christylee

The weekend was up and down for everyone in the house. Friday night was good - I made a tomato basil chicken dish for dinner and watched the two new episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. It had been so long since last season ended that I forgot it ended on a cliffhanger. The second episode was a lot of fun, with a throwback to a TOS character and an easter egg in the form of a voice actor. 

Saturday went poorly. The baby was a terror all day long, just one tantrum after another. She refused to nap at all, which made her even more cantankerous. M had a dentist appointment at 11:30, which he slept until just before he had to leave, then he came home and went back to bed until 6pm, which threw off any plans I had made for the day. Once he was finally up, I sent him to pick up the grocery order from Sam's while I cooked up a big pot of spaghetti. He come home in A Mood for some reason, which soured more when we discovered that we were out of onion powder and he had to go back to the store. 

The email that he was told to expect from Potential New Boss arrived late Friday, which was not an in-person visit or a request to reschedule as he suspected it might be, but was a bit of homework for Interview #3, a powerpoint presentation. He stressed over it all weekend, but by Sunday night it sounded like things were on the right track.

Anyway, Sunday was a much improved day for everyone. The baby was in a fine mood, very cuddly and playful, napped without a fight, and was generally great. M slept all day again, waking up around 4:30 as I was making dinner for the baby. 

I did a test use of the oven to see how much the house actually heated up when it was on. I made a roasted sweet potato for the baby, which stays in a hot oven for half an hour. The house didn't seem to warm up that badly, which is good news because I had been avoiding a lot of baked dishes for fear of making things unbearably hot. Making the spaghetti the night before actually heated up the house more. Of course, we only got up to 94 yesterday, so we'll see how that pans out once it's 105 outside.

While I was peeling the sweet potato, the baby spotted me working and then decided to bring me every sweet potato from the open bag one at a time. She would disappear around the corner and then come toddling back a couple of minutes later with a giant potato in her hands. She was very excited about it, and it was very cute. She eventually just ran off with the bag and tried to eat one of the potatoes raw, which I didn't catch until M came into the room and saw her sitting on the couch gnawing on a piece of raw potato she'd broken off. XD At least they're fine to eat raw, if a little challenging. 

I had hoped to attend our barony's first Clothier's Guild meeting Sunday afternoon, but with M's sleep schedule being so entirely borked all weekend, that did not happen. Turns out, only one other person made it to the meeting, as others were all out of town or otherwise engaged. Maybe next month will work out better for everyone.

The whole meeting/early lunch situation worked out just fine yesterday, and I was able to get the baby down for an early nap before leaving to head back to work. 

Because I took lunch so early, the rest of the day just dragged on forever. Got home and heated leftovers for M's dinner, but I wasn't in the mood to eat. Baby got a grilled cheese sandwich and some fruit. She struggled a bit to go to sleep; I think she could have used a second nap since her first was so early in the day, and that she was probably overtired by the time bedtime came around.

M was already in bed for a while before the baby went down, so once she was asleep I crawled into bed, too. I had been hoping to catch up on sleep, but I had a terrible night and feel even worse today. Hooray. Very tired, very spacey. 

Can't wait for this week to be over.

Baby woke up just as I was getting dressed on Friday morning, so I was a bit late getting to work. Mainly because she wouldn't stop hugging me and looking sad whenever I went close to the front door. How I can I just walk out the door when she's being that cute? Thankfully, her early morning meant that she went down very easily for her nap while I was home for lunch. Chicken Tikka Masala for dinner.

Stared at the cassock embroidery some more, and discovered there is way more metallic embroidery on there than I first realized because it's done in silver and is super tarnished. Spotted some plaited braid stitch, my nemesis, I hadn't noticed before either. Not much, though, so I'm taking it as a good opportunity to practice the cursed stitch where it won't be very noticeable if I flub it.

Woke up Saturday feeling the best I have in months. Rode that energy wave and made blueberry muffins for breakfast, and cleaned the dish pile and scrubbed the kitchen so it's finally in  a decent state again. Baby went down for her nap easily, so I had the time to make a big pot of mac & cheese for lunch. After eating, I started tracing out the loose kirtle pattern onto some gridded interfacing so I could alter it into the cassock pattern. Got halfway through before the baby woke back up.

Rest of the day was pretty quiet. M went out to the range for a little while, and came home fairly late. The baby had a supernova burst of energy in the early evening and went completely crazy running around the house. Wore me out, I tell you what. Wore herself out too, though, and she passed out pretty easily at bedtime. 

Once she was down, I finished tracing and cutting out the cassock pattern, and drafted out the sleeve. The body of the thing seems to be pretty good, though it needs some extra length at CF and CB, which is an easy enough fix. The sleeve, however, doesn't work at all. I had drafted out the original sleeve from the embroidered cassock in an attempt to make things easier when I transferred the embroidery pattern, but alas, it doesn't fit at all into the armscye. I should have anticipated this, since the back of the embroidered and plain jackets are extremely different, but my brain glazed over that. Ah, well. So instead of futzing with the current pattern, I'm going to draft out the two-part sleeve, and I'll just have to make the embroidery pattern work on that instead.

Stayed up way too late working on patterning, and paid for it dearly on Sunday. The baby woke up at the crack of dawn, which meant I was up, too. I had enough umph to make us all some breakfast sandwiches, but I quickly lost steam with so little sleep. Thankfully, she went down for her nap without a fight, and I passed out on the couch. Woke up a couple of hours later because I was suffocating in the heat, so since the baby was still asleep I crawled into my own bed in the nice cool bedroom and tried to get a little more shuteye. Only managed about an hour more, but at least it was something. 

M made a trip to the store to pick up some beverages and some fruit. We had leftovers for dinner, and I just tried to stay on the couch and not move much because I was feeling pretty lousy. Felt the baby kick for the first time, though!

Because of my wonky sleep over the day, I wasn't tired enough for bed until 11:30 or so, so I'm not at 100% today. 

Today is M's birthday! He took off today and tomorrow, but I didn't have the time available, so I'm at work today. He's made no plans to celebrate today, but maybe he'll think of something for this evening.

Almost forgot to post about it since the amnio took up so much of my brain space recently, but Maintenance finally came and looked at our air conditioner! And, it's completely borked. We told them that when the last few guys had recharged the AC, it had cooled for about 4 hours or so before blowing warm air again. They sent some leak detector stuff through the system and didn't see any leaks outside, which means that the leak is somewhere within the walls. M speculated that the complex would put us up in a hotel while they tore up the walls to fix it (to which I had to stifle the hearty laugh that was trapped in my chest.) Instead, they just marked the service ticket as "resolved" and went on their merry way. So, I think we are without AC for the rest of our time in this apartment. Which, thankfully, will only be until next spring. We've survived so far with our window units, we can keep going the same way until winter.