Hair fun

So a week ago (probably more) Ber gave me some foam curlers that she didn't use anymore because I had mentioned wanting to find some.
Last night was the first time I actually had time after a shower to put them in. It only took about 20 minutes (which is about 45 min less than it would be to curl my hair plus I don't have to put any hair spray in it this way) I separated my hair into about 4 layers, and put around 4 curlers in each layer working my way from the bottom up. I think the top layer is going to need a few more curlers to keep up with the rest since those are the biggest curlers out of the bunch. I have so much hair that I had to use three different sizes of curlers to get all my hair up.

But here is the results of it being in the curlers all night before I took them out (not the best pictures today, but we had a rough night) 

This is right after all the curlers had come out, before I tried combing through it with my fingers. 

After combing out with my fingers (I think next time I'm going to just leave it alone after taking it out, although using more curlers on the top layer may fix the problem anyways, I guess I'll just have to experiment with it) 

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I didn't add any hairspray to my hair and around 6 this is how much curl I had left

My hair has never been known to hold it's curl well, but this works just fine for me. It stayed well enough for me to style my hair for work and not have to put sticky gunk in my hair (I hate hairspray) 

I would say overall the foam curlers were a big success. 

Crazy weekend

Well Saturday was fairly uneventful, Ber and I hung out some and did a little shopping so I could get some non-maternity work pants. Plus drop by work and say 'hi' to everyone while we were there. I also got hair dye while I was out, in anticipation of the girl's day we had planned for Sunday.

With all the snow and ice girl's day was canceled but Husband and I went over anyways, partially because we still wanted to go over, but a big reason was the fact of we had no heat. Yes, our heater happened to break between Saturday late evening and Sunday early morning. I went ahead and called the emergency maintenance line around 6 am, and they sent someone out before 9 am. The first guy didn't know what was wrong, and said he would be in  contact with one of their other workers who would know more. I liked the second guy who came out (he's the one we normally see when we need any work done so I'm more familiar with him)
So he goes through and works on the heater for over 2 hours and finally takes the motor back up to the office to test it because he believes that it's no longer working, but he needs to double check. Turns out he was right, that it's broken so after calling the company the apartment complex has a contract with but they weren't open, so we wouldn't have heat until they could pick up the part on Monday.
Long story short on the heater (I know, a little late already) The kids and I stayed at D's last night but Husband needed to stay at home due to his allergies, and not feeling 100% comfortable with having people tromp around the house with no one here. They got the part and came over to fix the heater around 9 am, and before they got it all done they had all three maintenance workers here had three or four things go wrong (including blowing one of the fuses and having to go get a new one) All in all it took them until after 2:30 before we had heat again. I'm just glad that D let us stay with her and her husband while we were without heat.

But we had lots of fun! Ber came over on Saturday to help D dye my hair (there's a picture below, it takes almost three full bottles of dye to get all my hair covered.) Ber had to go home to her hubbie for dinner, while Husband stayed until almost nine before he went home where he piled under all the blankets we have (he said it got down as low as 55 degrees that he saw) before falling asleep.
Loki got to sleep in a big kid bed for the first time (she didn't like it very much, I think she likes the familiarity of her crib bars) but she did end up sleeping and then also took a nap the next afternoon. Odin didn't sleep very well last night, but while I had to stay up most of the night not only did I have company but we watched Netflix most of the night. Some Serenity, Doctor Who and then I got introduced to Warehouse 13 (which I'm very much enjoying so far, looking forward to seeing it more when I have time)

The boy's first sleepover


The next morning both boys were sleeping better although as cute as it is, Odin didn't sleep very long after I put him down, which was a little unfortunate I thought.
But when we got home Odin slept almost 4 hours before waking up. I quite enjoyed that time, I was able to make dinner, do laundry -even getting it folded and put away which is always a struggle for me- emptied the dishwasher filled it. Husband put away the leftovers from dinner and I loaded the dishwasher and started it after Loki went to bed.


We had a lot of fun hanging out at D's all day, but it was nice to be home.

Oh! And before I forget, here is the finished product of my hair. It turned out a little more brown than I had planned, but I really like it, and very important Husband really likes the color of my hair as well.
Also a peak at the awesome phone cover Ber got me for Christmas. For those who can't see it very well, it's a TARDIS, and if you don't know what that is, you have my pity. (it's a Doctor Who thing) 

Little Post About Nothing

Just some things on my mind lately:

• Kind of looking forward to going back to work
• Really wanting to read a lot lately
• I've been to the library twice this week, mostly because I picked up the third book in the series instead of the first book due to being mislead by the inside cover.
• I've been wanting to knit or crochet more lately, but not able to find the time (or lap space) to do so.
• I miss playing WoW, but don't want to have to pay for it, so I've been looking for a new game to play, I think I've found one in Runescape, but I'm not sure yet. (Mostly because i have only about 10 minutes a day I can actually get on the computer and play) 
• People still don't understand that the quickest way to anger me is to insult my husband or marriage
• I have a problem holding grudges, but in order to work on that flaw I would need to have forgiven the person, and to be honest they have hurt someone I love too much for me to be able to forgive them yet.
• I've been wanting to update my blog more often, because I enjoy writing and feel the want to do so more often, so my current goal is to post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We'll see how that goes. 
• My swing motor picked the worst possible time to stop swinging. The music still plays, it just no longer swings without man power. 
• I'm going to dye my hair on Sunday 
• Hopefully in the next few nights I have time to try out the foam curlers Ber gave me. 
• I smell spit up no matter where I am, even right after a shower. 

Book Review Time!

The Policy
Bentley Little

January 2003
Borrowed from Library







This is only the second B. Little book I've read, the first was awesome, I'd never read anything like it, but this one seemed to follow the same pattern as the first book I read, that caused me to quickly loose interest.

(Please keep in mind I started reading this before I gave birth, so some of the details are fuzzy, but i do believe I remember the important parts, if I'm wrong you can always leave a comment and let me know what you think)


In this book, we follow a man who is on his way to being an ex-husband, looking for a new start and a want to return to his roots. So he moves back to his home city and looks for a new place and finds one that seems perfect, so he immediately signs the lease and plans to move his belongings across the states. A moving truck is rented and his car is left at the new house.
When he returns two days later he finds a crack in his back window and promptly calls the insurance company. The call is odd, the representative asking odd questions and being rude and profane.
From there it slowly declines as the house he's renting is broken into and when the insurance company is called the same rude representative answers with his completely inappropriate questions. This service causes our main man to change insurance companies to one that seems perfect, they have coverage for everything.
The only problem is, if you don't take insurance that is offered to you, you'll soon wish you had.

It sounds like such a great story line, and I'm sure it would be, but I just could not get into it! It seemed to follow the same progression that the book previous I read did (which I loved!)
I'm hoping that waiting a few weeks and reading some different genres will allow me to enjoy the next book of his I try to read.

Since things are relatively slower right now (especially since I finally got Odin down for a nap, that child goes through phases where he can't bear to be separated from me and refuses to even hang out in his bouncer.) I'm going to try to keep updating my blog fairly often, mostly because I miss writing a lot. Also because I'm going to be working on the computer a fair amount looking into freezer meals and preparation and lots of crock pot cooking and going over things with Husband in order to make cooking easier on him when I go back to work, and also making it easier on me as well. 

I've already started back up on my lists again, with Husband checking to make sure I'm getting my chores done. Plus this time around Husband has his own little 'honey do' list of things to start transitioning his thinking to house husband. So far he's doing wonderfully, I couldn't be prouder of him. I think he's going to do wonderful being a stay-at-home-dad. 

We had our first whole family grocery trip yesterday, didn't go to bad, Loki was fairly well behaved even if she insists on 'helping' to push the cart. I carried Odin around in my K'Tan wrap that Mom gave me at Loki's baby shower. I loved it with Loki, and I'm loving it still with Odin, I would definitely recommend it, or any form or wrap to moms. It was a fairly short trip, just getting some essentials we can't live without, we'll see how the long shopping trip goes later this week. 

But anywho, I'm off (while Odin's still asleep and Loki's behaving) to plot plan for some freezer meals next week. 

I'd forgotten

Just how stressful it is having a new born, although I'm supposing you forget that on purpose, otherwise you probably would never have a second child (kind of like forgetting the pain of childbirth as soon as you hold your child for the first time)
That being said, it's been a little bit of an adjustment having both kids, and I'm sure it will continue to be so. Loki's doing pretty good most days, every once in a while she's horribly whiny and completely uncooperative, but for the most part she's adjusting okay to everything. We've been trying very hard to give her lots of one-on-one time with each of us. (Husband has been doing so wonderfully with that, Loki has really been enjoying her daddy time)
But Husband is working while I'm on leave from work, so that's making some of my evenings a little stressful, especially when Odin wants nothing other that to be held or nursed. It's a little hard to cook dinner for Loki and myself with a crying infant. But thankfully Loki's not horribly picky and enjoys sandwiches so if Odin is being particularly fussy I can just whip up a quick peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

In other news, Odin had his second doctor's appointment today, to see how he's doing and make sure he's gained back the his birth weight, and he has! He's actually 2 oz over his birth weight, so now he weighs as much as Loki did when she was born. Breastfeeding is going very well for us this time around, not latching problems like we had the first time.
This week will begin adventures in pumping and storing breast milk in preparation for me going back to work in just over a month. That will really be an adventure.

It actually happened!

For those of you who don't know yet, I did successfully give birth to a beautiful baby boy, my little Odin entered the world on February 7, 2014 at 12:18 pm 7 lbs 7 oz and 19.75 in long.

Birth Story Below:

May contain gory details you don't want to know

You have been warned. 

It was a surprising process to me. I was induced this time, went into the hospital the night before and was given a drug to soften my cervix which is also known to start contractions and in a lucky few actually get everything rolling before they give you the pitocin. Well it did end up giving me contractions, all night long. But luckily I was able to sleep through most of it. Sleep might have been too strong of a word though, but at least I was able to attempt to get some rest. 

About 9 they started the pitocin drip. Everything was going rather smoothly, I wasn't dilating very quickly, but the contractions were progressing well and around 11 were at the 1-3 minute apart mark. Around that time I finally made it to a 4, which meant I would be able to get the epidural (I was so happy about that, I really didn't want to go through everything naturally again, I'd done it once, that was enough in my mind) 

I'm guessing around 11:15 or 11:30 is when i started feeling nauseous, and then started throwing up. (yeah, did not like that happening again this time around. I could have done without that a second time, but they always say throwing up gives you the best contractions) They called down to let them know I wanted the shot and I got up because the last few contractions had made me feel like I'd wet myself (actually turned out to be my water breaking, but we didn't put that together until later) I waddled to the bathroom with Husband helping with that darn IV pole

Contractions got much worse rather quickly at that point, and by the time I sat back down I was having trouble staying still during the pain. The nurse was so nice, she kept telling me that if I just stay still they'll be right in, the anesthesia guy is right outside the door waiting on me. (I realize this was a lie now, but good lord did I need them to lie to me, it hurt) 

I'm sitting with my feet dangling on the edge of the bed in position to get a needle stuck in my back trying desperately to stay still. The nurse decides to check me since I'm in so much pain. I'm now at an 8 (I went from a 4 to an 8 in less than half an hour, not exactly in the plan) It is in that moment, leaning back against Husband while sitting on the side of the bed my body decides it's now time to push. 

The nurse looks a little startled when I tell her this, and as my body contracts I cry "Not again! I wanted to get the epidural this time!" The nurse is dialing her phone trying to get a doctor into the room, and I'm still sitting leaning back on Husband, and being told to lay down. Husband swears he heard her say "I don't want to have to catch this baby" 

The doctor makes it in and Husband lays me down on the bed. My body is on auto pilot for the birth, and I couldn't stop pushing if my life depended on it. From the point of me laying on my back it took less than 5 minutes before Odin was in the Doctor's arms crying. 

Husband's comment was "your body really knows how to give birth" I just grumbled about how I didn't get an epidural. 

To be completely honest, when giving birth it feels like your neither regions are slowly being set on fire as the head and shoulders comes out. I still remember that pain from giving birth to Loki, I felt that for less than a minute with Odin, he just came into the world too abruptly to cause me much pain. I was still in shock about two hours later that I had actually already given birth and actually was holding my son in my arms.