tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59375046838369141342011-04-21T18:13:31.939-05:00A Place To Think About Life, Love And Sometimes DogsMomma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.comBlogger2011100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-70323911924329037032008-08-07T15:44:00.003-05:002008-08-07T16:03:28.715-05:00

I've been struck by the cleaning bug. I think it might be a tad bit late for actual spring cleaning, but hey, at least it is happening! Having clean counters and a gleaming sink makes me feel so good, right down to my toes.Now, if someone could come up with a good solution to crayon bits that have been ground into the hardwood. :\ I suspect that I am going to have to get a bit of metal (

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This is likely to be a long post, so I'm warning you now to get a drink, go to the bathroom, maybe grab a snack... :DI am in love with my son. I always thought women who said the phrase "in love" in relation to their children were weird. Being "in love" is something else. But it's not. I realize this now. Lochlan and I, we know each other. We can sit together, his little legs on my belly, cold

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I can't sleep, so I figured I'd post.Caayn and I took the troupe to the dog park today... Everyone except Artemis, who isn't very social and tends to spend her time barking insanely at all dogs and people. Much fun was had by all! We met up with Jimmy and Spartan. I took almost 300 pictures!! Hopefully I can get some photo editing done this week, so I can get around to uploading those and getting

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I'm dog-sitting Spartan the Wonder Italian Greyhound. The guys are working 12 hour shifts again and I figured Spartan would enjoy getting to hang out at Camp Phoenix rather than being home alone for a long time. He gets here around 6am ish, and leaves around 7pm.He is so much fun! He's like renting a puppy, lol. And I really think it's good for everyone involved. Spartan gets to spend his day

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Just a super short entry right now... Athena is OFFICIALLY Straylight's Affinity In A Row! I got an e-mail from the AKC letting me know they got her paperwork. (Uhh yeah, I really did procrastinate that long...) We have a registration number and everything. I can't wait to go make an account on the AKC site, lol.Yippee!

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To be perfectly honest, I've been blogging over a year now and have managed to avoid doing any and all memes. I very nearly caved when Phoenix Says did the purse one (where you empty the contents of your purse and show it off, very interesting for pack rats!)... But this one is a book related type, and well, I just have to.This one comes from Patience:Rules:1. Grab the nearest book of 123 pages

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I forgot to mention this...Yesterday, Sully managed to drop a plate on his toe while trying to hand it to me. It didn't fall flat (that would be like buttered toast falling butter side up!), but with the edge directly at the base of his big toe toenail. He wailed! I snuggled him all up on the couch and thought that was that.He kept telling me his toe hurt, but I sort of just assumed that was him

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Athena finished her basic obedience class! It's official. She is not very good at sit-stays (she wants to lay down), but she did manage to wait the full 2 minutes during the down-stay, getting up just as we were told to return to our dogs.As a fun little exercise at the end, we did heel-downs or something like that, where you walk around with the leash draped over your arm. The point is that your

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I am procrastinating. What I should be doing is making appointments. Already this month we have 5? Shotgun training (mandatory class for Caayn), a sleep thing for Caayn because his surgery to correct his deviated septum appears to have not worked and he is still not feeling rested, a pre-op and then operation appointments for his big V, and Sully's dentist check-up.Sigh.I have to make two

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Geez am I having a tough time getting on here long enough to post an entry. Yesterday was the first time I managed to completely empty my inbox of new messages since coming back from St. Paul.I had my wisdom teeth out on the 15th. UGH. It was pretty scary sitting in the chair and having two women converge on either side of me and begin poking and messing with me (sticking oxygen tube thingies in

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-88862876325394877902008-02-14T14:42:00.002-06:002008-02-14T14:43:05.274-06:00

If I had been alone in the car, I would have had the window down, and my podcast MUCH louder. (Surprisingly the podcasts are better for holding my attention, since I can just zone out singing along to music.) I was tired. Exhausted. Drained. Done. I'm weaving in the lanes, but figure hey, I'm still on the road... As we are nearing Bismarck I see a sign saying 83 South, this way. I have a moment

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As a precursor to the whole Minnesota adventure, I had gone down to a Verizon kisok sort of thing here on base and added text messaging to our plan. So as I'm getting ready to leave Carol's, Jimmy texts me and says to make sure I do the Bismarck route we had discussed... where I stay on 94 all the way to Bismarck and then hang a right and go north on 83 the rest of the way home. I wrote back

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I haven't even mentioned Sue! Sue is a roommate at Carol's house. She has whippets too. I didn't catch her last name, or if I did I don't remember it, but what a funny gal, and very nice too. She showed me her whippet Wade... oh my goodness was he HUGE. He is over the height limit for the breed, standing at 22 3/4"... He looked like a yearling greyhound. It was just amazing.Monday was a mess. My

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Sunday was the match. Carol had me running circles around that ring forEVER! I'm so not in shape, lol. Athena was sort of just terrified out of her mind. A slight tremble to her, pulling on the leash any time we neared an exit, trying to hide under chairs or tables. Poor girl. I know I need to do more in socializing her with different places and situations, but there is just nowhere for that out

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So many things have happened this month, that I'm not sure where to begin this tale. At the beginning, I suppose, since that's usually the right place. I'm pretty sure this is going to be LONG... I'll probably break it up into more than one post, otherwise I'm likely to forget to finish up!The beginning of February found me busily preparing for my 500 mile, 8 hour long trip to St. Paul, Minnesota

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Well... we're off!Not -quite-, since I have to stop at Jimmy's for a special camera lens and then at WalMart because I forgot to buy something yesterday... :P but still. The car is all packed up. I'm running on about 4 hours of sleep. I have a pillow and some blankets in the car, for when I get tired and need to pull over. Which will probably happen.I've got a 12 pack of Red Bull, an Amp, and a

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Just a little weather update.... last night the winds were over 40 mph. I think the temp was around 5 when I checked at 8... I'm probably off. Not sure what the wind chill was though. All I know is I bundled up to take Athena out and when I tossed her out (I always have to give her rear end a hoist because half way out her brain sends a signal saying the front is really cold and to abort mission.

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Today peaked at a whopping 45 degrees! The high for Tuesday is stated at being -12. What is up with the weather out here?!Since the weather made it over 40, I took the hounds out to the dog park. We met up with Jimmy and his new friend, Spartan, the italian greyhound. A good time was had by all. Athena just loves to get out there and run. She'll weave beside you, mere inches from your legs...

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Another obedience class has gone by. Athena did really good! It takes her to the end of the class to warm up to the situation. That's when she feels comfortable enough to start walking out further on the leash, sniffing other dogs and people. It seems to me like it might be considered 'bad etiquette' to let your dog walk up and sniff other dogs... whenever the other dog starts to sniff back, the

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I think I need a day planner/address book thingy. It seems like this year has kicked off with a bang so far; appointments left and right. Today I had an appointment with an oral surgeon. Apparently at my last dentist appointment, the x-rays showed that my wisdom teeth are really needing to come out. I've always planned on leaving them where they are because they hardly bother me. Only one ever

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Yesterday night was the first of the obedience classes. That was a lot of fun! Athena was about as nervous as a dog could get though, poor thing. She kept trying to crawl under the chairs. We learned to have our dog in the heel position, and then to walk forward, then stop. When we stopped, the dogs had to sit. (Our homework for the week is to have the dogs sit without needing to be touched.) And

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Oooh! Oooh! Oooh!Sully has reached a new milestone in his ever changing world of toddlerhood. Today he peed in the toilet. Of course, there were two accidents, one before and one after, but we don't care. He did it! It was so exciting. And since we made such a huge deal of it, he's now really excited about it too. The rest of the day he kept asking to go sit on the toilet. He didn't do anything

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Ooh! On a totally un-dog related note... Nike+iPod made a little widgety sort of thingy for blogs and such. I stuck mine on the blog... Don't laugh, I've only just figured out how to work the thing so it only has two walks recorded. Yes, I said walks. I'm so out of shape for running! A couple of "runs" back, I thought I had hooked it up right and did a lot of walking and actual running... but it

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-29125289126159101432008-01-05T12:09:00.001-06:002008-01-05T12:44:00.850-06:00

When I was little, we had dogs. Always had dogs. I suppose that is why we always have dogs now, too. We didn't have a lot of money. When my dad left, I was a month old. My mom chose to stay home with me and my 6 year old brother and to get on welfare. The house we lived in was through Section 8 (which I suppose is called HUD housing now? or something like that). She bred Australian Shepherds,.

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The end of another year... It's weird how having kids seems to make them go so much faster. I spent this whole year having trouble with the idea that 1997 was 10 years ago. It seems like yesterday to me. 6 months from now Achilles will turn 4. My oldest son will be 3 in a few months. How did all of this happen?!I have never made a New Year's Resolution. Mostly because I know myself. I'm lazy and

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YESSSSS!!! The mass is gone! The x-ray showed a fair amount of stuff that needs to come out her back end, so there is a good chance it is in there. She has to be on a real bland diet since she hasn't been eating in awhile and her stomach was irritated from the throwing up. But she really liked the Hill's canned food, so thats good.The total cost of 4 x-rays and the round of barium was $160. Not

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Well, I brought Athena home... after two sets of x-rays, it shows one large walnut-sized mass that wasn't going away. What happens now is I have to bring her back to the vet in the morning (I had the option of leaving her there over night, but I know how stressed she was and I'd rather her be home over night) where we will do one more x-ray. If that mass is still there, it looks like they will be

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Athena is such a good girl. She crates so well in the car, nary a peep, as long as she has two soft blankets in there. She, however, does NOT like the vets office. When she realizes we're in the parking lot, she starts shivering with nervousness. She weighed in at 26lbs. Vet came in and took a peek at her. Did some palpations of the stomach, looked in her mouth... determined x-rays was the way to

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We had such an awesome holiday. Sully wasn't too cranky, Lochlan slept most of the time, the turkey was pretty dry (dang it) but still good... Caayn and Jimmy spent lots of time shooting each other with nerf guns. And Halo-ing. I played too, but I'm so bad... It's a shame really, because I LOVE video games. I'm just really bad at them. My brain absolutely cannot wrap itself around the concept of

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I'm so excited for Christmas to get here. Usually we do the present thing on the Solstice, as a sort of Yule thing. We're still trying to figure out what our family will do as our own tradition. Neither of us are Christian, and both of us have some Pagan background. So celebrating Christmas itself is kind of strange. I don't think I have in 7 or 8 years? Not sure exactly, but it has been a long

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Shame on me! I haven't posted since December 7th. Tsk tsk. Things have been busy around the Phoenix Caayn household.First off, Caayn graduated from his ALS class, with honors too. He got a spiffy trophy with an eagle on it. We got a babysitter for the grad night, and enjoyed the dinner they provided with Jimmy as Caayn's other guest. That was lots of fun!Lochlan is growing like a weed! Still

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I went to the dr. I now have to take steroids for 5 days to clear up the problem. Too bad they didn't give me some pain pills too! I have a raging headache from the welted areas above my ears, and my ears are super swollen too. Hurts more than you would think for it just being skin irritations.On the plus side, I learned that I weighed 147lbs, which means I've lost 23lbs since the birth. That's

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Caayn thinks I should go to the dr now... the rash has spread to the front of my neck and back onto my shoulder blades. Plus I have tons of random bumps everywhere else. My head feels like it weighs 10lbs, with how swollen all my skin is. It's really super gross. And I have one spot near my right ear where it looks like I have that flesh eating bacteria. THAT is gross.The benadryl that Patience

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My head itches. Bad. My neck is all lumpy and lumpy. My ears are red and swollen.What happened?!Caayn dyed my hair last night and I'm allergic to a chemical in permanent hair dye. I got it done by a stylist last year and the result after sitting under a steamer for like 20 minutes was tons of itchy red spots on my ears--they looked like they were bubbling, yucky.... Sigh. This will go away in a

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Whew, apparently one cat, two children, and three dogs is my absolute limit. I can hardly find enough free time to check out new blog entries, much less post my own. Things are going good though. Surprisingly! Athena is adjusting to our household, although we are having some issues on the potty training bit. She has never had free roam of a house before and I think it has thrown her for a loop.

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This is Athena!! Isn't she just the most gorgeous thing you've ever laid eyes on? I'd like to get a shot of her standing, to show off her beautiful lines, but that will come later when she is a little more adjusted. So far she is coming a little more out of her shell, likes to be near us some, but then when she has had enough so goes and lays down in her crate. She is such a little dainty girl--

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Just a quick update... we left at 3am for Minnesota. Caayn managed probably 2 hours of sleep, maybe 3, and I had about 45 minutes. A large amount of red bull and cat naps revived us. We made it to Whippet Woman's house around noon. Her house was so darling--tons of statues of whippets, artwork with whippets, and photographs of her dogs and from the many shows she's been to. She was really quite

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So I finally wrote it. The birth story. It's not eloquent. It's pretty much exactly what happened, lol. This blog is so helpful, in that I have finally found a place where I can write down things like this and not worry about it getting lost. And it is really really long.I woke up at 2:30 needing to pee, as usual. While awake I had a contraction that wasn't quite like any I'd had yet. Painful,

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I'm not up to writing out the birth story yet, but thought I'd give a little update.Caayn was not allowed to quit his class, and my mom ended up not being able to come out either. So guess what? I've been rocking the mom of two thing by myself for, well, today is teh second day. Kind of scary, kind of fun. I think I'll enjoy this more when moving is easier and my jelly belly stops robbing me of

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I'm writing this ahead of time so that Caayn can come home and fill in the details. As soon as I can, I will be sharing the details... I love a good birth story!Lochlan EmeryBorn on November 11th at 10:30 amHe is 20 1/2" long and weighs 7lbs and 12 ozs.Caayn's version of the story:Everything went really well...except the waking up at 2 am because labor always chooses the most inconvenient times

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Okay guys... this may be it.Fairly painful (umm, very painful) contractions.... roughly two minutes apart lasting a minute. And to top that fun off, lots of pressure.Gonna go take a shower and hope that helps some. If not, I may be going to the hospital sooner than I thought. 2 minutes apart is not very much fun.*I've stopped three times just writing this little post for a contraction*

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Just got this in an email from one of the dog groups I've joined, and thought I'd pass it along to any folks who pop on here."Hi, all you animal lovers. This is pretty simple.. Please tell ten friendsto tell ten today! The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enoughpeople to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free fooddonated every day to abused and neglected animals.It

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The sky is blue this morning. That's always a nice thing to wake up to. So often in winter out here the sky stays a blah shade of whitish grey. Our window faces the sunrise, and the light slowly hits our tan curtains. The other morning I saw our curtains turn a lovely shade of pink as the sun came up.Sully woke up wanting to go outside. I had to say no. Too many things to do first: diaper change,

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Today is my aunt's birthday. She's turning 29. Not really, but that is what we always say about her and my uncle. Her name is Vicky, and when asked who the most beautiful woman in the world is, I would choose her. I used to call her Aunt Mom, because that was sort of our relationship. She was my aunt, but also my mom. Absolutely full of wisdom, a very talented artist. I'm not sure how many hours

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YAY!!!!!!!!!!! We are having our first snow!!! FINALLY! It's not much, none has stuck to the ground yet, but I don't care. I'm excited. I love the snow (when I don't have to go out in it for long periods of time)! And I still can't believe how long it took to get here. Seriously global warming, how about no messing with the snow patterns...And I have good news! It is very possible that my mom

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Gloria called yesterday morning with the date for my induction. November 16th. My due date. Boo! She said the hospital was booked until then. So while there is still an end in sight, it has not moved any closer. And I've pretty much stopped having contractions. Don't know what that means, but it is a little depressing!Caayn talked with the Housing office today about our fence situation. Let me

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Here's the dirt on my midwife appointment today.I weighed 170 (I *think* I'm now 25 lbs over my top weight of Sully's pregnancy!), my blood pressure was 120/80 and Mr. L's heart rate was in the 140s. Yes, I keep track of this stuff on the calender, and did so with Sully too! It's kind of fun to see how things go. Hmm, I'm apparently at 41 lbs gained. Oi.Gloria said she was surprised to see me,

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-2908277200783883632007-11-04T09:58:00.000-06:002007-11-04T10:01:01.376-06:00

The other Phoenix updated her blog's look and it gave me the itch to get mine changed... it's been the same for almost a year now. Took me FOREVER to choose one, I had like 8 that I really liked. I settled on this one. :)Now, if Mr. L would just appear so I can change my profile info... hehehe! Oh, and midwife appt tomorrow, so I'll have an update on that whole thing then.

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I discovered something on Friday that has been sort of rattling in my brain, needing to get put on paper (or, well, a computer screen) so that I can think through it and see it in front of me. This is how I think best.My mom and I are pretty close. I've said this before, I'm pretty sure. We talk on the phone at least once a week, for an hour or more each call, and we often email very long emails

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I post on a baby forum, a site called BabyCenter... have for a long time. It's kind of nice talking with other women whose babies are the same age as yours (even though I don't visit my March board very often anymore). Several of the bloggers I read are other March mommies. So I went there today and posted a question. Will stress prevent me from labor stuff? (Details: I was contracting really

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Beware, I may be about to discuss one of the grosser things about pregnancy. And when I say "may", I mean I will be.Hmm. Okay, I'm done waiting for any of those with sensitive eyes to casually scroll down.So I definitely lost my whole mucus plug today. Yep. That was pretty darn gross. I didn't lose it with Sully, so I wasn't really too sure what to expect. Umm, yeah, it's basically what you'd

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-25444124813701108802007-11-01T15:33:00.000-05:002007-11-01T15:43:06.320-05:00

YIPEE! Just got off the phone with Whippet Woman and November 24th is indeed the day where I get to pick up my whippet girl! I am so darn thrilled, I can't wait. The one tiny downside is that she said the boy pup, who she said was really crazy wild, has now calmed down a LOT and has become a really good, sweet dog. And that our girl is sort of stand-offish and more of a loner. There were unknown

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We stayed up until 2am last night, watching the Ghost Hunters Live show in Waverly. That was pretty fun. We love to watch that show, and it was a lot of fun seeing stuff that they would normally cut out. Although, there certainly were a ridiculous amount of commercials. Like over and beyond normal tv. But whatever, still fun.We had three trick or treaters... This whole daylight savings time being

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Quick update...Midwife appt was good. She had a nursing student with her... Generally I'm not a fan, but oh well. He learned what a 37 week baby feels like inside. She said I was the first one this far along he had experience with. I told him to push harder, 'cause seriously, he would never be able to determine baby stuff by light touches.I am at 165lbs (can't remember what I was last week though

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Thought yesterday might have been the day. Strong contractions two minutes apart for at least 4 hours, then they slowed down to a nicer 4-5 minutes apart. But by afternoon they had slowed to 10 minutes. Slept good last night, finally. No contractions to wake me up! We go to the midwife today.Today is my mom's birthday. I can't remember how old she'll be, since I always will think of her as 35. I

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Welcome to my most favorite day of the year!Currently it is almost 11am and the temperature here is still below freezing. It was 30 when I got up at 9, just now turned 31... Oi! What few trees left with leaves are now a nice shade of yellow against the blue sky. I love when the sky turns a deep blue in the middle of the day; with yellow leaves against it, it's absolutely gorgeous. I took a

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Okay, this is starting to suck. I had another talk with Whippet Woman, and just like last time, we didn't get much done. She doesn't want us to have to drive 16 hours round trip just for our whippet. She can't drive very far away since A) she has 3 jobs and B) she would have to take her 93 year old mother too.So this is where we are at:Sioux Falls dog show in South Dakota is too far.Fargo/

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It's 29 degrees outside. Has been for the entire hour I've been awake. Supposedly we're supposed to have today reach the 70s. It hasn't been the 70s in a long time. Probably all of October was spent being in the 40s and 50s.We've been planning on going to the corn maze today, since the weekend when we learned Wednesday was supposed to be really nice. I hope it is! Last night Sully asked if we

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-49176889284060756022007-10-23T18:15:00.000-05:002007-10-23T18:21:08.359-05:00

At this time, Blizzard has no plans to delete or "expire" characters, even if an account is deactivated or cancelled. This means that all of your characters and their progress will be retained on our servers. Should you decide to return to World of Warcraft and reactivate your account, you will be able to pick up your characters again wherever you left off.I did it. I said bye-bye. It's still a

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Caayn and I were driving somewhere, I'm not sure where. Possibly the dog store to buy Sully a frisbee (they didn't have the 'right' kind so he settled for another--plus he was attached to a clicker trainer, so now I have one of those, whee!).Anyway, it started when we were leaving base. You drive through a thingy that's considered the gate, even though it's not literally a gate. Directly after

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Oops, I didn't get back here for an update as soon as I thought. Aside from going to my midwife appt, we had to go pick up a refill on a prescription and then run into Target and get another appliance lock. (Seriously, no more pumpkin pies incidents, please.) By the time we were out of there, I was completely beat.I can hardly sit here right now, I just want to go curl up in the fetal position

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I've been contracting sort of regularly since around 4am... I know it was happening even longer though because they woke me up a couple times. Much more intense than braxton hicks. It was almost like deja vu. When labor started with Sully, I was in bed around 6am, tiny groans escaping with each one. That was what I was doing this morning. I did get up to eat around 7, because one thing I didn't

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**more whippet stuff--discontinue reading if uninterested! :D **Had another call with the Whippet Woman today. Female whippet is indeed ours. I've chosen the name Athena for her. It was one of several good contenders, but then we were listening to the radio and a song came on where they said something about Athena, and that just did it. No pictures yet, she said she'd send me some soon. $350 for

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Good gracious. If anyone knows how to make a 2 yr old stop hitting, "twitching" his hands so that everything within a 3 foot radius goes flying off whatever surface it is on, kicking, and screaming for entire hours at a time.... I'm totally listening.I swear, ever since he started getting out of bed at 7 or 8, the days get worse and worse. It's nonstop yelling, from both of us. Say all I want to

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**All about whippet junk--if this bores you, read no further!**So, I decided I was going to stop this insane hunt for the whippet. Put it off until next year, when we'll be in PA and could maybe stop at one of the hundreds of breeders on the way back. Would be much easier to do, since living in North Dakota puts us so far from everything else. (It's pure irony--I've discovered 3 or 4 breeders

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Boy, I am awfully mopey. This whole whippet deal (sorry to bring it up AGAIN) is really bumming me out. I'm the sort of person who makes a decision and then takes action. I don't like to wait once I have my mind set on a goal. Well, unless said goal is long and drawn out, then I get hooked in to procrastination. So the fact that we finally decided now might be the time to add a whippet to our

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-21089434666558002252007-10-16T10:02:00.001-05:002007-10-16T11:41:45.669-05:00

I hate the radio! Don't Fear the Reaper just came on... I swear, it's like a moth to a flame for me. It makes my fingers itch to grab The Stand. I start missing the characters, the plot lines. However, I have like 3 books I'm reading right now, and then Caayn wants me to read all of his book. Not to mention, my copy of The Stand has seen it's last days. I need to buy a new one.My Moby wrap got

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It seems like I am forever waiting for something. This very second I am waiting for my red raspberry leaf tea to finish steeping. I'm now waiting for this contraction to end. I'm waiting for Caayn to come home for lunch. I'm waiting to leave to my appointment with my midwife, where upon arrival, I will wait again in a room specifically made for waiting in.I don't mind waiting. I have patience,

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-36653160571573465622007-10-12T10:43:00.000-05:002007-10-12T11:01:08.127-05:00

I can't think of anything to write about that isn't somehow pregnancy, Sully, Caayn or dog related. There's the weather, which is still cold, but I already did that one. Oh wait, I've got a topic that I've been storing for rainy days like this (its not raining though). I discovered it one day while Caayn and I were going to the mall. Not sure how we stumbled on the topic.Caayn doesn't like old

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It's 37 degrees out. It has been that temp since I woke up at 8:30. YUCK! On my google homepage, I have the weather forecasts for here, Dover and Lewes. Current temps? 80 in both Lewes and Dover right now. At 11am their time.I'm all for autumn and winter, but geez, couldn't it spread the love a little? My mom lives in Arizona and she called yesterday morning. Said that the temp was dropping and

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I bought my Moby wrap yesterday! (I chose the chocolate color, since I wanted something Caayn would wear too.) I'm so excited for it to get here so I can play around with it. I wonder if I could get the cat to pretend to be a baby... hmm...My father-in-law called last night. He and his wife are visiting Caayn's great aunt out in Delaware. And it's Greyhounds Reach the Beach weekend in Rehobeth.

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I feel the end getting closer. I'm more aware of what hasn't been done, what should be, and what I want to do but can't. 34 weeks tomorrow. That sounds like I have a long way to go, but I don't. A month, give or take. Mr. L is lower. I've lost a bit of my mucous plug (oh, I should have warned that something gross sounding was coming)... He gets angry when he's restrained. If I hunch too much, or

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-57500250528242072342007-10-03T11:51:00.000-05:002007-10-03T12:40:57.879-05:00

Yesterday Caayn informed me that he needed a haircut. I said the same thing, because my hair was all shaggy and driving me crazy. He said to make an appointment for 6pm, if possible, and then went to work. So I give my salon a call and book our appointments. He was, needless to say, shocked that he was going to be getting his hair done in a girl's salon/spa, thought it'd be outrageously priced. I

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Just a quick update... not sure if I feel up to writing a whole post. I sort of feel like crap right now.Big Boy was taken to the base vet, where the receptionist proceeded to be PWNED by Caayn. She had no clue how to look this sort of stuff up (was going to search husky, but seriously? thats one of the most popular breeds out here, since they withstand the cold of our frigid winters)... Caayn

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The post was too long to include this, but I had to mention it... (Hey, it's my blog and its mostly here so I can write everything out of my brain, which is probably boring to all but me.)Achilles is being SO funny with Big Boy in the house. He has turned totally possessive of me. He was never more than two steps away all night last night, and if Big Boy walked near, he would step closer and rest

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The title says it all. We have a stranger staying with us.Yesterday Achilles was out doing his thing when I heard a lot of dog barking. Ever since the dog incident, we really fly out the door when that happens. I saw a husky running loose, so I brought Achilles in. By the time Caayn was looking, the dog was way down the neighborhood.An hour or so later, I hear nasty snarling and fierce barking.

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Update... appointment went good. I gained TWO lbs!!! YIPEE!! And my blood pressure decided to be silly today. It was 104/66. Go figure, it just had to prove me wrong. Gloria suspects Mr. L is facing the correct direction, to the rear rather than sunny side up. She was also happy to hear that I have had the occasional real contraction. She thinks he may be on the small side. Two weeks until next

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Out of boredom (okay, and trying to keep my mind off this whole whippet thing) I decided to open MapQuest. I figured out the distances to all of our family members. It's actually quite amazing. My data, let me show you it. (*snicker*)North Dakota to Arizona (my mom) would take 26 hours and is 1699 miles.North Dakota to Colorado (my bro and cousins) would be 13 hours and 817 miles. (shortest trip)

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-30699852647269601592007-09-26T21:56:00.000-05:002007-09-26T22:03:38.975-05:00

On the first day, God created the Greyhound.On the second day, God created man to serve the Greyhound.On the third day, God created the animals of the Earth to serve as potential food for the Greyhound.On the fourth day, God created honest toil so that man could labor for the good of the Greyhound.On the fifth day, God created the tennis ball so that the Greyhound may or may not retrieve it

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After the hassle of getting the various companies out to our house to mark their lines, the housing office just sent a guy out to take a peek. Basically, in order to get a fence in your backyard, you have to see where all the power lines are and stuff before they will approve you.I'm assuming, at this point, that I haven't shown any pics of our backyard that show the giant power boxes set

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We've got a date. Caayn starts ALS (airman leadership school) on November 7th. So we're really hoping for a baby who wants to make an early appearance. Caayn had a guess date of October 30th? Well, he changed his mind. It's now October 18th. This is based on something kind of cool.Sully was born on March 19th. My oldest friend (and first love) was born March 20th. Let's get more detailed. Both of

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Monday. There's nothing like it, huh? I'm one of those freaks who actually likes Monday. I like the end to the weekend. It probably has something to do with school and how you got to go back and hang out with friends.We did nothing this weekend, since Sully mysteriously woke with a fever and was sort of icky the whole time. Never did figure out what he had, since his tummy, head, eyes, butt, legs

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I could tell my belly grew before I even measured it. It's easy to tell, because all of a sudden I'm whacking my belly button everything. I have to get used to opening doors even wider, making sure I am further away from other things... It sucks. My poor belly button is so sore right now. Last night I whacked it a good one on the little metal latch thingy on the door jam. Right into the side of

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-69265546659249624762007-09-19T12:24:00.000-05:002007-09-19T12:44:42.735-05:00

The power went out last night. Argh! After sitting in the dark for awhile, I realized there was a big candle on our dresser and that I have a lighter stashed in the medicine cabinet. (I'm not one of those ex-smokers who can't handle being near a lighter... I seem to collect them even though I haven't bought one in ages.)But reading by the light of a candle that is like 5 feet away and flickering

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-88003465791654629742007-09-17T10:57:00.000-05:002007-09-17T11:15:15.357-05:00

Sully loves McDonald's chicken nuggets. In general, the only meat products I can get him to eat are most kinds of chicken nuggets, hot dogs, and the occasional turkey sandwich. So we don't not let him have them. He's too picky for us to say no to.Normally our McDonald's is like lightning quick. This weekend we were sitting in line, grumbling about how this one guy was taking forever. Turns out he

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Okay, if you are the sort of person who does not like to hear about other people's dreams, read no further. Caayn thinks I'm a nut for having to get this down, but I really don't want to forget it, which means I have to write it out. Be forewarned--I have vivid dreams and remember lots of detail, meaning this will likely be long!I went to Italy (it was a place called Tor, oddly enough) and was

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That's my belly in all of its nearly 31 week glory. (Tomorrow is the beginning of 31..)I learned some things about me while trying to get the perfect shot. My upper arms are HUGE--in one photo, I think there was the beginning of a roll... It's freaky. Also, I have fairly good sized biceps for a girl, thanks to hefting around a 2 year old. I can't wait to have a baby in a carseat--thats where you

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I am studying Medical Claims and Billing. Yep. I got sucked into that whole thing. Surprisingly it is actually kind of fun and is the sort of work that I know I would enjoy doing. (I like filling out forms and dealing paper work, who knows why.)When I worked at the juice bar, I plowed through lessons like crazy. I think I was turning one in every week or so, sometimes two in a week. That sort of

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So I was saying something about snow and blah blah blah... I'm not sure I mentioned it here, but I've been heard saying that I think we are going to have a bad, cold, long, winter. Yesterday felt like autumn. It was probably around 57? 60? I dunno. There was a brisk feel to the breeze. I know this because I spent like an hour brushing a second dog out of Artemis's long coat.Today isn't bad. In

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I was going to post my thoughts on the whole September 11 thing, but two things happened. First, I felt a wee bit guilty because unlike most people, I don't have the same feelings regarding it. And second, my computer froze and had to be restarted, thus losing the couple of sentences I had already written out. So rather than expose the inner bad me and make people think I'm evil, I'll post other

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I finally was allowed to make my midwife appointment. It's scheduled for Friday. Which seems so very far away. I'm definitely having a very large increase in Braxton-Hicks. Generally I have between 4-6 an hour, just enough to not have to call L&D, haha. Water, peeing, laying down... none of that makes them stop. It's very annoying. Every single time I get one, I feel like I have to pee. My guess?

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Huh. My last two posts were posted at the same time. 12:43pm. Strange. Even though, technically it was at later times, since I'm noticed that Blogger chooses to use the time that you click "new post" as the time you posted. It usually takes me an hour or so to finish a post.

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First up is a picture of Achilles... waaay back to when he went swimming at the pool that one day. I wish I had caught a photo of him actually swimming--he would "leap"through the water and looked very silly. Greyhounds are not nearly as graceful in the water.Then there is Achilles laying in bed. This was one of the days where he was limping pretty badly and was having forced bedrest. There were

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-29526591103278545032007-09-06T13:43:00.000-05:002007-09-06T14:41:14.035-05:00

I'm feeling braver today. I'm gonna post my list. A lot of things should be marked off, but aren't, because I am definitely going room by room. This just keeps me from doing too much and then walking like a really really old lady for the rest of the day. (And seriously, even though I haven't even hit half the list, my house looks about 75% better! YAY!) Oh, and I'll just go ahead and say it. I

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-15920281290615796512007-09-05T11:54:00.000-05:002007-09-05T12:19:54.580-05:00

I apparently went into a fit of nesting yesterday. At nearly 30 weeks, I think I'm being a little premature, but considering what I did, probably not. Caayn is theorizing that I did it because our trash can is full and trash doesn't go until Thursday.... I'm known for going on a huge cleaning binge when we have 1 trash bag left, too. I don't know why this is, but it's annoying!I made a huge list

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-26162760346379077242007-09-01T12:24:00.001-05:002007-09-03T11:11:53.781-05:00

Two things to write about. Just to let you know.First of all, Sully's bunk bed arrived. He was totally over the moon about it, and spent the rest of yesterday going up and down the ladder. And we're pretty sure he spent his whole nap time playing in the room (ladder off the bunk, of course). Night time went over well, for the most part. He did hit some bumps around 4am, but then it was smooth

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-82165273625013638982007-08-28T14:28:00.000-05:002007-08-28T14:45:27.249-05:00

Whew... these pills are making me all wonky. The first night I took one, it was only a half pill. It gave me a really bad stomach ache. The next day I was a little out of sorts, a wee bit nauseas and a wee bit dizzy. I took a super long nap.Last night was my first time taking a full pill. I didn't feel too bad, which was good. But when I woke up at 2am to go pee (hey, gotta love waking up several

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It's only 2pm and we've already had a crazy day.Outside its like 70 something, really nice. Achilles was out on his chain thingy (we don't have a fence yet, still want one!) enjoying the weather and the people and being outside. One of our neighbors has a husky, which is his favorite big dog breed. They also got a puppy a few months back; I've been trying to figure out what breed, I was guessing

Momma Phoenixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08439529935166694382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5937504683836914134.post-23203253589179001972007-08-24T18:12:00.000-05:002007-08-24T20:45:56.535-05:00

Midwife appointment was good. She didn't really understand my lack of appetite thing--basically said that lots of women get full more quickly or that smells are a turn off... neither of which are my problem. I don't want to eat. I don't have ANY appetite at all. Yesterday I ate twice. That was it. Oh well. Gained 4 lbs. (In two weeks... Looks like this pregnancy will follow Sully's, where I gain

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So much to write about!Monday was a super fun day. Caayn's squadron had a picnic, except it was drizzly so it was held inside some sort of structure. Nothing says picnic like concrete floors, warehouse like buildings, and military missiley type equipment. :D But they did have a bouncy castle. Sully was utterly in heaven. He bounced the whole time we were there. After an hour he started saying he

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