Walking Backwards

Nicholas, it seems, is still on Italian time and fell asleep this evening at seven as we were on our way out the door to go to a small show by a friend's band at a local restaurant. I can't tell you how difficult it is to eat crispy fish tacos while balancing a sleeping toddler on you shoulder. I shouldn't have been surprised, Nico didn't have a nap today because I started back to watching baby H and he wasn't having this naptime without mommy laying down with him and cuddling (and subsequently also falling asleep). He'll get used to it again, but I had a sleepy/cranky child on my hands at about four. The show was good and I felt so much like my old self getting to go out on a weeknight without having to worry about finding a babysitter. Admittedly, it shouldn't count when you drag along your three year-old, but anything that gets me off of the couch and out in the company of my peers should count for something. We hung out with friends and saw a lot of people we knew and it was really a lot of fun. Soon enough we are going to go back to our reclusive selves but tonight we could pretend that we were popular.

Other things that happened today:

- I booked my mom's flight for Christmas. She is just going to make a long weekend out of it and is flying back to Seattle on Christmas day at 6 in the evening.

- I made reservations to a child's gingerbread house decorating workshop for Nicholas and I and I had to go with my third choice for the day and time because they were already booked. This is for December, people.

- I got confirmation that the piano will be delivered in 30-90 days.

- Travis found an apartment and will be moving out next week if his application is approved. He is all pissed and sulky, it seems, for reasons that I can't understand, but I think that revolve around the fact that we haven't jumped out and exclaimed "just kidding" to him. He really has to move.

- I was on the phone for the better part of today securing appointments and dealing with all the fun stuff I received in the mail while I was gone. I'm still not done with that.

- I got up at 5 this morning. It looks like my hours are adjusting at a rate of one a day. I should be back to normal by day after tomorrow.

- I tried to upload my photos directly from my camera, but due to the number of pictures I have on my gigantic memory card, my computer bit the dust. I'm going to plug it in tonight and just try to copy over ten at a time. I have 210 pictures per memory card and my ancient paperweight just can't fathom why I took so many. Travis' laptop has them (I uploaded each day), but I haven't gotten it into my hands long enough to burn acceptable size CD's.

- I can barely see straight so I'm going to bed.