This week has been upating the blogs and the looks and everything.
For instance, I put a theme on mine ! Working on prettying up Kitchen Dragons, and maybe even posting on it more. Although with only me and DK eating most nights, there hasn’t been that much recipe toying.
So Kiir decided that “Math Freak” just didn’t fit her blog anymore. What with there not having been a math-related post in about 2 years or something. Unless you count the counting which week pregnant she is or how old DK is … Which isn’t really freakishly math-y :o
So she’s picked the new name “A Mile From Mainstream”. I think it’s catchy ;) Read her post about it
She’s still working out what the new URL should be. Because www.amilefrommainstream.net seems excessively long :o
Oi. So I was going to blog some this afternoon, but I spent the whole time working.
And by “whole time” I mean all 2 hours of DK’s nap. Which is shorter than his usual 3-4hrs when I’m not home. Oi.
So maybe I’ll blog later :o
The last few evenings we’ve (DK and I) been going up to the playground after dinner. The current setup is K’s walk with DK in the stoller, home and dinner, then DK and I go for a walk. And all week he’s been choosing the playground.
Wednesday (Thursday?) he started going up the big kids playgym. They’ve got two of them. One that says it’s for ages 2-5 and one 5-12. So of COURSE he likes climbing up the 5-12! So he goes up and then had the bright idea that he could turn around and back onto the big slide, like it was a staircase. And then he’d slide down. Absolutely loved that idea! Kept getting to the bottom, running back to the stairs, climbing up an doing it again.
Unfortunately, then he forgot that plan the next day. So he’d go up, start trying to climb down it like stairs, realizing that that wasn’t working, turn around, come off the slide and then start looking to walk off the side of the structure. From ~6 maybe 7′ … And of COURSE the structure is open on BOTH sides there. Four sides — one is the slide, one is the stairs down a level, one is a slide pole, and one is a ladder. He seems to prefer trying to come off on the ladder side :/
Today he kept (thankfully) coming down a level and playing at hte top of the lower slide. Which I can actually reach up from the outside and take his hand and coax him out onto it. Not sure why he suddenly changed his mind about the big slide, but it’s not like I’m going to push him on it. I just wish he’d quit climbing to the top to turn around and come back down ;)
We also hit the big-kid swings today. Largely because I’m a very hands off kindof dad. I let him choose where he wants to play and what he wants to do, I’m just there to make sure he doesn’t crack his skull. Which causes trouble because all the other dads follow their 5 yr olds up the big structure, and then whenever I reach up to barrier him from coming over the side they think I’m reaching for him. I’m sure they all think I’m nuts, I let him climb up on his own, then I stand at the bottom trying to pick him off the side until they come to my rescue and hand him down, and then I turn and let him do the same thing again. Bah.
Anyway, big kid swings. I sat him down after he insisted on climbing onto them (he loves swings, so it wasn’t surprising, honestly). And i’m trying to hold his hands on the chains and push a little and suddenly FOOSH! he slips forward off the front, his hands pop out and he’s flat on his back in the dirt. With the biggest damned grin on his face. And he insists on climbing up to do that AGAIN! Only this time he falls before I even finish getting him settled, and he lands face down, getting his eyes and mouth full of dust most likely. And he did NOT like that. So we moved on back to the slide :o
Apparently he’s very unusual, in his exploration and his friendliness. One parent said her kid (older than DK) hadn’t been out amongst other kids very often so she kept fussing at her to wait her turn (while DK is trying to decide if he’s going down slide A, mom is telling the little girl to wait her turn to go past him to slide B. Oh well, sorry, DK isn’t really going to mind, he’s undecided). Obviously there’s the part where I let him choose his own activities. Just seems like if I want him to play, I should let him decide how. Otherwise it’s more like homework :o
So, still working on all this cleaning …
Eight bags of trash out on Wednesday. 4 bags of recyc sunday night.
Today I went to the dump again. Took three big boxes of electronics (including most of those harddrives from last week). An old desk chair. The Sun boxes & monitor that I’ve had since like 03 and never touched more than moving it from one storage region to another.
In the last week I’ve cleaned the living room to its core. And then cluttered it up again with bits from other cleaning. I cleaned the bedroom mostly and vac’d it. The basement is largely cleared. The kitchen is partially done.
Kitchen & Hallways are the priority for tomorrow. So tired of cleaning. Kiir told me to take the evening off. But I’m not sure it’s gonna be ‘done’ before they get back :/
Kiir and DK went to visit her family. Left Saturday morning. K and I have 10 days to ourselves.
Of course, the last two times they went, I was supposed to clean. The first time I did about 60-90 minutes of cleaning a night, then kindof got swept into Bioshock … Kiir was unimpressed with my complete lack of cleaning.
The second time we had started playing EQ2 again. And I spent the WHOLE time playing EQ2. I got like 5 levels or something. But I did ZERO cleaning. Oops. Kiir was less than unimpressed. She was downright pissed. Because I’d said I’d clean, and then I didn’t.
So the house has been kindof sitting in it’s own filth for months. And since DK started in with the blueberries, raspberries, blackberries … sure, he eats other things, but they don’t stain NEAR as bad. And those stains have been ground into the carpet for months. Because he kindof drops berries here and there, then someone steps on them, and then it just keeps setting. And the living room has been full of toys. And we still can’t use the basement because it’s still full of crappagio.
SO! The Great Purge ™ of 2008
K’s been sick the last few days. I think it was related to the beets tuesday. FYI : Beets should be cooked like potatoes. The recipe that said to put them in an inch of water to cook? Bullshit. Pure and utter BULL. Because then? After an hour? They’re still rather hard and inedible. But DK and I tried them, and I think I gave one to K (and DK probably tossed him some)
Except it turns out that, while beets are not toxic to dogs … they don’t agree with one another. *sigh* So K’s been sick the last two days, today I took him to the vets. 130$ worth of stuff (well, 900$, but because I went ahead and upgraded to the higher level pet health plan, a bunch more was covered) (that’ll cost like 200$ a year, but I was planning to do it in the next year or so anyway, because the one we were on was basically “well puppy visits”, and between being six and having DK around … K’s gotten sick more in the last year than in the previous 5 combined), and they decided that basically he ate something. That was their initial estimation too, but they ran the tests because the symptoms were the same as a bunch of really bad shit :/ tests came back negative though, including the (now included) X-Ray :o
They did decide that he had some infection (the nurse had said something about pancreatitis or something making him mucus-y, so I assume it’s the same one), and they gave him an anti-biotic for it. Some shots and meds for his tummy, but basically said he was fine. YAY!
And NEVER, EVER read the pamphelets they have in doctors (or vets) offices. Especially if you’re there with a sick baby or puppy. Because those things sound like whatever you’re looking at! HOLY CRAP! ACK! AUGH! *whew*
Got home and he’s already eaten a scooby that he’s been carrying around since Wednesday. So I think he’s doing better yay!
So, things have been busy lately, haven’t managed to post. (and you think this site is bad, the only update in like two months on my crypto blog was a post after vacation saying “damn, busy! will post soon” … apparently I LIE LIKE A RUG)
Anyway, posting some now. So, for those of you who have been bitching: SCREW YOU! Some of us work for a living, dammit!
OK, so, I never made it past the first week of that 100-pushups thing. Not because I can’t do it (although, i’m not sure I’d've made it, anyway), but because I can’t DO it. With DK’s stuff everywhere, it’s hard to find a space large enough to stretch prone to DO a push up. Then when DK is awake, he wants to come see what I’m doing and climb on me. And when K’s around, he wants to come stand RIGHT UNDER ME. Makes it hard to do the ‘down’ so I CAN push ‘up’.
So, I’m kindof abandoning that I guess.
Then we got a workout video thing for exercising with the baby. Except (a) the person talking is really insipidly annoying (?), which is really to be expected. They want perky cheerful people. But then the exercises, half of them I can’t (who has enough room in their house, with a baby, to act like a sumo-wrestler?) or won’t do (I refuse to believe there is an actual benefit to making stupid noises at DK). YOU may be doing these in an empty studio that has 3 adults, 3 yoga mats, 3 babies/toddlers, and 3 tiny-ass baskets of toys, but *I’m* doing it at home with the baby’s stuff. Lemme tell you. Not the same :o
Still, it was a damn good workout the two days I did it. Just hard to find a time when I want to spend 45 minutes of me & des to workout. Although it is a nice break from days on end playing xbox with him, I s’pose.
Started working on Weight Watchers(tm) again this week. The chart stuff indicates 24-30 points a week for me. Yesterday was 50. Today is looking to be 40+. My piece of pumpkin bread in the morning is 8. Actually, it was 12, but I cut it smaller yesterday. I started saying something about it “did you see this morning I took …” and Kiir filled in for me “waaaaaay way way too much?” … so maybe not as better as I thought :/ So today I took a SMALLER slice. Next time I make bread I need to make the three smaller loave the recipe calls for. Because cutting soft crumbly bread to a quarter inch thickness is hard. And not very filling.
But my healthy cheese sammich for lunch? Two slices of wheat bread, and two slices of munster cheese? 8 points again! WTF! *sigh* I should drop it to 1 slice of cheese (cheese = 3 pts, bread = 1pt). But I don’t know if that’s enough flavour. Milk? 2-3 pts depending on which glass (well, the really small glass would be 1 and the really big one is 4, but I’m assuming I’m usually using one of the 3 middle sizes, since I only have 2 of the small small and the big big i usually don’t fill all the way).
Still. Some pumpkin bread, two glasses of milk, and a sandwich, and I’m up 15 points, nearly 20 if I keep the second slice of cheese or take the bigger slice of pumpkin :/
OI!
So, some folks on the forums my old everquest guild come gaming collective use …
uh …
some folks on a forum I read were talking about the “100 pushup challenge” and talking about trying it. We have some stuff dedicated to quarterly weight stuff and diet etc, so I figured I’d join in on this. Doesn’t look like we’re getting WiiFit anytime soon, what with the high demand and low production, so why not. and, c’mon, doing 100 pushups? gonna need some muscle or toning for that! and the 6-week training? gonna build some muscle during that, I imagine. so, it could well be good for my weight.
Or at least turn some of my excess weight into functional muscle mass instead.
Did the “initial test” a few minutes ago, and hit 15. With K assisting. By standing under me when I pushed up, to make sure I went all the way up I guess. Just wish he’d moved out for down rather than me using my head to nudge him around an’ stuff! Nothing I read, quickly, suggests that there’s any difference in structure once I’ve passed 10 to begin with, and since I just hit the “rank 3″ listing at the bottom edge, I figure “15-20″ is a good initial measure. So. Let’s see how THIS goes ;)