My new boss


Great news. A couple of my good Tower friends recently got new jobs. So awesome, right? Me? I've got a new job, too. I'm a mom and this is my new boss. He's like a lot of bosses in a way. Really demanding and not always clear about what he wants. I can honestly say that this is probably the hardest job I've ever had. I'm on call 24 hours a day and there are no days off. I get a few hour-long breaks here and there, but I usually spend those on my other jobs, which are maid and cook. Sorry, it's a "woe is me" kind of day.

First day


So today is our first day on our own. Leon's back at work and it's just me,
Ira and Heylove. Thank goodness the dog practically takes care of herself. So far, everything is fine so long as I can get things done with baby in one hand.

Well, some friends are asking what this is like, this being a mom thing and how I'm doing. It's true, all the cheesy things that people say about having kids. It's amazing, it's life affirming, it puts everything else in your life into a different perspective. It's also a lot of worry! I'm contstantly worrying, am I doing everything right? Is he getting enough to eat? Is he comfortable? Is the oven a safe place to keep him warm? It's all a little overwhelming sometimes. I love it though. I love Ira so much that it makes my heart want to explode and coat everything around me with gooey love. Okay, enough about babies!

On Saturday, I was so stoked to get out. I went to Katy's going away party and caught the last part of the 4 Eyes set. Man, it was the greatest! I really wished I could have had a frosty cold beer, but I'm still on meds from the HELLP. It was my first party/show since having baby and I felt a little akward and stiff without a cold one to swig from. I still had fun though.

I've been watching too much TV lately. It feels so wrong, but what else is there to do? Not much at this point, since baby eats so often. But I caught a couple of episodes of Commited: The Christies show. In a nutshell: SNORING! The production quality of the show is totally phoned in. The audio is bad, the boom mike is visible in many of the shots, there are errant sequences of bad animation and when they need to blur someone's face out, they use a black dot that you can totally see through. On top of all that, the Christie's life is pretty boring. They keep showing them being interviewed by various media, but it's always the same questions and answers.

Zzzz.

Little things


These days, since I don't get out much, I have to find my humor by watching tv or by little things like the Butterscotch Pony. I saw this at Target the other day and it made me think of the Butterscotch Stallion. Pretty, pretty, pretty funny.

And then I was watching Tyra today. She had Doug and Jackie Christie on, talking about the plight of the professional athlete and the temptation of sports groupies. She said that being a professional athlete surrounded by groupies was like being a kid in a sexual candy store. Dude, what is a sexual candy store? Doesn't really sound like a place for a kid to be. Oh, Tyra. You want to be Oprah for the young ladies, but you fall so short.

All Ira, all the time.


Here's Ira with his buddy Isaac. Oh, babies...so cute. They're made this way so that when you need to feed them at 3 AM, you think it's real sweet. Everything is going good so far. Thank goodness I'm not feeling sick anymore (I developed and recovered from HELLP syndrome). I am still tired because of the late night feedings and anemia (souvenir from the HELLP). I'm also sort of getting a little bored/stir crazy from being mostly cooped up inside. Yesterday we took baby to the co-op for lunch (he just LOVES spicy udon noodles!) and today we went to Target. It's kind of hard to make a lot of plans though. Right now, baby wants to eat every 1.5 - 3 hours and that's from the start of one feeding to the next. So if he takes 30 minutes to eat, I might only have an hour to nap, clean, shower or feed myself until the next feeding. But, baby...so presh! So worth it.