A little lighter August 8, 2007
Posted by spacemom in : Kids, She Blinded me with Science, Home wreckers , trackbackSorry it’s been so heavy around here lately. It is hard to deal with Jimmy’s death still and work is funny right now. We are all still in a daze. I am frustrated that I will miss his funeral. It will be next week while we are on vacation.
Right now, I am a bit frazzled between home life, mommy life and work life, even without the complexity of Jimmy.
Home life: We are at it again! We ripped up the carpet in the living room, hallway and stairs. While we are away next week, we have a crew coming in and refinishing the floors. The carpet had been a Wookie orange color. Lovely, eh? And we kept it in place while our children were still learning to walk and fall down, etc. Now we are finally comfortable that they will not kill themselves walking in the living room without a carpet. So bye bye carpet, hello oak floors! There’s been some prep work needed. Sunday we need to move our couch into the kitchen, but it will all be done soon. That just leaves the master bedroom floor to be redone.
I also planned out Soleil’s closet for Elfa shelves. Now I am just waiting for their end of summer sale. The Container Store generally has two sales, one at the end of summer and one after Christmas. We had the Container Store plan out Soleil’s closet and I removed $131 of equipment (all drawers) for now. Once the sale happens, we will go and get what we need and then install when we are ready. Then she’ll be able to reach her own clothes! What a concept!
Mommy life: The 3s suck. I forget this. Luna has been a fricken fruitcake with nuts. Last night, she screamed for ketchup on her mac and cheese. But apparently, I didn’t put it on right, then I took it off, more sobbing, finally the evening ended with her smooshing the mac and cheese all over the table. Sigh….
Note to self: This will pass. It has to. Otherwise I will lock myself into a small room with padded walls and try to play solitaire til dawn with a deck of 51*.
Work Life: I have been napping at work. My bosses are encouraging it to help heal the mono. That’s good, right? But I am so damn unproductive. I hate that. I am one of those people who need to constantly be doing something. I don’t care what, but something. I will pace while watching TV. Sad, I know. Right now I have four projects:
- Boresight angles and bright X-ray sources in C++ code
- Reorganizing the webpage of internal notes
- Planning and writing the code for a flight software patch (someone else wrote the patch, I need to write the commands to send the patch to the spacecraft and then in a few months we will send it up)
- Working on a large change to the observation database that our team requested in December and the software team is just getting to.
That’s a bit on my plate to deal with mono. But I have to get through everything, because this is what we do here!
*With apologies to The Statler Brothers.
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Ahhh….C++. No nothing about it. Had to take Basic twice to pass, but hubby, the dual math major, is a whiz at the ++ as well. All Greek to me in a “I’m not worthy” kinda’ way!
; )