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post #201 of 504
10/30/08 at 11:31am
yah, well, now it's 1.30am, and i can't sleep. and now i can't even blame it on the rats - I think they all started dying coz I haven't been hearing scuttling tonight.
ugh.
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post #202 of 504
10/30/08 at 1:59pm
Oooh is a dead rat better than a live rat? Not sure on that one to be honest; it gives me the shivers thinking about it!

East Carolina - we are long time pressure cooker users so the slow cooker is a major departure from our normal habits. It will still be in use at least as much as usual I'm sure but tomorrow will be a crock pot dinner.... maybe.
post #203 of 504
10/30/08 at 4:44pm
ugh. DS just fell asleep and its only 8:30. This usually means it's going to be a rough night. I've written before about him sleeping best from 11-9 or 12-10 or even going to bed later will guarantee a long solid sleep. But he is also a child with whom you cannot possibly enforce bedtimes or induce sleep. He just falls asleep when he's ready. he sleeps just like an adult would, except he still nurses to sleep and when he's waking up

Orangefoot, thanks for bringing up the crockpot from a nocturnal, late riser perspective. But DH has been working more and cooking is all up to me, so throwing the evening meal into the crockpot in the morning and then forgetting about it till it's time to eat is really enticing. Plus we eat alot of stews, soups and bean dishes, so all of those are well suited to crock pot cooking.

Majikfaerie, hopefully rats won't bother you anymore and hope you get a good sleep. How about some chamomile tee?
post #204 of 504
10/31/08 at 8:24am
Nooo! I think there might be a dead rat in the wall above my bed there was a swarm of ants there this morning, and we've never had an ant problem before. gah! will this never end!
post #205 of 504
11/1/08 at 2:59pm
Oh no! Keeping fingers crossed that your rat woes will end soon!!!
post #206 of 504
11/2/08 at 5:51am
thanks
I still haven't managed to sleep though. perhaps tonight will be my night.
post #207 of 504
11/2/08 at 8:36pm
Hi : I've always been a night owl. My oldest DD is one too for sure. We are all adjusting right now because she started Kindergarten in the fall and it starts at 8:15am! That would have been a deal breaker if it wasn't such a great school. It is really hard for me to even consider going to sleep before midnight. We'll probably homeschool in the future. Maybe in the very near future. I love going grocery shopping and bike riding in the middle of the night.
post #208 of 504
11/3/08 at 10:27am
Lucyrev We love that Brimful of Asha track. It came out when my boys were little and we took it on CD when we moved to Mexico. We used to play it really loud driving in our van down the highway between Cancun and Playa del Carmen and people used to ask us what it was because they had never hear anything like it!
post #209 of 504
11/3/08 at 8:27pm
Cool! That sounds awesome.

I went to see them play about a year ago. I won free tickets! It was super fun. There wasn't a very big crowd but everybody there seemed to be enjoying themselves.
post #210 of 504
11/5/08 at 10:59pm
Majik - how's your dd tonight? I hope she is feeling better now. I saw your post on Parenting but by the time I read it you had fixed your problem!

The last time I saw delirium with fever was dh with tonsillitis and no antibiotics about 5 years ago. His hands were growing and dogs were eating them. He has no memory of any of it at all.

After posting last time we must have listened to Fatboy Slim's remix of Brimful of Asha 10 times or more on youtube. Gotta love the internet for that!
post #211 of 504
11/5/08 at 11:11pm
thanks orangefoot. dd is feeling better this morning. though she puked and was still feverish when she woke up.
post #212 of 504
11/6/08 at 10:06am
mj, fingers crossed for your dd, hope she feels better soon, that must have been scary!
post #213 of 504
11/6/08 at 10:57am
dd is much better this evening but as if that wasn't bad enough, tonight we had a pair of poisonous snakes in the kitchen!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/majikfa...n/photostream/
drama galore at the majikfaerie household!
post #214 of 504
11/6/08 at 1:23pm
post #215 of 504
11/6/08 at 7:26pm
This and jellyfish are the reason my DH is deathly afraid if going to Australia. How do you discourage snakes from being unwanted guests in your house?
post #216 of 504
11/6/08 at 10:19pm
discourage them?
ask nicely :


I don't know. I think blocking up all possible entry points (which would be close to impossible in our place). But I'm doing the darndest best I can. I'm all for living fluffy in the woods, and i don't mind snakes, but there is a line, and poisonous snakes *in* the house is waaaay over that line.
post #217 of 504
11/7/08 at 1:09am
I love having time to myself at night to contemplate the day and think.
I wish I could function on less sleep to do it more often.I especially love rainy nights.
post #218 of 504
11/7/08 at 7:39am
oh, just to make it clear; i did call in a professional snake catcher last night. no way i'm sleeping with my child in a house with a snake in it. he came in and gave me the all-clear to stay in the house.
post #219 of 504
11/8/08 at 2:47pm
I saw the picture on flickr. You are one brave mama! The only poisonous snake in this country AFAIK is the viper and they don't tend to invade people's houses. You're much more likely to have a wasps or hornet's nest outside your window.

We have a place in the country with alot of apple trees. When they bloom in the spring, you can sit under them and you will hear very intense buzzing. Every once in a while the buzzing will get louder and you'll look up and see a gigantic hornet.
post #220 of 504
11/8/08 at 10:27pm
ugh hornets and wasps freak me out way more than snakes!
I was stung by a hornet on my nipple while dd was nursing. it got horribly infected, was seriously the most painful thing in my life. and we basically weaned after that coz i couldn't feed any more thankfully we re-lactated

dp came home from israel yesterday, so what with my insomnia and his jetlag, we're realy not sleeping much.
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