Last night, on a whim, I had Elaine, Manisha and Elida over for dinner. I hadn't seen Manisha and Elida for months, and Elaine and I hadn't spoken for over a week. I missed them. My weekdays are spent working too hard and the last several weekends AG and I have been trying to get the house in order and traveling to see family.
It was nice to have the girls swing by impromptu. Easy dinner of salmon, some lemon drop drinks by Elaine and lots of wine, and dessert from Trader Joe's paired with nice conversation. AG and I have been getting Aesha on a sleep routine, but the last two days we've gone a step further by trying to get her to soothe herself to sleep without much assistance from us. It hasn't gone that well as she screamed for 45 minutes each night. We sit there, letting her know we love her and that we're there. Last night, she fell asleep in the middle of a scream. I almost laughed as I watched her, but I was too tired. Her screams can put raise the hair on the back of my head. I'm sure it wasn't too pleasant for the girls either to listen. Breaks my heart, but we really need to get her to the next level of sleeping. Tomorrow she and I fly to AZ while AG flies to NYC. I hate breaking up her routine, especially since we've just started a new twist, but we'll do what we can.
Point of the story, I miss hanging out with the girls and it was nice to see them. Can't wait for Aesha to have her friends come over and watch her with her girlfriends.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Gorgeous weekend
This weekend was hot and gorgeous (in the 80's). Friday night - came home and AG and I hung out watching tv for 15 minutes. I was so tired from my week - 2 days of training in south bay and a very long but awesome interview in Campbell - even further south than MV. So in total, I traveled to the south bay all 5 days last week. By Friday evening I was pooped. At 9:30pm, while putting Aesha back to sleep - I fell asleep myself. Rocking Friday evening.
Saturday morning - 4:30am - Aesha woke us up, what a doll, and talked to herself for a good 10 minutes. When neither AG nor I responded (we were just too exhausted), she eventually fell asleep and woke up again at 6:30am. This time, she was up. So AG and I got up, made coffee, had a leisure morning before she caught her first nap at 8:30. We worked on the house all day and even had time to go shopping at WholeFoods. AG and I loved the sampling of cheeses and chocolates. And everywhere we went, people loved Aesha. We got home and continued working on the house. I sifted through tons of clothes - and managed to pull out 4 bags to give to goodwill. Next on my list is the shoe rack.
By 7:30pm, we took a break and headed to Andy and Allison's for dinner and catchup. Aesha did not sleep the entire time we were there. She finally managed to conk out at 10:30pm. We paid for it the next day. Andy's place is in the Sunset district - 42nd right off Geary. Beautiful and serene. We ordered Curry Pizza and had lots of laughs. We miss them - such good people.
Sunday morning - up again at 4:30 our little girl. We woke up with her at 6:30am. AG and I worked on the house some more while she napped and we even had some crazy entertainment in front of our house. At around 8:30am, some guy driving down the street sideswiped 2 parked cars. We watched him get out of the car, check for damages and slowly walked away from the scene. AG called the police and the owner of one of the wrecked cars came out with a bat in his hand. Within minutes we saw a young lady in the car - the driver left her there. He must not have had insurance or been a legal citizen. The entire scene was crazy.
Back to work we went - then because we had so much work completed, we took a break and headed to Kerry's for brunch. It was too beautiful outside, I didn't want to be inside all day. It was brunch with lots of bacon and 2 beautiful girls (one a previous vegan and the other going down that path), chomping on opposite ends of a bacon strip. Oh how Andy would have loved that scene. I had one too many mimosa's and we headed back home. Finished ironing all my clothes, and hung them up. Aesha and I took a ride to visit Shelaine, then to Trader Joe's for a quick run. Aesha had a melt down by that point and back home we went. When she finally went to bed - I cleaned up her room and now our house feels awesome. Not quite done yet. We are still figuring out the downstairs/office and there's still too much furniture upstairs. But for now, it's quite livable, and actually even nice. We are almost ready for guests. However, this weekend we leave for Humboldt to visit GM Karen and next weekend to AZ. Hopefully the first or 2nd weekend in May, we'll have people over!
Aesha is sick with her 4th cold. I sure hope all of this is building up her immune system.
Saturday morning - 4:30am - Aesha woke us up, what a doll, and talked to herself for a good 10 minutes. When neither AG nor I responded (we were just too exhausted), she eventually fell asleep and woke up again at 6:30am. This time, she was up. So AG and I got up, made coffee, had a leisure morning before she caught her first nap at 8:30. We worked on the house all day and even had time to go shopping at WholeFoods. AG and I loved the sampling of cheeses and chocolates. And everywhere we went, people loved Aesha. We got home and continued working on the house. I sifted through tons of clothes - and managed to pull out 4 bags to give to goodwill. Next on my list is the shoe rack.
By 7:30pm, we took a break and headed to Andy and Allison's for dinner and catchup. Aesha did not sleep the entire time we were there. She finally managed to conk out at 10:30pm. We paid for it the next day. Andy's place is in the Sunset district - 42nd right off Geary. Beautiful and serene. We ordered Curry Pizza and had lots of laughs. We miss them - such good people.
Sunday morning - up again at 4:30 our little girl. We woke up with her at 6:30am. AG and I worked on the house some more while she napped and we even had some crazy entertainment in front of our house. At around 8:30am, some guy driving down the street sideswiped 2 parked cars. We watched him get out of the car, check for damages and slowly walked away from the scene. AG called the police and the owner of one of the wrecked cars came out with a bat in his hand. Within minutes we saw a young lady in the car - the driver left her there. He must not have had insurance or been a legal citizen. The entire scene was crazy.
Back to work we went - then because we had so much work completed, we took a break and headed to Kerry's for brunch. It was too beautiful outside, I didn't want to be inside all day. It was brunch with lots of bacon and 2 beautiful girls (one a previous vegan and the other going down that path), chomping on opposite ends of a bacon strip. Oh how Andy would have loved that scene. I had one too many mimosa's and we headed back home. Finished ironing all my clothes, and hung them up. Aesha and I took a ride to visit Shelaine, then to Trader Joe's for a quick run. Aesha had a melt down by that point and back home we went. When she finally went to bed - I cleaned up her room and now our house feels awesome. Not quite done yet. We are still figuring out the downstairs/office and there's still too much furniture upstairs. But for now, it's quite livable, and actually even nice. We are almost ready for guests. However, this weekend we leave for Humboldt to visit GM Karen and next weekend to AZ. Hopefully the first or 2nd weekend in May, we'll have people over!
Aesha is sick with her 4th cold. I sure hope all of this is building up her immune system.
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
2008 Is going to be a fantastic year
I have a feeling that 2008 will be a great year. It's taken 6 months for Aesha's lucky golden pig energy to kick in, but I'm feeling something. As some people know, I've been interviewing since the beginning of the year - here and there - and there's been some interesting possibilities, but either the salary wasn't commenserate to my current situation or they wouldn't let me telecommute. My ideal position would be in the city making the same or more than my current position. I had several offers, and it was difficult for me to stick to my goals because I want out of my current position so badlly somedays. But having a family now that depends upon my income and my time, I couldn't take something less than what I set out to get. It's been a long time, 4 going on 5 months and now there appears to be some possibilities shaping up that I'm very excited about.
Anyways, I can't talk too much more about it since there's still interviews and things to go through but I wanted to be able to post it here, to talk about something that's super positive in my career life. If I get this position, I'll be making more AND working in the city. I guess the moral of the story is to hold out for what you want, don't settle. I'm a huge proponent of this moral in my personal life, but have settled a lot in my career due to financial needs. I've gritted my teeth so many times at work - wanting to hand in my resignation, but it feels good to hold out for a hero.... heehee.
That's working life - super busy and emotionally draining. On the home front - it's quite blissful. Coming home from work and picking up our little monster really does make my day. I completely forget about work quickly as I feed her and prepare her bath then AG puts her to sleep. Then we have some adult time - watching tv and vegging out mostly. We are too tired to do much else during the week. The weekends, we have been working on the house - it's coming together. Aesha's bedroom is almost complete and we've been having her sleep the first part of the night in her room, until she wakes up - then she comes into our bed. I have never spent so much time with one person and we never argue - AG is an amazing partner.
Next weekend we drive to Humboldt to visit GM Karen and I am hoping to get much needed rest. The following week, Aesha and I fly to Arizona to visit my sister and my mom who's flying in while AG flies to NYC for work. Before you know it, it's May and we are almost halfway through the year.
Oh yes, Aesha is sitting up on her own now - minutes at a time, but strong. She babbles to herself constantly and loves sitting in her walker, facing the window and watching people go by. She loves things on strings, and tags as well. Her current favorite toy is my work badge. Last night she was so tired, she was cranky and crying while I was feeding her. I continued to feed her and she continued to eat and cry at the same time, which I find amusing. And we've hung up the jumper on our door frames and she's having a blast jumping in it. I wouldn't be surprised if she starts crawling soon - she's a go getter and likes to move around.
I hope next time I post, it will be confirming positive news... until then...
Anyways, I can't talk too much more about it since there's still interviews and things to go through but I wanted to be able to post it here, to talk about something that's super positive in my career life. If I get this position, I'll be making more AND working in the city. I guess the moral of the story is to hold out for what you want, don't settle. I'm a huge proponent of this moral in my personal life, but have settled a lot in my career due to financial needs. I've gritted my teeth so many times at work - wanting to hand in my resignation, but it feels good to hold out for a hero.... heehee.
That's working life - super busy and emotionally draining. On the home front - it's quite blissful. Coming home from work and picking up our little monster really does make my day. I completely forget about work quickly as I feed her and prepare her bath then AG puts her to sleep. Then we have some adult time - watching tv and vegging out mostly. We are too tired to do much else during the week. The weekends, we have been working on the house - it's coming together. Aesha's bedroom is almost complete and we've been having her sleep the first part of the night in her room, until she wakes up - then she comes into our bed. I have never spent so much time with one person and we never argue - AG is an amazing partner.
Next weekend we drive to Humboldt to visit GM Karen and I am hoping to get much needed rest. The following week, Aesha and I fly to Arizona to visit my sister and my mom who's flying in while AG flies to NYC for work. Before you know it, it's May and we are almost halfway through the year.
Oh yes, Aesha is sitting up on her own now - minutes at a time, but strong. She babbles to herself constantly and loves sitting in her walker, facing the window and watching people go by. She loves things on strings, and tags as well. Her current favorite toy is my work badge. Last night she was so tired, she was cranky and crying while I was feeding her. I continued to feed her and she continued to eat and cry at the same time, which I find amusing. And we've hung up the jumper on our door frames and she's having a blast jumping in it. I wouldn't be surprised if she starts crawling soon - she's a go getter and likes to move around.
I hope next time I post, it will be confirming positive news... until then...
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