January 27, 2006

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right?

You must really love me then, hey? If you are wondering where I've been, well, I got a new iPod nano and I have been busy getting music that I want for it, and you wouldn't think that would be so complicated, but I don't have any music on my computer, so I have to rip or download everything, ugh! I am nothing if not obsessive, so pretty much everything else has gone to shit. Hehe.

Liam has learned the cutest thing. He claps. This all started because we were at my Weight Watchers meeting and at the beginning the leader gives out awards for people who have achieved certain milestones, and everyone claps for them. Everytime the group would clap, Liam would look all worried and look around trying to figure out where the sound was coming from so I decided to teach him about clapping. So now everytime he is happy about something I say Yaaaaaayyyyyy! and clap, encouraging him to join me. And we sing If You're Happy and You Know It. So when I sing, "if you're happy and you know it, clap your hands" and prompt him by taking a quick look at his hands he will clap. It is very cute and it dispels my worries about autism. He can obviously pick up on subtle social cues. I had no reason to think he might be autistic, just an irrational fear that I got into my head somehow - like worrying about him growing up to be a serial killer or a junkie. I also imagine him growing up to cure cancer or win a Nobel Peace Prize - it's all about balance I tell ya.

I have a dilemma that maybe someone can help me with. Steve goes out a couple of times a week with friends. This means that I take care of Liam all by myself a couple of nights a week - not a dilemma in itself, but I'm jealous and we agree that it's not fair. Steve has no problem returning the favour, I just have to figure out something that I can do once a week. Anyone interested in a standing dinner and/or movie date once a week? Or is there something going on once a week at night that you think I might enjoy? If you have any suggestions, let me know. I'm thinking about it too, but you know what they say about two heads...

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January 10, 2006

Happy New Year!

Yeah, so I'm kinda behind. Life has had me a bit overwhelmed and that leaves me very unfocused. Ability to focus is essential for writing, hence, no writing. What's been going on, you ask? Well...

For starters, Steve has been incredibly stressed at work. When he finally comes home, he vents about it to me, which leaves me incredible stressed, so not a whole lot of fun. He is oftentimes the only adult conversation I have, so when the only conversation I get is always negative, my mood tends to take a nosedive. He seems to be through the worst of it and voila! Here I am posting again.

I have started Weight Watchers again. I like it cause I can eat whatever I want, it just gives me a sense of control and accountability with regard to what I put in my mouth. And it gives me an excuse to get out of the house too, which is great when you have a baby. I weigh in on Tuesdays, and I have decided to be brave and share with you all how it goes. So, last Tuesday I weighed in at 168.8 lbs, my pre-pregnancy weight was 144 lbs, and the goal I have in my head is 140 lbs. That may seem heavy for a 5'3" shorty like myself, but I'm pretty muscular and I look emaciated at 120, so 140 seems reasonable. I weigh in again this afternoon, so I'll let you know how it went tomorrow, Wednesday will be my WW Update day so you can see how it goes.

Another exciting event is that our very tight financial position is loosening up a bit and in addition to being able to save up for things like my school and a car and a new Widescreen HDTV, we are having a girl come in to clean our place for us every two weeks. We have found a very reasonable service to do the kitchen, bathroom and floors and I am SO STOKED! It means less stress for me, cause I'm not the best housekeeper - I'm very feast or famine in that department and this will keep us more consistent. I'll just have to do spot cleaning between visists and can focus on Liam without worrying about the kitchen floors that need to be mopped and the dust bunnies that are threatening to take form and eat us. Oh my god, I am so happy about this.

Liam is SO close to crawling. I have purchased all the babyproofing supplies and Steve and I need to get on that ASAP. He has also started swimming lessons and he is a superstar! No crying, just smiles and splashing and kicking and he is so cute. We are going on Saturday mornings so it can be Liam and Daddy time. I went to watch, but when the novelty of it wears off, I can use this as me time - mmmmmmmm.... time by myself, oh the decadence.

So, that's my quick State of the Homefront Address. Tune in a bit later for some cuteness, I can hear him waking up, so bye-bye. It's nice to be back.

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September 01, 2005

Finding My Voice

Starting a blog is hard. At least it is for me. After my first post it took me a long time to work up the courage to post again. What should I write about? Everything that came to mind was something that was happening in my life and would be shot down by, "Who's gonna care about that?" or "That's not very interesting, you should try to make it funny." I think the big problem was that I was holding myself to a standard set by Heather Armstrong. I love her writing, like the thousands of other people who go to her site daily - hundreds of thousands, even. I think it's a tall order to expect myself to pump out stuff so incredibly wacky and brilliant at the same time. Even linking to her site starts my inner critic up. "Why are you linking to her site? No one is even reading your site - okay, the two people who are reading it ALREADY KNOW!"

So, I've decided instead to write about whatever comes into my head and not worry about having a consistent voice or linking to things that everyone already knows. If it matters to me, that's all that is important here and my voice will naturally develop over time (with any luck). Isn't that the whole point of blogging?: I'll write about whatever I want - goddammit - and you can't stop me. *evil grin* And to hell with grammatical rules.

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