heading to chicago

Posted on August 24, 2008
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I’m off for Chicago in a few hours, returning on Thursday.  This is my longest trip yet, and in spite of our best efforts, we’re still way behind on getting the house in shape for me to be gone.

Still, I’m thinking that things will be okay.  The house may look like a small bomb went off in it when I get back, but as long as everyone happy and healthy, that’s what matters.

Having said that, we’d all appreciate your metta over the next several days cause…. you know what, it helps.

it’s not on YouTube!

Posted on August 21, 2008
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would you believe that no one has put videos on YouTube detailing the various ways to use the “over the shoulder baby holder” baby sling?  All I could find on the web was this set of diagrams, which helps, but to be honest, I don’t actually know where I’d pin a corsage.  Yes, it is a failing on my part, but still…

(I am overcoming my fear of slings, and in fact am doing quite well using an odd sort of side-lying position.  It works fine, the baby’s happy, she hasn’t fallen out, but it does’t feel quite right, so I was hoping to find some reassurance.  It may also just be that I have a long baby and she just doesn’t sling all that well right now)

one year

Posted on August 21, 2008
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not that have a wealth of experience, but based on the first run through, I’m thinking that this first year with a new baby is the hardest - and that really, with each passing day, things will get a little easier, a little more understandable, a little more workable.

that’s not to say that things aren’t good right now - they are wonderful actually.  still, though wonderful, the challenges are definitely there - the erratic schedule/sleep, the transition the older child is making as she learns to be a big sister, my own split work schedule that has me feeling totally burnt out and at the edges of holding it together most of the time.

so I’m not exactly marking time right now, but when I think about the changes that will happen with the little one over this next year - the increased mobility, the (hoped for) regularizing and lengthening of sleep/wake periods, the explosion in self awareness and self-expression that makes a HUGE difference in mitigating frustration. . . while i don’t long for infancy to be over, and in fact already miss the endless hours spent on the couch with her little body asleep on my chest, i do look forward to the changes that are coming.

leaving town tomorrow

Posted on August 12, 2008
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I’m leaving tomorrow for a few days in CA and I’m feeling pretty conflicted about it.  The work’s important, and I’m looking forward to it, but leaving family is hard, more so because the little one is still so little and juggling two kids is quite a bit of work.

I’ve got another trip at the end of the month which takes me away for longer, so maybe it’s good that I’m doing this trip now - we’ll get a picture of what kind of additional support we’ll need to make things go okay when I’m gone for longer periods of time.

Bookmarks for August 11th from 11:19 to 13:18

Posted on August 11, 2008
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Things I thought you might like reading for August 11th from 11:19 to 13:18:

read this: Visualizing Dow 6000

Posted on July 23, 2008
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http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney07232008.html

The economic sky is quickly darkening and Bernanke made no effort to hide his concern. His testimony was as close to the truth as one gets in Washington where honesty is usually eradicated like a malignant tumor. In any event, it is worth wading through Bernanke’s speech word by word even if it only reinforces one’s belief that the economy is about to take a sleigh-ride through a deflationary blast-furnace which will ultimately result in the demise of Breton Woods, the disorderly replacement of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, and an end to the United States short-lived dominance as the world’s lone superpower. The American Century has about run out of steam just eight years into the new mellenium. Bernanke’s presentation confirms what the econo-bloggers have been saying for the past three years; the end is nigh, get your house in order.

bye bye netflix, see you in October

Posted on July 21, 2008
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as a testament to how our lives are right now, we suspended our netflix account today.

Our last movie had been sitting there, untouched for almost 8 weeks, and I’d realized that we were really just fooling ourselves.

Not only do we not have time to watch movies right now, we don’t even have time to watch TV, and what time we do have should be spent sleeping or you know - talking with each other?  Definitely not blown on a movie.

So, at least for now, Netflix is gone.  Account gets automatically reactived in mid-October but who knows, by that point, we may just toss the TV set and be done with the whole thing :)

it could happen.

Bookmarks for July 1st through July 6th

Posted on July 6, 2008
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Things I thought you might like reading July 1st through July 6th:

and now we have two

Posted on June 24, 2008
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this morning, at 5:22am, our daughter was born.

This has been a truly amazing day, and I hope I have the chance to write about it soon, while the memory is still fresh.  Let me briefly say that home birth is absolutely amazing, and that we had two of the most wonderful midwives attending the birth.

More when I come up for air :)

Bookmarks for June 23rd from 06:27 to 11:15

Posted on June 23, 2008
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Things I thought you might like reading for June 23rd from 06:27 to 11:15:

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