today i did two full loads of laundry. folded and put away too. i took care of baby. i went to yoga. i shopped and cooked. in honor of this being a productive day of accomplishments... i will attempt to document it for my posterity.
9:15 i left to go to yoga class and participated for the full 90 minutes. the instructor even complimented me on how flexible i was. that made me feel a little better because i have no balance and i pretty much looked like
this little girl when attempting any pose taking place not entirely on the floor. i would have been embarassed or self conscious except that i recently perfected my "who really cares what they think? they don't know me and they won't remember me and i'm never going to see them again" attitude. it is wonderful and liberating. i'm especially good at it because in a few weeks i will not only not be living here anymore. but i will also have no plans of returning to this
wretched unique state of california (vent/rant to come). ps- i'll have you know i'm not thaaatt serious about hating california. i mean, the weather is nice.
11:15 as i was about to get in the shower, honey woke baby up (ugh! 45 minutes early) while he was getting a shirt (they share a closet, remember?) although i have no idea how because he was absolutely silent and she's not that light of a sleeper anymore. oh well, he had to go to class and i had to shower. we left baby in her crib to calm herself down (i stash toys in the corner for this specific reason) and she hung out for the next half hour while i showered. i didn't do my hair, but i did manage mascara and clothes. thank goodness for that last one. nursed and dressed baby.
12:30 i took baby to milk pail and scored big with about fifty pounds of produce for a mere $11.50. i should have taken a picture of all the stuff i got. it almost broke my back. i also bought a head of cauliflower. my first time ever buying that stuff. i must be growing up.
1:00 my non blogging sister, liza, called while i was finishing up so i walked on over to ross to mindlessly wander around so i could talk to her for a while longer (since it's illegal to talk on the phone and drive).
1:30 then i went to walmart to grab everything else on my list. that's when i had my first tragedy of the day. my walmart discontinued skim milk! they're frequently out of it but this time i couldn't even find a slot for it (except in a few other brands they had it in half gallons) so i asked the nearby walmart worker. he said they don't carry it anymore because no one was buying it! ummm, i was! five gallons a week! good thing i'm moving. to place with a decent walmart. yesterday i got beechnut (brand of babyfood) coupons in the mail (i'm on their mailing list) for a FREE 8oz box of cereal and 2 FREE jars of baby food. the reason i hate couponing is that my coupons never ring up right and i always end up paying more (since i'm purposely buying a certain brand/size/etc that isn't cheapest unless i have the coupon) and it's soooo frustrating for me. so then i decided i would only use coupons for FREE items because then it's easier for me to know if it rung up right (cancelled out the full price is easier than subtracting 61 cents or something). but even then i haven't had luck. so this time i had the cashier ring up the cereal and two jars and my coupons before even touching anything else. i told her i wanted to make sure it rung up right. so she does that and says, okay, your total so far is $1.50. umm what? read the coupon, it says FREE. she kept telling me it wasn't working so i told her to keep trying. apparently the fourth time's the charm. got it. but if i hadn't made a big deal about that i would have gotten ripped off again. which is what normally happens because the cashiers always tell me that they like to ring up the coupons at the very end. anyways, i'm happy it worked this time. i guess i'll just have to keep doing it this way. is it only me?!?! why is it ALWAYS so difficult?!?!
so then i had to go across the street to safeway to get four gallons of milk (you only get the cheaper price if you buy milk in multiples of two (yeay for milk only being $3/gallon!). it was kind of sad though because it came to $12. so much money on milk. i could be rich if i loved water this much.
2:45 got home. unloaded groceries, including the milk pail loot: carrots, sweet potatoes, yams, cauliflower, mango, blackberries (only 99 cents!), raspberries (only $1.50!), apples (my first time buying organic!), tomatoes, pears, and a ton of bananas. i stuck baby in her highchair with raspberries and blackberries while i brought in milk and everything else and found it a home in our fridge. she inhaled those berries! and then i moved to bananas and then to peas and finally she looked at me like "really? why is lunch going downhill?" next time i'll save the raspberries for the grand finale.
3:00 baby down for her nap. folded laundry. started dinner (i made this cube steak recipe with mashed potatoes, from REAL potatoes, and gravy). stayed busy in the kitchen.
5:00 insane headache hit. hard.
5:15 baby woke up. splitting headache. i think i might die. baby has soooo much energy. she is sooooo bored with all of her toys and our tiny tiny apartment. she can only be entertained by my full attention or maaaybe picking at the carpet, scavenging for lint and hairs and inedibles to eat. i did pay attention to her for a while. i held her while i was on the phone with my mother in law. and she laughed constantly as she crawled around and tried to get me in our little game of chase. but i couldn't keep it up. so i stuck her in her chair with a ton of peas. refilled her tray with peas THREE times. gave her potato. more potato. and more potato. fed her the rest of an opened berry puree. fed her oatmeal. fed her an entire 6oz jar of stage three turkey and rice dinner (y'know... the one that was free). and then i told her she was all done because honestly... it was a TON of food and i was afraid if i fed her anymore she's explode. or barf. i have no idea why my child won't gain weight.
and since she was covered head to toe in food (soooo active even in her chair) i gave her a bath. which always softens my heart. because she is so skinny and tiny and when her hair is wet that's just the cutest thing in the whole world. but as soon as i took her out she turned in to a wiggle worm again. so i got her in pajamas and decided i would just sit down to nurse her and let her eat for as long as she wanted until honey came home. sat down, she started nursing, i put my head back and closed my eyes. and then of course she's crawling all over me while attempting back flips and only nursing for two seconds at a time. ugh. probably because she's so full from all those solids. i can't even remember what i did after this. it was rough.
8:00 honey came home in a fabulous mood and saved my life. we ate dinner together and he played with baby. i went upstairs to lay in bed. he put baby down and cleaned the kitchen (at my request). it's a disaster area down there. then he left to go to a thing at the facebook/asian house.
11:00 honey home. i'm still in bed... haven't moved. i can hear him finish cleaning the kitchen. told you it was bad.
