tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28729540909588372652024-03-18T21:50:21.454-07:00✩ Wild Photography ✩Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.comBlogger566125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-85377161156538118032022-10-25T08:35:00.001-07:002022-10-25T08:35:00.223-07:00Tips & Tricks (2022)<p> It is so important for me to document this since I didn't really make notes about my weight loss in 2020 too much, when I lost 30 pounds (from 138 to 108!) between May and November. After Christmas that year, still remaining around 109 or 110, I didn't worry about my weight and stopped weighing myself. But over the next 18 months, until my 35th birthday in June 2022, I let myself gain all that weight back and more- more than I ever had before, and reached an atrocious weight (for my usually thin 5' 3" frame) of 152 pounds. As a reference, I was only 135 pounds the morning of Emma's birth. </p><p> Here are some of my "eww-y" Before photos from May and June:<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJzvR6nQSzPydN9uV8GNOKT6tEI2k787qf9ewVxl99hrERR9b8oPZu5MBHfka9S7-YdMxi8Fbpj902E-I0y5M8NRHleCRveRVAFKP80axN0boK7zMLt4UBuSqeqEwWtQjOutxiemtYiI2vBGFx7MxyCNOriedrsQDmdYlyfj5t-Y-JIlgYMsXM0d5e/s1280/IMG_5676%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJzvR6nQSzPydN9uV8GNOKT6tEI2k787qf9ewVxl99hrERR9b8oPZu5MBHfka9S7-YdMxi8Fbpj902E-I0y5M8NRHleCRveRVAFKP80axN0boK7zMLt4UBuSqeqEwWtQjOutxiemtYiI2vBGFx7MxyCNOriedrsQDmdYlyfj5t-Y-JIlgYMsXM0d5e/w300-h400/IMG_5676%20(2).jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-mRGIQGCe4p8zrbWAI53aj0vvjssk9Z1CxLuKPVV5650bjNjEAdwj_3Ubq5u8uD5QO8Xap2ByXhfsEEjR4dY3WZ2iroNO_zGWJaCXmCfIpcEJHGZetvMX34kIp0WxO8EH5BC9rtJuCYqOegYptsvSko1ALug9PKdB2_fGJIRjiHjV6eHxxY7WBrX/s1544/IMG_5830.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-mRGIQGCe4p8zrbWAI53aj0vvjssk9Z1CxLuKPVV5650bjNjEAdwj_3Ubq5u8uD5QO8Xap2ByXhfsEEjR4dY3WZ2iroNO_zGWJaCXmCfIpcEJHGZetvMX34kIp0WxO8EH5BC9rtJuCYqOegYptsvSko1ALug9PKdB2_fGJIRjiHjV6eHxxY7WBrX/w300-h400/IMG_5830.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVJPJpicANMvgNagni0YdjW-5kj2GWPr1olTBDzs2BEJcYb_YmBB3QdBZBXArD1h7Xfz1GrmYrk-tpPD_kcSU-XaQpemJnuT8INFKl8VoK-_IhVf2i-KH9blmWS1KK5GwZk7iahxuthFN1tlwQSleFEQyuZZDW4p41eQQTJWq3n8SY1XEPgvnT74Yo/s2016/IMG_6306.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVJPJpicANMvgNagni0YdjW-5kj2GWPr1olTBDzs2BEJcYb_YmBB3QdBZBXArD1h7Xfz1GrmYrk-tpPD_kcSU-XaQpemJnuT8INFKl8VoK-_IhVf2i-KH9blmWS1KK5GwZk7iahxuthFN1tlwQSleFEQyuZZDW4p41eQQTJWq3n8SY1XEPgvnT74Yo/w300-h400/IMG_6306.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAa2K4btL15DN2JfgrgsITtPfJpvVuOxo85bUwxq8_v6AU8RIvfW5pBaCTMCuvsRMe1jIrVQgIJGU_JrOSMOy-xfvbHdYKsgLSJlR6sCycU4FHc_WFgBiNqazceYGnrJl3xFN564MW-6viWYrZc2qb9vKpLv6k6NaX2aUnjrbz2KcJUlX3bdZSmNmW/s2016/IMG_4233%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAa2K4btL15DN2JfgrgsITtPfJpvVuOxo85bUwxq8_v6AU8RIvfW5pBaCTMCuvsRMe1jIrVQgIJGU_JrOSMOy-xfvbHdYKsgLSJlR6sCycU4FHc_WFgBiNqazceYGnrJl3xFN564MW-6viWYrZc2qb9vKpLv6k6NaX2aUnjrbz2KcJUlX3bdZSmNmW/w300-h400/IMG_4233%20(2).jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLYJliW-Zxddz-eihvomqY3XMdSTBtLp9h3Lx3A02NF0lalgR6-DNVDXo9r6OpNKeSGGxnAugcUgXQGHYdO-cu16w27hrhb5ZWVJJuczeJRhZxWMDKehwKF4njuxQsYGaJq05pkncy6QELnbQQshLhTKjotJHGQgZB-A21YzQXQ6o3ghEuBw9U-zVT/s2016/IMG_4227.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLYJliW-Zxddz-eihvomqY3XMdSTBtLp9h3Lx3A02NF0lalgR6-DNVDXo9r6OpNKeSGGxnAugcUgXQGHYdO-cu16w27hrhb5ZWVJJuczeJRhZxWMDKehwKF4njuxQsYGaJq05pkncy6QELnbQQshLhTKjotJHGQgZB-A21YzQXQ6o3ghEuBw9U-zVT/w300-h400/IMG_4227.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja6fV5nK-Qz7vzZyKV6DW4FnLmefBYIZq0YgZdDDXnqiU5lofr1gSNYZasm7cLStK1P1RK-TVLlkTY3rRA13r8I0m-zWnIj-FOIOadTSUQuZte5qXhtGti4bXHZvFhhHMp9bPPKEZjPM1VrGisK6FbgAl4WonEtsk3AVmE7CN8-3jhP9xZqj8L0YLM/s2016/IMG_4011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja6fV5nK-Qz7vzZyKV6DW4FnLmefBYIZq0YgZdDDXnqiU5lofr1gSNYZasm7cLStK1P1RK-TVLlkTY3rRA13r8I0m-zWnIj-FOIOadTSUQuZte5qXhtGti4bXHZvFhhHMp9bPPKEZjPM1VrGisK6FbgAl4WonEtsk3AVmE7CN8-3jhP9xZqj8L0YLM/w300-h400/IMG_4011.jpg" width="300" /></a></div> While looking through photos from these months, I also found pictures of me that I took as reference photos on May 31st in the bathroom, in my bra and shorts, from four sides, but I am <i>not</i> going to post those! I think part of the reason why I kept allowing myself to gain weight, was because I didn't look <i>as terrible</i> with clothes on.. but standing in front of the mirror before my showers, I would stare, sigh heavily, and just think, "This is not my body." <br /><p></p><p> Anyway.. Let's get to the good part! :) <br /><br /> I finally got motivated on June 13th, a two days after my birthday. I had already been planning to lose weight and stocked up on weight loss/anti-binging books, diet pills, and gummies/ supplements. I made a collage of my gross body and another one with pictures of me dressed up with my <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2019/02/tips-tricks-2014-2018.html" target="_blank"><b>friends from 2015</b></a> - some of my favorites - as well as some more recent <a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2020/10/emmas-first-beach-outing.html" target="_blank"><b>Hot Mom pictures</b></a> from the end of 2020. I started writing down everything I ate, and what times (<i>without</i> tracking calories), as well as making an effort to exercise again. </p><p> The first week of weight loss started off easily, since <a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2022/08/weve-been-hit-covid-22.html" target="_blank"><b>we all got Covid</b></a>, so I was throwing up, and sleeping a lot, and had very little appetite. Michael also decided that he wanted/needed to lose weight again too. He definitely looked his best, in many years, in the months leading up to Emma being born! He got down to 185 pounds in May 2017, and he is 6 feet tall. He is aiming for that again now. <br /></p>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-46196746078467299222022-07-30T10:47:00.000-07:002022-09-13T22:47:54.539-07:00the Best Me I Can Be, Part II (Mommy Edition)<p>>> This post was written on Wednesday, July 27th, but probably won't be published until later, due to my "secret challenge" that you will read about later in this post. :) <b><br /></b></p><p><b> <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-best-me-i-can-be.html" target="_blank">Here is Part 1</a></b> of "the Best Me I Can Be", a little less than four years before I became a Mommy with <a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2017/07/emmas-first-weekend.html" target="_blank"><b>a tiny baby in my arms</b></a>. Part 1 was from when Michael and I were <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-ultimate-high.html" target="_blank"><b>living in California</b></a> and I reached <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2013/10/blue-freckles.html" target="_blank"><b>my lowest weight</b></a> since probably middle school!? So proud of myself for that, even if that low weight (102 pounds) only lasted for about a week. I still stayed around there for a good amount of time. <br /></p><p> I have been wanting to write this for a while, especially since I appallingly hit my highest weight of 152 (vomit) around <a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2022/07/fountains-of-youths.html" target="_blank"><b>my 35th birthday</b></a>. I actually debated putting it <a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>on Emma's blog</b></a> since she is in most of the pictures, but who are we kidding, this post is about me, so it belongs on my blog. 152 is 17 pounds more than <a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2017/05/hospital-stay.html" target="_blank"><b>when I was pregnant</b></a>/ at my previously highest weight<b> <a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2017/06/emmas-birth-story.html" target="_blank">before she was born</a></b>. There should <i>never</i> be more fat
from <i>food</i> on my body than when I was <i>growing a child</i> (even if she was small), with placenta,
amniotic fluid, extra blood, and everything. <br /></p><p>*And please note that all these bold words link to other posts, either on this blog or Emma's blog. :)</p><p> In May 2020, my best friend from work, Alex, and I <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-1000-weightloss-challenge.html" target="_blank"><b>started a challenge</b></a> because we both needed to lose weight. At that point I was 136 pounds (which I am almost at again right now). The challenge lasted until around the end of August I think before she was bummed that I kept losing weight and she wasn't. On August 31st , 2020, I weighed 117 pounds. Luckily for me, I still have all of this documented on my phone calendar. September 2020 was an average of 115 pounds with a note in the middle of the month two days saying I was binging on Frosted Flakes. And a week later I ate <i>eight</i> Toaster Strudels- haha, yikes!! On Halloween I weighed 111 pounds. Yay! <a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-halloween-experience.html" target="_blank"><b>That was a great day!</b></a></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxlSi5IuGR31lBRUEyPjgFUKyuHttxeynUst8Jqs715Q6vTxXTQYSPC0qYA7f7OPhkEvzKq2GMhWqEB4dKLePAOVcBftDPclTeIPOgPXTWbDQl1AApZyrjFbkzf8cdNTtrcgkODjr7YP6QIpdNlQzryYKiCreixVDme3abcVUR-bNU6TGwnz1k7jGQ/s640/20.10.12%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="481" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxlSi5IuGR31lBRUEyPjgFUKyuHttxeynUst8Jqs715Q6vTxXTQYSPC0qYA7f7OPhkEvzKq2GMhWqEB4dKLePAOVcBftDPclTeIPOgPXTWbDQl1AApZyrjFbkzf8cdNTtrcgkODjr7YP6QIpdNlQzryYKiCreixVDme3abcVUR-bNU6TGwnz1k7jGQ/w301-h400/20.10.12%20(2).jpg" width="301" /></a></b></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEvNK3Ou6MHkHu_YW_z_SetK2KZyONSIgXAkeDgiE_KztCh7eYCFRR_JErCcTVDoNlQQRrFv4gWpc4QphrbQ_ikax7ajsDU-MhdBM5qknN0VU0f4cqP4PZOnl-eqZ7C73_lcKFDgwCRHTBxNi560BZkh7_Pryort30QuYKpl8GYWkvwvFNeYKypypG/s1280/20.11.14%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEvNK3Ou6MHkHu_YW_z_SetK2KZyONSIgXAkeDgiE_KztCh7eYCFRR_JErCcTVDoNlQQRrFv4gWpc4QphrbQ_ikax7ajsDU-MhdBM5qknN0VU0f4cqP4PZOnl-eqZ7C73_lcKFDgwCRHTBxNi560BZkh7_Pryort30QuYKpl8GYWkvwvFNeYKypypG/w300-h400/20.11.14%20(2).jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See the alligator?<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQAvcaf2kfaI_Adtbmnq_l5UEWxmVu_QQc5NobSLXdszOnCrbYdj8K_IqelBZS5FmuAt18v7nkUmPs-x9yMfsmhT785LrM_fCARi5yrhYlCIHAHr_59XtmcQdx_PCqa-YvPoBvcgQYzrpfWgtXt27SO21EfO6ZS8k21xPn1jTfR7KtTS0ae_cbS6dh/s1544/20.11.23%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQAvcaf2kfaI_Adtbmnq_l5UEWxmVu_QQc5NobSLXdszOnCrbYdj8K_IqelBZS5FmuAt18v7nkUmPs-x9yMfsmhT785LrM_fCARi5yrhYlCIHAHr_59XtmcQdx_PCqa-YvPoBvcgQYzrpfWgtXt27SO21EfO6ZS8k21xPn1jTfR7KtTS0ae_cbS6dh/w300-h400/20.11.23%20(2).jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU7U8Zh3LrlfH5rOrtmgMqMOnL5lj3GVWmVImDV907yEcM47NmuIPZX4loP4S2HFHBv84TeSmkYaetMVuZGpnd0cVqfa8Jm8jtSBmi6ShddOn7wO6ek2WdxrX-HN0caAdaInKCXrQJ5Yrfc2pFyKNAv5m9g7-vsb1efpAdPta9ngTNsFiuUudwFhos/s1544/20.12.07%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU7U8Zh3LrlfH5rOrtmgMqMOnL5lj3GVWmVImDV907yEcM47NmuIPZX4loP4S2HFHBv84TeSmkYaetMVuZGpnd0cVqfa8Jm8jtSBmi6ShddOn7wO6ek2WdxrX-HN0caAdaInKCXrQJ5Yrfc2pFyKNAv5m9g7-vsb1efpAdPta9ngTNsFiuUudwFhos/w300-h400/20.12.07%20(2).jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv5wl7raQVIbWoMc0fpZuBHwipKi_n32cZTweL7OhGEUH1WayFJ6mVkgDXjbxk9CFI8Tizc2XEAUueutF-2YqMEsh6AEDmbK9SBwNQsdyt6ptVjW6lgAu2B3PIAf8hHoa_5USpty6Yl2dt0s7iuCXxu7E6dUWRxgzOY-_jtyFVg67QVqJ4oZ-thqP5/s2016/20.12.11%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv5wl7raQVIbWoMc0fpZuBHwipKi_n32cZTweL7OhGEUH1WayFJ6mVkgDXjbxk9CFI8Tizc2XEAUueutF-2YqMEsh6AEDmbK9SBwNQsdyt6ptVjW6lgAu2B3PIAf8hHoa_5USpty6Yl2dt0s7iuCXxu7E6dUWRxgzOY-_jtyFVg67QVqJ4oZ-thqP5/w300-h400/20.12.11%20(2).jpg" width="300" /></a> <br /></div><p></p><p> On the morning of November 14th, I was frustrated that I weighed 113 pounds and couldn't get motivated to keep losing weight. Yet, right now (at the end of July 2022), I sure wish I weighed 113 pounds!! I did meet up with a co-worker, Jenn, that morning in November and we walked eight miles together, so that was good. And my lowest that year was 108.6 on November 24th with a note that says, "with muscles, did some exercises yesterday". </p><p> I started taking much needed depression medicine (I thought I needed anxiety meds, but whatever) on December 17th, 2020 and they helped me <i>so much</i>, which was surprising considering it's only 10mg. I was having <i>so much</i> stress with work and getting into all these unnecessary arguments with Michael and talking about divorce all the time (I was the one always bringing that topic up, not him, because it felt like the only option in my constant state of stress). I was having terrible, unsafe rage episodes- I was scaring myself. That immediately stopped once I was on these meds. I am so thankful for them!! Although, I recently learned that they make some people (like me) not care so much about <i>certain things</i> and I think one of those things was my weight. Even though I still <i>always</i> care about being skinny, it made me not care <i>enough</i>. Which is how I recently let myself get to 152. (Cringe!) I even convinced myself that my options were either "Skinny and Stressed" or "Heavy and Happy". But I want to be "Happy and Healthy" all of the time! And I <i>desperately need</i> to figure out how to make that happen.</p><p> Here are some "Skinny Mommy" links for pictures I have already posted: <br /></p><p> <a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2020/11/pool-party-with-grammy.html" target="_blank"><b>*Pool party</b></a> with Emma, October 2020<br /></p><p> <a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2022/08/mayflower-meatballs.html" target="_blank"><b>*Thanksgiving</b></a> with my parents, November 2020</p><p> <a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2022/04/our-past-two-christmases.html" target="_blank"><b>*Christmas</b></a>, December 2020 <br /><br /></p><p> The first few months of 2021 were nice because since I started the year off at a perfect weight, so I stopped weighing myself and didn't worry about what I was eating anymore. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiognnyv-aTwlDB3Hvn1Em3SaCHuKs5XX899DTwoXo_q9RX4Af30i8o6e8pN9R0mxwX3vWh2Ht3vluXKNCHvitT_lknzvKyycyFTrbGlbDGgvKRtlJSIgTcKieofAoyUr5LEjm2Mc_DNlQcIVv9TXuiS2hAeDeDyugD0kjwjBNWRMonog-ac7LIpgra/s1280/21.02.16%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhHGAJs6SCx-eM0mjUPbKrGglrC1drOLgB8Yl7ma6uquR26cnCgncsbAl8o1Ve2XMnFV6XOD-2tL4WQ8AuXXgG0n8w3oEF5N3PbbR_C3VttDCPooy3rp2CCqW-ItcLPgbc2WWo8A2tkSmTz_b7qjxPX5Gx_mxEI5in9FyhEyc0dfBwp2IiNRf7VFo9/w300-h400/21.03.30%20(2).jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p> The next weight I have documented in my phone after that is several months later on April 1st, 2021- 117 pounds. That's not bad. I still usually look okay up until around 120 pounds. If I'm exercising, at least walking, it's better. May 8th - 122, after our Hilton Head trip. July 19th - 126.6, August 9th - 133, September 1st, started getting acid reflux at night because of my weight, September 20th - 138 pounds.. okay you get the point! And you know it only gets worse from there. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdbFS8v7izyvbrMotTHLnNvSKUYhzw0vYxhQQjpgHpaRZ5HKx2g6jmQBzu1OXLxbef7o6v1csLXRbmA_GoYrohGgqLCHTp1jz07EiNx4H0P06seDq3QbQr0YJRIGW5j7Z2Hbg-PuP1P55-pSGd_nS1azBp6IKv15SRSnoSl1PcRo2vFACPkhetbF6N/s1544/21.04.27%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdbFS8v7izyvbrMotTHLnNvSKUYhzw0vYxhQQjpgHpaRZ5HKx2g6jmQBzu1OXLxbef7o6v1csLXRbmA_GoYrohGgqLCHTp1jz07EiNx4H0P06seDq3QbQr0YJRIGW5j7Z2Hbg-PuP1P55-pSGd_nS1azBp6IKv15SRSnoSl1PcRo2vFACPkhetbF6N/w300-h400/21.04.27%20(2).jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2V-Q7ltcIdrWqO_ni0pfGqk6Osl-S68bTKuayjC59CXBT-FHHnTIIMEALS-a-HKJRd5itYbRo1B4Sw7YyxIwT1311mrFAIDWKvKQ7WjQHfGfMlf41w4ylpNsEBnQozBYd9p1M3NvsHLQ6zGV9Bfze-6k2arQM-itraaa_8pAq4lse1YszBoPNq_Cq/s1544/21.04.13%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Until I Wasn't!"<i><br /></i>This was supposed to be a post all about how skinny I got in 2020 and how I'm going to get skinny again by the end of this year and then be a hot skinny mom again FOREVER!!! I've created a bunch of lists on Amazon with cute clothes and pretty jewelry and different styles of shoes- everything that I'm going to buy once I'm "slim and trim" and look so fashionable. Things I can't wear now because they don't look good on me, or I have "body dysmorphia", thinking I could look good in something and try it on, but then realize that I still need to lose 30 more pounds and that is so disheartening!! I <i>love</i> when it's the opposite and everything looks so good on me and I have to narrow down what I want because I can't spend that much money, but I still take pictures, wearing everything because I'm such a beautiful narcissistic mirror model! *pose, pose, pose, smile, pose*<br /></p><p> Right now I am doing a "secret challenge" to lose as much weight as I can between now and August 20th. Today is Day 3. This is a secret from my parents mainly (I have told a handful of friends) because my parents have not seen me since my birthday when I was 152 pounds. My mom understandably asked Michael if I didn't care about losing weight anymore. I do, I promise that I do! I am trying to keep my food to mainly veggies, fish, chicken, and fruit. And I have been doing a few exercise videos on YouTube every day. Last night I did 210 squat variations (from a *30 Day* Challenge on Pinterest- <i>yeah right</i>, I was proud of myself for getting through <i>one</i> day!) and then I <i>literally</i> had to hold onto both railings when going down the stairs to take our dog outside because I felt like my legs were going to give out. Going back up was fine. I'm hoping to be 127 pounds by August 20th, but we'll see. Oh, that day is special because I'm meeting my parents at a fancy resort for the weekend, and I want to look <i>way</i> better/toned in my swim suit than I did last month. *eye roll* <i>And</i> I'd really love to be 109 by Christmas again- or sooner! Fingers crossed! :)</p><p> I'll write another progress post in a couple more months.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Here's a random skinny picture of me and my niece, Peyton, from 2016 I think. Even though we are making Christmas sweater cookies, I am going to assume this picture is from September that year, because she looks like the exact age from >> <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/09/portraits-wilder-family-ii.html" target="_blank"><b>this family photo shoot</b></a>. Nope.. actually she looks younger than that. So maybe it was from earlier in the year? But definitely older than <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2015/10/portraits-wilder-family.html" target="_blank">October 2015</a></b>. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0aGaccVRZttqBjgUvcEoFqlSaMTtcRZlk0NYIrPXBSOfXMHu4JDcRk6cKNGynK6P0VkgZXeOladUKt_U0at72p4DzbK7x01bgVVwKB50p0MKHfhDguRrw_5kQ6zzIr4_LHIsfZXk5vJ5G5JbicYOcBifU_ohjtJUBXT1l2eRDeP1PoQakK12mbRoo/s960/2016%20Peyton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0aGaccVRZttqBjgUvcEoFqlSaMTtcRZlk0NYIrPXBSOfXMHu4JDcRk6cKNGynK6P0VkgZXeOladUKt_U0at72p4DzbK7x01bgVVwKB50p0MKHfhDguRrw_5kQ6zzIr4_LHIsfZXk5vJ5G5JbicYOcBifU_ohjtJUBXT1l2eRDeP1PoQakK12mbRoo/w320-h400/2016%20Peyton.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-12617275230394770002020-10-21T13:51:00.003-07:002020-10-21T13:51:32.772-07:00Boo at the Zoo III<p> I just put 74 pictures on Emma's blog from this event, but these are the rest of them:</p><p>This was my first Boo at the Zoo in Brevard County. The other two times were waaay* cheaper in Gainesville, but that one is cancelled this year because they only do it on Halloween day and they don't have a way to socially distance the 5,000 people that they usually get at the Santa Fe College Zoo!! <i>Popular!!</i> So it is still definitely on my mental list of "Places to take Emma in the Future".</p><p>*Waaay cheaper means Gainesville's entry is a can of beans. Brevard's is $25. Free parking though.</p><p>Photos!! Also, I'm a ghost. 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Idk, it had really good scenery. ^^ Beautiful foliage. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwsQ4lAK92I7Kzw7Lg1C8myyWBcqet2TTLfx9jvSJvksXKhtiPitXpg45t2Pe77GlEJDsFAeFOddlfQ0FHRHDfWpcuasPNj5GAT7qf6AczvZI8CppHPo-x-nxfQCMUz8X0u-ictEGxk8c/s2048/IMG_6287.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwsQ4lAK92I7Kzw7Lg1C8myyWBcqet2TTLfx9jvSJvksXKhtiPitXpg45t2Pe77GlEJDsFAeFOddlfQ0FHRHDfWpcuasPNj5GAT7qf6AczvZI8CppHPo-x-nxfQCMUz8X0u-ictEGxk8c/w640-h480/IMG_6287.JPEG" width="640" /></a></div> A hard-to-see sloth because of the glass reflection. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtLJbd_LIsWEuDhdOQMbmdvSVlYWDomXyaAZA1dY5vxmfotpQOfB4jzGD8dz1VAX0oVpq9yzQSRYL4h9svO7M5jNKvyG7XlR2MYuA_OeKhTsBSqh-jq7jGuyNonuiRHYVkH_PN7GYxT0s/s2048/IMG_6288.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtLJbd_LIsWEuDhdOQMbmdvSVlYWDomXyaAZA1dY5vxmfotpQOfB4jzGD8dz1VAX0oVpq9yzQSRYL4h9svO7M5jNKvyG7XlR2MYuA_OeKhTsBSqh-jq7jGuyNonuiRHYVkH_PN7GYxT0s/w640-h480/IMG_6288.JPEG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYdTi6IuSJrJhLmyNxwHbM2Fet5Na-pmMwXSCzenEAA9rdjg1yeZSqHxUSAfZtiqD8mcmOuCEM3O9dFtgj7TxRwzjwBwgbHYtV8uT39-J2qNngqOjz69XJL-EUuZGw953RA9mlWNUpCdw/s2048/IMG_6289.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYdTi6IuSJrJhLmyNxwHbM2Fet5Na-pmMwXSCzenEAA9rdjg1yeZSqHxUSAfZtiqD8mcmOuCEM3O9dFtgj7TxRwzjwBwgbHYtV8uT39-J2qNngqOjz69XJL-EUuZGw953RA9mlWNUpCdw/w480-h640/IMG_6289.JPEG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCy5cyBmPDzJpC0O056X6kf0lQrS9d7s1AifFEhgtba4ThMN8ABC3TUARrYq9MCXRohxMEnNb1QDvDnO23QGUqKUHFgTQ6psRQ0oO8ve96jtd5ttu4g_WrMFKb3Q0R93F8CBrQRh0ciUg/s2048/IMG_6290.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCy5cyBmPDzJpC0O056X6kf0lQrS9d7s1AifFEhgtba4ThMN8ABC3TUARrYq9MCXRohxMEnNb1QDvDnO23QGUqKUHFgTQ6psRQ0oO8ve96jtd5ttu4g_WrMFKb3Q0R93F8CBrQRh0ciUg/w480-h640/IMG_6290.JPEG" width="480" /></a></div>An otter! Or two since you can see legs and a tail against the glass.<div>(Below) Michael will usually sacrifice his fear of snakes for a bit of air conditioning, but this zoo's reptile area was still outside! In the hut he is walking past. We did look through the glass. They were all sleeping.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJGyNdExm3VCLvGDhhNmszALxvktDWkvnPN_e0Vnrv8e9QogcANFFSZD511VF9HPz4w5gYQbsMu-LbopM7zudqAfEb3p_sTq94z2OIIoz7HVe6T4NIfgTfXcZJiCs8O9X4cMYEbz5ZrMs/s2048/IMG_6304.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJGyNdExm3VCLvGDhhNmszALxvktDWkvnPN_e0Vnrv8e9QogcANFFSZD511VF9HPz4w5gYQbsMu-LbopM7zudqAfEb3p_sTq94z2OIIoz7HVe6T4NIfgTfXcZJiCs8O9X4cMYEbz5ZrMs/w640-h480/IMG_6304.JPEG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnU72amNIXHEHZU9ebjKWOXT_yCTHoi0k-h1fbL8jFwiRVGDKFP-k-mZA3Cjufb0jxFbROe-8TsQszoTUoNd_hFMVgTdz9bOZqJQBJ4VuJTfmTOg6XC3_BgZNntzGVuN6J7L6R3NGwEck/s2048/IMG_6307.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnU72amNIXHEHZU9ebjKWOXT_yCTHoi0k-h1fbL8jFwiRVGDKFP-k-mZA3Cjufb0jxFbROe-8TsQszoTUoNd_hFMVgTdz9bOZqJQBJ4VuJTfmTOg6XC3_BgZNntzGVuN6J7L6R3NGwEck/w480-h640/IMG_6307.JPEG" width="480" /></a></div><p>-------</p><p>Now, in case you are reading this, or I am rereading this myself, and happen to be in a "zoo mood", here are links to all of the other zoo posts between my blog and Emma's blog:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2020/10/boo-at-zoo.html" target="_blank"><b>Boo at the Zoo</b></a> - Brevard, October 2020, version of this post with more Emma pics (no repeats)</p><p><b><a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2020/03/birmingham-trip-dec-2019.html" target="_blank">Birmingham Zoo</a></b>, December 2019</p><p><b><a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2019/11/sanford-zoo-on-canon.html" target="_blank">Sanford Zoo</a></b>, November 2019 (with the Canon)</p><p><b><a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2019/11/zoo-and-aquarium.html" target="_blank">Sanford Zoo</a></b> & the Sea Life Aquarium for Michael's birthday, using my phone camera</p><p>Not a zoo post, but last year <b><a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2019/11/first-real-pumpkin-patch.html" target="_blank">at a pumpkin patch</a></b> in Clermont we got super cute pictures!! </p><p><b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2017/03/jacksonville-zoo.html" target="_blank">Jacksonville Zoo</a></b> with Peyton & Helena when I was pregnant</p><p>A few BTS pics during the <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2017/03/side-notes.html" target="_blank">Jacksonville Zoo</a></b> and pregnancy notes from March 2017</p><p><b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/10/boo-at-zoo-part-ii.html" target="_blank">Boo at the Zoo II</a></b> - Gainesville, Halloween 2016</p><p><b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2015/10/boo-at-zoo.html" target="_blank">Boo at the Zoo</a></b> - Gainesville, Halloween 2015 (pictures I took)</p><p><b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/10/hauntings-past.html" target="_blank">Hauntings Past</a></b> - previous Halloween pics I had not really posted before, including Boo at the Zoo 2015, pictures of me holding Peyton)</p><p>Taking pictures with Carly and Dawson <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2013/02/saint-valentine.html" target="_blank">in an abandoned zoo</a></b>, Los Angeles, 2013</p><p>A few pictures from the Brevard <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2012/05/daycation-part-i-zoo.html" target="_blank">Zoo with Sana</a></b>, 2012 (I need to see if I can find more)</p></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-6272536835429792352020-10-16T15:02:00.000-07:002020-10-16T15:02:07.227-07:00Shrimp, Director's Cut<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt;">** Disclaimer: this is a sad post, and some of it is raw and detailed, but I don't want to forget it.**</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">In July this summer, I read a post by a 24-year old Australian mother, blogger, photographer, writer, artsy creator named Nirrimi Firebrace, who I have been following for many years. Her post was sharing information about the <b><a href="https://nirrimi.com/journals/2020/7/17/a-tiny-loved-life" target="_blank">miscarriage she recently had</a></b> with her second child. (<-- Click the link if you would like to read her story.) Her first child, Alba, is eight years old. She wrote so beautifully about her heart-breaking story, and it made me really surprised how little detail I put into our own story about losing our first child when I was 7 weeks pregnant, who we called Shrimp. So I wrote an extended version here, my director's cut if you will, adding more details that are not in the <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/04/shrimp.html" target="_blank">original post from April 2016</a></b> <--. You might want to read that one first. I was going to try to mesh them together, but I don't remember where all the events lined up, even though the main story only takes place within a three week time frame. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">THE STORY OF SHRIMP</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">For a long time Michael and I were not ready to have a baby “yet”. Less than a month into our relationship (back in August 2009), we were </span><b style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://fullsailfun.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/080709-cocoa-beach/" target="_blank">walking along the beach</a></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and we talked about having kids in the future. I wasn’t even sure I ever wanted to have kids, until we started dating. I have anger issues and didn’t think I would be patient enough to have a kids. We were married for 4 ½ years before I was actually ready to start trying to have a baby. It was during a weekend at the beginning of October 2015 that I spent with my brother, his wife Jacquie, and their daughter, Peyton, who was almost one year old at the time. We were all in Naples staying with our Grandma Belva. On the way home from that trip, I felt it. I was ready. You can read about that weekend --> </span><b style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2015/10/peyton-at-park.html" target="_blank">HERE.</a></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I got home and told Michael that I was ready to have a baby and wanted to start trying soon. I told my mom too and she suggested I stop my birth control when I could since the hormones can take a few months to get out of your system. Of course Michael had to get on board as well. He said at that point he didn’t think we would have a baby at all since it had just been me and him so long without one. I told him that I definitely wanted a baby. Not that I expected him to agree to it that very second, I still cried the next few times we had protected intercourse.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">A few weeks later when we were at dinner, I think at the restaurant called Cooper’s Hawk, Michael asked me again if I still wanted to have a baby. It was a fair question since I had changed my mind many times over the years. In April 2012, less than a year after we got married, I had <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2012/04/our-baby.html" target="_blank"><b>very strong Baby Fever</b></a>, but it faded dramatically after a few months. Other times I would say in a cranky tone, “I am <i>so glad </i>we do <i>not</i> have a baby right now!” Some reasons were because of us disagreeing and arguing a lot, or because it was easier to go on vacations and have time together by ourselves with no responsibilities, especially with moving across the country to North Hollywood in 2013 and then to Birmingham in 2014, before coming back to Orlando. I still wonder if I would have wanted a baby at that point if Peyton had not been born yet. But that night when Michael asked if me at the restaurant if I still wanted a baby, I said, “Yes.” He still wasn’t ready. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">But at <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/12/ye-ol-christmas.html" target="_blank">Christmas that year in 2015</a></b>, the last present he gave me was a card that told me how much he loves me, that I am a great wife and that he knows I would be a great mom. At the bottom, the card said, "Let's make a Baby Fett." <span style="font-size: 11pt;">(A <i>Star Wars</i> pun, with a picture of a young Boba Fett playing in a sandbox.) We started trying that night.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">One month later, at the end of January 2016, I went on a <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2020/01/carnival-sunshine-part-ii.html" target="_blank">cruise with my parents</a></b> to the Bahamas. A few weeks before we left, my dad was reading about the Zika Virus and said, “You’re not pregnant, are you?” The Zika Virus was (and is still?) spread by mosquitos and is extra dangerous for pregnant women as it causes babies to be born with small, deformed heads. I told him, “Maybe. We have been trying, but I haven’t taken a pregnancy test recently.” We went on the cruise without any issues.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzp2v9Gu4ip7NLM9F4P0XLHyOt28O3SY6guUhotGeKR8JjfBYqfHbA3yYDWOezaNTiuTEjJDS6EjHZU0-IlQ9pgdo-UdwN-RU_xBvOxu948CCS6HzMnf_ed1hHuCj50_rx7cacdUaf6gM/s750/1E249BA4-C5B6-418C-B180-08992B0D18E3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzp2v9Gu4ip7NLM9F4P0XLHyOt28O3SY6guUhotGeKR8JjfBYqfHbA3yYDWOezaNTiuTEjJDS6EjHZU0-IlQ9pgdo-UdwN-RU_xBvOxu948CCS6HzMnf_ed1hHuCj50_rx7cacdUaf6gM/s320/1E249BA4-C5B6-418C-B180-08992B0D18E3.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhShjPJEM8a2jzhELiGZD035r_d7uGRvPGOMbigYhY886TjVyXFXcG3-WLuRPTNcEuULN2Tvu4LZ3Ty6_OEENdf4xi86wjHw8g_VEPs0j4cEU4zCRO_z7Pde745z_z2zpzNGR29dFczymY/s750/9E3D08A9-4A57-479E-A59A-E16AED2E4D4A.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhShjPJEM8a2jzhELiGZD035r_d7uGRvPGOMbigYhY886TjVyXFXcG3-WLuRPTNcEuULN2Tvu4LZ3Ty6_OEENdf4xi86wjHw8g_VEPs0j4cEU4zCRO_z7Pde745z_z2zpzNGR29dFczymY/s320/9E3D08A9-4A57-479E-A59A-E16AED2E4D4A.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5meD2lBIPX9fGLw4p6Vk7fPIeDSkHp2PfH8-2-cCeVrGomaTw0V9CpL1j6th8dCsu-z9fmBLiU2XPtOwOSBjpqVlv5xtHThU2fTo_rO_3TV0u5t7yNi2SncASsWi9RSQ5nDPGrgl9t8w/s750/4D4B798F-7680-4BF5-BDC3-2EBC4EC04D38.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5meD2lBIPX9fGLw4p6Vk7fPIeDSkHp2PfH8-2-cCeVrGomaTw0V9CpL1j6th8dCsu-z9fmBLiU2XPtOwOSBjpqVlv5xtHThU2fTo_rO_3TV0u5t7yNi2SncASsWi9RSQ5nDPGrgl9t8w/s320/4D4B798F-7680-4BF5-BDC3-2EBC4EC04D38.JPG" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">When I found out that I was pregnant with Shrimp on March 13th, 2016, Michael told me that I should listen to the rule of not telling anyone you are pregnant until you’re out of the first trimester. I did listen to it, but once I had the miscarriage, I really wish I hadn’t. I wish I had told all my friends and family the day I found out, even with having to tell them about the miscarriage later. It would have made those three weeks extra fun and exciting. These are the things I think about when I watch time travel movies. I would redo just those three weeks, with the added part of sharing it all with my friends and family who know we had been trying and praying for this baby, even though I would go back in time knowing I wouldn't be able to change the outcome three weeks later. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Maybe that's my advice to anyone who gets pregnant? If you<i> want to</i> tell certain people that you are pregnant the very second you find out because you are super fricken excited, then tell them! Don't worry about "the rules" that doctors or society made up. Because the sad part is always going to be really sad anyway. You might as well make the good part as good as you can, while you can, right? Miscarriages are surprisingly common, a fact I did not know until 2016, but that doesn't mean every single woman is going to have one. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I did tell two people at work because I needed to for work reasons. One being Kim, the girl who was training me in my second month of Teletype. I ended up telling her because I was physically getting sick without previously giving her a reason why. So the second night I got sick (I was on night shift that month), I admitted I was pregnant. She quickly gave me a hug and I really liked that. When another co-worker asked the night before if I was pregnant, I lied because of the 12 week rule. In some ways I am glad I did not have a full pregnancy with Shrimp, only because it would have been such a struggle to have “midnight sickness” all those months while trying to train at work in a new position, knowing I could never go home early when throwing up because I needed to save up my paid time off for maternity leave when Shrimp was born (my due date was November 15<sup>th</sup>). But, of course, God knew what He was doing and I was extremely lucky to never get sick when I was pregnant with Emma. God also knew I would appreciate an easy-peasy pregnancy with her because of what I did not know was ahead after her birth: 10 ½ months of her living in the NICU, with many medical conditions that would follow her home for the next unknown amount of years. Trach, ventilator, G-tube, developmental delays, an easy-going, independent personality, and super cute yet very rare type of Primordial Dwarfism with backward bending knees.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">The second person I told at work was the supervisor, Cheryl. She needed to know and there is a rule that during pregnancy, we are allowed to wear regular, nice work clothes instead of our uniforms that are too tight around the waist. So for probably two weeks I got to wear regular clothes, which most likely included knee-length skirts, but then that was then a tip off to everyone else that I had a reason to not be wearing my uniform.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">When I told Michael I was pregnant he immediately wanted to start looking for a house since we were living in a small one-bedroom apartment with stairs. Our living room and kitchen were above the one-car garage we had. Our bedroom and bathroom were above our neighbor’s garage. It was an interesting layout, but absolutely no room for a baby. He got the information of a really nice, friendly realtor named Anita and we started our search for a 3-bedroom house with a fenced in yard between Clermont, Orlando, and Kissimmee. I remember having a bad headache one of the days we were looking at houses, but it wasn’t a realtor day. Any day I wasn’t working, Michael liked us driving around to look at houses for sale. And then one of the days with Anita, I had to use the bathroom at a gas station and noticed some light pink bleeding. Michael told me not to worry about it, but I am a natural worrier. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_yG9SP31d5XZa82gw0UAH-IFshNtgTEMMLi-DFtsrBqMOd8eVtpG4fOYTLBOg0OUkxbP7jl_UJTpk4J7BkZN4Bfl6slQyg5qNQYHY9rkmFo8-UMzx3sfDaUoR5tlvjuxWdi9UlNuPCSg/s750/36D51358-1D33-458B-A03B-CB10CD9A17AA.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_yG9SP31d5XZa82gw0UAH-IFshNtgTEMMLi-DFtsrBqMOd8eVtpG4fOYTLBOg0OUkxbP7jl_UJTpk4J7BkZN4Bfl6slQyg5qNQYHY9rkmFo8-UMzx3sfDaUoR5tlvjuxWdi9UlNuPCSg/s320/36D51358-1D33-458B-A03B-CB10CD9A17AA.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhosS9UKN7P7UN7qyP__9xwhhczMLTEElT4hUeFJ_5jnxVkf-IOfgQqRWVGDLBiL9SYLIXNzcal2E3-gd6ImPjevK-KtdUZQquhAS1GHjyhG5G7bh_V2DfY-kZJmko6TrbtpbclX5Mew7Y/s750/3031A133-4364-4B8A-81A3-E49A0A9A6C51.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhosS9UKN7P7UN7qyP__9xwhhczMLTEElT4hUeFJ_5jnxVkf-IOfgQqRWVGDLBiL9SYLIXNzcal2E3-gd6ImPjevK-KtdUZQquhAS1GHjyhG5G7bh_V2DfY-kZJmko6TrbtpbclX5Mew7Y/s320/3031A133-4364-4B8A-81A3-E49A0A9A6C51.JPG" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Fast forwarding to Saturday night a few weeks later (April 2nd) I started having cramps, but I don’t think they were too bad until the next morning. More like menstrual cramps at first. Michael still thought I was making a big deal when everything was okay, so he got upset when I canceled on having Sunday brunch with his friends. He went without me and was gone for a few hours. I sent his friend, Saida, a message apologizing. I was in terrible pain for the next few hours, and later learned that miscarriage contractions can be just as strong as full term labor contractions!! I was able to fall asleep for short amounts of time, but would wake up in terrible pain again. I cried and prayed a lot. I really didn’t want to take any medicine in case it would hurt Shrimp, but ended up taking some Motrin or Ibuprofen because it was sooo bad.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Finally, in the afternoon I woke up and suddenly the pain was gone. At first I took it as a good sign. Michael was home by then and was napping next to me. I went into the bathroom to pee, but when I sat down I felt a small mass fall out of me. I knew what it was before even looking and picked him out of the toilet (I had not used the bathroom yet), placing him gently on folded up toilet paper. It was our baby. There was an actual shape to him. It wasn't just a glop of blood. I could tell where his teensy body was starting to form even though I was only 7 weeks along- a head, neck, back, arms, lower body, and even an eyeball?! Attached to a light pink sac that was possibly the yolk sac, according to an image search. Actually, I'm not sure because the on Google description the yolk sac looked twice as big as the 7 week old fetus. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I cried and called for Michael who quickly ran into the bathroom. He walked me to the couch and we sat there as he held me. I told him that I wanted to call my mom shortly after. She cried too and told me she had a feeling I had been pregnant. While writing this recently in July 2020, I asked her if she remembered why she had that feeling but she doesn't. Maybe because I was texting her less in general since I didn’t want to give away the surprise and normally I text her a lot. I don’t know if it was from my current thought of it probably being because I complained about not being pregnant before that and then suddenly stopped texting her about it on March 13<sup>th </sup>when I took the test. But I don’t remember complaining about it taking so long to get pregnant until that summer when I was trying to get pregnant with Emma. Those six months felt like a very long time, but I know many couples have to keep trying for <i>years </i>or use IVF or adopt if needed. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I don’t know why, but I have always felt like Shrimp was a boy. I never named him. I always refer to him as Shrimp. Maybe I should give him a middle name: Shrimp Bartholomew Gore. Or Elliott or Emmett or Elijah. Those were the boy names we kind of liked when we weren’t yet sure of Emma’s gender. We like E names I guess. Also Bellamy- and Jeremy Charles was the first name we liked, even before wanting to have a baby. But, my cousin Jessica used that first and middle name five years ago when she had her second boy. Now it doesn’t matter... Oh-- while ready through all my <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2017/03/gender-reveal-finally.html" target="_blank"><b>pregnancy posts</b></a> with Emma, I found that we unofficially named him Christian Bellamy. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">It felt so wrong to flush him like a goldfish that has passed, but that’s what Michael did. I couldn’t be in the room. I probably cried while I heard the flush or maybe I asked Michael to wait for me to go outside. I don’t remember. Perhaps we should have buried him in a wash cloth in a grassy corner of our apartment complex, but I know I would stand and cry in that corner a lot. I didn’t truly make peace with having a miscarriage until I became pregnant with Emma almost 7 months later. And even then I was worried about losing her too. I once read about a woman who had <i>six </i>miscarriages before she was able to have a baby that was born big and healthy. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I later asked Michael if he was still mad about me not going to brunch, and he quickly answered, “No!” and seemed like he felt bad for not believing me in the first place. I did often cancel on hanging out with his friends or would purposely drive separately so I could leave after a couple hours. It wasn’t my type of environment. I can’t just sit there and talk for six hours. I need to be eating or walking or doing something! Multitasking. I can’t just be chill like that. I get antsy. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I called to make another doctor appointment to check everything after the fact. The receptionist asked the reason for the appointment and then also had to ask, “What makes you think you had a miscarriage?” I’m sure she hates asking that question, just like I cringe when we have to ask rape victims on 911 if there was penetration. It’s a required question and makes me feel so uncomfortable and embarrassed for the victim. I told the girl at the doctor’s office, “I had super bad cramps since last night and lots of bleeding and then the tiny fetus fell out of me into the toilet.”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">When we were at the appointment I got really upset internally when the same OBGYN woman said something like, “Sometimes people who have rare blood types have more problems getting pregnant. Like O negative.”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">My eyes widened. “I <i>am</i> O Negative.” I remember her kind of laughing and I hated that so much. It was probably more of a flustered or embarrassed laugh, but because of that fact, I got a RhoGAM shot that morning. I closed my eyes as she gave the shot in the muscle at the top of my butt, and saw that Michael’s eyes were so big. He told me, “That needle was no joke!”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">The way I learned it is that whatever blood type Shrimp had, my blood and body thought it was a disease or something bad, so it did what it needed to in order to get rid of it. :( Google says,“<span lang="EN" style="color: #212529;">Rh incompatibility happens when an expecting mom is Rh-negative and her baby is Rh-positive. If your baby’s blood comes into contact with yours during pregnancy or delivery, your body can build antibodies against the Rh factor, which can lead to complications.</span>” Stupid body not knowing the baby was there on purpose! I was verbally upset when we got back in the car, and I complained about her a lot, but Michael still felt like she was a good doctor (actually, I think she was listed as a midwife in the hospital’s computer system). So I gave her a second chance when I became pregnant with Emma and made sure to remind her of my blood type and needing the RhoGAM shot at my first appointment in November 2016, a week after Shrimp would have been born. By mid May 2017, a month before Emma was born, she was no longer with the practice and I was switched to the main doctor at the location, Dr. Feld, and he was the one who delivered Emma. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">According to my Instagram posts, after Shrimp went to Heaven, Michael bought me flowers and Sasha snuggled with me and my empty uterus. I remember talking to Michael on a walk about us getting chickens in the house we would buy. He really liked one that was only 15 minutes from my job on a road called Jamie Lane. Someone else bought the house before we got a chance to look inside. I asked if we could name one of the chickens Shrimp. I would easily go from laughing at the beginning of a sentence to crying at the end because of losing our baby. Being happy felt wrong, but I didn’t want to be sad forever. Now I wonder if Shrimp also would have had Meier-Gorlin Syndrome like Emma does?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6gyNsM4-BGUCizw_Md3g-YTgEd-8LuD5jOHAAbQcucfHKe3fGauI1dHBnsmqaNf4dETIzDIWl_NhkHN4RVd-FfRIi14CRQszzg6dvp1pwbNT6TnU07uEKX0RCFPy9bmCFaRHuBs18tnQ/s750/3A1AB068-4D5E-4F3F-BEA8-DC6C971FCF04.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6gyNsM4-BGUCizw_Md3g-YTgEd-8LuD5jOHAAbQcucfHKe3fGauI1dHBnsmqaNf4dETIzDIWl_NhkHN4RVd-FfRIi14CRQszzg6dvp1pwbNT6TnU07uEKX0RCFPy9bmCFaRHuBs18tnQ/s320/3A1AB068-4D5E-4F3F-BEA8-DC6C971FCF04.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6X5zmCIT4Iwg-AgprCJZ44xUh08dJQ1frX1UVDdTg8zCZjOghHHzIRZDRqqWFW6hwImPwZ6pFkpbDqaxdUBI5s1yPdFMionUPNeUEAcyz6FCv484mHlqGsORtI3uzKv4K1ygln3aLcxA/s933/B32A769F-220A-41A4-BB6E-C5F00258DCB1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6X5zmCIT4Iwg-AgprCJZ44xUh08dJQ1frX1UVDdTg8zCZjOghHHzIRZDRqqWFW6hwImPwZ6pFkpbDqaxdUBI5s1yPdFMionUPNeUEAcyz6FCv484mHlqGsORtI3uzKv4K1ygln3aLcxA/s320/B32A769F-220A-41A4-BB6E-C5F00258DCB1.JPG" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">One thing that made things more difficult after Shrimp, was finding out just a few days later that my sister-in-law Jacquie was pregnant again. I felt like I was really rude towards her when I visited my family that weekend, but she said she didn’t notice. My dad did though and we went for a walk and cried together. I couldn’t remember the last time I saw my dad cry. I guess at my wedding, I saw him wiping his eyes. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I had a full week off from work after the miscarriage because of my body being sick (I was still bleeding a lot and needed time to rest physically and emotionally) and then also had the following weekend previously approved off since my trainer was off because she was buying a house and getting things done for that. That's when we went up to Gainesville as I just mentioned. We also went to the <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/07/horse-farm.html" target="_blank">retired Horse Farm</a></b> with my family. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Anyway, when I back to work a few days later, I had to be back in my uniform. The supervisor, Cheryl, very cheerfully asked me if I was feeling better since I had called out sick two of the days. I closed her office door, sat down, and immediately started crying and told her about my miscarriage. A few minutes later when I signed in to my computer, my trainer Kim asked the same thing. I held my composure a little better, but was a tad snippy as I held back tears and said something like, "I'm back in my uniform if that tells you anything." She was quiet for a little bit unless I needed help on work stuff and then when things calmed down later in the night she shared that she has four healthy kids, but she had a miscarriage between each one. How terrible!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuD6P5l9JOGWB_sts55QUhwwdZhLIOjNjYXt_KabkOV1LbFLC1M4q5eUm0vNIvkuVtUn-prm4Hux-VRG2gFc0ewGqy3S-XWEdVd7Ck5rwZMUtiGeD2960Nn9xLG8fmPI2QREoQ08pKfag/s750/B0C896F8-DBCD-4CEC-97B8-0BCA34F419AB.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuD6P5l9JOGWB_sts55QUhwwdZhLIOjNjYXt_KabkOV1LbFLC1M4q5eUm0vNIvkuVtUn-prm4Hux-VRG2gFc0ewGqy3S-XWEdVd7Ck5rwZMUtiGeD2960Nn9xLG8fmPI2QREoQ08pKfag/s320/B0C896F8-DBCD-4CEC-97B8-0BCA34F419AB.JPG" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifTPEmsNWXrBLcmhI5f7CGRBkRCNBmSJtRzSAkbyNPkzjnWPCiX9TW_JqplJ0PUer_hK36kO3k1UjKd6JVS-qPIWhLRtxmVLWEi4UGc8EsAOvoeV9_eMzxMDpxm2bfl5BFD1rrGtfU0-A/s747/2522E4FB-A5CC-414B-A81E-DF45292F3560.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="747" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifTPEmsNWXrBLcmhI5f7CGRBkRCNBmSJtRzSAkbyNPkzjnWPCiX9TW_JqplJ0PUer_hK36kO3k1UjKd6JVS-qPIWhLRtxmVLWEi4UGc8EsAOvoeV9_eMzxMDpxm2bfl5BFD1rrGtfU0-A/s320/2522E4FB-A5CC-414B-A81E-DF45292F3560.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwbLtLtqGSmElwdw5kWs6vO-6wqTkEOx6q32lhypyqFDVgfeQPbynM6NPKDtrG5eRid_ZtQ8hOZqwTApgn_O8rScS59Jwr3xYRWlm4TQ8chh4rtiSl2F03qw9TpvOKIL-iMa69qQm1KE0/s750/D707C0C8-EA8B-4283-BD15-4B56DE667F08.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwbLtLtqGSmElwdw5kWs6vO-6wqTkEOx6q32lhypyqFDVgfeQPbynM6NPKDtrG5eRid_ZtQ8hOZqwTApgn_O8rScS59Jwr3xYRWlm4TQ8chh4rtiSl2F03qw9TpvOKIL-iMa69qQm1KE0/s320/D707C0C8-EA8B-4283-BD15-4B56DE667F08.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Y2dbRGZW-BjbJwzX6k4tmBQzk0Q4yMpybFfmX8Z1Ym2dSIxsu5j6iXP49cD3PkMn0YHkF_jIOfRDyqwcID2U6r6pUKoRy03VPqpUDwqUS757AnpADMO0MJGxJZxP34DBTbiYdTZupCk/s750/4CFF2D7D-BE71-4CF6-8AF4-9FFCC61F3C6D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Y2dbRGZW-BjbJwzX6k4tmBQzk0Q4yMpybFfmX8Z1Ym2dSIxsu5j6iXP49cD3PkMn0YHkF_jIOfRDyqwcID2U6r6pUKoRy03VPqpUDwqUS757AnpADMO0MJGxJZxP34DBTbiYdTZupCk/s320/4CFF2D7D-BE71-4CF6-8AF4-9FFCC61F3C6D.JPG" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-_tZEaTh6_A4sYvhyphenhypheniT54ZOGoYZsIdKwbYwNMr4FcstJBjph3AE8WBMWL8rI9e6uJuNBqg-AveMyFNTJzz2yB4RNhJH6zjUKyZ3hvO_ASgsX0rse-BH81jOnu24EpYXvYAEf1oohBMV8/s750/876A38BC-3F3E-4426-B7FF-56DE6949C2F0.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-_tZEaTh6_A4sYvhyphenhypheniT54ZOGoYZsIdKwbYwNMr4FcstJBjph3AE8WBMWL8rI9e6uJuNBqg-AveMyFNTJzz2yB4RNhJH6zjUKyZ3hvO_ASgsX0rse-BH81jOnu24EpYXvYAEf1oohBMV8/s320/876A38BC-3F3E-4426-B7FF-56DE6949C2F0.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> I know it can be hard to know what to say to someone who has dealt with an unexpected loss, but I loved the way my friends gave their support in ways they knew how: my penpal Jenn asked if it was okay if she could notify a group she knew if who sends care packages to women who have suffered miscarriages, I said yes and received a handful of items in the mail a few weeks later. My favorite part was the small drawing of Jesus holding a baby that I still have framed in my scrapbook room. My friend Lindsey mailed me a pretty necklace she made with my first initial on it for my first born. Mia joined me and Michael at Universal for Mardi Gras- my first big, fun outing. Reminding myself that it was okay to keep going in life and laugh again even though life still felt hard. And, of course, it was so good having Michael through every thing. He didn’t express his sadness or disappointment in loss as much I openly did, but years later he told me he cried a lot about Shrimp too. Even though it was a very sad event, I honestly felt like we had never been closer or more in love than we were during that time. </span></p></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-4568466641361344512020-10-13T13:51:00.007-07:002020-10-13T14:39:53.284-07:00Michael's 32nd Birthday<p> I was very happy to be off on Michael's birthday this year (yesterday). For the past few years I have always had to work, so we'd go out to eat the weekend before his birthday, and the night of his birthday we'd rush to open his presents before doing Emma's trach care and me needing to get ready to go to bed early for work the next day. So I wanted to make a big deal this year and I'm glad we were able to have a fun family day, even with everything going on in the world.</p><p> Emma's riding side saddle on her unicorn and then signing "all done" so I'd take her off. We were getting ourselves ready before we got her ready and I had to stop my make up every minute when she'd crawl too far forward and disconnect her vent tubing. She's a mover now for sure!! Big 3 year old (and 4 months).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9QbcvhdqM8mJiZHFVn2_TwC5GeIAZoPrMS2ygcKklEMhNpaJd5of9qJn9snKdr-j6SfHWb36YuZpszqA3fwyOsGLgsp_297PcgtZCNysRT59i-FLXi6W2fZ61SJz-jUeblQr1m5Saqgc/s2016/IMG_5481.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9QbcvhdqM8mJiZHFVn2_TwC5GeIAZoPrMS2ygcKklEMhNpaJd5of9qJn9snKdr-j6SfHWb36YuZpszqA3fwyOsGLgsp_297PcgtZCNysRT59i-FLXi6W2fZ61SJz-jUeblQr1m5Saqgc/w480-h640/IMG_5481.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGay_PMHYsxsHhWp730i0IJPI9RHcTnPQxVXMPNKDYn3U8bsPEMzUBdIAEP9arPDbTGohVfjDgdgwETagzL03meq6n27xpFE83f5h7aMYMt9PKV88qSvLJs4VVADFYi8A0SEHTcMsLBg/s2016/IMG_5484.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCGay_PMHYsxsHhWp730i0IJPI9RHcTnPQxVXMPNKDYn3U8bsPEMzUBdIAEP9arPDbTGohVfjDgdgwETagzL03meq6n27xpFE83f5h7aMYMt9PKV88qSvLJs4VVADFYi8A0SEHTcMsLBg/w480-h640/IMG_5484.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiJHa9wDDkMn96JVnfCpOH-yexy89Rah4VhMVgpLEh2sPrUFLXonHjsxg8ZWrmI5xUaLSYxRe47dpmlFQZG71EUuIOLqgaKnWdgtbDOzb027U0BX-jitAoxhmAXCc4w0IY8zysOpK7HgM/s2016/IMG_5487.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiJHa9wDDkMn96JVnfCpOH-yexy89Rah4VhMVgpLEh2sPrUFLXonHjsxg8ZWrmI5xUaLSYxRe47dpmlFQZG71EUuIOLqgaKnWdgtbDOzb027U0BX-jitAoxhmAXCc4w0IY8zysOpK7HgM/w480-h640/IMG_5487.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9i3MjrXl22FDwSW_OfjhZ7hAOye0wTc2YrACzzrDbyIYqB3EDQ0Q0RTnbSr_tpidOOXdtFRNFz71e2CVugvFi-96fsUpLkkJtGihDDe5SqYH5P4TwjGDTr9qNC7nrI315304_o_2tIF8/s1544/IMG_5488.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9i3MjrXl22FDwSW_OfjhZ7hAOye0wTc2YrACzzrDbyIYqB3EDQ0Q0RTnbSr_tpidOOXdtFRNFz71e2CVugvFi-96fsUpLkkJtGihDDe5SqYH5P4TwjGDTr9qNC7nrI315304_o_2tIF8/w482-h640/IMG_5488.jpg" width="482" /></a></div> DIY blowout. Is that what it's called? And is that what it would look like if I got it done at a salon? I don't even know. "The dog" is still around too. 13 years old now. And her name is Sasha, by the way, not Sophie. Haha! <i>*cough Alex cough*</i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvPdR5hyphenhyphenozwF98cWQLhbx8YsTqCk1eiSqDLSqJKbolzW02Fc7avBmT8j2gG0E4vfeEt2QlJXhw0J7ET-Xu0eOBh3zq3IcY63xXuggojzyzuYc691xH4yFl6spmt_Rl32wN7UCrBb91n38/s1544/IMG_5491.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvPdR5hyphenhyphenozwF98cWQLhbx8YsTqCk1eiSqDLSqJKbolzW02Fc7avBmT8j2gG0E4vfeEt2QlJXhw0J7ET-Xu0eOBh3zq3IcY63xXuggojzyzuYc691xH4yFl6spmt_Rl32wN7UCrBb91n38/w482-h640/IMG_5491.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcBFqVIrABPYDUwxbIaMRpS-6W7CduDtfjl9Xw4jpBt_JvZHpBpFQJb7O9BoF1ZgTqu3BIRZxteqeDMNPvz_x3SVGpmFCLugNFH7v5Sw75o5llOW8-uBKjj9BfXpWIgOoyWRBdhztffa4/s1544/IMG_5497.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcBFqVIrABPYDUwxbIaMRpS-6W7CduDtfjl9Xw4jpBt_JvZHpBpFQJb7O9BoF1ZgTqu3BIRZxteqeDMNPvz_x3SVGpmFCLugNFH7v5Sw75o5llOW8-uBKjj9BfXpWIgOoyWRBdhztffa4/w482-h640/IMG_5497.jpg" width="482" /></a></div> There he is!! :)<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfW-5NdyOFyQSJOlRkdCElCL15MUb2DUYzSphVPA4kXRSZ0ff0uzlWXmPY5Y_nmYCO2xAQzUaxXfJwZUN78vcc8IzYXalkR3rq2DXUP6PFRLc3Et__l1yo4ro-R9mHbDd50kSex7ROQ-I/s1544/IMG_5501.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="1544" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfW-5NdyOFyQSJOlRkdCElCL15MUb2DUYzSphVPA4kXRSZ0ff0uzlWXmPY5Y_nmYCO2xAQzUaxXfJwZUN78vcc8IzYXalkR3rq2DXUP6PFRLc3Et__l1yo4ro-R9mHbDd50kSex7ROQ-I/w640-h482/IMG_5501.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LEsWy4OBp41AiSa6t3Agv6QK28VYkByYaWvCDVL36sPjLGpjUj7fHhbATNwD051_XSkGDhE1Znl-EvGX2ikgpw-dISeD7jV97ckUatTN5HNwf51M6-FtF5FUo3aAK7Oos3GWXrhswkA/s2016/IMG_5508.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5LEsWy4OBp41AiSa6t3Agv6QK28VYkByYaWvCDVL36sPjLGpjUj7fHhbATNwD051_XSkGDhE1Znl-EvGX2ikgpw-dISeD7jV97ckUatTN5HNwf51M6-FtF5FUo3aAK7Oos3GWXrhswkA/w480-h640/IMG_5508.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFYVUVjN_wZtIdtvNKTcbMdhX_JRhfQf6bBwFPeHClhsmtMlxCkBnzWFysUhRnDXC23MfvCXuTXqg1jIHTGRq-jzQrjQGrSq9M1iU4siCyknrjG13P5eQhJn_N39Bi7mettZVtE23CK5Q/s2016/IMG_5509.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFYVUVjN_wZtIdtvNKTcbMdhX_JRhfQf6bBwFPeHClhsmtMlxCkBnzWFysUhRnDXC23MfvCXuTXqg1jIHTGRq-jzQrjQGrSq9M1iU4siCyknrjG13P5eQhJn_N39Bi7mettZVtE23CK5Q/w480-h640/IMG_5509.jpg" width="480" /></a></div> Holding my hand in her sleep as we drove through Windermere to get to our first fun destination!<div><br /><div>At work a few weeks ago we got an email saying essential workers get free entry to Wonderworks through the end of November. We originally planned to go 10 days earlier, but Michael needed to run a bunch of errands (I think that was when he was finishing up the drain project in my bathroom) so we went for his birthday instead. We both got in for free since Essential Workers obviously include <i>first </i>first responders and teachers! Emma's age 0-3 ticket was free. We only had to pay five dollars for parking. We both agreed that the experience was worth the free tickets, haha! Michael's review was, "Pretty sure after we went last time (in summer 2011?) I said I didn't need to go back. And I definitely don't need to go back now. It was smaller than I remembered." Haha, but he didn't have a <i>bad</i> time. And the main reason I want to do lots of stuff is for Emma to experience new things with her eyes and ears. She didn't touch anything there. #germs. And we brought our own medical gloves to wear most of the time. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPTJDMXmhKV1P122mTECnld1clVmijKp2RE4vw_gHxwfvzvq3hOnfORDsCaQHizpAA42l4P2QTpI-eTdReR0H7ET5Pdqj-aHjvdHLWimb0uZ_dgXFtBGGFXQT0lP3_12nYWvsthotM40o/s2016/IMG_5511.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPTJDMXmhKV1P122mTECnld1clVmijKp2RE4vw_gHxwfvzvq3hOnfORDsCaQHizpAA42l4P2QTpI-eTdReR0H7ET5Pdqj-aHjvdHLWimb0uZ_dgXFtBGGFXQT0lP3_12nYWvsthotM40o/w640-h480/IMG_5511.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS4SfeIGQfwofbNdOVsCHnSmwn3Mr5oDs728uz8ZTIo6OIEQ3pnX4HfGpSmsCuxKgDSgcesBjsp-2lgA4kDABvybXjiMKK6u7PJ4Au9SIeh3xcs6-hHbJocJIQM41uxOAV3b8NJaLipUQ/s2016/IMG_5515.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS4SfeIGQfwofbNdOVsCHnSmwn3Mr5oDs728uz8ZTIo6OIEQ3pnX4HfGpSmsCuxKgDSgcesBjsp-2lgA4kDABvybXjiMKK6u7PJ4Au9SIeh3xcs6-hHbJocJIQM41uxOAV3b8NJaLipUQ/w480-h640/IMG_5515.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDpfZxhHTglCIoCVljioCP0gG0ENDWjU6UOmy1FhS6v0yxhCi-MmNBkZUz1XpsJnBbdDtLvoe0TuCTUNVhPMz7NFjct8SRUOLBHn92DW5OV-MWIan6rH_hrH1fLfZ38ShcTZ8HH8zcFr0/s2016/IMG_5516.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDpfZxhHTglCIoCVljioCP0gG0ENDWjU6UOmy1FhS6v0yxhCi-MmNBkZUz1XpsJnBbdDtLvoe0TuCTUNVhPMz7NFjct8SRUOLBHn92DW5OV-MWIan6rH_hrH1fLfZ38ShcTZ8HH8zcFr0/w640-h480/IMG_5516.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE7iPYpUdYGpQlkSV5rmIcnBpsVPdndS2iZo-0scshjf-Zq2JtCuvX9A1hs33vSwQiX7ZDLNW25i2he_quRD3Qkj4iIu1jQZ46ZD20bmlcvUXbHyHg6PR9QCU0c8EZRGTd5G0xaj7uHBs/s1904/IMG_5519.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1904" data-original-width="1428" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE7iPYpUdYGpQlkSV5rmIcnBpsVPdndS2iZo-0scshjf-Zq2JtCuvX9A1hs33vSwQiX7ZDLNW25i2he_quRD3Qkj4iIu1jQZ46ZD20bmlcvUXbHyHg6PR9QCU0c8EZRGTd5G0xaj7uHBs/w480-h640/IMG_5519.jpg" width="480" /></a></div> ^^ water droplets dripping upwards! </div><div> I was excited for her to sit at the Earthquake table with us because she <i>loves</i> when she's sitting on her trach table and we shake it really fast like she's on a roller coaster. She laughs a lot. But this time it was roped off with an employee attendant and there was a 4-foot height requirement. That's dwarf-ist! :p</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY8L0K_42oTgxwTKmg4SYAHcD8l7TUmciDQCjjj3XATDmgS5JMiGCSyFfnR6W4tCGD26fmqH4bwY61142NOSKq1xL5f6G-vC3ZhtV95oYOYgIKzZclmAJVXjtf_VfdNgOsmqAhWlCZHVA/s2016/IMG_5521.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY8L0K_42oTgxwTKmg4SYAHcD8l7TUmciDQCjjj3XATDmgS5JMiGCSyFfnR6W4tCGD26fmqH4bwY61142NOSKq1xL5f6G-vC3ZhtV95oYOYgIKzZclmAJVXjtf_VfdNgOsmqAhWlCZHVA/w480-h640/IMG_5521.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLvFepaRlS2pH236GkNU04Jk2o4VdhudL9Qda0Aiw_1U-Q303zWI7OEAkcL_1vLAZSpD0xZth_EJi7ulOgrQR8qwAZCcf72JudYdHdLbhbcQuwh4berg5PxyaqJTVUtikjYiO7wnXJfqM/s2016/IMG_5522.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLvFepaRlS2pH236GkNU04Jk2o4VdhudL9Qda0Aiw_1U-Q303zWI7OEAkcL_1vLAZSpD0xZth_EJi7ulOgrQR8qwAZCcf72JudYdHdLbhbcQuwh4berg5PxyaqJTVUtikjYiO7wnXJfqM/w480-h640/IMG_5522.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ7RwBs8JRQ8NqXTRH4ImybcS0VwOwDAk0DSKpyaEO4kvN-16lsboHa4N2TFrfXSlLQdJYL8LglkZbn1VewyYs1qQa6em_Ydp0hXrbjBnWEbwn9W6WyM1UnNSLUsqcFe2vgQPbm0o4QqY/s2016/IMG_5524.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ7RwBs8JRQ8NqXTRH4ImybcS0VwOwDAk0DSKpyaEO4kvN-16lsboHa4N2TFrfXSlLQdJYL8LglkZbn1VewyYs1qQa6em_Ydp0hXrbjBnWEbwn9W6WyM1UnNSLUsqcFe2vgQPbm0o4QqY/w480-h640/IMG_5524.jpg" width="480" /></a></div> These family photos were taken by an employee after she took pictures of us in front of a green screen. We did a regular photo, scared photo, silly photo, and a hugging photo. Later we got to see them with different backgrounds. Michael and I both liked the scary one where we were in a graveyard, but the pictures were $10 or $15 each and we specifically wanted it on one of the magnets, but they couldn't do that unless we bought all four photos first. And we didn't like the one photo enough to buy an 8x10 of it. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_6XfUZ9YwhIy9CHZHvopGb4plO52KoF2p8BZbebFBqzlliTFiKa74W8rHIHzIE9LThpPy5aN__qn0CPelDFEvN3eO8TlrHNHmTCMHojHQSkXGO1I-XYmaP_8j0_ZcKx4hmXMMkUqY_Kg/s2016/IMG_5526.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_6XfUZ9YwhIy9CHZHvopGb4plO52KoF2p8BZbebFBqzlliTFiKa74W8rHIHzIE9LThpPy5aN__qn0CPelDFEvN3eO8TlrHNHmTCMHojHQSkXGO1I-XYmaP_8j0_ZcKx4hmXMMkUqY_Kg/w640-h480/IMG_5526.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidSr-7Edf9iR2g7YjWJeQ2w3z_1GSVEZa5KCIQTx1IgRkhyphenhyphenZXAsmuYANSE2658fck2cl_Eg1mb5YD_y-nmb1szDb_8u7-Hock519C-jNxOOnxCD4_n051Rgeg2WPbQOvIkCEsEIOnFNlc/s2016/IMG_5532.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidSr-7Edf9iR2g7YjWJeQ2w3z_1GSVEZa5KCIQTx1IgRkhyphenhyphenZXAsmuYANSE2658fck2cl_Eg1mb5YD_y-nmb1szDb_8u7-Hock519C-jNxOOnxCD4_n051Rgeg2WPbQOvIkCEsEIOnFNlc/w640-h480/IMG_5532.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvmbwbIpCNB7NCjN5W9ZalOGi7PqW0fKS7L0_DHEOuQWO5HIjA0utqdsbdMiDmwgpNutxISPQfC_qW0qKWUuQBNMxZVaZuan5U8dYrMtY7R_lqzhqhkAjuifB9jjb9FbTmIZ-3zIZFB4c/s2016/IMG_5534.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvmbwbIpCNB7NCjN5W9ZalOGi7PqW0fKS7L0_DHEOuQWO5HIjA0utqdsbdMiDmwgpNutxISPQfC_qW0qKWUuQBNMxZVaZuan5U8dYrMtY7R_lqzhqhkAjuifB9jjb9FbTmIZ-3zIZFB4c/w640-h480/IMG_5534.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjl4IhAeVEDmBMHRdMRMfljG_ta5DQzrsJEsnumPyuiXy4LrfrL_YZSKW6B-yLDeGnPjM0RDatSBidk0b6292TZHvhpSFO8ApRtkw6VVc6yO3fskE4zQlSNf5cGx8_4nPZ5HUL7nrib6E/s2016/IMG_5540.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjl4IhAeVEDmBMHRdMRMfljG_ta5DQzrsJEsnumPyuiXy4LrfrL_YZSKW6B-yLDeGnPjM0RDatSBidk0b6292TZHvhpSFO8ApRtkw6VVc6yO3fskE4zQlSNf5cGx8_4nPZ5HUL7nrib6E/w640-h480/IMG_5540.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> In the photo below, Emma was on a pulley chair. I pulled on the heavy rope several times and her seat slowly lifted up, causing her to look confused, but then laugh. :)<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQgs0hefIwTtvp58WXDBmHzRYKuwpVUAFb7djiTP6qDJV01p1iGzwu-KtL_jHaBshorGmDbQjT6-KRY7R987Ji0GotWkSLg2u7kLPatuyzsIyZH0fFn_55GKssJH-WuIstJNEwT2eruqw/s1544/IMG_5543.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQgs0hefIwTtvp58WXDBmHzRYKuwpVUAFb7djiTP6qDJV01p1iGzwu-KtL_jHaBshorGmDbQjT6-KRY7R987Ji0GotWkSLg2u7kLPatuyzsIyZH0fFn_55GKssJH-WuIstJNEwT2eruqw/w482-h640/IMG_5543.jpg" width="482" /></a></div> Just relaxing in a bed of 3,500 (?) nails, no big deal. I wonder if Massage Envy has this? ;)<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiFaewXi1w7SsIAZHHasVqVAsQiZmNpoWzEVf9AjZ5OCifNlzGe-nJO-bcwEgHLeK2P3MQ8FRGj7wY4tjcFQh6Vn4KgGnUaAjPWx1xa_nceufqjo30KDkawjzM7EDgPHCWxiMHEfruy-w/s2016/IMG_5545.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiFaewXi1w7SsIAZHHasVqVAsQiZmNpoWzEVf9AjZ5OCifNlzGe-nJO-bcwEgHLeK2P3MQ8FRGj7wY4tjcFQh6Vn4KgGnUaAjPWx1xa_nceufqjo30KDkawjzM7EDgPHCWxiMHEfruy-w/w640-h480/IMG_5545.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdWwEPZOYSNEc_aAbC4nDRKHgsGywaOMuvL9XVbEVYV7XTDelvkGyMPKzKCPbnNOQgxnO4WULa7fP8C3j9PSBQGHwYVMVnRU2wWdZpPmyCuaWLYip0u7tTYu8YnCAlSlehN2C1RQftZdQ/s2016/IMG_5547.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdWwEPZOYSNEc_aAbC4nDRKHgsGywaOMuvL9XVbEVYV7XTDelvkGyMPKzKCPbnNOQgxnO4WULa7fP8C3j9PSBQGHwYVMVnRU2wWdZpPmyCuaWLYip0u7tTYu8YnCAlSlehN2C1RQftZdQ/w640-h480/IMG_5547.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFuTo6etMw8LEIFFMHsqx6-Ng-ppJboEnmatxCP6iVoUE6lcrhuvLfe0meooN85ZPJu6j9jm6M1cG0cWV75yXnNnKgK3QckQRY5x0jCJgAXK7TgErOiUqV-RLZA5WCJkj0knaEUdv53L8/s2016/IMG_5554.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFuTo6etMw8LEIFFMHsqx6-Ng-ppJboEnmatxCP6iVoUE6lcrhuvLfe0meooN85ZPJu6j9jm6M1cG0cWV75yXnNnKgK3QckQRY5x0jCJgAXK7TgErOiUqV-RLZA5WCJkj0knaEUdv53L8/w480-h640/IMG_5554.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6-hiRu1pU2josdztsCBJhdmvBP4CjHRZh-UrBNzRmkbHlbAn2zp9cEHAfTgCYH8rRdc-etpT12Z3fDkzenDegsfTqQOAtNI3dSDXCKfvyxaQ_LfRlpnXvtW-12VUc1hRE7Mm2te62ot8/s2016/IMG_5556.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6-hiRu1pU2josdztsCBJhdmvBP4CjHRZh-UrBNzRmkbHlbAn2zp9cEHAfTgCYH8rRdc-etpT12Z3fDkzenDegsfTqQOAtNI3dSDXCKfvyxaQ_LfRlpnXvtW-12VUc1hRE7Mm2te62ot8/w480-h640/IMG_5556.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyjD2QhTPh1u4DpEfm0UOM00EMwyG6EkqIL5zqXq81SqR8sW0QyjoxrvK4MWLaxfhV4c1cj4dl4g1zb6U3x3YPWZ02QC9eoDwzgN852DVaf6KUjmY6xi6bPBMVNaErOpsO1CnLnMKHNEw/s2016/IMG_5558.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyjD2QhTPh1u4DpEfm0UOM00EMwyG6EkqIL5zqXq81SqR8sW0QyjoxrvK4MWLaxfhV4c1cj4dl4g1zb6U3x3YPWZ02QC9eoDwzgN852DVaf6KUjmY6xi6bPBMVNaErOpsO1CnLnMKHNEw/w480-h640/IMG_5558.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw7Tv9w5G-xRJZatqu1oekdH30ENg9OdJbYEAV79fETwjsbT0JF-D4xNkp7160a0zQmbjoaXuviJeJIxG2y-6W2edped74VydAcTwzTxi2IStbzPY1oVJHUnf-sGS_TqfkMj7LYta51AQ/s2016/IMG_5562.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw7Tv9w5G-xRJZatqu1oekdH30ENg9OdJbYEAV79fETwjsbT0JF-D4xNkp7160a0zQmbjoaXuviJeJIxG2y-6W2edped74VydAcTwzTxi2IStbzPY1oVJHUnf-sGS_TqfkMj7LYta51AQ/w640-h480/IMG_5562.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> Playing music with my feet! We should have brought Emma's AFOs! ;)<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPpAlV1l-EJBPVso7PSC1J8Cs5jUtm3Tg6MAZWcR9GpkogVfsWR6HNm556NjNma4yEWlZY4F0hNyN8XI9EHAziXwfeh6MY7UwypUGlxnaiBN0QVWbGmum84QwiCS7jccuycwanm3XqcOA/s2016/IMG_5564.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPpAlV1l-EJBPVso7PSC1J8Cs5jUtm3Tg6MAZWcR9GpkogVfsWR6HNm556NjNma4yEWlZY4F0hNyN8XI9EHAziXwfeh6MY7UwypUGlxnaiBN0QVWbGmum84QwiCS7jccuycwanm3XqcOA/w640-h480/IMG_5564.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjBp0dVCN8T01mHybKA2gxAR2mEsYk95wUNmNvTdWNW8eChn1l6UdmCYbFdzagqr58KA_G1-lNYB1F_l3dntHaa3x_o1An_XhbnG6-HBF3I8OJwesm_HGzcohDFOjpAAuvxo3TZ5_1yo/s2016/IMG_5566.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjBp0dVCN8T01mHybKA2gxAR2mEsYk95wUNmNvTdWNW8eChn1l6UdmCYbFdzagqr58KA_G1-lNYB1F_l3dntHaa3x_o1An_XhbnG6-HBF3I8OJwesm_HGzcohDFOjpAAuvxo3TZ5_1yo/w480-h640/IMG_5566.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic00OH7zVdUM5Amxm0HhdfRJuzuTS7uAIGpBrXb1wUSJBHWRJ4X6NtceQRAfQaeml1R8N-Hcncf3UIg_fXoosVqziNnMdmJCeqtcQLdfveOH-Of83BhR5ijwzuUgmw1xAUMU04oW4uS2Y/s2016/IMG_5568.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic00OH7zVdUM5Amxm0HhdfRJuzuTS7uAIGpBrXb1wUSJBHWRJ4X6NtceQRAfQaeml1R8N-Hcncf3UIg_fXoosVqziNnMdmJCeqtcQLdfveOH-Of83BhR5ijwzuUgmw1xAUMU04oW4uS2Y/w480-h640/IMG_5568.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VyTZws143zlDtNubr1fxsj1p6GRmu52BmqmYDn-He4zt1IKEKCxpXwxSDvrVhqqYyh7yJe74qFDdWXHuj5fMOr-gM_-K1fosP2bOS8DAYI4MdMieOWU4AoU9ac_KVAH4nKCgOG0jNnI/s2016/IMG_5572.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VyTZws143zlDtNubr1fxsj1p6GRmu52BmqmYDn-He4zt1IKEKCxpXwxSDvrVhqqYyh7yJe74qFDdWXHuj5fMOr-gM_-K1fosP2bOS8DAYI4MdMieOWU4AoU9ac_KVAH4nKCgOG0jNnI/w480-h640/IMG_5572.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpecOSoAVZKKLTtnzITPTAAv8Ro8WM9KaG_znx9WtwC9-V0Itf5nbz_Fkr3-UZTbyKPBoFjSG2qy2A7-WYHwgEWalBZzcSwCPJuEZJ4We6TA66tM-CfSEtnlzj7n50vqhJSrwOLeuiTOI/s2016/IMG_5574.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpecOSoAVZKKLTtnzITPTAAv8Ro8WM9KaG_znx9WtwC9-V0Itf5nbz_Fkr3-UZTbyKPBoFjSG2qy2A7-WYHwgEWalBZzcSwCPJuEZJ4We6TA66tM-CfSEtnlzj7n50vqhJSrwOLeuiTOI/w480-h640/IMG_5574.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXK4Yr4JxRZBF3hHSuyqocPPxgXfeCnqSFkV5SaO-Rg2vGy0fCmaWTOf4yWWYTiJd6sumFIAs2N77Uu2lApNwMEWJ4-6bVENRZ6JxNSZeeZbTKQYSEaEsMYTULikpD6Ds2je64OyHtwX8/s2016/IMG_5576.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXK4Yr4JxRZBF3hHSuyqocPPxgXfeCnqSFkV5SaO-Rg2vGy0fCmaWTOf4yWWYTiJd6sumFIAs2N77Uu2lApNwMEWJ4-6bVENRZ6JxNSZeeZbTKQYSEaEsMYTULikpD6Ds2je64OyHtwX8/w480-h640/IMG_5576.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvkfvVIXfUupxg6PYJA3Y7iRXW7dygw25o1KTHLGkRPRtH1zrgiXmBqlGh747brj98YCj_JQ-uJQWcBnMAXmJmytPZpDbFyr9JHYhooIiZ_J-Qrq7NwaDZLHSNX0oRbN58dIETvm3yoQc/s2016/IMG_5580.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvkfvVIXfUupxg6PYJA3Y7iRXW7dygw25o1KTHLGkRPRtH1zrgiXmBqlGh747brj98YCj_JQ-uJQWcBnMAXmJmytPZpDbFyr9JHYhooIiZ_J-Qrq7NwaDZLHSNX0oRbN58dIETvm3yoQc/w480-h640/IMG_5580.jpg" width="480" /></a></div> Now time for dinner! Our first time actually eating inside of a restaurant together since the Corona Virus outbreak. Well, Michael and Emma's first time. I have safely gone out with my parents a handful of times over the summer. Other than that, we have ordered food to go and ate at home since March. I'm not even sure we went out to eat in January or February since I don't have any pictures of it on Instagram. :p <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7JsDZWXqZzWRQfkalSUO5KQJbp0MHqXLAiYlImiz8UJfeCb2NUhKRZF58XdT8bK9YeyiQWg49cF2UdjANQu-fHSb4rpsiJ2LuKdGmLdrgZ3Bt00Ks-sAr5YapmquRWVRcnjHHfcIwhg/s2016/IMG_5581.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg7JsDZWXqZzWRQfkalSUO5KQJbp0MHqXLAiYlImiz8UJfeCb2NUhKRZF58XdT8bK9YeyiQWg49cF2UdjANQu-fHSb4rpsiJ2LuKdGmLdrgZ3Bt00Ks-sAr5YapmquRWVRcnjHHfcIwhg/w640-h480/IMG_5581.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs2k_1zaNvwMuoFND63kHJNNGuyB3_NMZbgRwlLjhPUCSlPvXAEMSocC7H2U_p-YhP_3z4DexElF5eCt1ymDuoUf8TLt2Gv0uhB5JDSBx6X6NGL38FUHbDj0wmwhCvNM4C-RvxQwa6-PI/s1544/IMG_5583.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs2k_1zaNvwMuoFND63kHJNNGuyB3_NMZbgRwlLjhPUCSlPvXAEMSocC7H2U_p-YhP_3z4DexElF5eCt1ymDuoUf8TLt2Gv0uhB5JDSBx6X6NGL38FUHbDj0wmwhCvNM4C-RvxQwa6-PI/w482-h640/IMG_5583.jpg" width="482" /></a></div> ^^ I really like this photo of us with the sun in the corner.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU2XuSmvzhqYd9nPS4YTsTVFKaBjW1x7eWJOAGWDi-usrvGjX8Mc7KAZlDyGl6SrCUGq4L_10HMu0yn9GRBG-cHt1wxsqokX9N5Z3rBSe5hUkT_p5IGLJkK-2d1pHyXDCgzBRP4AapTeQ/s2016/IMG_5585.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU2XuSmvzhqYd9nPS4YTsTVFKaBjW1x7eWJOAGWDi-usrvGjX8Mc7KAZlDyGl6SrCUGq4L_10HMu0yn9GRBG-cHt1wxsqokX9N5Z3rBSe5hUkT_p5IGLJkK-2d1pHyXDCgzBRP4AapTeQ/w480-h640/IMG_5585.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-g_eM9GOit8rxK18rmSY3yvb4idIb4UVC-Uz48ou62OEqyg3Vd-KSB4ED4OgwCD_0r9PjefljIZOvIVNW_ukrOlYxg3SIuuZ863M8nPTQ6HR-dsfvazYDkpz2-Tjh0qp3T1vDfvkV10/s2016/IMG_5587.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw-g_eM9GOit8rxK18rmSY3yvb4idIb4UVC-Uz48ou62OEqyg3Vd-KSB4ED4OgwCD_0r9PjefljIZOvIVNW_ukrOlYxg3SIuuZ863M8nPTQ6HR-dsfvazYDkpz2-Tjh0qp3T1vDfvkV10/w480-h640/IMG_5587.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs0N6IgBWCAGFPIfpOEFYZJw8PBOYfoO91CqiytlYP3K0sjJ3_qaOBGipRYLnwTlQIKH89zNHIiL8rXoi1ge91WhT1-Df4xI1KqTqWLT63gZohkPx75anhrfYYh73_t9IPAnC2V70vQAA/s2016/IMG_5592.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs0N6IgBWCAGFPIfpOEFYZJw8PBOYfoO91CqiytlYP3K0sjJ3_qaOBGipRYLnwTlQIKH89zNHIiL8rXoi1ge91WhT1-Df4xI1KqTqWLT63gZohkPx75anhrfYYh73_t9IPAnC2V70vQAA/w480-h640/IMG_5592.jpg" width="480" /></a></div> We had the whole area to ourselves. Maybe because it was only 4pm? Another couple sat down later. Michael estimated their table to be at least 20 feet away. Far enough that we couldn't even hear their conversation. And even though the governor said restaurants could go back to serving at full capacity, it looks like Cooper's Hawk is still serving at 50%, according to us seeing the "this table has been cleaned" cards on every other table... (on half of the tables, not on <i>all</i> of the other tables). And of course all of the servers had their black cloth masks on the whole time. We kept ours on too until our food came. And it said they throw the menus out after each use. Poor trees! Welcome to Teletype, haha! </div><div> I had been wanting to go on a date with Michael very badly for a long time, so this was very nice and much needed for my heart. It was so nice talking to him and for an uninterrupted hour without having to get up to do some other chore or let the dog back in the house, or putting my food away early to take my shower, or whatever the reason usually is for why our home dates get cut short. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhehbQgJba67t5d6bKdgwPs9d8jJ64KLTGmZAGJe-1TOcll-Zdy8Pv6Fb2YiKmLFiIZblLMgl2_3ltLn_E0ZMUllS-TBy6rnfBMV_ArAhj0Rr5m2H1b8UtikLq9EqM5Ky4TH3adLAV4CCY/s2016/IMG_5594.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhehbQgJba67t5d6bKdgwPs9d8jJ64KLTGmZAGJe-1TOcll-Zdy8Pv6Fb2YiKmLFiIZblLMgl2_3ltLn_E0ZMUllS-TBy6rnfBMV_ArAhj0Rr5m2H1b8UtikLq9EqM5Ky4TH3adLAV4CCY/w480-h640/IMG_5594.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKZV3kERIPtH3URxJARRAN41Bn6uBihQ89Shff-r0Y7oh2-nFg8dqcvLFkzvj9SY2TauLQNLxtF7qPMkPdWEidYXDqVdqKmDEsICo6SbpbmFT5XCHShfRO7tEMbL3f2f1ceNhncBJaxTQ/s2016/IMG_5596.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKZV3kERIPtH3URxJARRAN41Bn6uBihQ89Shff-r0Y7oh2-nFg8dqcvLFkzvj9SY2TauLQNLxtF7qPMkPdWEidYXDqVdqKmDEsICo6SbpbmFT5XCHShfRO7tEMbL3f2f1ceNhncBJaxTQ/w480-h640/IMG_5596.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhuiCxaNwmI5KlvDnz-CcToJNmKRYlWzxg4KDCAwX8ysbRCv9sUwiY4-c4_1KMqGPe5X9CzrY36OVpuR2SKB0rf7pP3hOl9sb9sWVGZO314hkx6iuQYfJGKA3PCmYc6GjaXnTxNN97K68/s2016/IMG_5597.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhuiCxaNwmI5KlvDnz-CcToJNmKRYlWzxg4KDCAwX8ysbRCv9sUwiY4-c4_1KMqGPe5X9CzrY36OVpuR2SKB0rf7pP3hOl9sb9sWVGZO314hkx6iuQYfJGKA3PCmYc6GjaXnTxNN97K68/w480-h640/IMG_5597.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1kh9L5myrDtMT5kKBQf7NgRMKblTBP1AsmkVztc8ne3gesn_6jqCSNNQniPrRYzrVQOvypefVs4Vk3DMFzj2Ni_R_hrtIGiDLJmaN0I-Qs9ipt8X6NhGgk42ulrNcTSnfbvoARUj_tCw/s2016/IMG_5599.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1kh9L5myrDtMT5kKBQf7NgRMKblTBP1AsmkVztc8ne3gesn_6jqCSNNQniPrRYzrVQOvypefVs4Vk3DMFzj2Ni_R_hrtIGiDLJmaN0I-Qs9ipt8X6NhGgk42ulrNcTSnfbvoARUj_tCw/w480-h640/IMG_5599.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnvFCkvifjeGA2B92J8WS_z07lUpSl2iPmvli9VJgeOj7rG5hqEW_HTYvnmRhODJCrbddOuup6281eDM7R5FJRi-yPa3Qzq_OuBepW-AO-5cshyphenhyphenQBepm8q62flldZxmw3SIv4YPwUDmyQ/s2016/IMG_5601.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnvFCkvifjeGA2B92J8WS_z07lUpSl2iPmvli9VJgeOj7rG5hqEW_HTYvnmRhODJCrbddOuup6281eDM7R5FJRi-yPa3Qzq_OuBepW-AO-5cshyphenhyphenQBepm8q62flldZxmw3SIv4YPwUDmyQ/w480-h640/IMG_5601.jpg" width="480" /></a></div> However, because we haven't eaten inside of a restaurant for a long time.. even though we got to-go boxes for all of our leftover food, besides the caprese flatbread (not pictured) that we finished, we both forgot to grab it on our way out. I guess it was my job since Michael always pushes Emma in the stroller. We got outside, took these family photos, and luckily Michael asked if I got the food. I rushed back inside and even though the table had been cleared, our to-go bag was off to the side. Pheeew! <i>Note to self: </i>for some reason I always think I don't like the caprese flatbread. Maybe because it has balsamic vinaigrette on it? But it is good. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh53EUyKZzj-uYHtxEdWCfzzqm68rOIAySHONcjRrXOy_WLz3F7RtYGycskzKZF8vIIU1zqRGBhN0Ls_ZSbnKGGPwwIn4LHDoD08kcW0tDXbH9rpu3k1Fh2XjXqOtwZWAuBwxQUiiePw2M/s1544/IMG_5603.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh53EUyKZzj-uYHtxEdWCfzzqm68rOIAySHONcjRrXOy_WLz3F7RtYGycskzKZF8vIIU1zqRGBhN0Ls_ZSbnKGGPwwIn4LHDoD08kcW0tDXbH9rpu3k1Fh2XjXqOtwZWAuBwxQUiiePw2M/w482-h640/IMG_5603.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOnWZJe9mHy76tLujKa3WMfPsEp54Sn-JGgluKKLdEc7HHHYA4GYb2Vr9foS9ak9ZG7g-RFEMhlSK8mgW5uQy-kpkCwOMbFyLteKB1bZ-klSHLoru0fyax1lD5KpvTsALLJn_l2-ttgDI/s1544/IMG_5607.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOnWZJe9mHy76tLujKa3WMfPsEp54Sn-JGgluKKLdEc7HHHYA4GYb2Vr9foS9ak9ZG7g-RFEMhlSK8mgW5uQy-kpkCwOMbFyLteKB1bZ-klSHLoru0fyax1lD5KpvTsALLJn_l2-ttgDI/w482-h640/IMG_5607.jpg" width="482" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr0C5-rgpD3eME1JI5KUXqBQtyMzaezpmLEZRpOHljeMRJQkp7UWUmpuuviRL7unaTv3P_bkPOrI9hg8ay9n9V5f90xvTJJZAtMD5Qp5mmHzy6Ru6vXpfCOTGq7Hvf9ZYAfjQNC3cKVXw/s1544/IMG_5609.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr0C5-rgpD3eME1JI5KUXqBQtyMzaezpmLEZRpOHljeMRJQkp7UWUmpuuviRL7unaTv3P_bkPOrI9hg8ay9n9V5f90xvTJJZAtMD5Qp5mmHzy6Ru6vXpfCOTGq7Hvf9ZYAfjQNC3cKVXw/w482-h640/IMG_5609.jpg" width="482" /></a></div> My stomach wasn't used to so much food, so I asked Michael if I could go for a walk when we got home. I was definitely going to fall asleep without one. He said yes, as long as I changed Emma's diaper first, then he took a short nap on the couch while I was outside. He opened his presents around 7:20pm and got everything he had asked me for, yet was still excited. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgxlQXRT45clKaarSbyKlGAMgw_PNXaFaHBNTWb8u8oE3OY4MKFp2IXB60SaSfwbYuZLuIlskMVK55jylCq7LV0f_SXav_Fkkzxva7-nfjKLv4pGmT-eZo-CVKcSkkSUPQOn2Wkv35kmk/s2016/IMG_5616.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgxlQXRT45clKaarSbyKlGAMgw_PNXaFaHBNTWb8u8oE3OY4MKFp2IXB60SaSfwbYuZLuIlskMVK55jylCq7LV0f_SXav_Fkkzxva7-nfjKLv4pGmT-eZo-CVKcSkkSUPQOn2Wkv35kmk/w640-h480/IMG_5616.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7-cCIbiVYg50c7R_tMBTzoxydeMgQEaU4dTxUXoBAw9ePewGjRcdmqlzdNKACInfcwc168ROilf7-t4J2mcQrm42BBF0GOEehdZ6UwtUPcjv96A7wFPFzC3D2EBzID2vnE6SQMI5F6RM/s2016/IMG_5621.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7-cCIbiVYg50c7R_tMBTzoxydeMgQEaU4dTxUXoBAw9ePewGjRcdmqlzdNKACInfcwc168ROilf7-t4J2mcQrm42BBF0GOEehdZ6UwtUPcjv96A7wFPFzC3D2EBzID2vnE6SQMI5F6RM/w480-h640/IMG_5621.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNEizocalOewe9zLZ0PA5e4-ec8BkxI5M2_-3QQ-ClmrE-fMlY6fMhGy4EPyfR7sArSwIieLHNL_cAdZZzY4tL6FweumCRAdCrI4-p1zUiwavxXy4jjSdgsiove-ujfAALHxjtId7BmU/s2016/IMG_5622.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNEizocalOewe9zLZ0PA5e4-ec8BkxI5M2_-3QQ-ClmrE-fMlY6fMhGy4EPyfR7sArSwIieLHNL_cAdZZzY4tL6FweumCRAdCrI4-p1zUiwavxXy4jjSdgsiove-ujfAALHxjtId7BmU/w480-h640/IMG_5622.jpg" width="480" /></a></div> ^^ So precious! <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXsUFXsPiCQLcbEKy9I_4bCiuWBC7h8iFfjxZ10qfG3OvyRODq5_durjom2k2YZ6j-t2qYkx4atirLYIZEQIUlwfAtj6AFn-XKMWItDlP0pQrQYN9mjYyk0Gv1sMSCC9GSEl7_JfVCSJs/s2016/IMG_5623.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXsUFXsPiCQLcbEKy9I_4bCiuWBC7h8iFfjxZ10qfG3OvyRODq5_durjom2k2YZ6j-t2qYkx4atirLYIZEQIUlwfAtj6AFn-XKMWItDlP0pQrQYN9mjYyk0Gv1sMSCC9GSEl7_JfVCSJs/w480-h640/IMG_5623.jpg" width="480" /></a></div> This picture of him opening the last box is my favorite because, one- look at that sweet smile, and two- it is the only present I got him, besides candy, that was something he didn't specifically ask for, but is something he will use. A present he wasn't expecting. It was a 36 can case of his new favorite flavor of Ultra Rosa' Monster energy drinks. That's all he drinks now besides Coke Zero and coffee. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjFxrQDqMtnw6N5caE31suV4CzPplh4JTcqm0mPMkgC17TcAa_06pqu1FVSiUUaBQgWJJa2LF2ejIQVYLWl-xKTQ7qwkoR2OEbe0nvaAC2GddRU9wuQfLh-WUfLyEzX0fzDiSpVhOTHYw/s2016/IMG_5627.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjFxrQDqMtnw6N5caE31suV4CzPplh4JTcqm0mPMkgC17TcAa_06pqu1FVSiUUaBQgWJJa2LF2ejIQVYLWl-xKTQ7qwkoR2OEbe0nvaAC2GddRU9wuQfLh-WUfLyEzX0fzDiSpVhOTHYw/w480-h640/IMG_5627.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9an129xFfZRg759SdMp1qmuswQPp_4lEYWgQNXONHtNJtmmwqFsuEgav5fBrs2pPtU2vUOVE3UtGKuVi5kvAtHoj8gSpvwk3Qszhjtmp5YuOwEbpD5heG9GnoF-eKaRG1k1ZvGikwUJo/s2016/IMG_5628.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9an129xFfZRg759SdMp1qmuswQPp_4lEYWgQNXONHtNJtmmwqFsuEgav5fBrs2pPtU2vUOVE3UtGKuVi5kvAtHoj8gSpvwk3Qszhjtmp5YuOwEbpD5heG9GnoF-eKaRG1k1ZvGikwUJo/w480-h640/IMG_5628.jpg" width="480" /></a></div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRWX3QjOWynO5xgCN_dzUZ__LA7em8fPWYvO6wGjet4h89i6T56dUGfhTf96e3PGdw3V34T6-n4wd6o-_GFO_LdJbSuxNHO_WaovuyCwLwa84Y4btJoJdPyQM6XeOiL8R0hm1lWMoBe3Y/s2016/IMG_5684.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRWX3QjOWynO5xgCN_dzUZ__LA7em8fPWYvO6wGjet4h89i6T56dUGfhTf96e3PGdw3V34T6-n4wd6o-_GFO_LdJbSuxNHO_WaovuyCwLwa84Y4btJoJdPyQM6XeOiL8R0hm1lWMoBe3Y/w480-h640/IMG_5684.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4NStK691s02-hsISpuBRbtJEst2pQsr1czvFuLkFBZwrqZmFerU2JGtducIT9doLovM5XpuNAsbilcAPbr_OTw9T5AafARKopooSzXb5t4-0aZxHAk54_mH00VVp-HAYPtpgfH_yhV90/s2016/IMG_5685.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4NStK691s02-hsISpuBRbtJEst2pQsr1czvFuLkFBZwrqZmFerU2JGtducIT9doLovM5XpuNAsbilcAPbr_OTw9T5AafARKopooSzXb5t4-0aZxHAk54_mH00VVp-HAYPtpgfH_yhV90/w480-h640/IMG_5685.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div> All his goodies from me (including a box of glue sticks and a glass plate for his bigger 3D printer), as well as the Jango Fett dude made from lots of cool looking bolts and screws, which is from my parents that they got at a neat shop while in Myrtle Beach, SC earlier this year. He said it's not Boba Fett because Jango is the one who has two blasters. Since yesterday was Columbus Day there was no mail delivered, but today Michael just received birthday cards from NaNa (his grandma), and his aunts Becky and Debbie. He also got presents from his parents while they were here visiting over the weekend (Thursday evening to and left early Sunday morning). They went for walks and ran lots of errands together, but they aren't big picture takers, and I worked all weekend. So here are the pictures I got while I was at home with them at night:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuvCTjGWDvGzzQ3ikKho477zgI1_MPK1jzZKafodgjuI83BTXRN8KbvEJYoj5xSwQpbGfArNQl-zSY0AUTGmZKNmmFmxbPVMtbhgNdWzxdsbRtLbQVfOXQJ61RHiXRwF4LoUut0dD7FCA/s2016/IMG_5272.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuvCTjGWDvGzzQ3ikKho477zgI1_MPK1jzZKafodgjuI83BTXRN8KbvEJYoj5xSwQpbGfArNQl-zSY0AUTGmZKNmmFmxbPVMtbhgNdWzxdsbRtLbQVfOXQJ61RHiXRwF4LoUut0dD7FCA/w640-h480/IMG_5272.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxXG6WInESbqSQY-P_b0DlWapUhz8d96W0L-5iG12QlIdwTmmmOzOxHkpe7vMlIulYrLZvDQd9NmtJsWrq6dl7BHBwLF-FkRlKlx42KzR3Ht3rG_C9nVAodknIZdhdgzE2OgprRWnCt0I/s2016/IMG_5279.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxXG6WInESbqSQY-P_b0DlWapUhz8d96W0L-5iG12QlIdwTmmmOzOxHkpe7vMlIulYrLZvDQd9NmtJsWrq6dl7BHBwLF-FkRlKlx42KzR3Ht3rG_C9nVAodknIZdhdgzE2OgprRWnCt0I/w640-h480/IMG_5279.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk1FUkEyoZ0rH-aplgmwWViA_n9PzET4XMaH1m4jtO6_VQOfKsPt1HuA1ksof2KM6j7CxQPVUY-IT4CTQ4LNlv2VGrpIDG2yQ-_pKKFEJdxCTdQrmgX2e8Glf6jbmeIf5ZtGse8mseg-0/s2016/IMG_5322.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk1FUkEyoZ0rH-aplgmwWViA_n9PzET4XMaH1m4jtO6_VQOfKsPt1HuA1ksof2KM6j7CxQPVUY-IT4CTQ4LNlv2VGrpIDG2yQ-_pKKFEJdxCTdQrmgX2e8Glf6jbmeIf5ZtGse8mseg-0/w480-h640/IMG_5322.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWyxhyphenhyphenq6DsU1jbxOoYupyFV4Sq5XTKGC-JeHbPeq2BPFCL_LYKGDSsqgKcvUx-Ed1PaOjTIWysd5usvHXzxyd5gzlTUQxpMbVqiSCJdbLmaZPZtdIk4slqq3CJhktsyEGOaHdAhQTVzc/s1536/IMG_5427.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1229" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWyxhyphenhyphenq6DsU1jbxOoYupyFV4Sq5XTKGC-JeHbPeq2BPFCL_LYKGDSsqgKcvUx-Ed1PaOjTIWysd5usvHXzxyd5gzlTUQxpMbVqiSCJdbLmaZPZtdIk4slqq3CJhktsyEGOaHdAhQTVzc/w512-h640/IMG_5427.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div> ^^ Dr. Gore was trying to get Emma to look at the camera by shaking one of the toys she had been playing with, but then Emma wanted to hold it. One second later she threw it and it hit him right in the face! Mrs. Patty almost died laughing and then again while looking back at the pictures later. 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It scared me when I opened the garage the other night! The first Halloween in our house we had it dressed <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/10/spiders-and-skeletons.html" target="_blank">in a tattered pirate costume</a></b> (which Michael said basically turned to dust in his hands the other day, hence him being naked again now) and hanging in a tree directly in front of the house, but in summer 2018 we got all the trees cut down, so the other night he took it to VAMP -the makeup school- where it will now live. Muahahaha! PS- in that 2016 post I linked, it says "I wonder if we will get an HOA notice about needing to take the skeleton down". Answer: we did not. We did have people stop in front of the house and take pictures though! :)<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsut9j-c3q8QD3ev-hvyYkdK7QHFhtinXsCgQ7stwSdSgEKkaql1Sdk3ppingmVu7CBnL6MfsKOMHKU0x8H00OnRdwCPyOQ7ShLfnl1TnK7qhjxrVhkSm7bL99uc-8I9qk8misfFIUfxY/s2016/IMG_5463.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsut9j-c3q8QD3ev-hvyYkdK7QHFhtinXsCgQ7stwSdSgEKkaql1Sdk3ppingmVu7CBnL6MfsKOMHKU0x8H00OnRdwCPyOQ7ShLfnl1TnK7qhjxrVhkSm7bL99uc-8I9qk8misfFIUfxY/w480-h640/IMG_5463.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p> Also, we ended his birthday yesterday with our usual popcorn date. After Emma is in her crib and all the medical chores are done, we make a big batch of yellow popcorn using the Nostalgia air popper I got at Publix recently, then add movie theater butter and salt, and mix it around a giant bowl. Then we snuggle together on the couch and watch an episode or two of the romantic-thriller "You" on Netflix. Last night we watched episode two and three of Season 2. We both really look forward to this time together. </p></div></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-38181210223477792952020-10-04T13:57:00.034-07:002020-10-04T13:57:01.110-07:00Michael's VAMP Costume Projects<p> I'll have Michael help me write this so it says what he wants to say about it, but in July he made a Hannibal straight jacket from scratch, along with the cage to go over the head, and in September he had only a week to get a Hunchback of Notre Dame tunic and fabric shoes made, so he was up really late working on it the day it was due. By the way, VAMP stands for Vocational Academy of Makeup and Prosthetics. September 26th marked the <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/09/vamp.html" target="_blank">4 year anniversary</a></b> since the first class started!! </p><p> The straight jacket was to go along with a makeup one of their students was doing for the special makeup effects class that Michael and Brian teach. He had to sew on the leather pieces by hand. Some of these might not have as great of picture quality since they were screenshots taken from VAMP's Instragram page in their stories/ quick boomerang videos, aka not an actual photo.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKP0iczgldnBIVt3pIuHmlzG2SyyT8lWwchm_cvPvTG0uP91zvJdNS_Euw1D67dNTmqyUdcLiO0IyJHgFy8ymVNP1VBT0-atatxilomVSyze9EO87bk76NzoD-MGU0imnxN6qMLC29ko/s1890/90A34545-331D-4311-B7A8-280B235EBBA7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKP0iczgldnBIVt3pIuHmlzG2SyyT8lWwchm_cvPvTG0uP91zvJdNS_Euw1D67dNTmqyUdcLiO0IyJHgFy8ymVNP1VBT0-atatxilomVSyze9EO87bk76NzoD-MGU0imnxN6qMLC29ko/w512-h640/90A34545-331D-4311-B7A8-280B235EBBA7.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhc62FS3vxtz6t9KVNb-k1nTqfVdJFFHBOYpvvi_XsmLbkPc4cySo0XAZVpFzfnjZuRUw7nFAYkujpsQMZfsAqtLfuA2SPhvmDJi5_R3AiLA5zjvDNhCNA16dvyVfTzI-oliPF_8LB3Vo/s1890/6C5B0BCE-0060-4C33-9262-CD1615215CB4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Haha!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gNilWdTw_9R60-YLeuhR9KnSniai4KYW0wk6f2L8yLoBkgG5pfha1GxBGO30U5BFp4cEC32FdwFL4nkeZNtVXWF4DI7FFw3uI2Wd6RCgopaFhYkdl2N22ZjPmYbItU5VmDV-c3-9zEY/s1334/IMG_6812.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_gNilWdTw_9R60-YLeuhR9KnSniai4KYW0wk6f2L8yLoBkgG5pfha1GxBGO30U5BFp4cEC32FdwFL4nkeZNtVXWF4DI7FFw3uI2Wd6RCgopaFhYkdl2N22ZjPmYbItU5VmDV-c3-9zEY/s320/IMG_6812.PNG" /></a></div><br /><div> The Hunchback costume was not specifically for work, but the pictures were taken at the school, the model is one of their students, Kyle, and the photos were taken by Ann, who is the beauty makeup teacher. The professional make up company RBFX contacted Brian and sent him the face and ear prosthetic for free in exchange for getting their names out on Instagram and showing off their work via hashtags and such. Unfortunately, Michael deleted his Instagram account a few years ago, so people cannot contact him about work, but his name is mentioned in the posts, and Brian asks him to help with a few things. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7wWnDhMr0wefMqmRR5Rrls_czLSK9TiJ1Eem0Wi23Vl7X7lLuyrw5w4i7oO3ip6rhJ4iNCEQyiBMuojaJtB-gN4VU7hitWYSBmwzwNSkpeT34X9wMg0QLcGRg3DfcdKC2NvPvW43zBLw/s2016/795CFD3C-F00B-4C23-9EF5-B1FF1B8D03BE.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7wWnDhMr0wefMqmRR5Rrls_czLSK9TiJ1Eem0Wi23Vl7X7lLuyrw5w4i7oO3ip6rhJ4iNCEQyiBMuojaJtB-gN4VU7hitWYSBmwzwNSkpeT34X9wMg0QLcGRg3DfcdKC2NvPvW43zBLw/s320/795CFD3C-F00B-4C23-9EF5-B1FF1B8D03BE.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYF8596MiOLiKMfCrmOdFwuJLmQwDpnWV27g1UhKnOVQ5zc5Am9JUTeLWn-osMmrSUj8NGoLtbE_Tejmh4Y3B94sIK6FYkxalv_sRgk-kYkINxrr8GGyGRW5OxuNMbazd56M61oI5kHIU/s2016/47E34DE8-B770-4FD4-A6A4-C512D7BAAB55.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The same year as the Wizard of Oz! ;) My favorite part of the costume are the rips and how Michael purposely sewed them back up badly, to look like the character had stitched the holes himself. Also, Brian made the fake eyeball that was added inside of the prosthetic!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjmotaG4dM2pxGI7QKGfGv7ngkQ0qpINUiwfta4QxYxF6_M3mpuw70r8SVDX6RzJdbdv-G9NS_NSMU5SP87wYnxttfgPmkrDQ7DWx116KIp-s-pfW_XJY0nJmHoEkh07jBi5KSaTXEiO8/s1280/IMG_2410.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="854" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjmotaG4dM2pxGI7QKGfGv7ngkQ0qpINUiwfta4QxYxF6_M3mpuw70r8SVDX6RzJdbdv-G9NS_NSMU5SP87wYnxttfgPmkrDQ7DWx116KIp-s-pfW_XJY0nJmHoEkh07jBi5KSaTXEiO8/s320/IMG_2410.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghPxXRll55A8WpRMCBmDjP23QUJ0rnQXjZCOGIuPxe7UcUs8V0RdLn2-7YUudTpG7_wNPx8IPFPV2jTKBcpC8TbYdCOBhpAoEwjjtqSR5cWYdcDJIeVBjwZ9Gl0ljoWCy7JMhMBIQAShc/s1280/IMG_2412.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="1280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghPxXRll55A8WpRMCBmDjP23QUJ0rnQXjZCOGIuPxe7UcUs8V0RdLn2-7YUudTpG7_wNPx8IPFPV2jTKBcpC8TbYdCOBhpAoEwjjtqSR5cWYdcDJIeVBjwZ9Gl0ljoWCy7JMhMBIQAShc/s320/IMG_2412.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHEPvRU8DO8l9CN0umIs9GNA8m8jwESKVXsSc5z9XXBzgAKhZu2kUhPfoUHW338kd6eb27S5sugZA1wPb9vQReuD-dx0iQ8AvIMTJIjS7WDNjVMeGqlqa6M_lPSGrAcLL85AsRxA4aJF4/s1500/IMG_2413.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHEPvRU8DO8l9CN0umIs9GNA8m8jwESKVXsSc5z9XXBzgAKhZu2kUhPfoUHW338kd6eb27S5sugZA1wPb9vQReuD-dx0iQ8AvIMTJIjS7WDNjVMeGqlqa6M_lPSGrAcLL85AsRxA4aJF4/s320/IMG_2413.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3NR8uWlHMibHuGn1Ba7yffQknNX4KEma2CyAPQGFw8sSSIi6OCMqbC8NH4RC1eG-si3-kE-uCw_McsKG0SwbQO4JoLlBh_IhOXWgUGNHAO7na4gmdlLKrdK48p67KATzFpWPh4_x0dUw/s1500/IMG_2414.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3NR8uWlHMibHuGn1Ba7yffQknNX4KEma2CyAPQGFw8sSSIi6OCMqbC8NH4RC1eG-si3-kE-uCw_McsKG0SwbQO4JoLlBh_IhOXWgUGNHAO7na4gmdlLKrdK48p67KATzFpWPh4_x0dUw/s320/IMG_2414.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div> Lastly, here is a makeup Michael made from scratch recently. He sculpted the pieces out of clay before turning it into a mold for the face and neck. Nobody took pictures of him applying it to the student, Faith, though. And as always, Michael doesn't think he did a very good job. *slap across the face*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilXHH6Hv2Edw1Ub4nJMViZlfuIH3_opUnFEKzdS_TytHZaMjKaVOGoga5q5uChFqut_Dvi19-RY6gcafy3dZW9JTt47QjuwBzCEp42YX5Do-YypfKPEYoY3ntXWAFSl7NCdYPsxOwnZIk/s1890/7CEDA180-5E07-4DB0-AE13-587F4DF61C3C.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilXHH6Hv2Edw1Ub4nJMViZlfuIH3_opUnFEKzdS_TytHZaMjKaVOGoga5q5uChFqut_Dvi19-RY6gcafy3dZW9JTt47QjuwBzCEp42YX5Do-YypfKPEYoY3ntXWAFSl7NCdYPsxOwnZIk/s320/7CEDA180-5E07-4DB0-AE13-587F4DF61C3C.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqu3EIV1Je3sBzTo79hjynS9jJpQTNviKC_rrTLq9iSPC1JTVhq-pRgpGPjsP5Ax22bIOkHC_GASXEcOZO6lT37P4Owp0jfJa53zSfVCqaLW0CdpeWTcsyfGA-LzzWdUa-st5hyV8Iusw/s1890/46F10C8D-C828-4A9F-8025-3AE35653E9F6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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However, it never looked how I really wanted it to because the scrapbook room also doubled as the guest bedroom (using the blow up mattress) on the few occasions each year we have someone sleep over, and the rest of the time it served as the junk room. All of Emma's bigger toys or overflow of toys that wouldn't fit in the hall closet or ones that are not kept in her tent area to play with daily, as well as boxes of diapers and extra medicine were kept in my scrapbook room.</p><p>Here are some photos of my dream scrapbook office/ guest bedroom:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmOFAVkkQG3iY3Bxwi_RgsAGb7LJulk8brZqQaA9YVB7nUXFX_OTOBSmDBZ0RGOmKXEQul5hXL2K7J5pibl-ScvU4P00mwtFfNnNQt0Enve-eN0nFRJ-UKhxu_IkGd34LM9EyWns5V15I/s990/a-junk-room-turned-craft-room-house-nerd-img%257E8971dc2a03814d40_9-9671-1-a7e56bd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="990" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmOFAVkkQG3iY3Bxwi_RgsAGb7LJulk8brZqQaA9YVB7nUXFX_OTOBSmDBZ0RGOmKXEQul5hXL2K7J5pibl-ScvU4P00mwtFfNnNQt0Enve-eN0nFRJ-UKhxu_IkGd34LM9EyWns5V15I/w640-h426/a-junk-room-turned-craft-room-house-nerd-img%257E8971dc2a03814d40_9-9671-1-a7e56bd.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPM8xmBaGO63H9Y-ktgc-8mT_kTpbi_HzL6GJBe5gP5hFt_Bznj7dy0paYse04ucVe3qjrAHGDWnzvr9XQVCS29y3wAQprQ-XMVq6nnu0sRTO-fCjJdihJSBRteOuR0uMy8Cn_qga4r68/s1271/bffbb3a4bdcb1c05528dcae83624499f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1271" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPM8xmBaGO63H9Y-ktgc-8mT_kTpbi_HzL6GJBe5gP5hFt_Bznj7dy0paYse04ucVe3qjrAHGDWnzvr9XQVCS29y3wAQprQ-XMVq6nnu0sRTO-fCjJdihJSBRteOuR0uMy8Cn_qga4r68/w516-h640/bffbb3a4bdcb1c05528dcae83624499f.jpg" width="516" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC8QTYcUxgUrefuvX85lGxisAno7BQYogROzFVNCMyN_evD0pBik_O7nN5xOb-vV67b7Bp2vt3IBJuGCqJ0ELud8rxy15FZ_cM34Ixu_Vk5QPKYz7XMAdlB8fIAwRos1VU_4vlS-jrJC4/s470/253437085.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="300" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC8QTYcUxgUrefuvX85lGxisAno7BQYogROzFVNCMyN_evD0pBik_O7nN5xOb-vV67b7Bp2vt3IBJuGCqJ0ELud8rxy15FZ_cM34Ixu_Vk5QPKYz7XMAdlB8fIAwRos1VU_4vlS-jrJC4/w408-h640/253437085.jpg" width="408" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXH2CId4GXcP9K5c_WGc8ryjb-Zx_J4PZFIA0mUjaOih-o3u9fL1srTFTJ616uVODmQOuOzV0znGN5h0OvrV8utoQdIBOrmnE74FwydHk7q9xQ7fBB3fLGxJBD0LM7pcdxIo1aOh84H6M/s507/Screen+Shot+2020-10-04+at+11.19.38+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="507" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXH2CId4GXcP9K5c_WGc8ryjb-Zx_J4PZFIA0mUjaOih-o3u9fL1srTFTJ616uVODmQOuOzV0znGN5h0OvrV8utoQdIBOrmnE74FwydHk7q9xQ7fBB3fLGxJBD0LM7pcdxIo1aOh84H6M/w400-h345/Screen+Shot+2020-10-04+at+11.19.38+AM.png" width="400" /></a></div><p> I called it MY scrapbook room because Michael also has his own room: the makeup room, which he started calling the printing room, as he had two 3D printers, a Silhouette Cameo foil printer, and a regular Brother printer with special ink. Yet, that wasn't enough for him and his two large desks took up a lot of the room. He decided that he also needed space for a new sewing machine he really wanted to buy and the only place to put it (it comes attached with a table) was in the scrapbook room. With his skill of selling points, he persuaded me to let him redo the whole room, so half was for his sewing area and I would still get half for scrapbook supplies. And honestly, when I do make scrapbook items, I always bring the materials out into the living room so I can be watching Emma at the same time. So did I really need that whole space to myself, even if it is the smallest "bedroom" in the house? I guess not. </p><p> Here are the combined Before and After photos:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnk9D5d_RsejtTrmxsp8wvnY42DFZMCjWiA3olY3jSdbpX-kAIVOWXbcSGE9-IZ3p0mZ7_5skpfYlBUwtSCmwmTTYGo1rgD0dWs-UmKUUk6UXbRJzP-xq2OIYv1nLowOdTh3ombTf4pBw/s1536/IMG_1814.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1097" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnk9D5d_RsejtTrmxsp8wvnY42DFZMCjWiA3olY3jSdbpX-kAIVOWXbcSGE9-IZ3p0mZ7_5skpfYlBUwtSCmwmTTYGo1rgD0dWs-UmKUUk6UXbRJzP-xq2OIYv1nLowOdTh3ombTf4pBw/w458-h640/IMG_1814.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXKkQwYg1yA5Wommmp-ZNbSbzV7ikAYONaxQVL_qsYGyI9n-0OBAu3bQsdPWGavWP9y2v30EkSOIvT9viQMP_-BO6H-OnJNkeVPwED6ge0Gp1CJYIOZskGArh6UrMoxcQVs5s2nHCvWXU/s2048/IMG_1815.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi36nF-j7TaKLJH3gGTSHsFG97ALkBCUYXDhHozyZQEYGidLy94IGh1O-d7ZOUVNwVn4bLj2kpyRs1X24tnsVeIQwgat_JHeau7m6oQ5bFjYJ_EWZuVZKM40Zhp0oVnv11tlRdb3DisuAc/s2016/IMG_1837.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi36nF-j7TaKLJH3gGTSHsFG97ALkBCUYXDhHozyZQEYGidLy94IGh1O-d7ZOUVNwVn4bLj2kpyRs1X24tnsVeIQwgat_JHeau7m6oQ5bFjYJ_EWZuVZKM40Zhp0oVnv11tlRdb3DisuAc/w480-h640/IMG_1837.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji-Bd5UxxIjuHQxZ5NYorPpny7LaWQkTz2nYtw0ESzqTLnvO9p4dwPeJNKO5VrukR-rp-TAlzd9SL_PKeImoeqKF2OxLzvG9Q90E_rNRFL3Dq_yuwdtM4NoJAr6L4-2fF0PUzGfWhyphenhyphenj8o/s2016/IMG_2442.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji-Bd5UxxIjuHQxZ5NYorPpny7LaWQkTz2nYtw0ESzqTLnvO9p4dwPeJNKO5VrukR-rp-TAlzd9SL_PKeImoeqKF2OxLzvG9Q90E_rNRFL3Dq_yuwdtM4NoJAr6L4-2fF0PUzGfWhyphenhyphenj8o/w640-h480/IMG_2442.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p> I will admit I did not like it much at first, but now I think it looks really good. When Michael first showed it to me, he hadn't put any of my scrapbook stuff in, so in that moment it looked like another room just for him and I had nothing. No part of the house that was decorated by me, aside from my small bathroom, and the one coral ombre wall in Emma's room that started out as the scrapbook room. Can you tell I was pretty bitter and upset about it. Going back and forth between being selfish and trying to let it go, but also was not a fan of the makeover price tag. However, Michael did a really great job fitting and decorating all of my stuff back into the room and closet, and was pleasantly surprised to see that the piece of furniture with the lamp on it displays my items as well. I thought that would be to hold more of his sewing stuff, but I guess little bobbins of thread don't take up much space. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWnQZ10EQQ3oCuA3SN7z-X5Q9dRLQ9edt0bNOsqEP9H6W1JBK1lgdHa8NYZk479Webou7Z5TXrsgQHeAVOLAGO_MSddK2awPuqbBvSavSto9iQLLKmXm3_Qfmk8T9V7zK4Zmbh811Rbgs/s2016/IMG_1625.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWnQZ10EQQ3oCuA3SN7z-X5Q9dRLQ9edt0bNOsqEP9H6W1JBK1lgdHa8NYZk479Webou7Z5TXrsgQHeAVOLAGO_MSddK2awPuqbBvSavSto9iQLLKmXm3_Qfmk8T9V7zK4Zmbh811Rbgs/w480-h640/IMG_1625.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUfdiiK-NgI39ASyxkqCXJhzlYu11LB70VBwmL_bR0VSWOVWQF-QRw41JE9M7eYK08LxPMGS2p3VakYJaFVaQ3ki0BuV9XO84qXq5qjdNHMPCWmF5LwU8ytoLJLvortLze4cL5blI6Bo/s2016/IMG_2424.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUfdiiK-NgI39ASyxkqCXJhzlYu11LB70VBwmL_bR0VSWOVWQF-QRw41JE9M7eYK08LxPMGS2p3VakYJaFVaQ3ki0BuV9XO84qXq5qjdNHMPCWmF5LwU8ytoLJLvortLze4cL5blI6Bo/w640-h480/IMG_2424.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbLqxRrMi6aYMnBthbspBtHvEiO98p6wS_cwc7k5V4gZ_F4LlyvaccTpknjIINZLzmJ16j14AZ3udqhtawlL38ApLdjo97bFuPBpQhC0RcCZglVYtO0q-O6ROubOdKl-68thbhTBwDKnA/s2016/IMG_2425.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbLqxRrMi6aYMnBthbspBtHvEiO98p6wS_cwc7k5V4gZ_F4LlyvaccTpknjIINZLzmJ16j14AZ3udqhtawlL38ApLdjo97bFuPBpQhC0RcCZglVYtO0q-O6ROubOdKl-68thbhTBwDKnA/w480-h640/IMG_2425.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHVT4qCay5Bmln0BZdmR_WZUxTTPGAVv8RQds55sODbrKNCRUOe18Wd9xJxAKiyKXounDccxDS6iwkJihUmYe-l1QC7sToSak7out5FTImlibHODp0RJrZyqYDhfnaBhaY1csuooBiKEI/s2016/IMG_2426.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHVT4qCay5Bmln0BZdmR_WZUxTTPGAVv8RQds55sODbrKNCRUOe18Wd9xJxAKiyKXounDccxDS6iwkJihUmYe-l1QC7sToSak7out5FTImlibHODp0RJrZyqYDhfnaBhaY1csuooBiKEI/w640-h480/IMG_2426.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Also, if you click<a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2017/12/maternity-photos-36-weeks.html" target="_blank"> <b>this link</b> <b>of maternity photos</b></a>, at the end of the post, it shows what the room looked like the first time we painted it when it was planned to be Emma's room. Small baby gets the small room, right? ;) But she only stayed in there from May 2018 when she came home from the NICU to the end of September that year since we had not counted on her having so many medical supplies and equipment that heated up the room. So we switched her to the second biggest room in the back of the house, which started as my scrapbook room and guest bedroom where I kept the blow up mattress inflated, dressed with pillows and sheets. </p><p>Other links: <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/11/painting-chips-room.html" target="_blank">Starting to paint it</a> >> <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/11/thoughts-for-your-thought.html" target="_blank">Fan replacement</a> >> <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2017/05/i-love-this.html" target="_blank">Nursery details</a> >> <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2017/06/closet-conversion.html" target="_blank">Closet remodel</a> >> quick photos of the house <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/07/achieving-greatness.html" target="_blank">once it was "all done"</a> Note: when owning a house... it will never be done. Although I strongly dislike paying the amount of money for Michael to do these projects, or to get trees cut down, and the yard re-landscaped and new mulch put down every year, it sure does make our house look fancy!!</p>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-38741676619691767392020-10-03T06:48:00.048-07:002020-10-04T07:11:07.594-07:00Treat Yo Self, Part II<p> Part 1 of this blog post name was from <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/10/treat-yo-self.html" target="_blank">when Sharanya and I hung out with Mia</a></b> for one of the last times before she moved to Colorado with her boyfriend, Jay, almost four years ago. Maybe I titled it that because Mia bought herself a $40 necklace at the Artegon Mall? Other than that there were not other expensive purchases that I recall. But for me, yesterday was Treat Yo Self extreme!! I spent way more than $40. Well, not all at once, but over the next year (or longer, if I so decide), it will really add up. But it will be <i>super worth it</i> considering how great I felt all day. And I should note that most of the money I have planned to come out is from my own personal savings, not our combined house and family vacation savings. Mine is mostly for visiting Mia in Colorado (maybe next summer? that depends on how bad the Corona Virus still is at that time), plus a friend cruise with Mia, Sharanya and Tonia around February 2022, as well as a Disney cruise with Emma and my mom around November 2024! I have a lot of money saved already, and plenty of time to keep saving for the total amount I need within the next few years. (I'm estimating $6,500 total for those three events- mostly for the Disney cruise. Those babies ain't cheap!) </p><p> Anyway, I feel like I complain a lot, and have been having way more migraines in the past two weeks than I normally do (one per week is my norm, and lately I've been having about five per week)! So when I have a really good day, without any migraines, headaches, or nausea, I want to soak it up and remember how great the day was. Yesterday was one of those great, relaxing, happy, exciting home days. </p><p> Because of my migraines, my mom suggested last weekend that I start getting massages again. I had a gift card for Hand and Stone, and another for Massage Envy, both unused since I got them at Christmas. So I booked a massage at Hand and Stone for Friday (yesterday). It was WONDERFUL. It is in a really nice area too, so even the 25 minute drive was enjoyable. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE94sISzZtcJDc4I20F91acvwapju8Hr-aExFV2LGUBcVtlP7X9_TIjvuYBgJPXDiqYD7hYA8GtsIHVC1pFhPrVQ9MZzInZsiJh8baoG7IZC7CI5BmbU7NbjxNMbEi0XNiFCbt-XSJ8Tw/s1890/14921AFF-4E2A-4935-97B9-51AA69E34D7C.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE94sISzZtcJDc4I20F91acvwapju8Hr-aExFV2LGUBcVtlP7X9_TIjvuYBgJPXDiqYD7hYA8GtsIHVC1pFhPrVQ9MZzInZsiJh8baoG7IZC7CI5BmbU7NbjxNMbEi0XNiFCbt-XSJ8Tw/w512-h640/14921AFF-4E2A-4935-97B9-51AA69E34D7C.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRo7ONpmxJo77agz8dBu-oBpR94FCOkdZClDIcgksZIVBvsl6JIS0TZnpYX_GYHQ5njspKXyfyF_7nbZmdQJXPKrrPyNAkfRLFMZPfJznk1WVhNdsJ3JdtqjhO7JsznmyQpZbDb9K-Kms/s1890/D666C00F-825F-41A1-A59A-CF8224DE61A6.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRo7ONpmxJo77agz8dBu-oBpR94FCOkdZClDIcgksZIVBvsl6JIS0TZnpYX_GYHQ5njspKXyfyF_7nbZmdQJXPKrrPyNAkfRLFMZPfJznk1WVhNdsJ3JdtqjhO7JsznmyQpZbDb9K-Kms/w512-h640/D666C00F-825F-41A1-A59A-CF8224DE61A6.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><p> I did feel like some of the massage was a little aggressive, but at the same time, could definitely feel the muscles and knots that the lady was trying to work out, especially in my obliques, which made sense as I was doing exercises for that area on Tuesday and Thursday. I continued doing deep breathes during those knot releases. The spa looked very clean and the three staff members I saw had their masks on the whole time, as did I, even during the massage. I was the only client there, that I saw, until the end when another lady came in as I was leaving. I felt soo relaxed, especially at the end when she finished working my neck and rubbed my scalp. See the photo of my greasy, messy hair (from the massage lotion). That's when you know it was a great massage! I had to sit in the car for 20 minutes before driving home because I felt dazed and "out of it". When the girl at the front desk asked me if I wanted a membership, I said yes, so she signed me up and it was perfect that the first credit payment wouldn't come out until November, which matched my budget plan. But I'm not sure if maybe all of it will come out of my personal savings, vs the various amount of money ($200-350) Michael and I each get for our own groceries and fun stuff from every paycheck after the bills are paid for those two weeks. I haven't had to nag him about his spending in over a month since our budget started on August 28th! It is working really well for us right now! $ :)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JjkTArryR93To6pYAVoCH1F59vZ0R9jpU8RYFzdXSJTOX5NCwuFjrl8zqBpu269t08tLT88jIbwlJU5Tfyq9o0WHrzX1MP5yC7e1IkqreC56vE1vVykv_MP_ExOHzUdrSTd80jR46Z0/s1450/62FACB98-7BF8-438D-8D97-36E2F68AB98F.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1450" data-original-width="1160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JjkTArryR93To6pYAVoCH1F59vZ0R9jpU8RYFzdXSJTOX5NCwuFjrl8zqBpu269t08tLT88jIbwlJU5Tfyq9o0WHrzX1MP5yC7e1IkqreC56vE1vVykv_MP_ExOHzUdrSTd80jR46Z0/w512-h640/62FACB98-7BF8-438D-8D97-36E2F68AB98F.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><p> I was thinking that I enjoyed this spa more than Massage Envy because they used hot towels. For my back, feet, neck, and an extra one to use however I pleased after the massage when she left the room for me to get redressed. I just held it against my face. Very refreshing. Massage Envy only uses hot towels if you get a special service like a sugar foot scrub. While talking to my mom about the differences, I was interested in seeing the Massage Envy prices on certain things, and when I went to their website, I was very quickly lured in by their October promotional deal: sign up for a membership and get 12 vouchers for free upgrades! A $160 value, and they are all really great things, like adding a free 30 minutes to a massage, free 30 minutes to a facial, free enhancements (like that sugar foot scrub, or the aromatherapy scents, but I probably won't get that since I got a bad migraine last weekend at the beach just from smelling a few different soap scents in a store.. *face palm*)! By 7pm last night I also had a Massage Envy membership with the 12 vouchers! Haha! So I can either start getting massages twice a month, one from each place, or let my Hand and Stone massages roll over and save up while I use all of my vouchers (only 1 available per month) at Massage Envy. And for anyone reading this -- hi, Dawson! -- who maybe didn't know or remember, <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2014/02/new-hire-part-7.html" target="_blank">I worked at Massage Envy</a> </b>in Birmingham for six months in 2014. We got two free services per month there, and sometimes extra if there was a new therapist who needed practice hours. What a good life I've had!! I messaged two of my friends from working there (Lauren and Danielle) last night and told them about getting the membership. ;)</p><p> While I was out, I also stopped by JoAnn Fabrics to pick up some marbles for a small Halloween project, and then of course found my way to the scrapbook section to look for any pretty new papers. 10 pages for $2?! What a dealski!! Here is what I bought. The round, white soap dish with gold flecks was from Amazon, but I wanted to show it off too. I've been looking for a new one for a few weeks. My oval dog one from the Dollar Tree kid bath section wasn't looking cool anymore. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMP1DPVHzZmQuu9WyKTxrigfaYlkRrQMk_47tUSojsOysb7_ncDDb3fn50jWoelpzAvtzKKSPIyp5Xev5qv59YIkGxE92AxASkrpb8WDgSwkKov9CJ0SZxdO99SfT_rl7pft5xOdvszCY/s2016/49176D0E-48C6-4F83-A41B-5ABF83036975.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMP1DPVHzZmQuu9WyKTxrigfaYlkRrQMk_47tUSojsOysb7_ncDDb3fn50jWoelpzAvtzKKSPIyp5Xev5qv59YIkGxE92AxASkrpb8WDgSwkKov9CJ0SZxdO99SfT_rl7pft5xOdvszCY/w640-h480/49176D0E-48C6-4F83-A41B-5ABF83036975.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p>I'll go ahead and explain my Halloween project. My friend, <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2012/05/food-truck.html" target="_blank">Sana, from work</a></b> posted her spooky bathroom decorations on Instagram and had the cutest little skeleton in a tiny bubblebath, so she helped me create it by sending a link for a similar tiny tub. The first skeleton by the purple candle is Sana's. My guy is next to the burnt orange candle. If I had a cucumber, I would have put the tiniest pieces over his eyes, haha! I do like hers better because she has actual marbles to look like big bubbles. Mine were those decorative vase gems? Whatever, I had a 40% off coupon. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNCPgBaaYHsndSMFPhi0IMJyFBsD2wasSG58ym42wAtdsH3mK7fcki9nrJtvTcfK6a8NCrtjl7c9ox9hpF-QhTjjo3WwQEEhtJ_7quXfWG1B1Vbg3yoz9k_a6OH0taiOQ_cM3wJxoIX5g/s937/C3761D69-CE45-4DF9-BC6A-9A2F63C32282.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNCPgBaaYHsndSMFPhi0IMJyFBsD2wasSG58ym42wAtdsH3mK7fcki9nrJtvTcfK6a8NCrtjl7c9ox9hpF-QhTjjo3WwQEEhtJ_7quXfWG1B1Vbg3yoz9k_a6OH0taiOQ_cM3wJxoIX5g/w512-h640/C3761D69-CE45-4DF9-BC6A-9A2F63C32282.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvCKBSkpLvT6L_w16MjvaQ1JwgBsV_jLTl56wX-6yayj2KBkWeVfYFD6ofNwLmu39xGqXX8SoEs94lGkn8ZHyYf0rNmYx7CE9h9HOyFvZzyg-Bc5zpS3jXpaUp3elJ7aGnpa1SxI9ljdg/s2016/BA0C8C5B-9771-47AF-B6B0-F43A0B63DC5D.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvCKBSkpLvT6L_w16MjvaQ1JwgBsV_jLTl56wX-6yayj2KBkWeVfYFD6ofNwLmu39xGqXX8SoEs94lGkn8ZHyYf0rNmYx7CE9h9HOyFvZzyg-Bc5zpS3jXpaUp3elJ7aGnpa1SxI9ljdg/w640-h480/BA0C8C5B-9771-47AF-B6B0-F43A0B63DC5D.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCAxeETNZpUWbBenkfR0hzWS_VojQSr6g315sjqmKRrwx7sIblPk7g8F4yOzsxG-LJt3Ofyw1H80BYznW1BziI2yT3H96xmtf28ECnLJICuNZcTlrUTYxBSnzWszPZckEHSsPLW8NbsG0/s2016/B3495F08-FDEA-4ED7-B46E-C5C9A3B3037B.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCAxeETNZpUWbBenkfR0hzWS_VojQSr6g315sjqmKRrwx7sIblPk7g8F4yOzsxG-LJt3Ofyw1H80BYznW1BziI2yT3H96xmtf28ECnLJICuNZcTlrUTYxBSnzWszPZckEHSsPLW8NbsG0/w640-h480/B3495F08-FDEA-4ED7-B46E-C5C9A3B3037B.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTGoPqpXe4Ywt5FvKAVk0h0PGMli3bTBZ8Ud-qvlIxgao3ZzRjhLFJkITyRfIIU1VUVfesfrypHK566Ub8nMG34iNIfnKYKnUREuNZJFpKu2JJUlYv8sVatFFA4YVRP50osOsAHBxa9r8/s2016/78E90A4D-7A41-44E9-B4A2-677C0CA5885D.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTGoPqpXe4Ywt5FvKAVk0h0PGMli3bTBZ8Ud-qvlIxgao3ZzRjhLFJkITyRfIIU1VUVfesfrypHK566Ub8nMG34iNIfnKYKnUREuNZJFpKu2JJUlYv8sVatFFA4YVRP50osOsAHBxa9r8/w640-h480/78E90A4D-7A41-44E9-B4A2-677C0CA5885D.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p> So besides my lovely massage errands, this is the other stuff that happened yesterday: I came home and made a super delicious lunch of Sea Cuisine salmon over a bed of spinach and Mediterranean quinoa. Even Michael was super impressed with my legit meal photos. The salmon and quinoa was frozen, so I just threw them in the microwave. It was very delicious. Did I already say that? ;)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM_Tgxfpj5mm_0cP-mS9iW-Qc-o1EVzI3re8gZPfhuJ2v173bqbD19j1h78ps7j2fJtsG359e3cWaNNCp4ekiKok9Jk-ROSCKiHaPftK7bQgMnU2MbAQJ_K-riBY0W5QnqVjAVJgnxxR0/s2016/F473C77C-E27C-46F0-AF87-E67FE498835B.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM_Tgxfpj5mm_0cP-mS9iW-Qc-o1EVzI3re8gZPfhuJ2v173bqbD19j1h78ps7j2fJtsG359e3cWaNNCp4ekiKok9Jk-ROSCKiHaPftK7bQgMnU2MbAQJ_K-riBY0W5QnqVjAVJgnxxR0/w640-h480/F473C77C-E27C-46F0-AF87-E67FE498835B.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIF7vWzG5NrZ5d1ri6JO9HBu808jT7KbhmpjksGThJP39glJYQrc0TUXvip31pP5gCr3nMUsjsnDkr4nbswcqMH27Lnlx78NevVNU7Vu_lUsfnRQjMB0tA9sNVyYNGqpAdTWpr5l72gk4/s2016/DEEC411F-FF7D-422E-A8AE-9966B8E9CF58.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIF7vWzG5NrZ5d1ri6JO9HBu808jT7KbhmpjksGThJP39glJYQrc0TUXvip31pP5gCr3nMUsjsnDkr4nbswcqMH27Lnlx78NevVNU7Vu_lUsfnRQjMB0tA9sNVyYNGqpAdTWpr5l72gk4/w640-h480/DEEC411F-FF7D-422E-A8AE-9966B8E9CF58.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">I didn't watch TV during the day (I specifically made sure not to watch </span><i style="text-align: left;">Shameless</i><span style="text-align: left;">, a show that easily stresses me out even though the point of watching it was to help me be extra thankful about the wonderful, easy, rich life we have without drug addict parents) and was actually a good mom and played with Emma instead. I got window clings from Dollar Tree so I put those up, while Emma enjoyed the crinkle sound of the unopened pumpkin clings and hip-thrust-scooted away from me. She has been scooting around the house like this a lot lately while sprinting off the ventilator. I'm really proud of her!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkrwp63Tr56WP-Xp8hhU1EyiNPVl61Byni0OP2pWIyf8ymLCoETgSAoz1B-5SiMjH2LghRoq56BM5wwX97yTN4ubXBOth0FzPber1ugqa9n6lzY48FrMIhyNaVMU3BWvwoCAXj5b-FWHY/s1890/3E17AFCE-FD98-4AC5-909C-C9422B419636.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkrwp63Tr56WP-Xp8hhU1EyiNPVl61Byni0OP2pWIyf8ymLCoETgSAoz1B-5SiMjH2LghRoq56BM5wwX97yTN4ubXBOth0FzPber1ugqa9n6lzY48FrMIhyNaVMU3BWvwoCAXj5b-FWHY/w512-h640/3E17AFCE-FD98-4AC5-909C-C9422B419636.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigO6__z8Nsbd6LMB6afWicw0_6sz5_xaSDqTYpM3AXBv0zYdmeKkCjQnlgdxwWoTHSal7lKjD14s7Vv5D1YmxKIOMXPbVPd8sMQOQmvf9EkYyhY_8rYIpv69Ddp2kBrjJcoIaM2G7MQII/s1890/6EBB3CDF-17EC-457D-93FE-50C1F2F96BF7.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigO6__z8Nsbd6LMB6afWicw0_6sz5_xaSDqTYpM3AXBv0zYdmeKkCjQnlgdxwWoTHSal7lKjD14s7Vv5D1YmxKIOMXPbVPd8sMQOQmvf9EkYyhY_8rYIpv69Ddp2kBrjJcoIaM2G7MQII/w512-h640/6EBB3CDF-17EC-457D-93FE-50C1F2F96BF7.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizghgGO2RuWAmbbIWdiwx3GNGRQV1WqZo24PvEHiaXa7NxvFPD5XncJBJU8gcsjMHMJsnK1RC0AxXQeIEBneXZf6TYxxFVqn3Kg4wbw8qCLqnoq6uvpFSlr-9ua_v4wKl21ym7LkHAPKI/s1890/286C9E94-B68D-467C-BD04-3424A882F322.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizghgGO2RuWAmbbIWdiwx3GNGRQV1WqZo24PvEHiaXa7NxvFPD5XncJBJU8gcsjMHMJsnK1RC0AxXQeIEBneXZf6TYxxFVqn3Kg4wbw8qCLqnoq6uvpFSlr-9ua_v4wKl21ym7LkHAPKI/w512-h640/286C9E94-B68D-467C-BD04-3424A882F322.JPG" width="512" /></a></div>^^ She scooted all that way- a good 15 feet from the sliding porch window! 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I found this random Halloween straw and took pictures in front of my favorite tree in our backyard because it's dying so Michael is going to pull it up next weekend! :( He has been working on lots of projects recently. I have two blog posts to add about costumes and home projects he has been working on since July. His current project is more of a chore: snaking and replacing the drains, shower head, and faucet in my bathroom, aka the guest bathroom/ the purple bathroom. <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjchZBlNgodekLuiA9vpkIvrqKQ0LEkFTPcf8sVWhUye4p0VIpLWE26vMR1T2qR0KQvYibThU5vQ2BsrZuK2yaLL9w_TiesCNt8B-sGDw-_cTJlSDm_jNTr3VGb65m5k93HhTFQzW0uf54/s1890/34A1E522-AF13-495E-94B9-3DA74A868A98.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjchZBlNgodekLuiA9vpkIvrqKQ0LEkFTPcf8sVWhUye4p0VIpLWE26vMR1T2qR0KQvYibThU5vQ2BsrZuK2yaLL9w_TiesCNt8B-sGDw-_cTJlSDm_jNTr3VGb65m5k93HhTFQzW0uf54/w512-h640/34A1E522-AF13-495E-94B9-3DA74A868A98.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLIsFvDPxXYXS7nU9OWOPJY8aQCS4j5ifZuJ1iRRNEOW4HDk_pydTu6kiXOgvD702J1KV4703ytHIDu9N9fu-SxFFHDW9Ov-90p8M-vCSOSp66XUqGPEZmtNvABr2x4VrS6yvX_cwFEDY/s1890/BF35883C-EF79-4175-AB85-5FF1C33812DA.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLIsFvDPxXYXS7nU9OWOPJY8aQCS4j5ifZuJ1iRRNEOW4HDk_pydTu6kiXOgvD702J1KV4703ytHIDu9N9fu-SxFFHDW9Ov-90p8M-vCSOSp66XUqGPEZmtNvABr2x4VrS6yvX_cwFEDY/w512-h640/BF35883C-EF79-4175-AB85-5FF1C33812DA.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXqB2u3ZsL75n_EulT6-4eV0yEfTfRpJaKqV9_j14ai468aA-lx2oKT9FsOQtTIn-ocYI_OxYkSr6p0CO4Htbrt0jrIqvkdiTjKpZCR7fBf48FlvYwgewCsYXMmMJoPtXraPW3bbrwtwo/s1890/4B477289-5333-4ACB-93CA-E5B16A62B088.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXqB2u3ZsL75n_EulT6-4eV0yEfTfRpJaKqV9_j14ai468aA-lx2oKT9FsOQtTIn-ocYI_OxYkSr6p0CO4Htbrt0jrIqvkdiTjKpZCR7fBf48FlvYwgewCsYXMmMJoPtXraPW3bbrwtwo/w512-h640/4B477289-5333-4ACB-93CA-E5B16A62B088.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidR7TEWgSuEVDPPh_qUAvFDNb4iXaoaX7NGgevLd-T5L3NMW8Dk3YAwdAIWP9oP4nrpFmk4_57e9Ib44sW3hGVUwePxYqhZOQT7tBPc9RgUQL9ebOnKnCjQHrHEbxKUtRkvVxNXH1BWak/s1890/3D892810-EFB9-40F4-B12C-2E21B9BF71A4.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidR7TEWgSuEVDPPh_qUAvFDNb4iXaoaX7NGgevLd-T5L3NMW8Dk3YAwdAIWP9oP4nrpFmk4_57e9Ib44sW3hGVUwePxYqhZOQT7tBPc9RgUQL9ebOnKnCjQHrHEbxKUtRkvVxNXH1BWak/w512-h640/3D892810-EFB9-40F4-B12C-2E21B9BF71A4.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> I have such good intentions for my own expectations as a mom, including reading lots of books to Emma. I recently bought her these four at the top of the photo (Amazon's recommendations), and the four little books were ones she already had. I also picked up five Halloween books from the library this morning before my mandatory overtime shift, and have four more on hold. However, even though I know it's only the 3rd day of October (happy birthday, Sharanya!), I haven't read any of them to her yet. Also here are some silly pictures of 13 year old Sasha Renee from today because I don't post about her much. Don't mind her crazy eyes, "she's in character!" Hahaha!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_WYypUOMZn-5dEOerlsAuH3ixXLtmZYS8mwBknAjXN1FZjxwlxTn257hVqIzNv241X8ozf37eHQGkoJT-DHKNLAMlN5Cl5M2ayQJPNEnorSAw_XkAVyKe2G4S1muqLufoYbP4-c7Lzpw/s1890/D00B9638-D1B9-43A3-8A70-5D57FB027D87.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1890" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_WYypUOMZn-5dEOerlsAuH3ixXLtmZYS8mwBknAjXN1FZjxwlxTn257hVqIzNv241X8ozf37eHQGkoJT-DHKNLAMlN5Cl5M2ayQJPNEnorSAw_XkAVyKe2G4S1muqLufoYbP4-c7Lzpw/w512-h640/D00B9638-D1B9-43A3-8A70-5D57FB027D87.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0GrrMNsnAOFC7JoaeO1hF3elBBzb5nWZYBX-mAwpU5K70ey0oJ_7X-MBaQTzo57a9lPR1JDSMXIT0YKyC1tetC068At-CZF5hwQYS07GBrC0mbVpQ52ohBtctHDch_vU3s7pUZ5_FL6c/s2016/4895C64A-92CA-4B30-AEF8-32672B0763C1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0GrrMNsnAOFC7JoaeO1hF3elBBzb5nWZYBX-mAwpU5K70ey0oJ_7X-MBaQTzo57a9lPR1JDSMXIT0YKyC1tetC068At-CZF5hwQYS07GBrC0mbVpQ52ohBtctHDch_vU3s7pUZ5_FL6c/w640-h480/4895C64A-92CA-4B30-AEF8-32672B0763C1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRlfzh5ipC2KVpWbt8DajJrO959-AFvdEfpmHCSXbR84X7tGFydC8AsCmIFJCle0HgrSd1wnZWySq4YouoUptk6Qbb9qh3zRCCQTz0-iJpV10yjKSM17g-YgP97VfDS9ED3pzF8TPEE1Y/s2016/E2E65CD0-1794-4093-B99C-A20179D1A410.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRlfzh5ipC2KVpWbt8DajJrO959-AFvdEfpmHCSXbR84X7tGFydC8AsCmIFJCle0HgrSd1wnZWySq4YouoUptk6Qbb9qh3zRCCQTz0-iJpV10yjKSM17g-YgP97VfDS9ED3pzF8TPEE1Y/w640-h480/E2E65CD0-1794-4093-B99C-A20179D1A410.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdKXo8gplJt8f0QH2XcGTd-VYqnYYVbfMWpZ1KyUA-PiuIITGwuCLlndLoauk1tCu_zEXGkSp-d83a7TiE9Rc842oBep9n4xHBb26pKfOXqmPsVZb8dbGxTqK-9OSTw8CMl-7KywIZn7E/s2016/F8C73B9F-E3F9-4F6C-B5E1-02B062D3182F.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdKXo8gplJt8f0QH2XcGTd-VYqnYYVbfMWpZ1KyUA-PiuIITGwuCLlndLoauk1tCu_zEXGkSp-d83a7TiE9Rc842oBep9n4xHBb26pKfOXqmPsVZb8dbGxTqK-9OSTw8CMl-7KywIZn7E/w640-h480/F8C73B9F-E3F9-4F6C-B5E1-02B062D3182F.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> Lastly, Michael and I ended the good night with watching the first two episodes of "You" on Netflix, starring the handsome Penn Badgley, and season one stars Shay Mitchell who I like because she reminds me a lot of Naya Rivera (RIP). It's a creepy, yet not scary, stalker show that I have seen before, but Michael hadn't and Brian was talking to him about it, so he wanted us to watch it together. Another reason it was an extremely good day is because the weather has been really nice all week (in the mid to high 70's) and the sunsets have been so pretty!! These walk and sunset photos were from Wednesday after work. And <i>another great reason</i> I liked this day is because my weight has been around 114.6-115.8 lately, which I am really happy with, compared to the fact that I had gotten myself up to 136.8 pounds in May, as an unpaid sponsor of Pizza Hut and the Cheesecake Factory! I guess I was treating myself a lot back then too. ;)</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisAt3HstMwYZ4UIK6KifpW8xwrr10IXhUzgQiH4UcyVYX1LWmNTPg6m26ezJlzSNlyJES1xuVarpfMNSJiNyRfyan4dHoEshtvc24BeTTI4HE63AfItdZVcGK_-7lVd4XQeYu3HYHxFP0/s1280/6FDDD818-1E54-4AF2-8F12-B0B95B97B3BA.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisAt3HstMwYZ4UIK6KifpW8xwrr10IXhUzgQiH4UcyVYX1LWmNTPg6m26ezJlzSNlyJES1xuVarpfMNSJiNyRfyan4dHoEshtvc24BeTTI4HE63AfItdZVcGK_-7lVd4XQeYu3HYHxFP0/w640-h640/6FDDD818-1E54-4AF2-8F12-B0B95B97B3BA.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5MLPrbUUquy43kcyK4RPOb2ILkh7k1tyTlhzKuvfOC9Gtu70qNhpXQ9sNsEi7vgg8ZZ11928ny201xeXGdxXLWdPyKyBR8Xm-7oVS31yIWe9yUcSaXiPKn1lKZm8m4o5QyysxHElVqys/s1512/8038EB78-EC0B-44B5-B3DF-491DF81620C0.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5MLPrbUUquy43kcyK4RPOb2ILkh7k1tyTlhzKuvfOC9Gtu70qNhpXQ9sNsEi7vgg8ZZ11928ny201xeXGdxXLWdPyKyBR8Xm-7oVS31yIWe9yUcSaXiPKn1lKZm8m4o5QyysxHElVqys/w640-h640/8038EB78-EC0B-44B5-B3DF-491DF81620C0.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe0cWO2AH0I_qsmrzMZyw2fwjmcy5bnRbjuop4_eC9Vnh2zOt5eXpNDySQ3TljUBzN9w-XVbIz46es3Pw04BH46MRjIXrNdKdvYwnl_ZRb3p1S3yqavu6JHo98vAd08OvtRhkDlF574yQ/s1512/F8A5869D-3A2B-4AA7-AE0A-E3EF9EF3861E.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="1512" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe0cWO2AH0I_qsmrzMZyw2fwjmcy5bnRbjuop4_eC9Vnh2zOt5eXpNDySQ3TljUBzN9w-XVbIz46es3Pw04BH46MRjIXrNdKdvYwnl_ZRb3p1S3yqavu6JHo98vAd08OvtRhkDlF574yQ/w640-h640/F8A5869D-3A2B-4AA7-AE0A-E3EF9EF3861E.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkGsCi9NvUMLjsfX9soOAcr9LcV_47wXCAadw6YyYJg172t6GnFK6PLpW0XmVC3x6nU4ckc2PNgf0xhtvnJ-BlsRZmRStSkw_SGS6AsMwPG6EuvpluwqXvymBrKCqrAWyQjRk_tKOidSk/s1544/EDC70987-6781-495B-81A4-D918ECF53A83.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="1544" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkGsCi9NvUMLjsfX9soOAcr9LcV_47wXCAadw6YyYJg172t6GnFK6PLpW0XmVC3x6nU4ckc2PNgf0xhtvnJ-BlsRZmRStSkw_SGS6AsMwPG6EuvpluwqXvymBrKCqrAWyQjRk_tKOidSk/w640-h480/EDC70987-6781-495B-81A4-D918ECF53A83.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-45830797799444377612020-09-19T11:17:00.001-07:002020-09-21T10:23:04.610-07:00A New Diagnosis<p> <u style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt;">BPD and Self-Sabotage</u></p><style class="WebKit-mso-list-quirks-style">
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</style><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;">I learned a few weeks ago that I most likely have Borderline Personality Disorder. “A<span lang="EN">n illness marked by an ongoing pattern of varying moods, self-image, and behavior. These symptoms often result in impulsive actions and problems in relationships. People with borderline personality disorder may experience intense episodes of anger, depression, and anxiety that can last from a few hours to days.”</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.266666412353516px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;">I always thought or at least refereed to it as being bi-polar, but I don’t have that because it runs in families and I don’t know anyone who has had it. Plus, after watching <i>Shameless</i>, and one of the characters (Ian) having it, I realized I was not like that; It didn’t have to do with intense rage outbursts. Bi-polar consists of being really “up” and hyper for weeks at a time, and then suddenly not being able to get out of bed for several days. That is not how I am. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;">This BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) diagnosis was given to me by a psychologist via a company that was recommended by our marriage therapist. The psychiatrist who prescribed meds (Seroquel, luckily they take insurance so it was free) could only tell that I have a mood disorder, but she wasn’t sure which one, hence needing me to talk to the psychologist/ counselor. I talked to him four times, but then cancelled it this week because he told me that he does not specialize in BPD. The Seroquel and other anxiety meds I got never seemed to make a difference, and Michael and I both felt like I was actually more agitated while on them, so I let the doctor know and then stopped taking those after three weeks. Unfortunately, BPD is something that has to be controlled by myself and there is not a quick fix with medicine for it. The best results come with practice of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, “which teaches four core skills: <b>Mindfulness</b>(I really need this because I rarely focus on the present moment unless I’m at work and keeping busy), <b>distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness,</b>and<b>emotion regulation</b>(another big one I need to stop blowing every situation out of proportion).” There is a workbook that I feel like I need, but I am really not big into reading and only stick with journaling for a few days. But 22 bucks seems like a fair price to get my emotional garbage under control for the rest of my life and have a good marriage and a calm, happy life. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;">Today I was thinking about how I self-sabotage in life and am constantly making things way (waaaaay) more difficult than they need to be. I stress and worry about sooooo much, usually regarding the distant future, including retirement, and I’m only 33 years old! I’ve got a good 25+ years before cashing in my well-earned checks. Then I looked up and found that it is one of the characteristics of BPD. Makes sense!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;">Main ways I notice that I self- sabotage:</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->1.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>Eating: </b>When I get to a good weight, instead of continuing working hard to keep my body looking great and healthy, my brain tells me that it is now a really good time to go back to eating unhealthy stuff, and to eat a lot of it. I am between 113 and 115 pounds right now, with a goal of being 107 by Christmas, but I’ll never reach that goal if I continue to self-sabotage and <i>literally feed</i>into the bad advice of my brain and taste buds, and eat a(nother) full box of Frosted Flakes within 24 hours!! Even when I feel like I have control of my weight loss progress, I still feel so… overtaken? Unhealthy eating is definitely a trigger to my BPD, but it’s hard to stop. It is super unrealistic to think that I’ll never eat chips and queso, or pizza and ice cream ever again even though “I could finally be happy” because my brain tells me that eating those foods makes me happy too, and they really do. Michael knows how excited I get each time we order food for delivery or pick up something for a home date. (And we do have 3 upcoming “home dates” planned!) Even if the surge of happiness only lasts in that hour before the food fully digests and my stomach hurts and the guilt sinks in and I weigh myself again. Then none of it felt worth it. That applies more to eating alone (see next paragraph). Nice dates are always worth it. <br /><br /></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>Finances: </b>Not that I do anything really bad or impulsive like spending <i>tons</i>of money, (although earlier this year I spent $200 <i>in April alone</i>on Pizza Hut delivery just for myself, on days Michael was at work, back when I weighed 135 pounds, but now we are on a budget again so I can’t/ have my priorities more in order) but I put way too much stress on the importance of money.. Thinking things like, “I can’t go home sick or call out of work because we need the money! Also how we will pay our bills <i>in four years</i>when Emma’s medical bills are no longer covered? And how much do we need to save for a second car (I’d want a used car) in two years when/if Emma goes to school? (Michael feels adamant about home schooling her. Less worry about germs or unqualified nurses taking care of her, people who don’t know how to put a trach back in or have any ventilator or G-tube knowledge, etc.) And how quickly can we save that amount?” When I already stress about money how it is now, being able to put some money back into Savings and the Roth IRA that I opened with my dad in June, why I am I eager to get to the years where we could possibly end up in financial struggle? Michael says my favorite word is “responsibility”, and he’s not wrong, but we can still be 90% responsible with financial help, right? Even if we get that super fricken generous help (I call it our “second insurance”) for the rest of our lives?!<br /><br /></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->3.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>Marriage: </b>I feel like I purposely push Michael away. I have had times where I am screaming at him about getting a divorce, but in my mind, all I am picturing is how bad I want to be lying in bed with him holding me because that’s what I really want and need. He has said in the past few months that he doesn’t know how much more verbal abuse he can take. So am I purposely pushing him away to “get it over with”? That way then I’m in control of the relationship? It really seems to be that way. I did that back around the time we had been dating for 3 months, Fall 2009. I was waiting for him to get tired of me. I had not had a boyfriend longer than 3 months before. I assumed it was my expiration date, but instead of leaving when I yelled at him and proceeded to lock myself in my apartment bedroom like a 14 year old girl, he baked me a cookie in the shape of a heart!!!! That is a terrific photo to describe our relationship. I have made huge sacrifices for him too though (California), so I’m not all bad. ;)<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_oWmvcm2oAnLPRi_b8PsYV29SaE6PvcW9DlqAdhn5iSF5Z-QNAR4U792-yyhFrHzA3ZiweJd7upZmZseb-dJTbW_y66-17_Hoei199_FBiOmXIzOCgJvMLvjP15NEKhrWaHtaCmo0yKg/s1424/IMG_2506.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1068" data-original-width="1424" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_oWmvcm2oAnLPRi_b8PsYV29SaE6PvcW9DlqAdhn5iSF5Z-QNAR4U792-yyhFrHzA3ZiweJd7upZmZseb-dJTbW_y66-17_Hoei199_FBiOmXIzOCgJvMLvjP15NEKhrWaHtaCmo0yKg/w400-h300/IMG_2506.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->4.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><b>Overthinking: </b>I was even stressing the other night about the recycling bin. Asking Michael to break down the four boxes we just got delivered that were still filled with Emma’s monthly medical supplies so the bin wouldn’t get too full later. Like seriously!? Of all the things to stress about.. & I got way too stressed about the “promise” I made for <b><a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2020/09/june-emmas-3rd-birthday.html" target="_blank">Emma’s virtual birthday party</a></b> in June, which then led to me getting cranky on her special day. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;">In what I was reading, it said that we self-sabotage because we feel like we aren’t good enough and don’t deserve the love and gifts given to us. I agree with that. Especially when I eat unhealthy for days at a time, I <i>always </i>feel like my life is spiraling out of control and that every choice I make in life is a bad one. That is probably why I am obsessed with watching <i>Shameless</i>right now. (Almost done with Season 9, but there are 10 on Netflix, and then I’ll probably start it over since I haven’t seen the first three seasons in several years.) This family of six kids who live on the poor, Southside of Chicago, with the oldest daughter raising the rest of her siblings because their Bi-polar crack-head mom is never around and the dad, who they do see often, is constantly drunk and always looking for ways to get disability checks. <a name="_GoBack"></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.693333625793457px;">Me, being “a rich girl”, but wishing we were living paycheck to paycheck, and actually having to eat pasta, peanut butter sandwiches with rice and beans every day is so dumb. <b>Raise up your hands, woman! Praise God for the amazing, pretty easy life He has given you.</b>And it doesn’t have anything to do with deserving either, I don’t think, because all the kids in Guatemala and the Philippines aren’t bad. They don’t deserve to be poor. This way of thinking that my brain comprehends as normal is all messed up! Also, I am weird and really like the small, pinky-finger sized hole in our bedsheets. I feel like it justifies us being on a budget and as long as Michael isn’t talking about needing new bedsheets for $150 or however much they cost. I feel like I would always skim by on the minimum if I lived alone. </p>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-41105067117316972042020-09-14T08:53:00.005-07:002020-09-14T08:53:50.799-07:00At the Duck Pond with Emma<p> I am posting these on my blog instead of Emma's since Michael said I wasn't thinking clearly on June 21st when I thought it would be a fun idea to have Emma sit near the water of the retention pond to see the ducks in our neighborhood. Due to there being the possibility of an alligator being in the water and suddenly jumping up to eat her. -- It <i>did</i> unfortunately happen at a Disney resort a couple years ago, but that was in a huge lake, so that is way more understandable. And they had signs warning of snakes and alligators there. -- Obviously that didn't happen to Emma in our neighborhood, but I won't be taking her over there again. I was not thinking about this since have never seen an alligator in our area and I'm sure if there was one living in that water, we wouldn't have so many ducks because they would have been eaten first. Whatever. Anyway, here are the pictures. :) </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHePOiPj2d71GKz5wio31DHFcW0gNNRhNiNPSp8o6rUYihbEE1SoKmm8iRmTmuyUJYWQ6tpbvNXB9pkQuZ-7jT4YE7tOL68SBWIIS0s6Mz6Obz9Go7GynkNsQ5iiVILZnAbTdo4Da3vi8/s2048/5C222C85-1095-4CD2-A998-6DBA67232888.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHePOiPj2d71GKz5wio31DHFcW0gNNRhNiNPSp8o6rUYihbEE1SoKmm8iRmTmuyUJYWQ6tpbvNXB9pkQuZ-7jT4YE7tOL68SBWIIS0s6Mz6Obz9Go7GynkNsQ5iiVILZnAbTdo4Da3vi8/w400-h500/5C222C85-1095-4CD2-A998-6DBA67232888.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUaudmyP3gAH5UU5QZd0uSOBAnz9ycr_BFCD9asVxQgskaWoLKf1b2rqrIuyhcTTiILMuYZ1Jx3c0YBpu4rqU0u7u-0CRYOcI5slWZDLtFqifLwXeBvDCiF9u6U-2UIrt5Ua0gH53DUGg/s2048/7B6052A0-782D-4DD1-9609-1B84E0EECF3D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiS2GON1rCksna4ybc1mjmdWLxfCd6XbmRuERTIxcm2XINRB-QyCyTeNbqxGzvqkm_TvHw5-TAnBrL9qY1wt2MuHtoJZ5R4tPkEoIC9ewhs598Ghh2it0XmBLnCdS_3OtXxHs8sEp4Q8s/w400-h500/E876A848-B249-48AB-9701-AC77672DE367.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The main reason I was excited to take her near the water is because I want so badly to take her to the beach, but at that time, Michael kept saying no. However, we are now currently planning to take her to the beach (possibly Daytona since they have packed sand and allow cars to drive on the beach for $20) in October!! I need to say more prayers that it doesn't rain that day. I saw the idea of picking shells to glue to a frame, so I definitely want to do that and hang it up. Emma's first beach trip!! I will definitely post all about that on Emma's blog since it will also have a lot of medical information about how we kept everything clean. Meaning, how did we avoid getting any sand in her trach stoma or in all the nooks and crannies of the ventilator? Michael says we do not have a ventilator cover. I even asked for other parents' tips on the Trach Moms Facebook page on Friday, but nobody has responded. Ugh. There have been other beach pictures posted in the past from those thousands of families in the group, although some of those kids do not require a ventilator and lately Emma hasn't been able to go more than about 20 minutes with sprinting (breathing on her own with only the trach, like she was doing in all of these duck pond pictures). But at least that's long enough to get a handful of great family photos! :) </div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-781165314854302882020-09-10T10:50:00.000-07:002020-09-10T10:50:05.583-07:00Beach, Budget & Buds<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I was very excited to be able to spend the day at Daytona Beach with my parents on Monday, August 17<sup>th</sup>. It was a great mini trip, which was followed by the next two days in Gainesville, where I finally got to hang out with Sharanya again! But I’ll get to that a smidge later. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">After 14 weeks on the Thousand Dollar Weightloss Challenge with Alex, which we did recently end earlier than planned (it was supposed to go until the end of this month with October 1<sup>st</sup>as the final weigh in), I went from 136.8 pounds on May 10<sup>th</sup>to 115.8 on August 17th. That’s a 21 pound loss and a $300 win!!! In June and July I lost the required 5+ pounds, but Alex did not reach it, so she had to pay me $150 each time. Those were the rules she made up and I agreed to. Surprisingly, I think I look thinner in these recent pictures than from when I was 112 pounds for the Daytona Beach trip back in September 2018, probably because of doing frequent exercises and a lot of stepping this time. For a few days I got to even got to 25,000 steps! And I was at home all day!! </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">While in Daytona, my parents and I also had another great long talk about retirement, pension plans and social security (my current favorite thing to talk to my dad about- he helped me open a Roth IRA account in June), then we ran errands and had dinner at Olive Garden with a very nice waiter who was generous with the Alfredo and marinara sauces and the most chocolate mints I have seen in my life!! On Tuesday morning we had to be out of the room by 10am</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">My Sunday weight the other day was 115.0 and I’m still hoping to lose some more, with a goal of 107 by Christmas- or earlier if healthily possibly. **** Thank you to Michael for his amazing dad skills and generous husband skills, which make these mini vacations possible for me.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">But I am also currently obsessed with talking about “The $500 Budget” that Michael and I started on August 28<sup>th</sup>. We started that day instead of waiting until September 1<sup>st</sup>since it seemed easier to start on a payday. On average, according to my math, we will each get $300 in the middle of the month and $200 at the end of the month, but since we started at the end, we get $200 first. I call the amount we get our Personal Pay. This is of course what is left over from our paychecks after all the bills have been paid. Well not officially paid, but I over estimate how much they will cost. Like our last power bill was $308 (<i>yiiiikes!</i>But also normal for our house in the summer since we had to cut our 4 trees down and then our robot baby came home from the NICU two summers ago and she has to be plugged in all day). So for this next paycheck I over estimated it at $320 just in case. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">For the Personal Pay we get that amount is to cover all of our own groceries (Michael and I eat very differently), any stuff we want for ourselves that we don’t need (extra clothes, scrapbook supplies, Star Wars items), plus toiletries –Michael likes the expensive Charmin toilet paper, while I have been getting mine from Dollar Tree for several years – and any bath supplies, as well as budgeting for birthdays and Christmas presents. This is easier for Michael because he doesn’t have any birthdays to budget for now, while I have to budget for my dad’s (September), Michael’s (October) and my mom’s (November). But I already have all of that planned out nicely thru the end of the year! I estimated a total of $350 for Christmas presents this year. I sure hope that is more than enough!!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I love talking about my budget because saving my own personal money and prioritizing it really well makes me feel so mature, and responsible, and proud. Plus the extra money we put into retirement (Roth IRA) and back into our regular savings account that we really need to build back up, hence starting a budget again. For the budget, I have Savings and Retirement listed as part of our bills. That’s the way to do it!! </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I have been enjoying the YouTube videos by “Tara Budgets”. I don’t know what she looks like because the videos are only of her hands, money and iPad that she documents her numbers on, but it is soooo therapeutic watching and listening to her count all her money. She is a waitress so she handles almost all of her money in cash. We are not doing that though. We tried it in the past with grocery money, but then Michael wouldn’t remember to carry his cash or he would spend more than he had at the time (with the rest at home) and both reasons made him end up using the credit or debit card anyway. This time since we don’t have a “date fund” in the budget, we will use the cash back rewards we get from using the credit card. I’m not sure how much it will actually accrue. I was hoping for $40 or $50, but so far it’s only at $7. Haha, guess it will be a Wendy’s date! We’ll see where it is on September 30<sup>th</sup>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">I haven’t used the credit card yet for my groceries because I have a dumb rule on my debit account that says if I don’t swipe my card 8 times a month, I get charged a fee!! Laaaaame. And I checked, buying stuff online or paying my monthly amount for orphan sponsorship does not count as part of the 8 since I not physically swiping or inserting the chip for those times. But in the past 12 days I have only spent $35 on groceries anyway. Good for me! The other day I wanted to know how much of my Personal Pay I could save between now and the end of the year. I make money sheets ALL. THE. TIME. Or any other type of sheets or documents. It keeps me busy. I estimated more than I thought I would spend on groceries each paycheck, factored in what I would need to hold on to each month for presents, minus the $80 per month to sponsor Mikaella in the Philippines and Jose in Guatemala through Unbound. And I was still left with $450 by the end of the year to put into my own savings, or to use it to buy things I don’t need, which is actually not appealing to me right now. I have a couple cash envelopes like Tara, but definitely not as many since I am leaving most of my money in the bank. But it does make me feel rich getting back a crisp $10 or $20 bill every now and then to hoard away. Even if I get it all out over the next few months, put it in my three colorful envelopes, save it up, and then deposit it back into the bank later to pay with the credit card to get the cash back rewards. It may seem like a weird system, but that’s how I like to do it. My three envelopes are labeled:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">1. Personal- new clothes or scrapbook supplies, books I most likely won’t read *eye roll* (I want to be the kind of person who reads books, especially non-fiction, but I’m more comfortably a watch-TV-all-day kind of person), favorite wet ink pens from Dollar Tree, etc.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">2. Emma- for buying her cute rainbow or kitty shirts that she definitely doesn’t <i>need</i>more of, we just need to do her laundry more often! Same with me not needing to buy new clothes. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">3. Toiletries- which is more like fancy bath stuff/ relaxing face masks or pretty scented body scrubs. I should be good on toilet paper and tooth paste for a while. But I get a lot of that stuff for a buck anyway!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">Anyway, the answer is $450. That is how much money I will be able to put into these envelopes or my personal savings. At a minimum. I over estimated on what I might spend on groceries, so if I stick to $50 or less per paycheck, then I could actually save $600 by the end of the year!! That money, which I have been saving since last summer, is so I can visit my best friend, Mia, in Denver next year, as well as for two future cruises: One that is unofficially planned for February 2022 with Mia, Lindsey, Tonia, and Sharanya. (Oh, never mind, Lindsey says she is terrified of being stuck on a boat and doesn’t want to be away from her kids, so she’s out!) And the second one being a Disney cruise with my mom and Lou<a name="_GoBack"></a>. Aka, the robot baby/toddler! She definitely needs to be “battery powered” (off her ventilator full time) before then though, but that one is scheduled for at least 4 years away (November 2024, for my mom’s birthday). </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px; margin: 0in 0in 8pt;">When I was in Gainesville after the beach day, I went to lunch with my mom at Harvest Thyme and we talked about finances and she helped me create The $500 Budget. I was wanting to put twice as much money into retirement, but my mom said I need to calm down about that and how $400/month is a good amount. And without her advice, I would have been trying to make our personal budgets too tight again. We tried The $300 Budget before (with the cash as I mentioned above), but that didn’t last long. Hopefully this one is sustainable!! We really should have been sticking to a budget since Emma came home from the hospital and Michael was no longer able to work full time, as of July 2018, after my maternity leave was up. We used to make an extra $1,000 per month. Oh well. We have Lou now. <span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-44454837785647004922020-06-20T04:37:00.000-07:002020-06-20T04:37:10.256-07:00My 33rd Birthday I had to work on my birthday- a Thursday, just as it was on the day of my birth-<span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;"> but later I was thinking it was actually nice being at work. Partly because it was not busy that day and I got to stay in Teletype vs answering 911 calls for half of the shift. And also because I got to be around people I enjoy and the past few birthdays I haven’t been able to celebrate with anyone, besides Michael and Emma. And those “celebrations” were very minimal as we were celebrating Emma’s birthday the next day. I will write about those later down in this post. </span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> A week or so before my birthday, I sent Alex (my work BFF) pictures of this scene of a party from The Office:</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> Alex has been getting more interested in The Office, it seems, since I always turn one of the TVs to Comedy Central at work on the weekends. I hoped she would do something similar to the “lame Office decorations” at work, but I was not going to be upset if she did not. However, I was very pleased when I walked in the room last week and she did!! It was perfect and made me feel good every time I came back in the room from my breaks. </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> I got a fluffy vanilla cake with strawberries, free lunch from Chipotle including chips and queso, and a brownie from the fire department people downstairs. A few people sang happy birthday, including a dance video that my mom, Peyton, and Helena sent with the Zoom alien song. It is never officially my birthday until I hear that. </span><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div>(I’ll write more later.)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-72747870452665678802020-06-15T03:49:00.000-07:002020-06-15T03:49:34.261-07:00Test via Blogger App I am trying to see if I can upload pictures from my phone using the “Blogg by Blogger” app that I just thought to download, which may be way easier than doing it on my laptop. It has been a complete stressful hassle for me to try to get pictures from my phone to my Kingston Bolt device that Michael got me for Valentine’s Day (which does not always transfer all of the pictures and videos that I tell it too) so then I have to email the pictures to my email. But I have to log in to Yahoo and to save them on Michael’s laptop because mine can no longer <span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;">load the Yahoo page </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: inline !important;">on either Safari or Firefox. Then I have to use a USB to transfer them from Michael’s laptop to mine before uploading them to the blog.. ugh..</span><div><div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, here are some pretty pictures that I took on my 3.8 mile solo walk yesterday, which took about 80 minutes. This was my belated birthday “activity” since we can’t go anywhere now because of Corona & also Emma’s medical limitations. It was hot but a really nice walk that made my legs and mind feel good. I was singing Hoku’s “Perfect Day” song while in the shower afterwards. </div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1bMoPEcVNl-4U0kjPq-5vCeVdMEmJcJcN" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1bMoPEcVNl-4U0kjPq-5vCeVdMEmJcJcN" style="max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1M4OE4wCrdUUt1sp2IN57iwJ4u3HWsKlU" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1M4OE4wCrdUUt1sp2IN57iwJ4u3HWsKlU" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1faYkULQF05iVKZwDuQGlh1jooRDRMOo8" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1faYkULQF05iVKZwDuQGlh1jooRDRMOo8" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1Nci8AUKBckFCnYOBMIwyYFjjcDhz2fuC" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1Nci8AUKBckFCnYOBMIwyYFjjcDhz2fuC" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1LoYakaSPvhvbUxo1X2JI7cUqGPYz5QWw" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1LoYakaSPvhvbUxo1X2JI7cUqGPYz5QWw" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1ed74FbTfa69zsr__25emlsr3i94g_RyC" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1ed74FbTfa69zsr__25emlsr3i94g_RyC" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1xUhig7qJm09ZhK3HQYLnmUFReQAdRqo9" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1xUhig7qJm09ZhK3HQYLnmUFReQAdRqo9" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1Ojjl82jPXI-WdAR8pWq14Hbgc4jMmRp2" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1Ojjl82jPXI-WdAR8pWq14Hbgc4jMmRp2" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1Oh7ztIivxpsveW3-rame03hTDa5rkWsZ" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1Oh7ztIivxpsveW3-rame03hTDa5rkWsZ" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1CeQmO9JkThiDNwNq2P94VBCevze_Zx5z" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1CeQmO9JkThiDNwNq2P94VBCevze_Zx5z" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=12moyCZWoeFbrJkmGHl1rXLOAn_M7NxHH" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=12moyCZWoeFbrJkmGHl1rXLOAn_M7NxHH" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1I_hM5DE63MwO7b7NnlhJ9oRuC32pad31" alt="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1I_hM5DE63MwO7b7NnlhJ9oRuC32pad31" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; max-height: 80%; max-width: 80%; height: auto; width: auto;"><br></div><div>I “saved” that puppy who had gotten out of the house and was following me around without the owner knowing it. Luckily the owner answered the door when I knocked and the puppy quickly ran inside. The empty bottle of water is to show that I drank all of it while on my walk. My current weight as of Friday morning is 125.2 pounds. </div></div></div>Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-65192651623489739152020-05-26T11:59:00.002-07:002020-05-27T11:34:20.343-07:00Memorial Day Yesterday I was taught not to say "Happy Memorial Day" because it is a sad day of remembering all of those who died in order to help keep our country safe. However, I am happy and proud to have such generous and selfless and brave men and women risking and sacrificing their lives to help make America the way it is today for us and Emma.<br />
I feel like Emma looks younger in these first pictures because I squeezed her into this 3-month size floral overall that was still hanging in her closet for some reason. It's definitely the last time she will ever wear it. Right now/ in this picture, Emma is just two weeks and four days shy of turning 3 years old!!<br />
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Today was really great because both of us had off, and we stuck to the plans that I made. I was surprised that Michael's boss at VAMP still let everyone off for Memorial Day after they had been off for six weeks from the end of March to the beginning of May due to the Corona Virus. A few days prior I told Michael that I wanted us to use one of our Darden gift cards and order food from Bahama Breeze, since that is his favorite place and we probably hadn't been there <b><a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2019/11/daddys-birthday-and-pool-party.html">since his birthday</a></b>.<br />
The morning was really great and then in the afternoon we hung out in the house as Michael sewed some Boba Fett gloves that he is working on to sell. He also made the first blaster that he is selling on The Dented Helmet. He first 3D printed the pieces, then made molds of those, so now he just fills up the molds each time a new buyer contacts him. Here is the blaster almost finished, and then completely finished with dirt and rust painted on. Skillz! He has even had two buyers from France and Norway!<br />
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While he was working on the gloves I was looking through <i>Blood Widow</i> pictures for my previous post I just added, and then I watched (and he listened to) the video we made of baby pictures and growing up, until we met each other in 2009, and then videos from Full Sail. He put that 18 minute video together and it was played at our wedding reception on Friday, May 6, 2011. Shortly after watching that yesterday, I did my hair and makeup and then drove to pick up our dinner from Bahama Breeze. The employee who helped me was wearing a mask over his mouth and nose. I forgot to put mine on while I was in the restaurant for that one minute. I changed into a black dress when I got back.<br />
The day I got this black dress at the end of November 2017 was also a really nice "shopping date" at Kohl's in Clermont. We wanted new outfits because one of the doctors at Winnie Palmer was going to be taking <b><a href="https://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2017/12/winning-at-life.html">Christmas card photos</a></b> for the families with babies in the NICU. Michael picked out my dress and shoes (black velvet ankle boots with a thick heel that I rarely wear) and I picked out my matching necklace and earrings, which I also wore yesterday for our home date.<br />
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Another really nice date that I remember, but was sad to find out that I never posted about was went we went to Corelli's Italian Restaurant for pizza, which is also in Clermont. I believe I wore the dark green sundress with a small floral pattern on it. I don't remember what Michael ordered, but I ordered the small stromboli (or maybe it was the calzone?) filled with meat and cheese. It was not small at all! <i>It was</i> <i>huge!!</i> I remember laughing in disbelief and could not imagine the size of the large. I definitely have a picture of it somewhere. I assume the picture was from 2014 or 2015, and if I come across it one day, I will add it into this post.<br />
Here are some pictures of us/ our meal at "The Dining Room". My only complaint was that the manager in the living room had some "Happy Bear" song on repeat! Haha.<br />
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After dinner we joined the manager in her quarters to all watch The Rise of Skywalker. Michael has had this movie since it was released in stores, maybe in March? Michael said he and Emma had watched it a few times, but until last night, there was not a two hour and 20 minute block of time that we had available for me to also watch it. It was a good movie and I did not think any of the parts got boring. Michael asked what my favorite scene was, but I just told him I liked all the parts that made me laugh. I remember the first one with these main actors (<i>The Force Awakens</i>) had a lot of funny lines in the first half. I almost want to watch that one again right now, but Michael might be sad if I watch it while he is at work. It would be more fun to see it with him. I'm pretty sure we saw that one in theaters because it came out in 2015 when it was just the two of us and we weren't parents yet. We did not see <i>The Last Jedi</i> in theaters, because that came out while <b><a href="https://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2018/03/michigan-photos-part-1.html">we were in Michigan</a></b> for Emma's big surgery. We had time to go on the days Emma was resting (aka sedated and on paralytics), but Michael worried that a nurse or doctor would need to suddenly reach us and we'd have to leave the movie and run back in the snow. The theater was about a 20 minute walk from the hospital.<br />
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The movie ended right around 9pm and then we moved Emma into her bedroom, like we do every night, for her treatments and trach care. She was swinging her legs back and forth in a direction that they don't normally go -behind her-, although she has had hip dysplasia since birth. She didn't just sit like that. She swung her legs back to the front each time. Apparently (according to my mom and another mom whose children had types of primordial dwarfism) this is just Emma's version of the W sit. Where kids sit with their knees bent so the bottom half of the legs are right next to the top half on the floor. I remember I used to do that and my mom would tell me to stop because it's bad for my knees. I remember it being specifically on a Christmas morning too.<br />
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<b><a href="https://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2019/06/spring-update-may.html">Click HERE</a></b> to see photos from last year's Memorial Day when we were able to go out to eat. That was a long, full month update, so the part about that specific day is pretty far into the post.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-65427350952598958252020-05-26T10:28:00.002-07:002020-05-26T10:28:44.018-07:00The $1,000 Weightloss Challenge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I don't think I have talked about the weight loss challenge that <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2019/02/wekiwa-springs-iii.html">Alex</a></b> and I started a little over two weeks ago (on May 10th). We both started super close to 136.5 pounds, so that is the starting weight we used. I was actually 136.8! My highest ever!! I was 135.0 on the morning Emma was born, which makes it pretty terrible that with all the breadsticks, pizza, and ice cream, I weighed more than I did when my uterus was filled with baby, amniotic fluid, and placenta. I was reading some other posts on here under the search categories of "skinny" and "vegan" and found that in 2017 I lost 17 pounds in 100 days (14 weeks), going from 129 pounds in the beginning of June to 112 pounds at the beginning of September when I met my parents at Daytona Beach for my dad's birthday. The following year I was able to go from 127 pounds to 119 pounds in 40 days. I came across a journal note recently (that I no longer have) that said I weighed 118 pounds in October of last year, but I don't really believe that because this first picture was from them & check out that thick upper arm cellulite! Other than that it is a nice family photo. </div>
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I really love this photo of me and Emma on December 23rd, 2019 and feel like a lower weight is more believable then, but I don't weigh myself unless I am trying to lose weight, so I assume I was still/ back up to around 127-130 pounds at that time.<br />
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The money part of the challenge comes in when Alex felt like earning money or the whole "not wanting to lose money" threat would finally be something to motivate both of us, and so far it has been working. Our goal is to lose 5 pounds every month between May 10th and September 30th (that equals 20 1/2 weeks) and we are both hoping to get down to 110, our final weigh in being October 1st. My main talk of motivation -not counting the money- is wanting to be "slim and trim" for Greg and Britt's wedding the last weekend of September. I hope that is still happening as the Corona Virus rules are letting up and now some of the non-essential stores (junk stores like Home Goods and Ross, as well as restaurants) are opening up for customer business at 50% capacity. Seems too soon for me, but I guess the stores were going to completely lose their business and go bankrupt if they didn't open again? Even Universal Citywalk and Disney Springs are opening up again, but not the main parks yet.<br />
Another exciting motivation thought I have came to last night when I got a message from <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2011/12/portraits-drew.html">AJ Prescott</a> </b>saying he and Mabel are planning a Full Sail reunion later this year in Orlando!! I was skinny most of our time there, so of course I have to be skinny (and toned) again for the reunion. But, going back again to the money part of this challenge with Alex, she said if one of us loses the five pounds and the other person doesn't, then the winner gets $150 from the loser. This goes for each month! And if neither of us lose the five pounds, then we both have to donate $200 to charity.<br />
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This is a nice photo I found from our engagement pictures, which AJ and Adea took for us. We needed engagement pictures, they wanted the photography experience. Win/win! I do believe I was maybe around 110-113 here? I didn't have a scale at school, so I only got to weigh myself when I went back to Gainesville to visit my family and friends.<br />
I don't want to jinx myself by writing all of this too soon, while only being on Day 17 of this 145(?) day challenge. Although, I say it actually goes for the next 21,000 days because I never want to get up to 137 or even 120 pounds ever again after this!! I told Alex that our "giving each other money if we fail" agreement flips after we reach 110, and for a full year after October this year, if either of us <i>gains back</i> more than five pounds, then we owe the other person who stayed <i>under </i>115 pounds $150!!<br />
I get so disappointed in myself for stopping once I previously reached 118 or 112, even though I got tired of eating healthy. Maybe this time has been easier because I'm focusing on intermittent fasting and eating less food at a time, but more often to keep my tummy satisfied throughout the day. Or maybe it's because I have been upset with myself for the past two years and am tired of constantly failing.<br />
Usually I would eat two packs of oatmeal for breakfast at work. Now I just eat one at a time, with two hours in between. Or sometimes I only eat one, and then a couple hours later eat something different. Most days I have been able to wait at least four hours after getting up before eating (that's where the intermittent fasting comes in to play!), which means not eating until 9am on work days and holding out to 1pm on days I am home, if I am able to without getting a headache. It is <i>not</i> worth it to get what will most likely turn into a migraine. Alex has also been getting me to do small exercises when it is not busy at work, including calf raises, high knees, and wall sits. I also found a 3-minute arm video that I like by Boho Beautiful on YouTube.<br />
Other things I have enjoyed recently are: Greek penne pasta from the Publix deli, cinnamon raisin bagels (only 1/2 at a time), banana-peanut butter- chocolate smoothies, Chipotle tacos (never order it again with the red sauce!!), steamed broccoli, I like the Green Giant seasoned and cheese bags. My first official splurge was yesterday when we ordered spinach dip and chips from Bahama Breeze. I'll talk about that in the next post because it was a really great family day. ♡♥♡<br />
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Now here are some more pictures from our <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2017/10/behind-mask.html">Blood Widow</a></b> behind the scenes filming that I was looking through yesterday. I am mainly using the ones of me and my hot June 2011 bod. I assume Michael took all the pictures that I am in, but I was the main BTS photographer. Sadly a lot of the pictures I got are blurry, as if the shutter speed was not set fast enough. Obviously I didn't post those. These were all taken the month after Michael and I got married. He was stressed on our Honeymoon because that was a full week he did not have to use in order to prepare and create the special FX pieces for the movie (fake legs, hands, and heads to be chopped off by the killer)!<br />
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^^ I was nervous to meet the main characters, Gabbie Henry and Danielle Lilley, even though they were not (yet) A-list celebrities as I was treating them like. I had no reason to be nervous and my nerves went away quickly as I began treating them like friends within a few hours of meeting them.<br />
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^^ my favorite. Supa best friends for 2 years!! We still talk sometimes now and I was </div>
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^^ Recreating a pose for my mom that I did when I was maybe 2 or 3 years old.<br />
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^^ When I got to dress up as Blood Widow because that day they only needed and over the shoulder shot and Gabbie didn't want to have to drive all that way (almost 2 hours each way) for one shot. </div>
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She gave me permission to play the part that day since we were the same size. She was a few inches taller than me so I think I had to stand on an apple box, but cant remember for sure. </div>
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My over the shoulder shot is at <b><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-E0a6h8ailo">37 seconds in the official trailer</a></b>!! </div>
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^^ with Julie, Love, the costume designer. Also a good Full Sail friend! </div>
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Now the rest of these are more promotional, with Gabbie Henry as Blood Widow.</div>
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^^ Jeremy Buckhalt, the director. And in the second BW picture I posted at the top you can also see Chad Coup, who was the producer. This stray dog that found us was named Hugh McSwaggs by Michael Mowen who was the sound guy and my husband's best friend during the shoot! <br />
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I am sooo happy and thankful that Michael and I both got to be in the same group as Jeremy for our Final Project in December 2010 and January 2011, because a lot of the people who worked on his short film, <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2012/04/award-goes-to.html"><i>Gruff's Bridge</i>,</a></b> also got to work on <i>Blood Widow</i> after we all graduated. A lot of us had the same jobs on both projects, including me as 2nd AD, Michael as Special Makeup FX, Rebecca Wise as 1st AD (assistant director), Ryan as the UPM (unit production manager), and Julie Love as costume designer. Chad, the BW producer, played the part of Gruff six months prior. I really loved the 2nd AD position for those few months, but in real life it is a really hard spot to move up to, and I didn't love it enough to start off as a barely paid PA (production assistant) in California for 10 years, getting people coffee, etc. Plus I am big on financial security, so I was/am fine with working at the Sheriff's Office for a steady paycheck, helping save lives on 9-1-1, confirming felony warrants over the radio, and other important things within our community. </div>
Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-68371959631671056512020-05-21T09:50:00.001-07:002020-05-21T09:50:17.691-07:00Almost Famous Okay, let's cut to the chase. The main reason I want to post all the Full Sail pictures is because I love seeing the pictures of myself! This chunk of my life - July 2009 to was so great for several reasons:<br />
1. I finally got to live on my own (with roommates)/ move out of my parents' house after 22 years.<br />
2. I quickly had a boyfriend, who later became my fiance, who is now my husband.<br />
3. I had a hilarious new best friend (Ryan).<br />
4. I got to my lowest weight I had been in a long time!<br />
5. I was at fricken film school- a dream of mine for several years!!<br />
6. I had bad (undiagnosed) depression and other issues, especially the whole year before Full Sail, so this new amazing experience was like a complete 180.<br />
7. We were constantly learning new things. Nothing became boring or repetitive.<br />
8. I could focus on school and didn't have to work/ have a job aside from being a good student.<br />
9. I got to study things I was really interested in and had a much higher GPA there than in high school (the same went for Michael).<br />
10. Did I mention that I had a boyfriend for more than 3 months and he didn't break up with me because I talk about celebrities too much and take too many pictures? ;) #noregrets<br />
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These "movie premiere" pictures are from December 23 and 24th, 2009. My first big photo shoots after getting from 125 pounds to 105 pounds, which I achieved naturally without realizing at first by walking and biking to and from school almost every day, as well as taking care of Michael's dog, Sasha, which I later regretted because then he stopped taking care of her on his own, as if it became my duty just because I liked "having a dog" at the beginning of our relationship.. . Our apartment was only one mile away from school, and my Gainesville body was not used to all the frequent exercise, so it came off easily even though I wasn't eating any differently. However, at the beginning of November, I weighed myself for the first time in four months and saw I was 112. Then I began to eat healthier/ less fast food- there was (and still is) a Taco Bell, McDonald's, Wendy's, and Chick-Fil-A in the Full Sail parking lot areas. With these quiet easy tactics, I reached a very happy weight of 105 by Christmas!<br />
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And now for a change of wardrobe because they have separate premiere in New York and LA! </div>
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The London premiere the next day ~ celebrity life is busy!! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tattoo that started our relationship. ☆</td></tr>
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A quick history of movie premieres: The first red carpet movie premiere took place in 1922 at the Egyptian therater on Hollywood Blvd in Los Angeles. Organized by Sid Grauman, the event was not only celebrating the opening of the Egyptian theater but also the release of Robin Hood starring Douglas Fairbanks. Info from redcarpetsystems.com.<br />
And the history of mine: My first home movie premiere- which surprisingly do not almost ever involve actually watching the movie we are "promoting"/ the posters we are standing in front of- was in January 2004 for <i>Dumb and DumberER: When Harry Met Lloyd</i> and done with my cousin, Jessica. We were actually in this movie, which came out in 2003, as unpaid extras! But we got to meet Shia LaBeouf, Eugene Levy, and Eric Christian Olsen, among others, which was pretty amazing! My first home premiere with friends was in February 2005 for <i>Napoleon Dynamite</i> with Sharanya, followed by <i>Thin Obsession</i>, with Mia, Tonia, and Sharanya, which was a 4-minute movie trailer that we made the year prior as a class project I made for TV Production in my junior year of high school. The most recent friend photo shoot I did with my friends was in front of the house, no posters on the garage door, not technically a premiere, at Christmas 2015 --> in the middle of <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2019/02/tips-tricks-2014-2018.html">this long, beautiful post</a></b>.<br />
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I have always wanted ("always" in since after June 2011) to have a <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2017/10/behind-mask.html">Blood Widow</a></b> premiere. I was hoping there would actually be a real one when the film was finally released in select theaters and available at Redbox in June 2014, but that never happened. I figured a lot of the actors would still possibly be in the Orlando area at that time- I know Jose Miguel Vazquez - who played Mark now lives in Atlanta. I think Gabbie Henry, who played the main character, still lives in Orlando. I should definitely invite her over for the six year belated "premiere"!!! It would be cool to see her again! However, I love having movie posters on the garage door and for some reason the <i>Blood Widow</i> posters online basically do not exist, and I don't have a high resolution photo to get made. That would probably be expensive anyway. I could always be old school and print out a bunch of pages that just say "Blood Widow" on them, all ghetto like, or expand the main picture from the DVD cover to fill a regular 8x11 printer page, which is what I used to do when I couldn't get old posters from the movie theaters or get the current popular ones from Wal-Mart for five bucks each. We'll see.. :)Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-70468695532027342512020-05-20T09:27:00.004-07:002020-05-20T15:48:03.919-07:002009 Full Sail Visits Here are all the pictures during Full Sail, but not <i>at</i> school, specifically from September to December 2009, taken from trips up to Gainesville, Tallahassee to see Alana, and to Birmingham to visit Michael's family. My first trip back in July, a mere three weeks after school started, only lasted about 2 hours before I literally broke down crying and <i>needed</i> to get back. The first full visit was towards the end of August.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">8/24/09</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ At the beginning of September, I was there to celebrate my dad's birthday and the next <br />
day Michael and I drove up to Tallahassee so he could meet my other BFF, Alana.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ Alana's brother Asher took pictures of us as we pretended to be Ashley Tisdale and <br />
Vanessa Hudgens, with Michael as Zac Efron trailing behind the best friends <br />
as they held hands even though Zac and Vanessa were dating! Haha. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ I also met his friend Kendall, her sister Ali, and their mom "Mama Toni".<br />
Never mind- I guess we flew there because I also have airport photos..</td></tr>
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October 2009 looks to be a month that we did not leave Orlando. Instead a bunch of us were working on our Biogenesis Halloween project (for fun, not something we were required to do for school) and Michael and I went to Blizzard Beach for his birthday. We also went to Halloween Horror Nights since I got a free ticket from Anna who changed her mind about going. It was my first and last time. I feel like I have posted a few of those pictures from each mentioned event elsewhere on the blog in the past 8 years, so I am not adding more right now. This post has a lot of pictures already! :)<br />
November: It is possible I was there for the weekend because of it being my mom's birthday as my photos are telling me they are from November 8th & her birthday is the 7th. This time Alana came to Gainesville too ~<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hahaha I guess the girl next door and her friends wanted to be in our cool photo shoot too! They did a few <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then Mia came over (that's her old gold Volvo- old as in she has a light blue Prius now).</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's right, I bully my best friends into also being friends with each other! :D<br />
I think we maybe spent the night in that tent together? Or maybe only Mia and I did, and Alana was <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looks like we got together with other high school friends too. Sharanya, Tonia, and Lindsey.<br />
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The next trip up was a few weeks later for Thanksgiving:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ that is always how my dinner plate looks at Thanksgiving, even when I'm not on a diet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing around with Photo Booth with Grandma Re and Grandpa Narles. This was during the time they were <br />
living in an assisted living place. They bought a small house (that my brother now lives in) the following Spring.</td></tr>
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**Wow, just got super distracted for the past 30 minutes reading a bunch of writing/ short story blurbs that I had written since 2008 that were on my laptop! Some are me rewriting actual events that happened, some were made up, some were written during Full Sail about stuff that happened but I kept mentioning Jeremy Chomsky being my boyfriend when it was really a conversation I had with Michael. I will definitely need to post a bunch of those on here too because they are interesting to go back and read, and many I don't remember writing.**<br />
On to December 2009, using details from a kind of junky scrapbook that I put together during that time ~ "Winter Break started around 2pm after our Storytelling final. Tomas videotaped a bunch of us as we walked to our cars. Yay!" But apparently I was sick with a cough and I burnt some cookies that I made because I thought the over turned off when the timer did. Obviously my mom did all the cooking at home for the first 22 years of my life and I learned nothing. And we gave Sasha a bath that she did not like as well as buying her a harness. Also I guess I called Michael "Nick" (because his voice reminded me of Nicholas Cage when I met him) for longer than I thought because I was still referring to him as Nick in this Christmas scrapbook. On December 20th, I drove to Naples to where Grandma Belva was living for many years and met my parents there for Christmas dinner. I also got to meet Grandma's boyfriend, Deane. Her husband/ Grandpa Hawey died of Alzheimer's back in August 1997.<br />
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On the way up to Gainesville, after I had breakfast with Grandma and Deane, my mom rode with me and we talked about "Nick" most of the time. My scrapbook says we also played 21 questions. I used a lot of ink stamps in this scrapbook. I'm not a fan of those anymore. I even bought a shrimp stamp in 2016 (#RIP), but never used it. Later that day I hung out with Mia again! I felt extra awesome being 105 pounds because I remember her dad told me how great and healthy I looked, since the last time he saw me was in June before Full Sail when I was 20 pounds heavier. Mia had just gotten a nice haircut with highlights, so we had to take pictures of that! </div>
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The following pages of the Winter Break scrapbook show that I left my mom a note asking her to call to see if I could go to the doctor for my cough, because Publix or CVS had the medicine I needed. Also we watched the cooking movie Julie and Julia staring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. The next page looks like I did finally get a prescription from Publix, but it was $50 for one and $14.20 for the other!! </div>
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You can see a lot of my favorite Twilight/ New Moon premiere photo shoot pictures <b><a href="https://fullsailfun.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/twilight-premiere/">HERE</a></b>, for the ones with Mia and Tonia from 12/23/09. Tonia was there from 2-4pm before she had to go to work. "Mia stayed for a while and we ran some errands. The guy at Walgreens liked my premiere idea! (I believe I was printing these pictures out so I could keep the scrapbook very updated.) After having dinner with Grandma and Grandpa - Papa John's pizza - Sharanya came over to watch the movie <i>I Love You, Man</i>. Click <a href="https://fullsailfun.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/new-moon-premiere/"><b>HERE</b></a>, for the movie premiere pictures of just me and Michael!! Those were taken on Christmas Eve, which was our 5 month "anniversary" since we started dating on 07/24/09. He went to church with us that night, which made me very happy!! & That was the end of the scrapbook.</div>
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On Sunday, December 27th we flew up to Birmingham. His parents said they would pay for my ticket too! Sheesh! I wasn't yet used to this fancy lifestyle, but definitely was enjoying it, and I felt like being skinny<i> and smokin' hot</i> made me enjoy it even more!! The main reason we went up was because his older brother, Christopher, was getting married to Meredith the following weekend. But that was at the very beginning of January, so those will be in a later post.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ the view from their reception hotel (?) place in downtown Birmingham. <br />
This was when Meredith was showing us where it would take place and I wanted to be involved <br />
in all of the wedding festivities. I also got to hear NaNa tell stories about when her and Buddy were married. <br />
He passed away in September that year - I was so sad I never got to meet him). </td></tr>
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Lastly, for this post, we met up with Daniel Sparkman who was also from the Birmingham area, but Michael never knew him before Full Sail. I think maybe Daniel had dropped out of Full Sail before this point, even though I have him in November school photos, which was why we were meeting up with him? I don't remember if he couldn't pay the hefty tuition or he decided film school wasn't what he wanted to pursue. Both happened to a few other people we started with. This movie was sooooo long. I have never fully watched it a second time, but Michael picked one of the songs (from the end credits?) as our first dance at our wedding reception. I only cared that <i>Glee</i> songs/ covers were played the rest of the time! ;)Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-64167282981961704682020-05-16T10:25:00.002-07:002020-05-16T17:32:46.574-07:00Full Sail Fun, 10 Years Later, Part I I think the main reason why I get disappointed that I haven't blogged about something, or have not blogged a specific photo is when I go back and specifically look for it. Right now I am doing a 10-day Photo Challenge on Facebook with my top favorite moments and since I purge my phone every six months or so, obviously I'm not going to have any Full Sail photos on my phone. And for having July 2009- June 2011 being the best big chunk of my life, I have a surprisingly low amount of photos from it. Having <b><a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/">Emma at home</a></b> for the past 2 years has been super great as well, but also more stressful than Full Sail was.<br />
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Here are the few previous Full Sail photo posts that I have, along with the <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2014/04/flashback-blog.html">Wordpress blog</a></b> that I started and have that written as if I was blogging it during Full Sail, which I did not, but I don't like that website as much as Blogger. It could be that I was not resizing the photos, so that blog takes so long to load.<br />
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<b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2019/02/tips-tricks-2009-2013.html">Skinny Pictures of Myself</a> </b>>><b> </b>from 2009-2013 (weight loss post)<br />
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<b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2013/03/wedding-craze.html">Wedding Craze</a></b> >> Engagement/ Wedding/ Honeymoon, Sept 2010- May 2011<br />
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<b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/09/marry-you-every-day_92.html">Marry You Every Day</a></b> >> pictures of my relationship with Michael, July 2009- May 2011<br />
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<b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/10/hauntings-past.html">Haunting's Past</a></b> >> all previous Halloweens, 2009- 2015<br />
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<b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/12/last-month-of-2009.html">Christmas/ Birmingham</a></b> >> December 2009<br />
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<b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/10/bryan-and-ren.html">Ryan and Ben's Wedding</a></b> >> October 2010<br />
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<b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/12/christmas-at-full-sail.html">Christmas at Full Sail</a></b> >> December 2010<br />
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<b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2017/06/what-fun-life.html">What a Fun Life</a></b> >> the main Full Sail recap, July 2009- Summer 2010<br />
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<b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2016/05/our-wedding.html">Our Wedding</a></b> >> after Full Sail/ May 2011, but part of the "Favorite Two Years" time frame<br />
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<b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2017/10/behind-mask.html">Behind the Mask</a></b> >> June 2011, the main <i>Blood Widow</i> post with four links to reference the previous posts that were written before I was allowed to share a lot (since this blog has so many readers) about the film! Did I mention it stayed in the Philippine theaters longer than <i>Guardians of the Galaxy</i> did!?<br />
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Apparently I mention Full Sail a lot on this blog, even when the posts don't have anything to do with being at the school. I have also had the same laptop since Full Sail- the Apple Macbook Pro (not sure if it's a 2008 or 2009 version?) and it is slowly falling apart internally. It currently will no longer load my email account, which was the second most important website I use on here. Michael has the same laptop as well, but also got a new desktop computer at the beginning of 2020. Mainly I'm saying I need to upload as many memories onto this blog as I can before my laptop and it's lack of updates over the past 9 years can no longer sync with Blogger either and I don't have a convenient way to blog. I also do <i>not</i> want to have to (spend money) to buy a new laptop. Okay, now for a second Full Sail recap of my favorite photos, using pictures that I don't believe I have already used in those links above:<br />
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~ Ten minutes later ~ I'm already feeling like I don't want to do this. I don't want to have to look through all these pictures and edit them. It's going to take too long... Maybe I'll just post all my favorite Full Sail skinny pictures that I haven't posted yet, and ones from when we were working on actual bigger projects... ~ 20 minutes later ~ I am definitely going to need to break this up into about 7 posts. My desire to keep working on this is dwindling, but I am getting a few good laughs, yet some pictures I don't remember happening.<br />
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Okay, these first pictures only go between July and December 2009, and are specifically Full Sail class and lab related:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ a collage I made for my Behavioral Science project</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ doing his make up and then mine for our "Zombies In Love" photo shoot after class</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ we probably didn't go more than 1/2 mile but I was saying prayers the whole time!! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ doing my make up to take portraits for our Photography class</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ Cocoa Beach w/ Daniel Sparkman, Tomas, John Henry, Angel & Angel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ we were the models for Ryan's Photography class portrait photos</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ Sept 2009/ a side project with Ryan, Dawson, and George Dykeman that we never ended up making</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ my bedroom in the Azure apartment I shared with Ryan and Shelby for the first year, this second<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ Michael getting more make up FX practice in</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ October/ Lighting labs, I believe our shift was from 5-9am!? Michael says I was cranky these months and even called my mom about it to ask why and she said it was because my sleep schedule was so messed up.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Possibly my first time ever going to Bahama Breeze: 10/23/09</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ Dawson and Carly Spell</td></tr>
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I don't even remember these happening (below), but apparently a bunch of us went to play Putt Putt. From another photo that I'm not adding, it shows that George Dykeman and Daniel Sparkman also joined us. I look so good and thin in this first photo, but know that the reason why I often wore white V-neck T-shirts under my other shirts was to cover up the "fatty parts" of my upper arms. These pics are from 11/09/09, so I had lost a good amount of weight by then because of walking and/or riding my bike to school almost every day, running around with Sasha, and eating less/ more healthy foods once I realized I was losing weight from all the exercise my body was not use to getting before Full Sail. I believe that I was about 112 pounds here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ I don't remember who that guy is, but he was in several of these mini golf photos.. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ Random guy who volunteered to have his picture taken for our lighting class,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ HAHA! A lot of times when Ryan would take pictures in the Lighting labs, the room was mostly dark so she wouldn't see the faces I was making until the flash went off and she saw the photo on the screen.<br />
They always made her laugh a lot, so I think I did it often enough. There is another one below!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ I loved making her laugh. We made each other laugh a lot. That's why were for sure BFFs! <br />
Definitely the best choice in roommates I could have ever gotten. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ Using the green bulb, or the green square gel sheet to go in front of the light? I had to get this photo of myself because in the book, the Emerald City is so bright that everyone has to wear special sunglasses.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ This is what makes me think our Lighting Lab was at 5am, because the "next day"'s class was at 9am.<br />
My presentation (can't remember what class) was about how they created the cyclone affect in<br />
the Wizard of Oz and we got extra credit if we dressed up like one of the characters.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ Michael dressed up like a black man (hands included) who he named Edward Waters and pretended to be a homeless on the Full Sail campus when we knew Dawson was going to be by the library at school. This was a prank we played on him as he did not know the man was Michael when he was getting chased down for money. <br />
Michael also thought about playing the same prank on his mom, but didn't want to get pulled over <br />
on the drive up to Birmingham and not match his ID photo!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">^^ Recording sound effects for our Foley class. (I love all the scrapbook pages taped to the kitchen cabinets!)</td></tr>
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In the next photos, Michael had been able to meet and work with a known Orlando makeup FX artist, Rick Gonzalez, who lived just down the road from Full Sail. I pass his street every day on the way home from work now. Michael said someone at school told him about Rick and they were able to get together for Michael's first official teaching. (12/13/09) Everything else up to this point had been self taught. I am not posting the final clown photo because it is creepy, plus I don't have it in the main folder.</div>
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BAM!! Made it to 105 pounds!! 12/20/09 ~ My lowest weight since the beginning of high school probably. I don't remember weighing myself back then. & I just noticed that my fingernails are </div>
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still green in this picture from the Wicked Witch dress up and video Michael did and recorded </div>
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for me a few days earlier, which you can see in this post! ---><b> <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2017/01/wiiiiickeddd.html">Wiiicckeddd!</a> ♫♪</b></div>
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I also have a lot of pictures from trips to Gainesville and bunch of photo shoots with Alana, but will post the ones from those times in the next post! Maybe later today, but no promises. However, it is a time consuming activity in which I am not spending time eating, which helps distract me while on the newest weight loss challenge that Alex (my best friend at work) and I started on Sunday.</div>
Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-13992066174033706212020-05-06T13:43:00.001-07:002020-05-07T19:37:20.327-07:00Limited Abundance II Please feel free to read <b><a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2017/03/limited-abundance.html">the original Limited Abundance post</a></b> that has part of a story I wrote two years ago, but the story takes place in the Los Angeles area in 2013.<br />
Although Michael and I <a href="https://rachel-wildphotography.blogspot.com/2013/04/"><b>did live in North Hollywood</b></a> for most of 2013, in my story I was still dating someone else, a character I made up back in high school or maybe the year after (around 2005-2006?) named Jeremy Chomsky. In the story I have a best friend/ roommate named Kirsten DeLuca. I loved how God was reading my stories, probably before I even started writing them, because I feel like He gave me both "Jeremy" and "Kirsten" in Michael and one of my best friends, Alana. They both have a lot of the qualities that I wrote about. But the way Kirsten has been formed over time and is currently being written, she seems more like my conscious now and tells me everything I should be thinking or doing, if I'm not thinking or doing it already. She is my best self, convincing me to do what is best. That doesn't make me sound schizophrenic, does it? <i>*nervous laugh* </i><br />
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^^ recent "minimalist-ish" photos that I took towards the end of April 2020.<br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kirsten’s small two-door car was full of freshly packed garbage bags and
four kitchen chairs that were only gently used. She even had to borrow a
neighbor’s bungee cords to keep the trunk closed as much as possible. We had a
lot of reusable bags filled with clothes and books mostly. Other random
donations included picture frames, fake plants, a matching set of dark colored large
plates, small plates, and bowls, as well as old DVDs that we considered to be
our favorites but we had seen them enough times already that we hadn’t watched
any of them in at least two years. She let me keep a few TV shows like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Office, Glee</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rookie Blue</i>, since we no longer were
going to pay for Netflix and Hulu. It was not essential. In total we had no
more than 10 different DVDs. Kirsten only cared to keep her copies of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Pursuit of Happyness</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Time Traveler’s Wife. <br />
</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She refused to
get out of the car so I could be the one to hand off everything to the
Salvation Army worker. She knew that I needed the physical feeling of letting
go. And somehow my body began to feel lighter and lighter with each huge bag I
handed over. It was great seeing the car so empty and clean after that. There
were some things we had to throw away, which seemed so wasteful, but Salvation
Army doesn’t take everything. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kirsten did not immediately
drive way, but instead kept looking into the store window as the employees
started through the bags. I turned and watched too.<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly she spoke softly,
“Look around.. All that clutter used to be people’s money.” My jaw dropped. She
sounded so wise. She could tell I was shocked by that unexpected slap of
realism. She shrugged and then smirked as she put the car into Drive. “I may
have read it on Pinterest.” </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back at
the apartment all of our few things suddenly still looked like too much. As if
living in an empty space with a thin blowup mattress and a laptop would be
enough.. Could it be though? Why did I need bowls when I could eat beans straight
out of the can? Why did I feel the need to have pictures hung up on the walls
when I could spend hours looking at millions of pretty pictures on the
Internet? How long would it even take me to use up all of my current scrapbook
materials after I tossed half of them? A year? Five years.. TEN?! It wasn’t
even a hobby that I was into as much as the more recent love of hiking and
blogging. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kirsten walked in and
gave me a weird look. She said it was because I was giving <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">her</i> a weird look. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What’s wrong?” she
inquired. I told her my thoughts. “Oh gosh, I broke you.” <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sat on the couch
for a little bit longer, just looking around, but Kirsten kicked an empty box
towards me and reminded me that we had to start packing. The whole point of
this is because we were moving soon. Downsizing, into a one bedroom house when
we had been used to living in an 11,000 square foot apartment with three
bedrooms and two bathrooms. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It will look like we
have more stuff in a smaller place. Trust me, it will be fine.” Kirsten looked
up and corrected herself, “It will be great!” <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was quiet the rest
of the day. It was hard not to spend the rest of the day trying to answer my
own question: What is the smallest amount of stuff could I be happy with, and
not feel the need to buy anything back. How long does it take for the greedy
part of our minds and bodies to die down? I felt heated. My heart seemed to be
beating differently. It wasn’t necessarily a good or bad feeling, just
different. “Different isn’t bad,” I whispered as I taped up my second box. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was out of my funk by the
next day, and back to being excited again for our new, rich, minimalist life.
Maybe I just needed that hot bubble bath with my favorite coconut candle and
some food and a good night of sleep. Sometimes the simplest things, like
brushing our teeth and washing our hair, can turn our whole day around! </div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
next week we walked in with our six boxes and two blow up mattresses. It was
the easiest move of my life. None of this “renting a truck” business. I didn’t
even want to unpack. I love the look of an empty room. Although this house only
had four: living room, bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen. The walls of the bedroom
were the lightest shade of pastel pink named Diminutive Rose. <br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I debated seeing how
long I could go without unpacking anything besides bed sheets and my
toothbrush, but after 20 minutes of watching Kirsten decorate her side of the
room with her favorite wood stump side table and mini cactus, I ripped open my
“Other” box. All the stuff I really didn’t need, but made me feel creative. We
gave ourselves a max of three boxes, and we agreed upon the size; 18” x 18” x
16”. I began making a new handmade garland piece with colorful scrapbook paper
cut into cross shapes in between each of my favorite 7 mini Polaroid pictures. (I
had star garland before and hearts when Kirsten and I lived in Orlando.) I hung
fairy lights above that using thumb tacks, made the bed, got my basic bathroom
necessities out – toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, facewash, bar soap, and
toilet paper -, then closed the box again. </div>
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Kirsten and I took turns coming up
with the silliest ways to live on less and be healthy. She was almost obsessed
with us “being blind”, and by that I mean she didn’t want us using lights.
Power overall was okay, like we definitely weren’t going to unplug the fridge,
and we had to turn the AC on during the day for a few hours or the house would
get moldy. But I specifically started taking my showers before work when it was
light out. Although, one evening I used a soy coconut candle during sunset to
light the shower walls, and I felt extreme calm afterwards. I loved that there
was a window in the bathroom, even if there was not a lot of daylight left to
brighten up our bathroom. I had lived in apartments before where there was not
a window in the bathroom. We used candles often during this “blind” phase, but
would tend to slowly carry our candle from room to room. Too many candles made
us nervous for fires, but also heated up the house too much and we liked
keeping it cool, wearing our super comfy, baggy sweaters at night. </div>
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Mine was a faded red color with
sleeves two inches longer than my arms and had an outline of a beet on the
chest. Above and below the beet, it said “Schrute Farms - Bed & Breakfast,
est. 1812”, which was a reference to the TV show <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Office</i>. Kirsten’s was a black hoodie with white wording and
pink and blue stars; something she got from her high school gymnastic days. She
had won a few medals over the years, including one gold medal, which she had
kept to hang on the bedroom wall when we moved to this little house, but she never
cared to get near the Olympic training stages. It required too much time, she
said, and she cared more to be social with her friends in church. </div>
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My healthy idea came from the socks
I had recently purchased with a gift card from Old Navy. They were health
themed and said things like “Gym & Juice” or “Kale Yeah!” and another pair
had figures doing different yoga poses. It was easy to guess what each pair of
socks would create for the day ahead, but I had to pick the socks with my eyes
closed. “No cheating,” she told me when she thought I might be peeking through
the hand over my face. I ended up grabbing the light purple pair with the
phrase “Let’s Go Bananas!” There were also bunches of bananas sewn into the
design of the socks. </div>
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We both walked to the kitchen and
grabbed three bananas from the counter. I loved that Kirsten preferred the
riper ones with brown spots. My favorite still have light green stems. This
would be the majority of our meals, with healthy snacks in between because we
still needed to keep up a decent calorie consumption. At the end of the Banana
Sock Days we would make what Pinterest calls Nicecream; a thick, creamy banana
and peanut butter smoothie. If we had ingredients available for it, we would
add a sprinkle of mini cacao nibs and chopped nuts. It made us feel so fancy
after a day of, what I refer to, as bitty sacrifices. </div>
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When I talked to people at work or
my younger brother about our time not using electricity or taking cold showers,
they tend to look like it’s the most insane thing they have ever heard of. But
I love our bitty sacrifices. They don’t actually make that much of a
difference, but I have noticed that I say at least twice as many prayers for
the availability of the things I am giving up: Thank you, Jesus, for the eight
thousand clean, hot showers that I have taken over the years, especially when I
was less conscious and would let the water run directly down the drain while I
did something else in the home, waiting for the water to warm up to my liking,
pouring thick steam through the door. </div>
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Thank you for the ability to see
clearly (even though I do use glasses full time) and to be so used to seeing
everything that simply thinking about having to describe it to someone who is
actually blind, is extremely perplexing. How do you describe a color to someone
who has never seen color? Thank you for the times that I had so much food that
I would eat until I felt sick; expanding my stomach more than that size it
should be. And for all of the times I threw away food or let it expire because <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I didn’t need it</i>. So many poor and
homeless people could not even image throwing away the last two bites. Even
with these few thoughts, I tear up thinking about so much we have taken for
granted. </div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2872954090958837265" name="_GoBack"></a>During this
day we also went to Mattress Firm. The blow up mattresses were not cutting it
and somehow Kirsten’s got a tiny hole in it last week and by the morning her
mattress would always be mostly deflating, causing her back to be sore.
Although we were trying to be minimalists, we knew that we definitely still
needed to take care of ourselves or none of this would be worth it. We were
both saving money so we could meet the children we sponsor in Guatemala through
Unbound. I had been sponsoring Jose since September 20, right before his eighth
birthday, and Kirsten began sponsoring Merida, who is now 10 years old, shortly
after that. We figured our sleeping conditions would be less than ideal, but
expected, so we wanted our backs to be in great ship before our trip, even
though it was over a year away. </div>
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I picked the twin Rest Firm
Innerspring mattress for $199 and Kirsten got the twin Tulo Liv for $249. They
came with free delivery! My boyfriend, Jeremy and his roommate, Eli, helped us
build bedframes out of some used, but sturdy wood that a neighbor was getting
rid of. Kirsten was really into all the hammering, which I was fine with as
well, but I had no interest in using the power saw. Her laugh with each cut was
very mischievous. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The feet on the
corners were about one foot high with 14 planks across to support the mattress
and ourselves at night. Eli measured out three more stakes for extra support
near where our knees and shoulders would rest. This cost us 1/3 of the price as
what was for sale on line, and we loved the homemade craftsmanship that was put
into it. We thought about making side tables as well, but didn’t want to spoil
ourselves. Placing our items on the floor would work just fine. </div>
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Things between me and Jeremy were friendly,
but quiet while he was over. Since he moved out of our previous apartment, we
hadn’t talked or hung out as much. Even the texts between us were weird, like
the distance was slowly breaking us up instead of making our hearts grow fonder,
as the saying goes. And it made me feel sad that I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">didn’t</i> feel sad about it. I honestly thought we would have been
engaged by now or married. We started dating a couple years after I was out of
high school, back in 2007 when I met him randomly at a party at my best
friend’s house; at Mia’s house. He was a friend of a friend. That was before I
met Kirsten through another church and our friendship blossomed almost
accidentally, but that’s getting off topic. Jeremy and I had been together for
six years, including keeping things good between us while I was in film school in
Orlando between 2009 and 2011. </div>
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I was waiting for an official break
up almost, but didn’t want to be the one to bring it up. <br />
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</span>A few months later, and I’m not even sure why I let it drag on for that
long, we did break up. It was mutual. I wasn’t even sure we were still dating
when we had The Talk. We were ready to let go, but before the thought of it had
felt so lonely, instead of giving me feelings of potential freedom. I blame
society for always making it seem like a bad thing if a girl didn’t have a
boyfriend, as if to say, “What’s so wrong with you that nobody wants you?” Like
we were dirty puppies left behind a dumpster, compared to being seen as strong,
independent women. I never felt trapped with Jeremy, but it was like, in that
moment, that the whole world was opening up again. I’m not sure why that was. </div>
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He knew that Kirsten and I were
saving up to go to Guatemala, and found such an excitingly good idea that he
also looked into a mission trip through our church, or any other church he had
friends through. Eventually he found one that was going to serve in Madagascar…
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for seven years</i>! He immediately
signed up before even talking to me about it. Was he running away?</div>
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He invited me to come with him, but
I was not ready for that type of commitment. And it sounded more like he felt
bad not inviting me, more than him actually wanting me there with him, holding
hands, and praying side by side for the next 84 months. We were already
slipping away from each other. I definitely wanted to do outreach in an
impoverished country, hence planning our upcoming trip to Guatemala, but only
for a week or two, knowing I would be comfortable in Los Angeles again after
that. I believe sacrifices are an amazing way to give back to God for
everything good we have been given, but I was nowhere near that level. I didn’t
know Jeremy was either, but maybe that shows how little we actually knew about
the newer versions of each other; the adults we had become, not noticing how
the other person had been changing and growing over the years, still seeing
each other as we were when we first met. </div>
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<b>♡ ✞ ♡ ✞ ♡ ✞ ♡ ✞ ♡ ✞ ♡ ✞ ♡ ✞ ♡</b> </div>
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Kirsten’s 26<sup>th</sup> birthday in September last week
was one of my favorite days. It was basically an orphan/ poverty theme, and it
is completely terrible for me to describe it that way because it’s not like
orphans can have rich American themed birthday parties. Kirsten asked everyone
to donate money to their favorite charity and that she was “absolutely refusing
any gifts”. She specifically wrote that on each invite. I helped her make her
birthday invitations and we mailed them out like the good ole days instead of
sending e-vites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I knew most of the girls, but not as well as Kirsten did,
since I always have to work every other weekend, so I can only make it to
church twice each month. At times I feel completely lazy and full of excuses,
knowing I could push myself so much more to be a better person in many aspects
of my life. I suppose I could work on the church part of it more as there is
another church on my drive home that has a service every Thursday that I could
get to on time, but I am usually pretty beat after the 12 hour shifts, and
logging overtime to save up for the Guatemala mission trip at the beginning of
next year. </div>
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Joyce Meyer’s words rang in my ears, “An excuse is a reason
wrapped in a lie.”</div>
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I felt guilty and thought about how I do have more “Me-time”
now that Jeremy and I are no longer together. I have more time to attend church
every week. I have more time to exercise, and more time to help many of the 160,000
citizens of Antelope Valley (Lancaster, CA) over the phone. I thought of my
cousin, Lizzy, and how she is constantly on the go; taking vacations, dressing
up to go to the movies like I used to, always doing something fun with her many
friends. I thought it would be really fun to be her roommate for a while, but
it’s hard to get more than a week off at my job. I had to specifically write a
Memo that gets passed up to my supervisor’s boss’s boss in order to request to
get the three weeks off I need for Guatemala. I was very pleased when it got
approved. </div>
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Kirsten’s party was incredible, which was a tad surprising
considering we didn’t really do much. I guess I enjoy sitting around and
talking more than I thought I did, especially when it is good conversation with
fun people and there is an abundance of laughter involved. </div>
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Now that I am reflecting back, saying “we didn’t do much” is
a preposterous remark. There were eight of us, including one of Kirsten’s
friends, Cassie, who lives in Michigan. She flew in and got a taxi to our house
just as everyone else was arriving. I will admit I was a little jealous of how
happy Kirsten was to see Cassie, but I know I would have the exact same look of
glee on my face if Mia unexpectedly showed up for me. </div>
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Events of the party included each of us carrying a gallon of
water one mile to Cuban Express (and back) where we were eating for lunch. This
symbolized the women who have to carry the handmade pots to and from the
nearest water source, which can easily be a mile or more away from their home. I
had never been to this small restaurant before, but Kirsten wanted us to go
somewhere that cooked rice and beans as the meal. Originally I suggested making
them at home, but she wanted to support a small family-owned business, which
was an even better idea! They had other really delicious looking food,
including a ham and roast beef sandwich on thick buttered Cuban bread, guava
pastries, hush puppies with powdered sugar, and empanadas with the option of
beef or shredded chicken. However, when the waitress came over, Kirsten
immediately circled her finger around the table and stated, “Rice and beans all
around please!” </div>
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Kirsten called it a Gratitude themed birthday party; she
always knows the right things to say. Without it becoming an actual prayer, we
all took turns talking about our favorite things and coming up with the most
specific and detailed things to be thankful for.</div>
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<i>Writer’s Notes: Cuban Express – 628 W Lancaster Blvd<br />
Our house: 45318 Genoa Ave, Lancaster, CA 93534 (feel free to look that up on
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^^ that is <b>not</b> the house where Michael and I actually lived in California. This is: </div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-90248796608417173802020-04-03T18:04:00.002-07:002020-04-03T18:04:43.337-07:00The Rona & our 2019 Cabin Trip Because of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), our cabin trip got cancelled yesterday. We were supposed to be there right now, driving up to Hiawassee, Georgia all day. I was feeling pretty negative (or can we call it realistic?) for the past ten days, doubting that we would really get to go on the vacation we had planned since November because slowly everything has been shut down. The state of Florida is on a "stay at home" order unless you need groceries, have to go to the doctor/ pharmacy, or for the essential people (like me, who works with 911) who still have to keep showing up for work every day. Wednesday night I was looking up the rules at the Georgia state parks and even though before people were urged to spend time outdoors after getting cooped up in our houses, it was like, "Well, now there are <i>too many</i> people outside and on the trails, so we're closing those off and ticketing and towing vehicles that park at the trail heads.." A week ago Michael emailed the cabin owner and he said we were still good to stay at his place, but then yesterday morning Michael got an email from the cabin owner saying Georgia has banned use of all rental properties, so we were forced to cancel the trip. We did get a full refund, which goes back onto our credit card (instead of being able to transfer it back into savings) saying we owe <i>negative</i> X-hundred dollars, so it will be nice kind of nice "not having to pay for anything" all month since any groceries we buy will go towards that credit until we get back to zero. We have already discussed trying to plan going on this trip in November instead and hopefully all of this panic and crazy amount of virus cases will be over by then? I'm still taking the week off though.<br />
There are a bunch of pictures that I never posted on <a href="http://emmamgore.blogspot.com/2019/03/emma-on-appalachian-trail.html"><b>Emma's blog</b> <b>last Spring</b></a> because they were from when I took Sasha out on walks and I try to keep her blog a little more medical. So since I will have no new mountain photos to show from today until next Thursday, here are those other pictures from last year's trip, at the end of March 2019. They are all unedited and for some reason that it kind of a pet peeve of mine. I like my pictures to "pop"!<br />
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**** Hog Pen Gap/ a small part of the Appalachian Trail, just us and Sasha ****<br />
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**** Around Blairsville, GA ****<br />
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^^ dumb trend of 2019: throwing cheese on your baby's face.. She didn't mind, haha!<br />
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^^ trying to start trouble with that doggo!<br />
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I fully understand that missing a vacation <i>or two*</i> is definitely not as bad at getting --or dying from-- the Corona Virus, but it is still a super bummer when we were really looking forward to this trip.<br />
*We were supposed to go to Gainesville the weekend of March 21st- it would have been Emma's first time there- and Michael was <i>finally</i> going to let Peyton and Helena (my brother's daughters) meet her at the retired horse farm!!! This was going to be a momentous occasion!! We also planned to have lunch with my friend Sharanya who I hadn't seen since December 2018 and she hasn't met Emma yet either, and then also take Emma to the Butterfly Garden with my parents, followed by dinner with them. We also talked about having lunch with my friend Lindsey and her family so her kids could meet Emma too. Not sure when we will be able to reschedule that whole weekend.<br />
We are saying our prayers that nobody in our family gets it and that the virus pandemic ends quickly, and saying thank you prayers that nobody we know has shown symptoms of the virus.Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-22691715190327486802020-01-15T14:29:00.005-08:002020-01-15T14:29:44.701-08:00Carnival Cruise, Part III Part 3 of 3: from the cruise I went on with my parents in February 2016!! More "boat stuff". Since the cruises aren't that long and the ship is really big, part of the days include exploring around- with Trollie and Suzie. Also in this post you will see some pictures from our formal dinner. I do really like getting dressed up and getting our pictures taken, but I guess not that many people enjoy it since it seemed like there were less people in the dining room that night. The main area with different self-serve food bars (salad, meats, desserts) are open all day and the people who made pizzas non-stop were open until midnight.<br />
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^^ I believe this was the really yummy potato soup with chicken and croutons that was the appetizer one night (there were probably 3 or 4 options for each course to choose from). I ordered something adventurous, like duck?, for my entree, but didn't end up liking it and asked if I could just have more of the soup instead, which they brought to me! :)<br />
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^^ Movie at night with fresh, hot popcorn! Pretty sure we watched one of the </div>
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<i>Mission Impossible</i> movies. Whichever one came out in 2015, I'm sure. </div>
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Excited to find out what movies will be playing on our cruise next weekend.</div>
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PS- did I mention how I did an awesome job eating healthy and walking a lot to get back down to 105 pounds for the 2016 cruise? Because I did! Hence mirror photos. ;)</div>
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^^ Chocolate cake bar!!<br />
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^^ <i>Harry Potter</i> trivia! We didn't win though. I didn't know a few of the answers including<br />
the name of Voldemort's mother. I only read the books once.<br />
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Daddy did the rope course twice and my mom and I, along with a bunch of other strangers, cheered on a random boy who was scared to cross one of the areas. I don't blame him!<br />
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The last night there was a gathering specifically for people who were Carnival Members. My parents are so I got to go. There were appetizers and the British cruise director who does all the announcements was there so we got to meet him. I don't remember his name anymore, but I want to say I started with a B. They called down the members who had cruised with them many times- maybe the number of cruises they had been on, or how many years they had been members? But my parents joined a bunch of other couples on stage for a slow dance.<br />
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My favorite memory (just being very "wowed") would have to be this Motor City song and dance performance. So much energy, cool costumes, great singing and dancing, the colors and lights, the actors popping up near us in the audience, liking all of the 80's songs.<br />
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And then, after the show all the singers showed up in the main bar/mall/lobby area, so of course I wanted to get a picture with them because they were so awesome. So my mom took a couple group photos with me in them. And it seemed like all of the sudden other cruise guests noticed the singers were there, not realizing I was <i>not</i> one of them, but kept taking pictures of us- so I got to be in all of those people's pictures too! Haha. :D<br />
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We also went to a dating game show and a comedy show that were entertaining. <br />
Until next time.. <i>AKA 9 days!!</i> ..& February 2022 ..& November 2024!! :) :) :) Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-91677858601368297472020-01-15T11:37:00.000-08:002020-01-15T11:37:35.732-08:00Carnival Sunshine, Part II<div>
This is the post about the three stops we made in the Bahamas during our cruise in February 2016:</div>
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Ah, the famous Atlantis Towers! It was a beautiful view for breakfast on the ship.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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^^ Police car! Notice how it says their emergency number is 919?<br />
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^^ The soap store that my parents always stop in. They have gone on these short 4-5 day cruises so many times that my dad told me that sometimes they don't even get off the ship! But that would be a great time to use the cruise pool and slides and such since probably at least half off the people are in town. Notice the horse's little hat below?<br />
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^^ With my bag full of goodies.<br />
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I still have a bunch of those cards that I haven't mailed, since I usually mail typed letters or scrapbook cards. I don't use pre-made cards often, yet I still feel the need to buy all the pretty ones! I believe I gave the gray.. <i>reindeer?</i>.. to Mia, but I have the yellow one and the dragon on my book shelf. The pink rolls are soap. The best smelling scent! Not sure what the scent is since I used them after the trip.. Maybe Summertime? If I'm reading the blurry font correctly.</div>
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♫ "What tiiime is iiit?!" ♪ ♬ Alana knows what's up! ;) </div>
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At this port we had to take shuttle boats that held maybe 200 people each. I don't remember if we were assigned a time or previously chose a time to go down to the "ship basement" to get on the boat, but I don't think we waited long and the ride was maybe 5-10 minutes. I don't have a picture of the boat though. I'm sure my mom got one --or five-- but she doesn't have a blog yet. </div>
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^^ The water was so beautiful, but cold. Hence only going knee deep.</div>
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For lunch, which was free/included, there was a pavilion where people were grilling tons of hamburgers and hot dogs. It has to be a ton of food considering the ship holds 3,000 passengers! </div>
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They also had fruit and various salad mixes and chips. I don't remember what else since I'm just going by the picture of my plate I had. There are a bunch of pictures I'm not posting. </div>
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You know what a hotdog looks like. & 99 seems like enough for these 3 posts! ;) </div>
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^^ Bahama kitty! And there was a chicken with all her babies enjoying the crumbs we dropped.<br />
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Starting with a necessary cliche palm tree photo! :)</div>
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This was a pretty small area from what I remember, and the "stores" were like warehouses without any air conditioning. Still, my mom bought me a shirt from one, I think (probably because I complained about not wanting to spend $20 on it)? It was a bright orange tank top that you can see me wearing on the top of the ship during mini golf in the next post!! </div>
Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-29340814847527470062020-01-15T10:31:00.001-08:002020-01-15T10:33:00.988-08:00Carnival Sunshine, Part I Happy New Year and welcome to my Cruise High. I am going on my third cruise in nine days with my parents and brother!! I am big on saving money, and what better to save it on, than super fun experiences with loved ones?! (And this is all "my money", from birthdays or Christmas, and any left over that I don't use from my grocery fund. Michael and I obviously have another savings account for house things and vacations together.) Because of the Cruise High, I already have enough of my own personal savings to go on a Friendship Cruise around February 2022 with my friends Mia, Tonia, and Sharanya. And then my mom and I are going to take Emma on another girl's cruise -- a Disney Cruise! -- around November 2024. I wouldn't want to go before then since Emma will be almost 6 1/2 years old then and will hopefully be old enough to enjoy it and have fun and know some Disney characters by then so she will want her picture with them on the cruise.<br />
I'm going to hop right to it. Here are pictures from the cruise that I went on with just my parents from January 29-February 3, 2016. I do not feel like taking time to edit them all today since blogging takes me forever and I already spent the last hour going through and deciding which ones I liked the best and putting them in specific folders for these posts. 3 posts, 99 pictures total!! Let the reminiscing begin!!<br />
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Saying goodbye to Michael before leaving for six days. I don't remember why he didn't come on the cruise too. Maybe he couldn't get the days off or he didn't want to spend his own money. He prefers spending his money on tangible items instead of vacations. Recently he told me that he doesn't have any interest in going on a cruise unless it's an Alaskan cruise!! ($8,000 <i>per person</i>, plus </div>
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the price of a plane ticket to fly there from Florida.) Maybe one day we can take Emma on one. </div>
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But I'll stick to $500 Bahama cruises for now! </div>
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Side note: I remember training a guy named Jeff on 911 on night shift and at 11:59pm on July 28, 2015 (exactly six months before the cruise), I told him to not answer any phone calls for a few minutes while I ran to the supervisor's desk at midnight to request the time off for the cruise. Usually they only let one or two people off in a shift, so I wanted to make sure I got the days reserved first!! I have to do the same thing this year at the end of March to request a weekend at the end of September off so I can go to my cousin's wedding in Indiana (except now we have an online system for vacation time requests). We're not allowed to request off prior to six months in advance. </div>
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^^ Parked at Port Canaveral and waiting in line to show our passports and board the ship!<br />
And purposely wearing our matching shirts. :)<br />
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^^ Our cabin/room. In the bottom corner you can see the "couch". That's where I slept (I remember being comfortable enough and have no recollection of my dad snoring loudly) and we pushed the little coffee table under the counter to the right for more room. The staff members bring our luggage to our room for us so we get to explore the ship and start eating the endless food!<br />
On the cruise next weekend my dad reserved two rooms- one for my parents and one for me and my brother. I was glad we wouldn't have to play Rock, Paper, Scissors for turns on the couch or use the little beds that pull out from the ceiling. I already worried too much about rolling off the side!<br />
PS- the last time the four of us went on a cruise was in the January I was in 9th grade.. so 2002?<br />
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^^ The Luxury deck, up higher with softer chairs. People have to pay extra to use that area.</div>
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And I think there was maybe even a "Nobody Under 18 Allowed" sign?</div>
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^^ Daddy already got his first drink! & we got the traditional soft serve cones!<br />
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Everyone has to participate in a safety lesson before the ship departs around 4pm. We get in a huge line with several rows on the side of the ship with safety vests while they tell us what to do in the case of a crash or the ship starts sinking. It takes about 30 minutes?<br />
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This is the bar and "Mall area" with lots of expensive jewelry and sunglass shops, as well as touristy shops where you can buy all the Carnival merchandise and magnets, etc. We had to pose on the red carpet!! On my first cruise I bought a silver bracelet with starfish charms (estimated cost $12-20? I can't imagine splurging more than that at age 14), you can see me wearing it in some of these pictures too and I have it set out for next weekend. :)<br />
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^^ Trollie and Suzie got to enjoy themselves on the cruise too!<br />
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^^ I'm trying to spare my viewers and not post every single food photo that I took. But purposely asked for this photo of my napkin tucked in my shirt to show Michael later (we to leave our phones on Airplane Mode to not be charged for International data!) since he hates when adults give themselves bibs. Haha! Most meals included an appetizer, entrée, and dessert. One night the waiters sang to us!<br />
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^^ The omelet line is always a must. They are so yummy & fun to watch the guys flip the eggs up in the pans and catch them so perfectly! Even though I ate super healthy for a couple months to make sure I was 105 pounds for the cruise, I really let myself enjoy lots of yummy foods and desserts on the cruise! I'm currently in another health kick again now, but will probably be around 125 this time (my weight has stayed higher since I had baby Emma in June 2017), and then also eat whatever I want on this cruise weekend too!<br />
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^^ A cruise ship usually has about 12 floors. They definitely have elevators that can be used, but we mostly take the stairs and then laugh about how our knees and legs are sore! Daddy needing a break. ^^<br />
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^^ Enjoying the deck and the fast slides!<br />
The last photo is of the guy who took care of our room. Right now I don't remember what his full job was (not cleaning), but in this photo we had to do another safety drill and everyone had to be out of their room by a certain time. I laughed when he said (with an accent), "I saved you." I think his name was Aron.<br />
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On to the next post about the three beautiful island stops our cruise had! :DRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-741255092499704312019-12-01T07:41:00.003-08:002019-12-01T07:41:22.083-08:00Giving Thanks Again Here are a couple Thanksgiving-ish photos, but not from the holiday. I didn't want to put these on Emma's blog since they were from before I even got pregnant with her.<br />
First, at a museum in Ohio in August 2015, with my cousin Jessica and her three kids (Jordyn, James, and Jeremy). Since then she has had two more boys: Jackson and Joshua. Second photo, with my brother Zach and his daughter Peyton, looking at a turkey at Dudley Farms, July 2016.<br />
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One main thing I am thankful for right now is how well my marriage to Michael has been going the past few weeks. I truly think it has to do with how I have stopped caring about losing weight again and enjoying all of the filling foods and pies of the holiday season! Maybe I will expand on this more later, but don't want to spend more time blogging than I need to.<br />
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<i>Note to self:</i> gather pictures from previous Thanksgivings growing up (from my mom's scrapbooks). And then post them here later! :)Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03493369281678567939noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2872954090958837265.post-16324598839633583992019-08-07T22:17:00.001-07:002019-08-08T11:38:26.203-07:00Minimal Bests I've been wanting to update this blog for a while because, even though I talk way more about being healthy than I actually do to follow my words and advice to others, I didn't like that the first photo I saw when I opened my blog each time was a big box of donuts! But this post is about minimalism and giving a lot of stuff away. I loved watching "How to Live Mortgage Free", a British show on Netflix, about people who live in boats or tiny houses, or built a tiny house themselves, or one family owned a duplex and paid off their mortgage in 7 years by living very frugally the last three years. However they did make at least 3x more than we do and maybe their mortgage was lower than ours. A lot of the people who were living in the boats were single or retired or the ones building the tiny houses on trailers and out of shipping containers were younger and did not have any kids.<br />
Michael and I really dream a lot about moving to Georgia. There are a handful of reasons for this, and I told him that I would love to move in the next 10 or 15 years, but after talking to co-workers and my dad about retirement and pension plans, I feel like we're going to be "stuck" in Florida for the next 30 years! Maybe we can really scrimp our money, while also paying our bills on time, putting a little extra towards our mortgage each month, adding to our savings accounts, and increasing our retirement funds. Then each year, we'll be able to take a week long cabin trip -always to somewhere different in the US, until we can finally move out of state when we retire. The picture of the super cute tiny cabin below is from Washington (via Pinterest), and I'd really like to visit Ashville, NC. I think I made that an idea for the year 2022, for my 35th birthday, but it's always nicer to go in the Fall when the weather is cooler and we can hike longer without getting sweaty from the summer heat!<br />
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A month or two ago I started weeding out Emma's little clothes that don't fit anymore, my own clothes that I rarely ever wear, and also got rid of a lot of scrapbook paper. I tend to get those big 36 page packs, with 12 different designs and 3 of each page, but sometimes only like half of the pages. So I ripped up what I knew I wouldn't care to use. It seemed wasteful, but I've never seen Goodwill selling scrapbook paper, so I don't think they would be able to sell it either - especially since everything I had would be small cut out pieces or random 12x12 sheets. I mailed some of my stickers to my friend's son. I still have a TON of scrapbook supplies, but maybe got rid of 30%.<br />
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I told Michael that I feel really good about getting rid of a lot of stuff. Today I pulled down a bunch of old mugs and water bottles that haven't been used in a long time- or ones we forgot I had. I was happy that Michael said I could get rid of about 20 pieces. Some I just tossed because they had been used often in the past and were stained brown from coffee, but I'll wrap up the ceramic mugs in paper towels and put them in a donation bag. On Monday, I also gave away three more grocery bags full of clothes. Those bags are not pictured.<br />
I also started reading "Everything That Remains" by Joshua Fields Millburn, one of the founders of The Minimalists, but am slowing down on that since I'm sort of binge-watching a Canadian comedy called <i>Workin' Moms</i> on Netflix this week. (I'm off this week so I can spend a couple extra days with Emma! I need to be editing the book I'm writing about her NICU year too.) So I've only gotten to page 74 of 203 in "Everything That Remains" and that library book is due next week. I'll try to renew it so I have longer to finish reading it, but if someone else has the book on hold after me, then I'll have to return it sooner.<br />
This photo below does not look minimal at all and is almost embarrassing, but luckily I did toss a few more items after taking this photo. I got rid of two small Bath and Body Works travel size lotions, because, although they smell good, my nose and allergies are a lot more sensitive than they used to be, so the Tahiti Island Dream gives me a headache now and the Velvet Sugar makes me sneeze. I also tossed two bottles of curling mouse- which I probably got from Mia when she moved to Colorado- but her hair is naturally curly. Mine is not, and I am perfectly fine with it being straight and air-drying 99% of the time. So why would I need those products?<br />
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Next, shown below, I took pictures of all of the make up I am keeping, although I rarely wear it. The items by the bag are what I keep in there and the other items are less used, or haven't been used at all, but I don't want to get rid of them because of the variety of pretty colors that I might want to use one day.. <i>They don't take up much space..</i> I never wear make up to work because I'm not trying to impress anyone with my looks there. Sometimes I will wear eyeliner, but I haven't done that for work in a while. Some of the stuff I decided to keep -like a Mary Kay mascara I got in 2011! is probably super expired and will give me an eye infection- needs to be tossed anyway. And I also don't think I've worn mascara since I started wearing glasses full time.. five years ago!! Yeah, I'm throwing it in the trash right now... done! :)<br />
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^^ The inside of the Classic 10 tin. I can't remember if I got this from Mia too or if it was from Michael's beauty make up stash. He prefers to stick just with special FX make up, so he gives me his left over beauty make up once in a while, but recently donated a bunch of supplies to the make up school where he works, which I thought was a great idea! Way better than tossing it. This eyeshadow pallet might be from Mia since Michael always buys the expensive Urban Decay pallets from Sephora or Ulta. But who knows, maybe I got it myself from Ross years ago.<br />
Lastly I went through my jewelry tonight. I had a big bag of necklaces, bracelets, and earrings stashed in the back of the closet for the past three years. I don't think I had worn any of that jewelry since before we moved into our house in May 2016! I should have just thrown the while bag into the Goodwill pile, but of course wanted to go through everything and did save a few pieces. The first photo is what I am keeping and the second photo is what I am giving away:<br />
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Now for some super cute "baby" photos of Emma, who will be 2 years and 2 months old as of Monday, August 12th. She is a great minimalist and requires very little- from her personality. She does have a lot of needs due to medical issues, but she can't help that. She is sooo great at occupying her time and laughing at nothing. Her favorite "toys" are all the medical pieces attached to her and she loves to put them in her mouth, which is fine and safe for her.<br />
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A week and a half ago Emma kicked her legs enough that the momentum scooted her body off the soft changing mat and onto the hardwood floor, where she prefers to lay. She kicked her away over to the wall and proceeded to play and be entertained with the curtains for at least 45 minutes! She pulled the curtains up and down, then back and forth with her hands, then moved her legs so she could hold the curtain between her feet and kicked her legs back and forth. Happy as can be. Sometimes when I send the pictures like this to our parents they ask why I don't put her back on the soft changing mat. "What for? She's so happy right now! And if I move her back, she'll eventually kick her way to the wall again." I've done that experiment enough times to prove that Emma does what makes her happy. And that makes us happy too. :)<br />
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A random picture on my Instagram page I found. ^^ I like this minimal water color I did of me, Sharanya, and Mia back in 2015. I forgot about it. I did delete my apps a few weeks ago (just the apps from my phone- I did not delete the actual accounts) and I have been proud of my very minimal usage. I got on Facebook for about 3 minutes last week to upload a super exciting video of Emma (picking up small toys while sitting up, which she had never done before) and yesterday I used my mom's phone to see the pictures Mia had posted on Instagram recently since her older brother had visited over the weekend. However, even though I'm not scrolling through those apps all the time now, I have been using Pinterest every day, creating various new secret boards. Pinterest has 0% drama attached though, which is calming.<br />
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Here's another picture of Sasha- to remember that she's still kickin'! She'll be 12 years old in a couple weeks, but still has the energy of a 2-year old dog, although she does look tired in this photo. She also is very low maintence and can be happy doing very little. We do open the sliding door for her probably 30 times a day so she can run outside and then relax inside when she gets hot. And it is bothersome when a friend comes over and she barks and barks so loudly, or when she growls at Emma.. But for the other 80% of the time she's a really good dog.<br />
Lastly, so I can get this posted and go to bed.. Here are some minimal photos from Monday and Tuesday when I spent the night at a condo in St. Augustine with my parents. I was roginally planning to share a bed with my niece, Peyton, but was told she's a night kicker, and when my dad said the couch pulled out into a bed, I decided to sleep there instead. I didn't bring much with me- although I still seemed like a lot when I had to take everything out of my canvas bag to find my phone at the bottom- and even forgot to bring an outfit for the second day, so I just wore the shirt from Monday and then my pajama pants on the drive home since my shorts were wet after we went to the beach. I loved how when I took my shower, all I needed was a bar of soap and an almost empty mini shampoo bottle. The drawer photo was from the night before we left the Ronald McDonald House in Michigan and flew back to Orlando. I was surprised how much bathroom stuff we "needed" and accrued during our 2 1/2 month stay while Emma was in the PICU there from December 2017-February 2018. I told Michael that I wish the drawer always looked like that. The small red pills were also for allergies.<br />
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Good night ~ Have a great day and don't spend any money this week! ;)</div>
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