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[Jul. 16th, 2009|11:35 pm] |
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Sigh. Baby tunics came in the mail - don't fit at all. Seller is going to make new ones, which is good, but I will have to meet up with her at Pennsic to get them, which is less than ideal. |
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[Jun. 22nd, 2009|12:27 pm] |
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The short version is that our USAir flight home was full of epic fail. We ended up having to take our 5 month old home via the last Fung-Wah bus of the night. We didn't get in until 3 a.m. and I have no brain right now. More details later, when I can think again. |
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[Jun. 18th, 2009|09:42 am] |
Nathan's developed a new skill. If we're sleeping in the bed, I'm sleeping on my back, and he wakes up hungry, he'll just reach up and grab the breast and drag it sideways into his mouth. Ouch!!! Waking up because someone is trying to yank your breast into your underarm is not ok.
Went to Pride last Saturday. It was largely fun, except for a couple of bitchy queens making comments about "all the babies" and how "it's just not the same". Suck it bitches! It's not just us supporters who are having babies, you know. Of course, for every gay guy who didn't like kids there was one who was like "BAAABYYY!!!" Nathan had a fantastic time. In fact, on Sunday, he was really put out that we just stayed home and didn't take him anywhere fun where there would be confetti and people to admire him.
This weekend starts the begining of our massive summer travel schedule. We leave tomorrow morning for Baltimore, to go to DaveDave's wedding and let my brother see his nephew for the first time. It's good on the one hand - two birds and one stone and all that. Apparently, however, I misheard Dave and Philly is actually the closest airport, so we have a 3 hour drive to get to the wedding. Suck. Oh, well.
The following week is Known World Dance and Darius and Lynette's wedding. The weekend after that is Great Northeastern War. The weekend following GNE is empty, but the weekend after that we're going to see Rob's folks on the Cape. The week following the Cape trip is Pennsic, of course....
Good god, where does the time go?
Also, is anyone going to Pennsic who is willing to rent cargo space in their truck/van? Could anyone pick up/drop off Nathan and I at the Pittsburgh airport? |
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[Jun. 11th, 2009|09:24 am] |
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OH MY GOD!!! No wonder Allston is overrun with rats! It's fucking impossible to get any information out of City Inspectional Services!!! ARGHHH! |
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[May. 21st, 2009|02:38 pm] |
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I'm suddenly not feeling well - scratchy throat, slight dizziness. Probably the ham pizza I had for lunch gave me swine flu.
(Best quote on the subject: "You can only get swine flu from pork if it's fresh enough to sneeze on you.")
Still, wish it was time to go home already.... |
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[May. 21st, 2009|09:29 am] |
Many thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) amerigance and jjaynes for one of the most truly enjoyable evenings out I've had in some time. amerigance gave us tickets to see Pirates and jjaynes took the tiny terror so that we might go.
Now, as a caveat, I generally hate Gilbert and Sullivan plays. I know, I am a bad geek. I'd really only planned to go because Jack enjoys a nice G&S from time to time.
This production, though, was utterly charming. They edited out all the crappy parts and replaced them with Awesome (Calypso policemen! Dance-off!). There were so many winks to the audience that I just loved - the pirate ship is introduced as the "HMS Teabagger". (Which was a one-off joke that was promptly never mentioned again.) The general was awesome and clearly loving the part. Mabel was decidedly steampunk. The Pirate King was clearly doing his best Johnny Depp impression, and I have to say, it was adorable. The sets were pretty clever - it took me until halfway through to notice that the basic framework stayed largely the same, they just added or subtracted embellishments and backdrops to change scene.
We're still quoing the funny bits around the house this morning:
"Where is Frederick?"
"I have a piece of bad news for you..."
"We're not getting any weapons, are we?"
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"I have two pieces of bad news for you..."
So anyway, if you can at all make time or scratch for an evening out, you should definitely see this play! |
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[May. 15th, 2009|10:58 am] |
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Life is getting back to an even keel. robdamnit, recently laid off, is minding the bun for cash while we sort out a more permanent nanny. When I came home yesterday, they'd been doing boy-things all day: watching the History channel and listening to Cyndi lauper. Work has settled back to its usual level of anarchy, and the only thing currently pissing me off is that for some reason Yahoo won't let me compose email right now. I have to use the "reply" feature, then clear all the fields to send a new email. Programmed by monkeys, I tell you. Still worried about devoken, but there's not much to do at this point but wait and see how it settles out. Send her good karma if you have extra lying about. |
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[May. 13th, 2009|12:19 pm] |
AAARGH!
Work explode.
That is all. |
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[May. 12th, 2009|06:50 pm] |
It's been a hell of a day. devoken suffered a seizure this morning and had to go to the hospital. Fortunately, robdamnit was here when it happened and called the paramedics. Nathan was napping in his crib and missed the whole thing. She's better now, but I'm obvously not comfortable continuing our nanny arrangement. I feel pretty crappy about that, since Nathan is really fond of her and she's been at it for less than two weeks, but she was very understanding about everything. I'm worried about her, but hopefully she'll be ok once she gets a full night's sleep and sees her regular doctor.
My mother-in-law was up today to visit the baby, and succeeded in getting him worked up to such a state that he barfed all over everything when he wasn't crying. More than usual.
My work is exploding - the one good thing is that they are having me back as a full-time employee rather than as a 1099.
I would like life to slow down a little, so I can catch up, ok universe? |
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[May. 6th, 2009|03:54 pm] |
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I need a general contractor.
We have money. We have an attic. We have an architect's plan to expand the attic into three bedrooms and a small bath. We currently have 3 adults and a baby living in a two bedroom apartment (which is admittedly large).
Chris Smith did a great renovation for a friend. He can do the attic renovation for the money we can spend, but isn't available for another year. The general contractor we've used before has gotten way more expensive, and I am pissed at him for not giving us enough information in the last renovation. (We apparently now have to tear down either the wall in Rob's bedroom or the wall in the bathroom because when we pulled the plumbing stack into the attic neither the general contractor nor the plumber asked us if we wanted the vent stack pulled up while we were in the neighborhood.) While I will badly miss Mark the carpenter, I really do not want to deal with Peter. We looked at a third guy, but he wants even more money than Peter, and has shifty eyes besides. I call him the sketchy guy. He's not welcome in my house.
So, anyone know a contractor who is conscientious and reasonably priced?
[edited for clarity regarding the targets of my ire] |
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[May. 6th, 2009|10:23 am] |
Made it through the weekend. Still alive. Go me!
So, Nathan was baptised on Sunday. It was a scene. Every other time he's been to church he's been a little angel. It figures that the one time he's center-stage, he screams his fool head off and barfs everywhere. The priest didn't seem to mind much, though, and at least we weren't the couple who showed up 20 minutes late. I'm pretty sure what happened was that he overheated. The church was really warm and I hadn't realized that the baptismal suit that my mother saved from my brother's christening was all polyester and did not breathe worth a damn. Oh well, such is life.
Good news - Nanny Search '09 is over! I can't tell you how psyched I am that we finally found someone, and the fact that the someone is devoken is the cherry on top. I am convinced she is made of magic. My son took most of his naps yesterday in his crib, which left me in awe of her mad skillz. Hell, I can't get him to sleep in there more than half of the time.
Ok, should go back to working... |
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[Apr. 29th, 2009|02:26 pm] |
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So, today while I was home for lunch, Nathan managed to poo all over me. (He did it to Rob a couple of days ago.) Some of the problem is that the elastic on about half of his diapers is kind of shot. Yesterday, I bought new elastic with which to repair them. However, having a baby makes finding time for sewing repairs complicated, and thus he's still wearing the ones with loose elastic. Fortunately, my mother is coming this weekend for his Baptism and has volunteered to help me fix the rest. Yay for grandmas!!! |
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[Apr. 26th, 2009|08:44 am] |
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So, we're looking for a nanny. We like the nanny we got from the service and would be willing to buy out her contract, but she's looking for health insurance, and we can't afford that on top of the rate we are paying her. So, we start the search again.
I f'ing hate interviewing people. I always really want to like them, and then something comes up or it doesn't work out or whatever and I almost feel like it's my fault that person doesn't fit my needs. Two cases in point - first is a grad student majoring in early education, but she looks at baby like he's made of glass and further looks repulsed upon having "spitty baby" explained. No go. The second is a non-citizen, and isn't sure whether she has the employment eligibility papers we would need. (We're doing this above-board.) I hope she does have them because she had incredible references, and Nathan liked her right away - he settled after a very grouchy afternoon.
So, I just went and edited my care.com posting to include a note that we are doing this above board and we'll need to see some paperwork. I also added that we aren't able to pay much more than $12 an hour. (We might be able to throw in health care at that rate. It would eat most of my salary, though.) I feel faintly bad that we can't afford better. On the other hand, I worked for two years at $11 an hour, and I have a college degree. God forbid we actually needed most of my salary!
Sigh... I'm starting to rant and make no sense, so I will wind this up. I just wish we were done already. |
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[Apr. 21st, 2009|01:17 pm] |
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So I'll admit to enjoying "What Not to Wear". I put it on in the background, because Nathan likes the noise during his naps. The downside is he's out cold on my lap and I don't want to wake him by getting up to get the remote. TLC has switched over to "A Baby Story" - possibly the worst programming ever created. Now I am stuck listening to some nut try to convince his nuttier wife that she needs to go through with the tubal ligation they planned once the baby is out. She's on her fourth baby, she admits to being overwhelmed by the child care needs of the existing three, and yet she's still crying about how not being able to make yet more babies would make her feel "useless" and "like [her] life is over".
What the hell is wrong with people?? |
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| not a good start to the day... |
[Apr. 17th, 2009|09:51 am] |
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City inspectional services stopped me on my way out the door to talk about our rat problem. |
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[Apr. 14th, 2009|10:23 am] |
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My sad little bun is talking in his sleep. And by talking, I mean crying. In between the snores...
needs more snuggles... |
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[Apr. 13th, 2009|10:38 am] |
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I'm avoiding work right now, though I need to get busy shortly. It's hard to leave the baby home with someone else, but Jaclyn (the nanny we got from the service) has been great, and Nathan appears quite fond of her. It's going so well, actually, that we are considering contracting her for a full-time, permanent position, even though it means we'd have to go through the service and there is a not-inconsiderable upcharge.
We had a nice Easter - we took Nathan to Mass, and then had the usual suspects over for a gluttonous brunch of epic proportions:
bacon, sausage, dates wrapped in bacon, deviled eggs, frittata, shrimp cocktail, waffles, strawberries, cinnamon buns, pavlovas and mimosas
After brunch, we basically just sat around and talked nonsense. That's my favorite kind of weekend... |
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[Apr. 7th, 2009|06:34 pm] |
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I groused at Jack to get an hour off of parent duty - I worked a full 7 hours today from home while minding the baby. I heard screaming coming from the bedroom for twenty minutes, and then it died away. I went in just now to get my slippers - Jack is out cold and snuggled up to a tiny person in a fuzzy bear suit. Too cute. If it wouldn't wake the both of them, I'd take a picture... |
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[Apr. 5th, 2009|04:44 am] |
Very tired but can't sleep. In lieu of well thought out commentary, I give you pictures....
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