babysitting woes, and and odd life

Yay! So my blog is back. I have no ideas why it went away, and how it mysteriously reappeared. But no matter - all that matters is that it is here!

So I am babysitting in Forest Grove right now. They are a family from church and have 3 kids... Titus is 6 and autistic, Noah is 4 and Cici is 2. Titus is of course the handfull. Things go pretty good until bed time. The he thinks it is time to play. When I become very stern with him he thinks it is funny, and acts out all the more to play his game. It is now an hour after I had put him to bed, and I am tired of playing the game. So I'm playing the anti-game. If he does things just to get a reaction then maybe he will get tired of it if I just ignore him. I did that one time, and by midnight he had finally zonked out! I am out of ideas, and almost out of patience.

But besides that, l am learning just how odd life can truly be. Life = odd/weird/bizzar/wacko... but it is more interesting that way. I truly do not know what the next year is going to look like, and could never have predicted what the last was going to be like either. I just hope that with 2 jobs over the summer that I do get some time to relax and maybe have some fun :-) And find a good friend close by.

still sick - can you believe it?!?

so it is almost a week since i posted last, and yes, i am still as sickly as ever! i'm on to a brand new and exciting phase now. im done with the fevers, aches and pains, no more nausea either. what i get to deal with now is the most amazing sore throat i have ever had! my tonsils (sp?) feel so huge! especially my right one. i can't swallow a thing! not even my own spit - yeah i know that's gross. i can't sleep because the pain is too bad, and throat lozenges are no help. i have a doc. apt. today so i hope he can fix me. my worst fear is that i have tonsillitis or something horrible like that! the term is winding down, and i have projects piling up, the last thing i would need is to have my tonsils removed. i almost hope that its strep and can just be put on antibiotics. and yes mark, i did get some ecanacea (sp?) and garlic pills. i took them this morning even though it was ever so painful. if i am still sick this weekend i swear im gonna cry.

too much time on my hands

so being confined to bed because of the lack of energy has given me a lot of time to be very productive in seaking out video clips that will enrich the lives of us all. here are some more that i found.

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/pianoballs.html
this one is amazing :-)

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/throwrocks.html
this clip was one of the first i ever saw on big-boys and it still cracks me up

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/topdui.html
if this is truly real, then wow!

who you are, and where you're from

On www.big-boys.com I found another link that is worth sharing. I love the facial expressions on these guys :-)

http://www.big-boys.com/articles/loveme.html