Insomniac's Wonderland

Derek Zoolander ain't got nothin' on me...

Molly does Blue Steel.

What a long, strange trip it's been.

My little girl is two weeks old today.  How the hell did that happen so fast?  I swear it was just last week that we found out we were going to have a baby, but that was damn near a year ago.  Geez, time flies when you're having fun, right?

It's been a lot of fun though and now we have a beautiful daughter that we're completely smitten with (who is sleeping right now giving me the time to do this blog).  And you know what the funniest thing is, I didn't knit (or crochet) one thing for her.  Not one damn thing.  Well...I do have a sweater in progress but it's so big that she can probably wear it next winter.  Had you asked me a year ago I'd have told you that when I got pregnant I'd turn into a baby knitting machine.  Yeah, not so much.  But that's okay, I've still got time.

Ruh-roh, someone's up....so I'll end todays post with our first family photo.

 

So since October....

Yeah, October.  My poor neglected blog.  I suppose that this would be the point where I promise to blog more in 2009 and all that, but I just can't make those kinds of promises.

But I figure that since today is my first official day of maternity leave (even though this baby STILL has yet to show herself) what better way to celebrate it than with a new blog post.

So the burning question is....what have I been up to since October?

1. I started a new awesome job!  And honestly I work with an awesome group of people which is such a breath of fresh air after my last job.

2. Getting ready for baby.  We've been caught in a whirlwind of baby furniture, clothes, diapers and just plain trying to figure everything out.

3. Holidays.  'Nuff said.

4. Learning how to use my new camera.  I got a Canon DRebel Xs after Thanksgiving and I've been playing with it ever since.  Tomorrow I plan on posting some pictures of the nursery, yarn, and projects that I've been working on.

5. Attempting to finish up some knitting projects that have been lying around for entirely too long.  I've got 1 1/2 sleeves left on my Titicaca sweater (pattern by Mirasol) and hopefully just 1 sleeve by the end of today.

So here's to 2009 (only 20 days late) and all that it has in store!  Now I'm going to go spend some time catching up on all the blogs I've neglected reading...

:)

WOW! 86 days and counting...

I guess I don't even really need to say that this blog has been severely neglected over the past oh, 4 months or so.  Let's just say that life has a tendency to get in the way and time really has gotten away from me.

So what's new?  Well it seems that baby insomniac is due to arrive in about 86 days (or that's what the thingy below is telling me).  I start a new job on Monday which is awesome, I really had no idea how expensive daycares were until I started looking for one.

For those of you who were looking forward to seeing us at Kid 'n Ewe this year, I've got some bad news for you.  After a lot of consideration I've decided to pull out.  Between the pregnancy, my new job and everything else in life I just don't think my body can handle it.  But I still hope to make a meet-up and get out and about to do some shopping.  I'll miss doing it this year, but I hope to be back for next year.

Now it's confession time.  This baby will be here in 86 days and I have yet to knit anything for her.  Can you believe that?  Oh and for those of you that hadn't heard, this one is supposed to be a girl (at least that's what they tell me).  I have got to get started on something, maybe I can get started on a Baby Surprise Jacket sometime this weekend.  Maybe, if I can manage to get caught up on the laundry.

Soooo, hopefully blogging will get me back into some sort of rhythm and I can start to regain some sense of normalcy.  Well, I can dream right?

Some books should come with a 12-step program.

In particular, I'm talking about these books, the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer.

   

I read all three of these books in less than 6 days.  I read during every free second I could find, and I'm eagerly awaiting the 4th book in the series to come out in August.  And honestly, I don't understand what makes these books so good, they're filled with high school angst and love triangles, overprotective boyfriends, etc., etc., etc.

Of course the other explanation is that this..

Really likes vampire-human romance novels.