I'm making an effort. Lots of efforts. One of those efforts is to blog. BLOG MORE. Actually blog. I had an email from someone asking me to give up the name oceanaria so it could "live on" or something. Live on from two words I mashed together in my impressionable teens. I'm 30 this year. 30 in the face of 2016 and here I am. Let's not talk about how old I've become...



I'm ready to pick up blogging again, as a hobby. As something that gives me relief and joy because I need some relief and joy every now and then. I have to be very careful with my twenty-four hours a day now that I'm back at work. I thought all of these silly thoughts about how much I would "get done" when I was on maternity leave. The only thing that was ever accomplished was polishing off my Netflix watch-list.



Our kid is growing. He looks like a baby that ate another baby. He's big and pudgy and tall and oh so adorable. Every time I look at him and he smiles that sweet, toothless smile I see Brian. And when I look at him and he's screaming and pulling his ear I see me. The best of the both of us, dad's heart and mum's rage. Keeps us on our toes, what with the projectile poop attacks and constant wriggling. He's started sitting up on his own and my heart stops just thinking about what he'll be doing tomorrow.



My biggest (blogging) problem right now is I don't have my laptop anymore. It died two years ago. I've been one of those who lives on their phone. I get lost in the abyss of instagram
all the damn time. I'm teetering Brian's laptop on my legs right now. This machine is living on borrowed time too. 

I'm back at work now, just part-time as before. I'm making it work for us, though it's hard when you have a scatterbrain. Time is everything to me now, I have so little of it to give to anything that doesn't involve breast-pumps, driving, throwing dishes and clothes around and cat-napping. I've got to tap in to that little spark in my head that keeps me going.

Speaking of borrowed time, the 3 minutes a day I have to myself is almost up. Thanks for reading!