11 years ago
11 years ago tonight I paced my mother's living room floor, throwing a squeeze ball repeatedly at the wall and making small grunting noises while my sister slept in the next room. Time and again I sat down and crossed my arms over my swollen belly and rocked back and forth, wondering when the pain would stop. I begged my mother to take me to the doctors, but she refused, saying I was young and didn't know what to expect, just wait until the REAL pain started. So I resumed my pacing and throwing, finally throwing the ball at my sister, waking her up. I told her to call 9-1-1, and for once in her life she listened, and the ambulance came. My mother greeted the EMT, tellling him that I was young and probably a ways off. The EMT checked me, then promptly put his hands out and said, "DON'T PUSH! DON'T BREATHE!" I was rushed to the hospital (in an ambulance, oh the joy) and almost as soon as we got there my beautiful baby daughter was born. (By this time it was morning)
Happy 11th Birthday to Victoria Rose, born at 5:04 am on June 1, 1994, 18 1/4 inches, 5 pounds 10 ounces of pure love. The older you get the more difficult parenting becomes, but that first feeling, the one of pure wonder, happiness, joy and love; it always remains. Through everything, that will remain. I hope that as the years go by, you will remember these things too, and the bond we formed as mother and daughter alone in the world, growing together, learning together, and most importantly, loving eachother.
Posted by: Heather
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
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Who the fuck is in charge of fires?
Whoever it is, FIRE THEM. Now. God, Mother Nature; one of them hates me. First the tivo incident, in which my tivo failed to record the season finale of Grey's Anatomy, now this. I have been watching Lost since day one, I would shoot it up if it were a drug. Since it is not, I merely glue my ass to my couch each Wednesday night to watch it. This particular Wednesday happens to be the 2 hour season finale. So home I go from open house, looking so forward to a 2 hour glued to my seat session.
I walked in the door and was met with an ominous sign of my what my evening was to become- my power was out. As 8 o'clock approached and I grew increasingly frenzied- how could I possibly miss TWO season finales in one week??- my poor distressed brain figured out a way to cheat fate. We left, and now my ass is glued to my mother-in-law's couch, watching my goddamn season finale. So there.
The power outage was, of course, caused by a house down the street catching on fire at a most inopportune time. Now, due to my extremely unhealthy obsession with the little box with flickering pictures, my kids will probably be late to school tomorrow, and my husband will have to get up early and drive to work in the clothes he wore today.
Love takes on a whole new meaning when your wife/mother is a neurotic psychopath.
Posted by: Heather
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
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geeky stuff
i have been super busy but have figured out some really cool stuff... trying to rewire pat's house we didn't know how we were going to get high definition to each tv without having to run some really expensive wires to each room, having to reopen all the walls which we didn't want to do. finally after a lot of research we figured out how to run hi def over the existing cat 5 cables that were already run. without getting too technical basically you plug the cat 5 into a converter which converts each pair into the appropriate R,G,B componet cable. it works perfectly, the picture couldn't be clearer.
Posted by: Christopher
Friday, May 20, 2005
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Vegas Comes Later
I went to Vegas over the past weekend, but this post has nothing to do with that. That post will come at a later time, when I am over the intense rage I am feeling right now. As you may remember, a few months back we had a landslide and our main road in and out of our neighborhood was shut down. To compensate for this, our fire exit, a one-lane dirt easement road, was opened up for us to use on a temporary basis until the main road could be opened. It is debatable what “temporary” means.
Anyways, 2 weeks ago we get a phone call saying that in 2 weeks (add it assholes, that’s THIS week) the easement will also be shut down between the hours of 8:30 am and 3:30 pm. So I, being reasonable and levelheaded, panic. WTF? These are the precise hours in which I need to drive, taking various kids to school and practices and then home again. So I make other plans and prepare to not come home between those hours. Easy, right? HA!
This morning at about 7:35 as I am putting blue gel into Joey’s hair for “dress all in blue” day, my own hair wet, I notice the trucks are here already and the roadblock is up. At 7:35. Almost a full hour earlier than scheduled. I flipped out and we ran out the door, get in the car and drive down where he points to the main road, telling me to drive there. Um, OK. If I could drive my main road, WHY HAVEN’T WE BEEN?? So down and around I go, and see this bitty dirt road flanked by hills of dirt, on which, apparently, I am supposed to drive. I do, because I have to, and as I do my car ever so gracefully scrapes along the rocks in the road, making a melodious fingernails-on-a-chalkboard noise that makes my teeth rattle in my head. Nice.
So I go about my day, and ever so slowly I stop wanting to grab everyone who walks near me to tell them how these MOTHERFUCKERS not only shut down my street but did it 55 minutes early. After school I even took my time, went to the grocery store, bought ice cream and other various groceries and frozen things, and then came home at 4:30, having left myself plenty of cushion time. They were still there. So I ask them what the hell is going on, that they were there way early and now were there an hour late. The guy looks at me and says, sorry. You’ll have to walk up the other way. WALK?? With my ice cream and shit? So I see another neighbor driving up and we get in the car and go back over that damn road.
Chris got home at 5 and they were still there, and went to go get pizza and they are STILL here, at 6 pm. Holy shit this road better be paved in gold and rubies. I wanna be living in the Wizard of Oz. Tomorrow, I leave early.
Posted by: Heather
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
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last game of the season
looks more like the first game. every batter on the other team has thrown their bat at every at bat (isn't that rule #1!?) to the point where they hit one of the parents on our team. she was not happy, haha. our team is laying down in the field trying to take a nap, ridiculously funny... and to top it off its like 85 degrees already and not even 11:00 yet. this is going to be a LONG-HOT-DAY, yay for me!
Posted by: Christopher
Saturday, May 14, 2005
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why!?
why are kids so LOUD!? no matter what they do, why can't they just use a normal voice. doesn't matter if they are playing in the house or outside, the level of their voice is so deafening that i am positive the neighbors about 3 miles away can hear. oh i can't take it ANYMORE!!!! when do they grow out of this stage!? somebody please help me!
I-AM-LOSING-MY-MIND-I-NEED-ALCOHOL!
Posted by: Christopher
Friday, May 13, 2005
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wow
Posted by: Heather
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
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Mothers Day
Seeing as I am currently completely bored, Chris being knocked the FUCK OUT on the couch and the kidlets all sleeping, (except Joey who comes down periodically to tell me Yu-Gi-Oh is on yet again and he hates Yu-Gi-Oh), I guess I will post.
Mothers day started with the kids coming in to find Chris at 9am as planned, but Chris was MIA. Where was my darling husband this beautiful Sunday morn? In the bathroom, dry heaving from the excessive drinking the previous evening. Heaving over, he and the kids left to get my requested breakfast of egg mcmuffin with hash browns. After breakfast they showered me with perfect little gifts, handmade cards, store-bought cards, coupon booklets good for room-cleanings and such, homemade scented flowers, notepads. These things really truly are a mother's treasure, things our children put their heart and energy into, thinking the whole time of the smile it will put on your face, which inevitably it will. And that smile will return each time you see it. Then I received the card, note and treasure from my hung over hubby. Money to spend as I saw fit, which I did today. (More on that later).
After we all got ready we headed out to the park to meet Kat and her family and Molly, Chris' mom. We had a good time there at the park, riding bikes, train rides, ball, etc. We came home, watched National Treasure and then got ready for bed.
Today I went to the mall to spend all that momma money. I bought a bunch of make-up, of course, and some clothes. Today has a been a pretty good day, if wholly uneventful.
Posted by: Heather
Monday, May 09, 2005
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mother's day
mothers day started off with a bang this morning with me dry heaving because of all the alcohol i drank last night. boy was it great!! after i composed myself, the kids and i went to mcdonalds to get heather an egg mcmuffin and hashbrowns. i was going to make her french toast or pancakes but she said she REALLY wanted mcyd's and it IS mothers day so... after breakfast, head still pounding feeling like it was going to explode, i got heathers cards ready. the kids had made her gifts at school which she loved. what she really wanted was some new clothes, now i could have gone out and got clothes but she would have had to take them all back so instead we gave her money so she can go pick out exactly what she wants.
after we got ready we headed to conroy's to pick up the flowers we bought for my mom and drove to irvine park to meet mom, katrina, scott and the boys. it was a fun day just relaxing at the park, although i can feel the heat from the sunburn that is setting in. i haven't had a chance to upload the pics, maybe later tonight.
happy mother's day!!!
Posted by: Christopher
Sunday, May 08, 2005
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tendencies
It's friday night and 2 of my kids are knocked out cold, one is chatting with her friends, and for some reason adding me to their chats, on AIM, my husband is refreshing his myspace endlessy to read the billions of freak profiles, and I am doing what I do best. Which is, of course, letting my head fuck with me in a myriad of ways. I am inherently an insecure person, it was bred into me just like my blonde hair, brown eyes, and OCD. Over the years I have been put into various situations that have shattered my self esteem until it was basically powder, and then a funny thing happened... out of that powder I made something new, and I learned to like myself. Wonder of wonders, I learned to LOVE myself. (I am an amazingly talented, smart, pretty, funny, loyal, sweet person. Really.) But sometimes, when I am bored, or otherwise upset, I tend to play mind games with myself. Not necessarily BIG ones, but a multitude of little ones that left to their own vices gang up on me and they're mean. SO here's me telling them to screw off, I'm getting drunk, even if I am at home with a myspace whore addicted husband! (love ya hun)
Posted by: Heather
Friday, May 06, 2005
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Damnit someone beat me to it
Posted by: Heather
Friday, May 06, 2005
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How to put your spouse to sleep
Make them laugh till they're so tired they can't stay awake. Last night my husband decided he would help me fall asleep. So in his best voice-over voice, all deep and slightly raspy, he says, "You are at the top of a looong staircase. Your take the first step and your toes relax, turning light as air... next step, and your feet disappear... you take the next step, which will be hard because you have no feet, but you do anyways, and your leg muscles relax..." blah blah till he gets to the various female parts of my anatomy, at which he extolls them to no end before going, oh, uh, ya, the staircase... and continues on, culminating with my disembodied "light" head going down the last stair and sort of rolling around until it too goes into the land of dreams. Amazingly enough, this actually put me to bed quite nicely. Alas, though, it was not to be, for I was startled from my sweet slumber by the LOUDEST booming thunder I have ever heard, followed by what I thought was an alien aircraft landing on my roof, but was really only another bolt of lightening making my bedroom look as bright as an operating table. This morning we got to wake up to friggin sheets of rain coming down so damn hard you could barely see, and guess where the umbrella's were? That's right, IN THE CAR. So me, I got to take my shower with mother nature today. But that's OK, I'm a water nymph. :)
Also this morning Joey's school threw a mother's day pancake breakfast, so I got to go have breakfast at school with Joey. It was very nice, and I got a beautiful card and gift. Sunday being Mother's Day, maybe my kids will be good and I can sleep. We shall see.
Posted by: Heather
Friday, May 06, 2005
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Conversations in the Crippen Household
Chris came home for lunch, and after inhaling a sandwich proclaims that he is bored, followed immediately by, "Do we have any masking tape?!", all excited like. W.T.F. goes through that man's head? I'm sure I don't even want to know.
Anyways, my afternoon was pretty stressful, just dealing with little girl junk that was pretty hurtful, sorry to those of you I pulled down... tomorrow will be better, I promise.
Posted by: Heather
Thursday, May 05, 2005
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my fortune cookie
"you will always get what you want through your charm and personality." sweet!!!
Posted by: Christopher
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
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see fuckers
Posted by: Heather
Monday, May 02, 2005
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Roxanne Roxanne (and Jared)
Last night we had our friends Roxy and Jared over. It was alot of fun, the kids were at a friends house so we were able to run around naked and listen to loud music. J/K! About the loud music part, it was late! We went swimming and played yahtzee (for Jared, because my lameness extends only to trivia games) and just hung out. Thanks guys, for helping us have a fun weekend!
Posted by: Heather
Sunday, May 01, 2005
tags: roxy jared
the weekend
last night we had our friends, roxy and jared over for dinner. we all drank way too much but had an awesome time, swimming, playing games and just hanging out. about 3am we all about passed out, poor roxy had to be at work at 7, i didn't even hear them leave this morning. the kids spent the night with their friends, they all had a blast as well. now we are home just relaxing and watching tv. the weekend went by way to fast but it was a lot of fun, can't wait to do it again.
Posted by: Christopher
Sunday, May 01, 2005
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