The angry tooter?
The angry tooter?
Year: 2009
I emptied out my cube last Wednesday because I hate having anything that identifies me at work. I figure when they either fire me for calling someone an idiot or lay me off because they vastly underestimated the severity of the recession; I won’t have to tote 15 boxes to the car and take the walk of shame 15,000 times. Enough with all these wonderful thoughts…
Lucas managed to sleep 4-5 hours in between feedings yesterday and going by what I remember only fed about 6-7 times yesterday. He was able to eat 4-5 ounces at each feeding which is a good thing for everyone. As much fun as it is to get up every 2-3 hours and feed him, it’ll be nice to get a little more uninterrupted sleep. SO KNOCK ON WOOD. KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK.
Additionally, the current recipe for getting Lucas to sleep: Swaddle him tight enough that he can’t flail his arms and legs. Give him a pacifier. Check for additional crying. If crying then make sure swaddle cuts off circulation to his brain. Next, check if he wants some more food. If no more food then check for wet/poopie diaper. Next, re-swaddle and place in bouncer with pacifier. This works; for now.
Last night Lucas had his first real bath (as in he was in a tub full of water instead of the sponge baths you give newborns). He actually seemed to be enjoying it until we got his head wet to wash his hair. If the computer will stay on long enough today ill post some pix.
this morning he said his first word…in baby language. he said “meh” which in English means: whatever, blah, boring, F that shit. definitely takes after his father. actually it was probably just a random sound to accidentally fall out of his mouth and has nothing to do with any advanced developmental genius.
i really need a new computer. this one is dyyinnggggg
Basic premise – The care in nationalized healthcare is rationed and Canadians can have extremely long wait times for procedures that are needed now. Cancer doesn’t stop for governmental buearcarcy or so I hear. That previous sentence was an extreme case of hyperbole. It would be nice to hear more statistics.
Disclaimer: WSJ is owned by the same dude that owns Foxnews just so you know where the bias could be.
Disclaimer (2): Republicans and Democrats all want one thing – more power. I’m rapidly descending in to the “You are all idiots camp.” These days it is more of a pick your poison choice and hope it doesn’t kill you.
1. Why in the hell do I show up to work? I can do everything I need to do at home and get an extra hour of sleep (or 3 if it is a slow day). At this point I spend about 3-4 hours a day just doing administrative stuff (filling out forms, etc.) just to get things put in production.
2. My workplace also deems it necessary that I tell someone that I’ve had my blood pressure checked monthly. I don’t have to report any numbers or have any evidence. I just have to say I’ve done it. I had my blood pressure taken a week or so ago – 118/72. I’m obviously not in the demographic that needs it taken monthly. Most likely my death will be caused by the f*@king aneurysm I get when I try not to strangle the idiotic person telling me I need to report the fact that I got a blood pressure check not my high blood pressure.
3. I could list work idiocy all day it seems. Our department has a goal to do 5 hours of community service a month or something like that. I’ll just say unless I get caught doing something illegal (see wut I did thar) then I’m not community service.
4. My mom is still batshit insane.
Lucas is now One Month Old!!
We had the one month pedatrician appointment today, and he now weighs 10 lbs 5oz!! He is getting so big…my little chunky monkey.
2 weeks later…thought id record another night’s sleep schedule for comparison
2:30am we went up to bed
2:30-3am i sat up pumping (lucas was asleep when we carried him up)
3-3:30am change diaper, fed bottle 3.0 oz
3:30-4am trying to get him settled and asleep with pacifier and swaddling … hes off and on fussy and not sleeping
4am fed him a 1 oz bottle of formula, but he’s still upset
4:15 am – 5am i get him to fall asleep on my chest while im propped up on pillows, we doze
5am – 6:30 am im able to move him to the crib w/o disturbing him and i can lay down and sleep. he woke up at 6am briefly but went back to sleep
6:30am – 7am woke up, diaper change, bottle 2.0 + 2.0 formula
7am-8am slept propped up in bed again
8am tried to move him to the crib but it disturbed him too much so Paul took him and i went to bed
8:15 am – 12:45 pm i slept
so it was about 3 nonconsecutive hrs sleep and 4.5 solid hours of sleep
yay paul bought me a new laptop! it was freakin $2500 cause i wanted a gaming one instead of a regular one. its also an alienware…dun dun duun ( the same brand of gaming laptop i had that had a meltdown in london) but since that was 3 yrs ago im hoping this one is better (and since it is now owned by Dell). well if this one melts, too, at least ill be in america to replace it.
First id like to say a couple of things…
#1 Souci is pretty smart. Why go stand out in the rain to pee when you can just pee on the front porch. Silly Abby standing out there in the rain and wet grass.
#2 Paul is pretty smart. i really need stamps and when he went to the store tonight he didnt get me any, so he brought me home ferrero rocher instead. instant forgiveness.
So we have accepted a quest from a gnome to find the Ultimate Formula. We began with various brands of the basic formula: Similac, Enfamil, Nestle, and Store brand and observed the various effects. Not receiving a quest completion on any of those, we tried Similac Sensitive which is lactose free. This improved the gassiness but still no quest completion check off. So tonight Paul bought the $25/jar (which lasts less than a week) super sensitive hypo-allergenic ultimate formula. I returned to the quest giver gnome and handed him this special formula, which he drank. Much /fussy and /grumpy emotes ensued. About an hour later paul lay him down in the crib and he lay there looking around a few moments calmy before errupting all 3 oz of the ultimate special formula in a geyser that would make the one at Yellowstone that Gramma Janice is visiting this week pack up and go home. Quest failed.
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