Mostly Unimpressive Things
Oct. 27th, 2013 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76I've fully recovered from the galloping crud that landed me flat this week. I hatehatehate being sick! I need to pencil in flu shots for myself and Wonderful Husband next weekend. I typically only get the flu once every 5-10 years, but with Squiddle around and still quite small, this year we should take extra precautions.
As a side result of having been sick, though, I lost nearly five pounds this week! I've been slowly and steadily losing weight due to breast feeding, but given I was eating fairly minimally for half the week, the amount jumped this week. I'm eighteen pounds down from where I was before I got pregnant! Fifteen more and I'll be back at my wedding weight, which would be nice.
Yesterday we went to the bank and opened Squiddle his own savings account. At a whole .01% interest rate, woo. *unimpressed eyeroll* But we had agreed to a certain amount to be put aside for him each month, probably eventually into a 529 for college, and this will keep us accountable for that. Plus, my great-uncle and great-aunt had sent us a check for Squiddle, for the very purpose of getting him saving. :)
Also, the breast pump (an Ameda Purely You) from the insurance company arrived on Friday, so I've used that a couple times now. I'm... not terribly impressed with it. 1.5 ounces in 15 minutes? I'm hoping that it may just be a matter of getting used to its quirks. Any advice from those who have been there?
And, finally, I'm planning to try for some amount of NaNoWriMo. Probably working on novel #2, and I already know that my being able to pound out anything near 1600 words a day is not going to happen. But every little bit helps. In preparation, this weekend has had a minor chore subset of "cleaning my desk." It's nowhere near done, and nowhere near as done as Wonderful Husband has simultaneously managed for his, but still... every little bit helps.
As a side result of having been sick, though, I lost nearly five pounds this week! I've been slowly and steadily losing weight due to breast feeding, but given I was eating fairly minimally for half the week, the amount jumped this week. I'm eighteen pounds down from where I was before I got pregnant! Fifteen more and I'll be back at my wedding weight, which would be nice.
Yesterday we went to the bank and opened Squiddle his own savings account. At a whole .01% interest rate, woo. *unimpressed eyeroll* But we had agreed to a certain amount to be put aside for him each month, probably eventually into a 529 for college, and this will keep us accountable for that. Plus, my great-uncle and great-aunt had sent us a check for Squiddle, for the very purpose of getting him saving. :)
Also, the breast pump (an Ameda Purely You) from the insurance company arrived on Friday, so I've used that a couple times now. I'm... not terribly impressed with it. 1.5 ounces in 15 minutes? I'm hoping that it may just be a matter of getting used to its quirks. Any advice from those who have been there?
And, finally, I'm planning to try for some amount of NaNoWriMo. Probably working on novel #2, and I already know that my being able to pound out anything near 1600 words a day is not going to happen. But every little bit helps. In preparation, this weekend has had a minor chore subset of "cleaning my desk." It's nowhere near done, and nowhere near as done as Wonderful Husband has simultaneously managed for his, but still... every little bit helps.
