Whether I pass or not I will at least be on hiatus from studying for a while and that pleases me. I would like to celebrate.
Post exam fun!
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Very sweet.
This morning we brought apples and grapes and donuts and bagels to our local polling place cause it’s an awesome thing for people to volunteer to do. When we got back from dinner tonight they left us a thank you note. Yay!
Ooft
Yesterday was mostly really great. ribbin and I were not as thoroughly focused on prep for my comp as maybe I should have made us be, but instead we did general lit geeking. That was really awesome so I can’t complain. 🙂 Shanna was thoroughly good for the vast majority of the day until she completely lost it to hysteria an hour and a half before the train. That was… hard. We got through it though. We came home and went to bed a bit late, 8:40ish. She slept straight through till 4 without waking for boobie. w00t! We woke up and ate for half an hour, then pottied and tried to get her back to sleep again. Unfortunately my pesty daughter (Mark, I love that word) refuses to go back to sleep. So now she is being uberexcited to have her toys back. 🙂
7 days till the comp exam.
Memeish
Say something nice about each of the last five people you’ve “broken up with” – romantic break-ups, friendships, whatever.
See, this is the sort of meme I can really get into. 🙂 I’m including me initiating the break up and times when the other person initiated.
E: went far out of his way for me as a boyfriend and as a friend. Tolerated all the quirks I threw at him with a grin.
T: one of the best people I have ever known. He gave me the love and support I needed to grow past my childhood.
J: always willing to be supportive no matter what was happening. He likes people more than almost anyone else I’ve dated and that was neat to be around.
P: he cooked well. I just wish he had been happier about me eating the results. *sigh*
A: gave me the opportunity to find out about a part of myself I had never experienced before. I appreciate the efforts made to accompany me along such a bumpy road. 🙂
I was tempted to put Noah on here. Chronologically he is one of the last five. I decided that was cheating. 🙂
10 good things
1. I had a good walk to the park and Shanna had fun in the swing.
2. I have a safe, comfortable life.
3. I have the best husband ever.
4. I have really awesome friends.
5. I had a great sandwich for lunch.
6. The Barenaked Ladies kids album makes me ridiculously happy.
7. I’m glad that being a parent has been so easy so far. It could change, but damn I’m lucky so far.
8. I loved the snuggle fest Noah, Shanna, and I had in bed this morning.
9. I have a house full of awesome books. I so win.
10. That it’s ok for me to be lazy.
Do you know how many of things are cause of Noah? Yeah, almost all of them. I’m a lucky girl.
{milestones} Food!
As a true Californian (9th generation you know) her first food needed to be avocado. And it was:
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More if you click through, of course. 🙂
w00t!!
I am officially advanced to candidacy. I have to pass part two of the comp exams, and that is scheduled for the second Saturday in November. I also have to either pass the Spanish proficiency test or take the full year at De Anza. She said either is fine and I don’t have to worry about taking additional MA classes to maintain standing.
Have I mentioned that I have 19 books to go on reading? And six more weeks till the test? I’m becoming less and less fretful by the day.
Oh, and my Spanish class? It’s a cakewalk. I’m putting in more effort than anyone else in the class and she seems to grade mostly on pass/fail. Pshaw. Taking the whole year might actually be the least stressful way of accomplishing the task. 🙂 I’m going to try and take the exam at the end of the term just to see if I can get it done already.
Wow. I’m really close. This is so amazing. To be honest, there have been a few times lately when I’ve had thoughts about not finishing because it seemed like more stress than it was worth. But when I look at how little I have to do and how little stress is left I am really confident that I have to finish.
Wow. So, who is going to start calling me Master once I have the degree? I refuse to be a Mistress though. 🙂 Hey, doctorates give you the right to Doctor…
Finally!
I’ve been terrible about cooking lately. Eating out is just SO TASTY! I need to learn how to cook Asian food.
Today I made: mostly veggie soup (lotsa cabbage, squash, celery, some carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, leeks, and two spicy sausages to bring up the flavor) and an awesome pasta dish with tomatoes, broccoli, garlic, and fresh oregano. I also cut up the veggies for putting corned beef, cabbage, carrots, and potatoes in the crock pot tomorrow. This quantity of food will feed us for approximately ~18 servings. We will mix it up by adding in roasted corn and eggplant over the next couple of days as well as trying out the tikki masala sauce we found at Costco with chicken and rice. That keeps us fed with a decent amount of variety for a week.
Oh yeah. I’m good.
Birthday reflection
I didn’t make a cake. I ran out of time. Instead, I went to Mommy and Baby Yoga and helped my back feel better. And I had lunch with a dear old friend and got to see how much he has changed recently. Then I went and bought a jogging stroller via a craigslist ad. It’s in nearly new condition and I paid less than 1/2 the sticker price. Rebecca will be proud of me. I went and gave food to Laura’s cats. Then I came back to the house and got Noah so we could go to dinner with a small-ish group of people. It was lovely.
I got comments from dozens of people. I got text messages and phone calls and emails. I heard from people I haven’t heard from in a long time. (Hey Miss Jenny–remember Grant from Fisher? Holy shit!) I guess putting it out into the universe that I really wanted people to acknowledge my birthday worked. It even extended to people who have no idea about livejournal.
I feel loved and blessed. Thank you all.
{milestones} She did it!!!
Shanna rolled over!! Videos, cause I’m a dweeb:
and more…
and success!!
I love the modern era. And a picture of her butchness last week just because.
Travel and Socializing
Goodness gracious we have been seeing a lot of people lately. It’s very cool. paulaandandrew came over last night, my lovely flyinamazon has come over a couple of times, we’ve had visits from blate and yanijc and jkuroda and bk2w and tshuma and angelkatharine and noirem and joedecker. I might be forgetting some of my blessings recently as I’m a total space cadet. I’ve gone out and seen a bunch of other people. I’ve spent time with my sister and cousins and no one fought. (Well, we had a small argument because my sister asserted that she won’t be voting for Obama because he is a Muslim. Uhm, whatever.) Ooh! And Debbie is going to come see me next week! It’s been too long. And have I mentioned that it is really neat that I’m hanging out with Britt so much? I haven’t seen dangerpudding in a bit, but that’ll be remedied next week. 😀
And we have a lot of upcoming travel! Portland weekend after next and we will be staying for over a week. bldrnrpdx I still need to talk to Dad about your event. I’m going to try. The lovely and wonderous Ms. blacksheep_lj will be picking us up from the airport and lending us a carseat. w00t! I get to spend a lot of time with my adored shadowsintime oh, and there will be the wedding for ihotpockets. 😀 There will be a trip up to Seattle to see Jefe and Jen and Rachel and hopefully I hope I’ll get to see malixe and imp-of-satan and meet Henry!
Next month is another wedding, this time with a camping trip involved. We’ll see how camping with a baby goes. woof.
We are going to go see my mommy for Thanksgiving. She’s terribly excited.
And New Zealand in February. I think I need to stop complaining about my life. (Ok, I don’t complain much… but any at all seems like a stretch.)
{disclaimer: if I’ve left your name out, feel free to poke me. My memory is not what it once was and it was never amazing.}
{Edited to add: satyrlovesong and ribbin both came over too!} (See, I want to keep track because I get in these moods where “nobody loves me, everybody hates me” and it’s just bolgona. So now I have a list of who loves me. :D)
Today’s awesome
Today has *three* awesome things.
First was lying on the floor playing airplane with the munchkin. I put a burp rag on my chest to absorb the dripping spit. (That part was for you Mo.) She laughed her ass off. She giggled for probably fifteen minutes straight until my arms got sore. That was just great.
Second was reading that one of the moms on the board I read is getting a new foster child. I’ve been reading her posts for a while and she seems like a pretty good parent (yes, I’m getting a limited view). She posted looking for advice about the next size up of diapers to buy for this new kiddo cause her child was EC’ed and out of diapers by this age. I’m sending her some of the size mediums we bought because she is poor and I am not. I think that foster parents need support. I included a teddy bear in the box so the baby girl can have one of her own. When the mom sent me her address she said she was crying because she’s so grateful. I feel good about being able to help her in this way.
I also got a card from a friend. This is the second one she’s sent me. They always make me happy. 🙂 Yay!
Less awesome but still good: I did a bunch of cleaning. 🙂 I even mopped again. I feel kind of embarrassed that mopping twice in a month is a big deal and something to be proud of. ha. The recently splattered oil means that it really needed it again…
Good little housewife
Today my (self-appointed) tasks were laundry and food prep. Now, that may not sound like a lot, but it is with Shanna. I only did two loads of laundry, but I chopped up four days or so of vegetables, made soup, prepped all of tomorrow’s food, and got today’s dinner ready all by four pm. That along with reading (I’m a fair ways into Frederick Douglass’ writing) and playing with the munchkin has made me feel fairly busy.
Noah and I went down to the Scott’s Valley Art & Wine Festival on Saturday. I don’t think I have ever been to one before. I had way more fun than was reasonable for the event. Being with Noah can make anything better. Then we drove up to Los Gatos and walked around downtown. I must say that the Thai restaurant was awesome. Even the non-curry, Britt. 🙂
Sunday we went grocery shopping and slacked. Just another day in paradise with the best boy ever.
I’ve been thinking that I should fill the hot tub. That’s about as much water as Shanna reasonably needs for this level of learning to swim and I miss sitting in water. 🙂
screw heterosexism
We were out today and we did baby clothes shopping. We found two onesies that I simply couldn’t pass up. One had a cute little baby chick and under it written “chick magnet”. The second said, “Get In Line Girls”. I figure that if these are appropriate for a boy that age they are bloody well appropriate for my daughter. 🙂
Yesterday was made of yay!
In no particular order:
*I got my hair dyed in colors I have always wanted to. That’s awesome.
*I spent less time actively parenting than any day of Shanna’s life so far. That was cool. (I left her with Noah for three and a half hours as I got my hair done. And she was happy to be held by Miss Laura for quite a while in the evening. w00t for increasing friendliness! Then Noah wore her for four hours on our long walk.)
*I walked 6.8 miles total yesterday. That’s awesome.
*Miss Laura brought a very cute monkey onesie for the munchkin. (oh–note to people who think baby clothes are cute. I appreciate more clothes quite a bit and would like to note that it would be a good idea to buy in 9 or 12 month sizes at this point because she is growing fast and has plenty in her current size.)
*We walked to Cold Stone as entertainment in the evening. It was a good walk (4.2 miles round trip) and it was fun with silly talking on the way there and back. We figured out that with that much walking the ice cream was only about 60 calories more than we burned. 🙂
*Another successful dinner happened. This time Noah made risotto complete with popping grease. Exciting food is awesome. 🙂 And I made parmesan chicken and he baked some pumpkin. It was rather tasty. Noah rocks.
*I managed to ditch my pissy mood. This was a very good thing.
*You may have noticed that Miss Laura came over. That was really awesome given how short notice it was.
*When I got back from having my hair done the munchkin was sleeping. Have I mentioned how funny I find it that most of our foreplay at this point is, “Hey… she’s sleeping…”?
I think that’s it. But that’s a lot. So yay!
Time for a change
So I went in and got my hair colored. I like it. 🙂
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Just another day in paradise. Part ??
Miss Marcie came over for lunch. We had big salads. 🙂 (Janet–I put in lots of cheese to up the fullness quotient.) It was awesome to get to see her. I’ve gotten to see her more in the past few months than I have in a long long time. Yay!!
Today I am cleaning. I’ve dusted. I hate dusting. I’m doing laundry. I’m finishing up the stuff in the kitchen Noah didn’t finish this morning. I think I’m going to clean the bathroom. Cat box is on my list. I may even get around to mopping.
I feel like such a good little housewife.
Much yay was had by all.
We had a very productive first part of the day yesterday. It was good. It included a trip up to El Sobrante to pick up our two cases of apple lambic. If you are an apple lambic fan I recommend checking out: www.thecellaronline.com
Then we went to a party! The hosts were some folks I have known in the scene for quite a while. I had a fabulous time. I got to reconnect with a lot of people I haven’t talked to much in years. I have this weird love/hate thing with the scene at this point. I love it because when I go hang out with people I have known for that long I feel extremely comfortable and secure. By golly those folks already like me or don’t like me and I don’t have a thing to prove. It’s a great feeling. But I also feel like many/most scene folk are too insular in that world and I’ve had a hard time with that for a long time. Like: dude, have more than one hobby. I’m certainly not in a place where I could be totally wrapped up in that world any year soon, but on Dore Alley weekend I like to stop and reflect. See, I played for the first time the night before Dore Alley in 2000. It’s my anniversary and I like that it is on such an obvious weekend. 🙂 I’m missing the event for the first time. It’s weird thinking about how my identity is shifting and changing. I like it and I’m happy, but it’s weird.
I spent a fair bit of time visiting with the other baby at the party. His father was one of the first people I ever played with so I’ve known him for a long time. We had a strained semi-hostile relationship for a while but at this point we get along pretty well. The little baby boy was born three hours before the munchkin. I think that is cool. 🙂 Munchkin and he were fascinated with each other. They ‘talked’ at one another and stared and flailed at each other. Very cool. It was kind of funny to talk to someone about how different our babies are at the exact same age. 🙂
So yeah. It was good and I’m happy. Today we get to walk over to the farmer’s market and buy lots and lots of vegetables for the upcoming week. Yes Pandora–more vegetables. 😛
I’m not boring
I just need to talk to people who share my interests. Someone who will not be annoyed at my incessant conversations about All Things Baby. Luckily, I have an angelkatharine and she is quite thrilled to hear my baby-related babble. It’s great!
Yesterday was an errand-running day and she came with me! I went to Ikea to find picture frames (I actually like the super cheap ‘clips’ ones) and to restock on candles. I had a great time discussing decorating choices in the display rooms. Noah isn’t interested in doing that with me. 🙂 Then we went to Target for non-stick skillets which will allow Noah to make me breakfast with greater ease. 🙂 I found some clothes and I am quite thrilled about this. Lately I’ve been wearing two pairs of low-rise maternity pants and about five shirts over and over because other stuff isn’t fitting. Oh sure, I can keep wearing the generic stretch pants I had for maternity, but they wear out and aren’t real flattering. I really want to put maternity clothes away so that they aren’t worn out the next time I get pregnant. This is complicated by the fact that while yes, I now have jeans (w00t!) I had just uhm expanded into this size before getting pregnant so I have very little clothing in size 14. Noah is challenging to live with if you want to not gain weight. I apparently can’t stay thin. All of my size 14 stuff is work clothing and I don’t really want to lounge around the house that way.
So new clothes! Yay! I also have the new constraint of nursing accessibility. Whereas I don’t have a problem with raising up the bottom of my shirt (I don’t care who sees my stretch marks) it is a lot easier to have boob access from higher up. Raising a t-shirt in the wraps is kind of a pain then we get all sweaty together and I don’t like that feeling. So yay for shirts that lower for boob access. I also found some cute jammies cause I don’t really have any. I mostly have nightgowns and nothing is more fucking pointless than having to raise the bottom of a nightgown from your knees to above your boob for nursing. (Ok, there are probably more pointless things…) So now I have two-pieces and I’m happy. I also found two dresses that are nursing compatible. One is even cute and not black so I can wear it to the wedding next month. (It’s grey, but I’ll take that as good enough.)
And Noah got nearly drunk last night. It was very amusing. 🙂
Much celebration is felt. And now I sit very still and pray that the munchkin goes to sleep soon for a really long nap cause she was up longer than is strictly speaking awesome yesterday.
Vanity!
I can wear my jeans!!! Holy shit!
I guess all the crunches are paying off more than I thought. I’m not dropping weight, but maybe I’m gaining muscle. I’ll deal with that. w00t!
I was dreading going and buying a bigger size…