Okay, what do I say now? So much has been happening that it’s been crazy. I can barely remember what has been going on. The week in Brockville was pretty good, though I wasn’t sure about going in the first place, because my brother’s baby was supposed to be due on the 25th of September. Heh. I was leaving for Brockville on the 25th, so oops. *smile* John and my mom drove me up to Brockville, and then I just mellowed out with Steve as it was Sunday after all. The week was not bad, Steve went to work part time the entire week with some days off, so it was interesting...summers are usually his work’s slow time so he was able to take off more days when I was down. I didn’t ask him to, but oh well.
It was fun...we ended up going out to different parks and playing around with my camera and mellowed out here and there. I watched a movie with him, the new Transformers: Dark of the Moon movie, and it was good. We went out checking out Brockville, and unfortunately the weather was generally pretty bad so we stayed in a bit. :/ Oh well. It was relaxing for me and him too.
And luckily Jase and Kelly hadn’t given birth yet, when I came back on October 2nd...so it was still a waiting game then. Later they said that they were going to have the pregnancy induced, so that they could have the baby out quicker. So oh well, fun for sure. Heh. On October 5th, they went in to have Kelly induced, so they were hoping the baby would be born that day, but it didn’t happen, they ended up sitting around for a long time in the hospital waiting, and they finally induced Kelly at around 5 in the afternoon, and she gave birth to their son at 12:19am...so the baby was born on the 6th of October, of course. I didn’t know what they were planning on naming the baby, until after he was born, and his name is Zaiden. Kelly and Jase wanted his name to be different so to offset the plain last name of Smith. Of course my brother wanted to put my dad’s name in his name, which is typical, so he ended up being Zaiden Christopher Smith...so that’s not a surprise. He looked cute, and the day the baby was born on, my mom decided to go and visit them both in the hospital, and help them out if possible, and my mom, John and I went to the hospital to meet the baby. *L* We stayed for around a hour or so...then we all went back home so to let Kelly and Jase rest, as they barely had really slept since the birth...so not fun. The nurses were constantly walking in the room and making Kelly feed the baby all the time, so yeah, they were always waking up. *laughs* Oh well.
When Zaiden was born he kind of looked more like Jase, but it was hard to tell because he had just been born then. *L* I just looked at a new picture of Zaiden today and he actually looks more like Kelly, but as the baby grows he’ll start looking like either one of them as he grows. Heh. It was also crazy, because everyone that I know knows that I don’t want babies, just because I don’t want to give birth...period. And they all were telling me, I know you don’t like babies, but you have to hold your nephew, after all he’s your nephew! I was like, okay, I get that, no worries...if I have to hold him I will, it’s not like I say no to that sort of thing... *L* It was a bit funny that friends were telling me that. Oh well.
The next day after the baby was born, Jase and Kelly then went back home with the baby, and my mom wanted to go over to Belleville so to help them rest up and she’d look after the baby, but they had already rested up better the night before in the hospital so they were okay then. We just hung out there, and talked, as the baby was sleeping most of the afternoon, of course. My mom made everybody dinner so everyone was having some and just mellowing out, and after dinner my mom and I left, as they both seemed fine with not resting up and preparing for the baby and so on. It was nice enough.
The coming weekend was Thanksgiving weekend, and Jase and Kelly were coming by for Thanksgiving dinner at my mom’s place with the baby, and my mom’s boyfriend’s brother and his girlfriend was coming over, along with his two sons, Josh and Jordy, and Steve came with me. Steve had come over for the weekend and came on Sunday and we went out in the countryside, and then went down a trail and started taking pictures of odd stuff and the nature. Steve had asked me to film him filming with my Canon EOS, and I wasn’t sure because I hadn’t actually filmed in a long time. *laughs* I ended up doing it wrong, anyway. Because I was handling a camera, I wasn’t thinking of it as a video camera and keeping it horizontal, and I got a lot of vertical videos. Oops. Haha...It’s been a long time since I have filmed anybody...haha. Oh, yeah – it’s also hilarious, because when my mom and John went grocery shopping for Thanksgiving stuff on Sunday afternoon, she said that she saw my ex-husband walking around the grocery store with his new girlfriend and was telling me about them, and loved it when Eric had walked by my mom and John and holding up a flower pot over his face to hide himself as he walked by them...my mom had already seen him earlier anyway. Haha. It was hilarious and a little immature of him to do that...but I’m glad, and so is my mom, that he has finally found someone else to be with. *smile* It was a bit of a relief for me personally so it was funny actually.
The Thanksgiving dinner on Monday was pretty good, lots of food, and we all chowed down in the living room and was talking to everybody and just hung out. It was funny because at one point in the afternoon, my eyes started swelling up from allergies. I was wearing contacts so I was like, what the hell are my eyes swelling up from? I usually get allergies from outside, but there was nothing like that in my mom’s living room, no outdoor dander in the house so I didn’t know what it was from...one of the materials that was lying around in the basement? I have no idea...but I ended up getting swollen eyes, but was fine otherwise. It was really strange!
Steve ended up going back home that evening as he had to work the next day, so fun for him. But it was a good weekend just hanging out and enjoying ourselves for Thanksgiving. *smile* Everyone was pretty goofy out there so it was nice. The week was quiet, finally, and my birthday came about...I was another year older, so it was like, whatever. *smile* My mom offered to take me out for dinner for my birthday and I could ask Steve to join us as well, so I asked him and he then came by on Saturday afternoon and then we just relaxed and hung out till dinner, and then we went to River Mill restaurant with my mom and John, and ate...the food there was surprisingly good. We all enjoyed it. Steve had ordered buffalo and he said that the other place he had it was better, but it was not too bad there. *smile* I have no idea, I don’t eat buffalo anyway. Hehe...it was nice, and then we headed back home and Steve and I decided to put in a movie and mellow out...we put in Shutter Island, and that was surprisingly good. My mom had told me to try watching it and I kept putting it off and off and off...so I watched it with Steve, and it was pretty good. Very weird, but good. Hehe...my birthday presents were already purchased before the date anyway – my mom paid for half of the camera I had bought already, and Steve had gotten me the camera bag, so it was all nice. *laughs* Just my camera to play around with. Hehe.
It was a nice little while. *smile* Though on Thanksgiving weekend I felt like I had a kidney infection so on the Saturday before Thanksgiving my mom took me to a clinic to get some antibiotics and it checked, so I got antibiotics...when it ended I felt like I still had an infection so I found that to be weird, so I thought I should call my doctor to get it checked again, then I realized I had a kidney stone moving through again as the pain became more specific in my kidney, which was so painful...so I was determined to catch it and bring it to the doctor...I caught one for the very first time and was a bit weirded out by how it looked, and then put it away so I could bring it to the doctor when I could get an appointment set up. Just yesterday I went to the doctor and brought the stone in, he told me that when I went to the clinic and had my pee tested I didn’t have an infection at all as was reported from the medical clinic that I went to for when I thought I had a kidney infection, and I told him I figured that, with the stone moving through...just felt like a crazy infection. :/ Oh well. I just couldn’t tell it was moving because well, I wasn’t drinking enough water. Now I am and I can feel little ones move through all the time...it’s not always comfortable, and other ones are more minor. Blah!
I ended up getting a few things done and over with, with the doctor there, and got a flu shot, so yay, that was so exciting. I hate getting a flu shot, my arm always ends up hurting too much...haha. But it wasn’t too bad this time so it was all good...just had a bit of a tender spot where the needle went in, that’s all. *smile*
Last weekend was a nice quiet weekend for me. I didn’t do much that weekend so it was all good. The coming Sunday I’ll be heading out to Brockville for a week and mellowing out there, so it’ll be good. *smile* I went to the Pacemaker Clinic today and for some strange reason my doctor came up and talked to me about my tiredness and the such like, and said that he would raise my pacemaker’s limits on how high and low it can go and raise the range up higher so that I wasn’t always so sluggish and tired. I was surprised that he said that, I didn’t really know that it was affecting how I was tired all the time and the such like...but we’ll see in the long run...just today when he raised the range up higher, I actually woke up. I was tired in the morning, and then when he raised it up, I wasn’t tired anymore, I was actually awake. At first it was uncomfortable for me, because I wasn’t used to the speed it was going at. *smile* Let’s see if I improve in my energy and what I do, but hopefully my mind will get better and not as sluggish, and me being more active. It feels as if it will, but all wait and see in the long term. It was just raised today, so all wait and see of course. Hehe...it’s weird because he said that the range it was in, how low it was set in was actually not good for my heart. What? You tell me that and it kind of freaks me out. My heart rate is actually very low compared to normal people... *L*
So it was interesting today finding it out. I’ll have to wait and see how my energy is eventually. Hehe.
