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sanpaku_backupSurprisingly, I did not wake up today with joint and back pain after the hike. However, I did wake up at 6:45 with mother-in-law holding the screaming baby. For some reason, the baby has been waking up earlier the past three days, maybe due to teething pain. My mother-in-law is upset about it. Mrs. S. believes that starting the baby off on her nursing-and-playing cycle earlier than usual will make it impossible for her to go back to normal, so she favors letting the baby cry for ten minutes in the hope it will go back to sleep. I can see both sides of it, but I mostly want the two of them to avoid the inevitable battle royale that will take place in the five days I am away. I just pray every day that the "fight out of nowhere" manages to hold itself off for another week.
Still, I've spent all afternoon in blissful silence getting work done, and we are going to a cabin tonight so the Mrs. can take a night off. We have gotten pretty good at our routine here; the baby usually sleeps, amuses herself, eats, etc. pretty well. But the difference between just barely holding it together with her, and actually unwinding because someone else is watching her, is still pretty profound. So that's how things have to be.
Richie managed to find me a room in Eugene, so that is a load off my mind, and my wallet. It basically will make possible the purchase of some sort of clothing for the wedding. Still have to go to Bangor tomorrow to see what's there. I would have liked to invite![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
librarygrrl and J. over for another night, because they were thinking of going to Schoodic, which is right down the street from us, but they have no phone, and I probably wouldn't be able to do something like that anyway. Wouldn't it be nice, though, just to play some Scrabble or something? Ah well.
I hope when I get back up here from the wedding that I figure out some way to unwind a little bit. Just like last year, this is a nice place to work, but it doesn't feel much like a vacation when the days go by in a flutter of work and baby care. But it is true that our life in Providence feels very remote now. It will be hard to go back.
Still, I've spent all afternoon in blissful silence getting work done, and we are going to a cabin tonight so the Mrs. can take a night off. We have gotten pretty good at our routine here; the baby usually sleeps, amuses herself, eats, etc. pretty well. But the difference between just barely holding it together with her, and actually unwinding because someone else is watching her, is still pretty profound. So that's how things have to be.
Richie managed to find me a room in Eugene, so that is a load off my mind, and my wallet. It basically will make possible the purchase of some sort of clothing for the wedding. Still have to go to Bangor tomorrow to see what's there. I would have liked to invite
librarygrrl and J. over for another night, because they were thinking of going to Schoodic, which is right down the street from us, but they have no phone, and I probably wouldn't be able to do something like that anyway. Wouldn't it be nice, though, just to play some Scrabble or something? Ah well.I hope when I get back up here from the wedding that I figure out some way to unwind a little bit. Just like last year, this is a nice place to work, but it doesn't feel much like a vacation when the days go by in a flutter of work and baby care. But it is true that our life in Providence feels very remote now. It will be hard to go back.
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Date: 2003-08-18 09:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-18 10:09 am (UTC)But I should take some time off. I'm just a natural miser, though. I keep thinking that if I bank a lot someday I'll "use" them on "something big." Like we should go to Europe or something. But I need to talk myself into that. (BTW, the prognosis on keeping the house has improved.)
Welcome back to The Grid...
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Date: 2003-08-18 11:23 am (UTC)Yesterday we went through the Berkshires and went up to see where Jay's family camps used to be. His batty old aunt changed her mother's will when she was too loopy to know it and then willed them to the Monterey historical society, who promptly sold them to someone who tore them down to build bigger stuff.
So of course our trip was full of lots of speculation about what it would be like if we had them like we were supposed to... ah well.
Anyway, so use a few days. You're in an awfully nice place to be working all day...
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Date: 2003-08-19 12:51 pm (UTC)Yeah, actually this is about our fifth or sixth. :-) As I think I've mentioned, there is a long tradition of nothing happening in this family... who can say...
I think you mentioned the camps to me before. How was the rest of your trip? Did you get any sunny days? Down to Schoodic?
BTW, I picked up a copy of Harper's in the Portland airport. Jay is a really terrific writer. But you know that!
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