Thursday, January 28, 2010
0 Weeks 0 Days: Day Two
The baby is still working her way out. When we went to the birth center yesterday, the midwife had us come back home because Krystal wasn't dilated enough. So she told us to just come home and be comfortable. We got a little sleep and went back to the birth center at about 3:30am. Krystal labored there for a while and then we laid down and kind of slept on and off through contractions. Sleeping made the contractions start coming further apart which got Krystal really discouraged, thinking it would take a long time before the baby is born. But the midwife came in and checked Krystal and determined that she is about 4 cm and effacing really well. So the progress is happening but we still had some time so she suggested we go get food (or smoothies) and check on the dogs, maybe take a shower and relax. One, to be more comfortable and two, to pass some time. So we just got home, Krystal is sitting on the couch. She says that the contractions are happen more frequent again. We're going to go back to the birth center at 11:00am.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
0 Weeks 0 Days: Right Now
So the baby is on her way. The midwife came by and said everything looks good and will come back in a few hours. We're still having the baby at a birthing facility but the midwife said it's best to stay home where you're comfortable as long as we can. Then we'll go to the facility and have the baby. So now I'm cleaning up the house and talking to my mom and soon I'm going to go get some beverages for Krystal.
Word.
Word.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
40 Weeks 0 Days: The Time is Right
Everything has been business as usual. I have been making sure my customers know that I might have to take a couple days off from their project on any of my new jobs. Everybody is fine with that of course. I can't imagine anybody going, "I'm sorry but we have a contract and you need to miss the birth of your child to work on my house." That would just be silly.
Everything is as ready as it can be though. The baby has a bed and some clothes (actually a lot of clothes) and the car seat is installed. And we have diapers. So we can get the baby home where it can eat, sleep & poop.
I have been planning ahead and downloading various cartoons and kids shows because I don't like any of the crap that's on TV for kids now. It's all way too PC and geared toward really over-sheltering kids. I'm not the sheltering type. I have absolutely no interest in making sure my kid doesn't see nudity or hear swearing. And everybody goes, "Oh you'll feel differently when you have a kid." Oh, nope. I think that the more you make something taboo, the more your kid is going to want it. I'm not going to get my kid liquored up and sit it down in front of a porno, but I'm going to continue to treat things the way I normally do. There are some movies that have weird graphic sex scenes that make me uncomfortable and I will most likely not let our kid watch those, mainly because I don't really want to watch them either. But violence, nudity and not so graphic sex scenes are fine by me. I really think it's weird when people don't let their kids see just nudity. We are so afraid of the naked body in this country. We are the only country (of mainly white people) who are this afraid of nudity. I mean, we blur out cleavage on the TV and bleep the word "balls". Really? Balls? Maybe if we didn't constantly teach our kids to be ashamed of their bodies, their wouldn't be so many kids with eating disorders... Just an idea.
And swearing.... Give me fucking break. My mom NEVER swore. I mean, literally she swore once while I was growing up and my sister and I were amazed that she did. She was prudish about sex and violence in movies and she never swore and I love violent movies and I swear like a sailor. So that doesn't work. Maybe the fact that she made it a big deal focused my attention on it and made it an attractive way to rebel? I find it hilarious that my mom thinks I should not swear around my kid, which is what she did and she has a kid who tuned out to swear a lot... And she thinks I should do the same thing? Am I the only person who sees that as a pattern for failure? So, no offense, but I'm going to go ahead and disregard the advice from the parent who's kid turned out to swear constantly and try my own method. My method is called the "I don't give a shit, everybody makes everything out to be way to big of a deal" method. And maybe it won't work and my kid will turn out to swear a lot but really, not the end of the world. I swear a lot and I'm doing just fine. And, though I don't want my child to walk around swearing at people, if she swears as an adult, I don't care. I'm not trying to eliminate swearing from my child's vocabulary. If my kid learns swear words when she's little I think teaching the kid how to be polite and respectful will stop them from swearing at everybody. But my prediction is that it will work perfectly and my kid will never swear and it will frustrate my entire family. Oh, the simple pleasures in life...
Everything is as ready as it can be though. The baby has a bed and some clothes (actually a lot of clothes) and the car seat is installed. And we have diapers. So we can get the baby home where it can eat, sleep & poop.
I have been planning ahead and downloading various cartoons and kids shows because I don't like any of the crap that's on TV for kids now. It's all way too PC and geared toward really over-sheltering kids. I'm not the sheltering type. I have absolutely no interest in making sure my kid doesn't see nudity or hear swearing. And everybody goes, "Oh you'll feel differently when you have a kid." Oh, nope. I think that the more you make something taboo, the more your kid is going to want it. I'm not going to get my kid liquored up and sit it down in front of a porno, but I'm going to continue to treat things the way I normally do. There are some movies that have weird graphic sex scenes that make me uncomfortable and I will most likely not let our kid watch those, mainly because I don't really want to watch them either. But violence, nudity and not so graphic sex scenes are fine by me. I really think it's weird when people don't let their kids see just nudity. We are so afraid of the naked body in this country. We are the only country (of mainly white people) who are this afraid of nudity. I mean, we blur out cleavage on the TV and bleep the word "balls". Really? Balls? Maybe if we didn't constantly teach our kids to be ashamed of their bodies, their wouldn't be so many kids with eating disorders... Just an idea.
And swearing.... Give me fucking break. My mom NEVER swore. I mean, literally she swore once while I was growing up and my sister and I were amazed that she did. She was prudish about sex and violence in movies and she never swore and I love violent movies and I swear like a sailor. So that doesn't work. Maybe the fact that she made it a big deal focused my attention on it and made it an attractive way to rebel? I find it hilarious that my mom thinks I should not swear around my kid, which is what she did and she has a kid who tuned out to swear a lot... And she thinks I should do the same thing? Am I the only person who sees that as a pattern for failure? So, no offense, but I'm going to go ahead and disregard the advice from the parent who's kid turned out to swear constantly and try my own method. My method is called the "I don't give a shit, everybody makes everything out to be way to big of a deal" method. And maybe it won't work and my kid will turn out to swear a lot but really, not the end of the world. I swear a lot and I'm doing just fine. And, though I don't want my child to walk around swearing at people, if she swears as an adult, I don't care. I'm not trying to eliminate swearing from my child's vocabulary. If my kid learns swear words when she's little I think teaching the kid how to be polite and respectful will stop them from swearing at everybody. But my prediction is that it will work perfectly and my kid will never swear and it will frustrate my entire family. Oh, the simple pleasures in life...
Sunday, January 3, 2010
37 Weeks 0 Days: Clean Your Room
Over the course of last weekend and this weekend I built a piece of furniture to store the baby's clothes in. I don't know what to call it. It's not really a dresser. I guess it's a hutch of some sort. I had the basic box already built as something I was going to use for a place to put work clothes and to have somewhere to put my wallet, phone and the little tools I keep on me at work every day. I like to put things in the same place every day so I don't forget them. I never finished it so I used that. Then I had made some built in cabinets in a customers hallway a while back but the door I ordered originally didn't fit right so I kept those and ordered new ones. There was one shorter door and one taller door. To my surprise the shorter door fit perfectly on the front. So I made a drawer because I had some drawer tracks lying around the garage and put the door on, put a little trim on it, added a shelf, painted it with some high gloss paint and now we have some baby clothes storage. It's not perfect. It was so cold in the garage when I painted that the paint took a really long time to dry so there are some drips dried into the paint. Even trying to do a light coat, with the paint taking so long to dry it gave it that much more time to drip. I put a space heater on it and it helped a little. But it's sturdy as hell. It's all 3/4" material, even the drawer. It's no Ikea dresser that will fall apart in a matter of months. This thing is a tank.
Friday, December 25, 2009
35 Weeks 5 Days: End of the World... I Mean Year
It's the end of 2009 and like always, it's time to make some year-end / new-year lists:
MEMORABLE MOMENTS FROM 2009:
- Knocking up Krystal.
- Buying a trailer and then selling it because I needed the money.
- Deciding not to switch jobs.
- Going snowboarding for the first time.
- Cutting the tip of my finger off with a circular saw.
- Finding out that my friend Lish got a book deal. Way to go Lish!
- Sold my old 1969 F250 for scrap metal.
THINGS I DISCOVERED TO BE AWESOME IN 2009:
- Flight of the Conchords
- Zombieland
- Bad Astronaut
- Glee
THINGS THAT WERE NOT-SO-AWESOME IN 2009:
- Seeing Transformer 2 in the theater.
- Cutting the tip of my finger off (still not as bad as Transformers 2).
- Realizing that I can't play guitar with my aforementioned finger injury... Still can't. Possibly gonna switch to drums.
- Deciding to change careers - who am I kidding? I'm a builder.
- A Band called "Owl City". Somebody wants to be Ben Gibbard.
- Dropping my iPhone and shattering the screen. Though I still have the same phone and it still work just fine. Way to go Apple.
- Glue down solid bamboo flooring.
MOVIES THAT KICKED ASS:
- Zombieland
- Star Trek
- The Boat That Rocked (name changed to Pirate Radio, psht)
- The Hurt Locker
- Taken
MOVIES THAT SUCKED HARD:
- Transformers 2
- Jennifer's Body
- Extract
- Year One
- Land of the Lost
WHAT I LISTENED TO THE MOST:
- The Fray 'The Fray'
- All That Remains 'The Fall of Ideals'
- Foo Fighters 'Mixed CD'
- Green Day '21st Century Breakdown'
- Shooter Jennings 'Electric Rodeo' & 'The Wolf'
- Social Distortion 'Sex, Love & Rock N Roll'
THINGS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2010:
- Poppy Soleil
- Zombieland 2???
- To find out what happens to Tom Everett Scott's character in Southland.
- Flight of the Conchords Season 3.
- Maybe being able to play guitar again???
- Keeping my business going even though the economy is bad.
- Reading Lish's book.
- Fallout New Vegas.
THINGS I WANT TO DO IN 2010:
- Get another trailer (and not sell it).
- Get a drum set and a piano and get better at playing them both.
- Finally start my Rosetta Stone Spanish language software.
- Pay off bills.
- Not see the movie 'Frozen'. Seriously, look up the trailer and then plan on NOT seeing it as well.
- Have my child be alive and unharmed (for the most part) by 2011.
- Do the robot more often... Or the robo-boogie. Both are acceptable.
MEMORABLE MOMENTS FROM 2009:
- Knocking up Krystal.
- Buying a trailer and then selling it because I needed the money.
- Deciding not to switch jobs.
- Going snowboarding for the first time.
- Cutting the tip of my finger off with a circular saw.
- Finding out that my friend Lish got a book deal. Way to go Lish!
- Sold my old 1969 F250 for scrap metal.
THINGS I DISCOVERED TO BE AWESOME IN 2009:
- Flight of the Conchords
- Zombieland
- Bad Astronaut
- Glee
THINGS THAT WERE NOT-SO-AWESOME IN 2009:
- Seeing Transformer 2 in the theater.
- Cutting the tip of my finger off (still not as bad as Transformers 2).
- Realizing that I can't play guitar with my aforementioned finger injury... Still can't. Possibly gonna switch to drums.
- Deciding to change careers - who am I kidding? I'm a builder.
- A Band called "Owl City". Somebody wants to be Ben Gibbard.
- Dropping my iPhone and shattering the screen. Though I still have the same phone and it still work just fine. Way to go Apple.
- Glue down solid bamboo flooring.
MOVIES THAT KICKED ASS:
- Zombieland
- Star Trek
- The Boat That Rocked (name changed to Pirate Radio, psht)
- The Hurt Locker
- Taken
MOVIES THAT SUCKED HARD:
- Transformers 2
- Jennifer's Body
- Extract
- Year One
- Land of the Lost
WHAT I LISTENED TO THE MOST:
- The Fray 'The Fray'
- All That Remains 'The Fall of Ideals'
- Foo Fighters 'Mixed CD'
- Green Day '21st Century Breakdown'
- Shooter Jennings 'Electric Rodeo' & 'The Wolf'
- Social Distortion 'Sex, Love & Rock N Roll'
THINGS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2010:
- Poppy Soleil
- Zombieland 2???
- To find out what happens to Tom Everett Scott's character in Southland.
- Flight of the Conchords Season 3.
- Maybe being able to play guitar again???
- Keeping my business going even though the economy is bad.
- Reading Lish's book.
- Fallout New Vegas.
THINGS I WANT TO DO IN 2010:
- Get another trailer (and not sell it).
- Get a drum set and a piano and get better at playing them both.
- Finally start my Rosetta Stone Spanish language software.
- Pay off bills.
- Not see the movie 'Frozen'. Seriously, look up the trailer and then plan on NOT seeing it as well.
- Have my child be alive and unharmed (for the most part) by 2011.
- Do the robot more often... Or the robo-boogie. Both are acceptable.
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