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Been a banner couple of days, I tell you what.

The new/used tire that we got to replace the flat on the Toyota has also gone flat. -_- Since we were waiting on this week's paycheck to replace it, I've been driving the Jeep instead, which has been fine except that it has some sort of unknown problem with the cooling system and may or may not overheat depending on its mood. So I've been having to watch the temperature gauge closely.

Ordered a pack of baby flash cards to teach Kate new sounds at the recommendation of a friend. Amazon marked the package as delivered and sent a photo of it at our door at 8pm on Tuesday night, but when I went to get it, it was not there. -_- I hope whoever stole the package enjoys the flash cards that they probably thought was a phone or something.

Got up Wednesday, started driving to work, and was rear ended on the highway just one exit from downtown. -_- It was actually a good thing I was in the Jeep, because I didn't end up with any real damage besides a small hole in the back bumper and a few scratches. But the Kia that hit me crumpled like tissue paper. We exchanged info, the cops took a report, and I called in to work and said I was taking the day. The Captain was very understanding and offered to come out to get me, but I was fine and made it home without any problems. The Kia looked pretty much totaled had to be towed away.

Spent the rest of the day at home. I was pretty shaken by the wreck, so it took a while for me to cool down. I snuggled Kate, who had gotten up very early and was very tired, and put her down for a nap at around 10:30. M had meetings, I made us lunch. The rest of the day was pretty quiet, except that I had to give Tiger an unexpected bath when I discovered his butt was covered in poo. -_- He did not enjoy the experience, and was very indignant the rest of the day, staying in his hiding spot under the sewing table and giving himself his own bath for literally hours.

One of M's friends sent us a gift card to Olive Garden after he heard about the wreck, which was extremely appreciated. Kate loved her fettuccini alfredo, and sat on the couch going "mmm! mmm!" with every bite. After dinner, she and I played with thread spools as I tried to teach her colors, and we had very nice time. She was very excited about our new game and had happy stompy feet.

M went to bed early, having only gotten about four hours of sleep, and I put the baby down at around 7:30 so she was asleep by 8. I sat on the couch and had a quiet evening, ate my last ice cream sandwich, and crawled into bed at around 10.

I'm hoping this is the last of the shenanigans for this month, because I am tired yo. September is my birthday month, so it better give me an uptick in good stuff, the gods owe me.

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Yesterday was an extremely long and busy day. Woke up at 6AM to try and get the house in order before the assessor arrived. I attacked the kitchen, cleared out dish mountain, scrubbed the floors and cabinet doors, and put away all the random nonsense that had accumulated on the countertops before scrubbing them, too. It took about three hours to conquer the kitchen.

Living room was straightened and swept, then I made some tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch. While the tomatoes were roasting in the oven, I started on the bathroom, mainly getting all the detritus off the counter like bedsheets we'd been hand-washing post cat drama, baby towels, and other bits of wreckage.

Lunch, a very brief break, then back to the bathroom to scrub the countertop and sink, the mirror, the floors, toilet, and shower room. All this while the baby refused to stay down for a nap. Had just enough time to give the baby a diaper change before the assessors arrived.

We filled out some paperwork, then they spent an hour or so playing with Kate and giving her various tasks to complete to see what developmental level she was at - things like stacking rings, scribbling on paper, putting tiny objects into a narrow bottle, etc. They asked us a bunch of questions about her daily routine, what foods she likes, how we know she likes the things she does, and so on. Their verdict was that she was 27% delayed in her speech acquisition and understanding, which meant she just barely qualified for services (which is 25% or more delayed.) So starting in September we're going to have a weekly speech therapy session appointment to get her caught up. Overall the visit went very well, and seemed to go by very quickly even though they were there for a good two hours.

Kate was exhausted from all the activity and excitement, so this time she did go down for her nap. I tried to take a break while she was sleeping, but she was up again not long after because she had pulled off all her clothes and her diaper, which turned out to be dirty. So, M and I had to launch back into action, cleaning up the bedding and the baby, hand washing all her blankets and clothes to get the poo off of them.

At that point, it was too late in the day to get to her nap again without interfering with her bedtime, so we kept her up despite her crankiness, of which she had plenty. I tried to get her into bed around 7, since I figured she'd be tired enough to sleep without fighting, but boy was I wrong. We ended the day with a 1 1/2 hour struggle to get her to sleep. She kept pulling off her clothes and diaper, so we'd have to re-dress her over, and over, and over, and AUGH. M wasn't a lot of help during all this because he was trying to catch up on some work that had been dropped in his lap during the day, so dinner kept getting delayed.

Finally at around 8:30, M came out and took over baby duty and I was finally able to get dinner started. While it was simmering, I took the opportunity to clean the cat closet, the last chore for the day. We ate very late, chatted on the couch a bit, and then finally went to bed ourselves around 11. I think I fell asleep around midnight, completely exhausted and sore from never really getting a break.

Very tired today, so I'm going to try and take it as easy as possible. We have leftovers for dinner tonight, so I don't have much I need to accomplish besides keep the baby alive and take a shower.

Texted with my sister briefly last night, and our plan to go out to our favorite restaurant for my birthday has been derailed. She had to get her entire exhaust system replaced in her truck, which ran her $4k (!!!), so she has zero dollars left for birthday shenanigans. We've also had many unexpected expenses and have zero fun bucks, so no birthday outings for me. Womp, womp.

I need a break.

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M hit a nerve over my Friday lunch break when he complained that "there was nothing to eat" in the house. MY DUDE. We have four different kinds of fruit, a dozen noodle boxes that take less than 10 minutes to make, frozen potstickers and biscuits that are even faster, salad fixings, eggs and bacon, just...there's so. much. food. His idea of lunch is slapping a half-dozen slices of lunch meat on some bread and calling it a sandwich, and anything that takes longer than that is just too much. -_- 'Bout to slap a boy, I tell you what.

The rest of Friday went fine, until bedtime, when I discovered ANOTHER fresh pee spot on our bed. -_- So now it's no more cats in the bedroom. M decided that we weren't going to try and save this bedding set anymore, since it was already in pretty poor condition and now it had been peed on again, so we tossed out the comforter, hand washed the sheets, and M went out to Macy's to pick us up some new bedding.

So, we went into the weekend $300 poorer, and with groceries still needing to be ordered. We made a very minimal order to get us through the week, mostly near-instant lunch stuff for M like taquitos and frozen pizzas. *rolls eyes* And he complains that he can't lose weight. Yeesh.

Made some fried pork chops with mac n' cheese for dinner, and it turned out very well. I think I've finally found a good recipe for Southern-style fried meats, which can translate well to whatever protein I use.

Saturday was pretty low-key. No sewing was done, of course, because my pattern for the corset is somewhere in the bedroom closet, and M slept until 3PM, so I didn't have a chance to dig it out. Same story on Sunday, so nothing at all happened, hobby-wise. I made a big pot of chili on Saturday night, which lasted us for the rest of the weekend and still has enough in it for dinner tonight.

Discovered the likely culprit for Kate's extra sleepiness and foodiness lately - all four of her canine teeth are coming in at once. No wonder she's been chomping on all of her chew toys lately. At least they don't seem to be causing her much pain, as we haven't noticed any additional crankiness and haven't had to give her any Motrin, and at least three of them are at least half-way in now.

Kate's language assessment is tomorrow. M fairly confident in what diagnosis they're going to give her (expression delay), which I don't argue with, but he's also worried they're going to say she has an understanding delay, as well. I don't think that will be the case, since I know she'll follow directions when she's inclined to, she just doesn't like to listen when she's busy doing something else. M kept trying to get her to follow directions for random things while she was very focused on playing 'fold the laundry' with her dirty clothes pile, and cited that as an example of her not understanding orders. I mean, when I'm really focused on something, I'm not going to drop it either if you tell me to do something random! But if I tell her to lift her arms when we're changing clothes, or grab her plate when it's time to eat, she does that just fine. So, I'm less worried about that than he is.

Anyway, the main thing I'm hoping for out of tomorrow is getting some tools to help her develop her speech, that's all. If they can set us up with weekly lessons for her, or whatever they want, I'm all on board.

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I've found myself a bit of sewing mojo, and so this weekend I'm planning to attempt a Victorian maternity corset. I still have all my research from the first time I contemplated such a project, back when I was pregnant with Kate. I started the research way too late in my pregnancy last time, though, and wasn't able to get the project going before I ended up in the hospital. This time, I think I have enough time to get it done.

I'm still basing everything off the 1893 maternity corset in De Gracieuse but I'm going to be using my already sized, already know it works for me 1872 pattern, so I can skip trying to fit something on my ever expanding torso. I'm going to try and dig the pieces of it out tonight so I can get up early over the weekend and get things cut out and assembled.

I'm quite excited about this project. No fitting, just cut->sew->wear. I may be optimistic, but I feel I can get a good chunk of it done this weekend.

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Well, things didn't quite go according to plan, but they still all worked out.

On my way home from work on Wednesday, my rotten tire finally gave out and went flat. Luckily, I was still in the parking lot at work when it happened, so I was able to pull into a vacant spot. I called M, who called Chance, who watched the baby while M came and got me. It was too late in the day to get the tire replaced, so he dropped me off at home, and then he and Chance went back downtown to get the old tire off the car.

I took Thursday off instead of taking a half-day, since M had said that we could get the tire done in the morning before his interview, but alas, that did not end up happening. So, instead I was just up at dawn, hoping to get chores done, which was also thwarted by the baby getting up super early. I fed her breakfast and we had a bit of playtime, and by 9:30 she was ready for her nap, so she went back down, and I finally had my own breakfast. It was actually really nice, since the house was quiet and I could just sit and really enjoy eating without interruption.

Baby slept until about 12:30, and M got up not long after. We had a bit of lunch, then M started getting ready for his interview. I had planned to take the baby out to the library during that time, but she started acting really sleepy, so instead I attempted to get her to nap. While she didn't actually end up sleeping, I was able to keep her quiet and contained while M was having his interview.

Interview ended up being another panel, which was unexpected. His friend had told him to just expect one guy, since that's what he had experienced when he interviewed for the team, but instead it was three people. M didn't quite seem as confident coming out of this interview as he did coming out of the others, but it's overwith now, and all we can do now is wait to hear if he's in or not.

M called Chance immediately after the interview was over, and as soon as he arrived they went off to complete the tire replacement. I think it helped him to have something to focus on after the interview rather than fretting about it.

Leftover lunch pasta for dinner plus a little side salad to stretch it. M retreated to play video games, and I got the baby down for the night a bit early since she hadn't napped since her morning snooze. Shower, ice cream, Star Trek, then to bed.

Baby has entered a new toddler phase and has become and absolute nudist. If she disappears around a corner for more than 30 seconds, you can bet that she's going to be nude. Put her down for a nap? Nude. A time out? Nude. She woke up at 4:30 this morning and was babbling and laughing, and when I checked the baby monitor? Yup. Nude. I wouldn't care at all if she'd just keep her diaper on, but nope, it's a full strip. Hopefully this passes soon!

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Got home for my lunch break yesterday, and M told me that Kate had been completely wild, getting into everything and being chaotic. I thought, well, he was just suffering a short temper, because when I got there we had a cuddle, then she ran to get the kitchen sponge and went over to wash the windows before going down easily for a nap. XP

WELL. When I got home after work I got to see her in full force. She was into everything, and has just discovered how to open the fridge door all by herself, so every five seconds I had to run into the kitchen to stop her pulling all her favorite foods off the shelves. She was also constantly hungry - I fed her two oranges, two bunches of grapes, a batch of raisins, two Babybel cheeses, about seven strawberries, a yogurt, part of a bagel, and some hummus, and she was still giving me the sign for "food".

I was already exhausted and running on fumes, so for my own sanity I put her to be a half-hour early. She protested, but was asleep within 20 minutes, so she must have been tired.

I took a half hour on the couch, ate an ice cream sandwich, ordered a fridge lock, skipped making dinner and crawled into bed around 9, hoping to catch up on whatever sleep I've been missing. M had already been in bed since I'd gotten home, and when I got into bed, he ended up waking up. He decided to stay up, so I had the bed to myself for the night.

Set the alarm for 5AM intending to do some chores before work. I had big plans - wash the remaining dishes, chop the ingredients for tonight's dinner, iron clothes for this week and next, and make breakfast. Well, only about half of that happened, since I vastly underestimated how long the dishes would take. Still, I got in a decent breakfast for once, and the kitchen is now free of Dish Mountain.

I don't think I'll manage another 5AM day tomorrow, but I'm aiming to have one more before the end of the week so I can get some other much needed chores completed, namely scrubbing the bathroom. Still need to iron all my clothes at some point, but AUGH, where is time?!

M's interview is tomorrow afternoon. Since it's well after Kate's nap time, I'm going to have to take her out of the house so M can have the interview undisturbed. Even though we're having a relatively cool week, it's still in the mid-90s by that time of day, so we'll probably head over to the library for air-conditioned shenanigans instead of our usual haunt of the park.

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Massive, stupid things at work yesterday. I was left off of an email chain (because why would you need to include the person who wrangles your paperwork on an email chain about paperwork, right?), and so didn't know that shift supervision was supposed to be turning in two copies of their logs. When I had called the audit team about supervision turning in two copies when they started showing up, the person I talked to said they only needed one, so I threw out what I thought was the extra. WELL. No, they needed both, and the audit team was supposed to get all our paperwork yesterday morning to begin going over it (it's a standing monthly thing), but instead I had to reprint the copies (about 56 logs in total!), run around to get a half-dozen signatures from different people, organize it all into its books, and run it over to the audit team. It was well after lunch by the time all that was done, and I was exhausted. So, yeah, the day was stupid.

When I got home, M told me that the baby had been sleeping a ton all day long. She slept in until nearly 11, then she napped from 1:30-3:00! We were sure she'd be up late into the night, but no, at about 6:30 she started giving me the sign for "sleep". I made sure she ate dinner, gave her some milk, then around 7:00 she grabbed her pacifier and blanket and very adamantly shoved her head into my lap, so I bundled her up and put her to bed. I checked her temp to make sure she wasn't coming down with something, and she was fine, and she wasn't in bad spirits at all, so I guess it's a growth spurt or maybe just a sleepy day? Who knows.

Tacos for dinner, and watched the season finale of The Gilded Age. If they continue to sort of loosely follow the Vanderbilt family history for the Russell storyline, it means that we could see them divorce next season. They have been sort of setting it up with Mrs. Russell welcoming divorced women back into society and trying to remove some of the stigma around them, so I could see them going forward with it.

Half my FB feed has been people at Pennsic, and the other half has been people at the Las Vegas Star Trek convention, and it seems like everyone I know was at either one or the other. My feed hasn't had this much event activity on it in a long time! And with stuff still trickling in from Costume College last weekend, my feed is just stuffed full of costume stuff. Can't deny that I'm feeling quite a bit of FOMO. Even had dreams last night about trying to get ready for a Victorian tea event, and running around my imaginary costume closet (which in the dream was also half Mardi Gras shop?) trying to find a gown for my sister. ~sigh~ Of course, all the gorgeous ballroom scenes in The Gilded Age finale episode didn't help! Very bummed that I won't be able to make it to an event until next Spring.

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Weekend was busy, busy. I did not, in fact, accomplish my goal of packing up the sewing corner, but eh. It's fine.

Saturday is a bit of a blur. I wanted pancakes, so I made a big pancake brunch with eggs and bacon. I had a dizzy spell sometime in the afternoon, so I went to lie down, and M told me not to worry about making dinner, we would all just fend for ourselves. Fine by me!

Sunday was mostly a chore day. I spent far too long working on dishes, and kept on doing that right until it was time to make dinner. At that point, it was time for M to pick up our bulk grocery order, so instead of me cooking, he picked up the groceries and brought them home, then while I was parceling things out and putting them away, he went to Portillos and bought us dinner. We ate, baby went to bed, then we sat on the couch and chatted a bit before I headed to bed.

Tried to get myself up a little earlier today, so I set the alarm 15 minutes early, knowing I'd snooze it a couple of times. Tiger thwarted that, though, because as soon as he heard my alarm go off, he began absolutely howling in the hallway, so I had to get up to get him to quiet down. It did give me enough time to get a few things done, though, namely butchering an 8lb pork loin, which had been sitting in the freezer being all awkward and huge, into more manageable 2lb roasts, getting the baby's breakfast plate together, and ironing a clean dress for work. It wasn't everything that I'd hoped to do, but it was more than usual, so it's a win overall.

Only big plan for this week is M's final round interview on Thursday, so I'll be taking a half day.

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