7 Quick Takes Friday (93)

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Usually I write my quick takes on Thursday night, but going on two weeks of being sick, I forgot what day it was.  I was just going to let it go and write them tomorrow or maybe not at all.  That is until I got in bed and heard the LOUD music from some party in our neighborhood (punctuated by some hooting and hollering and some coyotes, the latter of which I hope is not related to the former).  I'm really at a loss of what to do.  Do I walk around the neighborhood until I find the offending household, knock on the door, and use my "teacher voice" with some rowdy teenagers?  Do I call the cops?  No, I think I shall just I let them keep me up and write Quick Takes instead. 

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Oh man, when did I become the boring adult that calls the cops on parties instead of being the foolish youth that attends them?  I think that would be about 5 years ago, so I've been an old fogy for a long time.  Come to think of it, five years ago I was 21.  So yeah, when most people were just flexing their party hearty wings, I was trading them in for some good old-fashioned responsibility. 

 

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I finally wrote Lucia's birth story for the blog.  It's only been 18 months and some days since she was born.  You have to first read through a little tell-all about how I actually don't like birth stories before you get to the actual birth story.  Go check it out if you like birth stories.  If you don't, obviously I understand.  

 

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It's about this point in the quick takes that the party finally ended last night (or the teenagers wizened up or the cops arrived) and I went to sleep...  At, I don't know, one in the morning?  My family has lived in this house for going on thirteen years and of all the years I lived here, I never heard a party in the neighborhood.  Never heard my parents complain about one after I moved out either, so that came as quite the surprise.  This is a pretty "old" neighborhood if you know what I mean.  It has an elementary school in it, so when it was built in the 80s, families with young kids moved in.  And most of them are still here although their kids are no longer young (and neither are they). 

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I can't get the lyrics for the Mouske Marcha (Spanish version of the "Hot Dog" song) out of my head.  (If Lucia's going to watch TV it's at least going to be in Spanish.  It "educational" for her and "less annoying" for me.)  Lucia watched TV less than a dozen times before I got sick, but for the last week has gotten so used to it that she's taken to asking for "Mouse" after breakfast every morning.  I guess that's what nearly two weeks of being sick does to a mother and child.  We've just been on survival mode although David has had a few days off and was able to take Tuesday off which was when I was at my worst.  My cold turned into a sinus infection (the first I've ever had) and I was so, so miserable.  Today is the first day I'm feeling markedly better, thank goodness!

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What exactly does one do while sick for two weeks?  I tried to do productive things while in bed but mostly failed.  I read.  Finished blog posts that had been sitting in drafts (Best Gifts for...One-Year-Olds and 30 Things to Do in 30 Minutes {With Your Spouse}).  Reacquainted myself with knitting.  Realized the only kids shows I actually like are the ones that were from before my time: The Flintstones, Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes, The Jetsons.  (I'm convinced those cartoons were made as much for adults as for children and that kids shows today really dumb it down for kids..."Can you say 'apple'?  GOOD JOB!"  They really deserve better, y'all.)  Played a lot of online solitaire.  (Did you know there are more than a dozen types of solitaire?  I'm too afraid to try any other than classic  and spider solitaire for fear of getting addicted to something new, but it's nice to know they're there if I have another prolonged illness).  Oh, I did do something productive!  I think we found a town house to rent in Raleigh.  What do you do when you are laid up in bed? 

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Do you do safety comparisons for your baby/child products?  David and I chose Lucia's car seat, stroller, etc. based on what we liked in-store and the customer reviews online, but I didn't really think to look up safety rankings or directly compare products.  (I just assumed all car seats had to be safe in order to be sold???)  I just recently realized that there are websites like carseatanswers.com that have comparison charts of all the major convertible car seat brands/models.  We chose Lulu's because we liked the color and it was on sale online plus there was a coupon code that make it a really incredible price (almost half off!).  This is one of those things that makes me feel like I missed out on the secret parenting classes that everyone else in the world obviously attended but for some reason tell me just don't exist (because I'm not cool enough, obviously.  Not the first time I've been left out of the cool crowd).

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