I guess a few things have happened to take my attention away from the blog recently.

Work is going swimmingly and new and exciting things are happening that are keeping me busy.

Hannah is a half a year old! Woo Hoo!  (Okay so technically that was on the 5th) It makes me kind of sad because she is doing so much so fast. She pulls herself up on things, crawls like a maniac, jabbers all the time, started eating second foods and finger foods. We even had to lower her crib when we found her laughing and holding on to the edge standing in her crib. So not funny! She is still just a tiny little thing, she weighs 14 lbs and 11 ozs and is 24.5" tall.

Tom and I just celebrated our ten years of being together (on the 15th)! It is crazy to think that I have been in a relationship with the same person for ten years straight.

I guess that is all I can think of currently as I am sitting at work and the political debates going on behind me are making me want to scream, guess it's time for my trusty iPod!

Fat? Homely? Poor? Oh My!

Last Thursday as I wrapped up my shopping trip in Walmart accompanied by Hannie and my one of my BF's. I am getting rung up by the cashier and as she swipes my formula can she says:

Cashier: Do you have your WIC card?

Me: What?

C: If you have your WIC card you can get your formula for free.

Me: I make too much money to qualify for WIC.

C: Oh okay.

Later on as I am riding back to my friends house I got to thinking. Do I look poor? Then we both enjoyed a good laugh at that WTF moment in the Ghetto-Mart.

Next day, I went to have my blood work done for the Diabetes Center. Please note Diabetes Center.

Lab Tech: Why are you bouncing that baby?

Me: Just 'cause.

LT: Well stop it. If you keep doing that she won't understand the difference when you do it when she is upset.

She rambled on more about this topic and then stopped. Okay as unwanted as her advice is I can see her logic.

A few seconds later:

LT: Do you have diabetes?

Me: I had Type 2 before I was pregnant and now they are telling me that I am in a pre-diabetic state.

LT: That's weird, I have never heard of that

LT: Let me tell you a secret

Me: (Oh dear Lord what now) What's that

LT: Gastric bypass cures diabetes

Me: Oh (Thinking to myself no she didn't)

LT: My sister had it and girl let me tell you she is so skinny and she is a baby making machine!

Me: Good for her

LT: You should get it, insurance will pay for it just like that (snaps fingers)

Me: Oh, hmm (How freaking rude!)

LT: My sister she so fertile she had to terminate three of her pregnancies, she just kept getting pregnant and finally they told her she had to get her tubes tied.

Me: Mmm

What the heck! I do not want to hear about your sister's abortion, I do not want to hear about her diabetes and I don't want your skinny ass telling me to get Gastric Bypass! Mind your own business!

She also informed me that she knows how hard it is to lose weight because she has been trying very hard to lose ten pounds since last year and she just can't seem to do it. "She is just not movitvated enough to get up and exercise."

I wanted to tell her that is so sad for her it must be hard to be a size four and ten pounds over weight, how does she possibly manage to get out of bed every morning.

But I didn't and I never do say anything rude back to people even when they are rude to me. I guess my parents raised me better than that.

Kind-Of-Sorta-Almost There

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Just My Luck!

I finally drag my husband out kicking and screaming to begin looking at Halloween costumes for Hannie and guess what. The power went out for the whole shopping center! I was attempting to go to Old Navy and Boscovs but that didn't happen so we went to the mall instead which didn't have anything spectacular so we pretty much wasted our evening in an attempt to choose the most wonderful first Halloween costume. Lame!

I swear I have all kinds of Murphy's Law going on in my life right now!

GO TO CHURCH ALREADY!

This is really getting ridiculous for me. I want to go to church I (literally) need to go to church but I haven't quite made my want connect with going. I don't have an excuse for not going other than being tired and don't forget lazy. I guess too I kind of feel like I am in a church gray area. I quit going to my one church (that I am a member of) about four years ago (it is Baptist) and occasionally I will go to my BF's church which is Presbyterian. I know a fair amount of people at the church, I like the Pastor, I like the church atmosphere over all so I really don't know why it is that I just don't go!

Something (I'm going to go with God on this one) has made me feel even more than normal that I need to go, like right this instant drive in the car and get your behind in a pew. I think this Sunday just might be the day for me.

I am having a HORRENDOUS month this past month and I really got to my wits end last week after work when I cried as soon as I sat down in my car and then the whole way home and even then for like the rest of the night. I know craziness. But it was all for a good reason that I would rather not discuss right now because I don't know how this will all pan out in the end. But it isn't just work I suppose it feels like everything as of late and I swear if I get another medical bill in the mail I just may scream! Every time I think I am going to get one paid off I get another one. It's craziness! So I guess that might also explain why I haven't been able to blog quite as much as normal.

But seriously, I am going to church this Sunday! I have to, my heart needs it more than ever!

Please pray for me! (Seriously)

Hannah Banana

Hold the Bananas....

Everyone (my husband and myself included) call Hannie: Hannah Banana. Well the first time I gave her bananas I thought she had turned awfully red on certain areas of her face. I tried the bananas again and the same thing happened and she developed little bumps on her skin.

So I guess there will not be anymore bananas in her future, who would imagine the child to be allergic to bananas.

Wordless Wednesday-Carrots Are Good!