Baby Nightmares

Nope, not baby having nightmares, mommy having nightmares!

Ever since Hailey was born I have been having one reoccurring and really weird nightmare. It can happen at any time of the night and or day, whenever I am sleeping. I’m think it is the result of being overtired.

Here’s how it plays out.

I am sleeping, but think I am feeding Hailey. I half wake up and think that I feel her leg and then try to find the rest of her body, because in my mind I was feeding her but we both fell asleep and now I can’t find her! I will literally throw away all pillows and blankets to find the baby and then wake up allt he way to realize that I was dreaming and I wasn’t actually feeding her.

Everytime I’m sleeping and wake up this is how I am woken up. It gives me such anxiety.

Last night I was treated to a new nightmare. I dreamed that I had been feeding Hailey and put her down to sleep in the living room but then I woke up and there was blankets and spit-up all over her face, so I freaked out and jumped off the couch.  Except I actually did this: I jumped out of my BED and thought in my sleepy state that I was in the living room and started freaking out because I couldn’t find the light switch and my baby was suffocating but I couldn’t see her to find her! I ran into my dresser, had no idea where I was and almost fell over. This woke Scott up and I’m pretty sure he thought I was crazy. It took me a bit to realize that I was a) actually in my bedroom and b) Hailey was sleeping soundly in her cradle at the foot of our bed.

(A sleeping Hailey at 5 days old)

Any other moms have this happen to them?

Golf + Hail = Welts!

First golf game of the season, with pictures for added drama…

On the weekend Scott and I finally were able to head out with Erica and D for our first golf game of the year. There was a 40% chance of rain, but the sky was looking pretty clear during the day so we braved the weather and headed to our favourite free golf course ( free because, well our family owns it, pretty sweet!). Scott and I got there a bit early to practice our putting and chips, I was sucking pretty badly already! We got some fries before the game and headed out to the first tee to tee off at around 3:15.

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Funny Daddy

I took this funny picture of our dad yesterday.

May 4th is his birthday! Happy birthday Dad!

My First Car!

Along with all of my previously mentioned exciting news, I totally forgot something! I bought my first very own car on Tuesday. I’ve been driving since I was 16 but somehow have never needed my own car until now, I was always able to use extra cars of my parents. Not anymore. It may be a little old, it may have a lot of km’s on it, it may have a little rust spot, but it is ALL MINE. My friend Dane helped me to find it and came with me to test drive it and everything. It belonged to his friend’s dad who took amazing care of it. It is so clean on the inside you’d think it was brand new. So exciting! I am no longer driving around in a car with a liscence plate that says THANKSDAD, and no longer have to feel like I am the laughingstock of the road.

savage chicken

My co-worker Karen sent me this cartoon the other day at work (we send each other Savage Chicken cartoons daily, not really sure why, but it has turned into an office ritual for a few of us). I personally think it is hilarious! Mostly because I always ask her if she has read my blog… and because the joke’s on her because she does read it every day! HI KAREN!!!!

Messed up boyfriend quote of the day:

Kent: “I love you, Maeve Binchy.”

Micaela: “…That’s not my name. That’s an author…”

Kent: “I know, but it sounds like your name.”

Kent and Micaela: “Miiiiicccaaaaeeeeeellllaaaa Boooonnnnnjjjjaaayyyyy” “Maaaaaaeeeevvvvvveeeee Biiinnnccchhhhhyyyy” *repeat for about 5 minutes*

Whoops!

So yesterday something silly happened to me…

At work I felt as though the day was crawling by, nothing too abnormal for me though. At 1:40PM I called my cousin’s work to sign up for a Yoga class, but no one answered and their machine said that they work M W F, 10AM-2PM, I thought it was weird that no one answered, but let it go and decided to try again on Friday. As 5 o’clock neared I noticed that it seemed to be getting very dark! Finally 5 o’clock arrived! I changed into my barn clothes to drive to the barn and do chores and jumped in the car and started driving. Then I looked at the clock… 6PM! What the heck? No wonder my day took forever, I was at work for 9 hours instead of 8! I actually had to say to myself, 9-5 to remind me that I normally work until 5PM and not 6PM. My computer at work had somehow during the day reverted back 1 hour, how that happens I have no idea, and I know that when I started work that day it said 9am. Plus I checked the clock this morning to make sure I wasn’t crazy, and it said 8am, when it was really 9am. Let’s just say I’ve been checking my watch a lot today..

Needless to say on Friday I will be leaving work an hour early.. Silly silly me.

Which Brain are you?

This spinning lady was posted on Weddingbee today and I just had to post it here!  I’ve never seen this before but I think it’s really cool. 

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If you see the umm naked lady spinning clockwise then you are right-brained

If you see the lady spinning counter-clockwise then you are left-brained.

I see her spin counter-clockwise.  I can’t wait to see Scott and see what way he sees her spin.  Apparently some people can get her to switch.  Sometimes if I only look at her legs they go clockwise for one rotation but then it’s back to counter-clockwise.  Man I think I could stare at this for the rest of my day.

For more explanations see here:  Left Brained vs. Right Brained

EDIT: I just saw her WHOLE BODY go clockwise for 3 roatations, then it was back to counter-clockwise.. I guess that means I am MOSTLY left-brained and a bit right-brained, but not when I want to be.

Wedding flowers not quite right? SUE.

Only in New York could this happen.

A Manhattan bride was so upset about the colour and condition of her centerpieces (wilted?), she is suing the florist for breach of contract. The bride is also a lawyer and filed the suit herself, which explains a lot.

Let’s turn this into a Mastercard ad, shall we?

Flowers for your wedding day, paid for by your mother: $27,435.14

Restitution and damages sought from florist because they ‘weren’t right’: $400,000.00

You, indirectly labeled as a ‘Bridezilla’, on the homepage of CNN.com: Priceless.

There are some things that money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s a lawsuit.

Cheezburger Of The Week: What bowl of popcorn?

Cat Of The Week

 

It’s kitty salad!

Doesn’t this lil’ guy look like Dragonbaby and/or Chase? (our cats)

 

 

I want a kitty.

ICanHasCheezburger.com

 

Have You Bought Any Crap Lately?

Credit: The Onion

 FENGHUA, CHINA—Chen Hsien, an employee of Fenghua Ningbo Plastic Works Ltd., a plastics factory that manufactures lightweight household items for Western markets, expressed his disbelief Monday over the “sheer amount of shit Americans will buy.”

OK, it’s The Onion, but isn’t there some truth to it?  As a society, we have soooo much stuff!  I have things I can’t bear to throw away, although I have no idea where/when I got it.  Then, when I do decide to throw it away, I feel guilty for helping fill some landfill somewhere.

 ”I hear that Americans can buy anything they want, and I believe it, judging from the things I’ve made for them,” Chen said. “And I also hear that, when they no longer want an item, they simply throw it away. So wasteful and contemptible.”

Essentially…yes. Unless it can be sold on E-bay.  Which creates packaging waste and has a bigger carbon footprint than you might imagine, considering the exhaust from vehicles used to transport the item to its destination.

Maybe it’s time to simplify.

100% Blonde

Legally Blonde

Found a good (un-offensive!!) blonde joke today.

It’s right here. Scobelizer even likes this one, had it on his blog at one time (I can’t seem to find it anymore, though)

On another topic altogether (sort of), don’t you just love Legally Blonde?