HAPPY 2005!!

Michelle my belle - how are you doing sweetie?
FYI - will you drink beer out of teapots with me one day? That sounds like fun...
Okay, um, where to start?
Well, in two weeks, I'm taking on another little munchkin. I think I've already told you that - Ethan, and he just turned a year old. He's Mia & Anna's cousin, and one of the cutest babies in the entire world!! Anyways this means that I'll be transporting four kids around, Mia, Anna, Ethan, and Asia (the girl we carpool with), and with all of these stupid parental worries about children riding in the front seats of vehicles I won't be able to fit them all in my car. So I get to, drumroll please, drive a minivan!!! WOW! Can't you picture it?
Guess what I got for Christmas? A sewing machine! I am very excited... I don't really know if I could become any MORE suzy homemakerish... (does that make any sense?)
Mia got another instrument of torture for Christmas - the Ashlee Simpson CD, add that to Hilary Duff, Pink and Lindsay Lohan - and I think it might cause me to actually go insane...
Anna got a pair of hooker boots. Yeah, thought that would make you laugh. I'm serious, a little pair of black leather boots that go up to her knees and have heels... what else would I call them?
I'm having stomach/intestine problems (long story - sorry if this is really disgusting, but it'll help with the rest of the story - I have blood in my bowel movements) and have been to the doctor three times in two months about it. First he thought it was food poisoning and gave me antibiotics, that didn't help, then he thought it was an internal hemmorhoid and gave me suppositories (not fun) that didn't help. In the mean time I've taken a sample in, but it tested negative for all infections, etc. So now I'm scheduled for a barium enema (also not fun) but the wait for that is a month or two, and I'm also scheduled to see a gastrointestinal specialist, but the soonest appt is July 26, my doctor explained what tests the specialist would do and how to prepare for them and then calmly told me that he would then be able to pinpoint exactly where the bleeding is coming from... What? So in the meantime, I'm just supposed to keep bleeding? This didn't seem to concern him too much. But I'm not too excited about it! Argh... In the meantime I have to have blood tests to make sure my red blood cell count isn't too low. This just doesn't make any sense to me. But on the other hand, I'm trying to tell myself to suck it up princess - at least I have healthcare and the ability to see a specialist when I need to. Not much else I can do about it, just wait...
Oh, munchkin's up. I've got more to tell you, but I'll write again later alligator