Rach Rach's journal

dashboardfan84 @ 2005-06-21T09:18:00

2005-06-21T13:18:24Z

Well, Madison is back home with us. She was released from the hospital on Saturday morning. They released her on an antibiotic that should cure the infection that she currently has in her urine. The meningitis result came back negavite (thank god) and she just has a really bad urine infection. We are trying to get back to the routine again, but she doesnt really want to be on that yet. She wants to be awake very little, eat every 2 hours and then cry for a while. We are sleeping through the night again, which is awesome, but we still have to work on the day feedings. We had her follow-up visit with the pediatrician yesterday, and her fever has stayed down thankfully, she has to finish the augmentin (really strong form of Amoxocillin) and then she will be put on Amoxocillin for another 10 days just to make sure that the infection is gone. She has to goo for a VUCG (something like that) the procedure where they inject dye into her and see if she has any "reflux" that runs to her liver or kidneys. Hopefully we wont have any reflux. As much as i thought this was something not so severe, it seems like it is with her, she wont be fully better for another few weeks. Keep praying for her please, she is getting better slowly, but we just have to get this infection out of her. Im sorry i didnt update sooner, its just hard when you are gone for 3 days and you leave your house and all and then you have to come back and straighten everything back up agian, and put your lives back together...

dashboardfan84 @ 2005-06-17T23:23:00

2005-06-18T03:23:38Z

Ugh. Today was soo draining! I coudnt sleep last night. I cried for about 2 hours, just wishing that she had never gotten sick, that i kept her in the house since she was born and not taken her anywhere, wishing that i could take away whatever pain she was feeling. I just wishing that she didnt have to be in the hospital with IV's in her hand and medications every few hours and just uncomfortable with no swing for her to sleep in. I keep blaming myself for her getting sick, and the doctors keep saying that it isnt my fault. I keep saying to myself, i never realized how much i loved her until they tol dme that she was going to be admitted to the hospital. My heart was pretty much shitted out my ass. I didnt want to cry in front of the dr's... so i waked out of the room... why?? she is 6 weeks old.. she shouldnt be sick already! I spent the night thinking about how much i missed her. How much i just wanted her home again in my arms whenever i wanted her to be with no stupid things attached to her. How much my heart went out to her wishing that i could be sick for her and she could be the happy baby that i have had for the last 6 weeks. Seeing the beautiful smile she always gave me. I cried... for HOURS

I finally fell asleep only to awake again 2 hours later, missing her still. I went up to the hospital around 8:45 she was awake eating. I have been up since about 4am. I am so drained. I want to sleep so bad, but i sit her again crying my eyes out because i miss her. I got to see my beautiful girl smile again. It may have only been a few times, but she smiled at me... I got to see her smile. It may have been from gas, but she smiled.

We are still awaiting her tests for meningitis and we are now awaiting her results from her ultrasound to make sure her liver, and kidney's are not infected.

I want her home. I never want to work again! I want to stay home and just take care of her.

I wish i coudl bring her her swing, the only thing that gets her to sleep for more than 2 hours... maybe then she would be more comfortable and i wouldnt be a complete train wreck

but...i cant... and she has to be uncomfortable in a crib that looks like a jail that is im sure not comfortable either.

Maybe tomorrow she will come home...

Maybe...

I cant write about her anymore. It upsets me too much :-( I bring mysefl to tears thinking about her... maybe i should just lay down....

dashboardfan84 @ 2005-06-16T23:22:00

2005-06-17T03:22:36Z

Well, today was def not a good day. Madison woke up with a fever of 101.7... i had to go to the drs this morning for my 6 week check up after my pregnancy, and made an appt for madison to see her pediatrician at 2:45. We went to the drs this afternoon, they ran some bloodwork and said that her blood count was high and that we should take her to the emergency room. So Pete and I rushed over to St Peters Medical center and they took us right into the ER. They informed us that Madison would be admitted to the hospital and be brought to the pediatric unit. They ran lots of tests on her a spinal tap and lots of other bloodwork as well as urine samples. So far she has a urinary tract infection and we are awaiting the results of the spinal tap. She will be in the hospital until at least Saturday. Pete is taking tonight to be with her and i will go up tomorrow morning to be with her so he can sleep. Please pray for her. They are testing her for Meningitis which is really scaring me,but they said that they have to do it. Lets just hope that this is a urinary infection and nothing more serious. I miss my sweet Madison :-(

dashboardfan84 @ 2005-05-20T12:58:00

2005-05-20T16:58:49Z

Well, things are going great with the baby being home and all. She was 2 weeks old yesterday and she is just such an adorable little thing. She is starting to become more alert looking around everywhere and making lots of eye contact with Pete and I when she is eating (or whoever is feeding her for that matter) She has her first cold already, but she is already getting better from that. She has an infection in her eye, probably pink eye the doctor said which also is getting better already. She is just a little angel. She sleeps most of the time after she eats and wakes up again 4 hours later to eat again. We had a few rough nights with her, but she had gotten much better with letting us sleep through the night and letting us actually sleep most of the time until 8 or 9 in the morning...

She had her first bath today because the rest of her umbilical cord fell off yesterday, she didnt have to have one of those sponge baths anymore, she got to actually sit in the tub with water in it. She enjoys her baths. She likes to look around and loves the water. Pete gave her the bath this morning (first time in 2 weeks) but he is getting used to it all still.

Mommy was in the hospital on Saturday night with a 105.1 fever and abdominal pains... they decided that after about 6 hours in the emergency room that i just had some viral infection and that it was like a cold or a bug of some sort... Mom and Dad took Madison for the ngith and we got to sleep through the night. I am feeling much better now thakfully and get to spend time with Madison again! Daddy is home with us all the time now until we can find him a new job which is actually nice to have him home (not that we can afford it but you know) becuase i can actually accomplish a few things without having to run in and check up on her every 5-10 minutes when she fusses...

She is truly an angel though. We are uploading new pictures onto the webshots as we get them. So check back often, we take pictures of her all the time and we will upload them as we can...

community.webshots.com/user/dashboardfan84

check them out if you get a chance!

Thats about it for right now... i will update again soon hopefully!

dashboardfan84 @ 2005-05-09T10:42:00

2005-05-09T14:42:10Z

Well after close enough to 9 months (a week early) we have a beautiful baby girl... She was born on Thursday May 5, 2005 at 8:52AM. She weighed an impressive 8lbs 9oz and was 19in long... She came home with us on Sunday, May 8 (mothers day :-)) and is very happy to be home with us! She had to spend an extra day in the hospital because i ran a fever during labor and when she was born she had a fever as well, so they gave her some antibiotics and other stuff and she had to go under the special lights for a while because she was jaundice and her billiereuben (however it is spelled) levels were really high. But she is finally home and we are so happy. If you want to see some pictures, check out my sisters Webshots until i can get the pictures up on mine... the link is below.

Thank you to everyone who congratulated us! We are very proud to have her and are so happy to be home!

http://community.webshots.com/user/stephj24

dashboardfan84 @ 2005-04-18T08:20:00

2005-04-18T12:20:59Z

Wowsers so it has been a long time since i have gotten even a chance to put a thought into updating this thing. Things are so crazy tring to prepare for the baby and trying to get everything together for this little one. But here is as much of an update as i can give you for now.

Work is just wowzers crazy right now, trying to finsih everything up before my last day of work (which is tuesday thankfully) and then stay home until July (yay) and take care of the baby... Work gave me this HUGE project that i have to have done before i leave for maternity, and whoop.. i finished it just in time... LAST NIGHT... hahaha it was such a pain in the ass i cant even begin to explain it to you.

As for the baby, the baby is due anytime now... well the doctor said that i could have the baby at any time now... of course that means between now and my due date may 10th... its kinda a long time period, but with that said we started to franticly begin the last minute things that we had not done for the baby's room and all... The crib people delivered the crib and dresser saturday mornin, which was a relief because it was supposed to be on backorder much longer! But it came on saturday and it was such a relief.... we did the last minute shopping for things that we didnt get at the baby shower on Saturday and i think that we are all set for right now... Pete is really excited about the baby, but heis so confused what hapens with the baby in the hospital and all, so last night we had to go out and get him a book on new daddy's... i didnt realize that he didnt know half of the stuff that happens in the hospital, and never thought to buy him a book until i couldnt stand the same questions 50 million times, so we had to buy him a book... and then he bought a baby names book, even though we have the names already picked out for this baby and dont intend on having another one anytime soon.

The baby shower was on April 2nd and that was totally fun! We got pretty much everything that we wanted and asked for which was a total relief! Few things that we went out and bought with our gift certificates that we got from the shower, but it was definatly a blast. SO many people came to it and it was good to see Pete's family as well as my family and friends all in the same room together.

Well, work is beconing me again, like usual. I will update hopefully again soon, and will definatly update you guys when the baby is born and we are both home... becuase obviously i cant update you all from the hospital. Im sure that most of you will get a phone call when the baby is born, of course that is if i have your number :-D

dashboardfan84 @ 2005-02-13T20:29:00

2005-02-14T01:29:52Z

So yeah I told you all that i would tell you all about the whole proposal thing, and being that i am exhausted i am going to make this just a plain story, and just tell you pretty much how it happened....

I had known that he was going to propose because Pete isnt good with secrets... he is one of those people that has to tell you everything that he is going to do and if you dont want to know too bad because he is going to tell you anyway... So he told me that he was going to do it on monday, take me out to dinner and all and do it that way, but it ended up not working out that way.

We drove out to New York on Saturday because he bought the ring at a shop out there because he grew up in Whitestone NY... and he knows the guy that owns this shop so he could get a little bit of a cut on it and not have to spend as much on the ring.... we got to NY and he wanted me to get my finger sized so that the ring would fit right when we got it and we wouldnt have to take it to get sized when we got back to jersey.... so we had to wait for the ring to get sized and he took me out to lunch at some diner out in Flusing or Whitestone one of those two towns and then we went back to get the ring....

He asked me in the car because he looked at the ring and said that he couldnt wait until monday to ask me becuase it was so beautiful... so he asked me in the car, in the parking lot of the jewelry store... not a cutsie story, but that it how it went. The ring is beautiful and a little small because the one guy measured my finger one size and the other guy measured it another and they went with the smaller size out of the two (go figure) but its all good.....

So that is pretty much what happened, we arent setting a date for a few years... gonna take care of having a baby and raising the baby for a while before we worry about planning any weddings...... but u will all be sure to get invitations when we do send them out... if we have ur addy of course... :-)

dashboardfan84 @ 2005-02-12T22:55:00

2005-02-13T03:55:36Z

So Pete proposed to me today, of course I said yes... but i just wanted you all to know that... ill write the whole shiskabob tomorrow when im not thoroughly exhausted...

dashboardfan84 @ 2005-01-24T20:22:00

2005-01-25T01:22:14Z

Ah, well its been a busy while and there is no time to update this thing anymore, but we are going to try and update this and see what the heck happens.

Today is Pete's birthday, so that is cool. I got him and ice cream cake which hopefully he will like. and some movies that he didnt like too much but he will get over it really quickly ims ure.. haha just kidding... he got some nice stuff from his parents and all...

The baby is doing good. Its gotten alot bigger, if you go to the pics link on my AIM profile you can see the most recent picture of the baby and how much it has grown in the last few months... its going by quickly which isnt a bad thing, but it is going by and that is alwasys a good thing.

Work is kinda busy right now, which isnt a bad thing but it is sure tiring especialy when I am pregnant and all... uh i dont really have too much else to update on... the baby's room is all painted and the border is going up hopefully soon, my mother is going to get it together and show us how to put the border up and help us....

im too tired to do this thing, im sorry....

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-12-30T18:24:00

2004-12-30T23:24:43Z

1. What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
I got a real job.. does that count??? hahaha just kidding.... uh i got pregnant.. haha again...note all of my sarcasm already... this is going to be a long survery lol....

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I honestly can say that i have to go with Jo when he said that he didnt remembe what his resolution was for next year but for this year my resolution is not to be so judgemental towards people and to try not to argue with pete as much.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My cousin Caitlin gave birth to my Goddaughter Colette Rose on Oct 3, my cousin Codyn was born and yeah well there is me due next year... do i count????

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Peter's grandfather passed away on December 23 this year. and Fay's grandmother as well.. :-\

5. What countries did you visit?
Maryland. :-)

6. What would you like to have in 2005 that you lacked in 2004?
A nice relationship with no arguments and no drama...

7. What date from 2004 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
April 3, 2004 our birfday weekend, August 3rd... my little one was conceived...

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting a real job sitting at a desk doing nothing all day and GETTING PAID FOR IT

9. What was your biggest failure?
I dont fail! haha just kidding.... i dunno my lack of car skills

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Not really. Colds flu, sore throat, strep, sinus infections... no.. not really

11. What was the best thing you bought?
bought.. damn i have to own things... shoot.... uh i bought... my subs and my neons for my car...

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
hmmm.... my cuz mark for sticking it out in Iraq and defending his country!

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Oh come on now! Mine!

14. Where did most of your money go?
Bills, car insurance

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
My birthday and then my 21st that was all planned out to be partied away at some bar that will now be partied away at my apartment with diet coke or regular coke and no alcohol

16. What song will always remind you of 2004?
Hoobastank- The Reason

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
ii. thinner or fatter?
uh fatter.... obviously
ii. richer or poorer?
poorer... unfortounatly

18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Talked to my friends and family.

19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Being lazy.

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
Simple family stuff.... like usual.

22. Did you fall in love in 2004?
Yea

23. How many one-night stands?
None, not my style thanks.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
Real world

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No I dont hate

26. What was the best book you read?
i dont like to read... my work handbook....

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The Early November and Matchbook Romance and Story of the Year

28. What did you want and get?
i wanted to find love and i did

29. what did you want & not get?
a new car... maybe someday....

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
BIG FISH

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Down to maryland to celebrate my 20th birthday with my friends

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Uh... im pretty happy.. more money?

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2004?
Comfortable

34. What kept you sane?
Music

35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
None really

36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Gay Marriage

37. Who did you miss?
Jo, Alice, Colette, my cosins and family, all my far away friends

38. Who was the best new person you met?
Uh.... i dunno

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2004:
Girls- KEEP YOUR LEGS CLOSED!!!!
Guys- KEEP YOUR SHIT IN YOUR PANTS!

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
I'm starting to fashion an idea in my head
Where I would impress you with every single word I said
It would come out insightful, or brave, or smooth, or charming
And you'd want to call me

And I would be there every time you need me
I'd be there every time

But for now I'll look so longingly waiting
For you to want me, for you to need me, for you to notice me

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-12-26T22:19:00

2004-12-27T03:19:16Z

Well, it has been a while since i have been able to update this journal thing, i apologize. I have no internet access anywhere and it is hard to find a time of day at work to be able to get on and do this thing....

Things have been going pretty good. Work is alot of fun and not too bad anymore and the baby is doing good. We had the ultrasound about 2 weeks ago to find out the sex of the baby, well the usual 19-22 week ultrasound to make sure that everything is developing okay, and all was good, we couldnt find out the sex of the baby though. The baby has its legs crossed, so that was really upsetting but im sure that we will hopefully have another ultrasound in the next few months and we will be able to find out the sex of the baby.

We are going to try to pick of what we want to do in the baby's room hopefully in the next few weeks. Pete wants to paint the baby's room now, but what the heck we still have 4 1/2 months before it NEEDS to be done, so i dont think that we really need to rush into painting the baby's room and all.

We still have to do the baby registry and all that good stuff which i think we will get to in the next few months or so, and other than that, thats about it for the baby...

Bought a new video game to keep me busy when im bored, Need for Speed 2... freaking hot ass game hahahahaa im gangster....

and that is about it, gotta work tomorrow. have off tues or wed not sure yet....

ill try to update more often...

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-12-04T09:53:00

2004-12-04T14:53:19Z

Well, today we are moving into the apartment. I will be without internet access for a while until we get things hooked up... you know the drill... so I will make sure to try and get on every once and a while to check up... but if you at all need me this weekend or whatever or until im back online... the cell phone is your best bet....

908-625-3184

Ill see what i can do about updating while im at work and all until we get the internet...

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-11-21T11:22:00

2004-11-21T16:22:12Z

I am poopie tired. I didnt get to bed until about 2:30 last night, but it was okay and yesterday was alot of fun. I went over to my grandparents house in Lawrenceville to hang out with everyone, grandma rosemary, grandpa, aunt nancy, Leigh, Ashley, Jackie, Mark, Caitlin, and Colette. It was a fun time. We watched Shrek 2 and Mulan and we ate yummy dinner. It was alot of fun. We talked alot about the things that when my grandfather used to own his shore house and the stories that all of us had from the times when we were down there and we shared other stories that we heard that were just absurd. It was totally fun time... Christmas Party we found out was the 8th of Jan or at least that is the tennative date as of right now. I dont know if it will change for any reason, but that is the date as of right now when my huge family of 23 cousins, 8 Aunts and Uncles, and I think 3 great grand-children... (there are three more on the way, one of them is mine of course and my cousin Brian and Ruth Ann are having twin boys in February.) So we all cram into my grandfather's house and have Christmas as one big family! Its a really fun time full of laughs and surprises and each year it seems to get better and better... so I am really looking forward to that...

Doctors appointment went well on Thursday. I lost MORE weight which the doctor is not happy about. 4 pounds this month! I have to put on i think he said 10 lbs before the next time I see him. Anyone want to pig out with me??? haha... and then on dec. 9th we have an ultrasound and hopefully we will be able to find out the sex of the baby. Of course I will inform you all when we find out and hopefully at that point we will be able to give you a name for the baby.. (if its a girl we might not, we cant agree on a name for her yet... given that it is a her)

Only 3 days of work next week and that is a beautiful thing! Thurs and Fri off and i will not complain one lick about that!

Thats about all for now, i will update again soon!

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-11-17T21:38:00

2004-11-18T02:39:35Z

Well its been a little since i have updated, work is keeping me bust as anything and it is getting to the point where no of us really want to come to work anymore... not really its just so hectic and we are all so stresed out and everything and soon enough though, things will slow down, like around Christmas time and things will get back to normal. Things are so stressful..... life is so stressful...

Tomorrow is the wonderful doctors office again! I dont mind the guy whatsoever its just its only for so long that you can really take going to see the doctor EVERY SINGLE MONTH. Its to the point where i dont even want to be pregnant anymore just so that I dont have to go to the doctors office... haha im just kidding, it isnt all that bad it just stinks that i have to go to the doctors office in the MIDDLE of the day and spend a half hour driving there and then a half hour driving all the way back to work, that is the only part that really sucks about the whole thing. UGH.... but its all good...

Kristie came home this weekend and it was really nice to see her. She went out shopping with me on Saturday and we had fun. We went to babies R Us and was looking at alot of the stuff for the baby. Alot of the stuff that it out is really cute. I found the stroller and car seat that i love and want so badly. I found alot of the things that i like. The Ocean Wonders set that Fischer Price came out with.. its like a bouncer, a high chair, stuff like that, its really cute and i really like the set. But we have plenty of time to worry about getting all of that stuff....

Other than that, it has been getting home from work and falling asleep because I am tired. Which of course we all know is NOTHING unusual for me... tired... its an everyday thing.

Apartment... ah yes the best part... moving out... hopefully the begining of January... like around the 6th or something... as long as i can seem to stand the Peter, we will attempt living together and raising the baby together, that is if i can stand him. But who knows what could happen, at this point anything could happen and we could end up separating.. not hoping for that, but it could happen....

Anyway i have to work early tomorrow morning... poop.... so maybe tomorow i will update....

Oh yes, one last thing... CLEAN SWEEP PROMOTIONS SUCK!!!!

Night!h

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-11-15T11:38:00

2004-11-15T04:38:50Z

Happy 22nd Birthday Chris! I know this post is a little late, it just took me a while to figure out what my password was to log into my livejournal...

I love ya and miss you. I owe you a birthday present... whadda you want???

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-11-09T19:12:00

2004-11-10T00:12:50Z

Ah man, this weekend was just what i needed. It was so beautiful to get away for the weekend and not have to work on Friday or Monday. It was so beautiful and I wish that I could do it every day. I headed down to Maryland Friday afternoon after i stopped by my aunts house to vist her and my cousins for a while. I got down to Maryland around 8:15 and by that time i was so tired, but we went out and Jo bought the Movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. It was a really good movie but it confused the crap out of me. errrr.. i hate when movies do that to me. But then i was out cold.

We went out to breakfast Saturday morning and that was DELICIOUS! We went and visited Kristie on Saturday too and it was awesome to see her! I missed her like crazy, you dont even know! We went to the mall and walked around and then hung out for a few minutes and talked to George... that was cool and then we went back to her dorm and watched Waterboy.. which is hilarious!

Sunday i headed home unfortounatly, my car started acting up and then Pete and I needed to settle some things. So i went home, then on the way home my car went. My car decided to break on the way home and it was a total pain in the royal arse......

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-10-30T22:53:00

2004-10-31T03:09:38Z

Well, There are only 6 more days until i head down to maryland. Thank the Lord that I am feeling better because i had already taken off of work for the two days and i didnt want ot have to stay home and be sick when i could be down with my best friend in the whole world. Well i get to see my two best friends in the whole world the weekend that i go down to Maryland. Ill stop by and visit Kristi at Hood College in Frederick MD while im down there for a while and see whats goin on at that awesome college of hers and then i will spend most of the time with Jo who i havent seen in over 7 months!!! OMG what the heck happened that we waited so long to see each other????

Thankfully I am feeling alot better from having the flu or whatever the hell this is that i have had. Im still tired all the time, but that is nothing unusual. I dont really sleep at night, the most sleep i get is about 4 hours. And then im exhausted. Tried to take a nap today, but my mother sent my bro in to wake me up because she had something really important to tell me... THAT THERE WAS AN APARTMENT FOR RENT AROUND HERE!!! It couldnt have waited until i was done sleeping??? So my nap lasted a whole 20 minutes..i dont think that i really fell asleep though. :-\ Im exhauseted now but i was thinking if i stayed up kinda late (being that we gain an hour of sleep tonight) that i would be able to sleep through the night. We will see how that philosophy goes...

Ah yea last night we were in NYC because we had to pick someone up from Penn Station out there.. and i had to drive around teh block a few times... and i got stuck behind the stupid Eminem SUV the whole time who was driving around the block promoting the new eminem CD scheduled to be released next month. Dont get me wrong im a huge eminem fan, just not when i want to get the fuck out of NYC when its 10:00 at night and there is a P-diddy/Jay Z concert going on at the garden! Come on now... MOVE IT! So that was interesting... almost got killed on the wy home by someone who missed their turn...

then after i dropped them off at the train station(steph left her car there) i was on my way home and a car hit a power pole and knocked it down... well literally chopped it in half, and the guy was like drunk and crap and the power line was in the middle of the road. It was kinda scary because the power pole couldnt really support itself because it was chopped in half, but had perfectly lodged itself into the ground. But it was interesting and i hope that the poor drunk guy is okay and learned his lesson...

Bed now, im sorry... im pooped!

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-10-25T18:14:00

2004-10-26T22:25:11Z

POOP on being sick! Poop on not being able to take any medicine other than Tylenol. What the hell is tylenol going to do for a cold??? Come on now people! I have the FLU! I dont need a pain killer. I need a nasal decongestant/cough suppressant/fever reducer that wont affect my baby!!!! UGH!

No work today, stayed home sick. Left work early yesterday... felt crappy... still feel crappy. need to work tomorow because i am running out of sick days... hopefully they survived today without me there.. i know that its hard for tricia and them all to survive without me there! Poop....

The only thing that i can praise right now is Kleenex! (however you spell it) for inventing their tissues with LOTION in them! They were the best creation in the whole world! I should write a note to kleenex and thank them.

Only 10 days until my adventure to maryland. (if i can get unsick by then) Hopefully i will be able to see Bimbo while i am there, i will see jo and hopefully Tim and Sarah said that she was going to try and make it home that weekend to hang out with us... (crossing fingers)

Hopefully other people will be around that weekend too like maybe Joanne or i dont know who else lives in maryland.... brooke...

poop tired... back to sleep....

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-10-04T20:08:00

2004-10-05T00:47:59Z

Well, we had our first sonogram/ultrasound of the baby. Baby is nice and big, no really big problems or anything yet... just wanted to show you all the picture of the baby and all that good stuff... :-) its a tiny little thing, about 15 mm long... very tiny but will be growing rapidly over the next few months.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/196105743/196111322wXkdVA

the link for the picture, and of course i will continue to update as possible :-D

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-09-27T19:25:00

2004-09-27T23:30:16Z

Ah well, a day off work today, and a possible second day today should i not feel better.... Threw out my back somehow. havent figured out how yet, but im sure that in a few days this will all blow over and i will feel better again. Have a doctors note through wednesday not to go to work but if i feel any better tomorrow i will be in work because we all know that rachel hates staying home.....

Im so tired lately, not sure why, probably cuz im pregnant and im not sleeping too well at night, but i dont really know. having some trouble with my head too, cant seem to get rid of a headache that i have had, and well i can take all of like 5 medicines during this pregnancy, and tylenol is the ONLY pain killer allowed. Poop... no muscle relaxants either which sucks majorly. but who knows.....

sleep calls me but i'll be sure to get an update in here sometime soon.

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-09-24T21:28:00

2004-09-25T01:42:44Z

Ah so much stuff going on. Too many things to do, too many doctors appointments to take care of!! Geez. Work is crazy as all hell right now too... doesnt make it any easier on the busy schedule :-\ Start of the back to school season, but other than that work will stay busy through christmas time and then slow down a little after that. VEE (Vision Expo East) in the future that is always fun and interesting.

The hunt for an apartment has begun, we found a place that i think we are going to go ahead and put the security deposit onto and then go from there. Its a nice 2 bedroom apartment with a nice living room and a dining room, kitchen, and huge closets. Big enough to start the family in and then go from there.

Its really exciting, and well for all of you that dont know the big news, there is a baby on the way :-) I figured this was the easiest way to get this to everyone that I am not going to have a chance to tell in the near future. The little one is due around May 10th... not an exact date yet. we will find out on Thursday when we go for an ultrasound to hear the heartbeat and then we will be able to tell by the size of the baby how far along we are and an EXACT estimate of when the baby should be due... of course that is given that the baby decides to wait 9 months to come out and not any sooner.

So slowly but surely i will get to you all and get the good news to all of you. Jo hopefully will be able to come up and visit in the near future after we move into the apartment and stay with us for a little while. Well i guess for a weekend or so. It would be GREAT to have him up to visit. Everyone else you are all more than welcome any time you want to come and visit once we move into the apartment.

so for now, thats all. I will try and update more often than i have been.... its just kinda crazy rite now....

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-09-20T20:48:00

2004-09-21T00:49:28Z

BIG and Exciting news... if u wanna know.... IM me.... Dashboardfan84

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-09-06T21:14:00

2004-09-07T01:29:16Z

Well, this weekend was by far what i needed to end the Summer. Pete and I headed down to seaside around 4:30 on saturday to go and vistit fay and rob. We hit no traffic going down which was awesome and very little on the way home. Made it down there around 5:30.... checked into our overexpensive and a waste of money hotel (all for the damn hot tub), he took a shower and i called Fay and let her know that we had gotten down there. We went over to see fay and rob for a while, went over to Mike and Sheila's house (Robs twin bro and girlfriend) and ate some food, went swimming... and all that good stuff. Stayed there til about 10 or so and then we had to get going because fay had Sammy (her 7 year old sister) for the weekend and she was getting tired) so we brought them back and then pete and i went back to the hotel... tried out the hot tub that was completely cold because i guess the hotel didnt have any hot water, either that or the wedding party took all the hot water (yeah they had a wedding party there and we got stuck in the room right next to them) Poop. so sunday morning we made our way out of the hotel to check out (not worth your $250 a night) and went to meet fay and rob after we ate breakfast. Went to the boardwalk at seaside, did a bunch of rides with sammy and played some games at the coin castle.. (the arcade)

wanted to go into the water, but damn hurricane Frances created such a horrible rip tide that the moment we walked onto the boardwalk the lifeguards ran in to pull someone out of the water that couldnt stay afloat. It sucked, so we just walked. Around 4:30 we went back and started to barbecue.... the girls got to cook (for some reason) and it was not too bad, hot dogs, hamburgers, london Broil, barbecue ribs, corn, mashed potato's... so much food but it was mighty delicious. The boys were gonna do boys night out and all but that didnt really work because pete didnt want to join, so fay and sammy watched movies while the boys (rob, ed/george( he gets 2 manes) and jeff) went and watched the band play and drink.

came back home this morning, exhausted as anything...... it was def a really needed vacation away and it was the best anniversary gift i could have asked for (hmm.. this was only 11 months... wonder what next month with our one year brings.. haha just kidding)

thats all for now im pooped. I will put up pics later on my webshots..... but until then... this is all you get...

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-08-29T13:11:00

2004-08-29T17:21:09Z

Ah man yesterday was the best day in a while that i have had. Pete and I decided around noon that we were going to drive down to seaside and visit Fay and Rob for a little bit. Acutally we had plans of going to the beach at seaside, but ended up in Toms River at robs house. We got there, did some eating at McDonalds, and then to CVS quickly to pick up a few things before we had to meet Mike (robs twin brother) his girlfriend, forgot her name at the mall near Fay's house. We met them there but by the time that they got there we were pretty much done and so we left after like 5 minutes of them being there. We dont like his girlfriend anyway so we really didnt want to hang out with them.... so we decided lets go to the boardwalk for dinner and then that willl be cool, so Mike and Sheils (i remembered her name) decided that they were going to come with their friend Sean (its a girl) as well. so that turned into hell being that Mike is Fay's ex fiance and sheila doesnt like fay.... but anyway, she turned into a bitch becuase she didnt want to "walk all over the boardwalk" oh come on what the hell is the boardwalk for??? so you can walk around and do stuff DUH! so we end up eating at a pizza place, because there were no resturants that were cheap and that would be able to take all 7 of us before 2 hours.

so they got pissed off because they didnt want to eat where we ate, and then complained about breaking up but then after all of that, they ended up beaking apart from us anway. What the hell??? Doesnt make any sense... but who cares....

So fay, rob, pete, and I walked around the boardwalk, played at the arcade and had a blast, while mike got drunk with sheila and yeah.... then fay's friend Courtney came down and we ended up walking for a little, pete and i did a liquor run, and we went to courtney's house, swam in the pool (beautiful) and then drank a little... Pete and i made it home around 2:30 this morning, but it was well worth it!!!.... maybe colorado tonight... who knows

dashboardfan84 @ 2004-08-23T17:08:00

2004-08-23T21:15:50Z

what a beautiful day today is. the weather is beautiful, the sun is shining bright. No complaints coming from here. Its upsetting that tomorrow is my last day here but i will get over it. I have to go back and work, but that is where the money comes in right?? cant be completely happy without a little money.

my sunburn is a tad bit better. Put on the 45 sunblock this morning sat at the beach for about 2 hours and then came back, went and bought a sweatshirt for my father. Tonight, we are going to the boardwalk, tomorrow i think that we are going to the water park, which should be fun. my last day we have to make sure that it is lots of fun.

i talked to pete last night for about an hour or so, i miss him so much, but tomorrow i will be home and everything will be okay. mom comes home with me tomorrow but sucks because i cant have a party or antyhing like that.

i have so many beautiful pictures that i took, so many that i still wnat to take, but its been nothing less than perfect here the last few days. This will probably be my last update until i come home, so... until tomorrow night sometime...

buh bye