Thought it might be fun to participate in the Day in the life series
6:00 AM Wake up to the sound of Midnight licking his feet in the bathroom. No sound grosses me out more than a dog licking his/her feet. I don't know why. Yell at him to stop. Fall asleep.
6:28 AM Wake up to the sound of Midnight walking down the hall. Realize he must need to pee and get up to let him out. Check on Alex in his room to make sure he's still alive. Still not used to him sleeping through the night. He's fine, sleeping with his butt up in the air. Come back to bedroom and turn off alarm. Get in shower.
6:30 AM Realize I can't bend over because I have somehow tweaked my back. Try to shave legs anyway. Get right leg shaved and half of left leg before I feel like I might faint from the pain.
6:40 AM Get all dressed and realize I don't want to go for my morning walk in a skirt, change into track pants and running shoes. Let Middie in and give him his medications rolled up in American cheese slices.
6:50 AM Go to Alex's room to find John talking to him while eating Fruity Pebbles. Realize that Alex is extremely cute wearing his "Shark Bait" jammies with the shirt that's too short and shows off his little round belly. change his diaper and put his "I'm definately up to something" shirt and new denim shorts on. Stand him up, shorts fall off. change him into his white basketball shorts. I kiss his cheeks and he starts whispering "dadadadada" as we walk to the kitchen.
7:00 AM Install Alex in the stroller with his breakfast bottle and get Middie hooked up to his leash, wave to old guy walking a miniature french poodle.
7:25 AM Walk was uneventful, but nice nonetheless. Go to bedroom and let Alex play with a drink coaster while I change back into my skirt and brand new 3 inch wedge sandals. Realize that my back REALLY hurts and it probably isn't a good day to try out new heels. Wear them anyway. Admire John in the buff coming out of the shower.
7:30 AM Pack my lunch: tuna sandwich on wheat, doritos and a rasberry light 'n' fit smoothie
7:35 AM Kiss John goodbye and race out the door with Alex. John tells me I smell like tuna. I decide I still love him anyway.
7:43 AM Drop Alex off at mom's, remember to give her belated birthday gift.
7:50 AM Turn onto freeway, realize I'm going to be late to work and I forgot my phone. I look at my driver's side rear view mirror and see someone has drawn a "J" in the dirt. I look at my passenger side rear view mirror and see a "P" I wonder when JP did that.
8:10 AM Rush into the office. Eat lunch for breakfast
9:00 AM Realize I forgot to call into 8:30 conference call. Check email to find that call was cancelled. Whew!
10:00 AM Go to weekly team status meeting. Conference room is very cold and I become very aware of my nipples poking out of my shirt. Continue to worry about my nipples and don't pay attention during meeting.
10:30 AM Boss calls me in for meeting in his office. He calls in another coworker who stares at my nipples. It's cold, and I wish I had a sweater.
11:10 AM Find out lunch is being served in next building over. Take two coworkers over with me to get sandwiches and chips. Get way to excited when I see that they've also provided chocolate chip cookies.
11:30 AM Eat lunch at my desk while reading my favorite blogs. Eat cookie very slowly. Find out about "Day in the life" series. Decide I'd like to participate
12:00 PM Go to bank to have an affidavit notarized for my sister. Remember that I hate my sister and get angry about her as I wait for the notary.
12:30 PM Realize I haven't done anything productive at work all day, decide to rememdy that by writing some test cases. Boss comes by to ask me if I'll show around the new contractor who will be arriving at 2. I agree, but I don't want to. Start writing about my day in TypePad.
1:30 PM Loose all of my "day in the life" entry when I accidentally click a link on the page then click the back button. Silently yell obscenities at my monitor. Decide to rewrite entry in notepad.
2:15 PM Contractor arrives. He is Israli and I can't understand him because of his accent. We go to see my buddy in the next building to get a badge and key for the building. My friend has shaved his head. I ask him why. He gives me a short answer "I just cut it" and then whispers to me "I'm going to come over to talk to you later". I think it's strange, but figure he's just acting weird because he's about to get married.
3:00 PM Sitting with the new contractor and one of our developers smiling and nodding my head as they have a conversation about server architecture. It is way over my head. I feel stupid and don't say a single word the entire time. Become silently resentful at the developer for making me sit here and look stupid. Wish I were back at my desk. Stare at my new shoes that I think are just fabulous. Lament the fact that I didn't take time to get a pedicure over the weekend.
4:10 PM Finally back at my desk. Co worker comes to tell me that my friend's fiance has cancer and is about to start chemo and that's why he shaved his head. Feel sick to my stomach and want to cry for them. Think about calling him, but decide to wait for him to come talk to me like he said he would.
4:29 PM Go buy M&M's. can't stop thinking about friend and his fiance.
5:00 PM Time to go home, friend hasn't come talk to me yet. Send him an "I'm thinking of you" email and pack up my stuff to go home. Think about going to gym, but decide not to. I miss Alex too much and can't wait to see him.
5:30 PM Pull up at mom's house. Hear Alex laughing as I walk up the steps. I walk into the house and he's sitting in a highchair eating banana crunchies. He smiles and chuckles at me. I pick him up. OUCH!! Stupid back! I smell his hair and nibble his toes.
5:45 PM Arrive at home, I put Alex on the floor in the hall outside our bedroom hoping he'll crawl in and surprise John. He just looks up at me. John sees him and says "Hey Buddy!" and Alex goes wild laughing and kicking. He loves his daddy. I call Little Jen in DC and we have a nice talk.
6:30 PM Heidi arrives to babysit Alex. Give Midnight his medication. John and I decide to use our gift card to Olive Garden. We get to restuaurnant and have to wait. I ask John if he wants me to go to his doctor appointment with him next week. He tells me no, it hurts my feelings and I pout until we get our table.
7:00 PM I feel like an ass so I stop pouting and order a glass of Pinot Noir and the shrimp and asparagus risotto. John gets the house red and some kind of pork thing. his vegetables are burned, and they bring out new ones. I steal a couple of potatoes from him. My dinner is fantastic. We order cheesecake for dessert. John doesn't like the chocolate crust. We talk about discipline and parenting. We decide that we will have a No Spanking policy with Alex. Smile at the thought that it's so easy to say that now. In another year or so, we'll have to see how that policy holds up.
8:00 PM We decide to go to the mall so John can find something to buy at the sports store. I miss Alex a lot and my back is killing me. I end up getting a Jeter t-shirt and a U of U t-shirt for Alex. John buys a mini Broncos helmet. We go to Lids and buy Heidi a B-Jay's hat. I try to get John to buy the Cocks hat for his brother. He buys the Lei Me hat instead for himself. I talk about how much I miss Alex all the way home. I suggest using the "naughty spot" with Alex for discipline. John doesn't like the wording of "naughty spot", he thinks it sounds sexual. I think he's nuts. We decide on "No no spot".
8:45 PM We get home and I notice that Heidi has organized our mountain of shoes. John retreats to the bedroom to talk on the phone with various people while Heidi and I talk about her new guy she's seeing and Alex plays on the floor
9:30 PM I put Alex to bed, he passes out immediately
10:45 PM Heidi leaves, John and I go to bed and I ask him to rub my back. He whines and complains and does a horrible job. He tells me rubbing my back is annoying.
11:10 PM John finally stops whining about rubbing my back and ends up pushing his knee into my lower back like he used to when I was pregnant. It sort of helps and we fall asleep.
