Thursday, September 06, 2007
Day Off My Eye
This week Z’s daycare is taking a few days of vacation, so I stayed home with the little muffin yesterday to do some bonding. It was a highly positive experience. I usually get just half of one day a week one-on-one with Zach, and just as we’re settling into our funyun-eatin’-and-Maury-watchin’ groove, Kel gets back home and I have to leave for half a day’s labor at Mr. Lashstripe’s Trireme. So basically, a whole day to play and cavort with my two-year-old was a precious gift.
How did I spend that gift? Here’s a basic – not exhaustive – rundown of my yesterday:
* To the gym at 5:45 for an hour on the bikes and machines
(Kel got the boy out of bed and out of a heinous diaper – thanks sweetness)
* Pay bills; update Quicken
* Fill tires on kiddie pushbike (including removing tires and hubcaps) (since that raised it nearly an inch off the ground, Z no longer fits on it – we’ll have to wait longer before he can ride)
* Find/cross-check adoption agency paperwork that we need to complete in conformity with prior submissions
* Order High Holiday tickets (yay rosh hashona!)
* Get my doctor’s office to refer me to a dermatologist for a lingering patenoogie
* Watch funny pet and soccer videos with Zach on YouTube
* Take the boy out for an hour at the playground
* On the way to the playground – visit two banks to buy him some US savings bonds with funds received for that purpose a long time ago; also visit Irish bakery to get two scones, a sausage roll, and six shortbread cookies, with a small/strong coffee of the highest quality
* On the way home from playground – extensive shopping at produce market
* Once home, put away produce and chop up a papaya that got crunched in transit
* Get Z to eat a significant portion of a healthy lunch
* Repair egg-dart jigsaw bracket insert for Z’s little mid-century table (ingeniously using an adjustable crescent wrench as a wood-vise to hold pieces of laminate in place as I re-glued them, and then re-using 60-year-old holes to reinsert brads. YES that is what I said.)
* Tickle-wrestle Zach, who copiously drools on me with delight and glee
* Three mile run with Z in the jogstroller through GG park
* Two loads into and out of dishwasher
* Two sinkdrainers of handwashing
* Two point five loads of laundry (towels are still unfolded in the dryer)
* Read Z to sleep (with great progress to report on sleep disruption issues)
** BONUS: got to spend some time with the wife.
Today, the sun rose through orange haze – fires burn to the south, and the inlaws are expected this evening for a four-day-or-so visit. I cannot say that my work here is done, but I can at least admit that I’ve done about as much of it as I can expect myself to accomplish under the circumstances. Hey, labor day is over, wankers – get back to work!
