Up at the crack of dawn September 25, 2009

I’ve been dead tired lately and realized it’s because our little peanut starts waking up around 4:30-5 am.  We [read I] put her back to sleep as much as needed until at least 6:30.  Even so, it’s a tough go when the little one just doesn’t want to sleep!

Add to this a no nap situation and, folks, this is a recipe for disaster.  There’s been some madness going around our place lately, with early days, no/limited naps, and later bedtimes.  I hope it’s just teething and a cold because much more of this will drive me to the drink!

I have had some success in bringing her to our bed to try and get some sleep.  The end result has been her going back to sleep and nursing and me NOT getting much more sleep.  It’s tough, cause I’m not sure what’s keeping me up but I feel like I’m burning the candle at both ends.

Somebody did tell me last week that this could also be a developmental thing as she’s learning to talk a bit.  I also remember from a parenting class I took that the 18 month mark is one of those tumultuous times.  While she isn’t there yet (16 months), we are fast approaching that timeframe.  I was hoping that by some minor miracle we’d skip right by that.  Methinks that won’t happen.

I just keep repeating “this too shall pass” over and over and it makes things a bit easier.  Either that or I’m slowly going crazy by repeating things to myself….

Storage…. September 16, 2009

I just finished this really interesting article on the New York Times website: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06self-storage-t.html .  It really was interesting to learn about the storage industry. I’ve heard a bit about it in the past 20 years as there has been a real proliferation of storage units in Calgary.

I’ve even used storage for my stuff when I moved in with my husband!  We had two places, both full of our  stuff.  We moved into his townhouse, where the massive amount of duplicates just couldn’t compete.  We knew we wouldn’t be living in the townhouse forever, but couldn’t bear to part with furniture and my things (which ended up in storage).  It was the first time I had ever used storage, and quite possibly will be the last.  It was totally useful when we used it, as we simply had no way to store everything in the townhouse and sorting through everything we wanted and didn’t want would have taken a while.

I find it intriguing how storage across North America keeps growing and growing, though.  It sounds like most things in storage are not really worth the cost of storing!  It would be fascinating to see how much stuff there actually is in storage.  I’m sure there’s tons of gems of items, useful everyday items that less fortunate people could use and things that just deserve to see the light of day.

Now that I’m doing my own self-editing at home, getting rid of a lot of things I don’t use, need repair or just plain don’t want, things seem ‘lighter’ at home.  And no, it’s not because things literally are getting lighter for the floors at my house.  🙂  It seems good to have less stuff to worry about.

I’m now just about to go scan a bunch of things to decrease the vast amount of papers we have!  Then I can recycle them, and have less ‘stuff’ in my house to clean and worry about.

This is the weirdest marketing campaign ever

This, by far, is the oddest tourism campaign I’ve EVER seen.  It borders on strange, even just for a normal person to tape and then post, but this was a well thought out bit of marketing?  things that just make you go ‘huh’