Friday, July 11, 2008

The Most Horrbile Household Catastrophe... Times One-Thousand


Horrible photo describing my disgust

So, after cleaning the kitchen and living room this morning of maggots, I thoroughly want to bathe in a tub full of bleach. Lesson learned: Use smaller kitchen bags and take the fucking trash out more often. This really felt like a nightmare come true.

With two hungry kids and not even having had a cup of coffee by closer to 9 AM, we had breakfast at IHOP and spent the morning at grandma's house.

Friday, July 4, 2008

Look! Look! Look!

This is humorous but can get kind of annoying at times too... Practically every other word that
comes out of Rauno's mouth is "MIRE!" or "KATSO!" (I don't know why he uses the Usted form in this case.) Let's see how many years this goes on...

Ruusa is doing cute things, like nursing her baby dolls. She's formed a few two-word utterances too, like "tissi maito," but is still mainly still babbling and mainly using about a couple dozen words. Here's a short list off the top of my hear: taas, mas, kaka, kakka, piss, mama, papa, papi, aiti, pippi (for Peppi Longstocking), si, no, hi, mia or miu (for miuku), hau, hauku (for haukku), koi (for lentokone or koira), sessa (for princesa), auto, nena, pos-i (for poski), caii (for caido or kaatu), anni (for anna), makku (for mekko), ama (for omena), nami, kasi (kaii for kadet), nakki (for nukke or nakki).

Yesterday, someone told me that she replied "tank you" to "you're welcome." And she likes to command dolls to "sit" and commands the dolls and the neighbors kittens: "no! + babbling."

This is great that I'm recording some of this stuff here, as her baby book is quite neglected compared to Rauno's.

Fireworks last night on campus were nice.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

The Mooncup

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

New Job Update

So the new job is going fine. I accept that I will not please all the students and so far everyone has been nice. And I think I've taught them a few things already.

I am getting a raise at my initial office rat job. Get this, it's a 50 cents an hour raise. I've been there 11 months. I'd jump for joy, but I just can't. Maybe one day I'll earn a salary.

Monday, June 9, 2008

New Job Title: Office Assistant AND English Instructor

Well, I just got offered a part-time position as an English Instructor at Kaplan, the testing center. I will teach a TOEFL class and a general English language conversation class. This is very exciting and all, but I am wondering how I will be able to depend on people so much more now with child care. THE BOTTOMLESS GUILT PIT OF MOTHERHOOD!

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Tuesday, June 3, 2008