another list

I'm well aware that I have not blogged.  I've been busy but that's not why.  I just haven't had a desire to write anything.  I'm not concerned about whether or not anyone is reading.  I'm not worried about saying too much or not enough or anything like that.  I just have no interest in saying anything.

But here I am.

Today, I guess I feel chatty. . . 

I was trying to blog about my freewill horoscopes but a few were a little too personal to discuss.  What he wrote may not have been but the cord it hit was.  I do feel like anything I write here I should be willing to scream into a room of strangers.  Other weeks the horoscopes were just stupid (or stupider depending on your point of view).  

Of course I try to blog about J regularly to keep people updated.  However, I'm not sure anyone is out there reading and I talk to enough folks that I think the people who want to know what's going on with him do know.

So here are a few updates . . . . 

Baby J is sick.  [Oh and he's only "baby J" on here because "J" sounds like my dog.]  He has his first cold.  Snot is everywhere.  Both my nasal aspirators are broken (dog ate one & the other split in half around the center of the bulb) so CVS here we come!  I'm happy that he did not get sick until now, but I had been hoping to get him to his first birthday which would coincide nicely with the start of spring and the beginning of the end of sick season.  But no, the combination of meeting other babies, daycare at the gym, and using up all his frozen anti-body laden breastmilk created the perfect storm.  Poor little guy - he's in good company though.  Seems like everyone is sick around here, including his dad.  So far I'm staying healthy.

My t-shirts are causing me stress.  I'm currently getting feedback from people on my first drafts.  I may have to branch out and get even more feedback though.  Today's feedback from non-STJ visitors contradicts the initial feedback from my group of STJ junkies.  Hmmmm.  The issue I'm fretting over is which designs to keep and which to dump . . . and how many if any new designs I should add.  Do I do a cohesive line or the original hodgepodge I'd created?  Ugh.  Too much to consider.  I'm new to all of this so finding a printer was causing enough stress before adding the need to focus (or re-focus I guess).  So if you want to be part of my focus test let me know.

My other job is going better.  It's pretty straight-forward.  I'm happy to have it and I like it.  Not much more to say about that.

We had a real estate agent come by last week.  He'd been here about 4 years ago when we'd considered selling.  So now we're back to that and he's back.  He did a walk through to see our upgrades.  He plans to go over some local sales data and get back to us on a listing price.  

Average days on the market here is over 4 months!  Ugh.  

I'm really nervous.  Mainly because we don't know where we want to live or where we can live.  The plan is that if the house sells fast we'll just rent until we figure things out.  Ugh.  We have 3 cats and 2 dogs and I don't want to live in some dump because of that.  Finding a rental is really making me skittish.  

I'm trying to remain positive but it's hard.  That's not my go-to emotion.  Anyway, we plan to list in late spring.  We'll see what happens.  

More about J . . . he's quickly approaching the big ONE.  We work daily on walking and words.  And I'm working on figuring out what to feed him.  He's sort of in-between right now.  He can't chew a lot but he's not so interested in pureed mush.  He's also really taking to feeding himself.  So now I need a whole new batch of ideas on what to feed him for a few weeks until he's ready to just eat what we're eating.  If you have ideas by all means share!