JuJuBee

DeLurking Day

I, JuJuBee, do hereby declare today, this third day of August in the year of two-thousand and five, DeLurking Day! It would seem that no one has followed me over when making the move from Blogger to Typepad. Prove me wrong! Even if you read daily and never comment, just say "hello" for me. The rest of you, and I know who you are...DeLurk!

Not Impressed

We are related (by marriage) to a pro-athlete. Recently when we made the trip to Canada for a high school graduation party I was under the impression that he would be there...I had never met him before and had only seen pictures of him at the family-in-law's homes and seen him play on TV. I was kinda excited to meet this guy that I had heard so much about but when we got there, we found out that he would be attending a wedding that day with his wife. BooHoo, no meeting of the famous person, BUT! His kids were there! Not anything spectacular for me, but for LittleJuJu? The most awesomest thing ever. He would finally have someone his own size to play on the beach with! He had such a great day playing in the sand and the water with the kids. He had no time to talk to me or anyone else towering over the 4 foot high mark.

It struck me later in the week that he had no idea what little Billy's* dad did for a living. I thought he might be interested to know that Billy's dad was on TV and got paid to play hockey (this year at least!) all over the country. When I brought it up and excitedly told him about Billy's dad and his big fancy job, all LittleJuJu had to say was:

"Yeah so. That's not so special. It'd be special if he were say....a Rescue Hero."

Well, he got me there. He might be a big time athlete, but he couldn't hold a candle to Billy Blazes.

Some Good Thrown in With the Bad

I haven't updated because things have been shitty. I don't want to sit and write about shitty things, mostly because there are things here that I must censor, to be fair to everyone. Therefore, what would I say?  If things are feeling shitty for me, I have a hard time finding fun, light, fluff to write in this space. So I write nothing.

As you can obviously see, I am writing something now, which would lead you to the conclusion that the shitty has passed. This is somewhat true, as each day tends to be a struggle from one moment to the next but I do have some good news...

My daughter has been sleeping through the night. She is 3 months old and by god I am giving her the rice cereal in her bedtime bottle and screw all who think that is wrong (so wrong!) because I do not care. I am giving it to her and she is sleeping all night (9 hours last night!) and she wakes up happy and mommy wakes up relatively happy, so it's a win/win for us all. Sleep is helping me immensely to try and combat the shittiness. I realize that the shitty will pass, and thank you all for your own personal shitty stories to show me that I am not alone and that this is the hardest job in the world, no matter what some people might think.

My mom is also going to take LittleJuJu for another week before school starts and if that ain't the sweetest damned thing, I don't know what is.

Also? I think it is wrong that SpellCheck recognizes the word "Ain't" and even puts an apostrophe in for good measure.