26 July 2008 @ 03:44 am
The cover war: shiny vs. plain  
I was at the thrift store last week and had a fit of excitement when I found a copy of Super Special #11 - The Baby-sitters Remember with a yellow cover.



1) What cover does everyone here have, gold or yellow?
2) It makes me wonder, the other books with shiny covers (#100 - Kristy's Worst Idea, #114 - The Secret Life of Mary Anne Spier, Super Special #14 - BSC in the USA .. and whatever other ones I'm probably forgetting about) were these printed with non-shiny covers? Does anyone have them with a plain coloured cover?
 
 
feeling: tired
listening to: Ozma - In Search of 1988
 
 
26 July 2008 @ 12:52 am
Hi!  
Name: Crissy
Status: Happily married, 4 years on August 20th!
Age: I just turned 28 on July 18th.
Location: South-Central Kentucky.
Children: Jakob Wayne - 3 years old, Shyanne Kaylyn Elizabeth - 5 months old.
Sahm/wohm/wahm: SAHM but thinking about taking some classes for CNA or Ultrasound Technician. Still contemplating what I wanna do and when.
Hobbies: Spending time outside, going on trips with my husband and kids, spending time with family, I'm wanting to get back into embroidery, making graphics, writing, reading, I love Heather Graham's romance/suspense books and Stephen King, watching movies, I'm a big LMN fan, the internet is an addiction, cooking, and a lot more can be found in my userinfo.
More about me: I don't really have a certain type of parenting that I do, we basically take each day as it comes. I bottle feed my daughter and did the same with my son.

I'm a big fan of the CW's Supernatural. Sam & Dean are awesome.

I love scrapbooking when I get the chance. I usually do photo scrapbooking as well as newspaper clip scrapbooking.

I met my husband on the internet in MSN chatrooms approximately 10 years ago. We talked for 4 years before ever meeting in person. He moved from Ohio to Kentucky to be with me in July of 2002. We rarely ever fight and we're as happy as can be. We're basically proof that internet/long distance relationships can sometimes work out for the good! We just bought our first house and are currently working on remodeling it.

I'm a self diagnosed hypochondriac. I'm worried about health issues a lot or I whine about feeling sick a lot. I try to keep those posts seldom in my journal but if it's something that really bothers me, you may see posts like that often until I get past it. It's not very often though.

I have a cockatiel named Pepper, a Jack Russell Terrier named Rusty, a Yorkshire Terrier named Oscar and an English bulldog mix named Neko. We also have a miniature lop-eared bunny named Brownie and a Teddy Bear hamster named Gracie. I'm a big animal lover.

If there's anything else you want to know, check out my userinfo. It has pretty much all of the important things about me in it.
 
 
26 July 2008 @ 12:02 am
Names Inspired By Hindu Figures  
 
 
wheres aly?: 80228
feeling: excited
listening to: Green Day
 
 
26 July 2008 @ 03:31 pm
 
Last night I had a dream I had a son and I called him Orion, like the constellation (oh-rye-en). I laughed about it when I woke up but all today it's really growing on me!

I doubt I'd call a child that, but I can't believe how much it's grown on me. Probably the cool interstellar connotations.

WDYT?
 
 
26 July 2008 @ 12:05 am
hmm...  

 The other day I was trying to put names together when I just randomly came up with the name Clara Lucille.... I was wondering what some of you other guys thought of the combination. 


Thanks.

 
 
25 July 2008 @ 09:46 pm
 
 
 
25 July 2008 @ 11:21 pm
 
I recently came across this sibset: Matysyn and Matylyn. I don't think I need to say more about that.

Other sibsets: Mercedes, Bailie, and Carter
Judah and Reese (a boy)
Morgan, Terra, and Dane (all girls).
Matthew, Tyler, Erin, and Kaitlyn.
Kendyl and Saxon (girl and boy)
Matthew, Hannah, and John Mark.
 
 
25 July 2008 @ 10:50 pm
 
A guy I know has 4 year old twin boys:

Lucien and Liam

Lucien after the boys great grandfather, and Liam after his Irish heritage. The fathers name is David. Thoughts?
 
 
25 July 2008 @ 09:21 pm
TeaCup Dane!  
New breed!!

http://www.dogware.com/163teacup3.htm 
 
 
25 July 2008 @ 09:38 pm
Names from a lame show.  
The show is Queen Bees on The N. I thought some of them had pretty interesting names. What do you think?

Brittany
Camille
Gisbelle
Kiana
Michelle
Shavon
Stassi
 
 
25 July 2008 @ 09:04 pm
photo post  
i haven't posted to a community in about four hundred years, but when i was in SF recently the lovely and talented [info]neuraltube took this photo of me in front of a mural in chinatown....




... so i thought i'd share :)
 
 
25 July 2008 @ 05:50 pm
 
First names of some babies that were born in the hospital I work at recently.
*Valentino. (m)I actually really like it.
*Suzie-Marie. (f) Ick. Maybe as a nickname, but it kinda rubs me the wrong way.
*Karolynn. (f) Mehhh.
*Aurora. (f) The parents are calling her Rory though.
*Noah. (m) 'Tis ok.
*Aidan/Adin. (m/m) Spelled right!/Looks like "add-in" to me. :/
*Miley. (f) Why? Why?? WHY?? -sobs-
 
 
25 July 2008 @ 07:47 pm
 
I'm looking for  just a few more friends to compliment my flist along with the other wonderful mommies I've met here.

Name:
Kristen
Status: Married
Age: 26
Location: Kansas City
Children: Austin - 2 and Aubrie due December 19th
Sahm/wohm/wahm: WOHM
Hobbies: Reading, shopping, traveling, sports, water activities
More about me:
 

My husband and I have been married since Memorial Day weekend and are closing on our first house together tomorrow which we're very excited about.  I'm also getting ready to move to a new location at work over the next week so we're in for a busy couple of weeks coming up.  Our son is currently potty training and has been for almost two months now but we aren't pressuring him in any way.  We just found out last week that we're expecting a girl and I'm almost halfway through the pregnancy already.

Feel free to check out my user info and the link provided in the about me section to learn more and add me if you'd like :)
 
 
25 July 2008 @ 08:47 pm
Writer's Block: Phobias  


Do you have a remarkable phobia? Does your phobia have a large impact on your life?

Submitted by [info]bitter_melodee


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 Bugs.  I'm terrified of all bugs.  It started as only spiders.  There was a Highlights for Children magazine that I read as a young child (the issue was Feb. 1983.  It had a blue cover.)  The article inside was about the black widow spider.  There was a closeup of the spider that absolutely terrified me.  This, combined with my mother being also phobic and anxious about [everything in general] insects, made me paralize with fear when I saw one.

Then, I started to expand to ants, which are really spiders with 6 legs, right?  And we had a scare in one of my apartments that there was a cockroach, so I looked them up on the internet, and BAM, now I'm phobic of them too. 

As a young teenager, we went camping and everybody went butterfly-catching in the meadow.  It sounded like fun - there were lots of butterflies there.  I caught one and looked at it closely.  It was just an insect with big wings.  It reminded me of a pretty blanket with a bug crawling on it.  I started to hyperventelate.

I'm attempted to get help at therapy for this.  The therapist claimed that phobias are really easy to treat.  She asked me what the worst thing could happen if a bug touched me.  I responded, that is the worst thing that could happen!  We were kind of stuck at that moment.  She did ask me what was so horrible about bugs.  I said that I believe they are "little bits of hell that crawled through the gates and are roaming around earth."  She looked concerned and said "Are you being serious?"  I think she was ready to commit me right then and there.  She asked me to draw a picture of a spider.  I did, but the second I started to draw legs, I wigged out.  She told me to work on it that week.  I never went back.

Now, I feel like my phobia is under control, although if a bug touches me, I sometimes have to run into a shower to make sure it and all of the other possible unknown bugs are off of me.  Its a big ocd/paranoid, but it makes me feel better.   The only bad thing is my phobia is extending to the kids.  Sometimes a bug comes in close contact with James, and I start freaking out.  I have to be conscious that I don't let myself get out of control and accidentally hurt my son (and now also my daughter) in the meantime.  Its hard.  I wish all of the bugs would die.

 
 
25 July 2008 @ 08:38 pm
1st attempt food shopping  
The results of my first attempt food shopping with two kids are in...
FAILURE
I had help, too.  Our family friend and honorary grandmom to our kids came out with me.  We decided to put little Katherine in the bottom of the basket and James got his regular cart seat.  Then I wheeled a completely different cart around to put the groceries in.  
Getting the kids in and out of the car: Very Hard
Keeping James from reaching back and trying to get to Katherine: Hard
Doing the whole thing with only me and having no help or 2nd cart: Impossible
How the heck am I going to go to the stores anymore???  I can't depend on hubby's schedule!  I may have to become a forced hermit or something.  I'm totally freaking out.  .  . :(
 
 
feeling: distressed
 
 
25 July 2008 @ 07:41 pm
It's been a while...  
Name: Lynne
Status: Happily married
Age: 24
Location: South-Central Ontario, Canada
Children: Jessica, 16 months
Sahm/wohm/wahm: WAHM
Hobbies: Spending time outside, taking long walks with Jess, spending time with my husband, taking care of our six kitties, sewing (sometimes), arty stuff (scrapbooking, photography, painting, drawing, colouring, etc), LJ & Facebook (pathetic, huh?) and so on. I have less and less time for hobbies.
More about me: There isn't too much more than that. I work at home, as does my husband. We both own and operate two businesses out of our house. Life is busy at times and snail-slow at others. I must be forgetting something, but my user info has whatever else this is lacking!! ;)
 
 
feeling: content
 
 
25 July 2008 @ 06:32 pm
Confusing customers  
So I'm no longer "on the phones", so to speak. I do tech support for Sprint wireless customers by e-mail now... in some ways, it's so nice not to be bombarded with calls anymore (although I do still have to wear a headset for customer callbacks), but in other ways, it's more difficult.

Case in point, the following message received from a customer (verbatim, I just cut off the identifying info from the top of the message):

Original Question: incoming email password message active my internet?

Question: incoming email password message active my internet? When this message shows on my phone it active my internet and just active when I'm not on the phone


Come again? I'm not sure I heard you correctly. Put down the bong and try to send your e-mail again later using both brain cells.
 
 
feeling: hungry
listening to: Midtown - Waiting for the News | Scrobbled by Last.fm
 
 
25 July 2008 @ 06:56 pm
 
I've met some wonderful people off of here and I'm hoping to find some more great moms, so add me! :D

Name: Christina
Status: In a relationship (not with my daughters father)
Age: 19
Location: Orlando, FL
Children: Daughter, Caitlyn-7 months old
Sahm/wohm/wahm: LOVING being a SAHM
Hobbies: Cooking, Cleaning (I'm crazy), Crafting, Shopping, Blogging Dancing (used to be on dance team), Horseback riding (I've been riding since I was 4 and used to compete every weekend, don't have time for it much nowadays but I wish I did!) Taking pictures
More about me: I'm an extreme girly girl, and extremely over-organized. I hate when people steryotype teen moms, not all of us are completely un-educated and irresponsible :) My daughter always comes first and always will, and she has the very best care and as much love as a person could possibly give her, regardless of my age. I post mostly about my life, and pictures of Caitlyn and what not. Add me if you would like! :D
 
 
feeling: optimistic
 
 
25 July 2008 @ 06:55 pm
A dream print?  
I admit there are many, many beautiful prints but my fantasy print would be a bullfrog GM.  Jeremiah is in fact named because of these lyrics:

Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a-drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine
Singin'...

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

If I were the king of the world
Tell you what I'd do
I'd throw away the cars and the bars and the war
Make sweet love to you
Sing it now...