Nick Postagulous
Friday, August 20, 2004
The Great Experiment
This week, which feels way too long, has been rough on our little Neener. See, her Mommy, my spouse, had to go back to work, yadda yadda, so she’s staying with her grandmother. And I suppose that grandmother should be capitalized, as Grandmother is the chosen moniker of Alison’s mom.
Monday night, Nina didn’t want to go to sleep. She wanted to stay up with us.
Tuesday night, Nina didn’t want to go to sleep. She wanted to stay up with us.
Wednesday, well, she had no choice as it was church night, so she got in bed around 8:30 or nine. And that gave me an idea. Actually, I think I may have had the idea earlier, but it was this that made me think, “Yeah, I think we should keep her up and see when she’ll fall asleep by herself.”
So, we did that.
I showed up at Alison's mom’s apt at 3:40 as usual, then Alison got there at 5:20. I stopped by Wal-Mart and got diapers, etc, on the way home. And I tell ya, the people who work at Intergraph know how to use the self checkout. It was like I was in some kind of gadget savvy utopia, free of the rural riff-raff. I got home at 6 p.m. when my parents were supposed to get there. They were about three minutes late, and in that time I had eaten two boiled eggs and a bowl of rice chex. I had started a bowl of rice crispies when the doorbell rang.
They left around seven, according to my mom, but when I looked at my watch (Casio Waveceptor EDB700, which sets itself via atomic clocky radio signal out of Denver) about 25 minutes after they left, it was only 7:11. But Alison and I continued to play with Nina, and play with Nina, and play with Nina, until Nina was all played out. She didn’t want to stand anymore. She didn’t want to walk back and forth between us.*
Alison gave her a bottle and walked into the bedroom and Nina extended her hands and tried to dive into her crib.** It was 8:30. All hail the glorious revolution, we have a new bedtime.
* Kelley and other relatives need not worry, Nina can’t walk more than three feet without losing her balance. We sit about five feet apart and aim her back and forth. She loves it.
** I know I’ve been calling it a basinet lately, but Alison informs me that it is a porta-crib. However, the instruction manual says it’s a Funtime Play Yard.
A Good Day For Reality TV
The Big Brother episode last night was classic. After Adria and Natalie, the twins who were playing as one person and fooling everyone up until last week, took over the house and haughtily dominated everyone, they are now out of power and Nakomis is HOH. I was so rooting for Nak to get it instead of Diane, who has lousy strategy.
Well, that was BB5, but also Alison and I hadn’t watched Amazing Race from Tuesday. Woot, Myrna and Shmyrna were gone gone gone. But, I have to say, that Shmyrna rocked and it was just so unfortunate that she had her cousin Myrna with her. Even with Shmyrna being so small, Myrna made her eat all the food challenges. Last night, she ate a scrambled ostrich egg, which we were told was the equivalent of 2.5 dozen chicken eggs, but really, to me, it only looked like 15 or so eggs. But I like to buy the Jumbo.
Not Yet TV (BB5 Spoilery)
And getting into work and doing my coffee n’ internet warmup for the day was good reading too. BB5’s hamsters had their food reward challenge last night at 9 p.m. their time. They were given plates of their favorite food. Like Marvin got fried lobster, fried shrimp, French fries, and a Corona. Karen had Taco Bell; a bean burrito, nachos and cheese, a Choco Taco, and diet coke. They had to finish them in less than three minutes. If they did, the day of the week that they were assigned they would all get food. The twist was, it was Smoothies from Hell and they blended up all the food. Only Marvin’s heart attack shake wasn’t able to be choked down. It seemed to absorb all water and make a chunky goo. Nasty. Can’t wait to see it Saturday.
Interesting Spell Check Thing
For Nakomis’s name, Microsoft Word suggested Nokomis, the way that Jase pronounced it. It is a city in Illinois.
