fair isle onesie.

Beebs and I spent the night at my mom's house. The baby napped for almost 4 hours yesterday - 3 separate naps. This morning my mom made buckwheat pancakes and we put honey on them and drank coffee. We've pretty much decided not to buy a house right now but to instead downsize in May for cheaper rent to allow us to take our time buying and who knows what the market is doing? I hate even talking about it. It annoys me and my family is so gloom and doom apocalypse about it all. I think the baby is getting more (!) teeth (!) to add to the 8 she has now. She's been insanely drooly and chewy. We got her this as an early birthday present after I saw glimpses of it on Parrish's site. I'm having a lot of fun perusing things I want to get her for her birthday. We're also scheming for another 1st Birthday Party we'll be attending soon. Beebs even has a handful of friends to invite to her party! I'm tired, so tired.

nada.

This weekend just freaking flew by in a blur. Seems like a weekend flanked by work does that - flies - by - blur. I totally have nothing to say. Lately I just eat too much and dread work and winter weather though it's not even snowing or anything so how can I complain. I search online for places to live and then it seems stupid and then we pay rent the 2nd day of every month and then it's like holy hell we gots no money. my daughter's crying now. bye.

Have a good day.

♥ Happy Valentine's Day! ♥

row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream.

Our daughter (we have a daughter!?) is in her crib right now making the occasional squeak squeak babble coo. When we woke up tangled together this morning, her feet pushed into my thigh, she felt unbelievably warm. When I took her temperature she indeed had one. She's delightful all the same with a bit of a cough. I'm not feeling so awesome myself and it sounds like Roommate is in this boat too. This little boat. I'm in a hazy sleepy sort of fog this afternoon and thus blogging this way feels like the way I used to blog. I used to just spill out some stream of consciousness drivel that had usually been worked up, stirred up while I was alone listening to music or I'd just been outside for awhile or something - the things that affect me like a shot of whiskey might for some. Those days, when I lived alone. When I lived at the top of a house in the attic apartment with my fugitive cat and for a short while a hamster named Gypsy and then another, Big Fat Fatty. Gypsy disappeared. They were both black bear hamsters, sweet fat little things. Last night we were going to sit at the kitchen table and talk shop about our finances. Boy oh boy did that sound fun. We never made it. I had recommended our discussion involve booze 'cause man, money talk is sobering. Shit. I was staring at the sky yesterday. The clouds were moseying along and I felt a bit of awe and realized I don't look up nearly enough. That was a favorite pasttime as a wee one, of many wee ones, myself included see. With my lacking faith these days it served to remind me that there's something bigger than myself - as much as I might hate that worn out refrain. For a moment I imagined myself glimpsing the earth, rotating, revolving, spinning under-inside that sky I was seeing. merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream.

feelin' frisky!

The day before yesterday we went to the park. It was close to 70, I think. It felt like a strange phenomenon because the park was loaded with people and we all seemed like-minded in that here it is, winter, and the weather is amazing. It was like our cabin fever broke and we all went crazy. These two came through in speedos.

Dorm life?

Stressed!! We're getting conflicting views from all angles - YES! Perfect time to buy! What a novel idea!! OH MY GOD! DO NOT BUY NOW! THIS IS A HORRIBLE TIME TO BUY! The market is still dropping and in 2 years when it bottoms out you will suddenly be completely upside down in your home! NO! BEWARE the Ides of March! AHhhhh!!! So there was this brief time where we were sort of joy-riding on occasion (like twice) to drive by homes for sale and explore neighborhoods and pin a "maybe" here or there and then I decided to ask my family for advice and now I'm just completely, 100% discouraged. My uncle is a total financial market fanatic (somewhat radical) and told me absolutely do not buy right now. My mom had been DRIVING the Buy Now bandwagon when suddenly she tumbled off and landed in the mud with the DO NOT BUY NOW crowd. When the discussion turns pessimistic they just tell us repeatedly to "do research." An aunt of mine has absolutely no grip on financial matters and encourages me to buy now and also to pray to God about it. We checked out some books at the library that are about buying a home but unless they were written within the last, oh..month or two, I feel like they're applicable BUT.. My uncle has directed me to reading Bloomberg News, which I know nothing about. He's talking about foreclosure auctions but still insists we should wait at least 2 years. My mom has asked us for some time now to move in with her - temporarily - to save money, blah blah blah. I'm about 99% against this but then when I think about not paying rent for a few months, putting some of that back to be used for a home purchase the idea seems reasonable, err, generous for sure but.. BUT...but.. I told our landlord we won't be renewing our lease in May. I'm not sure what we will be doing in May.

9 months