My life lately

[gja1000]

Hi Lindsay! Sorry I missed this post earlier. It sounds like you really have had a lot going on in your life lately. I have missed your posts on the board.

I'm glad to hear that Scott is sticking up for you. His mom is still having her ups and downs but she sounds so much better than at first.

How is Layla doing with remedial potty training? My little Rowdy will sprinkle in the house if he gets a chance. We have to put belly bands on him when we leave and I still find a few sprinkles from time to time - he has to do it when we are here, but we NEVER see him! LOL!

I'm so glad that you were able to spend time with your cousin. Family is so important!

I hope Scott gets the new job. I know you hate for him to travel. I'll keep my fingers crossed!!!

[DianaB]

You have been busy!! It sounds like you're learning how to handle Scott's Mom. Don't let her little digs get to you. That's one of the things I deal with with Glen's Mom and I just ignore them.

I'm glad that you got to spend some time with your favorite cousin. I had a cousin that I was close to but as we got older we slowly developed other interests. I still see her but it's not the same.

I too hope that Scott is able to get a new job and not have to be so far away.

[Lindsey]

I'm really hoping he gets one of the jobs! He has no cell phone service because he is too far north, but he does have a slow internet connection so we talked a little last night. He hooked up his webcam to show me his new place It's a tiny room with a bed, a desk, and a dresser. We talked about his interviews, and I guess the first place wanted a dollar figure for what he was expecting as a salary. I know you should never give a dollar figure, and if insisting you should just say "I make this much now, and would like at least that much to switch jobs" or something. Anyways, he did give a dollar amount... just slightly more than my current salary (he makes just a little less than me now) and they were like "That is WAY too high!" So that makes me wonder if I'm going to be able to leave this job without taking a big cut in pay The second place asked for references though, so it might be promising!

Layla is doing much better with her potty training! We're getting on a schedule... as soon as I wake up I pick her up and take her straight outside (she's a lazy bum and won't get up in the morning, I have to pick her up from her sleeping position!). When she pees, she gets to come in. Usually she'll go back out before I leave for work. Same thing happens as soon as I get home at lunch and right after work. Then she'll go out a few times in the evening. She RARELY uses her inside pad except for overnight. We put up the baby gate so she's stuck in the back of the condo at night, with the bedroom, laundry room, and bathroom open to her (she lays on the bathroom floor when she's too hot). She had a few accidents in the same spot of the hallway, so we have just put down cardboard over the carpet and she won't pee on it. Eventually we'll take the cardboard away and slowly train her not to go there. We have been spending way more time in the "reading room" so she's not peeing in there at all anymore!

[Lindsey]

Diana, I have felt my cousin and I growing apart lately and I really want to work for us to be as close as we were. We were my grandma's first two girls, after having 4 sons and then 2 grandsons, Brandi and I were born 6 months apart. Grandma just loved buying us matching clothes! We have always lived hours apart but as soon as we learned to write, we were writing each other letters constantly.

We grew apart in high school when she got into the party crowd and I was a goody-goody. Her mom passed away when we were both in our last year of high school, and it was very hard on me to see her at the funeral. She was obviously devastated and I felt I couldn't do anything for her because we weren't close anymore. When she was pregnant with her first daughter, we were 18, and we began talking again.

Basically we talked every single day until about last year... I feel that as soon as she starts dating someone new, I'm not important anymore. We email each other when she's at her job on Thursdays and Fridays but that's all I ever hear from her now.

[DianaB]

We're very similiar!! My cousin and Iwere the oldest two grandchildren too. I was older by a year. We were always close until I got married and had children. I've always been into being a mom but to my cousin, her children were an inconvience. She has also always been into looking good and when I gained weight.......well, that's when she really quit trying to be close. I still see her and she's always saying how she was just talking about coming up to see me, but the last time she was here was over 20 years ago. We're just so different now. She has a new husband (Glen and I really loved the first husband) and he's very, very young. So young that Glen and I don't really have anything much in common with him. It's really sad and I really miss her but she's not the same girl that I remember being friends with.

[judy]

I wish I had your energy Linds! It sounds like things are good for you, and that you are happy. HURRAY!!! You deserve to be happy.

I hope Scott gets the job. It sounds like his Mom is just trying to get you to understand what she is feeling. Of course, I wasn't there, so I don't know the tone of voice she used but you can use it to just agree with her, so that she knows where you stand. I don't like that she used crying on the phone to get her way. Stand strong!!!

Love you baby!

Pix of the new hairdo????

[Lindsey]

I just want to live my life and be happy, and make sure Scott is happy, and really not worry about how we're affecting anyone else. If his mom doesn't like that I'm in his life, that's her problem. She can dwell on it herself. I love him and he loves me and as long as we're both happy with that, nothing else matters!

Tonight I'm going to get some batteries for my camera and I'll take pictures of the condo and my new hair

[gja1000]

YAY! You go girl!!! Can't wait to see the condo and hair!