TDC

I'm an inspiration to my husband! I'm his muse!

Well, probably all wives (husbands, partners, etc.) are inspirations to their husbands (wives, partners, etc.), so I need to clarify. The resurrection of my blog inspired my husband to revive his own. For a long time he blogged about what he considers to be interesting dinner party conversation topics (thus his blog's name, The Tuesday Dinner Club, or TDC), such as food, books, arts, but he stopped writing in 2010 and didn't blog for a year. His most recent post is a very short summary of the past twelve months, and I'm going to copy & paste his entry to bring you up to speed (a lot of this you already know, and I apologize for the redundance). Here we go, I'm plagiarizing quoting DH:


What happened between last November and this one? I had hoped to build blogging momentum through NaBloPoMo, but I quickly fell off the wagon. We were yet again struggling (mentally and physically) with job applications on top of our regular teaching and research duties, and this time around we were also preparing for the imminent arrival of The Bean. TB made his grand entrance at the end of January 2011 and promptly began keeping us exhaustingly and exhilaratingly busy tending to his every need. M. naturally took point in terms of Beancare, while my normal work duties continued unabated, along with the job search, which thankfully turned out much more more positively this time: I landed a nice job in Salt Lake City.

The new opportunity meant an immediate amplification of stress and disruption, of course. House hunting, renting, packing, loading, trucking, flying, unloading, unpacking, shopping, repairing, cleaning, cleaning, cleaning, and so forth. And a conference in the US, half the summer in Germany, a conference in Sweden, new employee orientation .... and suddenly a teaching job for M., so last minute that there was no time to find daycare for TB. Up to this point, we have been juggling two full-time jobs, one full-time Bean, and an incomplete house. What spare time we've had has been largely devoted to sleeping.

But we've made steady progress and things are finally seeming to settle down. It seems reasonable to start writing in this space again. With some effort and discipline, regular TDC blogging may even prove sustainable.

I'm still thinking about what to write about in the rebooted TDC. The old categories, of course: writings read; art and music appreciated; movies, plays, television watched; items eaten, imbibed, and cooked. (...)

(See, my blog takes off where his ends: books, art, movies, food... it's all good and well, but what about "things knitted"? Well, for that you have yours truly. [Add to the list: "things sewn." Did I whet your appetite? Good.])

At some point this month I will go into the "suddenly a teaching job for M." and "a conference in Sweden" bits. Not now though. Now I need to go to bed and cry myself to sleep: the darling "TB" is starting daycare tomorrow morning. I'm a mess because of it; I hope he will fare better tomorrow than his momma.