It’s been quite an interesting 6 weeks or so.  You, of course, have been left in the dark as to my whereabouts and my crazy deeds.  And Katie’s.  Let’s start with her.

 

I am not sure what we had talked about last time, but I am pretty sure that Katie wasn’t crawling around. I probably was saying something like “she’s up on her knees, rocking back and forth, and will be touring around the room any time now.”  Well, waddya know?   It turns out that she is racing around the room, has a great deal of knee redness, and is even know trying to pull herself up onto her feet.  She hasn’t gotten the feet thing yet, but surely has the knee thing yet.  Actually, she has been waking up at like 545 in the morning and pulling up to her knees looking through the bars like a prisoner.  I am not 100% sure that she knows how to get down, although twice today I looked at her and she was up, and then next thing I know she is crawling around again.  I can’t imagine that these are graceful transitions.

 

She has stopped coughing as much, I suppose thanks to the allergy medicine (don’t think it did anything) and the nebulizer.  That, sirs, is a great experience.  Pressing a mask (designed to look like a fish head) against your unknowing and unsuspecting infant, so that she can breathe in a substance I am not 100% the origin of.  The all knowing doctors have tried enough things that eventually something worked. Although we don’t know what s we are told to just keep doing all of them.  

 

She got her flu shot today, and it appears that it has made her sick.  She is running a fever and is what I would call “restless” in bed.  This also means  screaming for 2 minutes every half hour.  Kim, strangely, is off at a homecoming event that went from like 10 people coming to 4 that really made it.  That’s not what I would call a stellar attendance percentage.

 

So now to the ‘important’ stuff.  I am changing jobs.  This won’t sound at all exciting to any of you that have no idea about the real estate and/or legal industry, but I have taken a job as underwriting counsel with Chicago Title Insurance Company.  I think that this is more in line with things that I want to do, and while I am nervous about it, I am more excited than anything.  I start December 4, and finish up at HGW on Dec 1.  I do still get to go to the Xmas party, which is great. I am going to miss pretty much everyone, and I think that the experience I have gained is really invaluable.  While it may not have been the most fun and fulfilling time (the litigation aspect, at least), there is no substitute for what I had to deal with.  That will be with me and help me for the rest of my time.  And while I have had a mixed bag of experiences there, I have no regrets.  

 

Anyway, things are going along well.  Katie is a happy baby, but is starting to have stranger anxiety.  Today she played with Sherre for like 20 minutes though. I think that might have been an irresponsible use of my position, although I would like to think that Sherre helped me out because she is my friend.  

 

 

Kit out.