Post Industrial Brambles

Some days I feel really exhausted. Thursdays are the worst. I think the baby goes through little growth spurts and it drains me completely. I feel a little bit better after my yoga class, but I’m still pretty useless.

We don’t have name for him yet. This week we’re going with Trevor. I like it, but it seems very serious. He is moving around a lot, making little bumps and it feels like he is gaining in size and weight. Apparently at this age, babies sleep for 20 to 30 minutes at the time. That feels about right because it seems like he is awake quite often.

I am having trouble sleeping through the night. I usually wake up around 3 or 4 in the morning. Stay awake for about half an hour and go back to sleep. I wonder if it’s my body getting me used to taking care of the baby at night.

Yawn. Though David Bowie as Nikola Tesla was quite funny. Particularly in light of Nikola Tesla never having done experiments that he did not know ahead of time what the results will be. Also, at the point in his life when he is introduced in the film, he had become, not necessarily crazy, but much more unfit for human company than David Bowie portrays him.

Chris was really bored with this film. Fortunately the baby was awake so he kept himself entertained by feeling him move. I can’t say that I was not entertained, but I’ve seen better films.

We are getting more and more excited about the baby which is silly because we still have 3 months to go. We have been thinking about the things we need to get done around the house in preparation for the baby, but we have not made any definitive plans. It feels like it is going to be a while…

We went to see a couple of theatre plays lately. I liked the one at the smallest theatre the most. Seeing actors’ faces up close makes for so much more personal experience.

I have been feeling very drained lately. The baby feels like he is doing well, he is kicking about a lot. If he continues like this, we will have to put a tracking device on him once he learns to crawl, otherwise we will never catch him.

Shrug. There is something to be said about quality control – “Borat” is just as funny and enjoyable as “Ali G Indahouse”.

There is a scary part of the movie of course. About two-thirds the way through the film, Cohen stops instigating and the content does not change in its obscenity.

“What Iva recorded” played this week at the CFI. I rarely go to CFI mostly because the films they choose are depressing for the sake of being depressing. “What Iva recorded” is quite depressing by the new Croatian cinema standards, but it is also fun. It was worthwhile to go and see.

“The Queen” is a good film though I encountered my usual reserve about film documentaries. It took a bit of effort to watch it as a film and not as a representation of true events. There was a funny line when Queen excused herself off the phone by saying that she has to go take care of the children now.

Newborn babies are boring. They don’t even smile up until about 3 months. Babies under construction are even more so. They only kick every little bit. And yet, the parents manage to make a big deal out of every kick.

I was by myself this week because Chris had a conference to go to. Last night I was lying down feeling the baby kick and I did not feel alone at all. We make such big deal out of it. When we were at the doctor’s office a few days ago the baby kicked the Doppler device and we thought it was the cutest thing ever.