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Health status of the family since Saturday:

Homer - has an infected tooth, is on penicillin and vicodin now

MagicPointeShoe - pink eye

Juliet - healthy but suffering from a severe case of stir crazy from boredom

Serafina - has had a blocked sinus cavity since late Friday night, but it finally cleared today. watching her face swell up on one side, plus puking, plus a constant fever was overwhelming considering the above.

Athena - healthy

In non health related news, we have been blessed by kind friends with some new to us furniture. Homer's friend delivered to us a nice dining room table with four chairs. Combined with our two thrift store dining room chairs, we actually have a dining set to have dinner around. Our dining room is also finally free of moving boxes!

Also, Homer's mom's friend's friend was getting rid of her leatherette couch and chair. So in our family room we now have a more comfy arrangement. I especially like the chair for nursing the baby in.

And in non-health related news and non-furniture related news, our baby is almost ONE YEARS OLD! Egads, when did that happen?

Basically I took two steps down the stairs and the rest was sliding like that olympic sport luge. My shoulder blades hit every stair pretty hard, and I tensed up during the impact, so now my neck and the tendons in the front part of my neck are pretty strained. I do okay movement wise if I'm stiff as a board and don't attempt to bend or twist. Also, the last foot of getting up or down from a laying position is GAWD-AWFUL. I've medicated twice, and I don't think I've overdone it today.

Obvious FYI, luge down the stairs on accident is no fun. If someone is watching the story of my life like a movie somewhere, I hope it was spectacularly funny to watch me fall down the stairs though. =oP

I fell down the stairs last night. I made it down two steps and then slid down the rest injuring my back something fierce. I feel as if the stairs became a car and ran me down from behind. My neck, my shoulders and my hips are just aching. It puts a huge damper on continuing to unpack and get this household into shape. =oP Now the goal to survive without moving my body much at all today.

Last night, I was trying to figure out long term planning since the short term planning has been working well. When it is time to enter seminary studies, either I could move down to the bay area with my family, uprooting everyone and seeing our cost of living spike dramatically, or I could commute and miss out on a lot of family time, or I could study from home with occassional commute stays on campus. If I studied from home, I would need to be already participating in an emerging ministry, which happens to be my big idea anyway. So I spent last night brainstorming (much to the approval to Serafina, aka Imagination Mover's biggest fan) every part I could think of about my big idea. Once my computer had finally been turned over by Juliet and Serafina, I was attempting to catch up on two weeks of blog reading when I discovered on Marley's blog that California appears to be about to tackle open records again!

Exciting stuff this is! Never mind that I haven't figured out which assembly member is going to present the legislation, and never mind that I am fearful of the group putting the effort behind this legislation is stating they are willing to compromise access for some adoptees in order for many to have their records. But the fact that it has been so long since the last attempt is darn exciting. I joined Cal Open immediately so that I can keep up with what is going on, and to make sure I am sticking with the group that unapologetically insists on a clean bill with no adopted person's rights being trampled for the others.

The trouble with trying to pick some New Year's resolutions is that it points out the one major problem with following through.  There isn't enough time in the day to do all the things I'd like to do with the amount of focus and detail I'd like put towards it. 

Of the ME!!ME!!ME!! resolutions:

I'd like to be swimsuit fit where I don't put one on and completely want to hide.  Not perfection mind you.
I'd like to knit more and not with my stash of red heart yarn that will outlive the cockroaches.
I want to learn photography and not be such a noob.
I want to write more.
I want to make a serious damn difference in attempting to open original birth certificates to adoptees from California.
I want to read the bible in a year.
I want to find fiction that interests me.
Heck I want to read for pleasure and not necessity.
I want to visit my sister at school.

And that's just off the top of my fluff filled head.

DANCE!  I want to dance ballet.  I can't forget that.  Sigh.

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Just for today, I tried my best not to toss my family out the window as I got driven bat shit insane.

Just for today, the house decided to invite in an army of ants.

Just for today, I attempted to clean but the house fought back and I lost.

Just for today, I ended up a cranky exhausted woman who helped the postpartum hair loss go quicker by ripping my hair out like my icon picture.

Just for today, the day could just be over already.

On a positive note, Katie met her total complete food goal allocation for the first time in about two months. We now are attempting to still increase her stomach capacity per feeding so that the meals aren't hourly.

I'm thinking about cutting my rapunzel locks for locksoflove. So I went googling hairstyles and here ya go!

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