there’s no plank, but there’s a hell of a lotta walk going on. been going down to the mall, and around it, at lunch most days. i estimate that it’s ~5mi round-trip, maybe a little under.
then home and if K hasn’t had camp we go past the fields and around the lake to the boathouse. and back. another ~5mi.
oi :o bought a new pedometer since mine ran out of battery apparetnyl and two button-batteries cost more than the 15$ pedo, frankly :o
well, the month-s long tirade of cleaning is ending soon. b/c the baby’s coming soon and time will be more limited :o
but this weekend was, basically, the last giant push. started off b/c my sister in law is coming up and we volunteered the futon as a bed. the futon is in the back room. the back room has been the dumping point for everything else in the house (and it bears noting that everything but the kitchen has been done, and the kitchen has too but it has more temporary clutter than entrenched mess) … 9 months of stuff getting shoved in. plus the reflooring of the living room pushed a bunch more in.
and saturday evening i took my life in my hands and went in :o about an hour in, K tried to come see what i was doing. came running up and … stopped. looked at the mess, then went back to kiir with a look like ‘mommy, daddy’s dead isn’t he?’ :o took me about 4 hours before i went around and worked my way clear again. and 3 big bags of trash. putting 4 boxes of books out of boxes and stacked on shelves (completely unusably) cleared up some space.
then sunday i decided to get under the stairs and organize that closet so i could put some stuff in there from the back. except that closet is filled with various comptuer bits (everything but the sun’s and the sun monitor joined the trash brigade) and lawn stuff .. crap. then i started working on the unfinished room to clear out some near the furnace (where the most recent clutter is) so i could put in the lawn stuff …
took me a lot of the weekend, but the basement is navigable and the futon is near-usable (there’s a tv on it, but i can move that ok). a lot more work to be done, but reasonably started. probably work on it more tonight and tomorrow. it may also be kindof a thing to do to get away some. after everyone GOES HOME in two weeks!!!
still not born :/
contractions been running almost a week now :/ getting incredibly annoying. they made it to “the pain scale” tuesday or so, which is certainly an improvement in that they had told her not to worry about coming in again until they started to hurt
of course, then they told her when she called tuesday that all the beds were full, and that until her water breaks or she has to stop everything during the contractions, not to worry about coming in.
so, she’s still home, still pregnant, and still having contractions. *sigh* she’s getting annoyed, and i’m getting annoyed. and running K in is getting expensive (and he’s getting depressed b/c he keeps getting shipped off overnights, instead of being allowed to snuggle up with his mommy and daddy :/)
a pair of technophiles, computers and electronics EVERYWHERE …
we’re going all jungle hippy with the baby :o kiir’s planning to not use formula, we’re talking cloth diapers, we’ve got a sling to try carrying the baby around on person rather than always in a carrier/etc
*sigh* spent most (all) of yesterday at the hospital. got there at 10, got out in time to not make it to the pharmacy before it closed at 5.
kiir was still doing 60-sec contractions every 4 minutes, although they were still very light. and the baby was quietd (not kicking/moving/etc like usual) … so the midwife wanted us to come in so she could check the baby.
midwife was busy yesterday, didn’t get to us until nearly noon! then the urine sample went for processing (it’d been sitting there for two hours waiting for the doc to say if she wanted it run or not). then when they were about ready to give kiir a sleeping pill so she could get some relief from the contractions an a good nights sleep (baby woke up when we got there, he’s perfectly fine) … results came back with a UTI. probably the same UTI that they were talking about friday night was possible, except the test came back unclear. then the nurse and midwife who both seemed quite put out that we were there (when the midwife had told us to come in) decided to send us home rather than doing something useful. which brings us back to the hospital yesterday where it came back positive.
so then two litres of water. wheeeee. and antibiotics. wheeeee. and then the shift change and when the fluid finally finished at 3-3:30, the new nurse tried to put on anotehr bag (3 litres? wait wait wait), saying the midwife hadn’t talked to her about having checked kiir. i don’t know what being re-checked has to do with a third litre when the directions said two, but no! still busy midwife, managed to get in around 4-4:15, and another half hour before we got out.
got to the pharmacy at 4:55, they close at 5. went and found another pharm open until 6 so kiir could get her antibiotics filled. then the contractions were getting harder last night, so she didn’t take the sleeping pill :o
*sigh* the hospital is seriously starting to SUCK
a contraction by any other name … is probably shorter, frankly :o
kiir was having contrations yesterday evening, and at 5min apart, >1min apiece, over more than an hour, that’s hitting all the triggers for “go to the hospital”. but we called the midwife first, just to get some feedback on what she thought, figuring 3 weeks early is a tad early
they couldn’t decide on the phone and told us to come in to the hospital for checking. 3-3.5 hours later, buncha walking around “to help the process along” and a few bottles of water, they decided that they still weren’t sure :o definitely contractions, definitely every few minutes, definitely for a healthy duration, but no dilation or any other symptoms. apparently contractions aren’t an identifying symptom, just a generic symptom :o
so we came home, and they’re sitll continuing, so we’re basically just waiting until something changes :o
it’s spring, time for new leaves!
first off, we’re letting the krav memberships lapse when they come up for renewal. because I’ve spent 100$/month for a year and been fewer than half a dozen times. Maybe in a few years i’ll be in a place where I will go more often. 6 or 7 and desmond’ll be old enough to be going for the kids classes, i think, so if the level 1 adults is scheduled opposite the kids, I can do that way maybe. we’ll see. it’s 100$ we don’t got, and we’re not using
But! I’ve decided to start doing various things to try to help out my fitness in the “low impact and free” genre. friend on some forums has been doing stairs (he’s like 40% up everest by now, apparently; 2300 flights to everest, basically), so I figure I can do that when I want a bit to think and such. I’ll go and do the walk to the 7th (or 8th or 5th depending on which staircase) floor a few times (did 8th 3 times just now, so that’s 21 flights !)
Also looked at the map the other day and I think I can figure out how to get from my office to the monument mall, about 10-15 min walk there, then back. once it’s warmer still I’m thinking of bringing in my bag and changing outfits to go jogging or something. Or, like kiir suggested, maybe i’ll just walk for a while at first ;)
Also, been tracking my weight this year. down to 217.2, down from 220 beginning of the year. 220-something. wheeee
we’ve been planning (since last fall) to get a HDD camcorder when the time comes. baby being under a month away, I guess the time is here ;)
went yesterday to check out the Sony DCR-SR80 60G HDD model at Ritz … asked what others they had, and he told us they usually have teh 30G (SR60) model. But not today. (i thought he said the SR60, kiir thinks he might have been babbling on about hte SR40). the SR80 says it does 16:9 recording, inherent widescreen handy. the SR60 (40, whatever) doesn’t say anything. so he goes online.
it turns out the 40, 60 and 80 are being phased out. like RIGHT NOW. b/c the new line (42?, 62, 82) are shipping the 17th or 19th (sony said 19th, guy said 17th) … the new 30G does 16:9 (and after much searching at home i finally established the old one seems to too). and it’s expected to be identical in cost to the current 30G. likewise the new 60G will be the same as the current 60G, but better optical zoom and some other bits.
So we decided to wait, we can pick it up in two weeks instead. Either the current 60 will come down in price, or more likely we’ll just get the new 30 or 60. the 60 does like 40 hours of video, so the 30 should be like 20, which oughta be sufficient, yaknow? but we might get the 60 anyway, just to be sure when we’re on vacation. b/c the laptop drive fills up fast with my itunes TV shows :o
got the border up in baby’s room this afternoon. took a while, but i tacked it up, then checked it, tweaked, repeat. when it was good i started at one end and took out hte tacks as i peeled out the backing and smoothed to the wall. not 100% level, but i’m not convinced the floors, walls, or ceiling are 100% level anyway :p
then we worked on cleaning the room some for hte furniture delivery friday. unfortunately, that kinda included dumping some stuff into K’s room. poor K, he gets so put upon in this whole baby mess. kiir doesn’t take him on walks, i’m spending ltos of time trying to get ready, and his room keeps getting usurped with all the crap that used to be in the third bedroom since we didn’t use it anyway :/
oh well. hopefully getting lots of camp (more than we can afford, technically, i suppose) will make him feel better about the whole sordid affair :o
so, dropped my car off this morning for the insurance appraisal. and apparently i get a rental car whilst it’s in for repairs :o AND i don’t have to pay for it!
holy crap! cool :o
anyway, got the call this afternoon. my 5.5 yr old chevy impala is worth 6-7k (4-5 if i try to sell it at carmax, obviously they want to make money off it :o). the repair bill? 4500$.
apparently i need a new quarter panel (it’s the part of the car in the back, rear to door, over the wheelwell). a new door. the frame needs a bit of pulling out but nothing significant or dangerous. and they’re going to be checking the alignment/etc b/c the hit came in through the wheel.
i’m in the rental until next week sometime :o but at least i don’t have to pay for the car, anything over the deductible on the repairs (fairly sure my deduct is still 250 … i hope i didn’t get around to changing that :o think i decided it saved me like 15$/6mo and wasn’t worth upping), or a new car payment
see, if they totalled my car out, my idea was to hijack my old car at my parents (79 volare), or one of their cars, for the summer at least. volare would be hot as hell in summer (mmm vinyl seats and an AC that hasn’t worked since reagan was president), but tolerable since i wear long pants and it’s only a 10-min trip anyway. in winter, however, the engine is slow to warm, doesn’t tick over well until it IS warm (thus making my 10 minute trip have a 30 minute warm-up at either end!!), and the heat kicked the bucket when i was still getting my undergraduate degree :o and i have way more trouble with cold (frostbite bad) than hot (heatstroke annoying). but i figured for the summer i could swing it, and maybe by fall i could talk my parents out of one of their other cars ;)
kiir wanted to get me a hyundai or such (like 10k car, of which hopefully the insurance payout would cover 7 or so). car parment would suck still :/ and since i’ve been looking at a subaru outback so we could have a good station wagon, it would be moving kinda the wrong direction :o
of course, the new plan is to get her a minivan and i get her car when it’s time to upgrade mine, so the kids may be in college before i get the subaru. and won’t it be time for a midlife crises by then or soemthing?