I need to update more often, or get a more boring life.
Unless I write a journal everyday, my head becomes a jumbled mess of EVERYTHING that has happened. I capitalize "everything" as every time I turn around more craziness happens. i will try to make it into bullet points to see if I remember everything.
• Clara came home from the hospital, after recovering from RSV. The above photo is when she was born two months ago. She is growing like a weed and is now over 10 lbs.
• With less than a week left to our lease, we found a three bedroom duplex for rent just outside the edge of town. The main floor has a living room with a fireplace. a small kitchen, two bedrooms and the bathroom. The basement has the third bedroom, a laundry room and a large storage area. We signed the lease and paid the security deposit with the last of our savings.
• Over the last weekend of February, I moved everything all by myself. Sydney and mom helped with the lighter boxes, but I moved all the furniture and heavier boxes singlehandedly. Most of the boxes are stacked up in the dinning room. We have been slowly unpacking, but the dinning room is still more of a storage room.
• We have a fair sized backyard. On the other side of our backyard is a farm that has a field that looks as if it was used to grow vegetables last fall. Canada geese and sand hill cranes love to sit in the field. On the other side of the field are three horses. In the spring, just within a few yards of our house there will be a farm produce stand.
• The only problem with our house is that there are so many trees and our house in not well marked, so everybody has trouble finding it. It took over a week for the cable/internet guy to connect us because they "could not find the place". How can the pizza guy and my mom (whom is not the best with directions (no offense)) find the place after getting lost and having to search for a while, find the house, but the cable guy just gives up? So since we have Voice-Over-IP, we did not have a phone for the first week we were here.
• The apartment management is pulling some bullshit that we trashed the place and is trying to collect on damages. Most of the stuff they listed as damages were like that way when we moved in or items we called to have them fixed and maintenance never came. It is just one more reason why Westbrook Apartments in Whitmore Lake, MI are complete soulless bastards that are just trying to jerk you out of your money, even if it means lying through their teeth and cheating you every chance they get.
• The first week of March, after we moved and the cable guy still trying to find the house, we watched a lot of DVDs. When the kids were in bed, we watched all our back logged podcasts on our laptop. That is we did that until the power cord broke. That is right, my power cord for my iBook is broken AGAIN. Let me tell you, if you buy these things from Apple they are about $120. Last time my cord broke, a really nice guy at work gave me one of the spare cords they had lying around. Now I am out of work and I have the feeling that they are not asking me back because my temp agency is too damn expensive. I guess I could go on eBay, but all of my savings went to the security deposit for the house. So damn! Anybody else have a spare cord lying round? Maybe donate $40 so I can buy one on eBay?
• In the middle of the first week of March, Sydney started getting abscess under her arm. She also complained of sinus pain and fever. It turns out that she had MRSA, Group B Strep and three other bacteria. MRSA is a type of staph invection. Sydney could have gotten it when she was in the hospital when she gave birth and when Clara was in the hospital for RSV. Sydney was also recovering from a post-pardom infection and bronchitis and was on an antibiotic that I am told made it easier for her to get infected somehow. She also had her upper lip swelling to about ten times it regular size due to a combination of the infection and an allergic reaction to hair dye. She went to the Emergency Room and was admitted to the hospital with IV antibiotics for almost a week. The doctors said that if she had waited one more day to be looked at, that she could have died. Sydney is home and is still on oral antibiotics.
• My brother, Allen, bought a new car a few months ago. Not knowing what to do with his old Ford Explorer, Allen decided to give it to me for $1. This is great since I had to sell my old car to pay the bills back in November. Now I will be able to go to work (if ever I get a job) without having to take the minivan to work and leaving Sydney and the kids with no car. The only problem is the same with the power cord ... I do not money after paying the security deposit on the house to pay for the registration and transfer fees (not to mention the insurance). So this leaves me exactly where I was before when I sold the Saturn.
• Emily has had a cough that lasted for a while. When she spiked a fever last Saturday we took her to the doctors (who thankfully have weekend hours so we did not have to go to the ER). The doctor said that she thought Emily had pneumonia and put her on antibiotics. On Tuesday she was back to normal.
• Monday, Sydney went to her Skywarn weather spotter class. This is the seventh year she has went. It makes her really happy to do this and she is eagerly waiting for bad weather. Now that we have a basement, I feel safer, but I still hope a tornado does NOT hit us. Crazy weather people!
• Yesterday, when Sydney was picking up the twins from pre-school, Emily tripped and fell on her head. This is a big problem since Emily is on Coumadin, an anticoagulant drug. Emily had four surgeries and countless procedures two-and-a-half years ago when it was found that she had a blood clot in her portal vein to her liver. Coumadin is keeping the blood flowing through her Mesocaval Shunt that redirects blood around the clot. However, the problem with Coumadin is that Emily has a increased risk of death from a brain bleed if she has a head trauma. Luckily, Emily has set a lot of precedents at University of Michigan Hospital that they have changed policy and how they treat patients with simular health problems. UMHS recently made a Coumadin protocol that got her in the ER and diagnosed in no time at all.
The CT scan showed that there was no bleeding and Emily was sent home.
Then there is all the other things that are too numberuos for me to remember right now to post. Another update soon.
• Clara came home from the hospital, after recovering from RSV. The above photo is when she was born two months ago. She is growing like a weed and is now over 10 lbs.
• With less than a week left to our lease, we found a three bedroom duplex for rent just outside the edge of town. The main floor has a living room with a fireplace. a small kitchen, two bedrooms and the bathroom. The basement has the third bedroom, a laundry room and a large storage area. We signed the lease and paid the security deposit with the last of our savings.
• Over the last weekend of February, I moved everything all by myself. Sydney and mom helped with the lighter boxes, but I moved all the furniture and heavier boxes singlehandedly. Most of the boxes are stacked up in the dinning room. We have been slowly unpacking, but the dinning room is still more of a storage room.
• We have a fair sized backyard. On the other side of our backyard is a farm that has a field that looks as if it was used to grow vegetables last fall. Canada geese and sand hill cranes love to sit in the field. On the other side of the field are three horses. In the spring, just within a few yards of our house there will be a farm produce stand.
• The only problem with our house is that there are so many trees and our house in not well marked, so everybody has trouble finding it. It took over a week for the cable/internet guy to connect us because they "could not find the place". How can the pizza guy and my mom (whom is not the best with directions (no offense)) find the place after getting lost and having to search for a while, find the house, but the cable guy just gives up? So since we have Voice-Over-IP, we did not have a phone for the first week we were here.
• The apartment management is pulling some bullshit that we trashed the place and is trying to collect on damages. Most of the stuff they listed as damages were like that way when we moved in or items we called to have them fixed and maintenance never came. It is just one more reason why Westbrook Apartments in Whitmore Lake, MI are complete soulless bastards that are just trying to jerk you out of your money, even if it means lying through their teeth and cheating you every chance they get.
• The first week of March, after we moved and the cable guy still trying to find the house, we watched a lot of DVDs. When the kids were in bed, we watched all our back logged podcasts on our laptop. That is we did that until the power cord broke. That is right, my power cord for my iBook is broken AGAIN. Let me tell you, if you buy these things from Apple they are about $120. Last time my cord broke, a really nice guy at work gave me one of the spare cords they had lying around. Now I am out of work and I have the feeling that they are not asking me back because my temp agency is too damn expensive. I guess I could go on eBay, but all of my savings went to the security deposit for the house. So damn! Anybody else have a spare cord lying round? Maybe donate $40 so I can buy one on eBay?
• In the middle of the first week of March, Sydney started getting abscess under her arm. She also complained of sinus pain and fever. It turns out that she had MRSA, Group B Strep and three other bacteria. MRSA is a type of staph invection. Sydney could have gotten it when she was in the hospital when she gave birth and when Clara was in the hospital for RSV. Sydney was also recovering from a post-pardom infection and bronchitis and was on an antibiotic that I am told made it easier for her to get infected somehow. She also had her upper lip swelling to about ten times it regular size due to a combination of the infection and an allergic reaction to hair dye. She went to the Emergency Room and was admitted to the hospital with IV antibiotics for almost a week. The doctors said that if she had waited one more day to be looked at, that she could have died. Sydney is home and is still on oral antibiotics.
• My brother, Allen, bought a new car a few months ago. Not knowing what to do with his old Ford Explorer, Allen decided to give it to me for $1. This is great since I had to sell my old car to pay the bills back in November. Now I will be able to go to work (if ever I get a job) without having to take the minivan to work and leaving Sydney and the kids with no car. The only problem is the same with the power cord ... I do not money after paying the security deposit on the house to pay for the registration and transfer fees (not to mention the insurance). So this leaves me exactly where I was before when I sold the Saturn.
• Emily has had a cough that lasted for a while. When she spiked a fever last Saturday we took her to the doctors (who thankfully have weekend hours so we did not have to go to the ER). The doctor said that she thought Emily had pneumonia and put her on antibiotics. On Tuesday she was back to normal.
• Monday, Sydney went to her Skywarn weather spotter class. This is the seventh year she has went. It makes her really happy to do this and she is eagerly waiting for bad weather. Now that we have a basement, I feel safer, but I still hope a tornado does NOT hit us. Crazy weather people!
• Yesterday, when Sydney was picking up the twins from pre-school, Emily tripped and fell on her head. This is a big problem since Emily is on Coumadin, an anticoagulant drug. Emily had four surgeries and countless procedures two-and-a-half years ago when it was found that she had a blood clot in her portal vein to her liver. Coumadin is keeping the blood flowing through her Mesocaval Shunt that redirects blood around the clot. However, the problem with Coumadin is that Emily has a increased risk of death from a brain bleed if she has a head trauma. Luckily, Emily has set a lot of precedents at University of Michigan Hospital that they have changed policy and how they treat patients with simular health problems. UMHS recently made a Coumadin protocol that got her in the ER and diagnosed in no time at all.
The CT scan showed that there was no bleeding and Emily was sent home.
Then there is all the other things that are too numberuos for me to remember right now to post. Another update soon.