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When I worked [outside the home*] I had a certain rhythm to my weeks. Mainly--Wednesdays sucked. The third working day of the week just killed me. Now that I'm not at that job, I have a new rhythm, and that is that Thursdays, I do not want to cook. I don't know why. It's M's early day so it should be one of the days best suited for cooking. It's nearly the weekend, so I should feel enthused. And yet, no. I have noticed that it is almost always a Thursday when I ask M to pick something up on his way home, or that we scrap the dinner plans and heat up a frozen pizza. It doesn't matter if my day has felt slothful or if I have been busy busy busy--I don't like cooking on Thursdays. It is so weird. We'll see whether or not that holds for today. I don't particularly feel like cooking at the moment, but that is also because I have worked hard for two hours while Evelyn has been asleep. I am taking a break right now only because the kitchen floor is wet--I EVEN MOPPED--and the next thing is doing dishes. Yeah, kind of weird to mop before the kitchen was clean, but I was on a roll.
I went to lunch with some lovely people I used to work with today. It was very nice. I might not miss working, but I sure do miss them. Evelyn was very well-behaved--she was a little unsure at first about all the attention she was getting, but she didn't cry. I can't believe it has been six months since I saw most of them. Some of them on occasion read this journal (hi guys!) and so they can keep up with what we're doing but I have no idea what's going on with them.
Yesterday, I spent much of the day trying to figure out how to burn a DVD so that it would play in our DVD player in the living room. What I was doing should have worked, but there was no video, only sound. I tried it several different ways and I never could get it to work--it would play in the laptop but not the player. While I was googling it, I found out that this particular model was known to not play homemade disks well, so M and I had this discussion about replacing it soon. It was a cheap player. Then I encountered directions for making it region-free, so I thought.. hey, wonder if that would work? They always tell you that this could render your player inoperable but you know, you never really think it will happen to you. Ahem. So, I wound up the day by breaking the damned thing completely. Bad signal no matter what we do. Yay! It made it a little easier to bear since we had already decided to buy a new one.
*On one hand, I do not have outside employment so it is most practical to say things like "when I worked..." And yet, when I say that, I feel like I am contributing to the societal denigration of stay-at-home-motherhood so I feel like I should make a point of stating that what I do is, in fact, work. I am raising a responsible citizen of the world here! I am keeping the house bearably clean, the laundry done, the food fixed! Some days I work a whole hell of a lot harder than I did at my state job, where we once spent two days designing a frilly hat for my boss to wear. Bad example. I think that the days where it is easier just sort of rounds things out.
I went to lunch with some lovely people I used to work with today. It was very nice. I might not miss working, but I sure do miss them. Evelyn was very well-behaved--she was a little unsure at first about all the attention she was getting, but she didn't cry. I can't believe it has been six months since I saw most of them. Some of them on occasion read this journal (hi guys!) and so they can keep up with what we're doing but I have no idea what's going on with them.
Yesterday, I spent much of the day trying to figure out how to burn a DVD so that it would play in our DVD player in the living room. What I was doing should have worked, but there was no video, only sound. I tried it several different ways and I never could get it to work--it would play in the laptop but not the player. While I was googling it, I found out that this particular model was known to not play homemade disks well, so M and I had this discussion about replacing it soon. It was a cheap player. Then I encountered directions for making it region-free, so I thought.. hey, wonder if that would work? They always tell you that this could render your player inoperable but you know, you never really think it will happen to you. Ahem. So, I wound up the day by breaking the damned thing completely. Bad signal no matter what we do. Yay! It made it a little easier to bear since we had already decided to buy a new one.
*On one hand, I do not have outside employment so it is most practical to say things like "when I worked..." And yet, when I say that, I feel like I am contributing to the societal denigration of stay-at-home-motherhood so I feel like I should make a point of stating that what I do is, in fact, work. I am raising a responsible citizen of the world here! I am keeping the house bearably clean, the laundry done, the food fixed! Some days I work a whole hell of a lot harder than I did at my state job, where we once spent two days designing a frilly hat for my boss to wear. Bad example. I think that the days where it is easier just sort of rounds things out.
