I had a life, once, really I did October 27, 2006

I now know why my friends with babies drop off the face of the earth for a few months. Baby Girl is now six weeks old, and I can’t believe how much she has grown already. She is starting to smile in our general direction (hey, I’ll take what I can get!) and make funny baby-voice sounds that are different from whimpering or crying. I am so glad that I have the chance to spend this important time with her while she is so small, but I am starting to get a bit of cabin fever. Thank goodness for the phone and email! It has been raining non-stop for about a week, so even getting out with the stroller has been out of the question.

I may regret saying this, but I actually started to feel slightly competent with this whole mom thing about last week (5 weeks or so). The first few weeks are a blur, but I think Andrew and I are getting the hang of it. I am proud to say that I can shower and eat at least one thing before Andrew gets home almost every day! That explains the dropping-off-the-face-of-the-earth thing–eating and showering as daily goals make for a pretty small world!
I am used to a daily planner with about a million things to accomplish (and typically did a pretty good job, if I do say so myself), but that has quickly changed…

So, no actual news for whoever out there is reading this. I just wanted to say that I’m still alive. Well, there is one thing. Andrew and I are seriously considering selling this house and moving into a new community being built in Murfreesboro. We went to look at models and now have full-on big-new-house-lust. Sorry to those of you who think Mboro is waaay too far out! We would probably sell this one and live in an apartment for a few months while the new one is being built this summer (which sounds insane to me, but not as insane as trying to pay two mortgages for even one month! Eeek!). I mean, packing up and moving twice should be no problem with a new baby, right? As if I didn’t despise moving enough already…

Feel free to call me for no reason at all. I need adult interaction! I have even toyed with the idea of offering to come back to work a semester early… I must be out of my ever-loving mind…

An important lesson to learn October 2, 2006

This is random and stolen from my friend Stacie’s blog, but I found this inappropriately hilarious. I love the quote from the sheriff (“We would have shot him more,” but they ran out of ammunition at 68 shots). I think the lesson is clear: Don’t shoot a cop. His/her cop buddies will likely want to seek revenge, and they are likely to use firearms (and fill you with an excessive number of bullet holes). Nice to see justice served. The jerk also killed a police dog, so I imagine he is burning in that special corner of hell reserved for those who are cruel to animals.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15012086/