This entry is starring Evie

SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP SNAP.

I waited to write until our little sunshine came out of the baby baker, aka womb of my sister in law, and here is my NIECE!!! YAAYYAYA!

Baby photobomb time!

Welcome to the world Evie! 

PROUD GRANDPARENTS!

XCU of darling Evie

Looking precious and just witttttttllle

Love this picture, this pose she would search for boob.

Poppa and Evie.

Now I'm sure I'll be able to get pics of the proud parents Daley and Alicia later when they aren't so tired. Plus next time I'll get to see her she will be bigger.. her eyes will open up like a baby kitten.

I don't know if I've ever loved someone so much, she just makes my life happy, I am proud to be her auntie!

So yes my parents and I hung around all weekend dropping in between naps and feedings and passing her around, which she dealt really well with, every once in a while you think you see a smile or a stink eye but it's gas and the brightness of the world. 

I can't wait to play with her and watch her grow.

I haven't forgotten the second new baby, my cousin Francesca and her husband Ryan's first, 

FINN!

He's soooo cute, and loves to be in a diaper and nothing else.

Look at those blue eyes! They match his fluffy diaper!

So life has changed a lot and I haven't been able to blog about it all, May 1st I got laid off from my job after 4 years, won't lie it felt like a bit of a slap in the face... but I am not gonna get all bitter about it, it is what it is and if that was the direction the corporation wanted to take there is little I can do but shake hands and get the fuck outta there. 

That's that! One paragraph because my severance sucked!

So here I am, what am I doing now?

School like crazy, prepping for a final, grooming dogs with my bestie than the restie John, and just trying to be cooooool.

Here's a quick photo montage of things that have been going on...

Enjoying our yard

Getting dirty at my bestie than the restie's shop grooming doggies a couple days a week!

This guy was a talker

Having rock n' roll evenings where we sing what we can and some of what we can't

More yard enjoyment

Ended up on a mural somehow with a couple queers I know...

Took this picture drunkenly deciding to attempt quit number 3000, hopefully it will keep me reminded that smoking is gross..

At the same time I am posing for pics trying to glamorize smoking..

Geez.

Well, that was a nutshell alright, in my fathers health news, he is awaiting his surgery still, gotta get him a bed... that will be June 16th I believe.. I could be wrong I'll have to double check.. but in a couple weeks he has to have a biopsy of the thyroid as well...

At this point it's the super annoying waiting room time as I think of it...

When you are waiting for a huge surgery its like, grab a ticket, some snacks and a good book or 10, some valium, a picnic basket, and several hobbies because you are going to be waiting.

It pisses me off but I also know this is just how the system works.

He is looking good and staying active, which will make a big difference.

I am of course going to fighting in my dads corner all the way through.

I am in that end stage of my recovery where I am actually active again, feel stronger and less exhausted, not so delicate and beaten up, and trying to shed a few of the gazillion pounds I gained since interferon ended, where anything or anyone could walk past me but I was focused on finding a Wendy's or a donair. I went well overboard on my eating, and decided for my health and of course my risk of diabetes has changed me around these last 7 weeks, and I feel a thousand times better sweating my ass off, reminding myself that sweat is fat crying, and punishing myself sometimes, but other days are easier, staying away from garbage take out and cooking most of the week, doing shit like burpees and yoga and pretending I'm running from angry zombies, that helps. Getting ready to rock out some skanky summer duds.

BOOM!

Well, dats dat for tonight, I am on a more normal schedule after a couple of nights in a beautiful hotel bed after literally having about 3 completely sleepness nights, not in a row but close, that was fucked up and made me vampiric, but I did a quick switch around after one particularly sleepless night and tiresome day, and I am back to the land of the living. Gotta get up early and be a productive human, maybe do some yoga... who the fuck am I?

Love ya shiny babies and pals. XOX

-E.