Catholic Animal Lover!

So it’s been a while (again) since I’ve updated. But I figured I’d better drop a note. I really want to find a “mommy” blog & make a new one…even if it’s not for pay, heh. Since Today.com hasn’t turned into the most lucrative deal for me anyway (probably would if I was interesting or consistent!)–maybe blogspot.com or something…But I haven’t gotten around to it.

It’s  June 3rd. Baby is supposed to come on the 10th. But I am SO ready to get him out of my pained belly, lol! And off my bladder, but that’s another story altogether… I am as big as a house, and Sunday I had such hard contractions and pain I was sure Dominic Raphael Josefek was coming that night! But nope. Just my body adjusting and being slow.

I finally have my bag pretty much ready to go to the hospital, and am now just hoping it happens soon. I want to meet my baby! I mean, I feel connected to him and everything, but I can’t wait to begin being an actual hands-on Mother.

Of course there are worries and nerves–but as Peter and I talked about the other night–most of that stuff is for his future, and the future of our family–not for the parenting-of-the-baby part. Being a traditional Catholic in today’s world, is going to be tough. Raising up your children in the way they should go, so when they’re old they won’t depart from it, is a monumentous task, and a brand new one for us and our familes (at least in the Catholic sense). Life is tough, and finding others like ourselves has been a real challenge.

The Catholic Church today isn’t really much to look at mostly. It’s hard to find traditionalists, and even harder to find ones that really do want to be in the world, but NOT of it. Like every “Christian” avenue–there are many lukewarm people in the mainstream.

Even the Catholics in our familes aren’t people we’d want raising our kids when it came down to it. So obviously God wants us to start our generational family anew…Question is, how do we, when it seems like so much is against us?

We have to trust Him. There is no other way. If God shows you a path He wants you to take, though the world may go against you–you MUST go forward in trust and obedience. Or there will be dire consequenses. Listening to His will brings untold joy, though

So we shall try to raise a good family, and children that know truth. Even in a dying world.

Contractions that are fake suck! I pretty much envy my fellow-new-mom friend Grace–she was due a day off from me, but instead went into labor about a month before, having her baby boy the night before Mother’s Day! Her water broke hard-core, and her labor was only–craziness!–5 1/2 hours!!! Lucky stiff! She didn’t get the random “think-you’re-in-labor-but-have-no-idea” problems like I’m dealing with!

Ugh..every day I’m hoping he comes! Except, tomorrow is Peter’s and my anniversery, so we’d rather Dominic’s birthday not be on that day!

We shall see.

I’m making pancakes for dinner tonight! Ember Fast day, so I figured that’d be different. Also, I’m finishing watching Ice Age–one of my all time favorite movies! Cracks me up!!

Well, I guess that’s enough of an update. I shall try to update as things progress. I may go into labor any time now! I really hope so..it’d be nice to get it over with, 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.

Ok, so I FINALLY read a thread about the update Today.com is doing on their blogs, and finally realized that while they seem to have gotten rid of the themed blog templates, they made the bland normal one a color-coded scheme, so you can make it your own.

It’s not that bad, really. I have updated this blog, as you can tell (if anyone reads this), as well as MY OTHER BLOG , changing all the colors, so they’re not so bland. I like colors, and love to change them, so expect that with my blogs!

I have a bunch of stuff I’d like to blog about concerning life, methinks, but I’ll wait till later. This was just to inform everyone that I’m ok with the new Today.com blog scheme! The world will go on…

First and foremost–for a while I’ve been trying to look at new “looks & feels” for this Today.com blog, only to find that all the themes I was given the option to view/pick when I started my blog–are gone. Not only that-!!!–but the them I HAD picked is also gone, thereby making my blog plain and boring and running with basically no theme *the today.com theme*! Uh..did my background/theme have a time limit or something I didn’t know about? Was there a memo I missed? As far as I can tell, none of the other people on my blogroll are having this problem.

I haven’t checked my other blog on today.com– Entertainment To Me — But I’m figuring the same thing is happening, as I know the themes have also been vanishing for an option from that blog as well. What’s up, Today.com? Anyone else struggling with this? I didn’t like the theme I’d chosen for this blog, but am fine with the one I have for my other blog. But either way, I apparently can’t change either! So needless to say, this is annoying me to no end…

Also, how come I can’t delete the “Uncategorized” category in my list?! That’s so stupiud. Why would I put a blog under no category? Uggg. Some things…

Sisterly Connection–

On a lighter note, I’ve been learning some things whilst we’ve been stuck in this house. Hubby and I are besides ourselves to leave, and it’s ridiculous. But I really have been being brought closer to my fam, and have been enjoying the time I get to spend with my 4 youngest siblings (and the next 2 up even), who are still here at home.

Little Sis and I have ended up spending some time nearly every night together–whether by pupose, or accident. But the laughs have been a comfort I long have needed.

It brings back the memories I have of her and me. We’ve alwaze been close–even though there is a 10yr gap between us. She’ll be 17 in a couple of days–can you belive?! Wow. I’m old…..teehee..

Annnyway. Older Sis and I have never been close, and have never been a team. But I bonded with the little one ever since she was born. My fondest memory of her young is that I am the one who single handedly (I swear!) taught her her colors as soon as she could learn them, using little books and colored pencils and markers! I was (and obviously still am, heh) so proud of that when she first started to learn and we bonded that way, and I was able to help her.

And ever since, it’s rare that we don’t get along. When I first got here, there was a chance I could’ve screwed up my relationship with her, but I saw that soon enough, and now we’re back on track.

On the 9th, I introduced her to Whose Line Is It Anyway clips on YouTube. None of my younger siblings have ever seen Whose Line, and I think Little Sis and I watched clips for about almost 2hrs! We were laughing so hard, and cracking up over jokes and even inside jokes of our own. It was great fun!

Then last night (cause it’s almost 1am on the 11th), we set up to watch Harry Potter 1, since she’s been wanting to watch them all again. She fell asleep, so I stopped it so we could finish next time.

Just like we share the same allergic reaction to nickel–we share a lot of the same traits and interests, though she is–thank God–very different from me.

I truly love her so much, and she makes my time here much more bearable.