7 Quick Tuesday Takes - really trying edition
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 7:30AM The point of "7 Quick Tuesday Takes" is that they be just that - quick. Being naturally verbose, I never seem to quite hit that mark. But we try again.
1 - Is it weird that I like to look at my baby registry on Babies R Us and imagine using all the things? I honestly don't think I looked at my bridal registry this much, but I could look at the baby stuff every day. (Um, okay, I do look at it every day.)
2 - Current dislike: People who tell me "Oh, you just wait!" when I say I'm tired/busy/always out of time/whatever. Yes, people, I know life gets harder when you have a kid. I'm not a friggin' moron - but that does not devalue how tired or swamped I might be right now. (I'll add that I hear this most from stay-at-home-moms who don't work or go to school. I know they work VERY hard and it's incredibly exhausting work, but there's also got to be understanding for the fact that going to work every day and taking grad classes plus managing a new puppy and being tired is a lot.)
3 - Still on my lime kick. Bought lime ice pops this weekend. Mmm. I sit and smell one for a solid minute before I even taste it.
4 - Junk food might be addictive. Duh. I learned this AGES ago. Our bodies were built to stock up when we "find" fatty foods because they'd have been rare when we were hunter/gatherers. Now they're everywhere and we're not equipped to have them all the time. Doesn't seem like rocket science to me.
5 - After spending a zillion thousands of dollars on my car last week, I got in it yesterday morning and the check engine light came on and the car shuddered all the way to work. *sigh* A coil had shorted out. It was replaced and I didn't pay for it. At this point, I'm debating biking to work. Too bad my commute is entirely on the highway (and NJ is so not bike friendly). I told the guy at the dealership I was getting tired of seeing him. He responded, "Yeah, I have that effect on women." Cute. :)
6 - We got no work done on clearing out the office-to-be-nursery this weekend. Oops. It's close to cleared out, but we really need to get cracking. Just have to sort through things and move/store them otherwise our son will have a desk chair for a changing table and guitar parts as rattles.
7 - This weekend was my nephew's "kids" birthday party at the local Little Gym. I learned: I could never work there; I admire the people who do; watching kids play is exhausting; and two year olds aren't great at waiting their turns. I said it's like outsourcing your kid's birthday party - I think it's fantastic. Everyone (kids and adults) had a great time. Here's my nephew, TJ, catching some air on the bouncy thing:
I love that you can actually see space between his feet and the bouncy thing. And speaking of feet, look at those chubby little feet of his. I love them!
More photos to follow tomorrow... (I said I was keeping this "quick," right?)
Reader Comments (5)
I'm crazy obsessed with my registry. It's sick, really.
Have you tried the Lime Tostitos? Yummmm.....
About those who say, "Oh, you just wait!"- that happens to me all the time, too. I'm not sure why people think it's alright to say that. It's frustrating. It's like hearing an advice you've never asked for to begin with, and I don't think those who say that $#!+ realize it makes them look like arrogant one-uppers.
@Liza - I haven't liked the lime Tostitos in the past... I wonder if I would now, hmm.
@Nagehan - You're so right: it does feel like they're trying to one-up. Maybe some of it comes from insecurity (stay at home moms' work is so often devalued) but it's like there's a collective forgetfulness about how life can be busy without kids, too.
Man, I don't know how you are doing it between working, grad school AND being pregnant. You're my hero!
Honestly, those things alone are okay... it's the added time-suck of the puppy that's making it hard b/c I don't find enough time for homework, housecleaning, cooking, etc.