Busy, busy

Callum is slowly trying to move from two naps a day, to one. This, as I was warned, has not been a smooth transition nor has it been exceptionally fun. On the whole, for a one year old, he isn’t horrific when he’s tired but one the whole, as an adult, any sort of whining or carrying on makes me insane. Ask Michelle. I can handle full on temper tantrums, but the whining? I want to rip my eyeballs out. Scream, yell, stomp your feet, throw things across the room, none of that is going to phase me but sit there and go “eh, eh, eh, eh” over and over again and its torture to my ears.
The whining is why the dog gets the brunt of my frustrations. That dog whines incessantly and he can whine for hours, nonstop. Everyday Steve and I have this conservation where I declare the dog must die, and he responds that I need to learn the art of ignoring. Why must I? Why doesn’t the dog just_stop_the_whining? If he stopped whining he’d get what he wants that much faster and probably even be showered with hugs and kisses for his effort.
I know that every single living soul in this house whines because it works. Clearly it gets to me. Clearly they’ll eventually get whatever it is they want just so that they shut the fuck up. Knowing this does not make it any easier on me. I might have a degree in engineering but underneath it all, I’m a moron.
This post wasn’t going to be about the whining. It was going to be about the busy. The next couple of weeks I’m crazy busy sitting for a friend’s kids a couple of mornings, meetings with my volunteer group, trying to get organized for Christmas, and social engagements. It’s going to be fun but exhausting.
So exhausting I couldn’t even stay awake to watch the last 20 minutes of Heros. Someone want to fill me in? I went to bed once D.L. saw the message on the mirror that Gya went to L.A….

The Sun, It Blinds Me…

Yet another truly gorgeous day. I’m beginning to think this is the Apocalypse. And I must say, if we’re all going to die today, it might as well be warm and sunny.
Took a lovely stroll around the block and am thinking that a day like today might just call for an afternoon trip to the beach after Sir Callum has his nap. Which is likely going to be soon judging from the incessant whining happening at my feet…

Behold the Sequel

All seems well with the babe that’s brewing. The only odd thing about this ultrasound was random questions about heart disease and other heart disease related comments. Was she trying to tell us something?! At any rate, I’m not going to read anything into it, probably just my over active imagination anyway. The due date was moved up one whole day – March 30th, 2008 – damn I’m good with the cycle count, and he/she is a fairly long little creature already scoring in the 75th percentile for height, like her/his big brother.
Does he/she look like Callum? (and why don’t they just tell me the sex so I can stop with the he/she thing?!)

I get weekly emails letting me know the development of Callum, where he’s at, what issues we might be having, etc, from Baby Centre. I signed up when I was pregnant because they’ll send weekly emails about the development of the pregnancy. I give them a quick skim to see if there is anything of interest and then hit ‘delete’. I should just unsubscribe, but you know, that’s like work. There is almost never anything of interest in these emails. This week’s email was about potty training. Seriously? Not even on the radar. A more appropriate topic might be how to deal with a time change. Who’s in charge of this stuff?!
We’re having yet another absolutely gorgeous fall day out here in Island Land. Its really weird to be at the beginning of November and have maybe seen two days of cloud and rain in weeks and weeks.
I’ve started my Christmas crafts, really late but I’ve started. I’m really excited about what I’m doing this year, so expect an update soon with some crafty goodness.
yeah, basically I have nothing to say .

Winter is amoung us…

Its been very frosty and chilly in my part of the world. Enjoyable, actually, because even though its frosy its beautiful and sunny.
And I’m sitting here wishing for rain so my damn well would fill up.
Halloween was pretty good. We went to a pumpkin walk in our community and it was awesome. You walk through a trail in the trees lit only by pumpkins and paper laterns and along the way are ‘spooks’ doing their spooky thing and handing out candy to the wee ones. They spooks were amazing, really played it up and did a fantastic job. They had all sorts of things hanging in the trees, including an amazing spider, and at the end of the trail was a huge bonfire, free hot chocolate and then the night ended with fireworks. They even had a tent to showcase the pagen celebration of Halloween and you could learn a little about the history. I was really impressed, we live in a small, hippy community so I wasn’t expecting ANYTHING like that.
I hope everyone else had a fantastic Halloween too.