SInce so many of my favorite bloggers are doing Holidailies, I thought I would too, only without the pesky sign-up and stuff. Basically, I’m taking on the challenge of posting every day until January 1? I forget. The rest of this month, anyway.

Stuff!

So, Dave rocks. His company also rocks.  There is a plan in motion to set him up with a Powerbook next year, so that he can be more portable for work. For the company, this means that he doesn’t have to book time in the edit booths, which is a pain, but for him, this means that there will be times that he can work at home. His boss even said, out loud, to him, "with the baby coming, you can do some work from home now."

Now, it doesn’t mean he gets to be super work-at-home-dad. What it DOES mean is that there is a new layer of flexibility in our lives. For instance, it makes the feasibility of going with a sitter instead of a daycare better, because if the sitter is sick, we could split the at-home days.  We probably could anyway, but it won’t mean lost wages and lost work and all of that.  It also means that in the first few weeks, when we’renot sure of what I/we will need, it’s just — more options. Options are good.

We also netflixed the Nova episode "The Miracle of Life."  The first 45 minutes are all about reproductive organs, sperm development, blah blah blah, but the last 15 or so are about fetal development, which was way cool. The longest segment of in-utero moving video was from 18weeks, which is what I am on Friday, so it was really neat to be like "WHOA! That’s IN ME, right NOW!?"  Very cool.

Today, I am sneezing like a bandit, even post allergy pill, and I have a backache and whine whine whine. I’m going to school in the afternoon, because I have class tonight, so I might try to just take a nap or something, to try to wake up normal.