I'm so tired

I can't believe Kaia is getting ready to turn one. It blows my mind. She stood up by herself for about 20 seconds tonight. Of course, Mommy missed it because she was asleep at the time. :( Both of my eyes are pink and my right ear is also infected. I am one big ball of pus. It is as awesome as it sounds.

but back to Kaia...


She is doing much better now (as demonstrated with tonight's photo above). The shot of antibiotic at the ER really cleared up her ear and brought her fever down. She still isn't wheezing, though her lungs are a little crackly at times. The breathing treatments really seem to help with that. It's the dang cough that kills me. She'll cough so hard, it just breaks my heart. Her eating/appetite is a little better but nowhere near it should be. She weighed 15.15 at the doc office but I bet she lost a little after all these days of not eating.

As for the job front, man nothing is happening at all. The health department hasn't called me, cigna hasn't called me and I got a letter from Baylor today saying a job I'd applied for has been pulled from the list of open positions due to "changes" which means they're broke too.

Inaugurations are a lot like church so it was hard to sit through but I wanted to witness history today. Cory & I talked once about how there has never been a time in our adult lives when we felt "connected" to politics or events like they had with JFK or landing on the moon or the cold war. I think Obama changed that and I hope he delivers. I have faith in him. I've contributed to two presidential campaigns in my life: Clinton's and his. But with Obama, I gave my millions twice.

I've been cherry picking posts to move to my public blog. I will let you guys know when it is up and at 'em, though I don't know really that you will need to bookmark it. It will be watered down versions of here.... they will be more thoughtful and a little more introspective, I plan to think about the posts there as I would a weekly column. Anyway, I'll keep ya posted on the posts.