Ugh, askye. Would ice help, maybe?

I'm going to go tomorrow to the computer store on campus, since I get a faculty discount there, and get the new computer and put it on the credit card that I have that my parents pay for. (I almost never use that card, but my mom likes for me to have it in case of emergencies.)

Feel better, askye!

Hil, I'm glad your parents are able to help you out.

I had my baby shower today. It was very nice, and I got a ridiculous amount of gifts. I mostly got clothes rather than items from my registry. ltc is going to be the best dressed baby ever.

I'm a side sleeper and normally that's not an issue -- except when I need to keep my leg elevated/propped up. Which is what I needed to do last night. I tried. But I finally gave up and wedged a pillow between my knees and tried to sleep on my side.

Woke up thinking I wasn't in pain until I started moving around and bent over. It doesn't hurt as bad as yesterday but I also managed to get a crick in my neck/shoulders so I called out. Hey not for anxiety or mental health! which sucks but still.

At some point I'm going to hobble myself down to a pharmacy and buy OTC pain killers and see if I can find a knee sleeve/brace thing that will fit.

I'll go to therapy but that means going up a steep flight of stairs (therapists office is in a converted Victorian home. At least I think it's Victorain. It was a house and isn't Colonial style). That will not be fun. I'm sitting in bed with the Chromebook and have my leg elevated, which seems to help.

TCG had to change her diaper in the car for the first time

My little two-door SAAB coupe was not very useful for diaper changes. It was bad enough crawling into the cramped back seat to strap the twins into car seats (a process we call "Daddy Yoga" in my family). There was no room left for diaper changes.

So I set up a diaper changing station in the trunk. I could be found on any street, with the trunk lid open and two boys inside, one boy peering over the tail lights and waving at passers-by as I changed the other one.

It wasn't unusual to hear people behind me taking a cell phone picture, and I was always worried that I would find myself on the cover of Time with a caption like "The New American Dad."

Very innovative, Rick!

We had a special new baby-backpack which came out with a folding pad that we could put Emmett on while we changed him.

We used that thing all the time, most frequently in GG Park, but once in the men's bathroom at Best Buy in Fremont. (Which did not have a changing station.)

Brilliant, Rick!

We had a special new baby-backpack which came out with a folding pad that we could put Emmett on while we changed him.

We registered for travel folding pad for changing her. We didn't get it, but I'll have to pick it up with one of the gift cards we received.

We are quickly beginning to judge restaurants less by the food and more by whether or not they have changing tables.

Don't forget to check and make sure there are changing tables in the mens and womens restrooms. I know my brother would run into issues with access to a changing table b/c they were mostly in the womens restrooms.

Yes, that is a problem as well. Especially since it is often easier for TCG to change her. Although he did learn the trick of seeing if there is one hiding in the handicapped stall.

Some places now have a "family bathroom" which is where you would find a changing table.

Clever and funny, Rick!

We had a stroller that could be set completely flat for a sleeping baby. That plus a folding changing pad was our go-to for changing diapers at places that didn't have changing tables.