It's Jamie O'Neal Day

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"Somebody's Hero"

She's never pulled anyone from a burning building
She's never rocked Central Park to a half a million fans, screaming out her name
She's never hit a shot to win the game
She's never left her footprints on the moon
She's never made a solo hot air balloon ride, around the world,
No, she's just your everyday average girl (but)

She's somebody's hero
A hero to her baby with a skinned up knee
A little kiss is all she needs
The keeper of the cheerios
The voice that brings Snow White to life
Bedtime stories every night
And that smile lets her know
She's somebody's hero

She didn't get a check every week like a nine-to fiver
But she's been a waiter, and a cook and a taxi driver
For twenty years, there at home, until the day her girl was grown
Giving all her love to her was her life's ambition
But now her baby's movin' on, and she'll soon be missin' her
But not today, those are tears of joy runnin' down her face

She's somebody's hero
A hero to her daughter in her wedding dress
She gave her wings to leave the nest
It hurts to let her baby go down the aisle she walks right by
Looks back into her mother's eyes
And that smile lets her know
She's somebody's hero

Thirty years have flown right past
Her daughters' starin' at all the photographs
Of her mother, and she wishes she could be like that
Oh, but she already is

She's somebody's hero
A hero to her mother in a rockin' chair
She runs a brush through her silver hair
The envy of the nursing home
She drops by every afternoon
Feeds her mama with a spoon
And that smile lets her know
Her mother's smile lets her know
She's somebody's hero

All right. I officially love Jamie O'Neal. When I stopped working, it wasn't the easiest decision... But, it is a decision I don't regret. Sometime after making the decision to do so until my health got better, I realized what it meant. Since I couldn't work anymore, I had the option of taking care of Mariana. Now some people might think that being a full time stay at home mom isn't a huge deal or whatever. But I remember what it was like to have my mom at home with us and how much more I appreciate it now that I'm grown. Well, if there is ever a song to put that into words, this one does. When I told Phil that I didn't mind being at home so much, I told him that I was remembering how much my mother was there for me. I said, and I'll repeat it verbatim, "If I can be half of what my mother was for me to Mariana, then it'll be worth every second."

I think Jamie did an awesome job putting the feeling to words.

My Life

I listen to every type of music you can imagine. I love music. There is a song for ever mood and for every feeling. I was listening to Jamie O'neal this morning. Jamie O'neal is a country music singer. She sings a couple of songs that I like. Well, I have Rhapsody so I downloaded her cd (legally, I pay a subscription and all of that) to hear the rest of her songs. She sings a song called On My Way to You. The refrain:

On my way to you
There were things I didn't understand
I didn't see the plan
But now I do
There were no mistakes and no bad moves
No, I wouldn't change a thing that I went through
On my way to you


My husband and I were just talking about that on Wednesday evening. Our lives weren't always easy and we've made some mistake, I made most of them. But, I told him that I wouldn't change a second of my life. I wouldn't give up anything, I wouldn't even go back in time to correct any of the mistakes I've made. Every step of my life has guided me to this moment. This moment I am a mother to a beautiful and brilliant little girl and wife to an amazing man. Why change anything that led me to this moment? I'm in paradise.

Today

Today I didn't do my customary morning things. I typically get up, get Phil's clothes together, iron them, make his lunch, and feed Mariana a jar of baby food. Today, I told Phil what he was wearing from the bed, let him take care of his clothes, made sure he had cash for lunch, and made Mariana a bottle. I'm just so tired. I did a lot of work in our room yesterday, even down to rearranging furniture. I started at 8-9 in the morning and finished at around 4 in the afternoon. I know that doesn't sound like much, just a typical 9 to 5 type job, but we're talking moving, cleaning, organizing, and taking care of Mariana... I was tired when I got done. But today, today I'm exhausted. I feel like my body is punishing me. I'm supposed to be taking it kind of easy anyway until my cardiologist figures out how to make my symptoms less problematic. High levels of activity just throw my body off completely.

I started my second medication today... We'll see how that goes. I'm actually getting a little angry I think. But, I'm probably only angry because I'm too tired to remember how I shouldn't be angry. It's just that it occurred to me that I'm taking 9 pills a day now. The doctor has me swallowing 9 pills just to see if it makes a difference. Then if it doesn't and the second meds side effects don't bother me too much, I'm supposed to start taking that twice a day in a week from now. That'll be 10 pills. Who the hell wants to take 10 pills a day. Who the hell can remember to take 10 pills a day. I'm going to need some kind of reminder that'll go off every 4 hours, "Cass, it's time to take your medicine." I guess it is helping... It's hard to tell. So anyway, today is my bitch about how tired I am and how I feel like crap. Hopefully, by the end of the day, or even by noon, I'll feel better, the medicine will have kicked in and take some of this overwhelming tiredness away.

World of Warcraft

This only works for you out there who like MMORPGs.

I play World of Warcraft with my husband, and a bunch of other people. Well really my whole family... My husband, my mother, my father, my mother-in-law, my father-in-law, my brother, my brothers wife, my sister, my sister-in-law, my sister-in-law's husband, my other sister-in-law, my uncle, my aunt, my cousin, Phil's cousin, a friend and her two kids, and another friend. We're on Bloodhoof, guild Master's of the Universe for any WOWers out there. Oh and we're Horde.

So I'm playing on Sunday night... And I run LBRS with some friends from Ohio, who are eerily like my husband and myself, and I'm a level 60 Hunter... Well Voone dropped my BEASTSTALKER'S GLOVES!!!! So, I now have 6 pieces of my BS set as of Sunday night. This is majorly exciting to me... All I needed was my Cap and my Tunic. Well, last night I decide to run an UBRS... My father was getting a raid together in Orgrimmar so I joined up with him and 13 other people. So, we're in UBRS and there is one other hunter in the group and both of us need our tunic... We get through the whole instance and it's starting to look like there's no way we make it. Then my husband gets invited after he finishes ST because we lost a shammy... Zultan, my husband Phil, comes in at just the right time because we had just wiped and there are no re-incarnates left with our other shammy and the soulstone isn't ready yet. So he rezzes a shammy and the shammy rezzes the rest of us. We make it through the raid and kill Drakk... What drops? Beaststalker's Tunic. That's right people... I compete with one other hunter for the Tunic and she rolls a 9. Boom, I win. One more set piece and I'm 8/8.

Updates

OK... First lets start with Sunday. May I say GO BUCS? I think I may. The game did get a bit rocky toward the end there, but seriously, we actually seem to have a running game. I believe hell has frozen over. I cannot believe we are 3 and 0. I am a definite Buccaneers fan and have been since well before we won the Super Bowl, but I am honest enough to say that I truly expected us to SUCK this year. It feels so good to be proved wrong about some things. I'm so excited to see what happens with the rest of the season...

Next, this week has been fairly uneventful, but it is only Tuesday. Phil is doing great with work. We had a fabulous weekend. There is nothing like spending an entire weekend just relaxing and loving your husband... Heaven. We played, watched tv, relaxed, and just enjoyed each other and the baby.

Ok, now I have a diverse set of interests. I truly do like many different things. My most recent hobby is scrapbooking. Its actually really fun to do and I get to put all of our memories down in an artistic way. I am currently scrapbooking our honeymoon and then I'm going to move onto the Mariana Scrapbook.