| Evren's first DIY haircut |
[Jun. 25th, 2009|08:04 am] |
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This happened while I was at work. I didn't even notice when I came home, though of course it was shocking when pointed out. My second reaction though was "Eh, most kids do this at some point" It's not like he has long beautiful hair that we're trying to preserve or anything like that. I was thinking that he needed a haircut, but hadn't gotten around to it. Facebook album |
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| Uncooperative pillow |
[Feb. 12th, 2009|09:58 pm] |
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Originally uploaded by mistressorange.
Sometimes it's hard to use daddy as a pillow. Though actually he was using him as an obstacle course. See iphone in Raa's hand and mousie near his arm. |
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| Mousie |
[Feb. 12th, 2009|09:48 pm] |
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Originally uploaded by mistressorange.
Mousie by Ysolda. A great knit, though slightly fiddly in parts. Evren and Raa adore him. Raa says he needs whiskers though. |
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| One of my favorite blogs |
[Jan. 27th, 2009|06:11 pm] |
http://getrichslowly.org/blog/
The author of this blog was in debt, got out of it and is now making a living from blogging. I think it's really awesome what he did. He's trying to get a million readers a month and asked that everyone spread the word. |
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| Today's lunch |
[Jan. 10th, 2009|01:13 pm] |
Last night I tried making a curried cauliflower dish. I winged it from this recipe, but didn't follow it close enough. It didn't turn out that well, but over rice with queso fresco and crema fresca it was good. Today though we had a most interesting lunch. Curried cauliflower corn tacos with sauteed mushrooms,short grain rice, guacamole, queso fresco and crema fresca. I really enjoyed it. Even Raa liked it, though he ate some salami in his last taco to get his meat in. Raa doesn't like to help me menu plan, and left to my own devices I rarely plan meat dishes. Raa's been buying deli meats to compensate. Not what I'd pick, but they're natural ones from TJ's and since they're thinly sliced he doesn't consume much meat.
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| Still excited |
[Jan. 8th, 2009|03:44 pm] |
I'm already addicted to working out, and it's only been 2 weeks. I now crave it. Still feeling like I have enough energy to do most things, though I've gotten a bit sore and tired. I'm also still feeling the positive effects though too. I'm more patient with my family and my apartment is getting steadily cleaner each day. It also helps that Evren naps most days again too. I have to lay down with him, and I often fall asleep, but I usually wake up before he does and have time to get things done.
We had a virus on our computer that was getting me down, but Raa came through with his expertise and greatly improved the situation. We had switched to a bigger hard drive a while back and he still had the old one unhooked, but ready to go. So during the day for 3 days I was able to use the old one for basic stuff and each night he'd focus on trying to fix the current one. He finally tutored me on slave master relationships ;-) and I was able to use that information to do the final fixing while Evren was napping. We had several trojan viruses which Norton just couldn't handle and in fact had corrupted Norton. I was able to set up the newer drive as slave and use Norton to scan the new hard drive, to remove just enough of the Trojans to be able to boot , then downloaded a remover to get rid of the corrupted version of Norton, dropped it in the new hard drive, switched the new one to master and unhooked the old one, then was able to remove the corrupted version and reinstall Norton. Finally the computer worked again. Still, random adds were popping up, so I use Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to scan the hard drive and found 47 trojans! Norton had only found 7! Finally things are working normally again. Evren loves to click on ads, so that's where we're thinking the viruses came from. I'm trying now to only have one window open when he goes near the computer and watch him carefully, so he can't find any ads to click on.
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| Evren's sleeping finally |
[Dec. 19th, 2008|04:36 pm] |
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Now that Evren no longer normally naps I lay down with him for an hour after lunch. He normally fights about it, and today was no exception. Then I heard his gentle snores. So happy, he was exhausted! But I ruined it a little with mindless internet surfing. |
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| Strange accomodations |
[Dec. 18th, 2008|09:40 pm] |
Strange accomodations
Originally uploaded by mistressorange.
I was starting to worry, because when I went to check on Evren, to see if he was finally asleep, I couldn't find him. I know he likes to sleep in the laundry basket, so I looked in the hallway. Not there I thought, till I looked up at the closet and found this cozy scene. I'm debating whether to move him or not, because when he wakes up he might fall. |
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| That lasted long... |
[Dec. 18th, 2008|06:09 pm] |
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I realize that I use the internet to self-medicate when I get stressed out from Evren. I'm sure that it just increases the stress in some ways. Anyway, I'm not following my plan, but I have cut it significantly, and I feel better already. Even if Evren no longer naps :-P |
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| Time out for you |
[Dec. 4th, 2008|01:46 pm] |
This morning while I was cleaning in the kitchen and Raa was on the computer Evren suddenly screamed. No big deal, he does it constantly :-P I put him in time out if he screams near me, but I was busy with cleaning and he hadn't hurt my ears. Anyway, he changes his voice slightly and says, "You shouldn't do that, you'll have to go in time out if you do it again" and then he screams again. "That was bad, go to time out" "Ok" Then he marched over to his room, stayed there a moment and came back to announce that he put "him" in time out for being bad. Raa and I were both laughing at this point :-)
Yesterday at school I told the teacher that he didn't want to go to school because he didn't want to do circle time. She got down at his level and asked him why he didn't want to do circle time. He agreed with her that it was fun. She taught him how to sit, "Kriss, Cross, Apple Sauce" and to have "Snowball hands" He stayed that way for 10 minutes with absolutely nothing going on. He actually sat quietly for 2 out of 3 circle times too. The third one he screamed his way through though because I insisted he sit.
There's hope for us... |
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| RIP Donna Driscoll |
[Dec. 1st, 2008|08:53 am] |
RIP Donna Driscoll
Originally uploaded by mistressorange.
While we were celebrating Thanksgiving, Donna was getting her affairs in order.
Donna was the midwife who delivered Evren and was wonderfully supportive. I was looking forward to having my second child with her as well. She had been in the business so long that one of the fellow moms in La Leche was a baby she had delivered.
Donna died on Saturday morning of complications related to acute leukemia. She will be missed. |
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| Twilight Love |
[Nov. 13th, 2008|09:11 am] |
I just read the first book of the series and I'm hooked. While none of my relationships were with perfect buff vampires, she does really accurately capture the feeling of seeing someone daily who're you're very attracted to, but not feeling able to touch them, and thinking they might feel the same. The electricity and thrill of just standing next to them, of having to focus on not reaching out to touch them. The thrill of the first small touches, everything... Reading it was like reliving the thrill of falling in innocent love all over again.
http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-does-the-twilight-series-promote-abstinence/
An interesting article on the book |
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