been a really really long time

but i have some new things going on in my life.. been working at a hardware store now..
lol
big change from hairdressing.. but its cool.. full benefits, good wage, and great co-workers and employers.. :)
karma is getting sooo big now..
:)
she is still my little monster though. :)
luc has now been transfered to a group home in kelowna for brain injury patients..
he seems to be doing well there so far. :)
other than that.. just been working and taking care of the monkey...

ok.. some news...

ive got a job now.. at safeway.. part time.. need more hours.. gonna look for another job as well..
Luc is being transfered to the vernon hospital to wait it out to go to the rehab hospital in ponoka...
gonna be here within a week i guess.
Karma is doing well.. has 5 teeth and one more coming already.. getting big too :)
not much else to report..
Oh.. for anyone who had my former email addy..... I obviously dont have the shaw.ca account anymore..will get in touch with people once i get a new home base email...
until then, sorry if you have been sending emails to me... i havent received them since the end of april.. lol
take care everyone.. hope you are all doing well.. sorry i havent been around... :P

Some People Are SOOOOO Ignorant.

Some people can't live like decent, normal human beings.
They can't just stand by a friend, they can't admit when they are wrong about something.
They think that no matter what, they are in the right.
They seem to beleive their own lies.
Those people need to grow the f#*% up and realize that sometimes, they aren't right! Sometimes, they need to apologize!
Sometimes, they should just leave well enough alone and cherish the few good friends that they actually have and stop lying, cheating, manipulating, or overall stop hurting them.
Enough said..
If you are the "people" of whom I am speaking, you know who you are, then grow up, get over it, and admit occassionally that you are in the wrong, admit your lies for a change!

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i find this next one highly off base.. lol

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and this was kind funny :)

You scored as no, your butt does not itch. sweet........ass no, your butt does not itch 42% your butt might itch a little 25% yes, your butt itches 17% does your butt itch? created with QuizFarm.com

just for fun :)

You scored as Sirius Black. You are the most loyal friend anyone could ask for because you'd go to any length to ensure their safety and happiness. You're free-spirited and very difficult to confine to a caged life. You love being in the company of those you love and love to show them how much they mean to you. You loathe those who only live for self-gain and show disloyalty. You're a great person but sometimes its needed of you to think more rationally than being quick to jump into things. Sirius Black 75% Luna Lovegood 69% Hermione Granger 69% Ron Weasley 53% Oliver Wood 53% Neville Longbottom 53% Albus Dumbledore 53% Bellatrix Lestrange 50% Harry Potter 50% Severus Snape 50% Remus Lupin 41% Percy Weasley 41% Lord Voldemort 34% Draco Malfoy 19% Harry Potter Character Combatibility Test created with QuizFarm.com

Yay!

Hubby seems to be getting some memory ability back..
I told him i had bought Karma a new stroller cause we didnt have one for her, and he wanted to know how much i had spent on it.
I told him, and now its almost 3 weeks later and he still remembers how much i spent on it. I only had to tell him the once. :)

Good stuff :).

He is also getting better at conversation. He asks about the baby more, asks how im doing without me asking him how he is first.

I told him that Karma was making it hard for me to pack (she wont leave me alone for 3 mins cause she is sick, teething, and generally cranky lol), and he sighed and asked," do you want me to come home and pack? then you can take care of our monster." lol
Sweet of him to think like that.. I of course said that yes i wanted him home. but not before he was capable... he understood..
But he did say that he felt bad cause i had to pack, move, and take care of the baby by myself.
I told him not to worry cause the only thing i want him to be concerned with at the moment is his recovery, and that was his job. My job was to take care of the rest until he is better.

He is doing soooo well as far as im concerned. :)

Oh guess i should mention that he has now been officially accepted into the long term rehab. Just waiting on paperwork to be finished, and a bed to be open.

:)
so yeah.. i guess they think he is doing well with rehab as well. :)

Have a really good idea....

for a peice of equipment, i guess its kind of a medical device.
Gonna draw out some plans and try to find an invester, so i can build it.
Then gonna go see about getting it patented.. lol
Been looking around and havent seen anything like it at online medical device suppliers, so I think its a good idea. Wont go into it much here.. dont want someone to steal the idea..
I was thinking about ways to help Luc, and people with similar problems, and I was looking at my baby playing, and the idea just kinda sprung out at me.. And to be honest im kinda surprised that no one has done it yet. so...
lol
anyway..gotta go get some more packing done.
later

On The Go!

Karma is keeping me on my toes these days.. no room to walk with the floor being taken up by a moving baby and her toys.. lol.



As you can see she is getting pretty good at moving around now ( and she really really likes to watch tv :P ).. have to keep an eye on her constantly.. to make sure she isn't getting into too much..

She has also taken to pulling herself up on furniture or me. :) I had to go save her the other day because she had pulled herself up by the couch and had started to fall backwards. She was barely hanging on to the edge of the couch and her little head was merely seconds away from hitting the coffee table. lol

Cant even turn my back long enough to get her her dinner now without her getting into some sort of trouble.
YAY!! TROUBLE!!

Home now..

Was a good visit.. got to hang out with some old friends.. if you r reading this you know who you r.. lol
anyway.. Luc is doing really well.. he doesnt sound so robotic.. he is able to open his left hand some now.. able to walk a fair distance(still with help but thats better than nothing)
All in all im pretty impressed with him.. He isnt as impressed with himself as i am with him.. but he is stuck there all day everyday.. feeling like its taking too long... getting frustrated.
:(
My poor hubby.
:(
I miss him. The hospital he is in has sent out a request for him to be transfered to the long term rehab center in ponoca(spelling).
just between edmonton and red dear.
Hopeing, fingers crossed. Even if they accept him into their program it may take quite a long time for him to be able to actually go there. They are a Long Term rehab center.. meaning they may not have an open bed for a few months... i can imagine they may even not have room for him for up to a year..
I fear that.. means it will take that much longer for him to get the rehab he needs to function normally in society.
He did have a few outbursts while i was around.. Thankfully i talked him down from them.. Had one my first night in edmonton.. i wasnt there for it.. when i got back to the hospital from my hotel room, he was in the padded wheelchair in his room with the lights dimmed..(trying to calm him down by making him sleepy?)
He had the outburst right at the start of dinner... so he hadnt eaten..
I took him to the other hospital(royal alex) thru the tunnels and bought him a burger..
Took him out for dinner every night i was there. He seemed to enjoy it.
I really really hope he is accepted into the long term rehab.. :)

Anyway.. Karma had fun with her grandma and pa while i was in edmonton. She kept grandma up pretty much every night.. didnt want to sleep for some reason..
Poor grandma... lol
She didnt seem to miss me too much.. lol... but when i got back she immediately wanted me to pick her up.. whenever i would turn around to walk away..(even to the bathroom) she started to scream..
poor little girl with abandonment issues.. lol :)
Thats all i have to report for now.

Leaving tomorrow.

Going to Edmonton. Gonna see my hubby, gonna see my hubby!!
lol
Anyway. Karma did well on her flight(s). Take off in Grand Prairie, land in Edmonton. Stay on the plane. Take off, land in Calgary. Get off plane, hour layover. Get on plane and take off, land in Kelowna.
I hate flying.. I'm not a good flyer.
Karma did fine though.. until the Calgary to Kelowna part of the trip. No sooner had we gotten on the plane and she decided to poop. I have to place to change her.. she has to sit in it the whole trip. Not much I could do. Get off the plane, change her.
FLAMING red diaper rash.
:(
It has taken 5.5 days so far to clear it up.
Poor little thing. She had so many firsts this trip.. First flights. First bum rash, and first cold.. Poor baby. :(
anyway.. will post more after my trip to edmonton.

pretty much me in a nutshell.

Creepy how much like me it actually is.... :P

How You Life Your Life

You seem to be straight forward, but you keep a lot inside. You're laid back and chill, but sometimes you care too much about what others think. Your friends tend to be a as quirky as you are - which is saying a lot! You tend to dream big, but you worry that your dreams aren't attainable.

How Do You Live Your Life?

Got a Vehicle!!

About time too..
Now im not paying everytime i need to go get something..
Yeah it costs more for things like maintenance, fuel, etc.
but over a long period of time, it can get pretty expensive taking a cab everywhere.. would take the bus.. if it ran more frequently, and had more stops.
Anyway, its a 2000 ford windstar. pretty good deal, they had it listed for 11,900 but i got it at 6,995..
good stuff.
will post pics of it later sometime.. maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon.
Karma is starting to really try to crawl :)
its cute.. she more or less pulls herself along with her arms..
kicking her legs behind her. :)
lol
Going to see luc soon
Going to Vernon on the 19th. leaving karma there with g-ma on the 25th(overnight bus to edmonton) gonna be back in vernon on the 2nd of march. leaving there on the 8th to come back up here.. :(
feels like forever ago since i saw luc last.. :(
only been like 2 months..
lol
he told me the other day that i needed to talk to his dr.. i asked why. He said so i could tell her to send him home. :)
he is so funny, and sooo sweet. :)
anyway.. i had to format my puter(virus)
lost everyones email addy's.. so... please send me an email or something.. :)

Psycho!!

I was just looking around online and came across this video!!
You gotta see this!!

The bride to be is friggin nuts! Good for a laugh though. :)

havent posted in a while..

but i have some good news.
Looks like Luc is starting to come out of his post traumatic amnesia.
A couple of days ago i told him our phone number... then had him repeat it to me a few times..
well the last 4 digits of our # are 2041.. the next day, when i asked him what our # was, he said our number was 2014.
close but not quite right.. i told him again what it was and ever since then he remembers..
:)
only problem now is that he is starting to show his temper.
not so good. but at least it was expected.
:(
where he damaged his brain(his left orbital fracture and the consequent trauma to the brain directly behind it)his left frontal lobe, controls personality, motor skills, and temper.
So, now they have to start dealing with that..
I have now had to reinterate to him, at the nurses request, that hitting is wrong...
I told him it is ok to vocalize as opposed to lashing out physically.
anywho.. this is actually a good thing, even the nurses said so. It means he is getting stronger and healing some.
sigh.. lol
well.. will post more when i know more..
until then.. :) have a good day to whomever may be reading this. :)

made won ton soup tonight...

all by myself!! from scratch!!
it was yummy!!
see!!!!
I even made the won ton's themselves!! mmmmmmmm... soupy!

Christmas was good

The hospital staff were all really nice. Luc is doing so well, he was able to squeeze my hand with his left hand(the one he couldnt move). He is wheeling himself around pretty good(pulling himself along with his right leg and trying with his left one as well, but not as much or as well). He didnt ramble much when i was there. For example, he didnt say the word "executive" once the whole time i was there. For those of you that have missed some of my posts, he was using a random word to fill in the blanks for a while there. He didnt do that once the whole time i was there.

It was so sweet. :) I held Karma on his knee and asked if he wanted to give her a little bouncy horsey ride on his knee. So he gently bounced her and would keep reaching out to her then pull his hand back.. I asked him if he wanted her off his knee and he said" No, i just dont want to drop her":) He is being such a good daddy.
He tried to put her sucky in her mouth for her, but he couldnt reach her at the angle she was at to him. He saw me play with her nosey and reached up and did it too. He was always soooooo very gentle with her. I was really impressed. I helped him open his xmas gifts, he read all the cards. Then he tried to help open Karma's gifts for her, so she wouldnt be able to eat the paper :)

Talked to the Rec. Therapist while i was there. He came in on boxing day with his two little poodles. One of them licked Karma and she started to cry :) it was cute. He has set up an email addy for Luc. Friday before i left he emailed me a message. He did really well for only using one hand. There were some random letters and numbers in there but for the most part he kept on track with his message. And apparently the rec therapist was impressed with how well luc did on the computer. I guess luc sat and played solitaire for about 45 mins one day. :)

LOL.. at one point while i was there, i had gotten luc a coffee. My parents called my cell and we talked with them.. Luc was done talking to my dad so he handed me the phone and wanted his coffee..(which i was holding for him) I mentioned to luc that the lid wasnt on properly, and my dad asked what was going on. I told him i was just helping luc with his coffee and holding it for him. So my dad laughed and called me lucs coffee bitch.. :)
i laughed and luc asked what my dad had said.. so i told him.. Luc laughed and said" If i called you my bitch you would make sure i hit the floor" :)
lol
He still has a really good sense of humor even with all his injuries.

Any way. Lots of good things happened while i was there. Got absolutely no pics unfortunatly. Forgot the camera.. got a little video footage of him opening his and karma's presents but ended up at the end of the tape :(
will post some pics of Karma on her site soon :P

Going to Edmonton for Christmas

So if i dont see or talk to anyone until i get back, merry christmas.
Hope everyone has a wonderful day and gets what they want :)
Will post an update when i have one.. also, gonna post more pics of Karma, hopefully with her daddy and me, oncei get back.. probably on her blog though. :)
Take care everyone.

Talked to Luc's Phsycologis(or psyciatrist){btw my spelling is horrible!!}

Any way. She told me that Luc is pretty much par for the course as far as his mental state. This is the time when they start to get down and very confused.. hence the fact that he has been making stuff up. He was even mad at me last night for "denying our son ", tyler or trevor or something like that. lol.. Yeah he thinks we have 2 kids.. and one of them is a boy who is older than Karma.
Only temporary though.. thank god.
He seems to be doing well.. the nurses i have spoken with seem really nice too.
so, anyways..
not much going on in my life at the moment. Got guardianship and stuff of Luc. So now i can cut down on things like cable to save some money.. possibley get a vehicle..
oh well.. more later.

Talked to Luc today...

I had spoken to his nurse earlier in the day.. she said that they had to put a net of some sort around his bed so he wouldnt climb out and hurt himself.... since he has been trying to get out..
So when i spoke to him on the phone i asked him if he was trying to get out of bed. He said yeah. I asked if they put the netting up so he wouldnt get up, fall over, and hit his head. He said " yeah, but i screwed them!" so of course i asked him how he screwed them.. his response was"because i didnt hit my head!" lol
So innocent in some ways. I told him i missed him a bunch. He said that he has been missing me lots, for like the past 3 days. :)
I love him..
When I was about to get off the phone with him, he told me to say hi to everyone for him. I told him to behave and no matter how much he wants to do or not to do something, he has to do what the nurses and doctors tell him to do. He said he would try. I guess (when i called the other day) his nurse told me he wasnt wanting to eat much. I told them to tell him that his wife wants him to eat so his brain can get better and he can come home. Well the nurse told him that this morning during breakfast, and he told her" thats funny, thats what my wife always says". :)
so his memory is getting a bit better..
He also asked to call his wife this morning..
He asked me today when im gonna come to see him.. I told him as soon as i can afford to.
He must be lonely there.. but at least his mom and fred are there as of tonight(in edmonton) and they are gonna be there till monday (when their flight leaves). So he will have some company.:)
from people who care about him.

HaHa

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