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Strange times, my friends, strange indeed.

It’s been raining here for what feels like 3 weeks. I think it’s just been about 5 days, but man, it’s getting old. It’s gotten to the point where I think the plants are sick of the water. With out doubt we’ll immediately go in to a 6 weeks dry spell, so I guess I should enjoy it while I can.

Remember how I said that I was done with the major landscaping projects? Well turns out I’m addicted to landscaping. I think I’ve hit rock bottom too. I can’t not go to a garden center on a Saturday and spend 100 bucks on perennials. I look at gardening books at night. It’s getting out of control. Oh it started off innocently enough, a shrub here, a annual there. Then the mulching started., the lawn boobs, oh one time I went over the top and planted the sugar maple. Now look at me.

It’s particularly funning b/c in 2 weeks or so it’ll be too hot and too mosquito heavy to go outside at all. Not sure why I’m doing all this. I’m sublimating something…but what?   Don’t answer that.

So the captain is changing everyday now it seems. He’s a full on crawler now. Getting all over the place, and generally heading directly toward whatever is dirtiest or most dangerous that is under the 1 foot mark. Last week he developed a fever all of a sudden. I think we’re finally starting to annoy our pediatrician with our calls, she now pretty much just says “watch what’s going on for a couple days and get back to me” all the time now. 
So we did that, and then the capt got a rash. So natty took him in. the nurse practioner at the office thought that he had scarlet fever, and prescribed some antibiotics. Naturally when I heard this, I freaked, my only understanding of scarlet fever is based on that velveteen rabbit book, and all I remember form that is they had to scored earth all the kids belongings. So I figured that this was something somewhat serious.

Well turns out, its not such a big deal now. Just a form a strep throat, that gets in the blood stream-easily cleared up by our ever less effective antibotics. Only problem was the capt. Seems to be allergic to amoxocillian. But alls well that ends well, he seems to have recovered oh its own…which prolly means that it wasn’t’ the red death in the end. What’s my point? Fuck
if I know.

We’re interviewing baby sitters for when natty returns to school in the fall. The internet is pretty neat in this capacity. There are all sorts of sites now, a little bit too much like match.com that let you post up ads and sort through the respondents and stuff. We’re still working out the details, but I’ll say this, the capt defeintly seems to be into blonds. The little dirtbag gets all coy and overly flirty with the blondies. Very funny.

I think that’s it on baby updates.

Oh I’ve been meaning to mention this, natty’s friend Margie has launched  her own bidness making barettes, check them out here and here. They’re pretty cool in my opinion, and they work great, I’m wearing a set right now, err, um, well if still had long hair I would be.

I think in the past I expressed displeasure (complained) about how my company paid me once a month. well our company was bought by a bigger company. And they pay the regular old bi weekly way. (now does bi weekly mean every other week or 2x’s a week. Is it bi monthly? Semi monthly? Afwww fuck it they pay fortnightly). Well file this in the careful what you wish for column, but I’m finding it  impossible to keep track of money now. It used to be pretty simple. Get a big check, pay all the bills, try not to spend the rest, now it’s all confused. Case in point: I get to the train station today, I needed to get
some money out for diet coke money. Get the lovely “insufficient funds” rejection.

It’s been about 4 years since I saw that. I’m pretty fucking anal about my finances (well not spending per se, but tracking the spending)-there should be a few hundred in there. So this gets the mind running in all sorts of directions. Have we been hacked? Did I have some bill pay set up that I forgot about?  i can’t login to check until I get to the big don’t fuck it up client’s. it’s eating me up should everything be accurate on the up and up, it looks like jefke’s not eating lunch either. Fun.

That’s the news for now mutherfuckers. Keep the faith.