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Thursday, July 24, 2008

The doctor said that John-John is no longer in jeporady of dying of malnutrition. Since last month he has gained a pound and grown 3 inches. I don't really believe the 3 inches part, but my brother thinks it could be true b/c he has grown a lot. For some reason I want him to be 3 feet tall by the time he is one, but I know that will never happen. He has 6 inches to go. He'd have to keep growing 3 inches a month until his first birthday. Human growth hormones perhaps? Too bad he is allergic to dairy. All the bovine growth hormone in the non-organic variert would surely cause a nice growth spurt if he drank a gallon a day. He gained the weight without being on the doctor recommended butter, milk, cheese, yogurt diet. I didn't change anything in what he was eating. I just gave him 2 more snacks that he didn't want most of the time.
Well I must be going. I would have internet at home, but the guy from BellSouth...think back a 11 months ago to a time when I was ranting about an idiot that did not know how to install the software for the modem and when I told him how to do it he treated me like a pretty little woman b/c I didn't know what I was talking about so I ended up telling him to get out of my house and finished it myself. Yea, him. He deleted the Linksys information from my desktop when he didn't have to do it. I don't have the software that came with it to reinstall it, and don't feel like going on-line to do it at them moment. I am going to steal my mom's router b/c she has the disk for hers. Maybe if John-John is in an OK mood I might try to go on-line and install it.
I am out of here.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

John John is getting a tooth. This time it is a real tooth and not a spit bubble. I never thought I would be happy to see a tooth in my life. Watching break through his gums is about the most exciting thing going on in our lives right now and that says something about my life. Oh, well, I don't care. My son's tooth can be a source of pride for me and no one else. I never thought I would be one of those wierd women that kept their children's teeth, and I do not intend to keep all of his baby teeth. I only want to keep his first tooth. It's creepy enough to save a lock of his little baby curly hairs. There is this voice in my head telling me that those body parts hold imprints of his soul. There is this voice telling me that the tooth will contaminate me a lot more than the hair will. As it ages, its cootie powers will increase until it reach the point that touching them might kill me. While I don't think I will really die from touching an old extracted tooth. I do feel extraordinarily dirty after picking one up. The only thing I can think about is when can I wipe myself clean. I feel grossness pulsating through my whole entire body.
He is finally feeling better. We made an appointment for Monday and of course his fever finally went away completely Sunday night. The rash he had was only an eczema flare up. I think it came from this new lotion I am using on me. He likes to play with it and a couple of times over the weekend I caught him putting it on himself. My mom thinks he either just likes the bottle for some reason or he likes how it smells. He is used to unscented stuff unless it comes from Gentle Naturals. It is too bad, I like that lotion and I usually don't like things that have a smell. The smell competes with my perfume and I end up smelling icky. The rash is under control, and he will be upset when he has to start wearing more than a diaper again. He has been enjoying his nakedness.
The cable guy comes today. We should have cable and !ntr@w3bz by the end of the day. I am so tired of watching old episodes of The Next Generation and the X-Files.
Anyway, it is back to work for me.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Fever

For the first time ever in his life, John-John has a fever. It isn't a high fever, but he has been sleeping a lot. That's really unlike my little ball of energy. He is very cranky, even more so than the time he had a cold. Even though he is cranky, he still wants to play, make people laugh, and comfort others when they are upset. I am trying to keep him from being too active as when he gets active, it raises his tempature and he becomes miserable. I have been alternating tylenol and motrin and that has been keeping his temperature good. I am going to bring him in on Monday if the fever doesn't go away.
As for me, I am freezing and it has been in the upper 90's to 100 degrees outside. I feel comfortable outside, but cold when I am in buildings. I think I must be getting sick, too. I do keep forgetting to take my vitamins so I hope it isn't because of that. I usually take my pre-natal vitamins because I am breastfeeding. In the past, it didn't matter if I forgot them. Now when I do I get that cold and can't warm up feeling. Maybe it is because he is older and nursing him is taking more energy from my body. That might explain my constant sugar cravings as well.

Friday, July 18, 2008

I am absolutely loving my new research. I couldn't be more happy, I don't think. I am getting used to not having cable. I really don't miss it and when I get too disturbed by the silence, I just turn on the radio or listen to music. I do, however, miss the !ntraw3bz. I get these ideas late at night/ early in the morning and have absolutely no ability to explore them. Since John-John does not sleep through the night yet, I can't just get up and run to the office and look things up even though I would love to do it. It kind of pisses me off that female scientist get paid and promoted less than their male counterparts. WTF? I kind of knew that it was true, but I had no clue how pervasive it was. I am also expanding that paper I wrote a couple of years ago for class about the misconceptions that students/people have about genetics. I want to re-do and go through IRB so that if I ever want to publish it, I can. Of course the stuff I collected then will not be useable so I will have to re-administer it and this time I will be a lot more formal about it.
We have decided that we are not going to have them cut down the tree in the back so that we can enjoy Direct TV. Cutting down the tree in the back would take away the shade, the birds, the squirrels and ruin the charm of our back yard. Without it, our yard becomes a large cement slab with two patches of overgrown garden. I can not wait until it is cool enough to go outside, clean it up, and plant things. Sometimes it cracks me up that I have become so used to scientific writing that I type can not instead of can't even if I think can't.
All of our stuff is out of storage and I have $60 extra dollars each month to play around with. I am getting rid of most of the books that are mine. I don't re-read books and most of the books I purchased for my first research project are of no use to me. If I want to research a method, I know how to go on the !nt3rwebz to find it. I can sell them on Amazon for a pretty good price I think. One of them is selling for between $80-140 used and the other is selling for between $8-50 used. That is what I figured it would sell for.
It's back to work for me. Hopefully, soon I will have internet access at home. I really need it.

Dumb Test by QuizRocket.com
I was aiming to be more dumber than that. I need to restudy I guess.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Still cable and internet free at home. I get so much more work done without cable, but I do need the intrawebz for my actual work. I'll be glad when I get it back. Today we finally went and got John's birth certificate and did a few other errands we have been putting off. I was surprised at how quickly it went. John-John was a trooper about it.