Yep. His first top ones came through within days of each other; one on Friday, one this morning.
What else...he's very good at crawling, putting himself into a sitting position, and just in the last week he's started getting up on his knees against things. And just in the last couple days he's starting to bring up one knee.
I was walking at nine months. For a while I didn't think he'd be that quick, but now I'm starting to think maybe he will be! We'll see.
It's been too hot to wear him in my sling the last week, so he's been having his naps on a mattress on the floor of the lounge. Meaning I can move freely about the house, get the dishes done, hang the nappies, whatever I want!
Did I use this sort of topic for one of the other tooth posts? No matter. I like it.
I've always been a nail biter, and I'll most likely always be a nail biter. And some people have a problem with this. And for a long time, I did too. I tried many times to quit biting them, and never succeeded longer than a couple weeks.
I can't even remember now why I wanted to quit. Maybe it was because everyone else said it was a "bad habit." Yep, that's probably why it was.
But WHY is it considered a bad habit? Is it because you end up with jagged fingernails? That's what a nail file is for.
Is it because if you bite them too far down, they bleed? Okay, that's a point, but if I bite my nails till they bleed, is that really anyone else's problem?
Is it because they don't look "ladylike" when they're short? Probably. Not that I've ever cared whether or not I was "ladylike."
So yeah, I don't see it as an issue.
Besides, what did mankind use to trim their fingernails before the invention of nail clippers? Knives? Maybe a few people did, but I'm betting most people just bit 'em off.
When my fingernails are long, it's harder to do just about everything. They get caught in the computer keyboard. I accidentally scratch myself and others when I don't want to. All manner of food, dirt, and who knows what else gets caught under them (you should've seen them some nights when I was working at Pizza Hut - it wasn't pretty).
So I'm not gonna stress about biting my fingernails anymore.
Yeah. I've got some time at the moment, so I'm writing an extra post. If you see it, that means I couldn't be bothered writing anything the day it's posted and just went with something canned.
MOUTH-OLOGY
Q. What is your salad dressing of choice?
A. Ranch
Q. What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
A. In the US it's Arby's. Over here...dunno, I guess Hungry Jack's.
Q. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
A. In the US, Old Country Buffet. Here, Genghis Khan Mongolian BBQ.
Q. On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant?
A. None unless I'm in the US. I leave about 15% but I don't make a special effort to make it EXACTLY 15%.
Q. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of?
A. Bananas.
Q. What are your pizza toppings of choice?
A. Lots of meat & lots of cheese
Q. What do you like to put on your toast?
A. Butter. Sometimes strawberry jam, or bacon & eggs if I'm eating toast with them.
TECHNOLOGY
Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A. Caleb sitting on his dad's lap at the computer
Q. How many televisions are in your house?
A. One
Q. What color is your iPod?
A. What iPod?
BIOLOGY
Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
A. Right
Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
A. Wisdom teeth
Q. When was the last time you had a cavity?
A. Probably have one now.
Q. What is the last heavy item you lifted?
A. Caleb
Q. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
A. No
RANDOMOLOGY, pt 1
Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
A. Nope.
Q. If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
A. I wouldn't change it.
Q. What color do you think looks best on you?
A. Purple
Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake?
A. Chewing gum a few times.
Q. Have you ever saved someone's life?
A. Maybe, don't remember.
Q. Has someone ever saved yours?
A. Well, there was this time when I was really little, and trying to put keys in an electrical outlet...I'm sure everyone has a story something like that from their childhood.
DAREOLOGY
Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100?
A. Probably not.
Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000?
A. Uh, no, I'm quite attached to them thanks.
Q. Would you never blog again for $50,000?
A. And not be able to blog about getting $50,000? No way!
Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000?
A. Would I pose AT ALL in a magazine for $250,000? Doubtful.
Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
A. I'd give it a go.
Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000?
A. No.
DUMBOLOGY
Q: What is in your left pocket?
A: Don't have pockets today.
Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
A. Dunno, haven't seen it.
Q: Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house?
A: Carpet, mostly.
Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower?
A: Stand, unless I'm feeling dizzy.
Q: Could you live with roommates?
A: I think I do live with roommates...
Q: How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
A: One
Q: Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
A: Does it count as a run-in if I took in somebody's driver's license that I found lying on the footpath? Because I did that Thursday.
Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?
A: Alive.
Q: Who is number 1 on your top 8?
A: Top 8 what?
LASTOLOGY
Q: Friend you talked to?
A: Darrin
Q: Last person to call you?
A: Don't remember
Q: Person you hugged?
A: Caleb
FAVORITOLOGY
Q: Number?
A: 42
Q: Season?
A: Winter
Q: Book?
A: Only one?
Q. Website?
A. I have a lot of them.
Q. Month?
A. Eh, January I guess.
Q. Alcohol?
A. I don't drink alcohol
CURRENTOLOGY
Q: Missing someone?
A: Not really
Q: Mood?
A: Tired
Q: Listening to?
A: The hum of the air conditioner
Q: Watching?
A. Caleb sleeping
Q: Worrying about?
A: Whether or not I'll get sick later today from being dehydrated
RANDOMOLOGY, pt 2
Q: First place you went this morning?
A: The toilet
Q: What can you not wait to do?
A. Go to the toilet...be right back...
Q: What's the last movie you saw?
A: Umm...good question. I can't remember.
Q: Do you smile often?
A: How can you not smile often when you have a baby as cute as I do?
Q: Are you a friendly person?
A: Sometimes
Q: Someone you wish you never met?
A: How much time do you have?
Thanks to Josh for the heads-up, we have a new-to-us vacuum. It was at a garage sale at Robyn's grandma's house for $25. Got a Christmas tree too for only $2.
#SoundWorks was an IRC channel on Undernet a few years ago. I was just thinking about it the other day and wondering what happened to everyone. I haven't heard from any of them in ages. Mugsy used to post on the #Bannerbored from time to time, but I haven't seen anything from her in about a year. Alex/qaz1, have you heard from any of them?
So this post is just in case any old #SoundWorks members are Googling their old IRC nicks.
Where are you, Rumpletzr? Spazzy? Tory? Bucy? Mugsy? Sarah? Please post a comment if you see this. Also, I just connected to Undernet again today and I'm on the channel. Would love to hear from any of you if you can drop in.
So we're not due for a cool change till next Wednesday. Bleh.
Last night when Craig was over, he & Darrin did some work with the bricks. There's now a partial border around my dirt patch. And there's nothing actually IN the dirt patch. The so-called seedlings I planted in the egg cartons still haven't sprouted yet, after several weeks. So once we get some cooler weather, I'm planning to actually plant the seeds IN THE GROUND. Then hopefully they'll actually grow.
On the up side though, our peach & apricot trees are fruiting. The fruit isn't ripe yet, but it's there, and it's healthy. We had a wetter winter this year so they may ripen up earlier than last year. If not, it'll be around mid-December for the apricots & mid-late January for the peaches.
So yesterday I decided to put Caleb in the sling and go shopping. I got out to the bus stop with about a minute to spare. This bus stop is serviced by two routes. One, the 404/405, is the one that goes to Hollywood Plaza. The other is the 224/224F, which goes to the city. Both these buses happen to go past this stop at about the same time, around five minutes before the hour every hour. And since they go completely different places, you'd think they should both stop at this stop, right?
Heh. Yeah, so did I. As the 224F was pulling over to pick up passengers, the 405 CHANGED LANES and went straight past the other bus, the bus stop, and at least one passenger - me - who wanted to catch it. Thanks, Mr. Moronic Driver.
So in the space of a few seconds I have to make a decision. My bus has just left me in the lurch. I REALLY wanted to go to Hollywood because I like the fruit & veg shop there, and I wanted to go to Target and see if they have some bath toys that I can use to distract Caleb from splashing all the water out of the bath and onto me. (And there's a nice bakery there, but that's beside the point.) So I could a) wait for the next bus, or b) walk.
Option A has a major problem with it. The 404/405 buses only run once every hour. Um, huh? Come on, I know it's not Elizabeth or Parabanks, but Hollywood is a pretty serious shopping centre in the area. What's with having a bus only go past once an hour?
And option B has a problem with it as well. I've done the walk before; I've even done it pregnant. It's only about 3 km, so I could get there in about half an hour. But the temperature at 10 am yesterday was already 29 C. And sure, I had shorts & a t-shirt on, but I also had a 9 kilogram baby strapped to my body. And besides, I'd get there about fifteen minutes before the return bus left Hollywood, and have to either rush my shopping, or spend an extra hour there trying to find ways to kill time.
So what do you do when you have two options and they both suck? Find a third option. I got on the 224F and went to Foodland instead. At least they have enough sense to run that one half-hourly (even though it should be every 15 minutes).
When you leave a pile of dirty dishes in the kitchen in our house, eventually you get ants. Lots of them. And they just won't go away. This is what greeted me this morning when I walked through on my way to the toilet.
So I've made a small dent in the pile of dishes. And I put out a homemade ant trap - sugar & borax mixed with water - so hopefully they'll go for that instead of the dishes. It worked last year.
Okay. I'm also feeling really lazy. I wasted most of today & yesterday working out how to play Open TTD. I have a pile of dirty dishes, a pile of sewing, a pile of bricks, and a pile of dirt, all needing some attention. But it's hard to get motivated to do anything when it's 30 degrees. But it's gonna be this warm (or warmer) for the next five or so months, so I might as well get used to it.
