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Four miles baby WOOO!
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Jul. 8th, 2008 @ 12:22 pm
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Today I went outdoors for a run and vowed to go four miles. Not without stopping - I have a five-mile route that I do outside, 2.5 miles both ways; I try to go 3 miles non-stop and then I'm working up my mileage on the return, after the walking break. I've done about 3.5 miles total before now and so today I promised myself I'd do 4. Mission accomplished! ...I think. I had to approximate because I had no real solid measure of EXACTLY my distance; all I have are half-mile markers and sometimes I'd start in the middle of a half mile.
Anyway though. To be fair I've yet to actually complete the first 3.0 miles without stopping. The final half mile has some kind of a dip in it so I swear to God it's uphill both ways, coming and going. :P I can go all the way to the sign but since that's got some incline to it, turning around and going back another half mile and STILL going on an incline is killer. Today, though, I made it farther than I have before. I'm just going to keep setting myself new distance goals with each one a few feet farther. I think I did about 2.7 this time without stopping and next week maybe I'll manage 2.75 or so. Every bit helps. :)
Coming back was good because after walking about a mile to recover, I did .7 miles with some sprints tossed in, walked another .2 or so miles, then ran the last .3. Whew! I had to sit down afterwards. Also thank God I brought my water bottle! I don't normally do that when I go outside but I thought, it being mid-summer and all, I'd have to be kind of stupid to go out without water. I would NOT have made it the whole way without it. Heck, I drank an entire 16 oz of water and right now I still feel dry in the mouth! :P IT'S HOT OUT THERE.
Well anyway. I'm hereby announcing that I'm going to be using my long-ago-opened, never-until-now-used Blogspot journal to write about my running habits. It's here:
http://zebeckras.blogspot.com
There is an entry from yesterday and I'll probably crosspost this one over to it too. Whoop-dee-doo, Tarantula Town. :)
I still need to post about my last 5K, the Autism one... it was disappointing. :( On the other hand I got my best time yet on it so it wasn't WHOLLY bad. :)
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Jul. 7th, 2008 @ 03:15 pm
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I'll at least get this baby started...
( So, on about ten hours of sleep over the previous 48 hours... )
I'm going to stop here because that's enough for one entry and because i want to actually be able to POST this thingie! Coming up soon though: PhilharMagic, dinner, parades, etcetera!
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OB/GYN, and 5Ks
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Jul. 1st, 2008 @ 01:16 pm
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Wow that's a lot of abbreviations and acronyms in that short little subject line! :D
Hokay, you know what's annoying? My mouse here on this computer, upon which the buttons no longer like to work at predictable intervals. Instead I have to actually whack the hardware, which is good and fun for nobody at all.
Anyway! I mentioned in an edit to my recent post about VBACs and how I was really pissed and upset that I might not be allowed to try to have one that I had finally found a doctor in the area who performed them. I made an appointment promptly upon verifying this and the appointment was today. Overall impressions: VERY good. The doctor I spoke with has been in practice for a long time, he was very communicative and open and I just got a good feel from the place which again verified my increasing feelings of dissatisfaction from my previous doctors. ( A few more thoughts under the cut; spare you the TMI if you are bothered by such things )
Anyway, regarding the baby stuff, I'm not going to mention it here again for a while now that I've got this sort of "nailed down" so to speak. Once things are movin' along I'll post about it more, but until then you guys all get a break. ;)
Meanwhile! I mentioned a while ago that I'm getting addicted to running, and 5Ks. I hadn't mentioned here though that I've already run a second 5K! It was on 6/21 and was again with my sister the marathoner. This one was much larger than the first one we did and also it was MUCH hotter! We had a great time though, and this time I got not only my official time but also a ranking. Out of about 332 participants we came in dead center, with her at 164 and me at 165. Our time was 30:50, which is an improvement of just about a minute from last time, though last time I had stopped and walked a bit. I was hoping my pace would have been better!
Well, the good news is that I have another chance to improve the pace, on Friday; I'm running in "Autism Speaks", a fundraising 5K. Unfortunately I found out about it and joined too late to actually do any fund-raising, but I got not only my sister in on it but also my mother. Rather than running she is going to do the mile walk portion of it, annnd, she's going to take Dorothy along with her in her stroller! Neat, huh? :) Meanwhile I have been obsessively looking at race dates and things; I think from here I want to try an 8K and work up to a 10K, if possible by the end of the summer. I think that would be perfectly reasonable under normal circumstances, but circumstances may not be normal, so who knows. ;) There is I think a 10K "back to school" race in the city I work in in late September so I'm eyeing that. ^_^
Man! Who knew the running/racing bug bit so damn hard?? My original plan was just to run one, then I thought I'd run as many as I could before getting pregnant, then I realized I didn't have to stop if I got pregnant (and yes I asked about that today to be sure - "as long as it's something you already do, and you feel up to it, no need to stop" he said) so... I'm not saying I'm gonna run a marathon while 6 months pregnant but at least, hopefully, I won't have to stop entirely... well, not for a while. Then again I distinctly remember days when the motion of walking made me quite certain I was going to lose my lunch, so I doubt I'll feel like running a race every single day. STILL though! I've definitely got time before that happens, at least a couple of months. Enjoy 'em, right? ^_^
Note to self: Stop talking like you are already pregnant. Just to verify yet again: I'M NOT. Yet. Last time I'll mention it, I swear. XD
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Jumpin JeeeHOsephat
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Jun. 29th, 2008 @ 11:41 pm
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Who does one talk to when one's daughter has sleep issues? It's pretty much a nightly thing with Dorothy to wake up screaming at least once.
I've tried pretty much all I can think of, which mostly includes either going in to see her or else waiting for her to go back to sleep on her own. Usually if I'm going to try the "letting her cry it out" method I'll stick with that for a significant amount of time, and for a while when she was younger it really worked, but then it just ... stopped. Since after a while she was really working herself up, I started going in to her again, and for a while it helped but then, as I said, it really got to be nightly and on more than one occasion it became several times a night. So I tried going in only once and then letting her cry... not a help. So I tried not going in, with the idea that after a few night she'd be used to it and she'd know she could get herself to sleep again on her own; didn't work. As a mommy I felt really bad letting a two year old wake up crying each night so I started going in again and I've been explaining to her that it's not okay to scream, but right now she's tantruming herself silly.
The exchange we just had occurred when Dan was in her room fixing the AC and he thought he'd straighten her blanket; this is a mistake we've both made a few times b/c it wakes her up and when she is WOKEN it's all the worse. So she was really out of it, demanded that I wrap her in her blanket (we're lying it over her now instead of wrapping her), wouldn't stop crying; finally I got her a new, bigger blanket and she calmed down and was falling asleep as I left the room. So I guess she looked for me and I wasn't there, so the screaming started. And has been going on for like five minutes. WHAT. THE. HELL.
This just can't be good! For anyone! AND she usually wakes up around 2 or 3 am, so unless she REALLY tuckers herself out with this round - which is possible - I may be in for this in another couple of hours, too. (side note: why the fuck do I keep staying up this fucking late, what is WRONG in my HEAD that I've been doing this lately b/c the morning REALLY HURTS)
When I say screaming I mean... SHRIEKING at the top of her LUNGS. I have no idea how to ostop it, I spent a good ten minutes trying to comfort her earlier and there's nothing more I can do with her so the answer can't be that I have to go back in there, right? I don't expect anyone to give me a miracle answer here, but who do I ask about this? Do I ask her pediatrician? Do I just wait it out - this seems like a sleep disorder waiting to happen, and it just CAN'T be good for her long term. She needs unbroken sleep and I don't know how to give it to her. Right about now I want to go back into her room and *yell* at her to button it and go to sleep, but that's not going to help anything. But JEEZ, pretty soon it'll be ten minutes, and she's got herself this worked up!
Okay, now Dan is going in to calm her down, and of course she's so worked up in tantrum mode that she's fighting him. Oy. She's not usually THIS bad, she's just been tired tonight (she threw a tantrum just before bed, too, and right now even though she's not crying she's upset beyond an ability to speak so there's a lot of random grunting going on, no words) and she's been flung out of her sleep cycle, but ah. Once he leaves it'll likely start back up again. So... yeah. Who can give me advice on how to deal with night tantrums? Pediatrician or a specialist?Current Mood:  stressed |
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Jun. 26th, 2008 @ 09:53 pm
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Aaaand here we go with the brief-i-fied version of my second day at Walt Disney World! Btw, even if you have read the long versions (which aren't really necessary - I kind of just write all those out b/c I want to remember the details as well as I can), I'd suggest reading this b/c I had to skip a few things near the end due to lightning. That means mainly the stuff after I got back to the campgrounds, so I'm including it here.
( and here we go again... )
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| » Rounding out the Epcot Tale, pt 1: Photo Post |
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I'm'a just dump a bunch of Epcot photos at you guys and run. :) If I have time later I'll post the "condensed" version of that particular day and maybe then I can move on to the Magic Kingdom!
( Lots of pics under text! )
I have a bunch of undeveloped photos from MGM and Epcot that are on a couple of disposable cameras. Meanwhile though I did most of my digital photo-taking at MK and that's for another post!
Must... make... icons...
Jun. 26th, 2008 @ 01:32 pm
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| » Morning observation |
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So Aretha Franklin gets all the hype over "RESPECT" which is admittedly a terrific song. However the awesomeness that is Aretha is much more on display, IMO, with "Think"; she wails on that one. There are two versions, her original, and the remake she did for the Blues Brothers movie. That second one is the one to listen to if you want to prove to anyone at all that nobody can outdo Aretha Franklin for sheer balls. XD
Actually, almost every remake version on that soundtrack is as good as if not better than the original version. But Aretha's blows 'em away. That lady can be as big of a bitch as she wants, in my opinion; she's earned it. ;) (Hey, I'm not saying I'd want to have her over for dinner or anything, but I hold her in the highest regard in terms of talent)
Jun. 26th, 2008 @ 09:55 am
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| » Awww, how cute is my girl? |
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Don't even play like you didn't miss hearing about Dorothy. Because I KNOW you did. ;)
Anyway, this is short; I have more time now than I did the past few weeks, but not THAT much yet because I'm only just digging myself out of the pile-up I was under without really realizing it. Whew!
Anyway, two things. First of all, I'll admit to the fact that I am subtly influencing (subtle may not be the right word) Dorothy towards Disney World. I talk about it all the time and now, so does she. I vocally refuse to give in to "branding" on clothes and cups and most toys, except that I buy her Mickey Mouse stuff all the time and have since before she was born. (My excuse NOW is that she loves him; what was my excuse then?) I show her pictures and play music and so forth, and as a result she has a grand love of all things Disney, and she loves Mickey Mouse cartoons as well as Pluto, Donald Duck, and so on. HOWEVER, to be fair, I want to say that I tried to encourage her towards Bugs Bunny and such, too. I did! I still do!! In fact I vastly prefer Looney Tunes over Disney when it comes to animated shorts. I think they're far funnier and usually better paced. But even though Dorothy loves Mickey, Goofy, and Donald as well as Betty Boop and Popeye (my father's influence - not that I'm complaining), even though she thinks Homer Simpson is hysterical without having ever seen an episode of "The Simpsons" - she has no interest whatsoever in Looney Tunes. Twice she's seen the DVD sitting around, asked to watch some of it, only to get bored and wander off while I'm trying to show her what a great cartoon "The Rabbit of Seville" is. THIS is my daughter?! ;D No, but to be honest I think I remember liking Disney more until I was about eight or so. I had to reach a certain age before the sharper edge of WB humour and animation appealed to me; Disney is rounder and warmer and I think, perhaps more suited to younger kids. Or maybe I've just accidentally predisposed her in a way I did not intend. *g*
Secondly! Every so often she gets hooked on words or phrases and will use them as often as she can. Right now her word is "Wowie!" She's liked "Wow!" for a while now but it had kind of tapered off; all of a sudden we went to Target on Saturday and were browsing the toy section (she's still at an age where she's happy to play in the toy store and then leave without buying anything; ah, lord, let these days go on forever) and EVERYTHING she sees she says "*gasp!* WOWIE!" And sometimes this is paired with "Sure is!" I don't know why. She picked that phrase up from me and used it once when I asked her if it was raining outside. "Sure is!" SUPER cute. But then all of a sudden she sees big bouncy rubber balls and it's WOWIE! SURE IS! ...O_o Okaaaay! I love kid-talk. It's awesome.
Jun. 25th, 2008 @ 04:38 pm
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| » It's Official, Now |
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I guess I am really addicted to running 5Ks. More later!
Jun. 24th, 2008 @ 05:06 pm
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| » Okay now, FOR REALS YOU GUYS |
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I am gonna finish up my damn trip reports.
Here's the second half of Epcot; since I'm doing this at home I actually have my pictures in order to remind me of the sequence a little bit better.
( Approximately where I left off... )
WHEW! Finished it this time! ^_^
Jun. 22nd, 2008 @ 06:45 pm
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| » >:((( |
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DAMMIT ALL I WANT TO GO HOOOOOME
Thank God the office is closed tomorrow. And everyone is back on Monday. JEEZ LOUISE this is too much work for me!!! And EVERYONE WANTS IT DONE "NOW"!
PS I have a cool boss who says all the authors and editors need to realize there is a meeting going on and they need to focus on that and not working on the journals. fuck yeah
Jun. 19th, 2008 @ 05:30 pm
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| » I wanna wanna be your friiiiiend! |
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Hokay. I *could* use my Super-Powered Weekend Home Connection (read: crappy dial-up) to update here on all the stuff I want. I opt to use my precious time to write fanfic stuff, which I have done, and posted. We have now moved back on to "All About Elizabeth", which is in its eighth chapter aka second chapter of third act. AND IT'S ASTOUNDINGLY STUPIDLY LONG. Love it! I will have at least one post up shortly in my Weblog Chronicles blog. Will it be about AAE? No promises.
I hope nobody who isn't into DWD minds that I'm devoting all my time and energy into writing DWD fic the past couple of years. (I doubt it; for them to care it would mean that they were missing me writing something else, which a) I almost never do, and b) when I do it is not so great that one would notice its absence. *G*) Anyway if they mind, too bad for them, 'cause I don't think it's very likely to change any time soon.
Note: That was the crappiest cover of "Army of Me" I've heard in my entire life. On the other hand this is a wicked cool little tune/tribute/cover of "The McLaughlin Group" by Andrew W.K. The lyrics? "If it happens Pat/May he rest in peace/Death comes in the night on little cat's feet/The next man on the moon will be Chinese!" I also found a cover of Daft Punk's "Digital Love" by Alphabeat. An acoustic cover. It rocks. So sometimes things are beautiful. ^_^
Jun. 14th, 2008 @ 11:04 pm
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| » We'll see how things go |
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First day of Annual Meeting is today; not that I'm there, but y'know, things are quiiiieeeet. But I have the work to do so even though I hoped I could catch up with some leisure stuff I think I might have to spend the whole day working. (As if I haven't been spending the whole day working all week thus far, sigh - this is why I haven't replied to comments etc)
Anyway, we'll see what happens and maybe I can finish a few posts I've been wanting to make, etc. Probably not though. :) As I have been saying, it's nice to know that I'm actually busy at work! Just... wish I had a little more time to talk! *G* Well, welcome to adulthood. ;D
Jun. 12th, 2008 @ 09:24 am
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| » &&#$)%!@&&^!!!!! |
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HEY REBECCA GUESS WHAT
YOU ARE TOTALLY GOING TO HAVE A C-SECTION FOR YOUR NEXT BABY NO MATTER WHAT
BECAUSE DOCTORS LIKE PERFORMING THEM!!!
HAHA SUCK ON THAT
*****
This translates as: Finally made a call to my OB/GYNs who delivered Dorothy, to ask if they perform VBACs (aka: Vaginal Birth After Cesarian). Answer: No, generally not. Second question: Do you know anyone in the area who does? Answer: I really don't, and did you have a natural birth before the C? Upon the answer (no) being given I'm told Oh, sorry, most doctors won't do it.
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The bright side is that I am actually *able* to have children. Some women don't have that much. Let's just shut up about how I deliver (when the time comes; this is preparatory research before even starting to try to conceive, is all) and focus on what we do have. And we will just shut the eff up about how, against my will, I am being dragged into the skyrocketing statistics of women delivering by C instead of the way were were biologically designed to do it you know. Seriously. Evolutionarily speaking I bet natural childbirth is going the way of the dinosaurs.
Also? First mother on my f-list who has gone through natural childbirth and tells me "you're not missing that much" gets a punch in the nose. I love you all, I'm sorry, but I had to put up with that during my first pregnancy and I don't want to hear it. This is something that is important to me for no reason I can really share, I know you mean well and you have experience on your side, but hearing that statement feels like a punch in the face to me so if I hear it I'm going to give as good as I get.
...I am going to keep looking. And if I have to get a midwife or go to some wacky birthing center I will do as much as I can to afford that option. I'm really sick of medical machinery fucking with me - I'm holding out this time.
ETA: Sigh.
( More, mostly just venting, and the stuff above covers it. )
ETA2: I found a place that does it!!! It's still not for sure though, because in researching just now I found that it is not necessarily considered safe for diabetic mothers and since I was diabetic last time I'm likely to end up that way this time. STILL THOUGH, it's a start! <:)
oh and to clarify: I am not pregnant, this is the preliminary research phase that I perhaps should have undertaken last time. ;)
Jun. 9th, 2008 @ 02:53 pm
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| » It's okay, Momo. I still have my pants. |
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Just a side note: I finished disc 2 of Avatar's third season today and it was FANTASTIC. That show gets better and better, no matter if it's doing comedy or drama.
Anyway, as frustrating as it is to not have any time to post the things I want to post here, at least I know it's because I'm working while at work. You know, while I'm getting paid to do certain things? It's nice to at least have the satisfaction of knowing I'm doing them. ;)
In the meantime, here is ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) darkwingpsycho's birthday present to me! Read it! Leave a comment! Then go read The Other McCawber Girl while you're at it, to get a good sense of who exactly Ariana is (you'll have to wait a little while longer to find out how she and Beth meet, but it doesn't really matter for this fic - especially since this fic doesn't actually fit into either of our continuities exactly, but it's just FUN), and leave comments on THAT one too!
Happy me! ^_^ Of course, my copy came with a sketch of our characters together, which means I am far more specialer than any of you all just reading it on FF.net. ;D
Jun. 6th, 2008 @ 04:11 pm
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| » Trip report - Day 2! |
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Hokay, this is the loooong version, because I don't feel like paring it down. *G* I *am* going to write a shorter one, though, and that will be the one that has the photos in it too (b/c I can't afford the time to upload them etc just now), so those who want to wait, feel free. If there's anyone who wants the gorey details, this am the place!
( Early to bed and early to rise! )
Who is surprised I didn't actually even finish? Huh? Anyone? ;D
Jun. 4th, 2008 @ 03:35 pm
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| » Darn it, lack of time! |
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Go away and give me some free time, work! At this rate I'm not going to be able to do my trip report until I've been back for a MONTH and I'm already fuzzy on a few details! (By which I mean "Magic" details. I kept having awesome things happen just by luck and I KNOW I won't remember them all.) And I want to write about meeting Amanda!! ;_;
Today had very few papers in my inbox, but a pile of other things, an hour-long internet outage, and some stuff to go over for the company website. No afternoon walk for me and NO free time for trip reports. *sniffle*
Also need to make some icons. Because I have pictures now! DISNEY WORLD ICONS ARE LOVE!
Jun. 3rd, 2008 @ 04:20 pm
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| » me done made updates |
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At the Webfoot blog for those keeping track.
Dammit, why do I have to be so tired? ...Guess I should actually go to sleep then... :P
Jun. 2nd, 2008 @ 09:44 pm
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| » Brief-i-fied trip report of MGM/Hollywood Studios! Plus Adventures In Tents! |
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Hey guys! To make my trip report from last week more accessible to those who skipped the damn thing (and I can't blame you, I'd have done the same) I've taken out a lot of the superfluous details and here is a general run-down. Fewer anecdotes! I'm going to *try* to write the other days more this way since they have more in them. We'll see. *G*
( Still long... just not AS long )
...Yeah. That is still really long but I swear to you it's like half the length of the first post. Honest. At least I think it is. :-/ If not, well, this is the important stuff! ;D
( And just to keep this novel, here's my amusing Tent Story! )
Jun. 2nd, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
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| » *giggles* |
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That last entry? Is a load of TL;DR unless you are REALLY obsessive. ^_^
But do look at the pictures. They are fun.
May. 29th, 2008 @ 05:09 pm
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