Long weekend
Jan. 11th, 2009 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aubreymFeel free to skip this entry, considering I'm going to whine and be self-pitying. Fortunately I've (mostly) contained that attitude to my brain and here. I did snap at Tom a couple of times, but hopefully not too much. I just need a little outlet, so this is the place for it.
I spent the entire weekend with Tai, with very little breaks. It was necessary, but tiring. Tom spent the time painting the entire living room and the entry-way. He covered up all of the chipping paint on the baseboards and the windows and, since he was painting, did the walls in the living room too. I picked the color - peach, though it came out a bit pinker than I'd been expecting. I wanted something deeper, more of an adobe color, but Tom thought dark colors wouldn't be any good. I also didn't think about how it would look with our carpet, which is blue. Yuck. We're planning on getting rid of the carpet and now we might have to do it sooner rather than later. We also did a Costco run to get a vacuum with a Hepa filter, which should be able to take care of any lead dust around.
Yesterday I woke up with a sore left breast. I think I hadn't fed Tai on that side over-night, so I was too full. It felt warm and hard so I fed him right away, but it didn't seem to fix anything. As the morning progressed it hurt more and then I started to feel like crap in general. I got chills, minor fever, general malaise.
So our date night, the first in three weeks, was spent watching Tom paint, playing the XBox to keep from falling asleep and eating Indian food. No restaurant, no bar, no fun. I'd even worn sexy panties and a nice shirt. *sigh* Mom babysat for us, though, so I was able to have a break from the baby, which was nice.
I was much improved today. The breast was barely sore and my fever and achiness was gone. I wanted to spend the day doing something fun - like heading to the zoo or the Academy of Science, since it was a free day for families in San Francisco - but couldn't find anyone to go with since I didn't plan ahead and ended up just bumming around my mom's neighborhood. I probably should have gone alone, but just couldn't muster up the energy.
So my weekend wasn't much of a weekend at all. At least it was good weather today; that always makes me feel better. And we're doing everything we can to make the house safer for Tai. Neither of us want him to get any more lead exposure than he already had. But I wanted a break!
After Dr. Treece called me on Tuesday, he called the city to alert them about Tai's exposure to lead. On Wednesday an inspector from the city called me. They needed to check out the house. He offered an appointment on Thursday morning. Of course I agreed. We want to find out what's causing the exposure as soon as possible. So he came out and took a bunch of samples around the house. Unfortunately I couldn't follow him around to see what he was doing because Tai was awake and wanting to be entertained. He said he'll get the results in 5-7 days (hopefully not business days), which means we could know as early as Tuesday. Then he'll call and we can figure out what needs to be done to get everything fixed.
In the meantime, Tai and I have been spending most of our time out of the house. At the inspector's request. He said Tai shouldn't be crawling around in the house and Tai isn't so much of a fan of just sitting on my lap anymore. He's a boy on the move, let me tell you. He's been spending more time standing without holding on to anything. And he's even taken a step or two in between two things (like the coffee table and either me or Tom), though he's really cautious about doing so and prefers to speed-crawl everywhere.
As a placeholder - I want to write about the following in the next couple of days: 1) Further thoughts on my sexuality, and 2) the question someone asked me today, "Is it hard being a mother?"
I'm too tired to do them justice tonight.
I spent the entire weekend with Tai, with very little breaks. It was necessary, but tiring. Tom spent the time painting the entire living room and the entry-way. He covered up all of the chipping paint on the baseboards and the windows and, since he was painting, did the walls in the living room too. I picked the color - peach, though it came out a bit pinker than I'd been expecting. I wanted something deeper, more of an adobe color, but Tom thought dark colors wouldn't be any good. I also didn't think about how it would look with our carpet, which is blue. Yuck. We're planning on getting rid of the carpet and now we might have to do it sooner rather than later. We also did a Costco run to get a vacuum with a Hepa filter, which should be able to take care of any lead dust around.
Yesterday I woke up with a sore left breast. I think I hadn't fed Tai on that side over-night, so I was too full. It felt warm and hard so I fed him right away, but it didn't seem to fix anything. As the morning progressed it hurt more and then I started to feel like crap in general. I got chills, minor fever, general malaise.
So our date night, the first in three weeks, was spent watching Tom paint, playing the XBox to keep from falling asleep and eating Indian food. No restaurant, no bar, no fun. I'd even worn sexy panties and a nice shirt. *sigh* Mom babysat for us, though, so I was able to have a break from the baby, which was nice.
I was much improved today. The breast was barely sore and my fever and achiness was gone. I wanted to spend the day doing something fun - like heading to the zoo or the Academy of Science, since it was a free day for families in San Francisco - but couldn't find anyone to go with since I didn't plan ahead and ended up just bumming around my mom's neighborhood. I probably should have gone alone, but just couldn't muster up the energy.
So my weekend wasn't much of a weekend at all. At least it was good weather today; that always makes me feel better. And we're doing everything we can to make the house safer for Tai. Neither of us want him to get any more lead exposure than he already had. But I wanted a break!
After Dr. Treece called me on Tuesday, he called the city to alert them about Tai's exposure to lead. On Wednesday an inspector from the city called me. They needed to check out the house. He offered an appointment on Thursday morning. Of course I agreed. We want to find out what's causing the exposure as soon as possible. So he came out and took a bunch of samples around the house. Unfortunately I couldn't follow him around to see what he was doing because Tai was awake and wanting to be entertained. He said he'll get the results in 5-7 days (hopefully not business days), which means we could know as early as Tuesday. Then he'll call and we can figure out what needs to be done to get everything fixed.
In the meantime, Tai and I have been spending most of our time out of the house. At the inspector's request. He said Tai shouldn't be crawling around in the house and Tai isn't so much of a fan of just sitting on my lap anymore. He's a boy on the move, let me tell you. He's been spending more time standing without holding on to anything. And he's even taken a step or two in between two things (like the coffee table and either me or Tom), though he's really cautious about doing so and prefers to speed-crawl everywhere.
As a placeholder - I want to write about the following in the next couple of days: 1) Further thoughts on my sexuality, and 2) the question someone asked me today, "Is it hard being a mother?"
I'm too tired to do them justice tonight.
