Oh, and JZ, do you know Ask Moxie? Very apropos, today's topic: [link]
Also, when I am exceptionally exhausted, I reread this post, because I know somebody understands. I have been exactly here myself: [link]
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Feb 15, 2007 9:34:59 am PST #1165 of 10001
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Aims - Feb 15, 2007 9:35:28 am PST #1166 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Oh, JZ. {{{Love}}} I am so sorry, bebe.
You should totally get a do-over.
JZ - Feb 15, 2007 9:36:17 am PST #1167 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
sj, she had lengthened her sleep cycle out a bit last month, but since daycare started she's back to every 3 hours (not 3 hours of sleep at a time, but waking every 3 hours for half an hour of feeding, changing and soothing back to sleep, then rinse and repeat exactly 3 hours after the previous wake-up).
flea - Feb 15, 2007 9:37:59 am PST #1168 of 10001
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Oh, honey, you can cry on my bosom. Dang, I would be so panicked if I locked my baby in the car. Luckily I don't drive. (Although I have accidentally neglected to fasten the staps on the carseat for the entire ride home from the mall.)
sj - Feb 15, 2007 9:39:44 am PST #1169 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
{{{JZ}}} I have no idea what else to say, so I will just give more hugs.
Jesse - Feb 15, 2007 9:40:25 am PST #1170 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Let me just point out that this part:
the $1300 in additional repairs of leaky valves and bald tires the car turned out to also need when I brought it in for the keys
Not a bit your fault. Unless you're the kind of person who won't go to the doctor because of that one time Aunt Erma went in for a cold and found out she had cancer and DIED.
Lee - Feb 15, 2007 9:40:46 am PST #1171 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
JZ, I just discovered I get Monday off. (yes, I am a little slow about these things sometimes). Want me to do some swooping, and/or maybe take you out to lunch?
Topic!Cindy - Feb 15, 2007 9:43:48 am PST #1172 of 10001
What is even happening?
Not a bit your fault. Unless you're the kind of person who won't go to the doctor because of that one time Aunt Erma went in for a cold and found out she had cancer and DIED.
Seconded.
And really, when you're sleep deprived, you can't think the same. You just can't. I remember finally getting a week's worth of sufficient sleep when the babies got of an age, and being flabbergasted by how much more with it I was.
Do you and Hec split the night time feedings, at all?
Daisy Jane - Feb 15, 2007 9:45:39 am PST #1173 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
((((JZ)))) I have no idea what that must be like with a baby, but have, from time to time been so stressed with life goings on that I have done some truly stupid, stupid things, and I don't even have the reason of night time feedings.
JZ - Feb 15, 2007 9:48:24 am PST #1174 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Lee, thanks, but we'll be driving back down from Tahoe and I'm not sure exactly when we'll be back.
Everyone told me about the sleep dep, and I thought I understood, but I didn't. Not a bit. I haven't slept the night through since last August. Christmas Eve, and one night last week, she only woke once during the night, but it's been 2-4 wakeups a night all the other nights. Since she was born.
My supervisor is trying to groom me for an admin position supporting the cardiac PICU director once my boss retires, a job with all kinds of fancy perks and great money and varied and interesting duties, and I'm gonna have to tell her NO. Just NO. I can't be a remotely competent parent and spouse and do that. Which makes me feel like ass; I have this vague idea that the world is full of high-powered lawyers who are back arguing cases before the Supreme Court at 6 weeks post-partum, and I can't get my shit together enough to order an extra key for my boss's office.