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Mar. 21st, 2007 @ 11:51 am For those of you wondering. . .
Look at how much my son has grown! Hes so Irish! how did that happen?!













(homg, look how much it looks like its dad -_-' Is this even my baby? lol)
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Nov. 15th, 2006 @ 09:16 am just for fun

I think this may be our christmas card this year. what you think, 'merry christmas from the mitchells?'



or maybe this one


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Nov. 15th, 2006 @ 09:08 am The Post weve ALL been waiting for
Current Mood: ecstatic
Current Music: this time imperfect - AFI
Guess whos finally home!!








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Oct. 2nd, 2006 @ 02:15 pm pics
ok heres the link to my photobucket account, in which youll find photos of Teaghan as well as Thessaly, Aerin, and Dustin. let me know if it doesnt work. I'll figure out how to fix that.

http://s105.photobucket.com/albums/m211/brandeelion/

take a look suckerrrrs!!!!!
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Sep. 28th, 2006 @ 10:03 pm newest update
Current Mood: tired
ok guys so teaghan weighs a whopping 3 lbs 10.8 oz. and will probably be bigger by tonights weigh in.

Hes eating 2 or three feedings a day from either the breast or the bottle, which isnt GREAT but it is a great sign.

Theyve done his second cerebral scan so well see by monday at the latest if the IVH (brain bleed) and Hydrocephalus is going to resolve on its own or if hell need a shunt, which is scary because its brain surgery but not unthinkable, and at least hell be alive right? Im betting on self resolving due to the fact that he acts completely normal. None of the traditional warning signs are present and there seems to be a complete lack of immediacy on the side of the neonatologists, which bodes well.

anyway hes getting big, he smiles all the time and STILL never cries. I mean he CAN cry but mostly he doesnt unless someones messing with him and pissing him off. and then as soon as he thinks they got the message he goes back to talking again.

Ive never seen a baby like him before. Hes really remarkable. He was born an adult. Im not kidding. his eyes are some of the most potent Ive ever seen and Im not the only one to have remarked on it. nurses, family, even daniel who does not make statements like that lightly has noticed the way his eyes grab you and will not let go. That along with other things convince me more and more every day that he is not your average baby. and Im positive he understands everything I say to him, sometimes he even tries to talk back. I get the feeling sometimes that hes not at all used to being not in control of his body, because losing control of it frustrates him.

Anyway Im sure youre all tired of hearing about my son, so Ill close this post now. just thought Id update. Comment if you want to :)
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Sep. 24th, 2006 @ 08:30 am here he is guys
Current Location: the kill - 30 seconds to mars
Current Mood: energetic
this is teaghan, 3lbs 6oz, getting big and smiling about it :) theres more in my userpics but I dont know if you can view them. he almost looks like a real baby dont he??
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Sep. 20th, 2006 @ 07:55 pm latest knews on teaghan
Current Mood: tired
Hes out of the isolet and in an open crib. YAY! almost a normal baby!

Theyve taken off all the tubes including the feeding tube which he still needs but only has in while hes eating and then its whisked away as soon as hes done.

Hes back up to three pounds, and will probably have exceeded his birth weight by tonight.

we brought the kids up to meet him, Aerin and Thessaly are enthralled, but Dustin is COMPLETELY jealous. go figure, he IS two.

Theyll probably start letting him nipple his feedings pretty soon which means he just has to stop having his little bradys and hell be home.

I guess hes had enough of that place because hes just vaulting through milestones like theyre speedbumps rather than hurdles. Hes really amazing.

He smiles and laughs (which he shouldnt be able to do) he turns and lifts his head and even tries to sit up! (which he ALSO shouldnt be able to do) and he never cries. Hes prettymuch the best baby ever. I cant wait until he comes home. Were going to try to borrow someones digital camera so we can get some pics of him on line now that he resembles a very small version of a normal baby. Keep your eyes peeled for those if youre interested.

Talk to you all soon.
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Sep. 13th, 2006 @ 05:01 pm Teaghans ups and downs
Current Mood: distressed
Im sure youre probably all really tired of hearing about my son by now but I thought Id go ahead and post.

for the most part Teag is doing very well, progressing at and in some cases faster than the normal rate for his age. Im very proud of him, Daniel and I are both very proud of him. They turned his oxygen flow down today so it wont be long at all before he goes to a low flow canulae and then nothing at all.

I mentioned theyre adding a fortifier to his milk, which they will start today, so hopefully he'll start getting fat soon, right now hes so skinny, it makes me laugh a little. We keep trying to get him to eat doritoes and play x-box as every fat person I know got fat that way but so far hes having none of it. come to think of it. . . hes not acting like much of a boy at all. . . hmmmmm *thinks about it*

anyway they did the brain ultrasound and we got the results. he has mild cerebral hemmhoraging and hydro cephylis (sp?) which are basically big fancy doctor terms for bleeding
AND spinal fluid pooling in his brain. they dont think surgery is necessary at this particular juncture however due to the spinal fluid theyre concerned enough to have ordered a follow up sono in 2 weeks. the doctor assures me that at the current status the worst case scenario is a stint in a blocked artery or vein. I personally am more than a little worried although I havent entered into panic or hysterics yet. considering the news of blood in my babies brain I think Im handling myself remarkably well. but Im terrified. I watch enough medical shows to know that bleeding and spinal fluid in the brain is NEVER a good sign.

Thats the update guys, Ill post more when I know more.
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Sep. 12th, 2006 @ 10:42 pm new update
Current Mood: hopeful
well teaghan gets a little better every day, we both go see him, I stay while daniels at work and then when he gets off we go home.

Hes much more lucid today and even started gaining a little weight which is great news. theyre probably going to start adding a fortifier to my breast milk which theyre currently feeding him through a tube in his throat, so that hell gain faster.

Hes holding his body temp so well that they turned down the temp on his isolet 3 times today, I suspect from experience that hell be out of that baby baker within the next couple of days and the next step is an open crib. Hooray!

he still has issues forgetting to breathe, but theyre becoming noticably less and shorter lasting. hopefully hell stop that soon.

We talked to his nurse tonight and she is of the impression (as am I) that as long as teag continues on his current rate of adjustment hell be out of there and home between two weeks and a month. which is wonderful considering he was 10 weeks early and they normaly tell you to count on premies being in the hospital until at least their original due date.

anyway thats all I have for now, Ill post again tomorrow with any new info. Love you guys.
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Sep. 11th, 2006 @ 10:26 pm Little update on Teaghan.
hi guys, I know Daniel has been pretty much keeping you posted on all the chaos that is going on over here but I just got back from visiting him and I thought Id update the information.

Teaghan is doing great, his breathing gets better every day and even his Arythmia in his heart has seemed to eased up. not to say that its entirely gone but it doesnt seem to be giving him any trouble and the Doctors are pretty convinced that hell outgrow it.

Hes holding his temperature well, and the few episodes that he has of the Apnea-Bradycardia (which means he forgets to breath long enough to drop his heart rate) are mostly linked to the fact that he has a touch of reflux and gets alot of crap in his nose and throat, which make it hard for him to take full deep breaths.

Hes growing fast and looks more like a little person every day, although he doesnt really look like a baby, more like an old skinny italian man, complete with the hairy shoulders and back. Daniel keeps saying we need to get him a wife beater.

Hes been off his C-pap for a couple of days now, and is doing well, the doctors are even talking about switching him to a low flow nasal canulae (hes on high flow right now but maintaining very well at the lowest setting) he hasnt needed his IV since pretty much day 1, so thats out, and theyre talking about taking out the feeding tube sometime next week to let me try to nurse. Hes in his isolet, but barely needs it, he needs to have the temperature on the box set to 28 degrees celsius to be considered ok to be out of it and currently his temperature is set to 31.4 and decreasing. So hes doing well with that.

The only two hurdles we really have left to cross are his bradys have to stop, but theyve put him on caffine for that. And he needs to get a little fatter. weve been trying to get him to eat some donuts and play alot of xbox cause thats how all the fat people I know got fat, but so far he doesnt seem too interested. I wonder why that is. . . .

anyway thanks for all your support guys, we love you very much and well send pictures of little bear as soon as I get my hands on someones digital camera. sooo, anyone with a digital camera. . . .


love you guys, Ill update you soon.
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Feb. 7th, 2006 @ 08:27 am oh GOD the pain!!!!
Current Mood: sick
Current Music: open your eyes - tonic
I apparently have caught [info]coldecho's cold. either that or I have the ebola virus. one of the two,

Either way I was up a good majority of the night last night thinking that my lungs were going to liberate themselves from the cage of my ribs in a bloddy mess all over my bed. Im sure [info]arcanazero wouldve been thrilled.

actually, [info]arcanazero was so good about it. he just sat next to me rubbing my back in an attempt to relax my body enough to stop the shuddering racking spasms that seem to be my new method of communication. I love him *little hearts everywhere*

It hurts so bad. Its dry and hard and it feels like my insides are trying to rip themselves apart. I think they need some relationship counseling.

oh god Im siiiiiiiiick

*dies*
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Feb. 3rd, 2006 @ 08:04 am friends?? ha!
Current Mood: alone
Current Music: mad world - gary jules
well I hate people.
ok Im sorry, its not that I really hate people, its just that when given the opportunity everyone I know would happily forget my name or phone number.
This is not a newcomplaint with me. In fact this is something that has been building and building. You see you make friends, and then you give them things. You know, you help them when theyre down, you offer your home as a refuge to them, you (if youre like me at least) would give them the shirt off of your back. This makes for a good and lasting relationship. That is, until you are the one who needs something. Then your left with all the stuff they ate gone, all the money you lent out spent and not returned, the things you let them use broken or lost and where are they? "Im sorry I hope you dont get kicked out" "Im sure youll get another microphone for your video game" "oh Brandi, BTW I drank your last pepsi. see ya!"
You work all week long so you can have a little time on your weekend to do the things you want to. you have a choice, spend it with your kids or go to the mountain with your 'friends'. real friends would say "oh, shit you dont make that decision, go get your kids and well all go" my 'friends'? oooh no. my friends say "oh youre getting your kids, real shame you dont want to ditch them to go to the mountain and get really stoned. shame you want to be a mom, instead we'll call your other friend and take him and his dumb baby boyfriend. see u tomorrow maybe."
So now I have the relization that I have no friends, and as if to make matters worse, there are enemies all around me and I have no allies in this war. I hate people.
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Feb. 1st, 2006 @ 08:13 am maybe I overreacted....
Current Mood: cheerful
but as any of you who know me moderately well can attest to, I do that often.

It seems as though the job crisis has blown over, apparently the woman that employed me and then later decided that she absolutely had to do a background check and stress me out totally, wasnt going to inform me that she had the results of it

I went for about three days assuming that no news is good news, before I broke down and emailed her. It wasnt so much that I might lose the job. It really began to come down to a "shit! please tell me what Im going to be doing so that I can plan accordingly!!!"

well she finally emailed me back, telling me that Yes, shed seen the checks on my background... but that was all she said.

so I replied with "...ok? so am I fired?"

to which she responded "nope. youre doing great!"

so I guess Im still employed. maybe that means I can go back to FL sometime soon. Hellooo savings account!
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Jan. 30th, 2006 @ 12:49 pm life's little tests
Current Mood: irritated
Current Music: none except for the sweet sweet music in my head
OMG I hate life right now,

I mean its not enough that I had to be on the verge of homless-hitting-up-friends-for-couch-space, but then I get a job where they drop the bomb on me after two weeks that theyre going to run a background check on us.

not that Im a criminal or anything....

I DO however have some really bad math skills, and apparently a complete lack of understanding of what these "banks" consider "ethical business practices". its because of these two downfalls to my character that I now I have "check fraud" on my record.

It says theirs 14 counts

It DOESNT say that each one of those checks was written over the course of a month, or that they were all for between 20 and 50 dollars for necessities (like diapers and what not) or that it was my first checking account and I completely oblivious, didnt know how to use a check registar. noooo that would make my life tooooo easy. So instead I look like a criminal and WORSE like a theif and a liar when in reality I didnt know!

to make matters worse I work in billing, which as Im sure any of you who have ever worked billing know that theyre a little more uptight than most people. So, on top of EVERYTHING else, I now have to worry that at any given time I could be called out of the office to answer to THA MAN about my crimes. (which of course means Ill be escourted out of the building by security which is always a pride building excercise)

so I will quote the brilliant centauri Londo by ending this with "Everytime I find a MOMENT of happiness, the universe conspires to do something NASTY to me"

P.S. Banks are stoopid
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Jan. 25th, 2006 @ 01:02 pm still not pregnant *sigh*
Current Mood: annoyed
ok so [info]arcanazero and I have been trying to concieve for like a million months now, I think Ive been off my BC for about 7 months. and still, everytime I think that I might finally be done with this having kids thing (as this will be both his and my last child) the stoopid test will inevitably come back negative!!!

I mean for christ sake, what kind of primitive sacrifices to what rudementary god do I have to perform?! as far as I know Im doing the only required step! arrrgh!!!
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Jan. 15th, 2006 @ 08:01 pm Hooray! I have a job!
Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: death cab for cutie - where the soul meets body
Well, As the title of this entry suggests, at least for the time being, my financial troubles have been beaten into submission.
Good thing too, I was really starting to believe that there were larger forces at work hindering us from getting a job so that we would move to FL. I really believed that, maybe a little still do.

Either way well be here for a bit longer, at the very least until income taxes, maybe longer than that if I get accepted to school, which would be awesome because I would be going to school to be a nurse and would have a job guaranteed anywhere in the world when I graduate! woot!

[info]arcanazero and I will be ok for a bit longer at least and thats one good thing. =) hope all you crazy peeps out there are doing good.
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Dec. 31st, 2005 @ 01:32 pm HAPPY NEW YEAR MY FELLOW DRUNKS!!!
Current Mood: excited
Current Music: halo 2 soundtrack I guess....
well here we are again at the dawn of another new year. A time when we celebrate experimenting with various chemicals and mixes of illegal substances to test the very limits of the human body! Much tribute shall be paid to the Party gods as we once again revel in the joy that alcohol brings us!

People from different backgrouds and with different tales, people who would never otherwise commune with one another will gather en masse tonight as the sun sets on another chapter of their pasts and soon will rise on a new page, full of potential. They will all laugh in their drunken debauchery and kiss people they ordinarily would not speak to and pretend this year will be any different that the last however many. Hooray!!!!!!
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Dec. 29th, 2005 @ 04:17 pm is this getting a bit familiar?
Current Mood: indifferent
Current Music: jeremy - pearl jam (eddie you were so cute!)
dear me, this has been the craziest day.

Interview after interview, BTW whats with this hair drug screen thing? I mean what business is it of any employer not directly affiliated with the government if I freaking smoked a joint 7 years ago? isn't that covered under the privacy act?! I mean seriously. I cant think of a single person that I know that would PASS that kind of drug analysis... well... maybe [info]drakinfar *shrug*

anyway that was my rant about THAT particular nothing.

I've learned something through this experience, I am impervious to the stresses of everyday life. example: I quit my job, but I have complete confidence in my ability to get another job and therefore am not worried when a week later I still am unemployed. This is a Direct opposite to my lord husband's reactions to such stresses. Suffice it to say that when I say that [info]arcanazero NEEDS a job I mean just that. Normally I would only mean that he is without one and would like that rectified, this time I mean that ooooh, boy gets TESTY without his income! =)

oh well, all will resolve itself in time. I just wish I was less sober. *sigh* you cant win them all... still... if any of my friends would like to contribute to the brandi needs alcohol fund, your charity would be completely appreciated =)

love and hugs and such.
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Dec. 28th, 2005 @ 03:12 pm adventures in joblessness
Current Mood: stressed
is joblessness a word? spell check says yes!

oh well. you know, just when I think I'm on the upside of my financial troubles, that things may be starting to look brighter and whatnot, I loose my job.

that's not all...

I quit my job, and while there was a very good reason for that, it doesn't make the decision to quit any more intelligent or thought out. And, it certainly doesn't help my financial situation.

that's not all...

christmas just came and went as I'm sure most of you noticed (merry christmas if I haven't hit you already) and I had no money because I quit my job. Sooo my kids got christmas thanks to other peoples charity (and gift-cards). Isn't that lovely?

That's not all...

christmas means something more than having to bankrupt yourself with presents that will be broken, mangled, or lost within a month. It also emulates the spirit of new years which while encompassing drinking vast amounts of alcohol, which I am rather fond of, it also encompasses that ever present, crouching beast... RENT *cue dramatic 'duh duh duhhhhh' noise* and my latest scheme for that? hope my lagging ass landlady stays true to form in regards to tha lagging of the ass, and that Ill be gainfully employed by the time she remembers she has a check to cash. otherwise... someone got a couch or something????

well I think that may finally be all.

sorry to have bored you all to death, hopefully at least one of you is still alive to respond. =) <~~ big cheesy Brandi grin
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Dec. 18th, 2005 @ 05:58 pm floridaaaaaa
Current Mood: pensive
Current Music: I dont need no steenking moosic
ok so Ive been here for two days now and Ive noticed two very distinct things that make this place different from home:

1) humididty. in arizona you have heat.. hot hot heat, but it lessens in, say, the shade or indoors. In arizona you see, the heat seems to come primarily from this phenomenon called "the sun" where as in Florida it seems to come from some phenomenon called "an oven" (which is to say the sky)so the shade, the indoors, these things mean nothing to the florida heat. these things are weak before its baking, sweltering might.

2) OMG people in florida cannot drive! I mean seriously Ive never seen so many people try to run you off the road or run into the back of your car.. and then they honk at YOU. its like WTF?! thats your lane over there and this is my lane over here... ever heard of a blinker asshole?!

*clears her throat* ok soooo. that being said it is amazingly beautiful here, particularly in the places where the water is (and thats prettymuch everywhere), the beaches are gorgeous, the water is warm and relatively clear, the shopping is AWESOME and the food is pretty damn good. (dont bother trying the mexican though, trust me on this)

I may try to talk daniel into moving here, but seriously all you florida peeps that read or browse my LJ, seriously you guys Tucson has so much better cost of living, I mean really 600 dollars a month for a single family 2 bedroom house with a sizable yard! think about that. 1000 dollars a month will get like the moderate of nicest houses availiable in the town, I mean youll be RICH! *whispers* and there are no hatians.

well all those things considered were staying a couple of extra days, and then were going home. at least for the time being. you guys come visit, theres no excuse and now most of you Ive seen your faces *looks menacing*

hopefully Ill see you all before I leave. if not though we'll always have lj =)

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