I survived the weekend
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mamajoanThat's about the best I can say for it: I survived it. None of the people I had called to babysit ended up being able to babysit (as expected since I called pretty last-minute). So, the only breaks I got were when Isaac was sleeping. sigh.
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metafrantic and sandykidd to be in charge for a little while during naptime, while I went to the library. That wasn't much of a break, but it was something. At least it kept me from napping while Isaac was napping, which I sorely wanted to do, but I really oughtn't. I napped while Isaac was napping on Saturday, and look how that turned out: I stayed up till 2am that night. Augh!
On the plus side, Isaac was pretty good most of the time. He played by himself a whole lot on Saturday while I zoned out. We went grocery shopping and he had a good time (he loves grocery shopping -- all those aisles up and down which to run). Sunday, we spent most of it at grandma's house, and Isaac had great difficulty grasping the concept that grandma wasn't at her house. I explained it to him repeatedly before we went over, and he still asked for her several times after we got there. When he woke up from his nap, he asked for grandma. I said she wasn't there, so he asked for Unclemetafrantic. LOL! I said, "sorry, all you get is your boring old mama." What am I, chopped tofu? ;)
I had a bit of difficulty getting him to nap at grandma's house, until I realized that he wanted me to rock him in the rocking chair while singing to him, like grandma does -- as opposed to lying down on the bed with him while singing. That was tricky, because I had difficulty breathing while sitting in the rocking chair with 30 pounds of toddler on my chest and 20 pounds of fetus compressing my lungs and diaphragm upward. And it's hard to sing when you can't breathe. So it's a good thing he went to sleep pretty fast that way.
On the other plus side, I somehow got a lot of reading done this weekend too. I read two Kinky Friedman mysteries (mind candy) and finished Fire Logic by Laurie Marks, which is excellent and everyone should read it. Remember the bit above about how I stayed up till 2am Saturday night/Sunday morning? Because I had to finish the darn book. It's a curse. ;) I liked it so much I had to go straight to the library and get the sequel.
The Cambridge library is currently undergoing renovations, so the books and library functions have temporarily relocated to a different building. It just happens to be the building I went to school in for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades (that's approx. ages 12-14 for you non-USAdian types). That was pretty weird. And as if the whole "my old school is now a library" thing wasn't weird enough, some guy accosted me inside the halls thereof and (as near as I could tell) wanted me to help him find a book. About X? Or something? I couldn't understand what he was saying and I didn't really want to. I told him to go away and ask a fucking librarian, you moron. But not in those words, 'cause he was scary.
In other news, I totally hate bothshelbecat and cheryln for alerting me to the fact that that intelligence test from last week has a second part. Augh!!! For the record, I'm at 32/33 on Part 1 and 12/24 on Part 2. EVIL I tell you, EVIL!!!!
On Sunday, I did get
metafrantic and sandykidd to be in charge for a little while during naptime, while I went to the library. That wasn't much of a break, but it was something. At least it kept me from napping while Isaac was napping, which I sorely wanted to do, but I really oughtn't. I napped while Isaac was napping on Saturday, and look how that turned out: I stayed up till 2am that night. Augh!On the plus side, Isaac was pretty good most of the time. He played by himself a whole lot on Saturday while I zoned out. We went grocery shopping and he had a good time (he loves grocery shopping -- all those aisles up and down which to run). Sunday, we spent most of it at grandma's house, and Isaac had great difficulty grasping the concept that grandma wasn't at her house. I explained it to him repeatedly before we went over, and he still asked for her several times after we got there. When he woke up from his nap, he asked for grandma. I said she wasn't there, so he asked for Uncle
metafrantic. LOL! I said, "sorry, all you get is your boring old mama." What am I, chopped tofu? ;)I had a bit of difficulty getting him to nap at grandma's house, until I realized that he wanted me to rock him in the rocking chair while singing to him, like grandma does -- as opposed to lying down on the bed with him while singing. That was tricky, because I had difficulty breathing while sitting in the rocking chair with 30 pounds of toddler on my chest and 20 pounds of fetus compressing my lungs and diaphragm upward. And it's hard to sing when you can't breathe. So it's a good thing he went to sleep pretty fast that way.
On the other plus side, I somehow got a lot of reading done this weekend too. I read two Kinky Friedman mysteries (mind candy) and finished Fire Logic by Laurie Marks, which is excellent and everyone should read it. Remember the bit above about how I stayed up till 2am Saturday night/Sunday morning? Because I had to finish the darn book. It's a curse. ;) I liked it so much I had to go straight to the library and get the sequel.
The Cambridge library is currently undergoing renovations, so the books and library functions have temporarily relocated to a different building. It just happens to be the building I went to school in for 6th, 7th, and 8th grades (that's approx. ages 12-14 for you non-USAdian types). That was pretty weird. And as if the whole "my old school is now a library" thing wasn't weird enough, some guy accosted me inside the halls thereof and (as near as I could tell) wanted me to help him find a book. About X? Or something? I couldn't understand what he was saying and I didn't really want to. I told him to go away and ask a fucking librarian, you moron. But not in those words, 'cause he was scary.
In other news, I totally hate both
shelbecat and cheryln for alerting me to the fact that that intelligence test from last week has a second part. Augh!!! For the record, I'm at 32/33 on Part 1 and 12/24 on Part 2. EVIL I tell you, EVIL!!!!
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that's it! that was the book!
Date: 2006-01-30 04:59 pm (UTC)Re: that's it! that was the book!
Date: 2006-01-30 05:01 pm (UTC)You should still read Women on Fire too though!
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