It's a legit project 100+ hours starting first week of May. Yay for Freelancing. It took a little longer than I thought to get the ball rolling but I'm just happy we won't be in the poor house now AND I can use my professional brain so it won't shrivel and die. Unless it already has . . . Do professional brains keep for five months?
I think we should celebrate by Little a sleeping through the night (since it's going to be harder to catch a random nap).
And happy earth day.
22 April 2010
17 April 2010
15 April 2010
going green by way of sweatshop
EBay has these cute and by most accounts relatively high quality cloth diapers that are cheaper than any made in the USA, but they are made in China. No guarantee it's a sweatshop, though, but I do wonder which is most important -- saving green, living green, or being human rights conscious? Oh the dilemmas of a stay-at-home mom: our everyday decisions writ large.
14 April 2010
TV shows
So it's happened. My TV addiction is back. Sort of. I watch most of the shows on hulu though.
I was addicted when a child and adolescent. Then I went to college and had better things to do with my time but still had a couple guilty pleasures (Dawson's Creek, anyone? Did I just admit that?). Then the last thing I remember watching were the returns for the 2000 Presidential election and I went into TV blackout for the majority of the last decade. And I didn't miss it. I did useful things with my time mostly. I know - weird, right? I also did a lot of reading and writing and some pretending to be a rockstar and going out and occasional exercising.
I'm still pretty active when El Esposo's around <---- and that was my downfall. I started watching stuff on the nights he works late after we got married and now since the baby . . . Well here are the shows I usually watch and why they are kind of awesome:
GLEE: Actually I think I might dump this show. It's campy and fun and Jane Lynch is particularly awesome, but I watched it last night and weirdly now that the completely stupid and ridiculous intrigue is over, you know the pretending to be pregnant and pretending someone got you pregnant that didn't, I don't so much have something sucking me back in. Still, there is Jane Lynch, so we'll see.
FRINGE: OK, I'm on again off again with this one, but I recently got rehooked when they did a bunch of origin episodes -- like how things came to be so messed up. I'm a sucker for those "origin of" movies like Spiderman I and Unbreakable (aka the last actually good movie M Night Shamalama whatever did) because that's the creative part. Everything after that is just like "the continuing adventures of..." and I don't really care. Still I like the Steward of Gondor (Denethor, is it?) in that show and the super intensity of everything. It's pretty much a re-imagined X-Files, but hey that was a really good show for a while.
COMMUNITY: This is my favorite new show and my new favorite show. The characters are so awesome and hilarious. I think there's a lot of inherent comedy in the pathos of each one of them being at least partially humiliated to be going to community college. I'm still laughing about the fight scene from the Christmas episode.
30 ROCK: This is a good show. Again with the awesome and hilarious characters. I can't decide which of these two shows is more over-the-top.
THE OFFICE: Everyone knows this show so let me just talk about the recent childbirth episode which brought to life the closest thing to what it is really like in the hospital that I have ever seen on a TV show. Of course it's a sitcom so everything has to be solved by the end but kudos to the writers for doing that and still making the show pretty darn funny after these many years.
If only we got NBC reliably with our digital antenna I would not have to wait for hulu for the three previous shows. Oh and for this one:
PARENTHOOD: So no one's got a newborn on this show but somehow I'm hooked anyway. This is a new show and most of the actors are pretty good at what they do and okay I haven't really figured out what keeps me coming back for this show but maybe I just needed a non-terrible family drama in my repertoire. For fun I recently saw the Steve Martin movie that this show is based off on Netflix and I like the show better than the movie but that is partially due to just how dated the movie seemed. Is it just me or did everyone in the eighties/early nineties seem older? Lauren Graham's 38 year-old character in the new show seems soooo much younger than what's-her-face's parallel divorcee character.
Oh I almost forgot, my new guilty pleasure:
TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU: Yes they made this 90s movie into a show. Yes it is pretty stupid and relatively vapid. The fun thing is that the show seems to be very self-aware, kind of like the movie was. I mean its been a while, but I remember this being the best of that bunch of teen romantic comedies in the mid-nineties.
I think that's it. I don't watch every single episode of these (except Community) but I do watch a lot. I think I need to get a life/some work to do. I've got a couple contracts in the works but nothing to do right now besides be a mom (which, don't get me wrong, is a lot of work) and these keep me busy when I'm feeding the little miss. What's your favorite show? It's probably LOST, huh? I've never seen that show and am afraid to since I hear you then have to watch every single episode.
I was addicted when a child and adolescent. Then I went to college and had better things to do with my time but still had a couple guilty pleasures (Dawson's Creek, anyone? Did I just admit that?). Then the last thing I remember watching were the returns for the 2000 Presidential election and I went into TV blackout for the majority of the last decade. And I didn't miss it. I did useful things with my time mostly. I know - weird, right? I also did a lot of reading and writing and some pretending to be a rockstar and going out and occasional exercising.
I'm still pretty active when El Esposo's around <---- and that was my downfall. I started watching stuff on the nights he works late after we got married and now since the baby . . . Well here are the shows I usually watch and why they are kind of awesome:
GLEE: Actually I think I might dump this show. It's campy and fun and Jane Lynch is particularly awesome, but I watched it last night and weirdly now that the completely stupid and ridiculous intrigue is over, you know the pretending to be pregnant and pretending someone got you pregnant that didn't, I don't so much have something sucking me back in. Still, there is Jane Lynch, so we'll see.
FRINGE: OK, I'm on again off again with this one, but I recently got rehooked when they did a bunch of origin episodes -- like how things came to be so messed up. I'm a sucker for those "origin of" movies like Spiderman I and Unbreakable (aka the last actually good movie M Night Shamalama whatever did) because that's the creative part. Everything after that is just like "the continuing adventures of..." and I don't really care. Still I like the Steward of Gondor (Denethor, is it?) in that show and the super intensity of everything. It's pretty much a re-imagined X-Files, but hey that was a really good show for a while.
COMMUNITY: This is my favorite new show and my new favorite show. The characters are so awesome and hilarious. I think there's a lot of inherent comedy in the pathos of each one of them being at least partially humiliated to be going to community college. I'm still laughing about the fight scene from the Christmas episode.
30 ROCK: This is a good show. Again with the awesome and hilarious characters. I can't decide which of these two shows is more over-the-top.
THE OFFICE: Everyone knows this show so let me just talk about the recent childbirth episode which brought to life the closest thing to what it is really like in the hospital that I have ever seen on a TV show. Of course it's a sitcom so everything has to be solved by the end but kudos to the writers for doing that and still making the show pretty darn funny after these many years.
If only we got NBC reliably with our digital antenna I would not have to wait for hulu for the three previous shows. Oh and for this one:
PARENTHOOD: So no one's got a newborn on this show but somehow I'm hooked anyway. This is a new show and most of the actors are pretty good at what they do and okay I haven't really figured out what keeps me coming back for this show but maybe I just needed a non-terrible family drama in my repertoire. For fun I recently saw the Steve Martin movie that this show is based off on Netflix and I like the show better than the movie but that is partially due to just how dated the movie seemed. Is it just me or did everyone in the eighties/early nineties seem older? Lauren Graham's 38 year-old character in the new show seems soooo much younger than what's-her-face's parallel divorcee character.
Oh I almost forgot, my new guilty pleasure:
TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU: Yes they made this 90s movie into a show. Yes it is pretty stupid and relatively vapid. The fun thing is that the show seems to be very self-aware, kind of like the movie was. I mean its been a while, but I remember this being the best of that bunch of teen romantic comedies in the mid-nineties.
I think that's it. I don't watch every single episode of these (except Community) but I do watch a lot. I think I need to get a life/some work to do. I've got a couple contracts in the works but nothing to do right now besides be a mom (which, don't get me wrong, is a lot of work) and these keep me busy when I'm feeding the little miss. What's your favorite show? It's probably LOST, huh? I've never seen that show and am afraid to since I hear you then have to watch every single episode.
08 April 2010
06 April 2010
Adventures in Baby-Raising
And now for the story that goes with the picture in the previous post:
Boy does that baby ever get a lot of attention when we go out. On the cherry blossom day, surrounded by tourists, we heard "oh what a cute baby" X a million for a couple hours. I fed her right there at the tidal basin and the minute she emerged from the cover I heard coos from all sides. Then El Esposo carried her in the Baby Bjorn for a while and felt quite the stud as all the surrounding women kept looking in his direction and smiling. Yes we were feeling mighty proud of our genetic material.
Fast forward to later that day . . .
Five minutes after little A finally falls asleep we pass a bus that is laying on the horn for the entire time it takes for the car in front of it to move--about 3 hours I think. Then it is ON. Forget normal meltdown, hello festival of screaming.
Now the baby is getting a whole new style of attention from all sides. It's getting cold to take her out so we frantically race through endless blocks and endless disapproving stares and we get to the tourist-heavy metro which is jam-packed. I keep insisting that we have to find somewhere for me to stop and nurse the overly worked-up baby. Suddenly a trillion degrees, we push through the people waiting for the next train until we find a bench, which we promptly take over. As I finally start feeding and get that baby to calm down in the middle of the hordes, I realize just how hard core I am. You can't get much more in-public than this. I would feel like a La Leche League crusader if I weren't so tired and relieved. I also downed my entire bottle of water while feeding her. Take that metro. (The little boy next to me was like "Can I have some water? She's drinking some!" His mom said, "She's the exception to the rule because she's nursing a baby." Boo ya.) So much for our smugness about Captain Adorable. She still is a baby after all.
Boy does that baby ever get a lot of attention when we go out. On the cherry blossom day, surrounded by tourists, we heard "oh what a cute baby" X a million for a couple hours. I fed her right there at the tidal basin and the minute she emerged from the cover I heard coos from all sides. Then El Esposo carried her in the Baby Bjorn for a while and felt quite the stud as all the surrounding women kept looking in his direction and smiling. Yes we were feeling mighty proud of our genetic material.
Fast forward to later that day . . .
Five minutes after little A finally falls asleep we pass a bus that is laying on the horn for the entire time it takes for the car in front of it to move--about 3 hours I think. Then it is ON. Forget normal meltdown, hello festival of screaming.
Now the baby is getting a whole new style of attention from all sides. It's getting cold to take her out so we frantically race through endless blocks and endless disapproving stares and we get to the tourist-heavy metro which is jam-packed. I keep insisting that we have to find somewhere for me to stop and nurse the overly worked-up baby. Suddenly a trillion degrees, we push through the people waiting for the next train until we find a bench, which we promptly take over. As I finally start feeding and get that baby to calm down in the middle of the hordes, I realize just how hard core I am. You can't get much more in-public than this. I would feel like a La Leche League crusader if I weren't so tired and relieved. I also downed my entire bottle of water while feeding her. Take that metro. (The little boy next to me was like "Can I have some water? She's drinking some!" His mom said, "She's the exception to the rule because she's nursing a baby." Boo ya.) So much for our smugness about Captain Adorable. She still is a baby after all.
05 April 2010
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