Welcome home Baby Ryan

Ryan Wesley Connor was born on 2/1 at 9:44 a.m. to Alan & Ramona Connor, he weighed 6 lbs. 15 oz. Ryan was released from the Rex Special Care Nursery on February 8, 2006, after a week's stay in the hospital following a very scary birth, he is now home!

Update on the "day I should have stayed in bed"

Well, thankfully the day has not gotten worse. It is going on 3pm and my workday is drawing to a close. Paul is still in California for another day, so I've got one more night without him (although his flight won't be in until like 11pm on Friday night...)

Things I have done since getting back to my office (that have been good):

1. Wrote mean letters to 3 agencies trying to get them to pay up (it felt good to be firm and kinda mean & threatening)!

2. Took a nice walk

3. While on my walk, I went to the recently remolded and opened library branch to get a new card (I got my original Wake County library card in December 1989.... I used it up through high school, but somehow misplaced it after going off to college... and it is sad that I haven't checked out a library book SINCE college... going on 4 years now!)

4. Picked up a sandwich from Quizno’s… although the line took like 15 minutes, the sandwich was good (which I had a diet Pepsi with… I shouldn’t be drinking soda at all, but I needed a boost!)

5. It’s almost time to go home! I just started reading the "Chronicles of Narnia" series and it's pretty good. I'm about 50 pages into "the magician's nephew" - I read a few of C.S. Lewis' books back in my younger days, but it has been a while! So that is something I am really looking forward to doing when I get home... if only it was warm enough to read outside, I would be in heaven!

You know you should have rolled over and gone back to sleep when.....

Here's my morning - I'm really starting to think I should have just turned off the alarm, rolled over and called it a sick day!

1. you wake up too late to eat breakfast (and I am a SUPER breakfast person, never leave home without eating it!)

2. you can't dry your hair and find decent work clothes

3. you forget to put on a jacket and it is 34 degrees outside

4. you leave 5 minutes later than normal and get caught in the most outrageous traffic making you late to work (and fraying your very last nerve, it is THAT TIME of the month...)

5. you stop by a local grocery store to get breakfast and then realize that when you get to the office, you have no bowl to make the oatmeal you just bought

6. you then want to throw you hands up in the air and decide it is time for coffee, go to the bathroom get water for coffee and return to the office to find out that you've locked yourself out (and its only 7:34am, no one else will be in until at least 10am)

7. you make a call to a prof who lives 5 minutes away and SHE COMES! and lets you in, but while you are waiting in the parking lot, you see the "YORK PROPERTIES SECURITY PATROL" car tagging your car b/c the stupid little hangy tag has fallen off your rear-view mirror and thus, they are planning to tow it! WTH?!?!? (thankfully I ran over to the guy, explain that it fell down, point to it on the floorboard and when he asks me to fix it, I have to explain that I am locked out of my office, with no jacket, standing in the cold talking to you and waiting for someone to come and let me back in my office, he gave me 15 minutes, a stern warning and a frown.)


UGH! That's is way too much for one morning! Can I go back to bed now?!

Since my last post is lost, here's a fun link

I wrote up a great post on Friday night while waiting for Paul's flight to get in, and then when I went to publish, blogger went down! UGH! I had pictures and all kinds of good stuff. Of course after spending a long time working on it and having it just sucked into cyberspace, I wasn't much up for rewriting it.

So you get this.

All the Superbowl commericals, even ones that were cut.

The game was GREAT and the commericals were only so-so! YAY Steelers :)

I hope to get a real post, with pictures, up this week.