Today marks the day when Isaac became my errand boy. I was cuddled up here on the couch enjoying my blanket and laptop while he built another car train. My nose began to dribble a little, as it has been prone to do over the last couple of days. I thought to myself, “He has wee little hands that know how to carry things, he knows what toilet paper is, and he knows where it is. Hmmm.” We sat for awhile when suddenly another thought hit me. It STANKS of poop in here. Someone pooped their pants and I might be comfortable in my non-snuggie blanket, but I’m not that comfortable. And then I immediately realized I could ask Isaac to go get me toilet paper to blow my nose with. I asked him and he enthusiastically agreed and ran off to the bathroom. He came back with a tiny shred of toilet paper and gave it to me with such contentment in his eyes. Then I asked him to bring me more toilet paper, “the whole roll” I said as I gestured the approximate size of a toilet paper roll. He was again overly excited about his quest and ran off to get the toilet paper for me. He came back with another tiny, microscopic scrape of toilet paper. Then I said, “I need to blow my nose, so I need mo…” and he immediately got it. I saw the light bulb brighten over his head as he acknowledged “Oh!” and ran off to get it. Then he did indeed bring the entire roll and said “blow your nose?” Amazing. A month ago our conversations were one way and boring. Now we talk. Now I enjoy approximately 93% of our conversations. Hurray for tiny little humans. Hurray for this one, especially. (Minus the poop.)
Archive for 2009
Dreams Do Come True
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Countdown
Friday, November 13th, 2009I’ve started a countdown of my Christmas trip. Not really a countdown, exactly, because I don’t know how many days there are and if I did the math I’d forget by tomorrow so what’s the point in that, really? I guess I just mean I’m really looking forward to it and I’m thinking about it a lot. Every time I hear someone talking about holiday plans, I think about it. People happen to be talking about holiday plans a lot since it’s almost Thanksgiving.
Everyone should be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to talk to Isaac now. It’s full on conversing. Seriously. I can be stuck in some compromising situation where I’m in dire need of a dish towel, a broom, and two cookies, then ask him to go fetch those items and he will say “Okay mama” and fetch them. I haven’t really been in that kind of situation, but you understand it portrays his comprehension level, right? He understands me! And I understand him! He asks real questions that I can give him real answers for and he actually uses his brain to crunch my answers into understanding. He is a real person! Did you guys know babies turned into that? Damn it’s cool!
He was having several bits of what some people call the terrible twos. I just think he was being an asshole. Either way, we had some cussing and discussing of boundaries and why they exist and why you can’t just throw them out the window all willy nilly whenever you please. There were a few rough days and one day I almost had a mental breakdown and was very tempted to ask his daycare teacher if we could just put him in his little cubby for the night. Luckily the really awful days were short lived and the things he FREAKED out about are no longer meltdown issues. I doubt we’re done with the whole phase, but I can hope.
I hope everyone is doing well. We will be in Texas from Dec 16-Jan 5. The first weekend we are there I am planning to be in Austin for 2-4 days. The rest of the time will be at the folks with a small chance of making a run out to Midland for a few days. We will see how things work out. Send me an email or IM or whatever method you choose if you’d like to hang during that trip sometime and it isn’t already planned. <3
New Boomdiada
Friday, November 6th, 2009The Nights Are Getting Long
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Not in a depressing sort of way, but kind of. Lemme splain.
The sun isn’t really coming up until after 7:00 AM sometime, I haven’t looked it up yet, but I know it’s still dark after my alarm goes off the first two times. The sun is also going down sometime before 7:00 PM, again, not sure exactly when. I guess I could look that up to emphasize my point. One sec.
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Sunrise 7:45 AM
Sunset 5:59 PM
So there you have it. The nights are seriously getting long. It’s bizarro land up here in the Northwest. I’m not going to complain because I actually like the dank dark moody day, it’s just weird is all I’m sayin.
Today is a slight exception as my regular bus chose not to come by at all and it was raining a touch (a lot). I had on my giant jacket and I had an umbrella and some gloves stuffed into the pockets because I’m cold weather illiterate, so that worked out well for me. I normally have no idea which jacket to wear on which day according to the forecast. Not to mention my complete lack of style. These days my daily wardrobe consists of a shortsleeve shirt somewhere on my top end, a long sleeve shirt preferably in the same vicinity as the short sleeve, jeans, socks, and shoes that look like they won’t soak up every drop of rain. The shirts rarely match and the shoes are pretty limited at the moment. I then top it off with either a sweatshirt hoodie or my giant jacket. Oh, also lots of hats because I have no idea how to “do” my hair when expecting rain. I basically look exactly the same everyday. I’m a real prize nowadays. (Occasional self deprecation is funny.)
Anywho. I have to hit a goldmine at the Goodwill one of these days. I don’t know if it’s at all in style to wear big rainboots with huge polka dots on them, but that’s what I’m looking for. And perhaps a rain proof jacket with a hood so I can seal myself in and not have a damp jacket on all day. I have to figure it out myself before people start submitting me to go on What Not to Wear. I swear if they ever made me go on that show I would be so mean to those a-holes. They’re SO mean. Why does anyone agree to be on the show? A closet full of clothes isn’t worth the ridicule people. Maintain your dignity.
So that’s most of the not really depressing, but kind of stuff. The other depressing part is that I’ve been really homesick the last week or two. I miss my friends. I miss seeing my parents once or twice a month. I miss being around for the womb-time of my incoming nephew. I miss Tacosx3 with my BFFofAustin. None of this is surprising. I knew it would happen sooner or later and I’m sure everyone else did too. I think maybe it’s because I’m not going to be home for Thanksgiving like I had planned for so long. Whatever the cause, I know I’ll be okay. At the end of the sad moments, I remember why I’m here. I remember in the grand scheme of life, my time here is very temporary and it will be worth it. It better be fucking worth it. I will make it worth it.
Oh snap it’s a woot off. I’m out.
Running
Monday, October 5th, 2009I haven’t updated in here yet. I am a runner. I started training for a half marathon about a month (or two?) ago. I don’t think I ever expected to be an actual, real runner, but here I am. Every weekend I go and run with some chicks and add a mile or two onto my previous weekend run. During the weeks I’m trying to run at a gym close to work. I went about 7.5 miles this last Saturday and the Sunday before that I completed my first 5K race (3.2 miles). I’m actually pretty proud of myself and I enjoy knowing that I can do this. I will be completing the half marathon in November. It’s about 13 miles. I’m excited! Here’s a screenshot of my finish at the Alki Beach 5K last weekend.
