A super random cap of a fairly boring week

I finally figured out how to deal with the nap stuff. DON'T PLAN ANYTHING. I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner. It makes TOTAL SENSE that if you have nothing to do all day every day, then it makes no difference when naptimes are. DUH!

I haven't had much going on in the last week or two. Wait. That is the opposite of true, actually. I've had a TON of stuff going on, just not anything scheduled for the questionable morning period when you are wondering if the kid is going to nap or not. I've been sticking him in the crib when I take a shower and sometimes when I get out he is asleep and sometimes not. Sometimes he's up for a while, sometimes he falls asleep in the car on the way home from the grocery store and takes his one and only nap from 11:30 to 1:30. Which the Planny Me finds completely unacceptable, but the New Flexible Do-Nothing Me managed to cope with just fine.

Also! It helps to have friends who, when you say, "Well, I'm not sure if he'll nap or not, can I give you a call and let you know?", say in reply, "Sure! Whatever works for you!" Because these friends are AWESOME. (Note to Planny Types: Populate your pool of friends with Flexible Types.)

So. Whenever Jack wakes up this morning we are off to the Trendy Outdoor Shopping Mall to buy a wedding gift. To go with the wedding gift I already bought. See, I bailed on both the Engagement Shower (kitchen items) and the Bachelorette Party (embarrassing underwear) so I feel like I need to make up for the lameness with a most excellent wedding gift. And, you know, I never mind having to spend money. It is spectacularly sunny today (the first day of summer, if you are curious) and I think there will be some ice cream accompanying the shopping.

IF MY STOMACH CAN HANDLE IT. Because OMG, I don't think I have one anymore. This morning I ate my customary bowl of cereal for breakfast and then I keeled over and died. I think this baby has taken up shop directly underneath my ribs leaving no space for anything else, which is not good because HELLO BABY, YOU NEED FOOD TOO. Phillip watches me clutch my sides and hears me declare that I will be dead within minutes and I KNOW he is thinking, "God. Pregnant women. MELODRAMATIC, MUCH?" But I would just like to say that if Phillip couldn't eat one fourth of the amount of food he is used to eating at one time, he'd be unhappy too. And bonus points to me for exposing an argument that didn't even exist until I typed it up on my website. Whoo hoo!

However! Bonus points to Phillip for treating my series of Panicked Client Phone Calls like his very own, and for promising to help me do all this Techie Stuff which I SO DID NOT SIGN UP FOR, but find myself responsible for ANYWAY. (Again I say: English Degrees! Good for nothing!)

(Actually, total tangent here, my dad and I were talking about college and what we would have done differently and I was all, "I STILL don't want to learn science and math, I'd probably do exactly the same things and get exactly the same lopsided education and still be totally unemployable, but NO REGRETS HERE!" And my dad thought some more and said that maybe his problem with college was that he didn't meet my mother until he was 28. Which then spawned an entirely new conversation about Listless Young Men Who'd Be Fine If Only They Had Girlfriends and does anyone want to date my brother? Thank goodness he is too good for things like BLOGS because then he'd see that sentence and come after me with his gun. Really! Anyone want to date him?)

Wow. Someone is FLIGHTY today. Off to pack the diaper bag for my day of moneyspending. See how much nicer I am WHEN IT IS SUNNY?

Comments

[Lisa]

The only problem we have with the planny thing is that Olivia naps on schedule for many days in a row and then, on the ONE day I schedule something conveniently between naps, she completely changes her schedule on me. I'm convinced that she does this on purpose. So the no planning thing does make days go more smoothly.

[Becky]

LOL, your post made it seem like you're definitely bouncing off the walls... Must be the sunshine.
;) Becky
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[Kate P]

Wow, you got sunshine on the first day of summer; I think you earned it! Hope the ice cream went down O.K. :)

[Wickedly Scarlett]

I think if I could go back and do it all over again, I would have picked History as a major and just continued reading for personal enjoyment. History is equally (or possibly even more) useless, but I least I wouldn't have despised reading anything more high level than US Weekly for a solid year after graduation!