I heard Joel say “Lexi” for the first time two days ago. Then last night I heard him say “cheese” when I was taking pictures. (warm fuzzing feelings!)
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Hey Bud, J-Man, Joely, Joel,
Even though I still think you’re a big cry-baby, I love you so much. I have a feeling that you like me more than your mom which is the opposite of how I think Alyssa was/is.
You’re so brave and adventurous. You’ll climb up the playset out back and slide down the slide on your own. On your own!
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Ok, I’m going to try to black out all of the sensitive material. ![]()
Last night Christi took Alyssa to dance so it was just me and Joel at home. He cried the whole time.
The. Whole. Time. Nothing was wrong. Nothing I could tell at least. I tried giving him food, milk, changing him, etc. Nothing worked so I just let him cry.
I’m not sleeping at night and am paying for it every day.
I can’t seem to keep my mask on. I wore it last night and felt great when I woke up, but I don’t know if that was because I slept or because I was proud I left it on all night. I used to drink energy drinks, but they’re too expensive, so now I just pop caffeine pills. I really don’t want to, but otherwise I will fall asleep driving or sitting at my desk.
The lack of sleep has made everything a little washy.
I just don’t feel right. ██ █ █████ ████ ██ ██ ████-███████████ ███ ███████ ██ ███. ████ ██ ████ ███, ███ █████ ███ ████ ██ ████████████; ████, ██ █████ ███ ███ ██ ████. I █████ I ████ █████ █████ ███ ███ ███ ███ ████. My ███ ███ ██ ████ a █████ so █ █████ ███ a █████ ██████ ███ a ████ ██████, but ███ ████ █████ ████.
My computer crapped out on me. First my fairly new 500 GB hard drive. I think it’s a year and a half old. Then my main drive got corrupted and I went to reinstall Windows. It deleted everything in the windows directory and then prompted me for a key. ████. I can’t find the key. I’ve looked and looked. So I haven’t had my own computer for 2 weeks now. Well, I think it’s 2 weeks. I’ve been using Christi’s which is fine, but she doesn’t have █████████ or Homesite installed on her computer.
So I decided that I wanted a new computer. Well, my neighbor is supposed to give me his old one, but that was months ago, so I’m not counting on it. I challenged myself. If I could go for a month without eating sweets, then I’ll buy the computer I want. It’s around $1000. Nothing crazy.
And why am I cutting out sweets you ask? Because I feel like my body has become a dump. I’ve been eating crap lately and I think it’s contributing to my sleep problems and everything being “washy”. I’m borderline diabetic too. So, I’m cutting sweets for a month and hopefully my sweet tooth will disappear. At least that’s what I’ve been told is what happens. Oh, speaking of teeth, I had a cavity. The tooth-cleaner-person (what do you call them? dental hygienists?) said it was probably because I sip pop all day long.
I think it’s because I’ll often eat after I brush my teeth at night and the sugar just eats away at my teeth. So that’s another reason to get rid of sweets. And it will also help me lose weight, which is a goal of mine, but I’m not very motivated.
This no-sweets-for-a-computer goal gives me the motivation I need. I can’t think of a better motivator right now.
Speaking of motivating, Christi is getting frustrated with the “Boones Babes” group on SparkPeople. At one point they were her motivators, but now no one else seems to be participating. And Christi was actually mad last night at them. And I don’t want to lay next to and watch TV with someone who’s made. I even joined SparkPeople and the Boones Babes to try to encourage her. But even I have dropped out. I’m not a “babe” anyway. Plus, I think I do better weight-wise if I don’t think about it everyday. And then the no-sweets challenge will help me, so I see no point in continuing with SparkPeople. If only I could motivate Christi some other way. I wish I could, but it’s hard motivating people when you can’t motivate yourself to get out of bed.
I really dropped the ball this year with Christi’s birthday and Mother’s Day.
I didn’t get the number of presents I would’ve liked to. And I don’t have any excuse except I’m one lazy ██████████. Can I blame my brain tumor? (Brain tumor? you ask. Well, it could be the cause of my central sleep apnea which causes my tiredness which causes me to slack off.)
███’s probably going to jail. I think his court date was this week. Or maybe next week. I don’t know. He invited me out to eat one day and I “forgot”. Well, I remembered in the morning, but got busy later and did forget. But I think a part of me didn’t want to go out in public with him. And now, a few weeks later, I don’t want to see him. Unless he is going to jail and he’s giving me his huge flat-screen TV.
Sarah has a motorcycle. I’m somewhat jealous, but also am like, “Don’t drive the thing until your classes are done!” I think she’s already harmed it somehow.
Christy, who is really sweet
, recently said on her blog “My life would suck without you dear friend!” speaking not about me, but about Christi. And I don’t care that it wasn’t me. I still got/get warm fuzzies. ![]()
I wonder if Asten is still seeing Val. Erie. Valerie. When I say “Val” I think of Val Kilmer.
Just a couple of days until the newest member of the Dwight family comes! Exciting!
I have to shoot film on Sunday. And Eric didn’t get a department store. Am I surprised he didn’t? Nope. ███ ████ ██████ ████ █ his backup plan is to have “Kenny” (me) go back to my previous place of employment and shoot up the place.
Before, when it took place at a department store, it was random. But now it’s █ █████ film. Well, not really. █ ████ █████ ████ ██. And Eric’s character dies not while doing something good (buying a dress) but doing something bad (going to lunch with co-workers when his wife didn’t want him to). Well, that’s what I got when Christi told me. So, Eric. Chad. I might not want my name on this film.
My dad is applying for a job in Omaha! Yea! His current job is █████████, I guess. Mine’s not. Ben goes to Brazil for his job next month, if he gets his visa.
I think my allergies are back. I thought I had a cold, but Christi said my eyes were really red. More than usual. So, yea, she’s probably right. Make me feel like crap.
Christi ordered some trees for the back yard and I signed up with the Arbor Day something-or-another Foundation-or-something. She got 5 trees and I got 10. We’ve planted the 5 a couple of weeks ago. Now, where am I going to plant ten trees?? They’re only the size of my forearm, so I’m really not too concerned.
I haven’t mentioned Alyssa yet. I guess the first thing I think of is how she’s still in diapers. ████ ██████ ██████ ███ █████ █████ ████ ██████ ██ █ █ ██████ ███████ ███. ██████ ████ ███ ███████ ████ ██████. So then I think, ██ ██ █████ █ In any case, as soon as the current case of diapers is gone, Alyssa will no longer be wearing them, because we’re not buying any more. Sophie, who’s 3 months younger, is already out of her diapers ███ █████████.
I was standing in the corner of my yard the other day talking to my neighbors while Christi was mowing the yard. (She wanted to!) But I started talking about ██████████ ██████ I am and when I came inside I beat myself up for it because I sounded like a ███████ idiot.
I’m still beating myself up about it.
I sounded like a ███████ idiot.
And that folks, is why I’m not more outgoing. ![]()
I was supposed to be the coach during soccer on Tuesday night. ‘Course Emma’s dad took over. I’m just not very good at … stuff. Christi had extra snacks in the back of her car and I’m thankful that she put ‘em there!
Just how personal should this entry be? ██ ████████████ asked me yesterday if I had any secrets. Yup. I do. But I wasn’t going to tell h██. Should I tell this blog? (Essentially) you? ██ ████ █████ █████ ███ ████ ██. ███ █ ███ ████ █████ ███ █████? ████ ████ ████ ████/█████ ██ ████ █████ ███ ███ ███████ ███ ██ ████ ████ █████ ██ ███ █ █████ ████ ███. That’s right. █████ ███ ███ ███ ████, █ ███████ ██████. █████ █████ ██ █████ ██████, █████ ██ ██████ ███████ ██ ████ ███ █████ ████ █ █████ ███ ██ ████ ███ █ █████, ███ ███ ██████ ████ ████ ██ █████ █████ ██████████. ████ ███ █████ ███… ███ ████ ███. █████ ████████ ███ ████. I am not going to talk about personal Christi stuff.
Dogs? Well, Joey is █████ ████. Lexi is … a butt. Christi wants another dog. I so do not want another one right now.
█████. That’s probably 90% of what I worry about. But I do little to fix it. █ ████ ███████ ██████-██, ██ ███ ██’██ ██████ ███ ████ █ █████ ██ ███ █████ ████. ██, ██ █ ██ ███ ████ ████████ █’█ █████ ██ ████ ██ “██████” █████ ████ ██ ███. █ ██████ ████ ███ ████ ██ ████ ██ ████. (█████) ██ █████’█ ██████ ███ ████████ █████ ███, ████ █ ████ ██. ███ ████’█ █████ ██ ██ ██ ██████ ███ ███ ██████ ████ ████ ████ ██ ████████ ████ █ ███████ ██. █ █████ ███████ █ █████ ██ ████████ █ ███████ ██ █ ██████ ████ ██████ ██ ███ ██ ███. ████ ██ ███, ████ ██, ███ █████. ███.
So, let’s see, I’m ███, ████, █████████, ███████-███████ and ████. That’s a sucky life. And I have a kid ████ ███ ██ ████ ██ ███. All the freaking time. It’s almost like ███ ████ ████ ███ █ █████████ ████. █ █████████ █████ █ ██████ ██████ ███ ██ ███ ██████. ███ ████ ██████ ██████. ████. Yea, I wouldn’t kill someone else.
Oh, my parents didn’t get me a birthday present! Well, 1) they bought me Hullabaloo, a kids game and 2) they ordered something and it hasn’t arrived yet. But it still sucks.
Did I mention I had a cavity? Add that to the list.
Alyssa, Alyssa, Alyssa. I want to write more about her, but I don’t know what. She’s my reason for living. I don’t like admitting that Christi isn’t worth living for, because I really love her too
, but I tried to ████ ██████ a month (or 2?) after we got married. So she doesn’t stop me from trying. (Well, physically she did. And would.) █████’s sister’s boyfriend’s coworker killed himself leaving a wife and child. I couldn’t leave Alyssa I don’t think. Maybe when Joel grows up a little more and if he stops being a cry-baby he’ll be a reason too, but right now he’s not.
My stomach’s growling. I didn’t get my usual afternoon candy bar. Good for me. Whoopie.
I once heard that women really get sexually active in their 30′s. I really hope Christi some day likes sex as much as I do. Because for now I’m left to ███████ ███. ███ ██ ██████? ██ ████. ████, █ ██████ ████ ████ █████ ██ ████! ████ ████ ██ █████. ████ ██ ████ █████. ████ ███████ █ ███████ █████ ██ ████.
I’m a ███, ███ man.
I’m fat, sick, sad, depressed, ████████-████████, poor, losing my memory, incapable of having a conversation.
If I got more sleep
, would that fix all of this?
Update: now with pretty smilies!
A few weeks ago I made up a story for Alyssa about “Princess Alyssa”. And Joel, I’m sorry to say, you were made into a troll. Other family members have also appeared so currently there’s Princess Alyssa, Troll Joel, Monkey Mommy, Dragon Daddy, Frog Lexi and, this just came tonight (sniff), Kitty Cat Joey.
And pictures because they’re so darn cute:
Christi left for Raleigh, NC yesterday and I’ve had the kids all by myself. Christi left the house clean, but we didn’t have any bread or juice. We could’ve gotten by without bread, but juice!? No way! So we made a trip to the grocery store. That made me anxious. Things went well until our ride home when Alyssa announced she peed in her car seat. And I have a “thing” about body excrement. So I overreacted. I won’t tell what I said. When we got home I “had” to wash the fabric for the seat which meant I had to disassemble the thing! Seriously, I had to take the bottom off. I wouldn’t have done it, but the directions told me how. So I washed that but it wasn’t dry by the time my mom got over, so I didn’t have the seat together yet and we were going out to dinner. Dinner with the kids, even with Christi, makes me anxious. I took 2 Xanax about 5 minutes apart and had I beer at dinner, so I wasn’t stressin’ too much. Oh, when my mom called from the airport I had both kids screaming. Ugh. And then my mom said that Christi parked in the wrong section and it cost $24 for her to get out. Christi left a $ 20 but Mom mentioned that it didn’t cover it and she sounded like I owed her $4 when she got to my house. Well, on the way to dinner I tried to give her the only dollar bills I had, 2, and she’s like, “Oh you don’t need to pay me.” Which was the opposite of what I was expecting. So that was relieving. Then she added “And that wouldn’t even cover it!” in a joking, but knowing my mom maybe not so joking, way.
Bedtime went pretty well. Joel went down but woke up ~15 minutes later. I just had to rock him for a minute or so and he slept the rest of the night. Alyssa started screaming because she wanted 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5 kisses. I complied. And she went to sleep and that was that. She woke up sometime around 7 and wanted to watch Dora so I turned that on and laid in bed awhile longer. So today had been going pretty well so far. There was something I wanted to write about about yesterday, but I can’t remember. Oh well, maybe it’ll come to me.
I think I’m addicted to the Wii! We only have two “games” (Wii Sport and Wii Play) but that has been plenty for me so far! I’m currently trying to get all gold medals on Wii Play.
Last night was really bad. I had to get up with both kids several times. And for each time I got up with the kids, Christi gets up 10 times. So it must have been really bad for her!
Joel is pulling himself up onto everything. I think it’s most funny when he uses Lexi for leverage. Other times he grab my legs and plant his face between ‘em. It’s cute, except when I’m Wii-ing. (Addict, remember?)
Alyssa is getting good with her letters and can count to 13. Then it’s like 15 and then 20, or something like that. She knows her A, D, M, G, L, J’s really well. (Alyssa, Daddy, Mommy, Grandma, Lexi, Joel/Joey) She can play Wii bowling and just this weekend even started hitting some of the targets in the shooting game. I still have a hard time understanding her sometimes, but that’s more my fault than hers.
Well, I gotta run home before I die. (It’s snowing and I don’t have Christi’s car.)
I wanted first to write that Alyssa, for the first time, fell asleep while I was reading to her. It was so adorable!
Joel had tubes put in today. It all went pretty smoothly. It was quick too. Right after surgery they had him in the recovery room and we could hear him crying. We shut the door to the exam room and trying singing and jiggling keys so as not to hear him. It didn’t really work.
As soon as he was back in Mommy’s arms he stop crying. A sweet moment. (Not that I’ll remember it.) (sigh)
I was really tired this morning. And as I was showering, I was cursing under my breath that I don’t like newborns and was blaming Joel for my lack of sleep since he still doesn’t sleep through the night.
And then Christi had him “knock” on the shower door and when I opened it he gave me a huge smile and it made all my grumbling go away.
Ugh. I’m sick. I have a cold. It sucks.
Last Saturday Christi and I went to dinner and a movie with the St. Amours (Amy and Bret). Dinner was at Texas Roadhouse and was delicious. I got the ribs with the side salad and sweet potato loaded. I don’t care much for their 1000 Island dressing, but the rest was great. I couldn’t eat it all and couldn’t take it with either because we went to a movie after.
The movie was 1408 and must’ve been the worst movie ever. It was really bad.
Alyssa has reverted back to “Mama”. She used to say “Mommy”, but recently it’s been “Mama”. I don’t know why.
Joel’s been eating “real” food for a week (?) now. He seems to really like it. He’s always fussy when we’re done.


