Time Buzzing Past

I can't believe it's mid-March and Baba is already 4 months old! My brain is often like brain soup these days. I can feel time moving like a swarm of bees around my head, and no matter how fast I move, I can't keep up!

Baba has his 4-month doctor's appointment tomorrow, so I will write with an update after that. In the meantime, life has thrown us some curve balls, but also has been good to us. Baba, R, and I are all healthy and that is most important. We have been broke as a joke, too. So broke, it just ain't funny anymore. At the end of last month, I was so broke, I overdrafted in my checking account and ended up paying more in fees than the amount that I went over. Needless to say, when I finally did get a paycheck, my first in over 3 months, the bank got a big chunk of it. Even after I called to request some of the fees back as a courtesy. Luckily, with my MIL's help and my dad's help, Baba has everything he needs - formula, diapers, wipes, cute outfits, money for daycare! - and we've been surviving on ramen, veggie burgers, and frozen vegetables. Actually, making fried rice with leftover rice, an egg, and a bag of veggies is great comfort food. It really reminds me of being poor growing up and the creative ways my mom kept us fed. Not fried rice, though, that's a staple item. When we were really broke, she would take a bowl of rice, mix in a raw egg and sesame oil, and a meal was born. We might even have some seasoned nori to go with it or fried spam! Yum!

My free time these days seems like nil. I started watching this documentary called Shakespeare Behind Bars, about a group of inmates putting on a production of The Tempest. I could only watch half before I had to go to bed. Nevertheless, I only got 6 hours of sleep, after R refused to wake up at 2am to feed Ishmael. I was literally begging him and he was adamantly refusing! I've been meaning to make a list of the movies I've seen the last few months. When I was home on maternity leave, I ended up seeing a lot of movies, old and new. It might take me three hours instead of two to finish watching something, because I was taking care of Baba, but I got through a whole bunch. Thank god for the public library and Blockbuster online! I am in the middle of two craft projects, one is for a mobile swap I'm in, and one is a scarf for R's sister. Oh, and there's my swapbot stuff. I've scaled down the number of swaps, though, just because I can't afford to buy too many things or even pay for shipping. Sigh.

Well, I'll have the day off tomorrow, so I'll write more then!