Up a little too late

I was looking a the elsie blog and saw this thing about polaroiding your digital pics. I loooved it. I love pictures the way polaroids look. But, as with most things, I see it then get so addicted to it and from there organize my pictures and poladroid the shit out of some, edit a few, learn about vignetting, upload to flickr, change my myspace default pic... a huge time consuming, fun, and addicting avalanche of picture stuff.
So, I'm in bed much much too late. It's quite disappointing. And then jumped on my Wii fit to weigh myself, not happy there I tell you. But I am going to be patient, I'm working on changes. And generally I am the type of person who doesn't fail at what I work on and sometimes flourishes at things I don't try. So tonight may be alow night, but I did get to enjoy the cable we pay for and don't really use... man do I love game shows. Tonight watched Cash Cab, Jeopardy, Family Feud, and Dog the Bounty Hunter. I seem lame, huh? Oh well. It felt good!
Today Bella was extra cute and colored a picture the somehow found tape and hung it on the wall. Oh and she typed the word dad in the addres bar. I've been trying to show her basic words. But with this technology, we are practincing on my phone.
I was proud to be on time today, especially because I opened.
I was disappointed in giving my supervisor a mean look when he nicely asked me to do something. It was a long, disrespectful glare rightin front of a customer! I felt bad immediately afterwards.
I smoked 8 cigarettes today.
Off to the hypnosis track.... good night.

Tonight...

I had a great day. We cleaned the shed and got out old scrapbooks. Bella hasd a doctor's appointment, she's all better. The day was evetful, but relaxing. Tonight, she learned to unlock my phone and said some real cute stuff, as always. She did such a great job with her prayers, pronouncing each word perfectly and eagerly following along and repeating. Then she asks if she can sing a song to herself.... he song of choice... "Hot and Cold" by Katy Perry. This girl is something else. Oh and now she is makng up her fabulous song... I'm so lucky.

There's Change to Come

I am quite excited about my decision to change my life for the better. Currently, I am working on quitting smoking. There are ups and downs, but nonetheless, progress. But more recently, I am working on changing my eating patterns. I watched the "I Can Make You Thin" episodes on TV and enjoyed the feeling of being able to eat only a quarter of what I normally would. I felt comfortable and satisfied after eating. I couldn't finish the series because my dad erased them. I decided to buy the book and finished it in just one day. So this is day one! I feel great today and am even listening to the hynosis CD... yeah pretty wierd but definitely doesn't hurt to try. Today is going well so far. And this beautiful tumbler was a gift from my sister and I am enjoying drinking water and have so far not felt the need to drink soda. I am have nothing to lose but weight, so why not?

I hope for a great day tomorrow.

I lay here in bed, hoping to sleep well tonight and wake up early tomorrow. I hope that I can enjoy my morning coffee and hopefully jump on my wii fit. And get ready and have a great productive day tomorrow. Because on Friday I hope to sit and home and relax with Bella. Really just sit and relax. Hopefully go the park and maybe take a walk and run to the grocery store. We'll watch movies and scrapbook. I can't wait!

Bella moment: She somehow knows a couple of Britney Spears songs and likes dancing to them.
Regret: Being 7 mins late to work and being the one with keys.
Happy: I got to hang out with Court and Cait.
News: Erica is preggo! I'm so excited for her!
Remember: schedule Bella a dental appt

Happy New Years

This is how I spent my New Year. There we were in Kaiser waiting for them to admit Bella. It had been a long day of complete bullshit but eventually had the promise of a rather ejoyable New Years celebration with family. I started off the day tip top. I was on time for work and was feeling calm and not rushed. (It's amazing the way leaving on time makes all the lights turn green...vice versa). But I waslked in to find my work was robbed. We were not gonna get paid for our full hours that day and that we would have to work extra extra hard to catch up with the asset and productivity damage this caused. I went home to find my daughter weezing and coughing. A call to med-advice sent me to the pediatrician who thought she had bronchitis who sent me to the pharmacy. After taking the meds, the weezing as worse. We took her to ER where we happened to look at the clock at 11:59 and wish eachother a Happy New Year. Aside from the heartbreak of her being sick and watching her go through pain, i complain none about being by her side while she gets better.

A Photographer Maybe?

This girl makes me more proud than I thought up until each day is possible. This sassy and skinny child learns things and concepts so efficiently and applies each new piece of knowledge into each entertaining day. She's truly amazing. I let her use my camera once. Instead of scolding her for touching it, I showed her how to hold and take a picture. She loves taking pictures. Whether it's on my phone or with my actual camera, she is constantly taking pictures. She asked one day how to see what she took. I pointed to the play button for her to press. Now with each pic she takes she shows the person how their picture came out! Myy phone is a little different, but she had asked once and I showed her which button saves the picture she took. Now she handles it like a pro. Constantly she's impressing me with the things she learns and her tact in wowwing me is truly ingenious. I'm a quite proud and entertained mom indeed!

Best Birthday Yet!!!

DSCF1121, originally uploaded by janellequinata.

So sometimes there is all this chaos that takes place right before the parties I always plan to run so smoothly. The stress normally doesn't ease as the party begins and all the planning should come to an end and the fun should start. But this time it did surely did. This party was a lot smaller, although still about 40 in total. The food was easier, although you could choose hamburgers, hot dogs, or fried chicken. It didn't seem as hot throughout the party. I know Bella enjoyed herself. She played with the water and even did a little "Nobody's Perfect" in the beginning. She participated in the pinata and opened her gifts and said thank you in the mic. I actually got to take a lot of pics, entertain, and play. I even got wet! Well, literally soaked. And Bella told me yesterday that she had so much fun and thanked me! Of course the theme is Hannah Montana. Equipped with her fabulous music, decorations, pinata, cake, and party favors. Not to mention the gifts were pretty damn Hannah themselves.
There's no way possible that I would have been able to do this without so much help. Thanks to my parents and siblingsfor funding and preparing the food, drinks, and party equipment, but most of all the support and orgaznization to make this successful. Thanks Mia for the slip n slide and crazy ol noodle gun things that instigated so many water fights, oh and for her fabulous bathing suit. Thanks Nick for getting that thing for the hose and the oh so memorable pool. Thanks to Melanie for the ice, ADORABLE cupcakes, ice cream, and the never disappointing cake which is just too cute. Thanks Kat for helping me get this house together and for the drinks and definitely the Starbucks as well (needed that to start off a day like this one).
For every single person who came to celebrate my princess's birthday, it means so much. It's so wonderful to have people there who want to be a part of this and that it means something to them as this one means everything to me. Her gifts were absolutely fantastic. She loves each of them. She has already worn lots of the clothes and played with much of her toys and dec'd out her room with all of her gifts. We truly are grateful. Thanks so mcuh for attending and taking the time to get her a gift.

SOME OF MY FAVORITE HIGHLIGHTS!!!!!!
* Showin all those kids in the pool who was boss. If you attended, you know!
*Opening Bella's really cool presents that I can NOT wait for her to use.
*Singing Happy Birthday to Bella, although it's necessary, it's still very dear to me.
*Neeko breaking open the pinata and realizing that with kids, no matter how much they are told to stay back when candy falls from the pinata, they run just as fast.
*I enjoyed actually getting to play with the kids.
*I enjoyed the food. I always enjoy food.
* Later in the night the adults got on the slip n slide and in the pool. SOO fun.
*I actually enjoyed the party and didn't stress, just had fun.

Thank you all for everything. Bella, Hannah, Lily, or whatever you call yourself these days, Happy 3rd Birthday baby! You deserve the best!