I want to travel! I want to go on a long train ride to somewhere I have never been. I think that would be wonderful.
Reality? If I were to travel it would be to drive back to Arizona to help Sarah unpack. But that’s not a financially good decision right now. (Noah will be taking unpaid time for the next birth so we have to be more frugal than usual.)
I want to clean and organize my whole house! I want to go to the nursery and pick out a bunch of plants for the yard! I want to figure out more nifty decorating stuff for the living room!
Reality? Once again I hit that wall of money. Damnit. I also have this little problem of if I am too physically energetic I feel shitty for days and I am at the start of a long week with Shanna. It would be foolish to kill of my energy reserves early.
I want cute clothes!
Reality? Maternity clothes are f’in expensive and mostly ugly. So yeah, not a lot of point there.
I want to go to parties! I want to have sex! I want to be social!
Reality? Babysitting is in short supply. Most of the parties we are invited to are not kid-friendly. Sex just… doesn’t work the way I want it to. Being social requires that I have more people in my life who are less flaky.
Fuss! 🙂 And thus I whine on the internet.
You’ve never been to Indianapolis, my car takes LATCH, and we’ve got a kick ass Children’s Museum and a membership that’ll get two guests in.
OTOH, we’ve got a tiny apartment, so unless your pregnant self can handle an air mattress with your toddler, crash space is crappy here. Back to the first hand, http://www.indyhostel.us/ is fairly cheap though.
😀
I haven’t been to Indianapolis and man that is a tempting/awesome offer. It comes back to that ‘don’t have the money to travel right now’.
If I did I would totally be showing up. 😀
Well, when you *do* have the money, my parents have said that the train ride from the Bay Area to Chicago is very nice. And Champaign is one of the stops on the line between Chicago and New Orleans.