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Mon
Aug, 11
2008

She speaks in tongues

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Jada: (Talking over the olympics coverage) “If you know when — – pink and the — – –”

Me: “Hang on I can’t hear you” (mutes tv) “what are you saying”?

Jada: “if you know — the sky is pink and the clouds are blue”

Me:  (shakes head)  “What! ? ”

Jada: (chuckles..)   “I guess I have to talk in your ear.”  (comes over to my ear)

(in stereo) “IF   YOU   KNOW   WHEN   THE   SKY   IS   PINK   AND   THE   CLOUDS   ARE   BLUE”

I have no frickin clue where she is going with this so I analyze the statement a little for her.

Me:  “uh.. well I think the sky is supposed to be blue and maybe the clouds can be pink.”

Jada goes on and on about the pink sky but  …whatever…

I think at least she gets an above average rating for grammer. The “if” in the beginning still leaves me scratching my head tho.

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Fri
Aug, 1
2008

I want to be a Tigger, but MBTI says I’m an Eeyore

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So I watched several lecture videos by Randy Pausch last week where he liked to say that everyone has to decide whether they want to be a Tigger or an Eeyore. In other words, he implies that we have the power to decide for ourselves whether we will live our lives as happy, bouncy, go-getters or as pessimistic, depressed, sticks in the mud.

Well, I think if it were up to me I would choose to be a tigger. Everything in the last year of my life would indicate I have a predisposition for being a down-in-the-dumps depressive. However, I found Randy Pausch’s lectures inpiring and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about much of what he’s said. In fact, I have felt more upbeat and inspired by his positivity with is own life than I ever have by taking anti-depressant medication.

But coincidentally, a friend’s LJ post today about MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) led me to a page with a test to see which personality type I am. The test results indicate that I am a ISTJ which by definition means that I am an introverted, highly pensive, rigid, anal, observer of life rather than an active participant. (true, true. I would agree). I then skimmed over the wikipedia page on ISTJ which includes a list of celebrities and historical figures also considered to have the same personality. Among them? Eeyore.

Does this mean that any attempt to become a more of a positive, happy person will be an exercise in futility?

But actually… I don’t know if I am more put off by the Eeyore thing, or the fact that George W. Bush is also on that list. :( Does George Washington cancel him out?

I would have been less disturbed if “W” hadn’t been in the list.

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Tue
Jul, 29
2008

10 days.. and I’m not looking back

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Today marks 10 days since my last semi-dose of Effexor XR. It is also 14 days since my last full dose of it as well.

How am I feeling? Good !!

I still have lingering effects of withdrawal but they are negligible. Some light dizziness when I stand up or cut corners. I’m still short tempered with the kids as well. This week will tell if that has gotten better. This weekend was not so bad, tho. We don’t go out much so if I didn’t lose it with the 4 of us indoors all weekend, then that’s a good sign I think.

I’m definitely able to focus better now. No doubt about it. I can pick one direction, and just go. Few things distract me. Except, of course, for the sounds of the girls banging, screaming, yelling, crying, whining and complaining. Those things would annoy me on any day, but my ability to cope with it was nearly non-existent when I stopped taking the meds. Also, a change in my own behaviour is in order with that. I ignore the kids a lot and I’m sure a lot their behavior is their way of getting my attention.

Everything I do between 4pm and 8pm affects my life incredibly. That’s my time with the kids, that’s my time keeping house, that’s my relationship building time, errand time, cooking time, bath time, homework time. The problem is, that I neglect all of it every day. I have an addiction to the computer and the internet and I choose that over everything else I mentioned …every day. This is one of the things that feeds my depression. It’s tough to change. Really tough. Really REALLY tough.

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Wed
Jul, 23
2008

Progress made on Live+Press

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I think I may have mentioned this before (don’t wanna reread old posts atm) but I’m going to start supporting Livepress (or a fork of it anyways). There hasn’t been an updated release made by the original owner of it since wordpress 2.0, sometime in 2006.

So at any rate, the one improvement I’ve made that excites me the most is that any email or cell phone post made to wp will automatically get crossposted to lj. I had spent days trying to get lp to do this back in January in conjunction with another plugin but that failed miserably and I soon gave up on it.

Well the copy I’ve been working on now does this flawlessly. I’ve learned far more about how the wordpress code than I wanted but I’m stoked I finally got this shit working how I’d wanted it back in January for our disney vacation. It would have been nice to snap a cell phone picture and send it directly to livejournal during that trip. Better late than never I guess.

I’ve made a few other changes as well:
http://code.google.com/p/livepress/

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Mon
May, 19
2008

Wordpress just keeps getting better

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So I finally spent the 4 hours necessary to properly update wordpress and all of its plugins AND rehack code as I always have to do to get things the way I want them. Oh I forgot, comments still aren’t working.. sigh..

But anyway, you can now “automatically update plugins” and “automatically update wordpress” itself. It doesn’t work on my blog of course. Someday I’ll look into it more. but now everything is updated.

And I really like the new admin interface. Much nicer, imo. …and now to test Live+Press…

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Wed
Apr, 19
2006

Talked to ob today; rescheduled c/s! woot!

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So I showed up at the obgyn office today out of the blue to talk to my ob (cuz i just knew calling would take forever) and let me tell you i was shocked at one of the nurse’s reaction .. you’d think i wasn’t a patient and just dropped in from the street or something “oh no! we don’t take walkins!! ” blah blah!

I was like… i KNOW you don’t take walkins lady i’m not here for an appointment, i just want to either talk to the dr. or reschedule my c/s etc..

long story short, they let me talk to the c/s scheduling lady and leave my info and I left. my ob called a while ago and i was able to talk to him about rescheduling the appointment. He said that this late he really doesn’t think I have good chances for a vbac.. whatever.. so i played the ‘420′ card and said my dh doesn’t like that date and can we reschedule anyways. (i said it in a nice way tho :) ) He said sure and I got a call again later from the scheduling lady with the new date. Monday 4/24 5:30pm. I’m sooo happy for that! So that gives me 5 extra days to go into labor on my own and try my vbac anyways, and if I don’t then she’ll be born by monday night no matter what.

Now I feel pretty good about this. Even if I end up with the c/s I don’t think I will regret it because I did all I could to make the vbac happen short of completely dropping my obgyn. LOL!. by monday i will be more than a week overdue. I’m SO excited that I’ll have my baby by monday. woohoo!!

now the only problem is fil and he probably not being able to watch J that day thanks to his insanity in taking this whole week off. ugh! if worse comes to worse, we’ll drive her over to my grandmother’s monday morning which is an hour away.

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