I should have read Vacuuming for Dummies
Yesterday, for whatever reason, I went into a cleaning frenzy (what a way to spend a Friday night). I have to vacuum almost everyday because of the dogs (dog hair+me=itchy, sneezy, hives-covered mess). Well, because my couches are suede, dog hair and cat hair attach to them like crazy. So I break out the super cool upholstery attachment that came with my Kirby and I'm vacuuming the couch. Simple enough, right? Wrong. Only Manda could hurt herself vacuuming a fucking couch. I went to pull the attachment off so I could get directly at something stuck to the couch and inadvertently stuck my finger into the still spinning attachment. Now this thing is called a Turbo somethingorother and they aren't lying. I thought I'd broken my damn finger. It's all red and gross and boy, does it hurt! I hurt myself with a vacuum. Geez.
I finally got my raise. They are supposed to cut me a retro check this week for all the time it took them to actually key the damn thing in. That'll come in handy since I'm going to Louisiana next weekend and Virginia the weekend after that.
I know I should be excited about seeing the baby and all but I'm actually more excited about staying with Nick's Dad on this trip to Louisiana. Nick and his Dad have never been close so I decided that this trip, we were going to make them spend some real time with us. If after that they don't make an effort, then I can say we at least tried. Well, they not only said we could stay but they were really excited about it. Nick and his dad stayed on the phone forever catching up (they hadn't talked in over a year) and Nick is really excited about going. I never thought he would get excited about anything concerning his dad. I hope it all works out because I want Nick's dad to be an active granddad when me and Nick finally have a baby. Chuck is the only biological grandfather our child will have. My biological father will surely be absent from my child's life as he has been throughout mine.
Anyway, back to the baby. One of the reasons my interest has kinda waned on seeing the baby is due to the stories my mother-in-law came back with from their trip down there. From what I have derived, Nichole is very finicky about people holding the baby. Melinda was there for a week and stayed in their house, and she said she held the baby maybe three times and she's the baby's Grandma! She's also kind of shown her ass about what people buy as gifts for the baby. For example, they have a baby GIRL. People are naturally going to buy pink things for the baby. It's the nature of the beast. She gets downright indignant about it almost. Instead of just returning it, she makes sure that the people know that she hated it and "It ain't goin in my baby's room." You know, I'll be lucky to even have a baby shower at all and this girl is shunning gifts. That's just tacky to me. I don't know. My mother-in-law may have been exaggerating the whole thing which she is prone to do. I wouldn't buy it so much if I didn't know Nichole, but this seems pretty in line with her character. All of this also gives me apprehensions about my mother-in-law. Nichole is the one she likes and is close to and she talked this way about her. I can only imagine what she'll say about me. She was telling me and Nick how David's doing everything and Nichole's not doing anything around the house. She told us all Nichole wants to do is sleep, which to some extent is probably true. Hell, all I want to do is sleep and I don't have a screaming infant that's up all hours of the night. She told us Nichole doesn't feed the baby enough, so that's why the baby doesn't sleep longer than she does and yadda yadda yadda. It went on and on and it really bothered me. Nichole is a new mom. It's going to take some time for her to adjust to her new role and Melinda's not even giving her the benefit of the doubt. Yes, it's shitty for Nichole to berate the thoughtfulness others have shown her by taking the time to buy her baby a gift, I'll agree with that. But Melinda's already painted the picture as Nichole being a bad mom. God help me when I have a kid. I have to live in the same town as her, not 700 miles away like Nichole. It is probably going to suck.
Well that was a lot more than I had intended to write and I didn't really talk about anything I had planned to. Oh well. Next time.
I finally got my raise. They are supposed to cut me a retro check this week for all the time it took them to actually key the damn thing in. That'll come in handy since I'm going to Louisiana next weekend and Virginia the weekend after that.
I know I should be excited about seeing the baby and all but I'm actually more excited about staying with Nick's Dad on this trip to Louisiana. Nick and his Dad have never been close so I decided that this trip, we were going to make them spend some real time with us. If after that they don't make an effort, then I can say we at least tried. Well, they not only said we could stay but they were really excited about it. Nick and his dad stayed on the phone forever catching up (they hadn't talked in over a year) and Nick is really excited about going. I never thought he would get excited about anything concerning his dad. I hope it all works out because I want Nick's dad to be an active granddad when me and Nick finally have a baby. Chuck is the only biological grandfather our child will have. My biological father will surely be absent from my child's life as he has been throughout mine.
Anyway, back to the baby. One of the reasons my interest has kinda waned on seeing the baby is due to the stories my mother-in-law came back with from their trip down there. From what I have derived, Nichole is very finicky about people holding the baby. Melinda was there for a week and stayed in their house, and she said she held the baby maybe three times and she's the baby's Grandma! She's also kind of shown her ass about what people buy as gifts for the baby. For example, they have a baby GIRL. People are naturally going to buy pink things for the baby. It's the nature of the beast. She gets downright indignant about it almost. Instead of just returning it, she makes sure that the people know that she hated it and "It ain't goin in my baby's room." You know, I'll be lucky to even have a baby shower at all and this girl is shunning gifts. That's just tacky to me. I don't know. My mother-in-law may have been exaggerating the whole thing which she is prone to do. I wouldn't buy it so much if I didn't know Nichole, but this seems pretty in line with her character. All of this also gives me apprehensions about my mother-in-law. Nichole is the one she likes and is close to and she talked this way about her. I can only imagine what she'll say about me. She was telling me and Nick how David's doing everything and Nichole's not doing anything around the house. She told us all Nichole wants to do is sleep, which to some extent is probably true. Hell, all I want to do is sleep and I don't have a screaming infant that's up all hours of the night. She told us Nichole doesn't feed the baby enough, so that's why the baby doesn't sleep longer than she does and yadda yadda yadda. It went on and on and it really bothered me. Nichole is a new mom. It's going to take some time for her to adjust to her new role and Melinda's not even giving her the benefit of the doubt. Yes, it's shitty for Nichole to berate the thoughtfulness others have shown her by taking the time to buy her baby a gift, I'll agree with that. But Melinda's already painted the picture as Nichole being a bad mom. God help me when I have a kid. I have to live in the same town as her, not 700 miles away like Nichole. It is probably going to suck.
Well that was a lot more than I had intended to write and I didn't really talk about anything I had planned to. Oh well. Next time.