Nailing it!

The Project Manager has been away for four days, and I'm doing ok! Actually, better!

The house is clean, the laundry's done except that the cats celebrated new bedding by barfing on it, the baby is clean and fed and in day care on time.

ALSO, I have written way ahead on my campaign, I have not used the car in 2 days, I haven't had a drink in two days, this is weird!

I can't wait for her to get home, but how do I keep this productivity up?

Second Peanut is on its way!

So we have another baby on the way, due exactly at the same time as my sister's birthday, which is, in and of itself, lovely.

We're a little freaked about the physical arrangement of the house, but with The Boy turning 18 next year, his room will become available.  We may move up there ourselves and keep the second floor for children, or we may move the children into our room and take the small room as our own, who knows!

I do need to do something to get more heat up there, but that's not a huge concern initially.  I mean, there's enough heat up there now, but only barely, and it's electric not forced air, etc.

The Project Manager is well, no illness apart from some fatigue, which is also totally unfair to other moms, but that's ok, too.

Peanut is in great shape, though she's not a big baby by any means.  She walks, she says some words, she signs some other words... it's fun.

Also, the cats are dumb.

Tired

I feel like a real parent!  Peanut is teething pretty badly, so her sleep is all messed up.  So my sleep is also all messed up.  It is the suck.

I brought her in with us last night.  The sequence of her sleep was: Put in soother and go to sleep; Be unable to breath because mucus and take out soother; cry, have sore teeth and want to chew on something; start over

But she sure is cute.

All quiet

It's 6:30, which is the smack dab middle of the hour between when I wake up and when The Project Manager and Peanut wake up.  It's very quiet, only the dumb cats are rampaging around.  The eldest, the flat headed cat, is totally deaf these days, but she's doing fine otherwise.

Work on the house is coming along fine, and we're slowly working our way through one room at a time to finish things.  That means that today I should get some paint onto some crown moldings before I get them installed... -goes to check whether he has white paint- I have white paint.

So if I can get even a little painting done while Peanut has her nap, that will be awesome.  I have to paint while she naps because the painting takes place in the garage, right?  Thus is my life.

Tonight is also the Project Manager's staff Christmas Party, which is so like Fezziwig's Christmas Party as to blow your mind.

So that's what is what!

Oh wait, work.  Work is totally awesome.  We're restructuring a bit, and giving me a bit more responsibility.  But like just a tiny tiny bit.

Peanut can walk, though she's nervous about it, she can say a lot of things but only in her own language, and she still sleeps like a boss.

A great week!

So this is a week of goodness here!

Peanut's growth is back on track, thanks to the Grandma's and their home cooking, and she's a flourishing little machine at this point, very good at sitting, and working on trying to locomote forwards rather than backwards, and trying out all the new fun sounds she can make.

The Project Manager and I are incredibly busy, with house and shows and entertaining (we have a show this weekend, and I have another gig on Saturday), then we have prep and rehearsals etcetera on Sunday.

Oh yah and we both work full time, too, and there's a house that needs maintenance, etc.

Still, a good week!  Lots of laughter and fun, lots of carrying on and enjoying ourselves, but we really do need a day or two off.  I mean, literally, full-time work, social commitments, church, chores... there's no end to it .  NO END.

But hey!  Cuba in a few months, that will count, right?

Things at work that are good:

From Sept 09 Boss has gone away: good
Boss has given me his corner office: better
Boss has given me his truck: even better
I have a badge: WOOOOOOOOOO!

Found in a bottle:

And the wind is a howling! It came on faster than I thought, and harder, too.
The raft is beseiged by sea-birds who seem to think that their
presence stabilizes the raft. The Glade cutting is safely stowed
under a box... I seem to be ready. The sky is dark, and in fact I can
no longer tell which way is east... No idea where the wind is pushing
me.
I should tether myself to the raft, but I don't seem to have the
energy. It's not too late for me to pull into a safe harbour, but
again, I don't have the energy.
So I'm sitting in the middle of the raft, leaning and bending as the
raft tips and wallows. The first big slant of the raft bowled me over
but once I realized the storm had hit I took my balancing very
seriously....
the paper from here down is torn off