So, as you knw, my great gran died. My PE teacher was being really harsh on me, andstuff. I kinda held my tears in until most of the class had gone back to the changing room.

Anyway, I had to listen to Miss go on about how my gran would have loved me, and stuff. She didn't even know her.

And, when I went back to the changing rooms, I got loads of "are you okays?" from all of the people who don't care whether I live or die. They were just being nosey, and trying to buddy up to me.

When my mum came and picked me up, we totally walked passed the boy-who-loves-me-but-doesn't-know-it-yet-2, and mum drew ATTENTION to us, saying "Hi, ______________!". I looked a total mess in front of him, with my puffy, red eyes and stuff.

And, then, guess what? We walked passed the art rooms, and a class in the X band were totally lining up outside of it. And guess who them people were? Yeah, you guessed it, John, Connor, Chris and Jaye.

Mhhm, no shit.

I've shown weakness infront of my ex, and his idiot friends.

yes. I know, self centered blog, much? But, that, my darlings, is why I got this blog.

So take it or leave it.

xo

In attesa del quarto capitolo della saga ideata nel 1984 da James Cameron, la Fox e la Warner Bros coproducono il serial televisivo Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, la cui prima stagione, costituita da nove folgoranti episodi che hanno registrato uno strepitoso successo, ha dimostrato quanto sia lungi dall’esaurirsi la fascinazione nei confronti degli sviluppi di una storia che conduce inesorabilmente a un apocalittico futuro, in cui gli uomini sono costretti a una disperata guerriglia per non essere completamente assoggettati da macchine incredibilmente evolutesi.
Dei capostipiti cinematografici la serie ideata da John Friedman ripropone scene e situazioni entrate nell’immaginario filmico, pur non mancando le efferate autoriparazioni di cui sono capaci i cyborg, le oniriche visioni apocalittiche, gli scontri tellurici e le profonde scoriazioni epidermiche da cui affiorano gli scintillanti endoscheletri, l’autore concepisce un (iper)testo fedele e coerente rispetto all’originale e al contempo autonomo e peculiare. La storia prende le mosse lì dove si interrompeva il secondo capitolo cameroniano, mentre con un intelligente escamotage narrativio può permettersi di ignorare quanto accaduto nel terzo e ingiustamente sfortunato film di Jonathan Mostow, giustificando quest’ultimo come possibile in un alternativo futuro parallelo. Liquidato così il campo da incongruenze che sarebbero risultate irritanti, Friedman può concentrarsi su ciò che più gli interessa: approfondire il discorso di radicale trasformazione dell’identita socio-politica della donna avviato dal cinema degli anni Ottanta.
Come si evince dal titolo, è attraverso la sensibilità e il punto di vista di Sarah Connor che si decide di filtrare gli accadimenti; una madre battagliera e tormentata, intenta a difendere il figlio John, colui che in futuro guiderà la resistenza contro le forze scatenate dall’intelligenza artificiale Skynet. Una sensibilità e un amore materno che conferiscono all’eroina quella fragilità e quel calore umano che latita del tutto nello stesso personaggio della seconda pellicola, dove era una nerboruta Linda Hamilton a vestire i panni della dinamica e militaresca Sarah. Un personaggio che si inseriva nella scia di figure femminili forti e determinate tracciata dalla Ellen Ripley/Sigourney Weaver di Alien, e giunta fino a oggi sotto forma di action-girls di certo più muliebri ma altrettanto micidiali come l’Alice/Milla Jovovich di Resident Evil.
Anche nell’ottica di tale nucleo speculativo, che trova nella cinematografia horror e fantascientifica degli ultimi decenni un terreno fertile di considerazioni e visualizzazioni, Sarah Connor Chronicles può considerarsi molto più che un semplice spin-off, rappresentando il superamento degli speculari processi di erotizzazione dell’inorganico e androgenizzazione della donna che sottendevano i primi due Terminator; condizioni che si evolvono e fondono nel corpo dalla bellezza tonica ed esuberante di Lena Headey, che dona al personaggio una gamma emotiva che ne accentua l’appeal.
A contendere la scena all’eroina c’è però la più intrigante delle invenzioni di sceneggiatura di questo serial: il nuovo cyborg, denominato Cameron, riprogrammato e spedito indietro nel passato per affiancare e difendere John. Questa volta nulla a che vedere con il monolitico e inossidabile modello T-800, immortalato nelle stolide forme di Arnold Schwarzenegger, né tantomeno con la infida mutevolezza liquida del T-1000. Cameron ha le fattezze di una flessuosa teenager, e la sua femminilità sarà motivo di una serpeggiante gelosia da parte di Sarah, tema che conferisce un corroborante umore a tutti gli episodi. Nei divertenti passaggi in cui le capacità cognitive dell’indistruttibile Cameron si attivano per carpire le movenze e i vezzi delle creature del suo stesso, apparente sesso, trapela spesso l’inquietante assunto dickiano secondo il quale alla reificazione della nostra specie potrebbe corrispondere una graduale e definitiva umanizzazione dei robot.
La novelization per il piccolo schermo della materia alla base della distopica epopea filmica, anziché appiattirne i nevralgici assunti, conferisce loro nuova linfa grazie al ritmo incalzante e alla freschezza linguistica che caratterizza i migliori prodotti destinati al target giovanile, dai quali Sarah Connor Chronicles mutua financo l’empatica attenzione per i turbamenti adolescenziali, che commistionata a un afflato messianico che si accentua di puntata in puntata, dà avvio a un nuovo modo di concepire il genere fantascientifico.

Articolo interamente tratto da Alphabet City (http://www.alphabetcity.it/)

Sito ufficiale: http://www.fox.com/terminator/

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851851/

Sottotitoli a cura di

The Sarah Connor Chronicles "behind the scenes"

In attesa del quarto capitolo della saga ideata nel 1984 da James Cameron, la Fox e la Warner Bros coproducono il serial televisivo Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, la cui prima stagione, costituita da nove folgoranti episodi che hanno registrato uno strepitoso successo, ha dimostrato quanto sia lungi dall’esaurirsi la fascinazione nei confronti degli sviluppi di una storia che conduce inesorabilmente a un apocalittico futuro, in cui gli uomini sono costretti a una disperata guerriglia per non essere completamente assoggettati da macchine incredibilmente evolutesi.
Dei capostipiti cinematografici la serie ideata da John Friedman ripropone scene e situazioni entrate nell’immaginario filmico, pur non mancando le efferate autoriparazioni di cui sono capaci i cyborg, le oniriche visioni apocalittiche, gli scontri tellurici e le profonde scoriazioni epidermiche da cui affiorano gli scintillanti endoscheletri, l’autore concepisce un (iper)testo fedele e coerente rispetto all’originale e al contempo autonomo e peculiare. La storia prende le mosse lì dove si interrompeva il secondo capitolo cameroniano, mentre con un intelligente escamotage narrativio può permettersi di ignorare quanto accaduto nel terzo e ingiustamente sfortunato film di Jonathan Mostow, giustificando quest’ultimo come possibile in un alternativo futuro parallelo. Liquidato così il campo da incongruenze che sarebbero risultate irritanti, Friedman può concentrarsi su ciò che più gli interessa: approfondire il discorso di radicale trasformazione dell’identita socio-politica della donna avviato dal cinema degli anni Ottanta.
Come si evince dal titolo, è attraverso la sensibilità e il punto di vista di Sarah Connor che si decide di filtrare gli accadimenti; una madre battagliera e tormentata, intenta a difendere il figlio John, colui che in futuro guiderà la resistenza contro le forze scatenate dall’intelligenza artificiale Skynet. Una sensibilità e un amore materno che conferiscono all’eroina quella fragilità e quel calore umano che latita del tutto nello stesso personaggio della seconda pellicola, dove era una nerboruta Linda Hamilton a vestire i panni della dinamica e militaresca Sarah. Un personaggio che si inseriva nella scia di figure femminili forti e determinate tracciata dalla Ellen Ripley/Sigourney Weaver di Alien, e giunta fino a oggi sotto forma di action-girls di certo più muliebri ma altrettanto micidiali come l’Alice/Milla Jovovich di Resident Evil.
Anche nell’ottica di tale nucleo speculativo, che trova nella cinematografia horror e fantascientifica degli ultimi decenni un terreno fertile di considerazioni e visualizzazioni, Sarah Connor Chronicles può considerarsi molto più che un semplice spin-off, rappresentando il superamento degli speculari processi di erotizzazione dell’inorganico e androgenizzazione della donna che sottendevano i primi due Terminator; condizioni che si evolvono e fondono nel corpo dalla bellezza tonica ed esuberante di Lena Headey, che dona al personaggio una gamma emotiva che ne accentua l’appeal.
A contendere la scena all’eroina c’è però la più intrigante delle invenzioni di sceneggiatura di questo serial: il nuovo cyborg, denominato Cameron, riprogrammato e spedito indietro nel passato per affiancare e difendere John. Questa volta nulla a che vedere con il monolitico e inossidabile modello T-800, immortalato nelle stolide forme di Arnold Schwarzenegger, né tantomeno con la infida mutevolezza liquida del T-1000. Cameron ha le fattezze di una flessuosa teenager, e la sua femminilità sarà motivo di una serpeggiante gelosia da parte di Sarah, tema che conferisce un corroborante umore a tutti gli episodi. Nei divertenti passaggi in cui le capacità cognitive dell’indistruttibile Cameron si attivano per carpire le movenze e i vezzi delle creature del suo stesso, apparente sesso, trapela spesso l’inquietante assunto dickiano secondo il quale alla reificazione della nostra specie potrebbe corrispondere una graduale e definitiva umanizzazione dei robot.
La novelization per il piccolo schermo della materia alla base della distopica epopea filmica, anziché appiattirne i nevralgici assunti, conferisce loro nuova linfa grazie al ritmo incalzante e alla freschezza linguistica che caratterizza i migliori prodotti destinati al target giovanile, dai quali Sarah Connor Chronicles mutua financo l’empatica attenzione per i turbamenti adolescenziali, che commistionata a un afflato messianico che si accentua di puntata in puntata, dà avvio a un nuovo modo di concepire il genere fantascientifico.

Articolo interamente tratto da Alphabet City (http://www.alphabetcity.it/)

Sito ufficiale: http://www.fox.com/terminator/

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851851/

Sottotitoli a cura di

The Sarah Connor Chronicles "behind the scenes"

Featuring: April Schaack, Brian Drummond, Connor Drummond, David Drummond, Donald Davis, Kristin Schaack, Logan Martin, Phil Snyder, Somer Drummond, Sue Drummond + Tom Sorenson

This last weekend, we've been sharing the tingle!!!  We just completed our video for the Carmex - Share the Tingle contest. The folks at Carmex wanted a unique Carmex story, they wanted to know why people love Carmex and/or how you share the tingle - and all under 3 minutes!  They will be "rewarding the most promising up and coming film-makers with [cash] and other fabulous prizes (i.e. a 5 year supply of Carmex!).  Videos will be judged on creativity (tingliness), humor, overall appeal and popular vote in case of a tie."

We truly made this a family (and a few close friends) affair - parents, cousins, uncles, friends sharing together - mass hysteria!  Our l'il studio was a revolving door bringing our family and friends in and out Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  We had such a great time with everybody.  They all brought something different to the tingle :O)

And I think we can all agree that we learned a few important lessons from this PSA - if you want to kiss a girl, refrain from using excessive tongue + use Carmex!  And, it's completely acceptable to share the tingle with your ex-fiance!

The winning videos will be announced on or around October 13 - we will be sure to update you all here! You can Rate our video entry on YouTube (in case of a tie), and if you'd like to check out the other Carmex contestants, click here.

Trivia: how many times do I use the word Carmex in this entry?

Answer: a lot!

CARMEX!

Bueno, despues de una larga huelga, que dejo a las series y a todos nosotros esperando por estas fechas en donde todas las series iban a regresar... y despues de un verano muy largo en donde lo unico que  tuve interes de ver eran series como Dirty Jobs y Generation Kill que  la tuve que ver despues del verano...  de ahi fue simplemente  evitar todo contacto con la tv ya que la calidad de las series estaba muy por abajo de lo normal, y tampoco iba a sentarse uno enfrente de la tv mexicana, porque tampoco es para tanto...

Ahora vamos a analizar el inicio de puras Series Dramaticas, vamos a darle con una de mis favoritas... Heroes, de ahi Desperate Housewives, Dexter y terminamos con la que pinta mejor: Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Heros S03 - Villans

Tambien vamos a evitar no hablar de lo que ocurre en los primeros 3 capitulos de la serie, porque si no te has dado el tiempo para verla, ¡Que rayos haces aca! ¡Ponte a verla!

Para los que como yo estabamos mordiendonos las uñas para un incio de una nueva temporada de Heroes, en donde hay que decir que la 2da temporada bajo considerablemente su nivel en cuanto a la primera todo gracias a la huelga... ya no esperaba la hora de esta 3ra que desde la escena donde el favorito de todos Gabriel, mejor conocido como Sylar recupera sus poderes nos ponia al tanto de como iba a ser esta nueva temporada...

Todo empezo cuando mi necesidad de ver heroes era tanta, que me tuve que ver el capitulo 00 que simplemente era un 'Countdown' hacia el inicio de la temporada en donde recordaban un poco de las pasadas y daban unos cuantos 'sneak peaks' que despues de todo no eran la gran cosa...

En los primeros 2 capitulos, todo empezo mostrando al todo el mundo quien era el que habia disparado en contra de Nathan Petrelli, para mi sorpresa fue el que menos esperaba, fue su propio hermano ¡Peter! Diran, ¿Como rayos Peter le disparo si estaba a su lado?, bueno, no es en realidad Peter si no un Peter del futuro... entoces en ese primer capitulo nos damos cuenta de la gran falta de iteligencia de hiro nakamura, quien solamente bastaron unos segundos para que perdiera 'su destino'. Ademas claro nos muestra que sucedera si el destino de Hiro no se llega a cumplir con una pequeña mira al futuro del pequeño-gran hiro...

Ademas vemos como Sylar llega hasta una 'indefensa; Clayre y tomas sus poderes haciandolo parcialmente invensible... vemos como el Dr. Suresh logra descubrir el secreto de estas misterioras habilidades, y mas adelante como logra poseer una habilidad que despues le da una terrible roña, lepra o algo por el estilo...

Tambien pudimos observar a un Parkman perdido, con un africano medio extraño y no sabemos que sera con eso, un gran misterio no tan grande con ¿Niki?, ¿Jessica? o sera ¿Tracy?... creo entender un poco el asunto en el 3er episodio y lo que se me viene a la mente son 'twins' o quiza mas de 3... En si, por el momento Heroes esta cubierto y es mejor estar pendientes el lunes para el 4to capitulo...

Desperate Housewives 5

Esta series esta cubierta, no hay mucho que decir, pero si queremos coparar temporadas, la 4ta fue por mucho la mejor de todas con una amplia mejora en la trama y las historias, no es mucho esperar una leve mejora o por lo menos el mismo nivel en esta 5ta temporada...

Todo empieza con un largo brinco 5 años al futuro, al final de la 3ra temporada, cuando vi a Susan con otro hombre me quede con el ojo cuadrado, y hasta ahora veremos ese porque...

Susan: un accidente automovilitico termina con su matrimonio... Mike No esta Muerto, simplemente se seperaron, lo que nos indica que la novela Susan-Mike continuara hasta que regresen y todos felices...

Lynette: una gran cantidad de canas verdes sera lo que veamos esta temporada en cuanto a Lynette y Tom, ya que sus gemelitos maravilla, que se veian tan lindos de peques, ahora son unos pequeños engendros del mal de 15 años apox.

Gaby: lo peor de la serie es que no podemos ver a la gran Eva Longoria y su expectacular figura, ya que ahora tiene 2 hijas, y todas las mujeres de la casa con un problema gran de sobrepeso gracias a un papa muy consentidor, pero bueno, podremos estar seguros de que eso va a cambiar... Esperemos...

Bree: junto con su amiga o rival, aun no estoy muy seguo Katherine Mayfair, estan en un negocio juntas, el problema es que Bree es la jefa o algo asi y Katherine no esta muy contenta, veremos unos cuantos problemitas por ese lado... Ademas que de nos mostraron que Bree ya no tiene a su nuevo bebe, porque la verdadera mama regreso por el... (Todos sabiamos que en algun punto esto iba a suceder)

Edie: aca, creo, esta toda la clave de esta nueva temporada, Edie, que ahora esta casada con un desconosido regresa a Wisteria Lane despues de 5 años de ausencia, el problema no es Edie, si no su esposo, que resulta ser algo asi como un "loco desquiciado" al parecer...

Extras: pues de los hijos de cada quien pues no sabemos mucho excepto de Parker y Preston que son las cabas de Lynette, Andrew lo vimos ayudando a su mama y todo lo contrario estaba Danielle que ahora esta casada con un abogado y se quedo con su bebe. De Julie, Parker no sabemos nada al momento, tampoco de la hermosa Dylan, ni de la irritante Penny...

En si, serie cubierta y no creo que tengamos problemas con esta...

Dexter 3

No estoy hablando del pequeño con el laboratorio, que por cierto cuando estaba niño era una de mis favoritas, estoy hablando del asecino favorito de todos... El gran Dexter

Esta temporada podemos esperar lo mejor, ya que la traba pasada quedo totalemtne olvidada, y esta vez, "Dexter contra sus errores" podemos observar a un Dexter un poco distraido, algo que empezaba a darse en la temporada pasada, esta vez creo que Dexter la va a sentir...

No se sorprendan que mas gente llegue a saber quien en realidad es Dexter asi como en la temporada pasada y quiza esta vez lleguemos a ver a Dexter en la carcel o algo asi que seria lo peor para un final de temporada...

Esta temporada, a demas de distraido, vemos a Dexter un poco mas 'hambriento', y no hablando de sangre, si no preguntenle a Rita... y eso luego le va a traer broncas o felicidad, todo depende... ya que ahora boob... Rita esta Embarazada... esta temporada tienen para mucho mas y esperemos que siga por el mismo camino...

Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles 2

Esta es la serie que pinta mejor en su inicio de temporada con 4 capitulos muy imporantes...

Podemos observar en esta temporada el como John Connor llega a tener aun mas imporancia...

En los primeros capitulos vemos que llegan a una nueva colonia y se estan adaptando, ahora tienen a un 'vecino' policia, sin contra que ahora el que los anda buscando derectamente que es el Terminator Cromartie se esta haciendo mas inteligente a la hora de buscarlos...

Tambien vemos a un robot muy avanzado... recuerdan la técnica de Morphing con el terminator de metal líquido,  (el T-1000, interpretado por Robert Patrick)... bueno, ahora vamos a ver algo muy parecido, en donde hay otro robot en juego... una mujer esta vez... es 'Jefa' de una compañia y aun no tengo claro su funcion en la serie, pero de seguro va a ser importante...

Pero que es lo mejor y lo que mas me llamo la atencion... simplemente el capitulo 4, en donde se analiza el pasado de Cameron, o sera ¿Allison?, bueno, al parecer Cameron, despues de la falla que sufrio en su chip logra recordar su objetivo, y ese es destruir a John Connor, pero no como los otros Terminators, ella lo que creo que busca, simplemente es infiltrarse en el campamento futuro de John y exterminar a la raza humana, o al menos es lo que nos mostraron en el ultimo capitulo, tendremos que continuar con la temporada, porque todo puede pasar...

Terminamos por ahora con estas series de drama, despues seguiremos con la comedia y tendremos por aca series como: Chuck, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, The New Adventures of Old Christine y Two and a Half Men...

Y ya despues las demas que haya que comentar: ER, Flashpoint, Fringe, Grey's Anatomy, Knight Rider, One Tree Hill, Pushing Daisies y claro que no nos podemos olvidar de Smallville...

Connor is such a laid back baby, very calm, a great sleeper, excellent with feeding, very big on the cuddles, and still very quiet, the most noise I've heard from him to date has been a particularly loud squeak when his big brother's foot came into rather sharp contact with his head - in D's defence, this was a complete accident and when he realised he'd hurt the baby I think he was probably the more upset out of the two of them.

Declan is being wonderful, although he's got into the habit of ridiculously early mornings, he's doing great with the baby, will rub his back to help burp him, he'll try and give him the dummy, he gets upset if Connor is distressed and so far has been awesome with him. I'm going to look at some child care places next week to think about putting him in for just one day a week to give him some time away from me and some socialisation with other toddlers. The three weeks I spent away from him made me realise he doesn't need me by his side 24/7, as much as the control freak in me would like that, and I know how much he would benefit from some time spent away from me, playing with other children and developing his social skills further.

I've found the transition from one child to two far easier than going from none to one, my attitude this time round is so much better and I think that's definitely rubbing off on the boys, I'm a calmer and more relaxed Mum. Tomorrow my Mum is going out for the afternoon so it will be my first time left alone with the two of them, I'm actually looking forward to it, I feel confident and oddly relaxed about it. I remember when Dan had to go back to work when Declan was about ten days old and I was completely alone with him for the first time, I was in tears when he left and I think kept them up for most of the morning, the idea of which I just find hilarious now. Whether it's a case of "been there, done that", or the medication I'm now on, who knows, but I do know that I much prefer the person and Mum I am this time around, that is, when I don't feel like a zombie :D

Ideas?

-Dovidin'

The only downside to the house is that we wake up every day with new things to add to the "to do" list.  This weekend we primed and painted the guest bedroom, just have to finish the trim.  We also changed all of the exterior deadbolts and handles (all 5 of them!).  We bought new tile to put down in the foyer to replace the grody linoleum and also discussed laminate for the main living room.

We are still living amid a chaos of boxes.  But they are mostly my crafting things, our book collection and dvd collection.  DH has to build shelves for us, you know, because his list isn't quite long enough : ) He built us a great book shelf while we lived in Guam.  It is Mahogany and is tall and simple.  He basically wrecked it for me and store-bought bookshelves.  Our old house in Saipan had cheap-o shelves in the living room that were the brackets and piece of board kind that we used to put our dvd's on.  Hey, they were there when we moved in and it was a rental, so we weren't going to go about changing things.  They worked for the year that we were there.

One of our neighbors came and introduced herself to me tonight and brought me the prettiest bouquet of daisies, carnations and gerber daisies.  So sweet.  She seems like one of those people that you just want to sit down and have a pot of tea with and get to know better.  But I was a dunce as usual and didn't invite her in.  Social ineptness, check.  I always think of the proper thing to do after the fact.  Sometime I will invite her over though.  In my 13 years of living on my own, I have never had a neighbor come and introduce themselves to me, let alone bring me flowers.  I am lucky, this seems to be a great neighborhood.

Speaking of the neighborhood, we saw a juvenile black bear walking down our street about a block from the house one day.  It was cute and ran right into someone's yard and up to their porch when it realized we were behind it.  The neighbor lady brought it up tonight and asked me if I saw "our yearling" wandering around during the day.  I am not too concerned about the bears right now...they are pretty fat and satisfied and have hibernation on their minds.  But come this spring when they wake up, I will be much more cautious.

And since a blog post isn't much fun without pictures, I will share a cooking adventure that BTH & I had last month in the vacation house.  Anyone that knows me well knows that I adore chocolate and think that chocolate + peanut butter is about as close to heaven on earth as you can get.  Especially when eaten in a nice bath while the baby is sleeping. I have found that my favorite chocolate/peanut butter combo is made by Hershey's.  They come in giant bars and also as filled Kisses.  Reeses is good in a pinch, but the peanut butter isn't nearly as smooth as Hershey's.  For a while there, I was eating a bag of Kisses every other day.

Yeaaaahhhhh...

I decided that I needed to do something drastic to help curb my craving.  So, I set out to make massive peanut butter cups, like the kind you get in the gourmet candy shops.  I figured that I would beat my craving into submission by overdose.  I am so smart.

Basically, I just took cupcake liners (I couldn't find the mini ones) and melted a small amount of milk chocolate chips and spread that into the liner to make the bottom and side shell of the cup.  I stuck that in the freezer for the time being while I made the peanut butter filling.  For the filling, I took peanut butter (we use the kind that you grind at the store.  If your store doesn't have a peanut grinder, you can get a jar of all natural peanut butter), then I mixed in a bit of softened unsalted butter and some powdered sugar.  I didn't measure amounts, I just mixed until it was smooth and tasted good to me.  I then plopped that mix into the shells that I made before and smoothed the top.  Then back in the freezer.  I then melted some more milk chocolate chips and poured that on top of the peanut butter cup, sealing it in.  Then I let them set up in the freezer for a bit. I looked for recipes on different websites but most were pretty strange and included adding wax to the chocolate.  Eww.  I wanted something simple and straightforward.

They were good, even BTH got a few nibbles.  But don't tell DH.  And please don't mention to him that I have more chocolate chips on my mental shopping list for tomorrow.  Because I haven't had a peanut butter cup in at least 10 days.  Guess my plan of conquering my addiction didn't work.

I might be scarce for a bit...our new internet plan has limited internet usage and we need to get a good idea about how much we are online before we have overages.

Peace.

Premiera: 2008
Genul Filmului: Drama / Fantastic / SF / Thriller
Regizor: David Nutter

Distributie: Summer Glau, Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Richard T. Jones

http://www.etitrari.ro/Terminator-The-Sarah-Connor-Chronicles_7636.html

He came off the monitors and out of the nursery yesterday morning and is doing great so I feel a bit better talking about what went on. I basically dilated from 4cm to 9cm in less than an hour and then my body started evicting him without much warning and the slow transition of labour. He went into distress and his heartbeat dropped so there was no slowing me down and waiting for the Doctor, just a rush to get him out asap, Dan played the role of the second midwife and took orders and ran around grabbing things for the MW delivering. Connors head came out without any dramas at all, no tearing at all, but at that point we discovered that the cord was wrapped around his neck, too tight to slip over his head, so that was cut instantly and he made his way into the world, completely limp and blue.

They whisked him straight onto the heat bed whilst three midwives worked on him with oxygen, stimulation and trying everything to get him going. I could just see his little hand, watching them pick it up over and over again only to see it flop down and hearing them talk to him and encourage him to pick up, it's all very surreal. After five minutes they said it had been too long to keep trying there and so called our paediatrician and took him straight down to the special care nursery.

It was four hours sitting around in the birth suite waiting for the epi to wear off and for someone to actually take care of me, I delivered his placenta, my doctor finally arrived and apologised profusely for not making it, I took a shower, had some dinner and was finally allowed to go and see him just before seven. The general consensus was that he was just shell shocked at the delivery, his oxygen levels were great, his blood tests came back clear, and he was breathing fine, he was just suffering from some real stress from coming into the world at that kind of speed, combined with the cord being around his neck really affected him.

He took his first feed from a tube, managed his second on the bottle (thank you to the anonymous mama who donated her milk!) and by his third was on the boob, he's taken a while to get it, but his latch is great, he's just a very lazy feeder, we've been doing better today and he's becoming more efficient, down from over an hour each side to just 45 minutes now.

I'm feeling great, healing well and the worse complaint I have is backache, totally different from D's birth!

Declan isn't overly interested so far, he poked him and announced "baby!" just to clarify incase we weren't sure what I'd birthed, when he was visiting he would just lean over at him and giggle, I'm curious to see how he'll be when we come home on Tuesday. I think he deserves more credit than I'm giving him, I think he'll adjust a lot better than I had previously thought.

It seems I just had a baby! He was taken to special care a few minutes after being born due to some complications (I'll talk about all that in a future post), but he's fine now. He's now breathing on his own, he's been transferred out of the heat crib and into a normal one, the next step is just having him feed without any aid, at the moment he's taking formula through a tube in his nose, I'm going in in a few hours to try and boob him for the first time and hopefully some skin on skin contact will make him slightly more alert and happy, all of his blood tests have come back fine, he was completely limp at birth so I have no idea of APGAR scores or anything - everyone had other things to worry about!

The birth was awesome, I told Dan straight afterwards that if I could have a birth like that every time we could have twenty more kids! It was the polar opposite of Declan's birth, just really wonderful, I could just do without the big scare at the end of it! Dan was great throughout, I think he enjoyed this experience far more than watching me scream and swear for twelve hours!

He doesn't look a great deal like Declan, his colouring is much darker and instead of D's very fine light brown hair he has a head of very dark wavy hair. Haven't seem his eyes yet so I can't report on them, but I assume they'll be the same grey/blue that Dan, Declan and I have. He has ten fingers and ten toes and at the moment I'd say he has his father's nose - one of the traits that De missed out on!

Connor ???? Treacy
3:07pm Friday 19th September
7lb 11oz 56cm

*edit*: Fern = Maths FAIL 3.5kgs = 7.7lbs which is 7lb 11oz not 7lb 7oz. She just wanted to fix the Baby pool so she'd win it.... -- Dan.

He has no middle name yet! I've handed that over to Dan completely as Connor was my pick of the names, there are a few we're throwing around, I've told him to come back in the morning with a definite name for him so I'll update you when that happens.

And just so he isn't left out, this is my blue eyed boy on his last ever day as an only child, if only he knew what was to come!

I'm not sure when I'll be out, it depends on how Connor does with feeding, but I'm hoping to be home with my family by Wednesday at the very latest.

Websites:

Official whYriot Blog

Wikipedia Article

Video:

UCLA vs BYU whYriot kid jumps out of the stands and runs a flag around the stadium?

Some freshmen recount their whYriot adventures.

Rosebud Night?

And yes, it looks like that video at the game was indeed seeded by the whYrioters. Pretty sweet. I might just make this post sticky, and I will of course be updating it as events unfold. Stay tuned for sure.

That's  who calls me Sheep.