It feels a little bit like very time we get over one problem another one surfaces and we're right back at square one with Jude. I'm having a hard time coping with his reflux and how bad it seems to be getting, not better. Now, despite the three or four different meds he's tried, the reflux seems to be geniunely hurting him. When he refluxes his whole body tenses up and if he spits-up he starts to cry or sometimes even scream. I hate seeing my baby in pain.
We've demanded a swallow study from our pediatrician because if he's burning his through it's possible that he's gathering bacteria with the cross-over of milk into his lungs. The last thing I want to happen is for Jude to have compromised lungs with winter approaching so swiftly.

Things haven't exactly been going smoothly with my IUD, either, and I just got it. The first night I had it I felt for the strings (which are really more like thin wires) and they were so far up and close to my cervix that I could barely feel them with the tip of my middle finger. The following night I felt like I was being stabbed much lower down and when I felt for the strings they were only an inch and a half or so away. I don't know if the IUD is slipping out of my uterus or if the strings just unfurled or something and need to be trimmed. I guess I'll find out on Tuesday. If it is coming out I'm not going to try to get another one. It isn't worth the discomfort if my body is just going to expell it.

I changed my tongue ring for the first time today, that was interesting. Getting the new bar in was easier than I thought but trying to screw the ball on was ridiculously hard. Eh, practice will always make perfect. Or at least better.

Today, at the mall (or I guess yesterday, it IS one in the morning) I ran into an ex-friend. I played friendly and we talked for a few moments but it was pretty awkward. I realized that different people always have different views on a situation. She thinks her boyfriend broke up with her because she got her G.E.D., which is partly true, but he broke up with her because she broke an agreement they had by dropping out and moving out of the house where she was staying while he was at bootcamp. She also stole things from the people that had been letting her live with them rent free. I would have broken up wit her too. Still, she told me the Petco she's working at is hiring and really needs people to work. I'll probably apply. Hopefully I'll have a better chance at getting the job if I know an employee, probably not though.

I finally watched Mamma Mia and was rather unimpressed. Most of the actors/actresses had very little vocal talent. Probably better on stage, I'll have to see for myself.

So, I'm really disappointed with the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter novels. They were absolutely fantastic for a while but somewhere since the seventh or eighth book they turned into soft-core porn novels. Great, if that's what you're interested in reading, but I didn't get into the series because I wanted to read about sex. I don't know how, but the author also managed to make the character into a Mary-Sue as the series went on, I'm almost completely sure that she didn't start out that way. As it stands, I'm two books away from what I hope is the end of the series (17 books in) so I can't just stop reading, I want to know how it ends. Stupid, I know, but I'm not a non-commital person.

Special K cereal is actually pretty delicious, at least the flavor I tried (cinnamon pecan). I bought about seven different flavors so I eat breakfast more often and to help me lose some of this baby weight. I've lost twenty pounds since Jude was born, but it was all water weight so it doesn't count. I also bought some sweat-shorts to work out in. I'm taking steps to make a healthier, happier me. When I'm back down at least to my pre-pregnancy weight I'll feel a lot better about myself, but my goal is 120lbs and that's close to fifty pounds away. Only thirty to pre-pregnancy though. I want to have it off by Jude's first birthday, I think nine months is a reasonable goal. After all, it took that long to put it on.