time, but no mind

maura @ 10:38 pm

Our bags are packed + ready to go, the alarm is set for 6am tomorrow (oof!), and the car to the airport is reserved for our trip to visit one of our 4 grandparental households, which means that I actually have time to write here. I write spazzy little blog entries every freaking minute in my head, it seems, so why can’t I think of anything to say?

I’ve gotten sucked into reading the (mostly parental) blogiverse lately. It’s so easy to bounce from place to place, read about everyone’s kids and the adorable + infuriating things that they do. Let’s add something from my own day to the mix, shall we?

ADORABLE: Gus woke up from his nap today by saying, “I’m ready to wake up now because I’m not tired anymore”, ran out, Ringo Starr bedhead flying, into the living room, and plopped immediately down to play with his fire truck, as if he’d been thinking about it the whole time he was napping, that he Just Couldn’t Wait to get up and play with it again.

INFURIATING: So then our friends S (mom) and E (daughter) called and I invited them to come over to play, and suddenly he fell into a post-nap grump and said he didn’t want E to come over, which bummed me since we haven’t seen them in a while (and, since I worked at home today, I hadn’t seen another grownup all day besides Jonathan). So S and I chatted on the phone for a while, then suddenly Gus said “I do want E to come play with me,” by which point E had fallen into an accidental nap. Grrr. I believe the spirited kids book calls it “negative first reaction” + “slow adaptibility”.

Also, I am out of things to read (at least nonfiction things, which are my chosen things lately), which is my grownup infuriating thing of the day. Still waiting for a few requests to come in at the library, as well as being pissed off that I can’t get the Mimi Smartypants book or the most recent Ayun Halliday books there (a necessity since our puny leisure budget is pretty much all spent visiting child-friendly restaurants with playdates these days, for sanity’s sake [grownups to talk to, plus beer!]). If I had a laptop or miniPC-type thing I could read the blogiverse while Away From My Desk, but I’d rather hunch over a good juicy Why-America-Doesn’t-Support-Families or Anti-Consumerism tome these days. These are the kinds of books I’ve been into recently (minus the homeschooling stuff, I just can’t get behind that, but maybe that’s because Gus is such a huge spaz). Yes, I’m a humorless hippie, you can stop reading right now.

finally, the lamb

maura @ 8:26 pm

After torrential rain for more than 24 hrs, spring finally seems to be coming to Brooklyn. Tomorrow looks gorgeous, which makes me happy that I’m working only 1/2 day so Gus and I can have a playdate with a school chum in the afternoon.

Been feeling rather blue lately, not finding/making the time for this thang (I mean, seriously, I haven’t even written in my journal in over a week, much less this blogging-come-lately). There’s a bunch of stuff right now that I want to change but can’t, for a variety of reasons, change right now, and it’s making me grumpy. Hopefully changes will come soon, and I’ll pull out of this funk.

How’s that for vague?

I keep meaning to write a big post about music, since I’ve recently come up to speed on the music of the new millennium, after a 4-ish yr absence, but I don’t have the gumption for it right now. Maybe this weekend when we are visiting my dad, and the vast quantities of grandparental attention (combined with the sort of lack of things to do where he lives) give me Free Time. Yes, maybe.

so so so busy

maura @ 1:36 pm

but jonathan sent me this link and it just cries out to be posted: this is the blog of the main buyer at the coop. get yer fresh coop news here, including such tasty tidbits as why you can’t get grade b maple syrup in ny state anymore (how will anyone ever do the master cleanser fast???).

in all seriousness, we in this household are mightily pissed off about the maple syrup thing. luckily we’re visiting my dad in vermont very soon, mostly likely with an empty suitcase in tow.

in my head

maura @ 1:36 pm

So I keep writing these Very Long Blog Entries in my head recently, but haven’t had the time or inclination to actually make an entry. We’ve had a bad sleeping week (restless-sleeping kid, too many late nights watching crappy movies [really, how could I even think I could like this? I hate all of those actors!], and insomnia flare-ups) and are still catching up.

At this point I would also like to say that, although I am a parent, and many posts here will undoubtedly describe the incredibly cute and/or frustrating things that my 3 yr old does, This Is Not A Parenting Blog.

That being said, Gus has decided this week that his chosen fashion look is short sleeved tshirt on top of long sleeved tshirt. It’s really cute, like a little teeny skater boy. I like it much better than the last, thankfully short-lived fashion look, which was monochromatic.

Weird kid question of the week: he came home from school yesterday with yogurt splattered on his BACK. How is that possible?

Still working on the design of this thing. All of the other sections are pretty much liberated from their annoying, so-last-millennium frames, and I have a temporary top frame solution to tide me over until Jonathan’s made me a nifty new top + left nav to wrap this all in. But I will need to learn myself some CSS — the spaceyness of this blog is wigging me out.

p.s.

maura @ 9:21 pm

Plus, we took the young master swimming today (read: he sat in a floaty and we pulled him around the pool) and thus I am tiiiiiiiired. Whine whine whine, already off to a good start in blogland.

slightly less ugly…

maura @ 9:19 pm

…but still pretty yucko. The frame at the top really has to go. Also, I want to keep some of the old mauraweb stuff around, even though it is moldy oldy, because I am a pack rat. Problem is, while I used to be pretty interested in learning/implementing things like CSS, I’m really just not so much now. I’m old + impatient + I want things to just look nice instantly, dammit, without all the messing around.

in like a lion

maura @ 9:58 pm

well, here it is. a blog. i have one. it’s pretty ugly right now. i have to figure out how to make it less so. maybe you won’t even see it until i do, in which case i am writing from the past…ooo…