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Friday, July 29, 2005


It's 10:30 on a Friday and Jordan and I are at home. We're just sitting around. We never were really good at bar scenes. I just kind of want to be home and out. It's times like this that hammer home the fact that we don't belong in this town. Friends on the phone can only be or do so much, you know. It would be nice to talk to a face...

Jordan goes back to work tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to a whole day home alone. I'm glad I'm got the new Harry Potter to keep me company, I guess.

My cousin is getting married tomorrow, but I don't really want to go by myself. Especially since I haven't seen her in years. I'm awkward anyway, who needs the discomfort?

Jordan and I seem to have switched emotional roles for the week. I'm the one that's all openly sentimental and he's the one that's distant and hard to read. I don't know what to, to pry at him or to leave him. I don't think he knows what he wants me to do either.

Gods, I'll post something happy one of these days, kids. I promise.

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Thursday, July 28, 2005


   Don't stare at me... The weight kills my back
Welcome to Thursday. I feel weird today. I think I'm finally allowing myself to be sad. I'm not sure. It's very hard to identify. It's not that I think I'm a strong person, or even that I want to put on a strong front. I just don't know what to be.

Being alone kills me. I cry, a lot. Somehow I doesn't happen in front of other people. It's not that I don't want them to see or anything.

At the same time though, things at home normalized really quickly. I'm not sure that was right. Weren't we supposed to come home and sob and be sad with each other. Are we supposed to just move on as quickly as we can or are we supposed to dwell?

One of the worst things for me, more than my inability to identify my own feelings is I can't tell what Jordan need or is dealing with. I think that we both are ignoring ourselves and trying to help the other in a vain attempt to avoid our own grief.

The baby, they named him Lukas, is still in NICU. He'll be there til Sunday. He had Pnemonia. We went to see him last night, and in just those 2 days, his face had already changed.

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Wednesday, July 27, 2005


Good luck to you, and to me.
I signed a lot of papers this morning. We gave away our baby. That was the plan, I just didn't think I'd cry that much.

He's beautiful, you know. I know, everyone says that about their baby. But he is. He has a full head of black hair. He's just a wonder. 20 inches and 7 lbs 1.9 ounces.

We're home alone now, and it's the same and different. Or maybe it should be different. we both are distant and yet trying to be there for eah other. Wondering if the other needs support or space. Jordan's in the shower right now. We don't seem to know how to occupy ourselves, if we need to talk aobut it. Whether now or later. How much activity in the house should I be doing. We did just get home this afternoon after all.

I hope my pictures come out. I hope, well, so many things. I want to know how I feel. Not what to feel. I actually want to identify these feelings. I don't know what I feel. It's done, the whole thing, but... I've cried so much. ANytime I'm alone for more than 10 minutes. company seems to ebb the flow.

I don't regret it, but it was just today... What if I do later? I hope he's happy. I hope Debbie and Wade are wonderful parents.

Good luck, baby.
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Documentation
It's wednesday morning at 12:10 am. Here I am, back home, just Jordan and I. it's the same, but it's different.

My whole family was in Kansas City for that stuff this weekend. At 12:30 am on Sunday, while I was chatting online with me sister, my water broke. It was bright red. It's not supposed to be that color. Becky convinced me to call 911 and go to the hospital immediately instead of waiting for Jordan to get to the house from work. My sister took it upon herself to call my parents and share her freak out, ignoring hte fact that I had told her not to. Molly, you're going to the hospital in an ambulance and they're 4 hours away. I'M CALLING THEM." I assume the caps were for sternness, not shouting.

I arrived at the hospital at 12:57 and was taken directly upstairs to the maternity floor. Being as I had not had any contractions or any pains, I was not too worried about what was going on. Jordan was also relatively calm. We called my mother from the room and filled her in on the situation. "You're not going to get in the car and leave at 2 in the morning, are you?"

"No, we're not going to get in the car at 2 am."

"You're not already on you're way, are you?"

"..."

"For the love of God, I'll see you in a few hours."

They moved me from observation into the labor room around 4:30. It took that long to get ahold of my Dr and get an admit order. X_X

My contractions were already pretty close together at that point, though they were not all that bad. that quickly changes. Bad reading forced them to give me an internal fetal monitor, which confined me to my bed.

This feels so jumbled. I just want to remember.

My parents arrived not long after I was moved. I sent them to my house to sleep as it was almost 5 am and I knew they hadn't and nothing was going to be happening for a while.

I was still having a lot of bleeding and my contractions were getting worse. Since I had arrived at the hospital, everyone had been saying epidural. Drs, nurses, mom... I didn't want one, and I kept saying no. It scared the crap out of me.

When my dr arrived, I was only 4 and a half and my contractions were 3 minutes apart. they were getting more intense too. My pain level was about a 7 when the Dr told me I couldn't have any pain killers due to complications. At that point, being tired and in pain, I agreed to the epidural. It was scary, but so totally worth it. It allowed me a couple of hours of sleep.

My brother and sister arrived with their families and my best friend got there as well. That was neat. I woke up and she was there! The day went forward with various visitors and such things. And then sometime around 7ish I was finally complete and ready to push.

Push, push, push... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Over and over mixed with groans and such things from me and encouragement from everyone else.

Our son was born at 7:56 pm on Sunday July 24. He had a fever. For an hour and a half he was across the room were everyone else could look at him and I was stuck in the bed, getting stitches.

Jordan never left my room. He rarely left my side. I'd be broken if it weren't for him.

I got to hold the baby for a very short time before he was transported to NICU and us to our room, where sleep descended quickly.
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Saturday, July 23, 2005


Alright, I'm an asshole.
I totally forgot Jordan's birthday. It was like 2 weeks ago, and it didn't even occur to me until there was something said last night at dinner. I have forgotten his birthday at least 2 of our 5 years... I'm horrible! He doesn't seem to care, and his parents didn't call him either. I still feel awful, even though he told me not to.

Dinner last night went really well, I think. THe other couple is really great, and are really putting it out there that they want us to be comfortable with everything. It's slightly unnerving. They've decided, it seems, on the name Lucas. That's fine with me, it's not some horrible name or somehting they made up or something that has no business being a name.

I'm so horrible at small talk. You know, at events like those of lst night, you don't want to carry anything to heavy or serious in the conversation, like politics or religion or such things, not with people you don't want to alienate. I'm just no good at light canversation though. I used to have social skills, where did they go?

My cat has fleas. We're taking care of that today...

I don't think it's long until this baby arrives now. I'm noticing signs of the end! He's lowered himself and there's some other stuff too, but it's medical-ish to talk about... Maybe this week, maybe next...but soon.

Is it wrong of me to hope we don't have an ugly baby? I've seen ugly babies... No one will ever convince me that ALL babies are beautiful. I'd like to think that Jordan and I are rather attractive, intelligent poeple, hopefully we can produce offspring of the same...

So, I'm on an atoku site, let's talk about anime... I'm so out of the loop. I did see Steamboy though. (It hits DVD in AMerica on Tuesday) I really enjoyed it. THe animation was neat, but I really enjoyed the story to it as well. I highly recommend checking it out. I am also going to see Howl's Flying Castle this week sometime. Super excited! Big screen, baby. It's in English though. BOO


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Friday, July 22, 2005


Mister, I don't want to kill you and you don't wanna be dead.
If you can name the movie I quoted in my subject line, Kudos to you. It's one of my faves.

Just to say again, if you want my MSN, Yahoo or AIM info, PM me. My AIM has changed.

It's Friday morning and I am just up. I've been having really really weird dreams laterly. Nothing too disturbing, but weird all the same.

God, a real daily post... What's a girl to write about? Well, first I'll tell you the swelling has made my right hand completely numb at the fingertips, so please forgive the typing mistakes. I'm still tired, but I can't sleep anymore. I have all day to be lazy, so what happens? I wake up about 8 am, that's what.

I am now on Maternity leave, thank God. Work was really starting to kill me lately. NOw I don't have to worry about it for several weeks. Hooray!!!!! I am going to be so annoyed though when I go back and nothing is where I lleft it and I will need to clean everything up. But for now I am not going to let that bother me. I'm very Scarlett O'Hara about it. "Oh well, we'll worry about that tomorrow." I warn you, this post may babble on forever, I've been away so long.

Jordan and I have are having dinner with the adoptive parents tonight. It's supposed to be a much more informal meeting than the first one. I think they just want to make us feel at ease that they aren't going to take the baby and run, that they are comfortable with us and having the kid know who we are, even if we arent' playing a role.

THe first meeting was an awkward interview where no one really knew what to do or what to say. Tonight, however, we'll be at a restaurant, I don't know, I'm less nervous about today, since I've met them before, I guess.

I'm really happy with them as the couple though. THey are both well educated, intelligent people. That was really important to us. and they don't care that if genetics play a role the kid will have no athletic ability and will love arts of all kinds. Even when I feel uneasy about the adoption in general, I am not at all uneasy about the couple we picked.

Well, that's the dominating thought today, since the meeting is tonight.What else is going on? I am down to only one cat. Jordan gave Mini-cat away, and I cried for days. She was cute and sweet, but literally shit on everything. Jordan hated her, so Jordan got rid of her bacause he knew, though I said I would, I wouldn't get rid of her myself. So now it is just me and Kyo. he's much more attention hungry now that the girl cat is gone. He's been so affectionate lately. It's sweet.

Jordan is staying here at my house with me now for the next few weeks. It's nice to see him everyday.

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of my Grandfather's passing. The family had a Memorial Mass held and then a dinner. I kind of wish I could have gone, but I'm under travel restriction at this point. I can't go much more than an hour away and KC is about 3. That's where my whole family is this weekend though, so I am hoping to not go into labor while they are there. I'd like to wait until at least Monday...
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Thursday, July 21, 2005


The prodical child
I got internet installed at home today... do your worst. PM me for my MSN Yahoo or AIM info if you dare...

Other than that, I got nuthin right now.

*EDIT* my AIM sn has changed, so if you think you have it, you don't.
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Sunday, July 3, 2005


Need is an over used word.
Should over used be a compound word, or maybe hyphenated? Oh well. This is a phenomenon that I knew of, but working at the store hammers it home sometimes. This guy came in the other day walked over to a shelf and then walked out, when I asked if I could help him, "you ain't got the game I need," was his only response as he shot me a dirty look and walked out. I kind of thought to myself the only games he needs are dental hygein is fun and remedial grammar for adults. whatever game he wanted I don't care about. Then I laugh at my own joke in my head and continue on my merry way. Is this over use of the concept of need an american fluke or is it more widespread than that. Children screaming that they need candy or a toy. You know, people need air, they need food with nutritional value... Who needs an XBOX game? and if you NEED it, are you going to rent it?

This has been a short essay by Molly.

Happy Fourth tomorrow to the Americans. Blow something up,or something, I guess. To those od you who do not live in America, Have a good day too. If you want to blow something up, it is fine with me as long as it is not my property.

August 1st is sneaking up on me, kids. A week ago, it seemed my due date was months off, now I only have a month left, and I feel like there is so much I am supposed to be doing or have done that I don't even know about. We found a really nice couple to adopt. We met them and I think that it is a good match. I am stressing out though. I am scared to death of labor and lately I have been having really bad dreams that there are things wrong with the baby when he's born. It's all just stess and nerves, I know. I'm going crazy though.

Everyone tells me I'm crazy to still be at work. I'm only working til the 18th though. Then about 5 or 6 weeks off. 2 before and 3 or 4 after... I think it may take me awhile to get back into work. I am really scared that although I know that it is the right decision, the adoption will weigh heavy on me afterward, and some emotional healing time will be in order.

As for right now, Jordan will be staying at my house starting next week until afterwards. That doesn't mean I'll see anymore of him, but at least it won't be a 45 minute drive from his house to mine whenever this kid decides to show up. It's about a 15 minute drive to the hospital anyway... I am a huge ball of emotions in turmoil. It's worse than my first trimester. EVERYTHING annoys or upsets me... My cat had kittens about 7 weeks ago. I think I may have mentioned that before. Only 2 of them survived the first night because she sat on the other 3 and smothered them... anyway a few weeks ago, one the the two kittens died kind of suddenly. He had quit eating and even with my efforts, he just got weak and died. That was sad to me, but this week, I was finally going to give the other kitten to the person who wanted it. It was 7 weeks old and seemingly weaned. She was sweet too, I caled her Riddle because her tail was shaped like a question mark and sttod straight up. Anyway, Jordan and I gave away the mother cat as well. The kitten got sick, and after giving away my cat and just being on edge, I couldn't let it be sick, so I took it to the vet, paid 80 bucks just to have it die the next day. OH gods, I cried, and I felt dumb because I never, EVER cry about anything... being pregnant is annoying, it makes you irrational. So in all this turmoil, I tried to call some of my friends to console me. All I got was voicemail. I was like, I haven't talked to you in a while. I'm just having a shitty day. I also hear something to the effect of (insert lame rumor here). I'd like to talk to you, blah blah blah... not a single returned call... I am unimportant and forgettable.

My God, don't I ever have happy news? I did actually talk to a friend of mine for a few minutes the other day. I was glad to find out that the rumor I hear that he had proposed to his horrible girlfriend is false, though they are still together. He was an adopted child, so I was looking for his perspective, and it was a really really great conversation, and eased my mind. Yea, good news....

I saw Land of the Dead the other day. I don't know if I have ever mentioned this, but I am azombie movie geek and a George Romero groupie. The movie was suitably gorey and there was a zombie clown in it... but Zombies lose a lot of their charm if you try and make them think or feel. I love John Liguizamo though... There were more children in that theater though. I was really annoyed. I am 24, and I got carded to see it... and then these people bring in their 5 year olds and don't take them out when they start to cry and scream...I had guilty feeling bringing my fetus. I'll say it again, if you can't afford a babysitter, you can't afford to go to the movies.

Ok, well I have taken up enough time and space with this babble.
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Saturday, May 28, 2005


So this is how liberty dies, to thunderous applause
I have tried to type this damn entry 3 times now... we'll see how this goes. First time it just disappearred and then I got spam bombed... How ridiculous.

Anyway, we'll see how this try goes.

My cat had kittens. There were 5, but now only 2. She is a dumb cat and an awful mother. SHe laid on top of them overnight and smothered 3 of them... Stupid cat.

I find her to be a large source of emotional unrest for me. First she kills her kittens on their first night alive, then yesterday, she was outside and tried to eat a baby bunny. I freed the bunny, only to watch it be catch and carried away by a horrible stray cat that lives on my block. Bunnies, like lambs are too cute to eat. I say this never having tried either to see how tasty they are... I found the whole ordeal upsetting and I cried, Stupid nature, damn hormones.

I'm super stoked about Adult swim's anime line up that's coming up on Saturday nights.

I think I'm going to have a huge baby. And that scares me. I don't want to have a long, painful, huge baby labor. I'm actually really worried about it. I probably shouldn't be. At least not yet.

This might turn into a whine fest at any moment and please feel free to stop reading if it gets annoying. I've felt the need to whine for a bit now, I just don't feel the need to burden someone in person... Just a warning.

I am doing well, actually. Though my nausea has returned in force, as has my fatigue. That's noraml and everything appears to be going just fine though. It's a relief every time to hear that. I've tried to take up crochet to keep my hands busy to try and ward off unnecessary snacking. I'm awful, really, though I've only been at it for a couple of days. My 5 inch squares and 8 inch rounds... not quite the same. Jordan got called in for extra shifts over the Memorial day holiday, so I had nothing to do this weekend. I find myself very bored and lonely a lot of the time. I don't go out and during these last 6 months I have lost contact with the few acquaintances I had in this city because I no longer frequnt bars... I get a little sad sometimes. Lea, I got your letter, and it made me soooo happy.

Jordan and I are having a really hard time finding a family to adopt to. We're really picky, and rightly so, i think. It's just really frustrating and difficult. Also frustrating and difficult, pregnancy side effects... You get really clumsy and forgetful. Both frightful and terrible. I'm so scatterbrained.

As if to prove my point, I am now jumping to Star wars, because I just thought about it. I saw Ep 3 this week. I'm still not sure what I thought. It will require another viewing. I urge you though to ponder the irony in the statement, "Only the Sith think in absolutes." Nice huh.

I have no idea what any of the first part of this entry was about and I am too lazy to look back, not to mention I do not want to notice all my spelling errors.

I forgot my mother's birthday last Sunday... I felt like a tool.

I am reading the Narnia book series again. I have to have read them all about 15 times, and yet I always find them interesting to come back to. I read that there is a video game being constructed around the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, as well as a movie. Not quite sure how I feel about that. If anyone can mess up such a blatant Christian allegory, it's Disney...

So, Viagra is making people go blind... there may be truth to those old wives tales after all...

Jordan didn't think it was funny when in the middle of Episode 3, when Chancellor called a special session of congress, I leaned over and said, "He wants to instate the Nuclear option and elliminate the fillibuster." I know something in there is spelled wrong. Please don't correct me, I don't have the esteem for it.

So, in the physicaly face to face world, I have personally gone to great lengths and a lot of effort to keep my pregnancy a secret. I practically became a hermit and such things. I cut off contact with a lot of people just so I wouldn't have to touch on a subject that now, 7 months later I am still not comfortable with. It turns out all my efforts and depression and loneliness was in vane and everyone under the yellow sun knows. It's not because of this page, none of them know about it. It's just the rumor mill. People I haven't talked to in 5 years know about it. Now, in my mind, if I found out news like that, it may inspire a phone call to say how are you or some such thing... I haven't had one. this leads me to think 2 things. Either

1. People know it's not something I want to talk about, so they just continue to tell everyone else they know and not talk to me.

or

2. I'm an easily ignorable entity that gets nothing better than rumors from people who, while I think they are/were my friends while in reality they don't give a shit about me or my well being.

Both of these are blows to my self esteem. I realize there may also be an infinite number of other possibilities, but I've never been good at optimism on any level...It just compounds my loneliness.

I am going to move to Oregon, i think. Kansas is trying to pass legislation to ticket females who show portions of or all of their panties in public. I think I'll walk around with out pants the day it passes and then sue the state for sexual discrimination. There has never been any discussion of ticketing men, even when their pants are at their knees and you can see all of their shorts. I guess this legislation is grounded in the dea of men being lesser being and unable to control themselves when affronted with the female form or any hint thereof... Why is it that if this were the case it is the woman's fault for the man's failure to be civilized? Why not just expect the man not to be so animalistic? Really, God bless the Bible belt... Ridiculous. I might just go out naked if it passes. Are there no other problems to deal with that we have to focus on issues like these?

Wow, whining and ranting in the same post. I'm really making the rounds. I think that's enough.
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Thursday, May 5, 2005


*PEEKS*
Howdy everybody. I hope that everyone is A-Okay. I'm visiting my parents for Mother's Day. Just a few stats to let you all know what's going on with me.

Due date: August 1
Baby Gender: Male
My gender: female ;)
Weight Gain: 35 lbs

I am so uncomfortable with this extra weight. I move really slow. It's pretty funny to watch. I can't wait to be huge all summer! Oh yeah!!

My roomate graduates this week and is moving out. I'll miss her, but she's off to bigger stuff, good luck to her. I have done nothing for the last month worth reporting, sad to say. I've been a home body and stuff like that. That's fine with me, I don't really move around well enough right now to do anything fun. Jordan and I play quite a bit of Trivial Pursuit and scrabble. Oh yeah, we're party animals! Actually, I bought Midnight Club Dub Edition the other day, and it has filled quite a bit of our time lately.

I'm really tired again. I'm in bed be 11 at night. Sleep eludes me though. I went to a college baseball game last night. It was tons of fun, but it got really cold. I had to leave after the seventh. Baseball isn't the same without the beer.

I miss being online a lot, I think that when i take my baby leave, I will get service so I have something to do when I'm home all the time bored. Then there would be Molly overkill. x_x

Well, tell me what's up with you guys, because I live vicariously though other people.
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