I feel like I can't post anything these days unless I include some photos, so here are some older ones - from the summer, I think. When I haven't much to do, I enjoy flipping through photos and watching the little video clips of the dude's life thus far. I can't believe he's nearly 7 months old. Blows my mind.
Speaking of blowing my mind, we got some "adult" furniture for our living room recently. What is adult furniture? Well, it's not a lumpy, stained futon and a bunch of other random stuff. It's an upholstered couch, chair and loveseat with pillows - and they all match for once. I had no idea it would feel so nice to have things that matched and were in good shape. But damn, it feels nice. And, it's used stuff too, which feels even better. I'll still be sad when the dude pukes on it or draws on it, but not that sad.
Not too much else going on these days. Turkey day is tomorrow and this is the first year ever that we're actually doing NOTHING. Strange and a little sad, but again it's not that sad. The dude does not do that well on long car rides, so lengthy travel was out. Katie, the north American wanderer, is currently wandering in Africa so our most recent Thanksgiving tradition was off the radar. I suppose it's fitting that we need to come up with our own thing - but we might just be tired enough and lazy enough to consider it nothing more than another day, at least this year. I can only speak for myself, and I think I am just tired enough and lazy enough to do nothing. :)
You know, 7 months ago when I went on maternity leave, I had a hard time disengaging from work but I looked forward to being away for a while and hoped that some things would straighten themselves out during my absence. But reality was not that kind, of course. Nothing was different when I returned - it was just messier than when I'd left because things had been ignored for many moons. I've been back to work for more than 4 months now and it feels like everything is just sliding down into a big black pit. My job has always had its ups and downs - highs and lows - times with heavy stress and other times with little stress. But I've generally been able to maintain a positive outlook, felt that things would improve despite the current hardship. I'm not sure I feel that now - or it might just be that I have so many other things going on in my life that I can't take on that much stress and deal with it as well. I'm dealing poorly at the moment, and that feels bad. I have yet to figure out what to do about it. Do I go to the CEO and talk about my concerns or is that just shooting myself in the foot? I'm not trusting enough to find out at the moment.
And, the fact that I was just sitting here with my eyes closed and my arms crossed, resting peacefully, tells me that I need to go to sleep. Good night!
