Desmond is 23 pounds, 29 inches.

He'll be taller than me soon.

He walks, runs, but still isn't jumping. He tries though, which is so funny, he crouches and bounces up but his feet stay on the floor. He'll get it eventually.

He's a little jokester. He will bring me a book and I'll ask him if he wants me to read it, he nods yes, holds the book out for me, then when I go to grab the book, he pulls it back and laughs!

He's so funny.

I've gotten better at not laughing at him when he does funny things that I don't want him to do, like throw food, dump water out of the bathtub, etc. A few weeks ago, he threw a huge piece of broccoli at Matt's head while Matt was talking. I think it was one of those 'you had to be there' moments, because I can't explain how funny it was. I had to hide my face to not show Des I was laughing.

Desmond loves the Auto Tune the News songs and videos. His favorite is this one:



He loves to sing HEY along with it. He throws his hands in the air too. It's too cute.

I think the local pool is having a party and playing stupid loud music like cotton eye joe. The pool is less than a mile away but goddammit, I don't want to hear this shit. I'm not going to sleep now (its 10:20) but this crap better be over by the time I do. I can hear the goddamn DJ in between songs. I assumed it would be over by 10pm but I guess not.

If it wakes Des up, I guess I'm going to be the person that calls the cops. I'm surprised the neighbors next door haven't already. They love calling the cops for everything. They called the cops when a kid rode a motorbike too loud near their house....They called the cops when they saw Matt's 16 year old sister smoking a cigarette. I despise cigarettes but I don't give a shit what other people do when they are not near me.

Anyway.....we are going to the beach tomorrow. Island Beach State Park. Hell yes! We didn't go to the beach at all last summer and need to go as often as possible now. We even bought a cooler so we can bring food.

We've been watching Auto Tune the News over and over again. Desmond loves them, which is much better than the Hippo and Dog singing In The Jungle, which is what he wanted to watch over and over again before.



There's six of them. I think #5 is my favorite.

I've also been busy doing velociraptor research. Velociraptors are turkey-sized and have feathers, not as awesome as the raptors in Jurassic Park, which are actually the dinosaur Deinoychus. This upset me greatly, I thought Crichton and the JP movies flat out lied to make velociraptors more awesome. It was like finding out that Santa isn't real. This info is from my friend Carl: Apparently, at the time Crichton was writing the novel, Jurassic Park, scientists had just discovered Deinonychus, and were considering including it in the Velociraptor family. However, after publication, and during the filming of the movie, the scientific community decided against it.

So they did not intentionally romanticize velociraptors, but it still upsets me. I'm not as angry as before.

I need to get a life hahah

I feel like absolute crap. My throat hurt last night but I didn't drink water because I had been up the night before that peeing.

So today I woke up with a sore throat, congested chest, coughing and sneezing that hurt so much, and that stupid head-thickness feeling where you just can't think straight at all.

Desmond and I were up at 6am and fell back to sleep at 8am (I have no clue what is going on with his sleep schedule). Des woke up at 9 and I woke Matt up so I could sleep. I felt bad since Matt has been sick the past couple of days (guess where I got this from?) but he's been feeling better so he got up. Matt's dad came down so they all went out to the diner, letting me sleep til 11am! YAY!

Matt brought me back this portebella wrap with fries which I gobbled down and then had him make me another sandwich, thinking this sickness is going away quickly!

After I ate half the sandwich I started feeling really mucousy again......no more wheat when I'm sick.

I played a lot with Desmond, but so did other family members so I could relax a bit. Matt's mom was going to watch Des for an hour or two so I could completely veg out and drink fluids/eat fruit, but Des started freaking out. He feels warm, is sneezy, acting like his throat hurts and is irritable.....crap crap crap

He did nurse to sleep pretty quickly but it took me a while to get him unlatched so I could get up while he stayed asleep.

So I started drinking water, emergen-C, and ate a carton of blueberries at 9:30 pm.....I have a pot of chammomile tea ready to drink.

I'm going to be up all night peeing........this sucks so much

Either my allergies or sinuses are bothering me. Either way, its crap.

I ate three ears of corn tonight. They probably would not have lasted another day so I had to take care of them.

We bought Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People. This game pisses me off so much. I keep playing it because I can't figure the fucking thing out. Arrrgggh

I can't tell if Kale is the smartest or dumbest cat I have. He can open doors, sneak downstairs, jump a couple gates, without anyone seeing him. Once I do see him, he tries to flatten himself into the floor to hide. WTF? He doesn't try to run, just squishes down to the floor as if I can't see him. Kale is a 13 pounder, full of muscle. Flattening oneself just does not work for you Kale!

I keep putting him in the bathroom every time I catch him sneaking downstairs. Today, he's gotten out of the bathroom twice! He must be pulling the bathroom door towards himself to open it. I don't get it.

He is not escaping outside, just outside of our apartment into my MIL's house. He can open the door to our apartment, even though it has a latch and magnets! WTF! Once the door is open, most of the cats sneak downstairs. They keep peeing in the front hallway, ruining shoes and rugs. This is what pisses me off the most. THESE ARE NOT MY THINGS, CATS! I feel like such an asshole when my cats keep ruining other people's stuff because we can't seem to keep them in the fucking apartment!

and if Kale gets to Milly's food, which is dry Science Diet, he vomits. A couple of weeks ago, he vomited all over some books and the couch. It was not fun to clean up.

This entry was not supposed to a rant about cats. I opened this up because I'm trying to stay awake until Matt gets home. I locked Kale in the bathroom. As I'm typing I see Kale lounging next to me. WTF?

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Today Des and I came back from the playground and I saw a bird thrashing in the garden.

For the bean stalks, Matt has this mesh fence in the garden. It is hard to see unless you are right in front of it. I assume that this poor woodpecker did not see the fence and got stuck in it.

I called Dan and while I held the bird, Dan cut the fence off him. Poor bird was so scared.

We tried to let him go but he couldn't fly, so we brought him to the Raptor Trust.

I hope they can save him.

I'd like to go and visit the Raptor Trust, it seemed like a really great place.

http://theraptortrust.org/

Tonight I was giving Desmond a bath. I had cleaned him and was letting him play.

Then I realized he was pooping. I take him out of the tub. I am still not sure if this was a good idea or not.

I frantically start taking his toys out of the tub because they are in poop water!

By this point, I see that Desmond has pooped some more. Now there's poop on the floor.

For his next trick, Desmond steps in his poop and walks down the hallway to the bedroom with me running after him. He climbs onto the bed. I had just changed the sheets!

I scoop Desmond up, clean him up, put him in the living room and turn on They Might Be Giants "Here Come the 1,2,3s" and pray to god that Desmond stays there and watches it while I clean up everything.

He does!

Everything's clean!
Desmond is sleeping.

I am on the internet.

Calm.

Desmond, month by month.

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Matt, Des, and I went to the Rutherford Pancake House yesterday since a friend told they have a vegan menu, which you can see at their website: http://www.rutherfordpancakehouse.com/

We walked in and we sat down and the waitress gave us the vegan menu, which is separate from their regular menu. I asked the waitress how she knew we wanted the vegan menu, and she said "Haven't you guys been here before?" I said no but we wanted the vegan menu so thank you!

It was really good. My husband got the Tofu Scramble, Chili Con Fu and I got pancakes with strawberries. We got a side of vegan sausage as well. mmm it was so good. I would recommend the Tofu Scramble over the pancakes. The pancakes were good but the scramble was so good!

The owners told us that they are not vegan but thought the vegan menu would be a great idea and the vegan menu has really taken off. They are going to put the vegan menu in with the regular menu. We went because of the vegan menu.

We then walked down the street to the Sweet Avenue Bake Shop (http://sweetavenuebakeshop.com/index.html) and got two awesome cupcakes. The owners of the Pancake House are friends with the Sweet Avenue Bake Shop!

It was an awesome day of delicious.

My dad never let me dye my hair while I was under his roof.

Now I am dying my hair every few months or so. I'm such a rebel.

Matt bleached my hair today. Then we will dye my hair red. But my hair is too thick and we need more bleach. So tomorrow we will bleach it again, ahhh, and then dye it saturday maybe. We will have to order more hair dye from Manic Panic since one serving probably isn't enough for my hair.

This was the first time I ever bleached my hair. It itched soooo much, itching drives me crazy!

LOST was pretty good last night but it was an episode that I did not go 'that was awesome!' afterwards.

Matt and I were talking about moving some stuff around in the living room. I usually let Matt do that stuff, but tonight I just went nuts cleaning wise! I put a bunch of kitchen stuff away, down-sized Desmond's toys, took out the broken crate, and moved the big sound system! I moved everything around, swept. I am proud of myself. I don't usually have the motivation to do cleaning at night.

I did take a long nap today so I wonder if that is why I have this energy tonight. The energy is gone now and I am relaxing. It feels good.

I'm starting to learn the Fertility Awareness Method, in order to not get pregnant. I want to not be pregnant at Bill and Sandy's wedding in November. Not just so I can drink, although that is one reason. The main reason is so I don't fall asleep at 8 pm, which is what I did all the time when I was pregnant. I was exhausted when I was pregnant and never ever went out because I was so tired. I want to enjoy their wedding and have a good time (and drink!)

Desmond has been so fussy today and barely napped. Driving me crazy.

I have the final countdown stuck in my head due to mama's icon

the apartment is a mess. I hope to clean tomorrow, I have no desire to do anything productive tonight.

We are going to see the Wolverine movie tomorrow and then get the rest of our crap out of the house that we moved out of in Dec. Seems about time to finally take care of that.

WHY?

Desmond was nursing constantly last night. I am convinced he's got more teeth coming in. He's been fussy and drooly. I had little bouts of sleep, resulting in many very short random dreams.

I woke up at 6:30 while he nursed and slept and if I am awake for more than 20 min when the sun is out, my body decides its time to get up. I was certain Desmond would wake up if I got up. But he's still sleeping, its 7:37.

I feel like ass. I'm tired but too awake to go back to sleep, wtf?

Desmond has also been standing for about 10 seconds at a time without holding on to anything! He has taken steps as well. He wants to practice all the time!

I want a new Ellie icon.

Desmond is 13.5 months old!

He says a bunch of words: cat, nana (banana), papu, woof woof, moo, roar, that, mama, da, probably more....

He dances like nobody's watching.

He cruises like a maniac but no walking, not yet. He's trying!

He still butt-scoots but crawls on his knees sometimes. He's getting very fluid on going from different positions.

He is very interested in books now! He is constantly handing them to us to read to him. It's very cute.

He poops on the potty 95% of the time.

He loves being around other kids!

He still takes two naps a day.

He was getting restless in the middle of the night and we started changing his diaper, which was soaked, then he goes back into a deep sleep. He still nurses a few times a night. There were a couple of nights that he slept 4 hours straight without needing to be changed or nursed. Then a tooth came in.

He has 8 teeth!

I think more are coming in.

If any of you guys have some extra cash, or items, please think about helping out one of these groups. These groups have helped out our family tremendously! Even if you only have $5 to give, every bit helps!

http://apurrfectworld.org
http://tabbysplace.org
http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/sararescue.html

and this Sat I am bringing three of our FIV+ cats to Seer Farms. http://seerfarms.org

They have a wishlist and if anyone has items to donate, please let me know! I will try to pick it up from you but if you can drop it off in New Providence, that would be great too!

In terms of a wish list,
- we are actually getting in more dogs than we have had to date, and we have less depth of resources for dogs, so we are looking for dog food and water bowls, dog bones - rawhide and other "treat" type bones, and leashes.

- We also still need animal beds - for dogs and cats. Litter is always welcome - preferably clumping.

- And bed pads - the disposable incontinence pads for people. We use them for some of the struggling continent dogs, and in the kitten cages.

- Garbage bags, papertowels, and lysol or chlorox disinfecting wipes also endlessly in need.

- Pillows, and carpet remnants.


Thanks everyone!!

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My stomach hurts real bad! I made a vegan Quick Cheeseburger Pie. I kind of want to stay up late and eat it but I think my stomach will kill me. I have an umibillical hernia and am waiting for my belly band to come in the mail. I have been doing crunches too to try to keep all my insides together....I don't know what is going on now in there. It feels like horrible cramps. Maybe I am getting my period? It's been almost 2 years.......I can't say I miss it. FTR, my stomach has been bothering me long before the Pie. but maybe its just gas. I don't know. I should sleep.

being sick sucks. When I was a kid, it was almost a godsend. No school!

Now it just plain sucks. I have stuff to do!

Matt stayed home yesterday to help take care of Des while I vegged out, drank tea, and relaxed. It worked, I am feeling mostly better but I still felt bad relaxing because I should have been putting away laundry, scrubbing the bathroom walls, etc. Our apartment isnt disgusting, but its messy. There is always something to do. But I was sick and I needed to rest! I am too hard on myself.

Thursday I started my first music radio show, The Mess (with Jammin Jess). I will be live on the air Thursday mornings 9am-noon. You can listen live at http://wpradio887.org

I messed up the first time I did the weather. I had the mic on and the volume up but I did not have the program bu on! So mic was on and turned up but my voice was not going to the program. good job! i'm such a noob.

I got yelled at for not bringing Desmond with me. I'll bring him with me next week so people can visit with him.

goddamnit, I think Arwyn just scratched Desmond! He was standing up holding onto the couch and started crying. I picked him up and saw a little cat body under the couch cover. must clip all the cats nails.

so listen at http://wpradio887.org and call up with your requests at 973-720-2738 or send an instant message to wp887fm

Thursday night we went out to Sushi Palace for Laura's birthday. MMMM besides eating way too much white rice, it was really good! My favorite was the mango and avocado rolls. The fried sweet potato rolls were really good but so heavy. I couldn't eat very many of those.

Friday morning we went to the LLL meeting. Des loves playing with other kids/babies so he had a ton of fun. Plus there was a dog there so he was happy! He loves dogs so much. (and cats when they dont run away from him)

Then we had to go to the house in Oak Ridge to take care of the cats and to be there for the town to inspect the fire alarms. We had the same test a week and a half ago and failed. There were hard-wired fire alarms that were broken so Elsa had put in battery-powered alarms but that is considered downgrading the system! so Val got the hard-wired ones replaced with new hard-wired alarms and we passed!

Another sanctuary contacted me and they are going to take the three friendly FIV+ kitties and try to find them homes!! http://www.seerfarms.org/

Their mission is really awesome. They are helping the animals of families in need. So if you are getting foreclosed on and can't take care of your animals, they will hold them temporarily until you get back on your feet! Obviously, some animals will be for adoption like in my case. I am excited!

So after taking care of the cats, Desmond and I went to Whole Foods and ate lunch with Matt. Their vegan pizza that day was multigrain bread with tons of veggies. mmm

Then we went to see an awesome Chiropracter, Dr. Harsha Patel. Our insurance doesn't cover her but she gave us a very low price and I feel good! We are going to go once a month. She adjusted Desmond for free too. Any locals reading this, she is in Montclair. http://patelfamilychiro.com/

This entry is full of LINKS

I am boycotting clothes (specifically pants!) that do not have pockets. I am sick of this shit.

It has been an interesting couple of days. Thursday morning I was going to the bathroom while Desmond was scooting around. I forgot that the day before it had been his mission to get to the cat food. The cat food is kept under the kitchen table, in the corner somewhat blocked by table legs. We also put the chairs around for blockage.

Desmond has figured out how to move the chairs.

I am going to the bathroom and I hear "MMMMMMMM" coming from the kitchen. I run and see Desmond with cat food around his face, his hands, all over the floor. This is wet cat food. Innova Evo Turkey and Chicken flavor to be exact.

My little vegan baby has eaten cat food.

At least it was high quality stuff.