still alive

It’s been a rough few weeks. I’m down to the wire now with only two classes left. I haven’t kept up as well as I hoped I would. I turned two pretty big projects in a day late. Mike and my parents have been amazing. Mike still looks after Liam three days a week. He has to stay up way past his “bed time”, sometimes not getting to bed until around four or five in the afternoon and having to get up again around nine for work. Even more amazing is that he manages to stay pretty darn chirpy through all of it.

My parents have an interesting tag team operation going on when they take care of Liam on Wednesdays. The pack ‘n play crib is in my dad’s office. He sets the iSight camera on Liam so my mom can keep an “eye” on him via IM upstairs in her office. Together they keep Liam occupied, happy and fed until I’m home at nine. Then thursdays mom comes with me to school to look after Liam while I’m in class. It makes me pretty exhuasted to even write about all of this but somehow, together we all manage it and Liam is growing into the most amazing little kid, he’s so smart and cute I swear honest to God I’m not just saying that because he’s mine.

I’m having a little difficulty focusing on the final projects for class nowadays. All I can think about is what I’m going to do when I’ve finally graduated. First thing, obviously, is spend more time with Mike and Liam. The time I do manage to have with them now is usually spent stressing over one thing or the other. I have an entire folder full of topics I’ve been wanting to blog about for ages but just never had time. Another folder full of links to sites that I’ve wanted to read. A very long booklist, an even longer “to do” list (paint bedroom, clean out closet, clean out bathroom, clean, clean and clean). But I think I’ll start first with buying some yarn to knit Liam a blanket. Then catching up on his baby book which I have yet to even start. I can’t believe it’s been three months already.

Today I heard Liam giggle. I got so excited. Mike had already heard him giggle before. These are the moments that feel a little sad for me, when I miss those “firsts”. He’s becoming very vocal. He stays awake a lot during the day and most of that is spent girggling about something. Sometimes he sounds a little like a bird so I’ve started calling him goose.

I’m looking for jobs but not having much luck yet. I just did an ego surf which is when you google your own name to see what comes up (employers do this often with potential hires). I came across this which lists our blog as a “commentary on politics, movies, and family life”. I’ve seen our blog described this way before and I find it kind of funny since neither Mike or I have mentioned much about politics and movies in a long time. I think maybe blogging lost its novelty for us, and we just started using it more as a communication tool to keep friends and family informed about what’s going on in our lives.

This list also had a link to an online magazine called Backwash which listes sites according to personality instead of topic. Interesting practice in folksonomy there…anyway, homework.