... and in late-breaking anti-whine news from last week, there is a brand new baby Pixie, Debangel's Arianna! YAY!
My own baby girl will turn 21 on Friday. What's up with that? I swear, those years went by too fast to imagine. Just the other day, she was cheerfully spitting up all over me; and then, convincing her entire kindergarten class to pretend they were cats and dogs; becoming an avid reader; performing in holiday musicals and at a Gilbert and Sullivan summer program; marching with the band at her university. Tomorrow, she goes back to Japan. She'll celebrate her birthday by returning to Yokosuka, the city where she was born, and Kamakura, an ancient nearby town with a very large bronze Buddha. There had better be facebook updates.
Today's the day when a lot of people are back to work or school. Don't know about you, but I'm still looking for my work mojo. Maybe it is where ever the lost dryer socks go.
What's the news in your end of Pixieland?
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Baby! Wheee! Congratulations, Debangel, and when the Super Mom hormones wear off, we're ready for your new-mom whines. (Is that too cynical for a baby welcome message?)
Mazel Tov Debangel! Happy Birthday to kathy a's baby girl. Twenty-one--wow!
Congrats again to debangel, and a repeat announcement: if you want to be in the Esperanza baby news loop (I'll of course announce it here, but pictures and such), send me an email at texasesperanza AT hotmail DOT com, and I can add you to the email list, or friend you on facebook. I imagine we'll be posting an announcement both places.
We're still on schedule for three (3!) weeks from today.
Be back later for whining.
Woot, Esperanza! and Mini-Baboo, way to gestate!
Congrats to Debangel and baby! Yay!
Happy Birthday soon to KathyA's daughter. Wow.
Esperanza - 3 weeks. Woohoo!
Whine: I am working on having my oldest daughter (age 8) fall asleep without me in the room. Just checking on her. And I feel like the meanest mom in the world because on the nights I am less loving, hugging, soothing, patient, she falls asleep quicker. Last night with the back to school fretting it took her 3 hours to finally fall asleep. Tonight only 25 minutes.
I hate having sleep whines of any kind.
whine: I was grumpy putting my daughter to bed because we went to family religious ed tonight. Mediocre food, a rambling lecture and a "family" craft project (painting glass bowls) that looks like crap when the kids helped. I am trying and giving up sounds so much more appealing.
Antiwhine: 2 week and 4 days until I am the Bay Area. Hmmm. It isn't snowing? I love the empty walls with the decorations down?
Yay Debangel!!!! Welcome baby Ariana!
Happy B-day to kathy a's quickly grown up girl. Wow, do I know that story!!! They grow up WAY too fast.
Whine: -37C on Sunday morning. Somehow we had a full church anyway. Honestly, *I* would have stayed home if I could have....
Anti-whine: Our favourite niece is coming this weekend to stay with us. She is just back from her second tour in Afghanistan and wants to hang out with "her cool aunt and uncle". It's cool to be the cool aunt. Just sayin...
Whine: Little Mr. Man Ouzo, our diabetic kitteh has been uber sick since Saturday. Cat Whisperer Vet is not sure why just yet and we're having a hard time finding the right dose now. We had it all set up, but everything went wonky with the unfathomable-out-of-both-ends explosiveness of ick. Ew. Poor little man.
Anti-whine: Hubby's experience as a funeral director means no smell can ever effect him. He does much clean up. My experience in the lab means I can test kitteh with the glucometer without a second thought. If this sick cat had to have two capable owners, we are the ones. No question.
Whine: Did I mention the -37? Why do I live here again????
Anti-whine: I'm off to buy guest room treats for our niece to have nice stuff waiting for her. I'm off today because I worked New Year's Day.
Forgot to mention congrats to Mini-Baboo and esperanza - wow!!!! Three weeks to go! So exciting!
sarah, best with the fall-asleep woes. you are not a bad mom!!
sue, hope poor ouzo continues to improve. have a great visit with your niece!
~sniff~ just back from leaving daughter at the airport again. i didn't cry this time. we met a sweet older woman in line, who has many friends in the city where daughter goes to school, and she gave her card in case daughter needs anything!
Thanks for the congrats...I never really expected "full term" and "esperanza" to be in the same sentence...but as of Saturday, 'twill be so. Major AW there.
Whines: Teh Tired, she is back. I missed this memo somewhere, but ka-pow, one day last week, I can't keep my eyes open. I didn't realize how much (comparatively speaking) energy I had until I didn't.
Also, teh Weird Last Minute Baby Shower is still on. I got asked if I had registered anywhere. Uh, no. So I dutifully call our local W store, and they say they have a registry. So I drag myself there, only to discover that they don't. So even if I *did* register online or at another W store, the local shoppers wouldn't be able to see it. I guess that's an AW, since I hate the register thing.
Happy thoughts for sleeping children, recovering cats, and traveling daughters.
W: One sleeve is made up perfectly, you can't see the seam. The other is...less perfect. I can't figure out how to pick out the seam. Do I cut?
W/AW: There is exactly 1.5 yards left of yarn after making the sweater. AW: YAY! I didn't run out of yarn while making the sweater! WOOT! W: I don't have enough left to make a matching hat.
Aw Kathy, the airport. Hope your daughter has an easy trip. I can't even imagine sending mine across the state much less around the world. Besides, how would they ever fall asleep. LOL.
Yay Liz. I am in awe that you even got one perfect.
Sleep whine from me. Rather, a not-sleep whine. It is now 5:14 am CST and I am awake. I got up to (what else?) go potty at 3:00 and have been awake ever since. No reason, no contractions, no nothing. Just awake.
Very funny. These are my last weeks to sleep. Wah.
esperanza -- you're almost there! hope the sleep settles down.
liz -- the sweater sounds lovely! 1.5 yards sounds about right for tying a bow on the package. :)
daughter arrived safely -- and wonder of wonders, she called from the airport to tell us!
W: senior cat celebrated by peeing on the bathmat and barking on the kitchen floor.
AW: i got this enormous crock pot for christmas, and thought it was much too big. but with son staying here for now, it is perfect. he can go through bowls and bowls of whatever i toss in there, and is thrilled to take some to work for lunch. when he gets his own place, i may have to start packaging and freezing some selections for him, so we don't end up overrun with the soup/stew du jour.
Sympathies to all those with sick/peeing/puking kitties!
Esperanza--mazel tov on getting this far...sorry about the sleep complaints. I've always held that the last few weeks of pregnancy were designed to make you so miserable that you would look forward to labor:-).
Thank you for sharing your experience virtually--as that is the only experience I'm going to get now!
My whine for the week is pedestrians (or other walkers) who use cell phones. I am so tired of following oblivious people in parking lots and crosswalks--totally unaware of cars. Also, people who block aisles in supermarkets because they are paying more attention to the conversation than the environment.
Last weekend, I observed a man seeming to orate in the toothpaste aisle. He was delivering his comments in a *loud* voice and was looking straight ahead (not at the toothpaste). It was just too weird to be shopping next to that. I think he had a bluetooth headset (no visible phone) but it wasn't clear.
My anti-whine: It takes me 2-3 months after Jan. 1st to write the appropriate year on my checks. This year, if I write "0" (for 09), I can easily change it to "10" by putting the "1" before the "0". It's the little things!
Emily, I've heard that some mental health clinics hand out old blue-tooth ear pieces to clients so that episodes read to passers-by as "on the phone". I hope it's true.
kathy a. - sorry about the cat bark. We're still having the same issue, with the added bonus of cat very runny pook (usually in the litter box now though, which is a major improvement over last weekend's adventures).
Emily - I totally agree with the cell phone whineage. Annoying much???? Yup.
Whine: My office is cold again. Heat is cranked up, but it's so cold outside that all I can do is sit as far away from the window as possible and keep my coat on.
AW: I finally called the furnace people after a couple of chilly weeks, and the guy dropped by yesterday and changed a setting on my new furnace and now we're cozier again. (Sorry, Sue, that you are so cold today!)
W: I've got another cold. TMI Alert! Yesterday afternoon my nose started this weird thing where liquid falls out without warning. Sometimes I can't get the tissue out of my pocket quick enough. Eeeeewwww! I'm worried it's a sign of a massive sinus infection, but so far I don't feel terrible, so maybe it's just the universe laughing at me.
I hate those odd cell-phone talkers, too, though I do appreciate the way they give cover to those who need to talk to the voices in their heads.
Emily, I'm also check-impaired every January, so thank you for the practical tip.
Liz, congrats on the fantastic sweater. There must be a way to loosen the end of the seam and stretch the pieces apart? Or maybe not. "Not enough yarn for the matching hat" is a sign you need to go back to the yarn shop, of course. If not a matching hat, a coordinating hat should be possible. (Are you on Ravelry? Saw very cute baby aviator hat the other day.)
Wishing esperanza some good sleep, sometime soon!
as common as those little cellphone earsets are, i still think the people using them are mentally unbalanced.
sue: space heater. it's just wrong to be working indoors in a coat.
Sue's shivery whine is reminding me that at my last job, my office didn't even have heat. Just a wee space heater. I worked from home a lot! And it clearly wasn't -37C or whatever unhuman temperature she was talking about the other day.
Off to the doc for a checkup this afternoon, and some Sweet Baboo-less errand running. Will almost make the drive worth it.
AW: no bark nor pook here
Esperanza - it's a veritable heat wave outside right now, only -20!!! And yet, I feel like I need one of those North Pole sleeping bags in my office. Wah. A space heater might do it. Or a bonfire. Actually, a bonfire would solve a multitude of building issues.....did I say that out loud???
Anti-whine: Kitteh's blood sugar was in the normal kitteh range (4-6) for the first time at lunch. I went home to test him and it was 6.1 - the best it's been all week!
Whine: He did have another uber-runny pook while I was at work. I could tell by the numerous candles and incense burning throughout the condo when I opened the door. Poor hubby said it was a gagger.
Anti-whine: No cat bark so far today.
Way to go on the sweaterage Liz. My mom tried to teach me to knit years ago but alas, I am a dismal failure in that particular skill.
All is well with Mini Baboo.
Mini Baboo's mama is teh tired.
::head pats:: for esperanza. You go and get some rest....you've earned it today!
Congrats to Debangel! I hope all was well, speedy, and Arianna has all requisite appendages and lovely smile!
I *MAY* yet get to make a snowman -- we are forecasted for a 35% chance of snow on Friday! Very little chance, but let me hope! (I would also not turn my nose up at the prospect of another day off of work!)
Elbow is on the mend. Got a steroid shot on Monday, and other than the injection site, the pain is no more!
Offspring turns 14 on Saturday! Hopefully, I won't be totally deranged after the sleepover party she's planned! I will have 8 teens in my house, eating all my food and playing Wii games! Four will leave at 9pm, and three will sleep over with Offspring. Oy. Do you think I could get away for an hour or three while they're all here?
And, of course, said party means that there will be cleaning that needs to be done beforehand. Oh, joy. Thank God JF cleans, or we'd have been condemned by the city years ago!
Oh Madeleine that dripping nose unexpectedly thing happens to me too sometimes. Ugh. Feel better.
And sorry to all the Pixies suffering from cat pook and bark.
And I am not good with the Celsius (silly America) but -37 just sounds crazy cold. But I am pretty whiny we're stuck in the 19 to 25 F range. Sue, I hope we both get a warm up?
AW: My son lost his first tooth today. At home, so he didn't swallow it! Yay!
AW: tooth fairy :)
And I think it was here at WW that someone said it took about 3 years to make friends after moving, (I don't remember the context, but I had just moved). And at 2 and a half years I don't have tons of friends, but I am starting to feel more grounded and connected. So it was sage advice and it makes me feel less bad about taking 3 years to get to this stage.
Yay for Debangel and Arianna.
Naps to Mini Baboo's mama.
Yay for Liz's sweater, and keeping warm, and kitties doing well.
I am here with a very spoiled whine: I spent that big present holiday in Sin City with my boyfriend and his family, and the present thing...it didn't really happen. And I was sad.
So he wanted to make it up to me, and my make up present came today.
He bought me ............ (remember we have been together for three years and live 4300 miles apart).....an alarm clock.
Happy Birthday to Offspring!
KLee, I think you should set out the food, turn invisible, and enjoy watching the festivities. Or letting Dad deal with them, whatever.
sarah -- go, tooth fairy!
oh, redzils. speechless, i am.
omg, redzils, i've been there. i'm so sorry.
my whine is the sleeping, always the sleeping. tater still won't stay asleep if we try to put him in the crib. i really miss sleeping in my bed. :'(
there has been progress, though, of a sort. my husband figured out that if we drape a certain blanket over tater's little fold out sofa, tater will sleep on that for most of the night, sometimes all. but it means i have to sleep on the sofa in our living room, right next to tater for when he wakes up. so i'm no longer baby furniture all night, but i still don't get to sleep in my bed.
i think one of the hardest things is not being able to complain to anyone. my mom and other family roll their eyes at me because clearly i should just let him cry. even the pediatrician told me that the next time my daughter has a long weekend or a vacation, we should just all brace ourselves and then leave tater in his room to cry for a few nights. "a couple of hours of crying a couple of nights in a row will show him that this waking up thing? it's over." (i paraphrase.) he and i have never seen eye to eye on sleep, and i wish i had remembered that and just kept my mouth shut.
tater is 15 months old. he is a baby still. is he manipulating me? probably yes, but damn it, he's a human being, not a mindless creature whose will needs only to be broken for the convenience of everyone else. also? crying in his crib yields a panicked, sick, puking baby who tries desperately to climb out. so not only do i not want him to have negative associations with his crib and with sleep, i can foresee that it will only last until he can finally hike a leg over the rail, which won't be long.
crap. i'm rambling. i have to go to sleep now before the boy wakes up. hugs to everyone this week. i'll be back tomorrow to read more of your whines and vote.
redzils, that's just wrong. No gift at all would have been better.
Amy, hope you get some sleep.
Me? It's 4:30 am, and I am whining. At least I went to sleep at 8:30 this time.
Yay, Esperanza and Mini-Baboo-to-be! Sleep, honey. All you want, without apology. And then tell me about about it, in detail. ::yawn::
Redzils...I don't think you need to wonder about where I'd like to stick that cluestick! BF is daft. Tell 'im I said so.
Whine: 36H, people. As in HOOTERS. My biggest worry at this point is that Brian's eyes will fall out, roll onto the floor and get cat hair on them.
Antiwhine: Preshus baby gurl! Thanks to everyone for the congrats, and for those who wanted pics, I will get to those emails tomorrow. Or just friend me on FB, Deborah Paola Angelo. I'd worry about incurring Teh Weird by posting this publicly, but frankly, anyone messes with me, I'm smackin' em upside the head with my Mammaries of Doom.
Back to Arianna, the Eating Machine! Virtual homemade oatmeal raisin cookies for everyone (hey, I made 'em because they're good for milk production...really!) Have a fantastic week, pixies!
oh redzils - that's no fun at all. Sorry.
Amy - maybe time for a big boy bed? My little guy started sleeping in a twin bed at 13 months. We put a mattress in his room for naps because he napped so well at day care we thought we would give it a shot at home. He was so excited and wanted to sleep on it at night. I let him and he slept through the night. Magic.
W ... a call at 6:30 am at work from my husband that the little guy fell and now refuses to put weight on his foot. Ice for an hour and he still wouldn't walk. So I left work at met them at the hospital, where the little guy is so mad about being touched by people he doesn't know that he promptly stands up and tries to get away. Xrays reveal ... nothing.
Two days later he is still limping slightly but seems fine otherwise. So I guess the AW is that it was expensive, but seems to be just a twisted ankle or a slight sprain. We will go for follow up Xrays at the children's hospital if he is still limping tomorrow since toddler bone breaks are sometimes hard to catch (who knew?), but he seems OK so far.
I nominate Debangel for Remembering What Its All About. Good luck keeping up with your hungry girl!
Redzils, that is ... um ... yikes. Was it a really special alarm clock, like that one that gradually lights up your room as if it was sunrise? Or the one that reads your body movement and wakes you when you are kinda awake already?
JenR, that sounds like so-not-fun. I hope the little guy stops limping pronto.
Mostly I'm feeling whiny about mucus and slush. Is anyone in doubt about my opinions on those topics? Didn't think so.
Oh, shoot, that's the i-t-s that does get the apostrophe. Remembering What It's All About.
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