lay your traps....please don't let me escape.
I love lastfm. I can listen to whatever bands and I get to learn about new bands. I have a serious love affair wiht Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. I'm also really excited to learn that Bright Eyes and Britt Daniel did an album together. I've been a spoon fan for quite a while and we had already picked out our kids name (Britton Daniel Rush) when I learned what his name was. What a cool coinsidence.
I turned in my last paper for the semester. It feels so good to be done. The office wasn't that funny last night.
We went to the Breastfeeding Clinic today. I've been mainly nursing and I was afraid that Britton wasn't getting enough to eat. He gained 8oz in 4 days which is remarkable. And it really helps me to relax. I realize that what I pump is not conclusive to what he eats from me. What he eats from a bottle is not the same from what he gets from me. He does eat less from me and more frequently but as long as he's gaining and getting enough I'm happy. He's almost 2 lbs over birth weight which makes him almost 10 lbs! His newborn clothes are getting small and his little face is more and more defined every day. Today we played for a while and I read him a story. Needless to say, this is a big sigh of relief from me.
After we left the clinic we went to my job to pick up my christmas bonus. It's reflective of how much we work and how much we get paid and how much we work. I guess it goes into some fun and we get a check cut at the end of the year. So it wasn't as much as I was hoping but it will help. It'll cover the cost of the sitter and one of our medical bills. So far the running total for the birth is about 16,000 not including my pregnancy dr visits. That doesn't include the anesthia that I had. It doesn't include both doctors. For the c section doctor to visit us in the mornings afterwards was 1500. I cannot imagine what our life would be like without insurance. Since I've been off work for 2 1/2 months our income will look scarce this year. Which is great because Josh is going to apply for a grant to go back to school. And it should help our tax return. His grandma (who is nosey and mean and the only old mean grandma I've ever met in my life) used to do taxes for H & R block. She said we could use the medical bills as a tax write off. We paid about 7,000 before I got insurance for hospital visits when I got sick, tests and everything else. When I was about 6 1/2 months we got insurance t hrough Josh's job. He's supposed to get a christmas bonus too. I hope that his is more than mine...why? WEll because I'm scheduled 7 days this month. 7 DAYS FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH. I have a baby to buy diapers for! I have to pay a sitter. I have to buy gas (which by the way I paid 1.27 a gallon for the other day. Put a spring in my step). I just couldn't believe it! On the good side, it will help me be around my kiddo more and spend more time with him. I can also pick up more hours at my internship and not have to worry about crunching them all in.
It's about 5 am right now. I'm going to my internship at 7:45ish. I'll leave around 2. Then at 6 I'm doing Lisa's make up and hoping we can get some dinner together. I'm going into work at 11 tonight and I'll get off at 7 this morning. I even ASKED to work on Christmas and Christmas eve so that I could get holiday pay. I told them I'd work a double if they'd let me and they didn't schedule me. I'm hoping that someone calls in sick. I'm going to leave a note in the on going log saying "HEY IM HERE IF YOU WANT IT OFF!" Sure, I'd love to spend Christmas with my kiddo but we can when I get home. I'm going to take him to get his picture taken with Santa very soon.
Christmas is going to be bleak around here. Luckily there's a lot of love to compensate. My dad is going to help me get Josh something. I think we're going to get him Rock Band for the ps3. He's been wanting it for a long time and I think it would be a lot of fun and something we could do together. When Britt gets bigger, he'll have fun playing with it too. I wanted to get my dad a carpet shampooer (he always pays like 60 bucks to rent one!) I think that we could buy him one and save him a lot of money. I don't know what to get my mom. I'm thinking that everyone other than my dad and Josh will get pictures of Britt with Santa. There are a few girlfriends that I'm going to buy for but I may have to wait for a bit. I think it'll be ok as long as I don't go crazy. We only have a few more medical bills to pay.
My dad and Josh watched the baby alot for me today so that Icould get some sleep. I basically woke up to feed and then pump. It was nice to be able to cuddle up with my baby. I'm really going to miss him tomorrow.