Nick Postagulous
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
I Installed a Dishwasher
Monday morning the movers showed up to move all of Alison’s mom’s stuff that was in storage for those two months. Now, it’s all crammed into the new house. The old house was 2600 square feet and this one is 1531 (I can remember that since it’s the name of the house plan). Needless to say, there are not nearly 1531 square feet available to walk around in. When I got off work, I went over there and picked up a tired and fussy Nina.
Alison stayed over at her mom’s and toted that barge and lifted that bale. I fed Nina. I don’t remember if that was salmon, sweet potatoes, apple/plum sauce, and of course Hawaiian Delight. I think it was. After eating, Nina didn’t really want to play on the stairs, her all time favorite thing. She didn’t even want to watch her Boohbah. She was fussy. So, another all time favorite event, riding in the Miata, was combined with her all time best comfort event, going to Mommy. So, we went over to Alison’s mom’s house to see Alison, aka Mommy.
What I didn’t mention, was that when I was trying to get the Boohbah to indoctrinate my daughter into a happy Boohbah moppet, I had pulled the old dishwasher out most of the way. I’d turned off the water, but couldn’t keep kids and cats away from me while I did the bigtime stuff.
After a while at Nina’s Grandmother’s new house, we came back home and I started on the dishwasher. Now that I’ve done it once, I’m an expert, but unfortunately I won’t be needing to install a dishwasher for another decade or so. The only two mistakes I made is that (1) I accidentally crimped the water line and when it feeds water to the dishwasher there is noisy cavitation in the line now and (2) I leveled it with the back a little low, so that when you pull the bottom rolly basket out to load pots n’ pans, it rolls back in via gravity. Grr. I’ll fix those as soon as I get another copper line.
Oh, and I also put together a glass and steel computer cart. We’ll be moving the computer from the library into the loft. As it is, if you put Nina down for a nap/sleep in her room, she can see a person sitting at the computer. But, really, she sleeps in her other crib down in the master bedroom. I sleep on the floor in her room, since I like to actually sleep through the night, and a 3 to 5 a.m. feeding has become the norm lately. Only Alison’s mutant sleeping factor keep her alive.
Robin’s Baby
My cousin Robin had a baby last month. She is either working on her mutant sleeping factor, or turning into a zombie-mama. Looks like mutant sleeping factor to me.
Robin with Lily
Went To Nanny and Papa’s
And by Nanny and Papa, I mean my parents. And no, I never called them that while I grew up, but when mom and dad were moderately younger and my sister had her kid Corey, they decided that the grandma and grandpa monikers were too damning for their early 40s selves.
Modern Day Corey (Nina's cousin) and Tiana, his wife
(This wasn't here, it was at some Tiana relative's 90th birthday.)
Peaches and Cream
Mom fed Nina peaches and Coolwhip. Nina might have liked it. It’s hard to tell.
