101.3

ah yes, how i adore being ILL. just kidding, kids. juuuuust kidding. so i'm used to my son being sick and taking care of him... but i don't get sick. i mean, i get sick- but i haven't in a LONG time. for like 3 days i've had the tiniest wussy cough and my neck hurt... but yesterday i got hit HARD. my back hurt, my head hurt, my neck reeeally hurt, and as of last night, i had a fever of 99.4, not that big a deal, but alas, a fever. so i wake up this morning @ 6:30 feeling like total a-hole. what's the fever NOW, you ask? 101.3. seriously. ridiculous.
so we were going to go to church this morning- it IS sunday... plus, scott's siblings are in town and they (and scott's mom) were all going to come to our church and it was going to be a dandy time. hey melanie, aren't you sick? yes, yes i am sick. so my husband got himself AND Lincoln ready with NO help from me- i was impressed- and off to church they went. it's weird being the only one in the house. really weird.
all i want to do is sleep, but i am just not sleepy. so i'm here, at my computer, with nothing better to do, blogging.

oh how i adore a 101.3 temperature, but not as much as i'm about to adore some Tylenol PM, hoes. oh yes, tylenol pm.

i hope you are all doing better than i am today.

conjunctivitis and such...

conjunctivitis and such

so, for like a week now, about once a day, Lincoln would say "eye hurts! eye hurts!" and we would look at it and saw nothing wrong with it, and just assumed that he got some dirt or an eyelash in his eye. well, friday night, we noticed some nice crust forming around his right eye... saturday morning it was worse, so we took him to the dr. (they're open till noon on saturday for illnesses only) and find out that he has PINKEYE. he also has a minor ear infection. so, for future reference melanie, when lincoln says his eye hurts, HIS FREAKING EYE HURTS!!! and since he rubs his eyes all the time, now it has spread into his left eye. so this poor kid has 2 bum eyes. i bet you can imagine how fun it is to pin a 21-month-old down for EYE DROPS. scott hold his arms, i hold his head, scott pulls his bottom lid down, and i pull up on the top lid... then we are able to get ONE drop in. not fun.

so my mom's in London right now. i'm so insanely jealous. i LOOOOVE London! and she's there...

ummm so yeah i've decided that i'm taking a leap and buying a BIKINI for this summer. yes, it's a huge deal. i have not been in a 2-piece bathing suit in 3 years. it will be exciting.

golly i'm boring today. i didn't get much sleep, so maybe that's it. Lincoln was up for 3 hours (from 4 am - 7 am) because the pinkeye had spread into his other eye and he was in pain and couldn't go back to sleep. apparently tylenol doesn't do a whole lot for the pain of pinkeye. anyway, at 7 he went back to sleep for a bit of a nap, which was nice. but still, i'm not a big fan of interrupted sleep- especially when it cuts down on the number of hours i get. that's another reason i'm in NO HURRY to have another child. i get 8 1/2 - 9 hours of sleep a night... and i could get more if i would just go to bed earlier, but i'm a freaking night owl... so, i'm really not interested in having another baby that will wake up several times a night expecting me to feed it. NO THANKS! not yet anyway.

having another child is such a crazy concept. it's like, we (scott and me) look at old pictures of newborn Lincoln and watch videos of him from before he could even crawl and we're like "aww, we want another one!!!" but then 21-month-old Lincoln wakes up from his nap and starts throwing a tantrum because i won't let him draw with a Sharpie and we're like "umm... no" i want another one, it sounds so much fun and it's SO great having an itty bitty baby, but, um... having TWO sounds like a nightmare. hahaha

ok alright i guess i will go outside and supervise my daddy and my husband as they haul hay off of the trailor and into the hay barn. how fun does that sound??!! notice that i said i will be SUPERVISING and didn't mention anything about helping.

hope everyone is enjoying their summer!

8 Random Things

i was "tagged" to do this by my cousin Rebekah via Xanga, but since i don't really Xanga anymore, i figured i could put this on here...

8 RANDOM things about me!

1. i am the slowest eater EVER. all of my food has to be perfect before i can start eating it. i will salt/pepper everything, fix up a baked potato (sour cream, cheese, green onions), apply salsa to things, or whatever is necessary.... once everything is good to go, then i will eat. it's actually not that i'm a slow EATER, i'm just incredibly meticulous about my food. everything i order, i always have to say "plus ____" like today i got a sandwich from Schlotzsky's, PLUS guacamole. you don't ever want to have to go get food for me.

2. my husband and i eat at abuelo's all the time. not only because it's probably my favorite restaurant ever, but because my brother and his wife, candace, both work there. they hook us up. so we don't go eat there just because it's great, but it's cheap for us.

3. i haven't driven MY car since before Christmas. it needs a new balancer and crank shaft, so my dad said he would just get a whole new (actually, used- but new to us) engine and would have it replaced 2 or 3 weeks following Christmas. i've been driving one of my dad's extra cars (a '95 Civic) since then. my car STILL hasn't been touched.

4. i make THE best low-fat/low-cal banana pudding in the history of Earth. i am currently waiting for a batch to chill so i can dig in to it.

5. i am singing at 2 weddings in the next 8 months. one for a girl i don't know- she's my sister-in-law's cousin... and one for my dearest cousin, Rebekah. i used to sing in front of big crowds all the time and never got nervous, now i feel like i'm gonna crap my pants when i get up in front of lots of people. this should be fun.

6. i have lost 20 lbs. since October of 2005. i now weigh only ONE pound more than i did before i got pregnant with Lincoln (i was 19) so that's very exciting

7. my husband has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and is a national champion in the sport. that's more about him, but, it's a good one!

8. i am a good cook, but i am a HORRIBLE cleaner. cleaning is my least favorite thing to do, ever. i would rather live in a dirty house than have to clean up every day. luckily, my husband helps me out a lot, and since i have a 21 month old who gets into everything, i HAVE to keep stuff clean. when i lived in dallas by myself, there was a 2 month stretch where i wouldn't let people come over to my apartment because it was so dirty i was embarrassed. the only time i was home during that period was to sleep. hahaha, gross. but when i DO start cleaning, i am a Nazi about it. if i'm going to clean, i'm going to do it right the first time so i don't have to go back over it. my husband says he hates me when i'm in cleaning mode.

babies and toddlers and weenie dogs, OH MY!

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

ok, i feel better.... after the day i've had, a good scream is really what i need. my child.... ohhhh my child is, well, he's a toddler. that about sums it up. my sister-in-law (Michelle) and my niece (Hannah, 14 months) are in town and Lincoln and i have been visiting them during the day so the kids can play... Lincoln will do absolutely ANYTHING to g et Hannah to laugh. he's hilarious. any time Hannah laughs, Link's face lights up. he loves it. if something makes her laugh, he'll do it again and again and again... and, when Hannah's around, Mommy seems to be invisible. he shows off SO BAD around her, totally ignores me. drives me crazy. today i had to spank him more than i think i have in his entire life. now my spankings, they don't hurt... but Lincoln's such a sensitive kiddo that even the lightest tap will make him cry if he knows he's in trouble... but today, nothing would phase him. usually if i spank him, he will stop doing what he was doing and not do it again. TODAY, he would stop for about 60 seconds and go right back to what he was doing. i finally just gave up and started laughing deliriously at everything he did because at the time, there wasn't a damn thing i could do about it. seriously, he drove me about 90% of the way to insanity today. my child, just like his mommy, LOOOOVES attention!

so tomorrow should be interesting. Michelle, Pam (mother-in-law), and I are taking the kids (Hannah and Lincoln) to get pictures taken. luckily they will be taken outside and it's not like they have to sit still and pose for them, but it will be crazy nonetheless. (is that all one word? now i don't think it is. i am so confused) so, make sure all your good thoughts go out to Melanie about 6-ish tomorrow evening, because that is when we will all be trying to corral the kiddos into the same place to be able to get a few decent pictures. i'll post some at a later date.

i so cannot believe that i have not blogged about my parents' dog yet. they have this miniature dachshund named Tootsie Roll (because she looks like one- long and skinny and brown) anyway, my dad found her out in the middle of nowhere during a rainstorm about 4 1/2 years ago. my dad (he's a big guy, 6'6") and this tiny little dog have this crazy bond, she sleeps in bed with him, goes everywhere he goes, he totally spoils her... they're like the odd couple. so anyway, about a week and a half ago, Tootsie started acting weird, like she had been kicked by a cow (it's happened before and she's just sore for a few days and then she's ok) but she just kept getting worse and worse and eventually couldn't even move her back legs or her tail. it was so depressing. she was just dragging her back half around with her, only able to move her front legs. so my dad takes her to the vet and he's like "oh, she'll get better, here's some meds" and 2 days later Tootsie was even worse. wouldn't eat, couldn't poop or pee, couold hardly move... so the vet does some x-rays and finds out that one of the dog's vertabrae is crumbling, he called it a "degenerative disc" and the crumbling bone is pressing on her nerve in such a way that it's paralyzing her lower half. totally depressing, because this means she couldn't even move her bowels or anything, and could either have very very expensive surgery, or be put to sleep. my dad was a freaking basketcase. the vet gave Tootsie some steroids to see if she could possibly get better... my dad said "well, i guess he just gave us about 3 more days with her before we have to put her down" and one morning, SHE STARTS WAGGING HER TAIL! and now she can semi-walk... it's amazing, she was like completely paralyzed from the waist down for like 2 or 3 days, and now she can walk again!!! she's still really wobbly, but she can walk! and she can eat and pee and poop and so my dad's like a new man, so happy and giddy like a school boy. sooo, she might be able to get better on her own, but she could get worse again... anyway, that's my crazy story about my parents' dog. the end.

wow this is long.

just one more thing... for mother's day, instead of buying me a card, my husband wrote me a song. and he sang it to me... and danced. the song started out, "OHHHH MELANIE!!! I WANNA WISH YOU A HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!" there was a lot more, it was absolutely hilarious. and it was the sweetest damn thing anyone has done for me in a long time, maybe ever. he is amazing. how i love him so.

i hope you are all having a wonderful week.

au revoir
LOVE :)

April 21 BLESSINGS

What a good day today has been. Nothin out of the ordinary or exceptional, just an overall nice day. it even involved LAUNDRY and i'm STILL calling it a nice day!

so, it rained like CRAZY here... and i know it rained everywhere in the "Big Country", but where we live, we got 4 1/2 INCHES OF RAIN in 12 HOURS!!!! i'm not even exaggerating a little bit. overall we got 4 3/4 inches... can you believe that? i've never seen anything like it- our rain gauge was about to overflow! it's awesome... not burn bans have been lifted, and it's looking UP for the the sale of fireworks this summer... hopefully it keeps raining so we don't have to close down less than 24 hours after we open (like we did this past New Year's- that sucked SO BAD! we LOST money...)
i HATE storms, but i like the end result (as long as there are no tornadoes involved)

i am about to grab my kiddo, head to the in-laws' house, and enjoy a nice baseball game (Cubs @ Cardinals) and possibly some pizza. that sounds like a great combination.

*Lincoln just awoke from his nap... i am in the next room and just heard him singing "Halleluiah! Halleluiah!" what a good funny boy i have. he is unbelievable. being a parent is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. if you have not experienced it, i hope you get the chance to... it's such a blessing.

GOOD NEWS EVERYBODY! Scott got a major PROMOTION. indeed it is very very good news for our family. mostly for him though because he has been working so hard for years with no good end result, and now we think he's found a job he can stay with until it's retirement time... but anyway, he is now a DISTRICT MANAGER, so that's super great news for him.
when scott was down about th fact that jobs weren't working out, i kept telling him that God had something GREAT in store for us.... now look what's happening for scott!

SO WE SAY WITH CONFIDENCE, THE LORD IS MY HELPER; I WILL NOT BE AFRAID ....HEBREWS 13:6
AMEN!

Easter weekend misc.

How was eveyrone's Easter? Mine was fantabulous. yes, i am choosing to use that word.
So on Saturday there was this Easter Egg hunt that was NUTS. there ended up being EIGHT children 2 years of age and YOUNGER... and then there were two 4 year olds. none of the little kids cared about the eggs, really... it was more like "Mommy boss your kids around day" because everyone was going "here's an egg, pink it up. pick it up! pick it up!" PLUS, there were probably at LEAST 17 or 18 adults. it was a lot of fun, though... and i really enjoyed some of Lincoln's candy.
THEN on Sunday, i had to be IN CLYDE by 8:00am, and it's a 30 minute drive to Clyde... so we woke up freaking early, got ready for church, and headed to Clyde... Matt, Mitsi, and I sang with my parents' church's choir (my mom is in the choir too)... we sang the Halleluiah Chorus and it was pretty... we had to sing at both services which was nuts.
Then we went back to the parentals' and had a AWESOME lunch. you should be so jealous. we had THANKSGIVING for Easter! oh yeah, turkey, dressing, gravy, mashed potatoes, salad, green beans, sweet potato casserole (which is like a dessert, it's unbelievable), pink salad, rolls. OH it was amazing.
Then my mom had a little mini Easter Egg hunt for Lincoln, and he really couldn't have cared any less... he's go pink up one egg, and since he now knows that there are GOODIES hidden inside the eggs, he would pick it up, bring it to my mom (Nana) and say "open! open!" so that he could eat what was in the egg. hilarious.

overall, it was a great weekend. i got to spend time with the entire family (Dad, Mom, Mitsi, Matt, Candace, Scott, Lincoln, and myself) and that was great. Matt's a busy guy so we don't get to see him that often- even though he LIVES HERE... but whatever. we have so much fun together. we're all huge dorks, but it's great.

i hope everyone else's weekend was good too! and i hope you all remembered what EASTER is all about... HE IS RISEN! HALLELUIAH!

SO annoying!

April 15, 6:14 am

so yeah, check the time PEOPLE! ...not on your clock, but the time this freaking bulletin was posted. yeah. messed up.

so i woke up cold at 5:20(ish)am and i was thinking that if I was cold, Lincoln was probably cold. so i went to his room to check on him, and sure enough, he was very very COLD! so, i turned off his air conditioner, got a blanket, covered him up, went to the restroom, moved the clothes that i'm wearing tomorrow from the washer to the dryer, and crawled back into bed....i laid in bed for about 45 minutes and NOTHING. i got really comfy, but COULD NOT get sleepy! so now i'm awake. scott and lincoln are both sleeping. both of them WILL be sleeping for about 3 more hours... and here i am, awake, on myspace, because i have nothing better to do. i mean, i actually HAVE better stuff to do... i could be SLEEPING! but NOOO! i actually should do some laundry or something and make use of this time. but i just don't want to. so i won't. so there.

so today i'm taking Lincoln to this Easter egg hunt over at some dear family friends' place.... it will be way fun.....maybe. haha, it will be hectic! there will be SIX... count 'em, SIX children ages 2 yrs. and younger... and then a 4 year old. yeah. i know. it will be nuts. and then there will be 4 mommies and 3 grandmothers, and an aunt (my sister) chasing all the kids around. it's nice to know that the kids do not outnumber the adults. that comes in handy when you need one person to wrangle one kid, it's a whole lot easier. whose kid do i get? do i get my own? or does my mom get mine? or does my SISTER get mine? all i know is, Lincoln will probably find ONE egg, sit down in the grass, and proceed to open it, get the candy out, eat it, and then sit there playing with that ONE EGG for the entirety of the "hunt". (hmm.. the word "entirety" sure looks like it's spelled wrong... but i did the spell check and it's correct, but it DOES look weird)

LALALALALAaA i want to SLEEEEEP i am AWAAAAAKE and it really SUUUUUCKS.
(think of that last part a bit sing-song-ish.)

and i got on here thinking "this will be a great way to waste time! i will just fill out bulletins." there are NONE. bring on the disappointment.

um ok i suppose i will do something else now... maybe... check my email?
THIS SUUUUUUCCCKKKS!!!!!!