Hodgepodge

I have so much to say today that I think it best to just throw it at you in bullet format. If I tried to make separate posts for each of these I’d never get around to it. So while Bridget is asleep I shall perform a data dump.

• Today Bridget had her nine-month check up, just a bit early, since we’ll be on vacation when she actually hits her nine month birthday. She is officially tiny but the happiest baby on earth. Seriously. Dr. Karam says so. But he’s fine with her growth curve, even if she is in the fifth percentile for weight. He again assured me that she will simply never be one of those chunky babies but that she is perfect and on track, if not ahead, of her milestones. He also said it’s fine to ditch the baby food. Which is good because she is growing impatient with us feeding her with a spoon. Now that she has had the freedom that is feeding herself Cheerios she wants nothing to do with us holding the spoon. I was worried about how much food she’d actually ingest versus how much would end up on the floor, but at this point, what can you do? I honestly do not want to start making meal time a battle and she really is getting most of her nutrition from her formula anyway. So there.

• Nature sucks. I mean it. Is 2007 the Year of the Disgusting Bug? I don’t know what it is about this summer but nature is going mad. First my lovely SIL found a disturbingly large snake in her driveway and had to call the police to get rid of it for her (long story, no she is not a nutter. It was evening and animal control calls go to the police after hours). Then we had a snake, albeit a tiny one, but still slithery and icky, on our patio. Flies are overtaking the world. Literally, every time we open the door to let the dogs in or out, or to go get the mail or anything, it seems three flies come in. We don’t hang around with the door open, we don’t do anything that we haven’t always done. And yet this summer, we have had more flies in the house than we have total in the time we’ve lived together anywhere. And there is nothing so embarrassing as having your guests have to shoo flies away from their heads. Makes me feel like they think we are unclean. And then last night, I saw the most disgusting bug I have ever seen in my 33 years on this planet. I don’t even know what the hell it was. I was out with the dogs making sure Lucy did her business outside, so as not to get up in the middle of the night and piss in the hallway. And this THING flew slowly past me (it was so big, it couldn’t even work up much speed) and landed on the door frame. It was green, had big long wings sort of like a grasshopper, but it’s body was more like a beetle. And it was almost square, if that makes sense, with crazy menacing eyes (ok, maybe I’m exaggerating teeny bit there) sort of on the sides of its body/head. I was afraid to walk past it to get back inside, so I tapped on the window to get Jake to come out. He agreed that it was hideous and looked like something from Men in Black. After I was safely inside, I decided to try to photograph it because hell, maybe I’d discovered a new species or maybe found a living creature from the Jurassic era that scientists had believed to be extinct. But I wasn’t going to go back outside with it, you can bet your ass. So I tried to take the picture through the glass in our back door and nothing turned out very well. Hmph. Well, maybe it’ll return tonight. And, the other day when we were at my parents, I saw the hugest spider I’d ever seen outside a zoo. It had woven a beautiful web outside my parents’ house, and although I’d never tolerate that thing in my house, it was lovely and of course it was keeping all the bugs off my parents’ porch. My mom had a hissy fit and made my dad kill it though. So someone please explain to me what the hell is going on with the creepy-crawlies.

• We are going on vacation in less than two weeks!  Back to Hilton Head Island for seven nights. With travel time from Jacksonville, we’ll get six full days to enjoy South Carolina. Also and this is most exciting, I get to finally meet Shelly and her husband and Peanut. I can’t wait! We’ve been online friends for over a year now, and have talked on the phone, but we’ve never met in person.  I feel all giddy like it’s a first date. Shelly, I hope you don’t think I’m psycho for saying that. Anyway…. We have the keys to our condo and are starting to gather the metric ton of things we’ll need to bring with us. Luckily we found a great company in HHI that rents every baby gear item you could possibly need, from exersaucers to cribs, from high chairs to jumpers. We are getting a full-size crib, since Bridget will have her own room anyway, and space is not an issue. She might as well have a bed that is similar to what she’s used to at home. We are also getting a booster seat with a tray for feeding (see above bullet point about self-feeding). We are trying to pack as little as possible. I’m even contemplating not packing much in the way of toiletries because we have to go to the grocery store when we get there anyway, so I can buy travel sizes there and then just throw them away rather than carting them home.  This is an excellent opportunity for me to practice my list-making skills, which were previously lacking. I’m trying to get better so that I can more easily ask Jake for the help I need.  And I am learning to love the lists.

• One thing I forgot to mention in my dissection of the newest Harry Potter movie is that day-um, that Daniel Radcliffe is HOTT. That would skeeve me out to think that, except he just turned 18 so he’s legal. In the movie I know he’s supposedly only 15, but I never knew any 15 year-olds who were that hot when I was 15. So tell me Harry, what do wizards wear under those robes?

• I cut my hair off. See, pregnancy is still kicking my ass. Although I seem to have regained feeling in my right thigh, I am now regrowing the hair that I think I just lost. Except it seems to want to grow back along my hairline. I grew my hair out specifically so that after the baby came, I could throw my hair in a ponytail and be on my way. But now, when I pull my hair back from my face, I have these little horns of hair that stick straight up. Since I can’t pull my hair back anyway, there is no point in keeping it that long. I am back to the bob I have sported for so long, which is kind of boring, I admit, but I think I can care for it better, and it doesn’t require a flat iron. Timothy, my hairdresser, assures me (or hopes at least) that the hair horns will continue to grow and become part of the rest of my hair, but warns me that I may have to go through a period with bangs as they grow out. Here are the hair horns. Sexy, huh?

And with that, you are officially caught up. I can rest easy now that all these little blog posts are out of my head and down on paper… er…. screen? Well, you know what I mean.

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