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Super quick update today, because work is sucktastically busy.  I’m really looking forward to the 3 day weekend (and the fact that my boss is making hers a 5 day weekend).

Photo the first-

Cait wanted to take my picture the other night, and Hannie wanted to be in a picture with me wearing my “zebra shirt”.  Bonus? She hides my big bum. So here I am at 20 weeks.  Large and in charge.

Photo the second-

A big contender for going home outfits for the babies.  They have 2 owls! It’s perfect! They may not have names, but they will be dressed!

For the third time in a row I’ve caught the mildest possible version of Ed’s or one of the kids’ colds.  It’s enough to have me feeling tired and run down, but not enough to have me unable to breathe and wishing that I could take meds when I can’t so I guess I have it good.  All the extra vitamins must be making me moderately immune.

Still though, I am feeling a bit sick, and have gone to bed before 10 the last 2 nights which is both unheard of, and not a good idea considering the amount of work that I need to accomplish this week, both for my actual job and my extra curricular jobs.  So of course, I am blogging.

I’m trying to find something that motivates me while I’m working.  I’ve tried podcasts, live radio and various playlists and I always get so involved in the music or the story that I forget to work.  Honestly though, I could I not stop working to rap along with Rob Base.  I’d challenge you to sit still in the same situation.

It’s funny though how I used to be SO used to working in the middle of a call center with tons of noise around me.  After 2 years at home, I can only work in complete silence.  It’s very odd.  Similarly, when I was in the actual office, I could not handle the various dings, beeps and buzzes of computer applications, to the point where I required my staff to have the volume of their computers turned completely off.  At home though? I need the dings.  It’s weird!

And speaking of work, I need to go ahead and write the training that I am presenting this afternoon.  I need to fill 90 minutes and other than a hand written outline, I have nothing.

PowerPoint Ahoy!

I went to kindergarten this year, something that I had been dying to do forever. We lived next door to the catholic school I went to, and always saw the kids outside playing. Sadly, my papa died in May, giving me my very 1st experience with death. The space shuttle Challenger made its 1st voyage in to space carrying Sally Ride. Compact discs debuted and the last episode of M.A.S.H aired. The Big Chill was a big movie that year. Fun Fact, I’ve been told that I look like Meg Tilly in The Big Chill on several occasions. I don’t see it, but what do you think?

I turned 4 this year and my grandfather, Papa, got very sick. He was in and out of the hospital. I shoplifted for the first (ok, only) time taking a package of gumdrops from our local drug store. Michael Jackson released “Thriller”. I had the record “The Chipmunks Sing ‘Thriller’” where The Chipmunks sand the entire album. John Belushi died of a drug overdose at the age of 33.

My parents bought their first house this year, and for good reason. I was no longer an only child! My brother M was born in August and I was thrilled. I spent my days home with my mother and him having a grand time. My great uncle bought me a plastic slide that we kept in our family room, which gave me countless hours of enjoyment. I loved to watch The Muppet Show on Friday nights. MTV began broadcasting this year, and Ronald Regan took office.

As I began to turn in to an actual person, as opposed to a baby, my preferences toward people were clear. For whatever reason I was terrified of certain aunts and uncles. My mother’s father though, my Papa, was my very best friend. I was the only grandchild on that side of the family at the time, and our bond was amazing—so amazing that I remember it even now, 28 years later. I finally had some hair and my mother took great joy in putting as many barrettes as she could cram in to my hair. This year marked the beginning of the greatest decade in music history, in my opinion. John Lennon was killed this year, Kramer Vs. Kramer won The Academy Award for Best Picture, and Ted Turner launched CNN.

My family had a longstanding tradition of placing a shot glass, a rosary or money in front of a child on their first birthday to see if they would be a drunk, rich or clergy. All three of these were placed on my high chair tray when I turned one in 1979. I chose the rosary, not because I was pious, but because I just loved my Gramma’s beads. This was the year my milk allergy went full blown and my diet was changed to include a whole lot of soy milk (and it wasn’t anything like what it is today). I was still bald as a cue ball and remained so until just before I turned 2. My vocabulary improved to include repeating anything and everything that I heard. My mother’s favorite quote: “This fucking rabbit!” When my rabbit jack in the box would not work properly. John Wayne and Nelson Rockefeller died this year.