29 posts tagged “friends”

Tonight, I am having a night out with some of my librarian friends -- Nice and I decided to call our group the "League of Lame Librarians"...  I know it's lame -- hell, that's in the name!  But that's the point...  We are lame, in the opinions of some people, but we have fun with each other and that is all that matters...  We know that we are definitely going out to eat, but we are not even sure where...  Doesn't matter...  I had an awesome dinner out with Clark last night, and I will even be watching a movie and spending the night at Nice's house tonight...  This is definitely a much-needed, much-welcomed break from "reality"...  Later days...

Be honest! Copy from here, and then answer the questions in a comment and re-post the EMPTY questions in your own journal.

1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?

2) What was your dream growing up?

3) What talent do you wish you had?

4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?

5) Favorite vegetable?

6) What was the last book you read?

7) What zodiac sign are you?

8) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.

9) Worst Habit?

10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?

11) What is your favorite sport?

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.

16) Do you have any pets?

17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?

18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm...careful!)

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?

22) What color eyes do you have?

23) Ever been arrested?

24) Bottle or can soda?

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?

27) What's your favorite place to hang at?

28) Do you believe in ghosts?

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?

30) Do you swear a lot?

31) Biggest pet peeve?

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?

34) If you could live anywhere in the world where would you chose?

35) Do you believe in God?

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?

Meme time...
YOU'RE ON MY FRIENDS LIST, and I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine ... You're on my list, so I want to know you better!

Later days...

I feel like I have not hung out with Keltia and Gaia in sooooo long...  I guess it has been a long time, but I am not even sure of the last time I saw them (is that because I am too old or because it has just been too long?!?)...  This morning, I called them both to invite them over to hang out...  Keltia was sleeping still -- her hubby was being very nice and taking care of the kiddos so she could -- but I am guessing that his desire to come over will not be shot down when he asks her for her opinion...  Gaia is happy to be coming over in a little while, and I am thrilled that I will get to see my friends while Boogie gets a chance to play with his...  Boogie, Woogie, Big Sis and Little Bro are so cute together...  I will have to remember to take a few pictures...  Later days...

A friend from the library had a baby, and I was somewhat of a "pregnancy mentor" for her...  Yesterday, I went over to her house because she was having trouble breastfeeding...  I am not a professional, by any means, by I did breastfeed my own child and experienced some of the same issues she is having...  I was thrilled when I was actually able to help her...  Apparently, the baby was latching on wrong (like Boogie had) on the side where his mama had to go against her "right-handedness" (like me)...  It is definitely much easier to get a baby latched on with the hand you are used to using, but it's not impossible the other way...  You just have to know a couple of tricks and be willing to un-latch and re-latch the baby as many times as it takes to get it right...  Luckily for this mama, it only took one re-latch...  You should have seen the look in her eyes when I got him to latch on correctly!  She was like, "Wow!  That doesn't hurt!"  Thank goodness...  It was all I could think of as a problem (from what I saw when she tried to do it first) and I know she really wants to succeed at breastfeeding, so I am glad that she now feels confident that she can do it...  What shocks me more than anything is the fact that she was unable to get a lactation consultant or a La Leche League "leader" to come to her house... WTF?!?  People who are dedicated to breastfeeding should be considerate enough to make a home visit for a mama who is recovering from a c-section...  It gave me a good excuse to go and meet the baby (and check in on mama and dada), though, so I guess everything must happen for a reason...  Monday, after work, I will be stopping by to drop off a Boppy pillow (I could not believe she doesn't have one!) and my nursing bra -- so she can see the kind of bra that actually worked for me (after I spent months with other nursing bras that sucked)...  Man, I hope she will really take me up on the offer to call me anytime she needs help...  I only knew to call her this time because her hubby posted about it on their baby's livejournal...  :::sigh::  ...  Later days...

Believe it or not, Boogie did pretty well two days in a row without a nap...  Granted, he went to bed a little too early and got up a little too early this morning...  But, he was extremely well-behaved for being around so many people and having less sleep than he should...  Yesterday was the birthday party for Big Sis and Little Bro (Keltia's kids)...  Today, we spent time hanging out with Hawaiian Mama and her X-men...  I cannot believe how big Wolverine is -- or how much Professor X looks like his mama...  Clark really enjoyed hanging out with Hawaiian Daddy too, and I know he too would love it if these guys all moved back to the "mainland" sometime soon...  Hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year's Eve tomorrow...  Later days...

So, Boogie and I are heading over to Goddess' place so he can play with SkyWalker and Princess (not Boogie's cousin -- SkyWalker's little sister)...  Boogie can't wait to go...  He keeps saying that he wants to go now, but Goddess and I already agreed on Boogie and me arriving "11ish"...  Maybe I will call Goddess in a little bit...  I don't know how much longer I can hold Boogie at bay without a meltdown...  Bah!  Later days...

I would just like to take a moment to thank all of my friends and family who have been so awesome lately -- you know who you are!  I am so utterly thankful for the support you have shown me...  Shoulders to lean on (quite literally at times); hugs when I need them the most; and, of course, lots of "expert" advice (yes, Nice, I know you diagnosed me like 2 years ago!)...  I know I am still pretty screwed up for the time being, but I also know that I have so many people to go to when I need a little extra support, and that honestly makes a difference...  So, yeah...  Thanks!  Later days...

I love me some hand-me-downs...  Nice gave us a garbage bag full of  clothes for Boogie, and then Clark's coworker went and gave us like 4 garbage bags full of clothes two days later...  Sure, we didn't end up wanting every single thing, and some of it is actually too big for now, but that's even better because we now have some more stuff we won't need to buy later...  Awesome!  We went through everything last night, and I think we are set for the next size of clothes again...  I was nervous that we would actually have to go out and buy a whole wardrobe worth of clothing (which we have yet to do, thanks to the generosity of our friends with older children), but it seems we have gotten another reprieve...  Yay!  Right now, though, I need to stop typing because I smell that the chocolate chip pancakes are almost done...  Yummy!  Clark is awesome...  Later days...

I have the day off on Friday of this week and Monday of next week, and I don't have anything to do or anyone to hang out with...  I feel kind of pathetic, actually, since Clark took today off to hang out and game with some of his D&D buddies...  His day = hanging out all day, meeting me and the boy at the library, taking the boy home, putting him to bed, and then watching TV...  My day = bringing boy to daycare, going to conference, picking up boy, getting fast food dinner, eating fast/getting boy set up to eat, setting up library program while keeping an eye on the eating boy, meeting Clark and "passing the torch" (although Boogie kept proclaiming that he wanted Mama instead of Daddy), running said library program, coming home, and now blogging...  I feel like part of my "despair" over my non-life probably just stems from my day today vs. Clark's, but I know that I often feel like I have a lot less fun (sans children) than Clark...  I love my mommy friends and all, but sometimes I wish I had a ton of footloose and fancy free friends who could just drop everything and chill with me (like Clark has) instead of everything being so complicated (and nearly impossible) when we want to hang out...  Bah...  I know...  Stop whining already, Bee...  I'm done...  Later days...

There is a girl (well, technically a "woman" who is a few years older than me) who is pregnant, and we managed to hit it off while we were both trying...  I am obviously not pregnant right now, nor am I even trying at this point (the whole fertility treatment risks vs. goal thing just isn't jiving at the moment), but I am completely digging this whole mentoring thing...  It's like I'm her pregnancy "big sister," and I think it's pretty cool...  I get to talk about all kinds of baby stuff and feel like the "pro"...  Teeheehee...  Plus, I honestly like her and wish her well with the whole pregnancy/delivery/motherhood/breastfeeding thing...  I just found out a couple of our friends from college are gonna have a baby, so maybe I can even be her mentor too!  Teeheehee...  Later days...