Comin' back together
Poor Sam, he's teething AND reeling from his shots. He's all dazed and cranky and has a slight fever. But at least he's sleeping a lot. ;) By the way, officially at 4 1/2 months he is 15 lbs 2 oz and 25 in long. He's PRACTICING sitting but is by no means an expert at it yet, and I swear he blew me a kiss today, and that's his update.
I on the other hand have successfully typed up an outline for the One Book Manual that is decent enough for Lois to take to her meeting next week. Decent enough, though I AM a little grouchy because I just KNOW there was stuff I had before that I forget now. But anyhoo. I typed it in my email and emailed it to myself for printing elsewhere, if you wondered.
Yesterday I thought I must be cursed or something, because first I thought I broke my sewing machine (actually I'd just threaded it wrong), then I thought I broke JASON'S computer (actually the monitor cord was loose). All is well now I think.
BUT I did go to physical therapy for the first time (yesterday), and that was great because the therapist was the first person to figure out what's wrong with my back and actually sound like she knows what she's talking about! What a relief to know I'm not actually being eaten from within by an undetectible-by-modern-medicine virus! No, it's just the scoliosis-that-the-school-nurse-told-me-with-disconcerting-seriousness-back-in-8th-or-9th-grade-was-not-currently-dangerous-or-anything-but-might-cause-me-problems-down-the-road-and-I-ought-to-be-aware-of-it having finally gotten down the road to the intersection of Giving Birth, so the combination of hormonally-softened ligaments and overstretched ab muscles on an already unstable support results in, well, the exact symptoms I've been having off and on since December. So that doesn't FIX anything but it's good to know. And I get physical therapy for it, so maybe that WILL fix things.
And that's all I have as an update right now. But here's a survey I got off iamdamanda and managed of course to throw extra stuff into because I'm ornery:
------------10 years ago-----------
1.) How old were you?: 19
2.) Where did you go to school?: IUP
3) Where did you work?: Well, I did volunteer hours at the Indiana Free Library. And I, you know, did SCHOOLWORK.
4) Where did you live? : Just moved into 266 Whitmyre Hall, Indiana PA
5.) Where did you hang out? well, beginning of the year, I don't remember-- Angie and Jen's room, eventually. And on the patio of Breezedale. Depending on the weather.
6.) Did you wear glasses? yeah, but I wore contacts mostly
7.) Who was your best friend? Angie!
8.) How many tattoos did you have?: none
9.) How many piercings did you have? none also.
10) What car did you drive?: WELL, technically I didn't get my license until 9 years 11 months ago, but when I drove I drove the green Mercury Villager minivan.
11.) Had you been to a real party? What exactly is the definition of a "Real" party, anyway? We'd had several awesome parties that year of 1997 actually, one of which is detailed here.
12.) Had You had your heart broken?: yes, but not that year. The year before, yes. I was just gearing up, ten years ago exactly, to make my heart all vulnerable again actually, which eventually meant it would get broken again. But also get healed, from the same thing!
-----------5 years ago-----------
1.) How old were you?: add five, 24
2.) Where did you go to school? WELL, I worked at two different schools this year... right now it was the Rox
3.) Where did you work?: I'd just started at S.-R. Middle School and was all perky optimistic.
4.) Where did you live? This particular year I actually lived in four different places. Exactly five years ago I was living with my boyfriend's family in Washington PA.
5.) Where did you hang out? Kubik's apartment in Indiana on weekends
6.) Did you wear glasses? yes, but still more often contacts
7.) Who was your best friend?: Jason
9.) How many tattoos did you have?: still none
10.) How many piercings did you have?: also still none
11.) What car did you drive?: the currently still Intrepid Dodge Intrepid that would be Intrepid not much longer
12.) Had your heart broken? it got pretty shaky career wise that summer, but I don't think broke
13.) Were you Single/Taken/Married/Divorce: I was very taken and would be engaged by the end of the year.
----------------2 years ago-------------------
1.) How old were you?: 27
2.) Where did you go to school?: The school of hard knocks
3.) Where did you work?: The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh! Forever and ever!
4.)Where did you live? Right here. Even using this computer, because my computer was dead THAT summer, too.
5.) Where did you hang out?: Also right here. We never do get out much.
6.) Did you wear glasses?: yes, slightly more often, but still contacts more.
7.) Who was your best friend? still Jason
8.) How many tattoos did you have? shockingly enough, still none
9.) How many piercings did you have? ditto
10.) What car did you drive?: The silver Corolla
11.) Had your heart broken? within that past year. This time definitely career-wise.
12.) Were you Single/Taken/Married/Divorce?: married
--------------------Today--------------------
1.) How old are you?: 29
2.) Where do you go to school?: The school of learning from somebody 29 years and two weeks younger than you.
3.) Where do you work?: all over this house.
4) Where do you live? the place I work.
5.) Do you wear glasses? yes fer definite
6.) Where do you hang out? Now I get out even less.
7.) Do you talk to your old friends?: many of them
8.) How many piercings do you have: I need not mention how bored I am with this question
9.) How many tattoos do you have? thirty-nine
10.) What kind of car do you drive? the same Corolla. Corollas are good cars by the way.
11.) Has your heart been broken?: not recently
12.) Are you Single/Taken/Married/Divorced? married
REPOST AS "HOW MUCH HAVE YOU CHANGED
Actually that's a pretty boring amount of time to show change. I mean, I knew most of the people on this friends list by ten years ago. Five years ago I was already about to get married. It should go back farther than all that. So of course that will be MY duty:
-----------FIFTEEN YEARS AGO!-----------
1.) How old were you?: 14
2.) Where did you go to school?: I guess I was just starting at Derry Area High School
3) Where did you work?: I did a lot of babysitting up until now, but starting this month Marching Band now took up ALL my time, and boy did I love it!
4) Where did you live? : Nwax
5.) Where did you hang out? The band room. And that grassy area outside the band room. And the practice field.
6.) Did you wear glasses? yes
7.) Who was your best friend? Molly
8.) How many tattoos did you have?: Is this even legal at the age of 14?
9.) How many piercings did you have? never any. Always been a dork that way.
10) What car did you drive?: a red bike that for some reason always had a yellow baby seat attached to the back although I never remember any babies riding in it, especially not when I was steering.
11.) Had you been to a real party? I grew up on parties. Though lately my birthdays had become Taking Two Friends to ChiChis with my family.
12.) Had You had your heart broken?: No, not really. It grew a lot over the past year or so though.
--seriously, dude, that was way a more interesting amount of time just an extra five years earlier.
------------------TWENTY YEARS AGO!------------
1.) How old were you?: 9
2.) Where did you go to school?: Grandview Elementary School
3) Where did you work?: I worked really hard at, um... putting up with Maggie. ;P Also I was a decent vacuumer by then.
4) Where did you live?: Still Nwax. Or New Alexandria if you prefer.
5.) Where did you hang out? in the forsythia bushes or at the tennis/basketball courts at the community center.
6.) Did you wear glasses? yes
7.) Who was your best friend? Carrie and Jamie as long as they didn't have to deal with each OTHER
8.) How many tattoos did you have?: um, 46
9.) How many piercings did you have? 715
10) What car did you drive?: a blue and purple bike that I had FINALLY learned to drive without wrecking into any jagger bushes. Which had managed to happen at ALL my early attempts. This has some bearing on why I didn't learn to ride until I was 9.
11.) Had you been to a real party? My birthday party that year ROCKED THE WORLD.
12.) Had You had your heart broken?: It was a very fragile heart. It had been through a lot all ready. But it was still growing-- it was never so much broken as it was tempered. The love of the family I had around me always held it together through the trials.
I on the other hand have successfully typed up an outline for the One Book Manual that is decent enough for Lois to take to her meeting next week. Decent enough, though I AM a little grouchy because I just KNOW there was stuff I had before that I forget now. But anyhoo. I typed it in my email and emailed it to myself for printing elsewhere, if you wondered.
Yesterday I thought I must be cursed or something, because first I thought I broke my sewing machine (actually I'd just threaded it wrong), then I thought I broke JASON'S computer (actually the monitor cord was loose). All is well now I think.
BUT I did go to physical therapy for the first time (yesterday), and that was great because the therapist was the first person to figure out what's wrong with my back and actually sound like she knows what she's talking about! What a relief to know I'm not actually being eaten from within by an undetectible-by-modern-medicine virus! No, it's just the scoliosis-that-the-school-nurse-told-me-with-disconcerting-seriousness-back-in-8th-or-9th-grade-was-not-currently-dangerous-or-anything-but-might-cause-me-problems-down-the-road-and-I-ought-to-be-aware-of-it having finally gotten down the road to the intersection of Giving Birth, so the combination of hormonally-softened ligaments and overstretched ab muscles on an already unstable support results in, well, the exact symptoms I've been having off and on since December. So that doesn't FIX anything but it's good to know. And I get physical therapy for it, so maybe that WILL fix things.
And that's all I have as an update right now. But here's a survey I got off iamdamanda and managed of course to throw extra stuff into because I'm ornery:
------------10 years ago-----------
1.) How old were you?: 19
2.) Where did you go to school?: IUP
3) Where did you work?: Well, I did volunteer hours at the Indiana Free Library. And I, you know, did SCHOOLWORK.
4) Where did you live? : Just moved into 266 Whitmyre Hall, Indiana PA
5.) Where did you hang out? well, beginning of the year, I don't remember-- Angie and Jen's room, eventually. And on the patio of Breezedale. Depending on the weather.
6.) Did you wear glasses? yeah, but I wore contacts mostly
7.) Who was your best friend? Angie!
8.) How many tattoos did you have?: none
9.) How many piercings did you have? none also.
10) What car did you drive?: WELL, technically I didn't get my license until 9 years 11 months ago, but when I drove I drove the green Mercury Villager minivan.
11.) Had you been to a real party? What exactly is the definition of a "Real" party, anyway? We'd had several awesome parties that year of 1997 actually, one of which is detailed here.
12.) Had You had your heart broken?: yes, but not that year. The year before, yes. I was just gearing up, ten years ago exactly, to make my heart all vulnerable again actually, which eventually meant it would get broken again. But also get healed, from the same thing!
-----------5 years ago-----------
1.) How old were you?: add five, 24
2.) Where did you go to school? WELL, I worked at two different schools this year... right now it was the Rox
3.) Where did you work?: I'd just started at S.-R. Middle School and was all perky optimistic.
4.) Where did you live? This particular year I actually lived in four different places. Exactly five years ago I was living with my boyfriend's family in Washington PA.
5.) Where did you hang out? Kubik's apartment in Indiana on weekends
6.) Did you wear glasses? yes, but still more often contacts
7.) Who was your best friend?: Jason
9.) How many tattoos did you have?: still none
10.) How many piercings did you have?: also still none
11.) What car did you drive?: the currently still Intrepid Dodge Intrepid that would be Intrepid not much longer
12.) Had your heart broken? it got pretty shaky career wise that summer, but I don't think broke
13.) Were you Single/Taken/Married/Divorce: I was very taken and would be engaged by the end of the year.
----------------2 years ago-------------------
1.) How old were you?: 27
2.) Where did you go to school?: The school of hard knocks
3.) Where did you work?: The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh! Forever and ever!
4.)Where did you live? Right here. Even using this computer, because my computer was dead THAT summer, too.
5.) Where did you hang out?: Also right here. We never do get out much.
6.) Did you wear glasses?: yes, slightly more often, but still contacts more.
7.) Who was your best friend? still Jason
8.) How many tattoos did you have? shockingly enough, still none
9.) How many piercings did you have? ditto
10.) What car did you drive?: The silver Corolla
11.) Had your heart broken? within that past year. This time definitely career-wise.
12.) Were you Single/Taken/Married/Divorce?: married
--------------------Today--------------------
1.) How old are you?: 29
2.) Where do you go to school?: The school of learning from somebody 29 years and two weeks younger than you.
3.) Where do you work?: all over this house.
4) Where do you live? the place I work.
5.) Do you wear glasses? yes fer definite
6.) Where do you hang out? Now I get out even less.
7.) Do you talk to your old friends?: many of them
8.) How many piercings do you have: I need not mention how bored I am with this question
9.) How many tattoos do you have? thirty-nine
10.) What kind of car do you drive? the same Corolla. Corollas are good cars by the way.
11.) Has your heart been broken?: not recently
12.) Are you Single/Taken/Married/Divorced? married
REPOST AS "HOW MUCH HAVE YOU CHANGED
Actually that's a pretty boring amount of time to show change. I mean, I knew most of the people on this friends list by ten years ago. Five years ago I was already about to get married. It should go back farther than all that. So of course that will be MY duty:
-----------FIFTEEN YEARS AGO!-----------
1.) How old were you?: 14
2.) Where did you go to school?: I guess I was just starting at Derry Area High School
3) Where did you work?: I did a lot of babysitting up until now, but starting this month Marching Band now took up ALL my time, and boy did I love it!
4) Where did you live? : Nwax
5.) Where did you hang out? The band room. And that grassy area outside the band room. And the practice field.
6.) Did you wear glasses? yes
7.) Who was your best friend? Molly
8.) How many tattoos did you have?: Is this even legal at the age of 14?
9.) How many piercings did you have? never any. Always been a dork that way.
10) What car did you drive?: a red bike that for some reason always had a yellow baby seat attached to the back although I never remember any babies riding in it, especially not when I was steering.
11.) Had you been to a real party? I grew up on parties. Though lately my birthdays had become Taking Two Friends to ChiChis with my family.
12.) Had You had your heart broken?: No, not really. It grew a lot over the past year or so though.
--seriously, dude, that was way a more interesting amount of time just an extra five years earlier.
------------------TWENTY YEARS AGO!------------
1.) How old were you?: 9
2.) Where did you go to school?: Grandview Elementary School
3) Where did you work?: I worked really hard at, um... putting up with Maggie. ;P Also I was a decent vacuumer by then.
4) Where did you live?: Still Nwax. Or New Alexandria if you prefer.
5.) Where did you hang out? in the forsythia bushes or at the tennis/basketball courts at the community center.
6.) Did you wear glasses? yes
7.) Who was your best friend? Carrie and Jamie as long as they didn't have to deal with each OTHER
8.) How many tattoos did you have?: um, 46
9.) How many piercings did you have? 715
10) What car did you drive?: a blue and purple bike that I had FINALLY learned to drive without wrecking into any jagger bushes. Which had managed to happen at ALL my early attempts. This has some bearing on why I didn't learn to ride until I was 9.
11.) Had you been to a real party? My birthday party that year ROCKED THE WORLD.
12.) Had You had your heart broken?: It was a very fragile heart. It had been through a lot all ready. But it was still growing-- it was never so much broken as it was tempered. The love of the family I had around me always held it together through the trials.