1/4/2005

Hmmmmm.  Interesting…several of you decided you needed a private room for your comments.  To make the experience more pleasurable for you private folks, I’ve installed a surround sound stereo system and DVD player in each private room.  Selections ranging from Disney kiddie classics to porn are available for your use.  All I ask is that you leave the room in the condition you found it.  No “shaving cream” behind the ears please.  If you are just joining us, I refer you to the previous entry.  Answers will follow once everyone has had their chance. 

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Diana goes back to work today.  Unfortunately, or fortunately for Diana, our daycare provider had a death in the family and so she will be unable to care for little Ryan.  A friend will be staying at the house in lieu of daycare.  Diana is not a happy camper about having to go back to work.  I can’t say I blame her.  I don’t want her to go either.  Unfortunately, her company has a really good package for those who reach the 20 year mark.  She has 18 years there.  We can survive quite nicely on my income alone, but…we’d have to put off a couple of our remodeling projects indefinitely and we’d have to wait to replace my car for a few more years.  It’s going to be a really tough day for her.  She doesn’t really like the people she works with anymore.  Office dynamics can make or break a job I tell ya.  She’ll be looking to transfer to another division soon I think.  She’s been off work since August 1 so it’s going to be really a rough adjustment for her.  I sent her flowers.  I wish I could send hugs.  *sigh*

Ryan fell asleep around 8:45 pm last night and was still asleep at 5:45 when I left this morning.  Good news!  We switched him to carrots this week and he really seems to like those.  He grabs the spoon and can’t get them in fast enough.  He was ambivalent about the peas.  We bought Gerber peas…sing it…Eating Gerber peas, eating Gerber peas.  Here we go rejoicing, eating Gerber peas…Hmmm…The carrots I pureed fresh so I wonder if that made a difference.  We’re trying fresh beans next week. 

My mother can be such a nag.  If she asks me about the DVD of Ryan one more time I think I’m going to fly out to the northeast and wring her f***in’ neck.  Ya see, we have a video camera that records onto tapes.  We planned to eventually transfer to DVD.  Four 60-minute tapes=1 DVD.  My mother has been calling at least once a week asking “When are we going to see Ryan in action?  We want a DVD.”  Until last week, I only had about 40 minutes of footage.  I mean, really, how much action does he really do.  The still photos are much more entertaining.  Everytime she asks, I say “Mom, we haven’t recorded enough video for a DVD.  He doesn’t really do much right now.  I’m not going to record an hour of him sitting on his playmat staring at the ceiling.  When we get enough for the DVD, we’ll send it to you.”  Plus, my dad “recorded” Ryan’s baptism on the first tape…OK, so he didn’t record Ryan’s baptism, he pushed “stop” when he should have pushed “record” and vice versa.   So, we have a lot of filler crap.  He would feel really bad (my dad is a sensitive guy) so I don’t want to hurt his feelings.  Hence, I do not want to send them the first tape.  I’ve been trying to find things to record for a second tape and have recorded about 20 minutes.  I don’t really have the time to reedit and splice the whole thing (I really do want to keep the “baptism” because it is funny – I just don’t want my dad to see it).  In addition, my parents have not offerred to help pay for the DVD or even provide copies of photos they took of Ryan in October.  They took at least 50 pictures when they were with us and I haven’t seen a single one…even online.  I don’t want this to become a big issue, but it really is beginning to piss me off.  If I go more than a week without posting new pix on our website, my mom calls saying “When are you going to get new pix up?”  Mom!  Chill out!  Ryan isn’t really doing anything new this week.  Plus, neither Diana nor I have a digital camera so for every roll of film I need to spend an extra  $10 to get a CD so I can post the pix.  I’ve probably spent an extra $200 to date (could have bought a digital camera by now) just so they can see pix every f***in week.  Not once have they offerred to help pay for it.  We’re not hurting for the money.  That’s not the point.  It pisses me off, that’s all.  Breathe in.  Breathe out.

All for now.