  argh… 

on a happier note, my second copy of the common cd came in the mail today…    let’s hope no one tries to steal this one.. .otherwise i’m going to hurt someone…seriously…

i’m so irritated!!!! i come to work today all psyched because i left my common “be” cd here…  when i turned on my windows media player to listen to it, it’s not in the freaking cd drive!!!!  someone stole it!!!  or maybe i’m a dork and took it home but i don’t think so because the cd case is on my desk.. i know i would have put the cd in the case to take it home… i’m so freaking irritated and mad!!!! 

when we were coming back from breakfast this morning…  decided to take the day off since i haven’t been feeling well this past weekend when we were in LA…  hella congested, sneezing and my throat is achy….  we were listening to the new common cd “be” in the car…  shortie was dancing and bobbing her head when the song “go” came on…  after awhile she started to sing along to the song… “go, go, go, go, go…..”  ed and i were really surprised and pleased that she was taking such an interest in music and was trying to imitate and sing along to it…  needless to say we were quite proud…    this kid really likes hip hop music…  it’s probably because i was listening to so much of it when i was pregnant… wasn’t following the suggested recommendation of listening to classical music…  hehe… 

been working out at 6am in the god awful morning tuesdays and thursdays…  going to a spinning class so i can spin off the remaining baby fat remnants…  i hate that when i wear my jeans that the shit just wants to hang off the side of me, flowing over my jeans…  it’s grotesque to me…  spinning on the weekends too.. both saturday and sunday…  at least that’s the plan…  did spinning yesterday morning.. then went to yoga class at lunch time… needless to say i was spent energy-wise…  i’m doing this crazy working out thing because i really want and mentally need to get back to where i used to be… i just feel so out of sorts when i don’t have a steady workout regimen…  it helps with the stress levels, the insanity of life… i admit it.. i’m a natural high junkie…  i don’t like it when i have “wobbly parts” as bridget jones would say…  i miss the taut tummy, the toned arms and legs…  the curves and dips of the back…  the butt… oh the butt.. where did my butt go?  it’s gone south… flat… like a pancake…  i miss my pilates sessions.. i miss my pilates instructor… she needs to come back from new orleans…  so i can get beaten up, brought down and then built back up…  it’s kind of sadistic i guess … or was it masochistic?  i can never get those two straight…  it works i tell you!!!  and i’m a true beliver/disciple of joseph pilates… 

sorry for the randomness…  i just need to vent i guess..  i’ll get to my goal.. i’m giving myself a realistic goal of a year… but going to have some status checks every 3 months… it’s do-able.. i just need to be very disciplined and dedicated about it…  i think i’ve hit the low point where i will do this continuously…  wish me luck…