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Weekend we are here...
Jul. 15th, 2011 10:55 amWell, I've been tired all week..I really think it was the blood donation + nursing + milk production increase due to boy's growth spurt + working like a dog = tired, tired me. I was lame and didn't hit the gym but I was technically in a rest week for my workouts eh, I'm lame, I admit it but I'm not denying it either. I didn't want to get so over tired that I get sick cause I can't really afford to do that right now.
On the work front I proved that having a plan, sticking to the plan and being polite and accommodating will work miracles. On Tuesday afternoon our drawing package for the big project I was traveling for during my pregnancy was ready for final review and release. We hit the engineering review board with the last 7 drawings and 2 drafting changes and then proceeded to get all of the signatures from all of the disciplines in a very un-user-friendly computer system that likes to puke at the most inopportune times and into the final review board and then into another computer system that likes to puke for full release of every single drawing/model etc to feed the purchase order. It worked. In a 36 hour period we did it all. It wasn't easy but we did it. There will be lots of dinner certs and team achievement awards going out. It was amazing and exhausting.
On the crafting front I've done a bit of spinning, I made another little alien and I cast on for some fingerless mitts for Mel to use in the shop when it gets cold. I figure I can get them done now and then he will have them. I think after that it will be socks for him. Unfortunately the lace shawl I'm making for myself is not social knitting and I've been tired enough at night that I don't want to pull it out and screw it up. I hope to make some progress on it soon to at least get to the "easy part" where its the same pattern repeat for a good length of the way.
Benton has been growing. He's been a bit of a crankypants in the evenings just wanting to be held a lot. He's also playing so much at daycare I think he likes the "downtime" of snuggling too. Yesterday I picked him up and he had slept through one of his normal feeding times so I fed him early when we got home and he fell deep asleep afterwards. I woke him up to get ready for bed time and he ate really good again and then was out. At 4am he was screaming awake with a soaked diaper and really wanting food. He fed well and then slept until just about 8am. He fed and has been playing and now we are seeing if he will go down for his nap. Its about the right time he usually takes one at day care. Schedules are good for kids.
I also managed to get out of work at 2pm yesterday and that allowed me to take the bike in for a tuneup. I pick it up this afternoon and maybe tomorrow AM I'll get a quick ride in to see how I'm doing physically.
Today will be house cleaning and moving books around. Mel put together a new bookcase for us in the front room and I need to move books. Tomorrow![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scribe_ari and I will be patterning me out for my new kirtle/mintan pattern. I need a new mintan for MEF and my current pattern is not set up for my body now...its close but not quite right. Plus I need to go through fabric and also cut out some fighting clothes. I hope to get things rolling on new clothes for me and the boy since coming up is lots of events and we need to not wear the same thing every weekend. Plus little rus pants are gonna be fun.
Sunday is the house meeting and I'm still debating what my goal for the year SCAwise is...I need new clothes, I need to get back into fighting. Plus I need to make a something for the kingdom as A&S champion and well, my first idea is now out due to the furnace being down. So I need to come up with a different plan or maybe the same plan but execute it differently. Anyhoo...lots to think about, lots to accomplish and I think most of it will be getting a list of what I want and then just going through it item by item.
Well, the boy is down for his nap and this house does not clean itself. Mel has started moving our magazine storage boxes to the new bookcase and I guess it will be magazine storage...oops. But now we can move things around to make it easier to find things I guess. Well, off to work on stuff so I can then go make stuff.
On the work front I proved that having a plan, sticking to the plan and being polite and accommodating will work miracles. On Tuesday afternoon our drawing package for the big project I was traveling for during my pregnancy was ready for final review and release. We hit the engineering review board with the last 7 drawings and 2 drafting changes and then proceeded to get all of the signatures from all of the disciplines in a very un-user-friendly computer system that likes to puke at the most inopportune times and into the final review board and then into another computer system that likes to puke for full release of every single drawing/model etc to feed the purchase order. It worked. In a 36 hour period we did it all. It wasn't easy but we did it. There will be lots of dinner certs and team achievement awards going out. It was amazing and exhausting.
On the crafting front I've done a bit of spinning, I made another little alien and I cast on for some fingerless mitts for Mel to use in the shop when it gets cold. I figure I can get them done now and then he will have them. I think after that it will be socks for him. Unfortunately the lace shawl I'm making for myself is not social knitting and I've been tired enough at night that I don't want to pull it out and screw it up. I hope to make some progress on it soon to at least get to the "easy part" where its the same pattern repeat for a good length of the way.
Benton has been growing. He's been a bit of a crankypants in the evenings just wanting to be held a lot. He's also playing so much at daycare I think he likes the "downtime" of snuggling too. Yesterday I picked him up and he had slept through one of his normal feeding times so I fed him early when we got home and he fell deep asleep afterwards. I woke him up to get ready for bed time and he ate really good again and then was out. At 4am he was screaming awake with a soaked diaper and really wanting food. He fed well and then slept until just about 8am. He fed and has been playing and now we are seeing if he will go down for his nap. Its about the right time he usually takes one at day care. Schedules are good for kids.
I also managed to get out of work at 2pm yesterday and that allowed me to take the bike in for a tuneup. I pick it up this afternoon and maybe tomorrow AM I'll get a quick ride in to see how I'm doing physically.
Today will be house cleaning and moving books around. Mel put together a new bookcase for us in the front room and I need to move books. Tomorrow
scribe_ari and I will be patterning me out for my new kirtle/mintan pattern. I need a new mintan for MEF and my current pattern is not set up for my body now...its close but not quite right. Plus I need to go through fabric and also cut out some fighting clothes. I hope to get things rolling on new clothes for me and the boy since coming up is lots of events and we need to not wear the same thing every weekend. Plus little rus pants are gonna be fun. Sunday is the house meeting and I'm still debating what my goal for the year SCAwise is...I need new clothes, I need to get back into fighting. Plus I need to make a something for the kingdom as A&S champion and well, my first idea is now out due to the furnace being down. So I need to come up with a different plan or maybe the same plan but execute it differently. Anyhoo...lots to think about, lots to accomplish and I think most of it will be getting a list of what I want and then just going through it item by item.
Well, the boy is down for his nap and this house does not clean itself. Mel has started moving our magazine storage boxes to the new bookcase and I guess it will be magazine storage...oops. But now we can move things around to make it easier to find things I guess. Well, off to work on stuff so I can then go make stuff.
