It has started getting pretty rainy around here. I probably will get something to help keep LK dry when I pick him up from daycare. I don’t mind getting wet in cold weather, but it probably isn’t too good for him. I have been just keeping him in the Ergo, sticking a sweater on him, and using our one little fold-up umbrella to keep him dry. I may get a rain cover for our jogging stroller or perhaps a bicycle carrier (since we have wanted to get one once LK could hold his head up).
Or maybe not since the stock market and whatnot have been melting down. It’s a little crazy how much I’ve lost in the market over the past week. I used to do a lot of trading, but that was before I met Amanda and had a kid and all that, and financial trading took a lot of time to keep up on things, so I stashed pretty much everything in mutual funds when I met Amanda.
I suppose I should be happy that only my IRAs were affected (although I fortunately already had one account out of equities a couple months ago); I took our “working savings” out of the market last year. Still, the majority of our net worth was tied up in my IRAs (Amanda has only just started retirement savings), so we have really significantly less $$$ than two weeks ago. Fuck.
I probably will start doing more active money management and trading again. I can at least try to recoup some losses in this volatile market.
It’s good that Amanda has a recession proof job. Hopefully it is also depression proof. I still have consulting money coming in, so that is good.
So, yes, other than the historical economic meltdown, things are as usual. Amanda works downtown, I work at home, LK goes to school. It is definitely getting colder and rainy here. Not cold in the northeast winter sense, though. LK is lucky because we have the heat on in his room at night while the rest of the family gets nothing (cause it isn’t really cold). Anything to keep him from getting more sick than infants get and keep him sleeping through the night. Although piglet has stopped sleeping with us and now sleeps in LK’s room to take advantage of the heat. She is no dummy.
I let Armando sleep in the office now instead of the garage. I don’t think I will let him in the rest of the house, though.