Thursday, May 24, 2007

Labeled Disquettes from the Back Room

"Debian Potato Root Disk" -This is the basic game where we are introduced to Debian the Potato Root.

"4 Drivers" -A driving game for 4 people

"2 Debian Boot Floppy" -Where Debian's evil twin runs amuck, booting things.

"RedHat 6.2" -Good, I'm so sick of RedHat 6.1

"Debian Potato Rescue Disk" -This is the one where Debian needs to rescue the cute radish.

Because I am so street

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For reals yo!

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Good morning 8 Months!



So just to taunt me after I said you were sleeping through the night, you decided to never sleep again! You’ve had this cough, but only when you’re lying down and have been asleep for 3-4 hours. And then last night, just to ring in the new month you were waking up for no reason. I threw a pillow at your dad but he slept through that too.

This month has been a month of learning and growing and getting way too big too fast. You’re starting to clap your hands, which is hilarious, but you’ve also started to pull yourself up to stand on sturdy and sometimes not so sturdy things. This means you are only a hop and skip from walking! Why do you have to grow up?

You’re a wonderful crawler and can scoot all over the place, which is making for red little knees, but lately it’s been too hot for pants, so I hope your knees recover. You just need to start walking sooner!

I went shopping. I was looking for things for me, so I spent $6 on me and $50 on you. So good job you! It’s tough because I look chubby regardless of what I put on but your look awesome in everything I can pick up! It’s not a matter of finding something flattering because your little body rocks every outfit! I’m hoping to get the tutu skirt here soon, but maybe not until you can walk.

You still love people, strangers, whoever! You are full of gummy smiles and little giggles for everyone. Of course kids are your favorite. Unfortunately your cousin Jewelia isn’t so keen on you, but you love her! You want to pull her little ringlets and squish her chubby little face to yours. Mostly she doesn’t want anything to do with you or just make sure that you don’t take her toys. Maybe when you’re a little older you’ll be fast friends, but at the moment she’s the princess and she doesn’t like sharing her crown.

Food is still a little tricky. You’re more open to new tastes and would eat all my food if given the choice, but even when you’re excited to eat your pureed foods you’re only interested for a few bites and then comes the whining and the need to be on the floor or on my lap.

You are so independent. You don’t want to be cuddled you want to explore, of course most of the time you’re only comfortable exploring as long as you know that mommy and daddy are near by.

I still feel like an inadequate mother, but I think everyone feels that way. I’m just so glad that I get to share in this journey with you.

That's my baby!

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Babies, They Poop

This post is not about poop, but I thought of that line and I liked it, so there it is.
The Little Princess is crawling. Crawling very well at this point actually. This is both a blessing but mostly a curse. This means I can no longer leave little bits of whatever on the floor. Especially paper. She loves paper, loves to eat it. That's no good. So baby proofing for reals this weekend. It's really cool to see this little person who grew inside me becoming her own person. She's so much fun, even if she can be very screamy. So I guess it's worth it, just for those little gummy smiles and full on giggles. She's also very smart. Smartest baby ever I'll bet.

You Have Killed Me


Wow. Saw Morrissey last night. It was amazing. He played 5 Smiths songs. I never dreamed I would get to hear "The Queen is Dead" and "Boy with the Thorn" live. Being born a decade too late, but there it was. It was fantastic.

Since the seats were free they weren't great so we decided to move a little closer to the stage, which was great because the venue was anything but full, so we got moved to just off center and 4 rows back. Which would have been great if the whole floor wasn't general admission, so we were seated behind that, but we had a perfect view and all the people I brought with me had a good time. Even Summer, who was a bit appalled when he took off his shirt (twice) and threw it into the crowd. Which was when I knew that Morrissey is getting old. He's got a bit of a gut, I mean I know he will be 48 later this month, but it's hard to see your idols grow old, it reminds of the slow march towards death that we all are on.
Opened with 'The Queen is Dead' which was amazing. I was happy that he played 'You have Killed Me' just because it was a song that i knew Magen would know. We got to hear 'Ganglord' which is a great b-side that I seriously need to get. When they played 'Boy with the Thorn' I was thrilled. I love this song so much and the whole time I couldn't stop jumping around and dancing and grinning like a fool. I was super happy for Erika when he played 'I've Changed my Plea' because even though she's only been listening to Moz, for, what, a week? She really loves this song. 'Life is a Pigsty' into 'How Soon is Now?' was incredible. Morrissey laying on the floor and the 'Auld Lang Syne' in between was very poignant. All in all, it was spectacular, I was so pleased that I was able to go and I'm kicking myself that I didn't spend the money and get some tickets on the GA floor. Oh well, these were free.

Afterwards (with no coaxing from me) my friend suggested we wait around to see if we could see the Man himself. It was no use, we spend about an hour and a half only to see his town car speed away without even seeing him since the windows were so dark, but it was still fun to hang out and get giggly that late at night. So now I'm at work with only 6 hours of sleep under my belt and I was actually here early! How did that happen? No idea, but if i found out, then I'm going to bottle it and use it every morning.

I don't know how Husband and Child did without me last night, but there isn't any poop on the walls and Husband managed to leave for work early this morning, so it couldn't have been too bad.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

The Key to Being a Bad Wife

I think I figured it out. Being a bad wife is all about not changing out the toilet paper roll. Husband didn't care that I washed the dishes after he made dinner (this almost never happens, I have to applaud him) but we still got into an argument about how I am so thoughtless because I don't change the toilet paper roll. Because even aliens have to use the smallest room, I should be more considerate.
Maybe if I wasn't around to make sure he had sandwiches for lunch the next day or made sure we had clean dishes and bottles and clean diapers and the child drifted off to dreamland with a clean bottom, while Husband gets to snore while I finish caring for our home and family.
Yeah he works crazy long hours, but I have two jobs. I have the 40 hours a week and I have the mother and wife job. I know he doesn't think that it's really that taxing, but it is. There's something everyday that I have to take care of immediately. I'm the one who makes sure we have food to eat and then usually makes it into something that he will approve of (must contain meat!) and then clean up the dishes and eventually wash them.
This is a job, I just don't get paid. Boy am I under-appreciated.