Catholic Animal Lover!

Heya. The past 2 days have been rather productive–if stressful and crazy–for Peter and I. We decided to check out the car insurance issue, so went to our local State Farm agent office. Turns out with collision and everything, our insurance for the Chevy our friends wanted to give us–would only be about $67!! It was crazy amazing. I was expecting around a hundred at least!

Peter did our taxes on TurboTax.com–which has been a longtime friend of both of ours–and it turns out from the state returns and federal, we are getting a nice amount back. So we signed up for the insurance right then and there!

We tried to get in touch with the housing authority, but that didn’t work out very well–wrong office, etc. So we’re going to look into that on Monday-ish, methinks. I actually may call them today…

Anyway! So after some crazy mixups with the family’s car yesterday, we went to our non-electricity-sawdust-toilet-oil-lamps friends, and after waiting for the husband to fill up the tires of the car with air that had lost some or something, we took the wife to a notary’s house (cutest little old woman–she still worked on a typewriter printer!!), and got the plate, title/deeds switched!

The car is a 200 Chevy Cavalier. It’s funny–it has roll-down windows, which I didn’t realize. Mostly cause my fam has older cars that have electric windows, lol. But it has ABS, so that’s good. And it gets about 25mpg city/33mpg highway, so that’s awesome!

It does have to be inspected–which I’m taking it for today @ 2pm–and it has over 151,000 miles on it. But our friends have had it for about 5yrs and it’s been fine for them, as well as whoever had it first. So I think it’s a good deal. It was a gift–and we are SO BLESSED to be able to have our own wheels right now!

There is a problem with the head gasket–I guess some sort of small-teeny-leak that they’ve had for a long time, and have just put coolant in to control. So eventually we’ll either have to find a cheaper way to get that stupid thing fixed, or junk the car, but I’m hoping it’ll last a while before. We’re going to start saving for a second car anyway, because eventually we’d like one for Peter and a fam car for me (he wants to saddle ME with the mini-van, lol…oh well!).

The car is white–not my first choice, but whatever! Our friends are funny. The whole back is covered with crazy bumper stickers–all anti-abortion and Catholic–which is awesome! Except a couple are worn and have to get taken off–as well as “kill your TV” and “support your local midwife”. No offence mid-wives, heh. But I’m having my kids in a hospital, thanx.

Annnnyhoo! So now we have a car! Of our own! I’m soo excited! yaaaay! God is surely good to us. So very good.

I can’t wait to start taking trips, heh…

Today I didn’t do as much as I’d hoped to accomplish, but it was still a very rewarding day, methinks.

First off–I’ve become a Twitter.com addict! If you’re on Twitter, let me know! My Twitter is Twitter.com/LovingAnimals, and I’d love to “tweet” with you! I’m learning the ins and outs of Twitter, but I do know it’s an easy way to have your work of any kind advertised, as well as to share pointless tidbits from your daily life, heh. Which we all know Audrey loves to do.

I got to do some laundry, which I still have to hang up to dry. I got to call the insurance to switch my Dr., only to find out that the Dr. I wanted–for pedeatrics as well as general health–wasn’t accepting any new patients. So I have to check the website again, find another Dr., and then find out if they’re accepting new patients before I call my insurance back.

I was going through some writing websites today, that I have on my creative bookmark tab, trying to remember why I kept all of them, and if I’m actually going to write for any of the jobs/contests. This was a big thing for me, merely because I see a lot of things that I would love to write for, and seem like great opportunities–but I’m realizing writing short articles, or certain things may not be my niche. So I am trying to weed out the junk, and see what I’d actually be willing to commit to. I loose interest easily, I guess, or focus, rather.

Maybe some of it is being pregnant! I blame Dominic, heh (Dominic Raphael, to be exact!!).

But there was a great sense of joy in seeing my hands spashed in metallic sapphire blue acrylic paint today!

I started painting another plaster mini today–a little dragon. He’s adorable, like the Turtle I put up on Artfire.com was (see him HERE ), but I want to make him special in color–like the Cat I put up was–(HERE ). So I’m doing him in a base of sapphire blue metallic, and will use silver and other “shiny” colors on him after the initial coat is done.

I know painting and my craftwork isn’t something right now that seems to be worth it, but I’m hoping to get started, get better, and get some selling under my belt. I have bigger,other projects I’ll be doing soon–the wreaths, frames, coat hangers–but right now, due to space and money, I have to stay small.

But I admit, it is tough trying to develop creative talent into something useful. Especially since i’m sure it appears to my husband that I should be writing and not painting, heh. But it’s part of my dream to keep my creative side alive in all avenues–if I can, and maybe be able to sell some things on the side, to share my work with other people.

This includes writing, of course, and drawing. And even singing down the line–maybe. We’ll see what opens up. Right now we’re limited with means and opportunities, so I have to go a bit slow.

But it is a dream of mine. Even as I paint more, I’m learning more what works and what doesn’t. Who knows–I may even get good!

I’m glad I can blog on here, although I wish I knew why Today.com wasn’t paying for the posts in my 1st blog for this entire year. They’re not even flagging or checking them as problem posts! All the posts from my OTHER BLOG on here from 2009 haven’t even been reviewed or anything. I got no notice that they were going to stop checking them–and the posts from this blog have been all reviewed/payed for..so who knows.

March already? Wow. Craziness.

Last Sunday we went to the SSPX Church again, this time due to weather and stuff. The priest was different, but still French. But he was cute, and a lot easier to understand. After service, Peter wanted him to bless my baby, if he would, because we were going Monday to the specialist Dr. due to them calling my pregnancy high-risk, and my baby possibly having an irregular heartbeat.

The priest was so friendly, and excited about our new addition. He said there is a specific blessing for an expectant mother, and took us up to the sacristy for the blessing. He got the blessing book out, and Holy Water, and we knelt–though he told Peter the blessing was for me and my baby, heh, not him–and he went through a full Latin blessing from the Roman book. It was amazing. A novus ordo priest probably would’ve just said “God bless your baby”, but this SSPX priest gave me the full blessing from ancient times! It was such a blessing.

The next day, we went to the specialist. We were early, and the Dr.s offices were about an hour behind. I was excited I got to go into an Ultrasound. This time, the nurse actually spoke to us a lot, and seemed to know more of what she was doing, and explained what everything was.

We immediately saw what the gender of the baby was this time! A baby boy!! YAY! No closing his legs this time! Plus, he’s getting so big! She showed us his little legs, and his feet–he was dancing or something. Probably didnt like being poked and prodded!

Then she said they were going to do a 4-D Ultrasound. I have no idea what that means, technically, but I know the picture was amazing! It was what I thought was a 3-D picture, but I guess not. Not just profiles of the ancient Ultrasounds. And not all offices have the new 4-D Ultrasounds, so we were blessed.

I asked if the nurse could show us his little face. The first picture she shot for, the baby had his little arm up, showing his little bicep (awwww!!!) but not his face! And oddly enough–due to the color of the baby’s skin, and the sac he’s in, and everything, it looked like he had no hand! But the picture is adorable. You can see his little ear… The second picture is of his face. He is SO AMAZING!

That a woman could see an Ultrasound photo, then abort her baby, is beyond me, and a true act of sickness.

Speaking of which–Peter took all the abortion pamphlets in the office and threw them away later!! It was great sneak-age, heh…

Anyway, the baby is beautiful, and the Ultrasound was so amazing. If you’re going to get an Ultrasound–you should check if you can get a 4-D, because they’re something else.

I am due for another one in about 6 wks, so by then he should be so very visable and full. YAY!

Now I’m getting ready to switch my PCP from Dr. Kon (who we haven’t seen yet), to a pediatric/family PCP Dr., so I can get a normal check up, and my thyroid checked. The OB/GYN office visit (which was great except for the “poking” part *shiver*) had about 6 vials of blood taken for tests, and the specialist Dr. told us that my Thyroid is indeed under-active, and so I need to get on meds for it, cause it can harm the baby. So hopefully I get that taken care of soon.

So that’s the latest update!