Archive for September 3rd, 2008

wordy wednesday

Sep-3-2008 By mylifeasannie

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My first thought this morning… headache!  Ouch.  The weather is weird today, that may be the culprit… but seriously.  Ouch.  It’s humpday.  Again!  These weeks are zooming by. I know I say it every week, but time is in fast forward for me.  I just looked at the weather radar, at Matt’s prompting (he’s very into looking at the radar and/or 7day forecast)… and see that Gustav may be knocking on our door today.  The high is supposed to be 70 degrees, which is about 20 shy of what it has been and at 7:00 a.m. it still looks dark outside.

Bailey stayed home to nurse his poison ivy yesterday.  I think it’s much better, but he was still pretty miserable.  I snuck in a hair appointment which was greatly needed.  He’s been sporting some pretty long locks for some time now and I did a quick trim the other day but he wouldn’t let me “finish.”  He was afraid I was going to cut it too short.  So he looked kinda wonky.  I think he looks better and it is shorter than it’s been in at least a year.  So, no more comments about him looking like a girl… for now anyway.  He’s such a sweet guy.

The Labor Day weekend was uneventful.  We did have the cook out at Mom & Dad’s house Monday evening.  Matt stayed home and kept warm compresses on his neck.  He is scheduled to see the surgeon on September 9th.  I’m hoping & praying it dissapears before that date so we don’t have to go.  We have to go before the board or presbyters or something Saturday for final approval of his ministerial certification.  I think it’s kind of a big deal.  Hmmm…

Izzy had a fun day at school yesterday.  I’m telling you those people are great!  Melanie (v.t. and her teacher) brought several different dress up items for izzy to choose from.  Izzy was wearing a purple outfit so of course she chose the big clip on rhinestone aka plastic heart earrings.  She wore them until I picked her up and when the were taken off she didn’t take her eyes off of them as the other teachers took turns trying them on.

What’s going on in your world this Wednesday?

i can hear pin drop!

Sep-3-2008 By mylifeasannie

Sure is quiet in blog land.  Freakishly quiet.   Just making sure everyone is okay!  Roll call!

labor meme

Sep-3-2008 By mylifeasannie

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How long were your labors?

Amanda… 22 hours

Bailey… 8.5 hours

Emelia… 3 hours

Isabelle… 4 hours

How did you know you were in labor?

Amanda… Lots of pain.  As in ouch!

Bailey… induced.  more pain.

Emelia… induced.

Isabelle… induced.

Where did you deliver?

Amanda & Bailey at Presbyterian Hospital… Emelia & Izzy at Renaissance Center.

Drugs?

Amanda… Epidural, but way too late.  It took effect right after she was out.

Bailey… no drugs.  induced = lots of pain.

Emelia… epidural.  Almost no pain.

Isabelle… epidural.  Almost no pain!

C-section?

Nope!  Izzy had the cord wrapped around her neck. Twice.  But she was delivered and the cord was cut quickly.

Who delivered?

 A doctor on call delivered Amanda.  It was her second delivery.  She freaked out at the end when the little monitor came off her head… so she grabbed for scissors and cut away.  Then I tore.  It was bad.

Dr. Brown delivered Bailey.  It was a freak ice storm and there were no anesthesiologists  available.  He offered to sit in with the patient using the only one in the hospital long enough for an epidural to be administered but no go.  So I got to deliver naturally.  After being induced.  It was bad.

Dr. Broady Symes delivered both Emelia and Isabelle.  She did a great job, although Emelia came so fast the nurse almost delivered her.  She basically kept her from being delivered.

 

I’ve seen this all over the blogosphere this week… thought I’d play too!

zip codes

Sep-3-2008 By mylifeasannie

When I was looking for an urgent care facility the other day I was able to enter our zip code into the search and it listed all the centers in our area.   It made it easy to see what was close by and I was able to call to find the one that would take our health insurance.

There is a free service you can put on your web site that will search to find dealers, stores, agents or locations nearest you using the zip code.  It can handle all the programming codes hassles, and maintenance to your system.  The  results are shown as a pop up web page that has it’s own logo.  You can get paid subscription if you have over a hundred stores.  It only takes a few minutes to get theStore Locator service up and ready to go.  Some interesting facts…

a) The ZIPCodeWorld Store Locator Live is supporting 1089 companies and total of 30692 unique stores and growing.
b) The ZIPCodeWorld Store Locator Live is supporting 33 countries worldwide including United States and Canada.
c) The ZIPCodeWorld Store Locator Live is free for business with less than 100 stores. The only thing we would like in return is to display a banner linking back to our Web site.
d) The ZIPCodeWorld Store Locator Live is also available in .NET and PHP. Programmers can install it in their local servers.
e) The company also provides comprehensive ZIP code and postal codes resources for United States, Canada and Mexico.