hopkins

well... we survived the bi yearly visit to Johns Hopkins... but we did have a few hiccups. First is good and bad news, apparently the little guy is not eating nearly enough calories... good news he far exceeded the weight/hieght/head circumference goals... he is the size of a four year old... well duh, he fits just fine in the little mans four year old clothes. So back to eating habits... we were actually told he needed more food... don't they know/comprehend the fight we have with what we feed him now, I only call once a week stressed out over it!!! And apparently we don't feed him enough fatty food... they prescribed junk food... uhm............... what, and I've been so proud that we don't fall into the every night junk food family category. On a good note in November they are going to put him on the new drug, and then instead of counting grams of PHE, it will be grams of protein in NORMAL FOOD. The down side is that we will have many visits that month... thank heaven for grandma's who have already volunteered to watch the little man... apparently they are quite the little team. And finally the last piece of bad news... which at this point is not to be worried about until they figure out what is going on, or how to test it... he doesn't appear to have dermal pain sensors... we had noticed a few weird things, but yestreday as we were there the little man decided to throw a tatrum and flung himself into the edge of a desk... with no reaction! Hot water that is too hot for me, nothing... cold water is the same, when his brother lovely pounds on him... he laughs. So a batch of tests await him for his yearly big visit. JOY:( I guess I should be glad he is on a good growing curve my brother and I never were, and that would be bad for the little guy. Let's all just cross those fingers and hope his numbers come back okay!

inchworms like chamomile

I've noticed several inchworms on and among my chamomile flowers... interesting new tea... inchy-mile... better double check my flowers prior to storing them! Of course they are such cute little worms... and these guys are real small, I kinda love watching them!

I finished my book today, work on the half wall for the sink in the back bathroom, found a bonsai tree for my desk at work, and found a st john's wort plant... kinda cool. Tomorrow I hope to build the wall and get it up... we shall see. If I get out of the gap early enough I may go to borders and play with my bonsai! It needs to be "trained"

Poor hubby... I apparently gave him whatever was ailling me... he always complains i don't share enough:)

vampires and werewolves oh my!

Have I mentioned that I'm on the third Twilight series book... Eclipse. I love them... can't put it down... it's not even my next reading group book. I hate sci fi, I hate vampires... but I am still loving, loving, loving this series... and yes I am special ordering the new book so I can get it at the midnight release party! Which by the way I am co-hosting the midnight release party at borders... with one of my favorite co-workers, since we both love the books we got choosen, we get to do games, dress up, stuff like that... basically be a teenager again for a few hours... like how cool! Okay really it should be fun. My thumbs are way up on this set of books!

Sick, Sick, Sick

Well... I've been sick... I think between the heat and extreme anxiety I've become a ball of sleeping illness.

But I feel better at the moment... been drinking water and Gatorade. I ate today. I also looked at the things that are freaking me out. The little guy is reverting to his old summer ways of not eating... but we have a checkup on Monday at Hopkins so we can talk to the folks there then about it. I really thought I screwed up my interview... well I really could get by with my present job... By the way I GOT THE PROMOTION! So now of course I'm stressing about the added responsibility... should have thought about that first... but I've got a great GM, so again I shouldn't be too worried. I had an issue with a friend that I put off too long addressing because I was afraid she wouldn't be my friend... but I finally dealt with it and as sad as it sounds I will live if she chooses never to talk to me again, and I won't be hiding how I feel any more which is worse for me. Of course the biggie for me is that today is July 10th... Thursday July 10th, and while all the horrible last time dates have been ticking off and reminding me far too vividly of the life I had 5 years ago... I am still here... and I get to have more memories, hopefully much much better ones. I think in many ways I'm a far better person now having lived through those days in July 2003... I don't think I would ever have grown up the way I have... I just wish the price was not the death of someone who I love.

4th of July

Well we had a great time on the 4Th... except for the waiting. It rained buckets during the late afternoon, but it stopped early in the evening so we thought the fireworks would be on schedule... well an hour later we got bored and the little man, Lisa and Uncle Brain and I decided we would walk toward the fairgrounds and see if anyone could tell us if they had been cancelled... apparently not, by the time we got to just outside the gates... ca BOOM. They kinda sucked in two ways, atmospherically we did not have good conditions, the smoke just lingered and after a while you couldn't even see the fireworks. Secondly I didn't get to see the little guys reactions... I heard he got scared and Daddy had to take him inside to watch TV. That really bummed me out, I was looking forward to being together.

As for the interview yeah... I knew the numbers, knew the goals... and in the end she didn't ask one question about any of that... threw me for a loop, I know I floundered. Oh well. I should hear something tomorrow or Tuesday... but I'm not holding my breath.

3rd interview out of 2?

Okay update in my quest to finally acquire the job I was hired for... or so I assumed. The position for the secondary merchandising supervisor that oversees music, video, gifts/stationary, bargain books and magazines had been empty when I joined the borders family in August... and it remained empty until in April they restructured everything and Miss VA either lost her supervisor position or took on that merch position. Well she hung in there as long as she could and resigned in June her last official day is Saturday. I of course applied for it and I've had one of 3 interviews... well 2 if you count the sales manager coming to me and saying, I know what you can do and what you want, I want you in the position, I see no reason to interview you. Cool I guess. So today at 5pm I have my "3rd" interview with the lady either every hates or is scared of... I've done some homework, looked over numbers, I'll try to get in early to run the rewards numbers for today... I feel confident which usually means I'm going to fail. I guess we shall see what happens. The crazy thing is that I've been doing the job since August. Even when Miss VA took she was kind by leaving me alone to do what I had always done... with the exception of asking if she could do anything to help... A great plus if I get the position is that I'll still have that help as she will fall into the hands of whomever gets the position and she'll be helping the inventory people too. Argggggg... gotta chill... I think I'll go chop some chamomile flowers off:)

birthday surprise

Needless to say the hubby loved his gift... we took a white water rafting trip down the Shenandoah and Potomac river... we had a great time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course you actually have to work... paddle and I am hurting.

Friday is the fourth already... can you believe it... I can't. We are having the usual suspects over for fireworks and a BBQ. So as usual we have been working on the yard to make it presentable to those lounging on it on Friday... the hubby got half of the border complete, I planted some more plants and replaced the dead ones... it looks great. Tomorrow I'm going to put down the weed control fabric and re mulch and the hubby will complete the last of the border... and just think this is our 3rd summer here it only took that long to finish. Wonder how long it's going to take to finish painting... it is way too hot to do that now, I'll have to wait until the end of August to hopefully complete that. I did talk to a guy today about finishing the pipes to the tub in the half bathroom so we can finish that off into a full bathroom... let's keep those fingers crossed that we can start working on that again soon!

I'm off to soak my hurting bones and start reading New Moon... my reading group meets on Sunday for that... I'm a bit behind!