One week

Well, little Jackson is a bit over a week old now and I have learned a few things.

I have learned that to sustain levels of sleeplessness I haven't seen since "back in the day", is a lot harder when I don't have cigarettes, drugs, and insomnia to help me out.

I have learned that extreme emotions are meant to be experienced separately. Seeing Jack for the first time and being extremely happy, while a team of doctors were digging through Jenn's abdomen and there is blood everywhere, and being extremely worried, was a situation I just couldn't wrap my head around.

I have learned that my suspicions that the female of the species is the stronger of the two are most deffinately true. That is one tough chick. Hours of go nowhere labor, a c-section requireing the doc to make the hole bigger half way through to accomodated Jackson's 14" head, staples, stiches, no sleep, pain killers and feeding the little dude every 2 hours! I am not that strong.

I have learned that most of my past or current problems don't mean dick.

I have learned that you can keep your life, personality and habbits when you have kids. You just have to tweak things a bit.

I have aslo learned that I have a lot of friends that genuinely care about me and wish me well.
And the same to all of you.

J3

JWP!!

JWP IS HERE!
Jackson Wesley Powers was born on Sunday.That pic is of me completely terrified because Jenn was about to have a C-section. Everything is fine, and Jenn is doing wonderfully!Jackson is huge. He was 9lbs, 11oz and almost 22 inches long.Born July 17 ay 10:54 pmJenn is hurty, but good. Jackson eats like The Nothing from Neverending Story so as to maintain his fat rolls.Have a look at him in the pictures area. He's a cutie.

More later

arrrgh! It's touchin' me balls!

We just had a giant fuck-up with our house. There is this crazy Inspection Co. called Knox who screwed both us and Jen's Parents over the last few weeks.
They aren't licensed, and they are running a sale right now, so a bunch of people are using them. The In-laws had them out to their house a few weeks ago, and they wrote this scathing report that made it seem as though the house was about to fall over, and they lost the deal because of that. Just our luck, we get the same company and the same inspector. He wrote an equally scathing report on our house. Stupid shit that makes no difference. Our house passed FHA two years ago, and all we have done nothing but make improvements and remodel since then, and now it doesn't pass. WTF? FHA is the most strict loan you can get. He put things in there like: Evidence of wallpaper and wood paneling, which is gennerally used to cover structural defects. huh? I have no wall paper or paneling. The brand new water heater i had professionally installed a month ago was "sub-standard" and our breaker box was not 10 feet above the ground, and therefore a fire hazard. TEN FEET? That list just went on and on like that. I guess all 60 year old houses are supposed to be up to current standards.
So the buyer backed out.
The loan on our new house in Stillwater, (awesome) was contigent on our other house being sold, so we're probably gonna lose that deal too.

adultism

Boy howdy!This week, my house sold. Super cool. We're gonna make a lot of money off it. It was only on the market for six days. This meant that we had to suddenly find a new house in Stillwater quickly. We thought our house was going to take longer to sell, and that we had more time to look, but we didn't. So this weekend, we went up there and looked all day, and the last one we saw was awesome, so we're gonna buy it. It is more expensive that I'd hoped, but really cool, and if we use some of the money we make off our house to pay off our consolidation loan, and the credit cards, and put the rest down on the new house, we should be just fine. We don't have a car payment anymore, so that helps too. We also have a baby comin'. Any day now. So we have to have a baby, do all the inspector's repairs, which may include getting a new roof, and they aint cheap. we have to close on two houses and move from one to the other all in one day. Our savings are shot, because I got a new car that could actually handle a 1 hour commute. Plus we need earnest money and all tha shit for the new homw loan. Stressful!!

Other than that, all is well. Jenn is doing wonderfully, and as the baby is ginormous, we're gonna see on wednesday weather or not we can induce. I think he'll be okay with it as we are full term, and if Jackson gert any bigger, she won't be ablr to push him out.My new job still awesome. I stil cannot believe I landed such a cool job. I make enough money, that I am less weirded out about the higher mortgage looming ahead of me. A good score.Congrats to Craig Conner on the birth of Daniel.

Happy Motoring!

-JP