Teething

F-you, teething.
Mini Monster must be getting a lot closer to cutting a tooth, because he's getting increasingly unhappy, unfortunately at very random intervals. Last night he was up most of the night at hour long intervals. I don't know how long I can survive if he keeps doing that.

We just gave him some Nighttime Oragel since we haven't landed an alternative. He's still not fond of the taste but it helped him a little, so he relaxed a little. X_X

Thank god for that anyway. *facedesk*

You may have noticed I just changed my background again: Apparently 'Cutestblogontheblock.com' is pulling the design I was using. Damn. <:c This one will do for right now, but I might look around some more. Shabbyblogs does some pretty cute stuff, but I really liked what I had, darn it. Otherwise things are going pretty well. Mini Monster just went down for a nap after wearing himself out. Breakfast was Blueberry Yogurt, and Lunch was Hearty Vegetable Stew. I was a little worried that his stuffy sounding nose might mean he had an alergy... but no. Apparently it just meant he'd stored something up his nose... which he was more than happy to share with me after giggling hysterically at the web game 'Sushi Cat'. ...Yeah trust me. It was gross. Not the Sushi Cat, the huge bworp of stuff that came out his nose, though he sounded considerably less congested thereafter. So nice of him to share. 8p He's fine though. Miraculously so's my shirt. His shirt on the other hand I could probably wring out from all the drool, a couple small rounds of spit up, and gworp. And he still hasn't cut that dang tooth. Poor kid.

No Rest for the Wicked

I'm kinda wiped out today so please bear with me. Mini Monster has had two restless nights in a row and it's costing me sleep, sanity, and everything else. We suspect it's his teeth again, poor guy.

He's demonstrating a lot more interest in sampling other foods, though apparently not Glazed-Ham with Pineapple ((The baby food version.)) That apparently ranks on his list of things to never voluntarily put in his mouth again. ((But the faces were epic.)) Baby breakfast cereals are one of his favorites at the moment, though he likes oatmeal over rice cereal. That could be bias though because he was informed that "Daddy eats oatmeal too".

Tilmani and I have been waking up stiff anyway though, and we're kinda waffling around trying to figure out why. My best guess is that the fouton, which is rather old, may just be getting to the point where it's just too darn old. That or we are. ;)
So I'm trying to decide if I feel like putting in a vote for a new bed altogether.

Every so often I get the funny feeling that I've become briefly persona-non-grata in some of the online circles I run in, and I -never- quite figure out why. Eventually everything seems to return to normal, but I always feel as though I've missed something of X-files level conspiracy and rumor, at least in the minds of the people perpetuating it.

It's actually kinda annoying, feeling like I've been shut out for days, and damn, I run out of books fast, but there's not much I guess that I can do about it.

Gym Club for Baby

Just watching him is exhausting, but often amusing.


He loves this thing. <3 Although trying to thread his legs into it can be something like trying to thread wed spaghetti.

Bugsulating

So we gave in and bought an AC unit last night. Tilmani was ok, but it was just SO HOT. Mini Monster and I were totally miserable, so Til ran out and got us an AC unit and installed it last night. That was... an adventure. We turned out to have a different kitchen plug at the window than we thought we did, he had to cut a block of wood to brace it because the window frame wasn't designed for an unit. ((it's an old frame.)) And then we had to cram some insulating material around it anyway because the fold out parts that are supposed to keep stuff from flying in... well. Don't.

But hey, you know what? It's cool man. ((bricked for pun))

Summer Daze

So I changed the name of my blog. I rarely get knitting stuff up there these days so it seemed appropriate to change it up a little. I went with Eldritch at Home because I'm still a big Lovecraft Fan, but, yeah, knitting hasn't had a lot to do with my posts these days.

Just got done reading the latest "Harry Dresden" book. Man, I can see why people are going AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA over the ending. What a goddamn cliffhanger. (Jim Butcher, you bastard! )

I also read the new Koontz 'Frankenstein' novel. I took a while to read that even after picking it up because I enjoyed the first three so much I was dreading that he'd somehow turn them bad. I mean I enjoyed the first "Odd Thomas" too, but then it started feeling rote, more like a Danielle Steele, rehashed plot, new names sort of thing. See Odd. See Odd suffer. Suffer, Odd, suffer." Although I'd still rather read Odd Thomas than re-read "Your Heart Belongs to Me". Ever. That was so disapointing I'd expect it from King, not Koontz. :p I mean was that really the same author who produced "The Face" and "Under the Light of the Moon"? ((Koontz I mean.))

The new Frankenstein book wasn't too bad though. I think retrospectively it lacked some of the punch of the original, but Victor Immaculate is definitely one f-ed up guy. Which really kinda fits with everything else Victor the First created. I mean none of his other creations went quite the way he planned, why would Victor Immaculate?
So Yeah. Not bad.

Movie Wise: Mixed Mess.
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Theif: ..... could have been fun. Could have been a LOT of fun. But really, the matrix downloading of the ability to fight with the sword after touching water? lame. Not knowing what a MINOTAUR was? Lame. NOT being tracked by the cops on any visual level even though he was supposedly being man hunted, since clearly an entire investigation would hinge on ONE guy of blatantly questionable character? LAME. What he knew and didn't know about Greek Mythology 101 even. I mean CHRIVIST. Pick up a copy of D'Aulaires Greek Myths! Read it on the road! Do something to explain how you go from knowing nothing to knowing superamazingallimportantstuff when it makes you look cooler.
Overall: Not really worth seeing, but there were worse films made.

Book of Eli: Better than I was expecting, lots of kinda annoying work with the camera lenzes and lighting, but not bad. Coulda done with more indication of how an apparently blind guy was doing certain things. ((The voice of god informs you that your Ipods battery is low? IDK....)) But yeah not too bad. Better than Percy Jackson.

For the win though I'd have to put my money on "Give Em Hell Malone." It was kinda like Kill Bill, but, well. FUN. Lots of Dark Humor, some running jokes, and characters that when you stop and think about it, are actually pretty interesting. Not one to watch with the Mini Monster though. Fortunately he was sleeping anyway.

Fourth of July was fun, we got with my folks for a couple days around then and did some major work in the basement. Tilmani took a video of what it looked like 'before', which is cool, because otherwise you'd never believe that it ever looked the way it did. We have an entire dumpster filled with trash that came out of that basement. A Dangerous old wood burning stove, old shelving in horrible condition, cinder blocks by the ton...

Mini had a slightly more traditional fourth, and went out to a Parade with his Nana and Auntie Kris. I think they probably did more than that because Nana didn't surrender her 'hostage' until almost eight that night,
Tilmani and I chilled out during that time, but we both kinda missed him and worried a bit, since it's been getting amazingly hot. It'll probably be even hotter today, and yesterday was so hot and miserable we went out just to go take advantage of store ACs. We had a light dinner at Panera, and Mini stole my straw and played with it. He's a smart kid, he figured out that what we did with straws had SOMETHING to do with putting one end in his mouth, but otherwise he seemed like he was pretty sure he was missing some important element to what made them so interesting to us. It was cute.
That and he turned all kinds of random people to mush. <3