Word of the Day: Pandemonium Let's see, what's new? I hate work, but that's not new. JD got a new to him car. It's a 1996 Corsica, it's white, it's really ugly, but it thankfully has air conditioning and runs beautifully [so says he] and will only cost us about $400. So it's grand with me. We can't have nice things till we have more money, and that won't be for a while. We got inspected last week at the hotel. Apart from the building falling apart and leaking, the phone freaking out and missing wake-up calls [one pf which was the inspector's], and the restaurant/kitchen not having any food, I think we did rather well. The inspector said the people were really friendly, so what more could we ask for? Patrick is now getting into the habit of screaming for between five and twenty minutes before he goes to sleep. He doesn't sleep for hours and hours at a time during the day anymore, he takes about two or three thirty minute or hour long naps and then doesn't want to go to bed, I'm thinking because he's not sleeping enough during the day. On the flipside, however, he's starting to laugh, actually laugh, not just those cute little gurgles or giggles that happen spontaneously, but really real laughter when we're playing with him, complete with smiles and snorts. I'm so so sad we don't have a video camera so that we can keep his first laughs always, but alas, JD's camera was demolished when it snowed. I promised myself that if I don't get my annual raise at the beginning of July, I'm looking in earnest for another job. It's nice to know you're the best at your position, but it seems that I can't do anything else at the hotel because there's no one else to do my job or do as well as I can. I know I'll be so good in the back office keeping people and things organized, but I can't get a chance until someone gets trained and is awesome. BAH. Also, I am fat lard.