Sweet Sleep Please

Let's see if this girl let's us sleep tonight. Last night was a first. I ended up sleeping on the floor in the living room and then woke up around 10 in the papasan. Mystery. Today was a flash. I think I was sleepwalking for most it. A little sleepworking and some sleepeating. For all we know right now I'm sleepblogging.

P.S. Yuula is fat.

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Momma Gets A Dozen

When we woke up late and tired and just happy for a quiet baby we were starving but without the will to drag ourselves into the kitchen we decided our only recourse was to get out in the rain and get some donuts. Momma get what Momma wants.

2 pumpkin, a sour cream, butternut, 2 French kreullers, 2 Boston cream, 2 blueberry and 2 harvest specials.

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Finally At 4:18am

The girls are asleep. Yuula decided she was staying up all night. We had different plans, but she didn't bother to run it by us, whether or not we'd mind. We moved the party downstairs because of all the resources at our disposal. It takes a very specific combination of the right mood music, holding her at just the right positions, at the right intervals, interspersed with strategically placed mini feedings and the ever present twinkle lights. Thank God for the twinkle lights. Tonight, in our first moment of desperation, we turned to a pacifier. They don't call them pacifiers for nothing folks. And while that didn't seal the deal completely, it definitely helped. We'll keep that in a safe place for the next emergency.

So, I've got a good mix of Andrew Hargreaves, Murralin Lane, Haruka Nakamura and Aphex Twin's select ambient works playing, keeping the asleep just that way, but now I'm the one who's wide awake. And this pacifier is too small for me...

Tonight We Are Craisinless

Sometimes the world gives you a swift kick in the throat with total disregard for whatever your heart may hold dear or your tastebuds may crave. The mandarin chicken salad has been my lifesaver for two years, sometimes the only reason I get up on the morning, and now it's gone without so much as an ounce of oriental dressing left behind to ease the pain. I had to settle for the tuna sub from Blimpies. Who eats at Blimpie?

So now I'm meant to wander the streets in search of a new food muse. These things come along once in a lifetime, but I will keep looking, if I can see thru the tears. So yes, you are Inconvenient, and I do not accept your apology.

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Our Home Defragment

I like when we just sit around and listen to music and stare at things. Those are the best mornings. Clocks don't matter. Not anymore. Just asleep or awake. The rest fits in between.



I like feeding the herd. They're consistent. Such habitualists. The old timers first on top of the dresser and the youngens next down on the ground. It's the feline version of the big people/little kids tables. I didn't set it up this way. They did.



I like eggs & grits for breakfast. Not because they're delicious but because it means it's getting cold. During the summer, it's cereal 99% of the time. Now that the mornings are chilly, we want something to warm our bones.



I like a sleeping baby. Especially when she's wrapped up like a peapod. She has been sleeping well. A rough night here or there, but mostly, sleep. And we know she's asleep because she makes a lot of noise.



I like when deer wander thru the yard. They usually eat up all of Laura's plants but we haven't taken any steps to stop them, so apparently we don't care that much. But for now, we have some kittens trying to chase them off. Or maybe they're playing...



I like when Laura goes to take a shower and comes back downstairs to find cornstarch on my face. She likes that, rather.

Debating Raking

I woke up early to close the windows downstairs. Even in the dark I could see red leaves. This all happens too fast. I wonder if I'll rake this year. Good money would be on no. Let's see if it dries up before it freezes down. I have no control over these things.

Practical Tuesday

I don't know why, it just was. Done with the drill, everyone seems pleased. I can have my evenings back and go to bed before 2. Like now. Feels good to be awake enough to enjoy lying in bed. Yuula's nursing with a stinkeye. Still cute. Watched a ton of Law & Order today. Seemed like they were all about babies. Shaken baby, fetal alcohol, 3rd trimester abortion..... I think, considering, we're doing pretty good. Talking about getting a bike with a baby seat. Family bicycle rides; that is very much something I look forward to.

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Godspeed You! In The States

This may be a once in a lifetime opportunity. I caught them in Georgia back in 2002, last time they toured. Mindboggling.


They'll hate on us, but it will be worth. Check for your city...

02-17 Seattle, WA - Showbox at the Market
02-18 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
02-20-21 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
02-23 Los Angeles, CA - Music Box at the Henry Fonda
03-16 Brooklyn, NY - Masonic Temple
03-17 New York, NY - Church of St Paul the Apostle
03-19 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
03-20 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
03-22 Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club
03-24 Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom
03-26-27 Chicago, IL - Metro
03-29 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre

Let's Rent Bikes From 1942

The Walkmen - Lisbon
Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard
Shapes And Sizes - Candle To Your Eyes
Wim Mertens - Zee Versus Zed


Chief - Modern Rituals
The Superimposers - Sunshine Pops
Tamaryn - Waves
David Karsten Daniels & Fight The Big Bull - I Mean To Live Here Still


Connan Mockasin - Please Turn Me Into The Snat
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let It Sway
Of Montreal - False Priest
S. Carey - All We Grow


The Head And The Heart - s/t
Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle
Dungen - Skit I Allt
The Whiskers - War Of Currents


Working For A Nuclear Free City - Jojo Burger Tempest
The Rumours - From The Corner Into Your Ear
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
The Sheepdogs - Learn & Burn


The Radar Brothers - The Illustrated Garden
Common Prayer - s/t
M.I.A. - /\/\/\Y/\
Annuals - Count The Rings

Sunflowers Are Cannibals

We've deprived ourselves of knowledge, waiting so long to go visit Aunt Eileen and Cousin Susie in Newfoundland. We got close last weekend, but this time we were determined. Finally gathered up our belongings and our baby and headed north.



Always met in the driveway, it was introductions first, as they've never met our little Yuula. Yuula being a rude Gus stayed asleep thru the ceremony. Then it was feeding time for the barnyard animals so Yuula met her first horse and goats. She didn't seem phased.




Back to the patio for discussion ranging a variety of topics, like lyme disease, weak bladders, our complex family geneaology, the politics of local dining and the unfair treatment of brilliant beavers. I'm serious. And then lunch was served. Olives black & manzanilla, pickles sweet & dill, chips sour cream & BBQ, and cheese swiss & pepper jack for hors d'oeuvres. Lunch was roast beef sandwiches with Susie's special sauce which I think was varying degrees of mayonnaise and horse radish. For dessert Eileen brought out some peach pie and ice cream. We ate it all.






I went for a little walk and the ladies hit the garden. I came back and found all three elbow deep in soil and Susie's mutant vegetables.





Black cherry tomatoes, lemon cucumbers, brussel sprout asparagus. They put together a care package for us to take home. I wandered the garden, managed to snap a shot of the ever elusive Susie and learned that they feed their sunflowers sunflower seed. They eat their young.






The comic relief moment came as Susie held Yuula for the first time. She was quite nervous and felt she had to sit down, in case of a slip the fall would be minimal. At first Yuula was fine. Eileen told us how her found our baby's name funny because how it rhymed with her mother's name, Lula. I had no idea. The Yuula began to cry and Susie couldn't take it. Laura and I let her take this one, but instead of soothing the girl Susie began to cry. Eileen found this hilarious, the sight of her full grown daughter losing it over a sobbing baby, so she began to laugh so hard she was crying. And not wanting to be left out Laura and I struck up some tears and we all had a good chuckle.



Even Sara came over to see what the fuss was about.



All in all, was a lovely afternoon with some good food and great company. We came home with a basket of Susie's garden creations, a jar of conrstarch, a bag of frozen raisin tea biscuits and a bag of 72 perogies. So, yeah, good day.