The year in review. Good-bye 2009 and hello 2010.

Lets start with the beginning of the year. Trying to conceive. The Pooh Bear and I had been trying to get pregnant for a while. We'd had a couple of blow out fights and he told me to take another pregnancy test. I did and found out in early March that I was pregnant with my amazing bundle of joy. They ran tests and found the blood tests showed yes, I was definitely pregnant, but they couldn't find the baby in the ultrasound. So they thought it was ectopic and sent me in for a Laperoscopy because the baby was in the tubes and could be fatal depending on how far along the pregnancy was. To the best of their knowledge based on my last period and the level of hormones in my blood it was getting close to critical time. I go in for surgery and wake up to my husband telling me that I am still pregnant.

From there on out until mid August when I started having real problems with my blood pressure and if I continued as was it would cause me early labor. This continued into September and by September 19th I was in the hospital because of my blood pressure and I was borderline gestational diabetic and I was preaclamptic. I was in the hospital on a Saturday then by the next Friday, September 25th, by 3pm my daughter was born. It was emergency surgery and she was not supposed to have been born until November 30th. She was 10 weeks early. It was such a hard time going back and forth to the NICU but she finally came home on 11/12. It was amazing to have her home, at 4lb 7oz. It's been a hellova last few months! But my little girl is here! She's alive! And more than that, she's home! She's crashed out now, with a bottle in her mouth bless her heart.

It didn't stop there though. On October 30th I went in for emergency surgery to remove my gall bladder. I went in at 7:30 that morning and woke up once more to my husband telling me that while the surgery had gone well and they'd removed my gall bladder, a few stones had gone down the tract into my liver and they had to go back in later on that day and remove the stones from my liver. It's been a crazy year. But good in the end. So I guess though it's been as trying as it has been, good-bye '09, hello '10! Nice to see ya and hope you're as good as '09 ended!!!

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD PEOPLE!???

I watched something on the news today that really just...PISSED ME OFF!!! Ok this terrorist attack attempt on Christmas Day, and that's what it is...A TERRORIST ATTEMPT...not a Man Made Disaster (We'll get on that one in a minute)...they are in a debate on whether or not they should put him (the terrorist) directly in Gitmo or if we should let him have rights and so on and so forth. Ok everyone is all worried about his "Constitutional Rights". HE IS A TERRORIST!!! THE CONSTITUTION IS FOR PEOPLE BORN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! HE DOES NOT HAVE RIGHTS IN THIS COUNTRY! HE IS A TERRORIST!!! WHY ARE WE GOING TO GIVE HIM RIGHTS AS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN? ALRIGHT PEOPLE, SINCE NO ONE SEEMS TO UNDERSTAND THIS, LETS REFER TO SOMETHING HERE SHALL WE? The Geneva Convention which states the rules for prisoners of war. It goes on to say that we are only held by this treaty of prisoner treatment IF the opposing country follows the same rules. Guess what people, THEY AREN'T FOLLOWING THE RULES!!!

THE POLITICIANS OF THIS COUNTRY HAVE GOT TO STOP MAKING LIGHT OF WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON AND STOP BEING SO DAMNED WORRIED ABOUT POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!! THESE ARE TERRORIST ATTACKS PEOPLE!!! THEY ARE NOT MAN MADE DISASTERS!!! THEY ARE ATTACKS AGAINST US ON OUR SOIL!!! AND TO QUOTE SOMEONE ON THE O'REILLY FACTOR. I'M NOT SURE WHICH DEBATER I WAS BUT ONE OF THEM MADE THE STATEMENT AND I QUOTE: "OBAMA SAYING THIS IS AN ISOLATED INCIDENT IS LIKE TIGER WOODS SAYING RACHEL UCHITEL IS AN ISOLATED INCIDENT!" WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! ITS TIME TO START SEEING THIS FOR WHAT IT IS. WE ARE IN WAR PEOPLE! AND IT'S GOING TO BE GOING FOR A WHILE. YOU CAN SAY WHAT YOU WANT, TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR YOU TO SLEEP AT NIGHT BUT THE TRUTH IS STILL THE TRUTH AND THAT IS THIS IS WAR, THESE MEN ARE TERRORISTS AND IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE UNTIL WE DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! STICKING YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND IS NOT GOING TO MAKE IT GO AWAY! WAKE UP AND REALIZE IT FOR WHAT IT IS AND NOTHING LESS!

Really...a whole new area?

SO I'm watching The Weather Channel of all places to hear this, this morning. Now first off I can't STAND that NBC decided to put Al Roker on TWC in the mornings and try to turn it into another morning show! People didn't watch TWC to find out what the latest stock quotes were or to find out what was going on in Washington D.C. I mean COME ON! Sorry, a bit of a touchy subject with me. Anyway, getting back to point here...Apparently some city in Mexico became the first city to recognize gay marriage. My problem wasn't with the recognition, lord knows that's not even something I think about. But what did bother me was the fact that instead of calling it Mexico, we've become such a politically correct society that they said, and I quote, "the first city in Latin America." WHAT!? Did I just hear that? So no longer is it Central or South America, it's all Latin America. Wonder what the folks south of the border would think of that. WHAT IN THE HELL HAPPENED TO US?

Case in point. My best friend has a co-worker that she is close with. She is from Mexico City. And you know, when you talk to her about her origins, she talks about Mexico proudly! She embraces where she's from and with grace! Now, if she can embrace where she's from, just like EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US SHOULD, then why is it such a bad thing to say she's Mexican? I mean look at me. I live in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! When I go to Mexico or Canada, I don't call myself a Northern Statesman (Or even Northern Stateswoman for that matter.) Hell no! I'm a freakin American and DAMN PROUD OF IT! Further more to embrace my own heritage, I'm also part Native American, part English and part Black Spaniard! PROUDLY! So what now!? What do you call me? A Heinz 57? A mutt? Oh no, that's not politically correct. I'm a Conglomerated American. WHATEVER! WAKE UP PEOPLE! GET A FREAKIN CLUE!