Blarg

I feel like crap, probably a combination of lack of decent sleep, weather, and standard sensitivity to airborne whatever. 

Sleep last night was decent enough from perhaps 12:30 to 2:30, when bladder and Sadie woke me from a sound sleep.  Instead of laying down with me, luckily she demanded I go in her room, where I saw the flooded bed.  Diaper overflowed.  She and the bed had to be changed, which was traumatic.  She is extremely bothered by leaks or accidents in the first place, because it’s an imperfection.  No idea where she could have inherited those genes.  I laid down in there. but never slept, ending up at the computer at 4:00.  Shortly after that, she came to get me and again I had to go in her room, once it became clear that I was going to fall asleep with her on me in the desk chair, except it wasn’t going to work because it was the desk chair.

New parents: Holding a baby can be the most relaxing thing in the world, to the point of making it almost impossible not to fall asleep.  Sadie was doing that, despite being a big kid.

I did a better job nesting in her room that time, probably falling asleep by 5:30 and waking up at 9:00, feeling like it was 7:00.  Sinuses are a mess and the left eye is doing the thing where it can barely be opened and feels like it has something in it or has welding flash.

Speaking of which, I love the Star Trek teaser trailer, where they show guys welding, building the Enterprise, and give a glimpse of the scale of the ship to those guys, and the whole thing under construction.

When I got up, Sadie did too, and insisted on occupying my lap.

Which may be part of Valerie’s problems.  She stayed up super late, with hyperactive brain, weather discomfort, and apparently envy for Sadie’s tendency to monopolize us for things like book reading.  Sadie picks the books.  Sadie sits on my lap.  Sadie won’t allow Valerie on the lap if she can help it.  Val was pretty distressed by it last night, then this morning Sadie did the same thing, when what I really wanted was neither of them.  I try to make up for it with Valerie whenever I can, and she’s just so sweet and cuddly.

I managed to get Deb’s latest sale to the post office before 12:00, which is great because it can mean a package ordered late Friday could get to the buyer Monday, versus at least Wednesday.  The line was absurd, which is the downside of last minute.  They move it right along, though.

Then I remembered I needed to replace the passenger wiper (at least), but couldn’t puzzle out from looking or the tiny diagrams on the package just how to get the old one off.  Need to look online or get a magnifying glass.

I’m still waiting for the ATM card for my new account.  Got the checks.  More so, waiting to be able to access it online and tie it to PayPal.  In this day and age, taking over a week to create a new account of that sort seems absurd.  Good thing I’m not relying on that quite yet, though I was thinking the next chunk of rent I pay might come from ad sales, which would mean PayPal.

I got my final OnForce approval in the wee hours.  It actually arrived during the 4:00 AM hour when I was at the computer, with a mailing time of 2:30 AM.  I had figured it wouldn’t be until Monday.  So one of the weekend things will be to get acclimated there and start monitoring it for prospective work orders.  Which is the other thing that will be tied to that account.

As for selling things, I remembered this morning we need to buy a scale.  Presumably about $20 at Wal-Mart for something that’ll do.

(Insert long pause here that included making French toast regular and banana bread for lunch.)

Since the only thing we’ll really miss at a store by tomorrow is bread, and I didn’t grab some yesterday or think to get some when I went to the post office, Deb suggested I make more bread.  Which, as she said, would go well with the pea soup I plan to make.  I investigated the “ham bone” we were given and found it includes major amounts of ham and has not, as I naturally feared, spoiled yet.  I’ll just need to scrape off some of the impressive amount of pineapple.

Thus it would appear my afternoon will center heavily on those two things.  Want to be careful this time not to liquefy the peas completely, and make it a bit less spicy.  It ought to help that I have a bag of whole peas (as well as a bag of split peas I already had on hand.  The bread gives a lot of down time.  Speaking of which, I’ll have to remember to buy flour.  Each two loaves of bread take close to a third of a bag, so it’ll go fast.

There are things I can poke with a stick in the down times, so that all works.  In fact, about the time I finish getting the bread to where it must sit and rise for 90 minutes or so, it’ll be a good time to start the soup.  Here goes… (At least I’ve started feeling better now, if still a bit dull and sinus-burdened.)

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