Simone is on the developmental warpath, which is frightening and exciting. Several times a day AH and I exchange the Classic Surprised Look - eyebrows raised, mouths open - when she does something new. Yesterday it was "answering" the "phone" - really a knitted toy - and saying firmly "Buh-bye" and hanging it up, over and over. She LOVES sweeping all of a sudden and will cry if we don't give her the broom to ineffectually swipe all over the kitchen. Tonight I put her down and she was crying a little bit more than our average five minute "I don't wanna go to bed" exchange and when I walked in she said clearly "Poopy". Which, lo, she was. Problem solved, she went right to sleep. Non-stop chatter, non-stop movement, always go go go. This is hard on days like today when I suffer mightily from either a cold or terrible allergies, I can't tell, and my choices are feeling awful and draggy or taking medicine and feeling draggy. I took the medicine and had to keep napping, which she definitely did not want me to do. I realized my dream is a day off, not built around her schedule - just - one - day. But here is some random good:
We attended a daycare dinner on Friday night - the State of NC is implementing a plan to provide healthy lunches and snacks for daycare as a non-profit - only $3 a day. Everything whole wheat, vegetarian as an option, no sugars. It's awesome. She has been stealing from other kids plates because they get junk and we don't give her junk and then she refuses to eat at all. Not to mention the staff have Bojangles every morning. It is an excellent step and along with the Obama vegetable garden, makes me feel a wee bit cheerier about the future of food.
Other good: I found a perfect push reel mower for $20 in the thrift store today.
More good: I got a free full pass to the documentary film festival Full Frame. 3 days of just me and documentaries, hurrah!
And more good: I have some trial videos to make for the library, instructional stuff, and suddenly everyone is jazzed about the possibility of my background in media making AND the library and I might have an actual job job doing this kind of thing. I have to prove myself though, and count on myself to not screw it up. This is stressful, and sometimes it is easier to have no expectations or good leads. An entirely messed up attitude, directly responsible for my awesome life "success" so far, I suppose. Now I must return to blocked sinuses and reading "Automated Metadata in Multimedia Information Systems". Woo.