Archive for June, 2008
June 10th, 2008 -- Posted in blinkies & other cuteness, future / dreams / goals, pain / disability, work/career |
So I caved and bought .com # 6 today! 
I was going to wait, but for this one I just couldn’t. I’ll try to limit my spending on a few other domain names this month to maybe another 4 and I’ll wait on those, but this one I wanted to be sure to “snap up”. Finding out it was available was kind of like finding out I won a few bucks in the lotto or something, ya know?
The other ones I’ll be buying will just be for fun or building my portfolio or for friends, etc. but the one I bought today, I want to be *big*. Like, amazingly popular and wonderful and fabulous. Yes, I’m dreaming big, but mommies have gotta dream, right? 
I will keep the actual name a surprise until I have something to at least placemark that “spot” on the web.
But until then, here’s a brief history of my growing .com purchasing addiction…
2001 : after running The Young Mommies Help Site for 2 years, I moved it to it’s own domain name at YoungMommies.com
2003: I bought KStarSolutions.com to open up my business as a graphics design artist.
2005/2006?: I let KStarSolutions.com expire as I was moving on from my graphics design business onto WOHM endeavors.
2006: After having many problems with the current host of YM (Globat.com – don’t ever go with them!), I moved YM over to a new place – Dreamhost.com, which is where we still are. It was a little more expensive, but it’s been a good spot so far. I haven’t had any problems with them and the allow unlimited domain names to be covered by the same hosting package, so all I pay for new .coms is the registration.
June 2007: After the collection of blinkies being hosted on YM just kept growing and growing!!, I bought BlinkieMommies.com, which now hosts the whole kit-and-kaboodle of over 2,000 of those cute little things.
July 2007: I bought Krismom.com to have a site just for me.
December 2007: When my spinning Tshirts started selling on CafePress, I bought RainbowSpinning.com as a place to promote all the stores.
April 2008: After the car accident left me questionning whether or not I’d ever be back at a desk job again, I bought KStarDesign.com to give my graphics design business a new home and get that started back up again.
June 8, 2008: I renewed BlinkieMommies.com for another year.
June 10, 2008: I bought a brand new .com with very big and exciting plans for it!
So those are my 6 little webby “babies”, and I hope to add another 4 or so later this month. Stay tuned for more news!!!
June 9th, 2008 -- Posted in blinkies & other cuteness, domestic engineering, family, friends, future / dreams / goals, life as a mom, love & marriage, massage/physio/chiro, pain / disability, scrappy / stampy, work/career |
So we had a great weekend!
Fun Fair was Sat with the kids, and they had a good time. Avery went back twice for the “fishing” game and was so excited about his prizes. We saw one of his daycare friends and he ran over to show them, saying “They’re gonna be so proud of me!” LOL. Pics coming soon.
The kids went to their grandparents’ places afterwards, and we went to IKEA. Guess how much we spent?? A mere $6.20!! miraculous, isn’t it? 
Usually we see so many things we like that we can easily spend a hundred. That evening, Paul introduced me to this Vietnamese restaurant he had been to with his co-workers (and we invited Kat and Kurt along, great to see you guys!). We had thought about catching a movie afterwards but instead we just cuddled up on the couch to watch another couple episodes of Firefly, which Paul has the DVD set of. I enjoyed a glass of Chardonnay. Then we had way too much fun on Sunday morning/afternoon.
Sunday afternoon we went to Costco (I just love their ice cream!) and we ordered a “Mother’s Day” dinner for my mother over at her place when picking up the kids. Mille Feuille for dessert (another thing I love from Costco!). She liked her gifts, including a little decorated flower pot, and the kids liked helping her open them, especially Avery. Of course we got to see hands-on proof of how much she over-indulges them (offering Avery some mac ‘n cheese when he started to pout about his pizza!!), but we handled it all OK.
Sunday evening, the pain started to set in from this very busy weekend, and I had a really hard time getting to sleep. Plus I had oh about a million and a half ideas swirling around in my head! I got out of bed around midnight because I’d been growing this little seed of an idea for *the* perfect website to start. After researching no less than 53 website names, I found the perfect one! Can’t tell yet because I haven’t bought it yet (I’m planning on treating myself to 5 new .coms soon), but stay tuned.
After a tossy-and-turny night, I have been in ever more pain. Of all the weekend’s activities, I lay the blame pretty squarely on the shoulders of the way-too-much-fun-with-my-hubby. As I told my physiotherapist today, “What’s good for my marriage isn’t necessarily good for my back!”. It is sooo screwed up now it’s not even funny. The pain radiates down into my lower back (especially the left side), right down my left hip and into my left leg. Ouch, ouch, ouch. But my sex life is not something I’m willing to give up, you know!? Even if it means an entire Monday morning confined to lying down in bed or on the couch! 
I’m thinking of writing an article… I know that “Is there sex after kids?” has been done already, but how about “Is there sex after multiple car accidents?”… ’cause seriously, women need to know!!
was the weekend worth it? For now I’ll still say a hesitant “yes”… but I’m hoping I’m not in this much pain all week!!! I’ve got laundry to do, a Track-and-Field meet to attend and cheer at, soccer games and practices and music lessons to drive Harmony to, a graphics design project to finish up, two scrapbooking nights with friends, not to mention some new baby websites to “give birth to”!!!!
June 6th, 2008 -- Posted in OCD, PMS / hormones / cycle, PPD, anti-psychotic meds, baby-munching, family, friends, future / dreams / goals, love & marriage |
latest news on the meds:
Luvox: last week went down to 200mg, now down to 150mg, then down to 100mg in one week.
Prozac: staying @ 20mg for now, but I’m actually starting to notice a slight change in my OCD symptoms!! a bit less “munchy” with Avery, and this is during a time in my cycle (PMS from hell) when it’s usually *worse*!!! here’s hoping this in an indication we may have finally found the right medication for me!!
the appointment with my psychiatrist went well, I was actually blabbing a bit about my latest ideas and projects and what not. also saw my counsellor, and that appointment really did not go as well at all. I presented an idea I have about the biting urges and she thinks I’m grasping at straws and seeming pretty “desperate” to find a quick fix, the one miracle pill or solution that will solve all my OCD problems.
my thoughts are “hey, it’s worth trying”, but I think she in concerned it might make things worse. she did talk with her clinical supervisor though about my case and he had some different suggestions, like taking the Exposure / Response Prevention therapy at a bit of a slower pace so it doesn’t freak me out or scare me off so much (previously when we’d tried it, I’d just found it so disturbing and awful that I would just run away from the whole experience!!!). another idea was “two-chair” therapy, which would be splitting up the two parts of my brain and having them talk to one another – the critical, judging self talking to the healthy self who knows deep down what is really good for me and what I need.
I go back to see my psychiatrist in 2 weeks and back to see my counsellor in 3, so until then I’ll just keep taking the meds I’m taking and seeing if it helps any.
It’s June so that’s 2 years since I was diagnosed with OCD in the first place. I’ve been on about a dozen different medications and although some of them have helped with some of my symptoms, the main symptom (biting urges and compulsions) has not significantly diminished. I’ve gained over 50lbs in that 2-year time span though!! So am I any better off now than I was back then? I don’t feel like I am, but I have learned a lot of coping skills, and things were worse before they got better, so maybe they would have been even worse had I not started medication, etc. Maybe I would not have lived through the experience.
In the meantime, as I was saying to my counsellor, I’m still living my life and trying to enjoy it as much as possible. I still have a really healthy relationship with Avery! I’ve still been able to sing to the kids, read with them, go places, work, maintain a healthy marriage and love life, hang out with friends, scrapbook,, everything. Sometimes I’m more functional than others, but overall I would say I’m hanging in there and just waiting this out. I’ve been slowly dealing with the fact that this OCD might be around for life, in stages of “waxing and waning” and haven’t quite accepted that yet (since it was “post-partum onset” OCD I keep hoping it’ll go away completely once I am far past the post-partum stage of life!), but I’m getting there.
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