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Wow it’s been seven months since I’ve posted. I’ve had a lot going on. These past several months have been something. So here’s just a little blurb or so

August: boxes, boxes, boxes. The unpacking begins. Go back to work in the middle of the month. New state, different laws, but I still love my job. I like the people I work with and I still enjoy my job. I also like not being the boss, I had done it for so long I thought it would be awkward to be staff, but it’s working out very nicely.

September: Hubby is in the full swing of school. Holy Buckets we have SEVEN trees and no grass, just leaves everywhere. Our neighbor has a leaf vacuum, we have a rake. Our neighbor has grass and just a few hours after raking we still have no grass.

October: I’m one year older, spent my birthday with the family. (Can’t tease hubby about his age, well not until December anyway.) Still no grass just leaves SEVEN TREES! We adopt Kalypso. Happy Halloween, CC dresses up as Goldie the Golden Gopher (CC’s 1st Halloween)

November: Our heater dies, it’s getting cold. SEVEN TREES. New heater installed. Big Turkey Day in Des Moines.

December: Our 6th wedding anniversary. Still no grass, SNOW!!! It snowed the first weekend in December. It was really cool to put up Christmas decorations on our very own house. We bought our tree at a tree lot right on 65. CC’s first Christmas, we even have a fireplace to hang our stockings with care. At least when she’s old enough I won’t have to be creative like my folks were when they had to explain how Santa got into the house without a chimney. Happy Birthday Hubby (I can tease him again about his old age.)

January: What do you mean wind chill? 35 degrees BELOW zero. Still no grass, just snow. Do you know how difficult it is to pick up dog poop when it’s frozen? I got so sick of the cold I bought pineapple scented hand soap and just to remind my self of the pacific ocean I bought “ocean breeze” scented shampoo & conditioner. I never thought 20 degrees would ring the phrase “it’s nice out today.” Chargers looking good for playoffs… Ah man, I owe Terry coffee. (CHARGERS SUPERBOWL XLIII)

February: HAPPY BIRTHDAY CC!! Our little girl is a year old. Family & friends from CA, brave souls they are, came to celebrate. It was one of those 20 degree “it’s nice out today” type of weekends, but the “nice out” part did not sit well with the CA crew. Friends from IA came up for the celebration. We did a luau theme for the party and we all thought warm thoughts. It really was a blast. Welcome to the world B3! I attended my first caucus, a little different from the CA primary. I saw CC take two steps by herself tonight.

Well in a nutshell there it is.

take care,
Kate

Happy Belated Birthday DALVENJAH

Happy Pre-Birthday WAGS

take care

THIS WAS WRITTEN ON WEDNESDAY JULY 18TH

We’re packed, we’re moving. It really hasn’t hit me that we are actually moving out of state. There are so many thoughts going through my mind. I’ve had so much to do over these last few weeks that my mind has not processed the reality that I will no longer be living here. These past few weeks have been pure packing, our house looks like a box convention. Also, work has been a bit hectic, I promised my crew I would complete their training before my last day, and low and behold I got it done. Speaking of work today was my last day as the manager at the NC CVS. I was a little teary when I left, don’t think anyone caught me though. I did have to take a minute in my car before leaving for the last time. I still remember when I first started there, I never met a staff that worked so well together, it truly is a little “pharmacy phamily” Thank you to the very best staff in SD County, as I’ve said before you are the absolute best.

Tonight was an evening out to dinner with some close friends. A big thank you to those very friends who helped us pack the books, uhaul truck, and last minute misc packing. While eating my salad this evening I realized that in 6 days I’ll be living in a different state, starting over, making anew. It’s exciting and scary all at the same time. So many changes all at once; everyone always comments on the weather of course, but loads and loads of other thoughts cross my mind. Our house, (if it’s broke you fix it) childcare, a new position (with all of it’s new rules and regulations), and of course the big one I’m still getting use to, being a Mom to CC. On the flip side, we do have a beautiful house that we are in the process of owning, I guess the bank owns it until 2037. However we don’t have to ask the bank if we want to paint the walls neon green, convincing Richard would be another story though . I am excited for all the new things about to happen. I’m excited to decide which cabinet will be the medicine cabinet and which half of the closet will be my half, well in all honesty more like two-thirds . The cats seem to be okay with the whole moving thing, Churchill is hiding a little more than usual, but Gatsby seems to enjoy the adventure of making new pathways through out the box convention.

I recently found myself on myspace and I’m going to give it a go. We’ll see how it goes. At the moment it’s a bit frustrating because my high school buddies are all women (I did go to an all girls high school after all) and finding some of my class mates is a bit difficult because I do not know their married last name. Most require the friend request to provide the person’s last name or email. I don’t have this info, that’s why I’m on my space to find out. Hopefully I won’t get addicted, any suggestions Chuckles to avoid the addiction to my space?

Take care

PS Is it football season yet?

I went to a graduation today, a very dear friend moves on to the next phase of her education. She is a very bright young woman with a very bright future ahead of her. I am proud to call her my friend. Watching her and her class cross the stage at their graduation ceremony got me thinking, as a matter of fact one of the members of the class made a speech and spoke about entering young adulthood.

Though I’ve been a legal adult for 14 years now it seems to have just hit me. The last five and a half years have been my transition into adulthood.
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So happy to announce our little girl arrived safe and sound.
Monday, February 5th, 2007.

Check out our little girl.

take care,

Kate

Okay I’m ready, I mean ready, ready, ready. Then I think, I don’t mind waiting, gives me more time with my wonderful husband. Poor guy, he’s been waiting on me hand and foot, for the past nine months I tried to limit that, but now, forget about it, bring on the pampering honey. At night when I try to slumber (a very uncomfortable task of late) is the time I am ready to have this child delivered, but during the day I am quite content; only thing is that my nights are starting earlier and earlier.

Check out some pictures of the shower and our little one’s room.

Last Sunday there was great disappointment at Casa Shea. My boys lost their game. There was actual silence. They played very well; it still saddens me to think of the loss. They’re still my team and always will be, next year we’re going to the super bowl, just wait and see.

take care

Billy Joel in White Coat

Ahh October, and the wonderful season of fall. What a month so far. The fourth was my birthday and my handsome husband decided to surprise me with a party. The plan was we were going out to dinner to a French place up in Del Mar, Pamplemousse Grille. We drive all the way up there in traffic and he “forgets” his wallet and we have to drive all the way back home retrieve the wallet and drive back up to the restaurant. He felt terrible. I was going to suggest we just go to a restaurant closer to home and try Pamplemousee on another day, but he was looking forward to taking me there for my birthday, we talked about it all week, and I didn’t want to break his heart. He felt so bad already and said he was ruining by birthday. He had been complaining about his knee bothering him and so I of course volunteered to go up and fetch his wallet while he waited in the car, of course SURPRISE was waiting for me. It was a great deal of fun.
I also received mystery flowers on my birthday. There was a very lovely card, but no name. I do not know who to thank for the beautiful arrangement and chocolate. It drove me crazy trying to figure out who they were from. I even called the florist and they couldn’t even tell me what state they originated from. Thank you to the very thoughtful person.

In baby news we still do not know if our little one is a he or she and we’ll find out with the rest of the world in January. We did get to see the little tyke bouncing around in there; quite a little mover. As for me I’ve only felt little things, but then again being the first go around I really don’t know what to expect. I did feel a little something during the football game when LT made a touchdown leaping over the defensive line. I know the little one’s a Chargers fan.

take care,

I am so tired of spam comments on this blog. A day does not go by that I do not get a comment from some casino or drug advertisement. I’ve become quite a pro at deleting comments rapidly. So good that I may have inadvertently deleted some of the comments that are important, from real people who actually read this thing. If I did delete your comment please accept my apologies it was not intentional.

I’m feeling very round lately. I’m just over five months pregnant. We find out Thursday if we’re bringing in a girl or boy into this world. We are very excited. I am so tired though. Work has been absolutely hectic, stressful, and nerve wracking. I really like the company I’m working for now; they seem to really care about their people. I just wish it wasn’t so crazy while I’m five months pregnant.

My wonderful husband and some great friends of ours painted the baby’s room while I was in Florida for a CVS meeting. We’ve put the basinet together; our next project is to tackle the crib. Things are coming together little by little. 131 days left until my due date. It feels like forever away. I haven’t felt any major baby movement yet. Looking forward to Thursday and the next two days I have off form work. I am so tired; I think I’ll turn in for the night.

take care,

What do you think about music? I’m sitting here listening to some piano music from an internet radio station. It’s beautiful. There are some pieces of music that makes my heart jump. It is very cliché, but it moves me. I’ve noticed the music that does this to me is instrumental. I think that’s because I can put my own words to the notes. When words are already present and part of a song you’re given what the songs is about. Now I know there is an argument that can be made that lyrics do not define a song. For someone like me. one who is not a huge music person (I can read music and play an instrument or two at the novice level) lyrics guide my imagery of songs. You should see some of the pictures I come up with when I don’t understand the words! Makes me wonder if I heard a song for the first time without its lyrics and then later with its lyrics… wait a minute! That happened to me once. You know the theme song from MASH? Growing up as a kid watching the TV show, I liked the music. It wasn’t moving because I always associated images from the TV when I heard the song. Later in life I found out the title for the theme song is “Suicide is Painless” and I heard the lyrics. In my mind those lyrics did not match those notes.

take care,