LYNNABEL's CalorieKing Blog
Monday, August 11th 2008
Ellen has had 4 good nights in a row. This is what good means to us for her: Evening nap from 8-9pm, up for 2 hours, down for the night at 11 or 11:30pm followed by 5-6.5 hours of no-wake sleep. A fast bottle when she does wake up between 4 and 5:30am and back down until 7:15 to 7:45.I did Ellen-duty last night, partly because Steve had had it up to his ears with something (he couldnt articulate) and needed to go to bed, but also because I wanted to since I feel so much closer to her in ...
Thursday, August 7th 2008
I checked out Anna Karenina on CD from the library, and am listening to it during my commute. Im an English Major with a big whole where the classics should be. While not necessarily a true literary classic, I listened to the full Middle Earth trilogy on CD which I would probably never have gotten through on paper. So, well see how Anna Karenina goes. So far, its well written and interesting. (Ive listened to fluff on CD, too, like Dan Browns Deception Point and The First Wives Club i...Tuesday, August 5th 2008
I had a thought just now.Many of the most confident women I know (the ones, uh, most unlike me) are tall women.
Do you think that a taller woman learns earlier on in life to be confident? If so, why? Does she just come to terms with herself earlier or does the world treat her slightly differently because of the inherent authority in height?
I'm 5 feet and 2.5 inches. On a low-gravity day, first thing in the morning.
I do know lots of shorter confident women, though, so maybe...
Thursday, July 31st 2008
I have been experiencing severe fatigue/sleepiness regularly over the past few weeks. I had attributed it to the weekends of solo child duty and poor sleeping during the week, but its not abating even though Ive had 4 nights now of 7 hours of relatively uninterrupted sleep. Im literally falling asleep in the middle of my work. Granted, this is a very low key work environment (few meetings, very isolated and private cube) but still it seems excessive.I realized that I was getting used...