Things are looking up. The wedding was great, Ingrid did FINE, and lord above, she even took a bottle from SIL, and took one last night from Dave without hesitation, so thankfuckinggod on that one. (To counter the lipase issue, I just ahve to nuke the pumped milk for 30 seconds before storing. easy peasy.) I also got some great photos and have been tweaking them and really liking photography this weekend, which is easy when you have access to the D70. Good god, I love. that. camera. I fantasize that my folks will give me one as a master’s degree/christmas present, which honestly? Is my main motivation for school right now. Yeah. Not "completion of a goal set 6 years ago" or anything, but "ooh, D70! D70!" I’m keeping up with my regular class, but my practicum is suffering badly. I kind of don’t feel *too* bad about it, because there are people in my practicum group that have been attempting to get it done for like, 4 semesters now, and they don’t even have KIDS, let alone an infant, a job, and no daycare. I’ll be on that fucking stage in May, no doubt. And once school pix season slows down, my mom is coming to spell me, so that I can do a full bore work-on-shit in daylight hours, no less, session.
Dave and I did get some weird sinus-y thing this weekend, prompting Dave to miss a few hours of work, even, and rescheduling a shoot — something he’s only done once before in the 6 years I’ve known him, and we fared okay, but I lost a school work night in the mix, after giving up a work shift to work on school stuff, even.
The upside is that on the way to the wedding reception, I saw a sign going up at a building right around the corner, and on the way home, I just about pissed myself to see that the sign was advertising a new childcare center, scheduled toopen in January 2007. It even had — gasp! — a WEBSITE. I plugged that URL in as soon as we hit the front door, was totally excited to see that it was basically my dream situation (and literally less than a MILE from our house — the only center on the west side, which, even in a small city like this, it MAKES a difference. Seriously. Having it be on the way to work is so much better than driving all the way across town and back before work, and this would be on the way to Dave’s work, which is much more established than my situation now, so extra good.) They also are having a priority list for certain employers, and while mine wasn’t expressly indicated, it was in the drop-down list of employers when I filled out the form. I’m also going to pass on the info to Dave’s HR person, because seriously, a west side childcare (that appears to rock) would be a great perk for the company.
And, I’m kicking ass at work, which really isn’t that hard for me, so I feel kind of silly being like "OMG, I am the BEST at eating candy" or something. I’ve been monitored 3 times now, and every time the QA people are all "Um, well, you did awesome. The end." WHich just makes it that much more possible that I can stay on after the seasonal run, and work my way into oh, I don’t know, maybe a training position? Using my degree in a non-public school environment? Keeping a great discount, working close to home, and DID I MENTION CLOSE TO DAYCARE?
Or, I could stay on nights and do the handoff like we do now, but really, the older Ingrid gets, the more okay I am with childcare for her. As long as it’s quality, and throws around words like "montessori" and "emilio reggia" and "attachment" I’m down with it. Also, INCREDIBLY GEEKY SIDENOTE: The company that this childcare is affiliated with? Is the one that GOOGLE uses. If it’s good enough for Google, it’s good enough for me.
More pics coming soon, but Amity is jonesing, so here’s some baby crack:
Ha! i kill me.