Alright... looks like the Borman (sans :( Petrillo) Brews are back! Today Eric and I are brewing an Ale Mead and a Honey Porter. Now these might very well completely suck because the ingredients were purchased pre-Alex. But whatever, it'll be fine for us! Now I think I need to buy another carboy! KP - You are missed!

Labels: baby, family, homebrew, life

A friend of mine suggested I look up the Five Sounds a baby makes. I will try it out to see if it works... I bet most mothers already know some of the sounds but were never able to write it out for others to see.

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Here is a shot of my little baby wearing the eco-friendly gdiaper. It seems to work nicely but Eric is completely freaked out by the whole thing... Poop on the loose is not easy to deal with. A down side to the diaper is that yesterday when changing him we noticed that he was RED where the diaper was. Now I don't think it was diaper rash - perhaps he was just hot? Perhaps it was the orange dye? I don't know but we put a bunch of A&D on him and stuck him in a disposable.

He is nearly out of the small gdiapers. I am not sure if I should get just the large? Or a medium? Is it realistic? Will I be the only one to use them? Will I use them once I go back to work? These are a few good questions that I am not sure making a huge purchase will answer. These gdiapers are nearly twenty bucks a pop. Ugh.

On a happier note, I think the baby blues might be gone finally. I am not going to deny having them and I am thankful that my fears of having a full postpartum attack have not been realized. And while I am typing this my baby is sleeping in a snuggley carrier that I am wearing and the music is blaring from my computer! I am so glad that I don't have to be quiet for baby to sleep.

Please note that the damn diaper is on backwards... what a pain in the ass it will be to put it on the "correct" way!

Labels: baby, life

I am drained yet I have the desire to get rid of everything in this house. I don't use half the junk I have cluttering up my brain. Perhaps I want to move and don't want many boxes. Perhaps I am happier with less material things collecting dust. Perhaps I am crazy. Perhaps I am nesting. Any which way you put it I am too tired to really do anything about it...

Yesterday we had a scare. Our cute little cow looking cat managed to sneak her way out and some how landed in a tree and perched herself just out of reach from our porch roof. Eric had to go across town to get a ladder and grab her up. Poor little bastard!

Labels: baby, life, pets, pregnant

So my fabulous friends threw me a Jack and Jill baby shower. Boys, girls and beer! I of course didn't partake but I am glad that everyone else did! The food was fantastic and there were no frilly storks and chickadees.

We even had a little after party at the house and fried chicken and mac and cheese for breakfast! All in all it was just fantastic. The crib is set up. The sheet and blankets are washed. Most of the clothes and towels are clean too. The room is almost put together... just a few more finishing touches. Hopefully by next weekend we will be set!

Labels: baby, life, pregnant

After over five years and countless numbers of vacuums I finally succumbed to the Dyson . I just blew $450 at Target for the new dog/cat/people hair sucker, paper towels, dorritos and cheetos. Let me tell you that I had every intention of getting myself the Roomba 530. I got the last one and put it in my cart and continued down the aisle. Then I saw the mini compact fantastic Dyson Ball DC24. Then I thought, hmmm.... this is really cute and can fit nicely in my closet. Then my brain switched back to the Roomba - it will have to stay plugged in and will be waiting to clean and that will suck the electricity all the time. Then my brain continued - the Roomba will make countless passes along the floor, skipping and repeating sections. That could take hours. You can swoop through a room in five to ten minutes with the regular push 'em vacuums.

Now I might be having a heart attack because this damn thing sucks away several days of my salary but at the same time I am so happy to know that I can finally have a floor that makes me smile. Eric and I have had several $100 vacuums just take a shit after a year of use. Hopefully this one will last for a while.

On to a random thought - my baby is not going to play Grand Theft Auto until his is a teenager. Well, sixteen. Ha! I don't plan on being a mother that has no idea what the damn kid is doing and let my tell you I just played a bit of the new GTA and it is seriously fucked up. Fun as shit but fucked up.

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What is with all the books you can purchase about raising a "green" baby? Okay, I realize that everyone needs to make a buck. And I also realize that I have not put forth an extensive amount of time searching for information on this topic. But seriously, why would I buy a book made of paper about being "green"? In my eyes, its sort of like the whole jumbo shrimp thing. Maybe I will turn baby Borman's blog into a resource for raising a emerald baby. I have already purchased two starter kits of gDiapers. I also picked up an omop and really love it. Its sort of like a swiffer, but has a really neat washable pad on the bottom and the cleaner is easy to use... just squirt and mop! No more buckets of dirty water. No more getting on my hands and knees and using paper towels and spray. No more clorox wipes on the floor for the dog and my bare feet to walk all over.

Labels: baby, green, life

I am so excited! I think I found the best thing in the universe. It solves all my problems with the universe! Thanks to KP for the Parents magazine subscription or I might not have found it. Its the G Diaper! Yes. The G! It will satisfy my need to not use those plastic diapers that take 500 years to bio-degrade. It will satisfy Eric's need to not have to deal with cloth diapers. I really think it could work! I might just buy the starter kit now...

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I brought a camera to work last Sunday. I only brought it out once but you can at least peek into the world of the box office. These photos were taken during the calm before the storm that was a sell out of "Lyle Hovett" during which the true wise ass appeared. A patron asked when the show would be starting and I replied "7:02". I also told someone that his seats 101 & 103 were not together and that 102 would be seated in between them.

This baby blanket is now complete. I added a blue/brown border. I am super excited that I completed it in less than a week. Now onto another project, or maybe some Super Mario Galaxy.

Labels: baby, life, work

My co-worker Donna has always known it was a boy. We went to the doctor on Friday and they confirmed the presence of a winkie!

I had watermelon. It was fantastic.

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Today was the member on sale day for Hairspray and while it was really busy we only sold a few tickets to the musical. My brain was so on top of things yesterday... but today? Today? Nada. My brain was on Mars or maybe at least Saturn. Hell... I think my brain could even have been up Uranus.

I would really love love love a snow day tomorrow. It will be the first day that the Bardavon closed on a weekday for weather and I wasn't already scheduled off. But given my luck as of lately, it will get twenty degrees warmer and it will rain buckets.

I finally opened an account with HVFCU and now I need to stop by to fill out a signature card to complete the process. And given that I am twenty weeks pregnant I should really start filling out paper work for the hospital and look into childbirth classes... ugh... do I really have to be there for that? Guys have all the luck... their crotches are stretched out and torn AND they can pee standing up.

Labels: baby, life, work

I have to admit that I miss having an online journal. I was just not happy with wordpress... hopefully my love with blogger can be re-kindled. I just like everything to be simple and most of these push-button publishing dealies are overwhelming over coded (in my eyes). I have been able to start cutting down the code.

After nearly four months of no energy, I finally have the desire to write about my life. Who knew that being pregnant could make you so tired? Who knew it could make me lose interest in knitting and crocheting? I truly want to but never seem to pick up the needles... Who knew it would make me want jello, grapes and green pears?

I also need to give a ton of credit to Eric - he has nearly stopped drinking. I asked him to stop with me for these long, er, short nine months. I just can't stand to be near drunk people when I am sober. I don't mind a drink or two or three but drunk people really piss me off. I have always felt this way which is one reason why I would sooner walk across town to the bar than offer to be the driver.

Who knew that this baby would eat my brain and make me such a scatter-brained air head? Who knew it would make me shave just one arm-pit several days ago?

Now I just need to decide if I want to add links to the side or the bottom... I think maybe the side... but then I will have to fiddle with the stylesheet... ack!

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I have switched away from wordpress and am back to blogger once again. I seem to be a push button publishing whore. Now I have to re-do all the archives once again...

check out Baby News.

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My scanner has been out of commission (of sorts) for a while now. I finally took a quick snapshot of my last sonogram. I was 12 weeks pregnant. On February 15, Eric and I will go back to see the baby once again! Hopefully he or she won’t be shy and let us take a peek.

Working on a little side project.

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