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What is today?

It’s boring! LOL

I have no ambition to do anything. Carter and Mike are both sleeping and I am sitting here.

We went to a wedding of good friends of ours last night. It was so pretty and everything appeared to go off without a hitch. They make a great couple and we are so happy for them!

The wedding makes me think of this. Why is that men are so stubborn and pig headed? Yes, yes, I can be too, and know a lot of women that are as well. But this is to the point where it’s just silly.
Mike and his best friend (Mike, lol - he was the groom last night at the wedding we attended.) love to hang out with each other and they are the best of friends.. but they get in these situations where they just don’t talk and won’t be the one to call the other first. So female if you ask me.
So, it’s been about a year since we’ve talked to them last. Why? Who the hell knows. I’ve told Mike to just call him… everyone’s busy with their own lives and YOU have a minute, so just pick up the phone and call. Well no, he can’t do that. Because his buddy Mike doesn’t have the time to talk. Well, how the hell do you know that if you don’t call!?
Then it’s been so long that they think the other one is mad and then they are afraid to call. *sigh* What the fuck is that all about!?

So last night, they finally see each other and talk, it’s like old times and they sit there wondering why it’s been so long since they talked. I just shake me head wondering the same thing. Men.
So Mike’s new wife and I just agree that WE will be the ones to make plans and visits and such, since these two guys would rather see a friendship disappear then make the first move. I just don’t get it.

So, since they decided to start talking… we didn’t get home until late (well, early for most people our age, LOL) and got to sleep in until 11am since Carter spent the night at his grandparents house. I can’t even remember the last time I had slept that long, it was like heaven. So wonderful and peaceful, until the guilt set in that I was in bed still and someone else was watching my baby, which forced me to get my ass out of bed and go get him. Then he’s been napping since getting home. I haven’t seen the kid barely all weekend and we’re back to work and daycare tomorrow. Yuck.

I have been searching and searching for a new blog template. I love the one I have… but I want something different. Something more for me. I have thought about trying to learn to make one.. but it seems like A LOT of work. I just don’t think I have the time for something like that right now. But I have been looking and looking for something, yet nothing is jumping out at me. I may just have to let it go and stay with this one for the time being.

I am hoping that I can get this blog out in the open and make it something that people would be interested in reading… but I am unsure if it’s something that I really want to do because I like the fact that if I feel the need I can gripe about people and it’s not out there for them to find… well, it is, but not as easliy. It’s just an idea that I have been toying with.. not sure if it will ever get past that point.

I made it through the day

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Today was so slow at work. I am on a construction site inspecting work and I have very little to do. It’s so slow, I sit there for 3 hours and do 20 minutes of work, then same thing over again at the next spot. Ugh. I had forgot just how slow this can be. It’s all hurry up and wait. It’s so annoying.
But today, as I sat on my stack of bricks that I found, I was watching all these Monarch butterflies as they migrated through the construction site. There must have been a couple hundred that flew by throughout the day. It was really pretty, yet kinda creepy at the same time.

The migration of the monarch butterfly begins in Canada and the
northernmost parts of the United States. The fall migration begins in late August ending in the months of November and December. The destination of the
butterflies lies in Central Mexico, in the Oyamel forests. Traveling in a southwesterly direction, the monarchs fly east of the Great Lakes and south-southwest in areas west of the Great Lakes. Those that reach the gulf of Mexico follow the coastline in a continuous stream. They continue in a southwest direction eventually reaching the overwintering site in the Transvolcanic Plateau of Mexico. As many as 300 million spend the winter there.During the migration, monarchs encounter many dangers. These dangers include such things as storms, predators, humans (more accurately, their cars), and simple fatigue. Many butterflies are the casualties of storms and are eaten by birds. Hundreds are crushed by cars crossing the
highways, and still many more can be seen limply trying to keep aflight, ready to collapse at any moment. Even after the monarchs arrive at their winter retreats, the danger of storms is still a major factor on the survival. The danger is greater, particularly in Mexico, where temperatures, strong winds, and snow kill thousands. As mentioned before, this migration takes up to three generations to complete! The exact migratory path is still being plotted today.
Scientists are tagging the butterflies, and recording their locations during the months of the fall migration.

During the migration, the monarchs feed extensively on flowers to gain carbohydrates from nectars which fuel daily activities and contribute to the build up of the fat body in the abdomen. This fat supply gives energy to the monarchs on their long journey. Monarchs travel distances as great as 3,100 miles during their migration, traveling roughly 50 miles per day. Monarch flight speeds have been measured at 12 miles per hour. Once they have reached their roosting site, they cluster in large numbers in the branches and trunks of the oyamel trees. While clustering they remain quiescent (they stay relatively sill and maintain low metabolic rates).

In mid-February, the monarchs at the roost sites become more active and mating behavior begins. By the end of February, some of the monarchs begin moving northward, by mid-March the roost is usually depleted (Urquhart1987). This initiates the start of the spring migration. The spring migration starts out with only about half of the original roosting population. Forty to sixty percent of the monarchs die during their stay in Mexico. During the spring migration, the monarch butterflies return to their homes in Canada and the northern most parts of the United States. Along the way, they roost and reproduce, giving rise to new butterflies that will continue the spring flight back.

From The Butterfly Website

Daycare III

Sorry I didn’t get a chance to update yesterday.

Everything went better then I had thought. I cried when I dropped him off and that was about it. It was strange and awkard being without him all day, yet some what liberating! LOL I was so excited to get to daycare and pick him up. He gave me a HUGE hug and was happy to see me!

He’s napping right now. Day 2 went great, they just love him there! I go to the centre early and he was just about to go for a nap so when we got home I put him down for a bit. Hopefully he’ll be more awake to see him dad when he gets home sometime today.

That’s it for now.. .off to find something for dinner!

Thanks for all the thoughts and well wishes.

Daycare II

I am so hung over today from my friend’s bachelorette last night. I feel like a bag of smashed assholes. I have been lucky enough to be sleeping off and on all day - during his crazy nap times…. Carter napped from 9:30am to 12:30 and then again from 2:30 to 5:00. I think it’s the weather that’s messing him up. It’s be dark, gloomy and raining all day.

I was just in bed - I thought for the night… but I started thinking about work and daycare - mostly daycare - and started bawling my eyes out. I don’t know if I can do this. I am so broken up about it the past 2 days and knowing that it’s Tuesday morning that everything’s changing again is making me feel sick. I just broke down. I couldn’t help it, I was crying so hard I have a headache again. So here I am.. at the computer, trying not to think about it anymore. But it’s always there.
I thought about it last night after getting back to my friend’s house after the night out. In my drunken state I cried and cried about it. I know I was carrying on for a while. (I have a good friend that has her little girl in daycare and went through the same thing and I was crying to her about it.) Pathetic really. LOL I can laugh about it now…but it still really bothers me.

I keep typing about it, the same thing over and over for every blog. I know this is going to consume me for a while. I just hope that I can do it. I don’t want to make Carter more dependent because I am having separation anxiety when he’s adjusting so well! I don’t want to be distraught and upset Tuesday, I want him to know that everything is alright, and not to be sad because I am.

Here I go crying again…. *sigh*

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