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In a Handbasket...
August really is a pit, isn't it?
Everyone is away and the few people who aren't away are zombified. Include me in the latter category. Sleep has gone straight to Hell around here for no good reason, as far as I can tell. It isn't just the baby's fault. I can blame the dog and my own weird wee hour obsessing.
Happily I don't have a ton of lead-painted toys to fret about but there are still all sorts of things brewing, not the least of which being: why I haven't accomplished more this summer; why Felix has decided to start "sleeping in" just in time to have to go to school (well in a few weeks); and speaking of school, will Felix like it and are Felix and my sartorial choices going to make us laughingstocks (is my middle school trauma showing too much)?
And I suspect I'm not the only one now gazing at my navel with furrowed brow. A fellow stopped me on the subway today (Sebastian and I were trying to get broken things repaired) and made the mistake of asking about strollers, which triggered some extremely unhelpful consumerist blabbermouth tendencies I never really knew I had. After babbling nonsensically about various stroller issues (does it lie back, do you walk around a lot, do you need to hook a car seat into it, do you need it to fold up, will you let it double as a bassinet, are you short?) I think the poor guy was even more freaked out than when he found out that he and his wife were expecting. And then he started asking me about brands I have never heard of at which point I said what was probably the thing he wanted least to hear: "I think you should just try some out. Just go to Buy Buy Baby and drive those things around. Don't worry. Going there for the first time made me cry but it isn't that bad."
And then I reached my stop and bounced out of the subway, having managed to provide no useful information while inspiring fear.
I suppose I should just try to relax and accept these limp pre-Labor Day days because between work (lots, looming) and Felix in school September is going to hit hard and there's really only so much good lots of coffee and candy can do.
posted by Elise at 1:24 PM
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Actually, I think your final comment to him is good advice! It probably helped to hear that he wasn't the only new parent freaked out about what stroller to buy. I'm sure he asked you because you looked like you'd picked a good one and since you picked a good one by trying them out, that was good advice for him.
8/22/2007 4:28 PM
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