Playing Hooky

So, Dennis had to work everyday this last weekend. (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) We barely saw him :( So, on Monday morning when he slept in, I hoped he was planning on taking the day off. Even though I knew it was possible he was going to have to leave on a business trip that day... They didn't decided until the very last minute that the other guy was going so he didn't have to fly out that morning.

Well, I tried to convince him to play hooky and have us figure out something fun to do and go play that day cuz we all missed him so much. But, he had stuff at work that he needed to do so he got ready and went. Well, after he'd been at work for an hour or so (and got done the critical stuff he needed to do) He called me and told me to get the girls ready and to come pick him up, we'd go to the zoo! Yay, he was gonna play hooky with us!

So, I got ready to go and got the girls ready and we picked him up on our way and we went to the zoo! I've got to say the Zoo is very tiring, but he says I can't complain since it was my idea! lol, not sure if we'll be going back this pregnancy or not! But it was a lot of fun even if I was very sore and tired afterwards! (Ok, done complaining :)

Danielle hadn't really been to the zoo since around her birthday last year (yes, we went to the zoo in AZ but didn't really get to see much of the animals) and it was SO much fun watching her reaction to the animals and Charity absolutely loved it. Poor girl though, I let her wear her princess shoes to the zoo and the broke almost right after we got there and I hadn't brought any others so she had to ride in the stroller the entire time, even though she wanted to walk around! It was a really fun day though and I know that I enjoyed getting to spend time with Dennis and I know that the girls did too. I'm so looking forward to getting to do more things together here in a few weeks!

Oh yeah, and then after the Zoo we went by Toys 'R Us to get some ideas for birthday presents because we have birthdays coming up in less than a month! Charity is easy, she's told us what she wants! Danielle is easy to please but that makes it hard to pick! lol. And if you wanna hear something really cute, ask Charity what she wants, it's so funny to hear her list it off.

(She wants Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure Chest (yes, she says the whole name but I don't know why she added Chest to the end!), Princess and the Frog, Toy Story, and a new bike) We let her try out a bike at the store and she did so great with it, and we are really looking forward to her excitement about it on her birthday!

And if anyone is wondering, I think we're going to have a combined family party for the girls the weekend between their birthdays... Cake and icecream! Might have to do popsicles instead though since Danielle doesn't care for ice cream it seems! Atleast, not until there's 2 bites left and she can steal the last of it from Grandpa :)

Helping a Friend

So, I haven't really done a lot of computer stuff since I got married cuz I'm lazy and let Dennis do it :) So, when a friend asked me last night if I could come over today and help her get candy out of her DVD Drive (her 20 month old had stuffed them in there!), I was a bit nervous but excited at the same time to get a chance to help.

We spent over an hour trying to get the case off her computer! Anyone ever see the Dell cases? They're great, no screws anywhere, you just gotta know the right area to pull, or lever to slide, or button to push! lol. I finally got on my phone and looked up the user's manual (I just love my phone!) and once we knew the secret, Ta Da! The case was open! lol. Then came the fun part :) We took out the DVD Drive and had to practically take it apart in order to get the candy out.

It was a lot of fun getting to play with computer parts again. I may have to do stuff next time instead of Dennis! :)

Really bad at Blogging Lately

I've been really bad at blogging over the past month or so, so over the next few days I'm going to try to post date some blog posts that should have been written during the month of March!

It's been a crazy couple of months and I want to be able to look back and remember these times so I'll go get right on that... If there isn't anything new soon, remind me just in case I forget! :)

Dennis and the ER

Yesterday on his way home from work Dennis was in a car accident :( He had texted me a couple of times but I missed them so then he called wanting to know if the hospital he was headed to was in-network :(

So, here's what I've heard happened:

It was snowing all day yesterday and some of the road there wasn't any of it sticking but there were patches that were pretty slushy. There was an accident the van was slowing down for ahead of them and I guess the guy behind them didn't notice or couldn't slow down in time, but the van was still doing probably between 40-50 when the guy hit them from behind. Dennis said the truck was a big dodge truck (I don't know what kind) but it's bumper was taller than there's. And it was pulling something, a 5-wheel trailor or a camper or something. But it gave them a really good push so they started to slow down and pull over when he hit them again! Dennis thinks that since he was pulling something even though his momentum was transferred to them, the trailer's momentum then transferred to the truck which caused him to hit them the second time :( Dennis said the floor of the back row was all pushed up and the back end was completely wrecked so the van wasn't drivable anymore. The two front seats were practically demolished so then Dennis had a hard time trying to crawl over them to get out, and that was only after he had to search for his glasses!

Luckily, there were only 3 of them travelling in the van yesterday so no one was near the back when they were hit, they were all pretty close to the front. One guy, his wife had been in an accident a few weeks before so he was pretty shook up about it and he accepted a ride to the hospital in the ambulance. His wife, who works at L-3 but normally works from home, had gone into work that day so she was driving her car ahead of them, and gave Dennis and the other lady in the van a ride to the hospital where they took the first guy.

The hospital was an out-of-network hospital and I'd called my Dad to ask him if I should open a claim through our insurance company to make them away (which he said yes, so they'd know what was going on and be able to handle stuff for us) but that not to worry that it was out of network because, first the guy who hit them's insurance would cover stuff, and then if that wasn't enough, UTA's insurance would cover stuff since the van is a UTA Rideshare Van, and then if needed our insurance would be able to help cover stuff. That eased some of my worrying since we already know we're gonna have a huge medical bill before the end of the year!

So, now here's my long rant about the hospital they took him to! This is what Dennis told me late last night after he got home! They got to the hospital around 5:30. The guy who rode in the ambulance had already been taken back to see people. It wasn't long before they took the lady back. And then Dennis waited and waited. The wife to the one guy a little over an hour later was working on rides for everyone and was trying to figure out where everyone was and she couldn't find Dennis so she started asking people where he was and they told her they didn't have a Dennis Y! So, she went and found him in the waiting room. When he's under a lot of stress, he can't get light headed and want to pass out so she went back and told someone he'd been waiting a long time and was light headed and getting close to passing out so they got him back pretty quickly after that. But he never got an ID bracelet! So I don't know if they someone didn't get him in the computer or if he just slipped through the ER cracks or what but GRRRRRR. Oh, while he was waiting he'd told me that he was starting to get pretty stiff.

Well, then they put a neck brace on him and he ended up getting 10 or 12 x-rays. He hadn't got taken back at the ER until close to 7:30 I think he said, and then he wasn't released until like 9:30. The others had all been prescribed pain meds, they told him to take Ibuprofen. Then they gave him a list of symptoms to watch out for and to come back (to the ER) if any of them showed up. Um, after that experience, no thanks we'll go to a doctor or our own ER.

I told him last night he couldn't go to work today because he needed time to recoup. Although, I think he can recoup easier at work since he wouldn't have 2 girls crawling all over him, lol. So, he slept in since he'd got home so late but felt like he needed to go to work today. He didn't want to take any of his Paid Time Off, I told him he was in a car accident, take sick leave! lol. But he said he really felt like he needed to go in so he's gone into work for atleast a while today. Although the poor guy looks like he's in a lot of pain. He said he's not, he's just stiff. And I asked him if that was only as long as he didn't move!?! Seriously his back and neck are so stiff that even sitting on the bed he had his back perfectly straight and his head perfectly straight and didn't want to bend or move either at all and looked like he was in pain and terribly uncomfortable! We don't have any ibuprofen, only tylenol, I hope he atleast took some of that before he left and some for later! But I don't know if he did :( My poor hubby.

Help Wanted!

So, for all you lucky people out there that could use a little extra money each week... Since I'm pregnant and sick sick sick, I need some help around the house :)

Who wants to come and help me? I'd like someone to come for 1 1/2 - 2 hours a day 4 or 5 days a week, or 2-3 hours a day 3 times a week. Duties would include dishes, laundry, some general cleaning, that type of stuff.

I don't have a lot to pay, so it would only be like $5 or $7 an hour, I don't think I could do more than that), but you're looking at like $50 a week!

So, anyone interested? Please, Please, Please! My house is such a mess because I haven't had the energy to do anything lately and I really need the help!

Pregnant!

So, I'm officially announcing our pregnancy! Due date is about October 11th!!! Yay!!! (You'd never believe how much convincing it took for Grandpa Y! lol.

It was a great Valentine's Day present! (That's when I tested and found out we're preggo!) lol, funny thing is is that I didn't KNOW before I tested this time so it came as a little bit of a shock! And then only one line had appeared in the test window so I thought I wasn't until I was putting the box back into the cupboard and I noticed on the side it said it was an easy to read test, a line only appears if you're pregnant! lol. I'd bought the box last fall and completely forgot! So, then it was a complete shocker to me and I shocked Dennis the next morning on our Valentine's Date!

My first OB appointment is next week and once again I had to find a new one! Grrr. She better not move in the middle of this pregnancy! I'd probably go into Salt Lake if I had a choice just for a bit more security of knowing my OB is gonna stick around! lol.

So, here's to #3! And I'll keep telling myself that it's worth it in the end! If only we could avoid the 9 months of pregnancy! lol.

ChaCha pay

Well, the pay turned out to be even worse for January the it had been for December! I was using December's pay as a baseline to try to figure out how much I'd be making but see how it works...

There is a set of amount of money called the Guide Share Pool and then as we answer questions througout the month we get so many points per question. At the end of the money the money is divided up based on the points that everyone had. For the December pool the points had been worth about .7 cents each, almost 1.5 cents a question for me (as an Expeditor I get 2 points per question). Well, January's payout was announced and it turned out to be only worth a little over .4 cents for each point! That makes each question not even worth a penny! I was hoping for almost twice as much as I got (I didn't have a lot of points for Januaray anyway so it wasn't much) but's it's a little disheartening to see the work count for so little! Of course each month the payout will be different so there's no way of knowing what February's points will be worth. Here's to hoping they're worth a bit more! If the payout continues to decrease or stays that low, it may not be worth being a guide for long.