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Mar 22

Ten Thought Tuesday

by Noelle

1.  Today was a really crappy day for me.  I think it almost 100% has to do with the fact that yesterday the high temp was in the upper 60s, and today it was 45.  30s are forecast for the next 10 days or so.  I am sick of cold weather, plain and simple.

2.  However, I noticed earlier that my tulips are 6inches tall.  Apparently THEY were also liking the bit of warm weather. 

3.  H decided to possibly give crawling a try after all today.  Now if you follow my blog, I’m sure you know that to-date, this kid hates being on her stomach.  NO tummy time for her.  She quickly learned how to roll from her tummy to her back, and would do that every time we placed her on her tummy.  Then a week ago, she woke us up in the morning screeching, because she’d rolled onto her tummy in her crib and was PISSED.  That was all for that…until yesterday.  Yesterday, she started rolling on her tummy, then her back, then her tummy, then her back…and she figured out she could get over to the toy I wasn’t handing her.  (I am such a meanie.)   Today…I changed her diaper on the floor, threw it away and turned back…and she was on her tummy, facing her favorite toy, and repeatedly pulling her knees up under her bum. 

I say…batten down the hatches, get off the sidewalks, and hide the cats….H is gonna be on the move!

4.  There’s no Dancing with the Stars on tonight.  So I’m torn about how I should spend my evening.  Should I…watch some (free) online tutorials to learn how to get started with digital scrapbooking?  Not that I want to digitally scrapbook, because I don’t own a wide-format photo printer (Santa?)  But I want to learn how to work with the overlays and brushes in Adobe Photoshop Elements. 

5.  …OR…if I don’t put in the time on the scrapbooking….should I give some love to my Worgen Druid?  Phia dinged 27 yesterday.  I’m so having fun with her.  I’m thinking I might start another Worgen, so I can move it over and go through the new quests in the Eastern Kingdoms.  (Goldshire, Westfall, etc.)  Why a Worgen and not a Human?  Well, I like the Worgen starting area best.  I wish I’d gone through the Dwarf/Gnome starting areas per-Cataclysm enough, so that I’d recognize changes in the quests.  But sadly, I didn’t.  And I did even less on the Horde side.  But even so, at least with the new quests on Kalimdor, I’m loving leveling through the Night Elf area that I’ve been through probably 20 times pre-Cataclysm.  It’s made leveling fun for me again.  Well, at least until I hit Outlands.  *shudder* 

[I am aware my non-WoW friends have NO CLUE what I talked about there.  Sorry...pick up the game.  It's FUN.]

6.  Job hunting sucks.  Even more so when you HAVE to do it.

7.  Ok, I took a break and did my time on the elliptical.  My performance is dismal, but I did take a year off, with having H and all.  It’s at least not back to what it was when I first started several years ago.  But note…this was the second day in a row that I hit the elliptical.  Twice…not in a month, but in a WEEK.  I’m on a role.

8.  I have this desire to make this chicken fajita soup recipe I found.  I’m not sure of the Weight Watchers points, because I can’t get into eTools to figure it out.  But…seriously, strips of chicken, green & red peppers, peblano peppers, chicken broth, spiced black beans, fire roasted tomatos….how bad could that be on points?  That said, D won’t eat it…it’s to veggie based. 

9.  I went to Weight Watchers tonight.  That’s all.  Not great.  But I went.  I really want to get back to where I was with the program when I met D 4 years ago.  Pre-baby, pre-married weight-gain, pre-dating slacking.  I need to get back to when I was focused.

10.  Maybe I need a spreadsheet that calculates my Weight Watchers points for me.  I was the most focused when I had my spreadsheet set up to enter my points and it calculated my remaining points for me.  See…I don’t theory craft in Wow…I do it in everything else.  ;)

Ramblings

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Mar 21

Rear Facing Car Seat

by Noelle

Well now I’m just confused.

I read an article this morning on my local news channel’s website, stating that the powers that be in the safety world have determined that children should sit in rear facing car seats until they are 2 years old, not 1 year old. 

Well now how’s that going to work?

My kid is tall.  (Ok, at 8 months I guess I should say she’s “long”.)  We just started her in the rear-facing car seat in February, because she was too tall/long for the baby carrier.  Not a big deal, as we had the car seats and were amply prepared for the switch.  But that said, she’s in this car seat, and she has about 1 inch left before her feet are touching the seat back that’s in front of her. 

So my question then is….if at 8 months she’s this close to running out of leg room…what will the leg room situation be by age 2?  Will she be sitting with her legs folded in front of her?  How is that for safety?  (not to mention comfort, but we all know that comfort is sacrificed in the name of fashion and safety.) 

I just don’t get it. 

Maybe they’ll come out with different construct for car seats.  Meaning dropping another $350 each on another pair of car seats?  Hello? Does someone want to give me the money for this?  Car seats are expensive, especially if you want to get the ones that supposedly are the safest. 

I wonder how long it will take the laws to catch up to the recommendations.  Then again, there’s so many recommendations out now, I think they’re just trying to confuse parents more than they already are.  (Like, Why is their juice marketed for babies, and why do I see people giving juice to babies, when H’s doctor says not too?  I don’t get it!)

Baby Rants

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Mar 20

Taking Back My House

by Noelle

It’s so weird.  After months and months of clutter I couldn’t control, things are starting to move back to “normal”. 

See, it started with the baby.  Of course I couldn’t control the full onset of baby clutter.  I corralled that as best I could with toy bins and storage baskets.  But there is simply no getting around the fact that babies need large items that take up space.  Items such as carriers, pack-n-plays, swings, play mats, car seats, bouncy chairs, high chairs, etc. 

I was dealing ok with the baby gear.  Then in December, we went and bought a new kitchen table.  I’d been lusting after this table at Ikea for a couple years.  So we finally bought it.  BUT…what to do with my old table?  The chairs had fallen apart and been reassembled with screws and Gorilla Glue.  The table had some scratches on the top, courtesy of cat claws.  But it would make a perfectly fine eat-in-kitchen table in a future house….or a perfectly fine craft table in a craft room of a future house.  Which means that in true ME fashion, I couldn’t part with the set.  It was one of the first things I bought when I moved out on my own. 

What this also means, however, is that the old table had its legs removed and was tucked away behind my family room couch.  The chairs, meanwhile, were stacked in pairs, in the center of the family room.  And, in another assault on that room’s usage, the growing collection of decommissioned baby gear was stacked against the bookcase. 

I effectively lost my familyroom. 

So ok, it’s not a room we used alot of.  However, with the open concept of the first floor, you could see it from just about anywhere else.  What a lovely site…stacked furniture.  It’s bad Feng Shui.  My chi was stagnating.  In other words, it was DRIVING ME NUTS. 

But today, a bright and sunny prequel to Spring, day, I took back control.  My dad stopped over and offered to take the stacked chairs to storage for us.  Not only that, he took the 2 square, pointy, easy-for-a-toddler-to-pull-over end tables, and my wine rack that has the same issue.  The wine rack, at least, will come back when H is older.  But the rest…..gone from my family room!  The table is still there, but it is rather out of sight and not as urgent an issue.

And so, it is now possible to walk in my familyroom again.  There’s still a bit of clutter as we search for permanent storage issues for that decommissioned baby gear.  But it’s 1/3 of what it was.  And I, for one, am happy.  As is the chi flowing freely through the house.

Interesting

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