I am having a baby boy in late Feb early March. I have gone through all my girls things and have sorted out the things that are unisex... I have a huge container full of girly clothes to trade at a resale shop. Suggestions????

Anyone interested can donate through any Wells Fargo Branch to the Dylan Russell Memorial Fine Arts Scholarship.

I returned from the funeral last night to Seattle where I have to take a PALS course. I am so distracted.... Please send me some vibes so that I can get what I need to get done over the next couple days.

Friendswood boy held after dispute ends in teen's death
By RUTH RENDON

FRIENDSWOOD — A 16-year-old Friendswood boy was being held today in
connection with a dispute that led to the death of another teen.

The youth is suspected of ramming his truck into the rear of a
Mercedes-Benz on Wednesday night, causing it to lurch forward and
strike James Dylan Russell as he stood in front of the car.

Russell, also 16, died this morning at Memorial Hermann Hospital.

The incident occurred after a confrontation in the 4200 block of Lucian

My nephew Dylan just turned 16 on May 13. It was really cool- he was May 13, Chris is Oct 13, Zoe- April 13 and Ruby August 13.... his little brother could've been a Feb 13 but mom (Chris's big sister) couldn't resist scheduling his c-section on valentines day.... all of our loves Lucky 13..... I used to babysit Dyl when I was 19 and he was four- I attempted swimming lessons in the pool at our complex...I made him a "batman cape" out of an old sleevless tube dress that I cut down the middle and he LOVED it... we always had fun and I remember really enjoying his company.

So I posted earlier about some personal shit and I took a comment personally and I felt to exposed and I had to take it down. I recognize that that is my stuff.

10 years ago I made mistakes. I was a victim and things transpired.

When you fight back in a domestic violence situation with a man way bigger than you should you go to jail?

What if you had emotional issues that were not stablized? A decade is a long time, issues can certainly be addressed...

The Maternity Home that I am a volunteer community health nurse for needs doulas to attend these women's births. They can not compensate because these are women in transition from homelessness that are facing new sobriety and other issues but I think that perhaps they have a non-profit ID so maybe a tax write off could happen? PLEASE HELP! If you have any ideas for what we can do otherwise it will be a new mom alone with the medical team.

here is the link to the maternity home: http://themadisonhouse.org/

I never thought that I would work with children. Too hard... too sad. But I love working with vulnerable populations and am open to where my career takes me and my mentor is opening new possibilities to me and here I find myself looking to start a job at the Center for Medically Fragile Children. Sould this be my placement I will be working with disabled chldren in a skilled nursing facility with a nursing team model (a couple nurses, several CNA's and a med-aid) and I am really excited about it!

And with all the speeches I heard this weekend I wanted to read it again....

The Famous "Wear Sunscreen" Commencement Address
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:

Wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

Today I graduate from college. I was ironing my nice rented grown provided to me by the university (no cheap polyester for UP's graduates!) and I remembered when I decided to go back to school. I was watching a old friend of mine-Jeannie Covelle- iron her gown before her commencement and there was just something about the smell of the iron and the expert way that she flipped the black material over the ironing board.... I wanted that to be me in such a terrible aching way....

so about 2 months ago my left breast started getting painfully swollen and was noticeably larger than the right (to me). And I did not breast feed my 20 month old at all due to the need to take anti-epileptic medication that crosses into breastmilk AND my breastmilk dried up over a year ago. So this was weird. And during my self breast exam I expressed some thick yellow/green colostrum like stuff from the left nipple. And I AM not pregnant I rarely have sex and have an IUD to boot. Plus we use additional methods.

was that the University of Portland Fucking School of Nursing
did not recognize me as I had hoped for the Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing award this year. And my ego is bruised. And I am a little on the bitter side (and maybe the paranoid side)because I am partially just sure it is because of the fact that they know that I had to take a leave due to my bipolar diagnosis. That my ease and grace with the mentally ill is because I belong. There goes my ego again.

in service to women.

I just spent $300 on 2 sundresses! oh well there for my graduation weekend events.... and I hope they fit because I had to order them from the online store.

Umm I just wanted to say that after waiting around for DH to fix our broken washing machiene ( it made a terrible noise last week and smoke started pouring out of it and set off the smoke alarm) I was taking the moldy wet clothes to the wash-a-teria last nite in a huff because he didn't do anything about it and then wanted clean clothes....typical. AND I needed clean clothes too so may as well. *I* was able to diagnose and fix the darn thing my own self!!

the easter bunny brought animal crackers and goldfish this year because mama can't keep her hands off the candy and I already feel sick enough with just too many crackers! anyway.... I saw two bumberstickers this week that I thought were hillarious and wanted to pass them on...

I *HEART* CARBS!

and

Don't believe everything you think

just got ot of Dornbecker after long ordeal that started with "mama my tummy hurts, carry me to the bathroom I feel like I'm going to throw up..." I figured it out pretty quickly- it was appendecitis and the x-rays and CAT scan were not definitive because she was too thin for the contrast to contrast. she was a champ in coping with the pain from the enema that was needed tho... better than the adults that I work with!

what the hell do you do when you think that your 19month old has hidden your only set of car keys to your only car somewhere and you have looked everywhere and you CANNOT find them????? I have torn the house apart and put it back together and NOTHING... I even looked in the crisper... nope not there. .... nor in any of the shoes or her purses or anywhere and I am feeling so insane I keep asking her, "where are mommy's keys" and she keeps sayin, (shrug) "i don' know..." what do I do NOW.......

I got a friend that I want to set you up with... call it a friendship double blind date or whatever, but I just have a feeling that you two would get along famously and well, on that personality test I am a ENFP and I just can't help myself! we'll have to meet at Mabels sometime soon

from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary...

juba
One entry found for juba.

Main Entry: ju·ba
Pronunciation: 'jü-b&
Function: noun
Etymology: origin unknown
: a dance of Southern plantation blacks accompanied by complexly rhythmic hand clapping and slapping of the knees and thighs

DH made up this name for me and it has stuck with all of my friends and family. This definition is strangely suiting.

I hurt my back at clinical last night wrangling an 110 lb 77 y/o lady who needed total care and am wondering... because I do not take narcotics unless I am IN surgery and it is KILLING me... do you get a massage right away or will that aggravate the injury? should I see a chiropractor? Accupuncture? Really I have never had it hurt quite like this and I want some relief.......

(why oh why did I not get some help in lifting her and why did I not raise that damn bed like I ALWAYS did EVERY other time before????)

Hot 'N' Throbbing

A gripping new play written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "How I Learned To Drive". Screamingly funny, at the same time painful and poignant, "Hot 'N' Throbbing" boldly asks the question: Which is more obscene, pornography or domestic violence?" "Hot 'N' Throbbing is a stupendous button-pusher about how we are all complicit in today's mingling of sex, violence and power." The Washington Times

but although I taught myself to knt and I even (through the help of an elderly woman at the library knitters group) corrected my bad technique and learned how to purl I cannot figure out how to crochet beyond making a chain. and I want to make these: