Things to do before I die...

See the Foo Fighters live and in person.

Their concert at Wembley Stadium was just on PalladiaHD.

I love this concert. It's so amazing.

I guess another thing to do would be to actual meet Dave Grohl in person too. Add that to the list. I should make a list. A real list. A bucket list, if you will.

I'm 30 now, you know. I'd better get working on that bucket list.

I've been toying with the idea of starting a new blog. One that is more about my life with Ryan, instead of my random crap. Plus, while I do love this blog, there's so much of the time after Branden died. I do want to remember all that stuff, but I did some crazy ass shit then that I would never do. I was broken. Broken hardcore then. Now, much better. So, I'm thinking about leaving this behind and starting fresh. I've got a name picked out for proposed new blog, but I'm still mulling it over.

I would really like our next house to have an office alcove in or near the kitchen. That would be outstanding.

Little boy has been wonderful. He's such a wonderful little guy when he's well rested. And such a cranky little stinker when he's not. Bedtime has been around 6pm for a long time now. And he sleeps close to the whole night, when healthy. When sick, the plugged nose has a tendency to wake him up earlier. But, it's AMAZING how much sleep and sleep deprivation affect you. You get sleep, you are amazing. No sleep and memory really suffers. My memory is still horrible. It's a TON better since he started to sleep through the night, but most of the pregnancy and the first couple of months are just a blur. If I didn't have the blogs, I wouldn't have memory of anything.

So, that's another recommendation. Keep a blog or journal while preggo. Oooh! That reminds me. I had intentions of creating a stuff I loved/hated during pregnancy and baby times. I should work on that. That would actually be a project. Maybe I'd use it for an opening post on proposed new blog.

Hmmm...lots to think about. Now, to finish laundry and maybe some more bejeweled. maybe...

Apparently, you don't have a lot of extra time when you have a baby...

More so that I am lazy and don't post. I have been reading a lot of blogs recently and kind of wish I was more...I don't know...more entertaining, I guess. More informative. More bloggy, as it were. I have an idea of a post I would like to make, but it's just a matter of sitting down and doing it. The post of "what I used/what I didn't use" for Ryan. A baby stuff post. Although, since I formula fed, my post would differ greatly from, say, Kristine's, but she makes things work differently for her. Which is fine. Just using her as an example of someone who's "goods and bads" would probably be different from mine.

The main thing that I have been doing in the past almost three weeks since I posted: Working my butt off.

Work has been CRAZY! I am just finally starting to catch up on stuff. Hopefully, by the end of this week, I will have caught up all the way. Which would make me very happy. I hate looking stupid at work. And being behind always makes me look stupid. Lots of overtime though. Extra money is nice.

I got my new lappy, got a virus and completely hosed the whole thing in the past three weeks, causing us to have to restore to the factory settings. Which meant we would have lost three weeks of Ryan pictures, EXCEPT for the dumb luck factor. I saved all the pictures onto my Photobucket AND onto a flash drive to take to work. So, the only thing that we really lost was some of the video that we took of Ryan. And the good ones were posted to Facebook, so they aren't really lost. Good times all around. I have decided that one of those times that those fake websites came up that is "scanning" your computer, I clicked in the box, instead of just closing the whole browser. I did it before I could think. Oops. Stupid jerks.

Now, I run AVG.

Ryan has gotten SO big and more grown up in the past three weeks! It's amazing how fast they change. He's eating some solids. He enjoyed sweet potatoes, peas, winter squash, but not green beans. That or he doesn't like the taste of the Gerbger baby food. Near as I can tell, it's just the veggie and water, but he hasn't been as enthusiatic about it as he was with Earth's Best. Either way, I'm going to make my own, because they don't cover many veggies in the baby foods. Lots of fruits. I'm going to wait on the fruit until 6 months, I think. Learn to like the veggies first. Then, fruits.

He's also almost sitting up on his own now. We haven't made much progress in the crawling or rolling area, but that's okay.

And, finally, we have started to ignore him at night, in the hopes that he goes back to sleep. AND...for the past couple of nights, it has worked. I love it, because, even though I wake up, I don't have to get up. Soon, I will be sleeping all night again. At least until the next little peanut comes along.

I love sleep.

Decisions, decisions

I've decided that since we will almost certainly be not having a baby in 2010 (I would prefer early 2011), we will bump down on coverage for this year. The company gives us $2000 to use, so as long as we don't go over that, I'm not terribly worried. All Ryan's checkups are 100% covered, because they are preventative. My one that I have for sure next year would be if I do get preggers, I hopefully will not have more than $2000 in maternity appts. I could always go back and re-calculate from this year.

But, like I said, Ryan is covered, because those are preventative and Jake is done with going to doctors. He's had allergy testing, a scope and something else, all that led to the conclusion that he is pretty healthy. Just has tonsil problems sometimes.

I also am still carrying my AFLAC insurance, which is pretty sweet. When the next little one does arrive, I can use it to claim my hospital stay -- and it pays you cash, which is just the same as money! :)

I'm also going with the 7 day elimination STD -- remember all my bitching about that?!?!! They are changing it, so it's not so horrible for people to go out of work for longer periods of time without burning mega vacation. That sucked.

So, now, I can use all the extra funds to pay for daycare. Or part of daycare anyway.

The cold is not so bad. I didn't get hit as hard as I did last year.

We're going to Luxemburg this weekend. Jake has a gig in GB on Saturday night. I am trying to do laundry right now and I'm just tired and want to go to bed. Oh well. Buck up!