Long Rambly Thoughts

[eiblyn]

I think college may have destroyed my ability to read. Oh I scan material much better now. But that part of my brain that ferrets out the long-term valuable stuff and stores it away appears to only work when I'm taking notes on a text now. The bad part is, this means I am going to have to re-read all the Pagan books I've read recently. My brain can randomly conjure up bits of information I know came from them, but I can't string together a basic outline of the thoughts presented in the book. This is bad.

I now have made the following kinds of homemade organic baby food: sweet potato, pumpkin, carrot and plum. There will be more made in the future I am sure. I got all of the ingredients from the organic booth at the Farmer's Market, which I went to on Tuesday.

The baby is increasingly better at playing by herself and grumpy by turns. This is driving me *insane*. I cannot carry her all the time. But I hate hearing her cry too. Yes, I own a sling. Yes I have tried it. But simple things like doing the dishes is immensely complicated by tiny hands that want to get into everything. As if I needed an excuse to put off dishes...

I scavenged a free vacuum cleaner last week. It works pretty well. It has a rough odor, but we're slowing getting it out of there. Next on the list with it: buy new filters and wash the dirt container in the dishwasher. Not too bad for a free vacuum.

My house is cleaner. Not clean. But cleaner. I have a guest bedroom again that is nice and inviting. My mom helped me clean it. I vacuumed my living room yesterday without prompting. I have been doing the dishes regularly. Holy crap, I might just be a grown up.

I got to have a hot bath last night. elf_baby played nicely on the clean bathroom floor while I did it. She rocks and I'm so glad she's so low maintenance sometimes.

Mom and I are walking to the commissary in the next half hour to pick up some groceries. I need milk and eggs. And I probably could use some more frozen meals *sighs*. I should see about having mom watch the baby tonight and cooking myself some food to freeze. I don't know. I feel guilty buying it, but it defeats the purpose of having something quick and easy if I have to cook it ahead of time and freeze it. I just don't have as much time as I used to.

Comments

[benet.livejournal.com]

You could just be out of practice on the reading-for-content thing, you know. It's been a busy couple of years.

[eiblyn.livejournal.com]

How does one get back in practice at that? *sighs* Who thought that would change.

[benet.livejournal.com]

Just by doing it, I think. I know I sort of had to re-develop it; during my last couple of years of CS undergrad I didn't really have to do any serious reading for ideas, so when I went to grad school it was something I had to get back in the groove of. I had never got in the habit of taking notes, either, so there was a lot of flailing. :)