Have I told you lately that I am totally addicted to a website called babysteals? Babysteals is like Woot but full of all the baby stuff that I never knew that I needed. They offer one item each day at such a good price that it is a steal. I am so in love with this site that I can’t leave the house without my laptop around steal time because I don’t want to miss out on that day’s steal. Anyway, today is their second birthday. Happy Birthday Babysteals!
A couple of months ago there was a terrible tragedy near where we live where a little girl named Somer Thompson was walking home from school and was later found dead. There hasn’t been much information released as to what exactly happened during that time or who could have done such a terrible thing but it has really rattled the community and caused parents to hold their children a little tighter.
Today, Hera and I headed to an event to raise money for Somer’s family. There were lots of bikers and bands but not much else. I had read that there would be craft vendors and food but all I found were bouncy houses and hot dogs. I was however happy to see that I could get a child ID kit started for Hera, even at two months of age! She got finger printed and photographed and I was sent home with a CD of images, tiny fingerprints and a card with her information. There was also a video/photographer from the Jacksonville Times Union who shot the above footage. You can see Hera at 00:51 as she poses for her ID photo.
Sonogram 17 weeks 5 days
Girl! I will be having a baby girl in September. We are very happy and excited!
Darrell is out of town right now but I hope that once he returns we can start to get some baby necessities together. We already have two sturdy car seats (one for each car) and bought a used Volvo XC90 SUV to carry our little bundle of joy around in style but know we will need to purchase furniture and lots of other items. In the meantime, I plan to hit the garage sales to see if I find anything good.
I am a little sad because I doubt I will get to have a baby shower since we don’t really know anyone well here. Oh well, I’ll live! 
I am pregnant and due at the end of September! I have been feeling pretty good but am constantly tired. We are excited and looking forward to the first ultrasound next month.
Neko Case never fails to amaze me! A single from her upcoming album has been made available called “People Got A Lotta Nerve – Neko Case“. By posting this link to my blog a donation of five dollars will be given to Best Friends Animal Society! How awesome!
I am so mad.
Ten days ago I went to the doctor because I wanted antibiotics for my parasite. While I was there my doctor guilted me into a TSH test for my thyroid and sent me to Quest Diagnostics in Fleming Island to get my blood drawn. My doctor made it sound like their office was all high tech and stuff and had sent an electronic lab request to Quest but also handed me a hard copy for my records. I went to the lab with my hard copy, they wrote on it, drew a vial of blood, wrote on it again and gave it back to me because I thought that they had an electronic request.
I called my doctor today in hopes of learning the results of my test but they had not received them from Quest. They then called Quest and found that they had no record of me ever having my blood drawn. I drove to Quest with my hard copy of the lab request to see if that would help them to locate my blood and the woman yelled at me (WTF?!) and told me that they had needed that piece of paper to identify my sample. How can a piece of paper be the whole cause of this? Surely they have a better system, right?! They took my piece of paper and told me they would draw me again but I declined, I don’t want to fall through the cracks again.
I drove to my doctor’s office and met with the woman who had been helping me in the morning to locate my sample and gave her the lab request, she and the office manager couldn’t understand why the lab let me keep the piece of paper in the first place and said they would call the office manager at Quest. All of this trouble over a piece of paper. To be fair I had never had to leave a doctor’s office for a lab before and had no clue that they needed the hard copy of my lab request. If they had told me that they needed it I would have gladly left it with them. Having my blood drawn once was painful and time consuming, I really don’t want to do this again.
I can not get over how stupid their process seems to me, really, because they let me keep a piece of paper they can not find my blood? I watched the woman write my name on the vial. Did they draw it just to throw it away? Why waste my time and theirs? The people at my doctors office said that Quest is better than LabCorp, which is my other choice on crappy Cigna, and that “Quest is all about customer service”… AH-HA! Thats where I must have been expecting too much; all my years of working for Rackspace have spoiled me. Quest doesn’t know the meaning of customer service.
I have noticed that in general, since moving to Florida, I feel like I am constantly disappointed in the people I have had to do business with. It seems like I make the mistake of expecting them to be the expert. It makes me not want to trust anyone. Doesn’t anyone strive to do their best anymore? Is this their best? Maybe I am expecting far too much, after all we are just human.
This was my final cake for Wilton Course 4: Fondant & Gum Paste. The fish was carved out of three frozen 9×13″ cakes and is a little too tall. This is not the standard final cake for this class but all of the cakes in the book were beyond lame.
I had the hardest time finding where I could donate my unused contact lenses but thanks this thread I learned of a place that would take them. I donated three boxes of unopened contacts to MADRE and I donated my glasses to a local Lions Club while at my follow up Lasik appointment on Friday.
At my appointment my suspicions were confirmed… I now have 20/20 vision and Darrell can still see better than me! Yay!
Yay! Currently, I can see a blurry 20/20. My pupils are still dilated from the Lasik procedure I had on Friday so life without sunglasses is painful. Looking at the screen and typing will have to wait a little longer.
At work we take the Gallup Strengths Finder assessment which somehow ranks our strengths so we can better understand each other or something, well when I took my test empathy was in my top five (which is kind of rare for where I work because we mainly have a bunch of “achievers”. Darrell also has an odd strength of “harmony” which is another rarity). I also yawn a lot.
I just read an article about yawning. This interested me because I seem to yawn every time Darrell even thinks about yawning, in fact I yawned while I read the story and searched for pictures of yawns! Anyway it said that empathy and yawning could be tied together. No wonder I yawn so much.
