http://www.the8thnerve.com Introspection, hearing loss, and everyday life. Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:41:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pets getting screwed over by babies!  This must be the trend of our generation.   Since many of us are more likely to wait longer before having kids, we start accumulating pets first and treating them like first borns.   There was a time when I would come home from work and ... http://www.the8thnerve.com/?p=1181 I hope I never take the miracle of Emmy for granted.  She is completely unique, created in my body, a brand new life on the earth and we have so much to teach each other.  Sometimes I just can't grasp how fully amazing that is.    I fear that over ... http://www.the8thnerve.com/?p=1171 The other day I caught a segment on NPR where someone shared his experiences with severe stuttering.  We didn't turn on the radio until partway through however and I didn't catch his name or the name of the segment.  He shared about his childhood experiences in school, where he went ... http://www.the8thnerve.com/?p=1165 John:  He died from a car crash. Me: A cock rash?! http://www.the8thnerve.com/?p=1163 I love driving around here while the sun is setting on autumn's peak.  The trees and the hills glow in the sun, the brilliant reds and yellows lit up from within. Several tall, pure white spires have materialized on a ridge in the mountains across the lake.  I see them on ... http://www.the8thnerve.com/?p=1161 I am, frankly, surprised at how awesome it is to have a kid.  I pushed it off until I reached 30 because of reasons like how much work is involved, responsibility, less freedom, interrupted fun, poop and boogers are gross,  and other people's kids can be so annoying so I ... http://www.the8thnerve.com/?p=1156 Ha.  Well, some days it might seem easy to put the baby in a sling and get stuff done or go places.  Other days, like today, I consider it a victory that I got dressed! I'm in bed with the baby, it is after 2 am. (Although I think this entry ... http://www.the8thnerve.com/?p=1130 The other night was a rough night.  I was up with Emmy the whole night.   She just wanted to nurse ( referred to around here as "hommer noms" a term that evolved from "om nom nom") it felt like every 20 minutes.  This would be fine if I wasn't still ... http://www.the8thnerve.com/?p=1127 After Emmy was born, we were taken to another floor to stay in the mother baby unit.  Even though I had an hour's sleep the night before and had just done what felt like the equivalent of five marathons, I was much too fascinated with Emmy to sleep.  I just ... http://www.the8thnerve.com/?p=1125 Steve and I are such computer geeks.  Not only did we bring our laptops to the hospital to hop on their wifi during labor, Steve has already set up a baby blog and Emmy has her own Facebook account.  We can't help ourselves! We named her Emeline Skye.  Emeline was my ... http://www.the8thnerve.com/?p=1114