Overwhelmed

[mizarchivist]

Work....
We are getting certain items digitized. It's part of an existing program, but this is the first time we are including loose leaf material as the majority of records, rather than bound/manuscript books. So, we are entering new territory, trying out a relatively new vendor to do the scanning. The vendor was willing to use our naming protocol, but... ugh. We just keep finding problems. Solving one, and find a few more. Total hydra. The end result is that I have to review all 500 entries to make sure it is exactly as it should be. Of course there's a fair bit of pressure to get this done fast because the powers that be have plans for it. But, the post-scan metadata fix is going to be 3x worse than previous projects. I will be pitching in to get that metadata sorted and probably a few others, to boot.

quiet_elegance is headed to Vegas starting tomorrow, til next Saturday. This is the latest installment of his process of getting instruction to be an instructor. This time it's math (last time it was OSHA). One upside: it's only a week, not 2 like last time.

Baby
Crime Fighter has been asserting his personhood a lot lately in the form of waking up and really wanting to have food in the middle of the night. Last night while I was out, he woke up an hour after he went to bed, which is unheard of these days. But 2 hour intervals with the expectation of milk each time is very normal. If I'm lucky, it'd be 3 hours gap. But I have not seen more than that in so long I feel like the handful of times that has happened were even real. I think I made it up now. (no, not really)
So.
I am going to use the chance of our office being less occupied with QE being gone to start the dreaded sleep training for the boy. I've been talking it over with some people who've been through it and the consensus there is the cold turkey/cry it out method. I'll move the baby's bed into the temporarily unoccupied office and let the pain begin on Friday night. Eventually, once he gets the hang of it, I very very much hope we can move him back to the bedroom. Maybe in his new to him crib. It's going to be a long week, I think.

I hate the notion of this so much, but I have to sleep more. I have to. 
TLDR: I'm tired, stressed, and dreading the next week. Almost all extra curricular socializing is very likely going to have to be canceled. If I start with super-crazy austerity, I might be able to ease off if I over-estimate how bad the GTFTS Plan will be for me. Chocolate and booze offerings welcome.

Comments

Yes, certainly

[drwex]

I love the idea of the "GTFTS Plan". Are you going to Ferberize or just go whole cold turkey? Or something else?

Chocolate and booze available, definitely. Shall I bring such by?

Re: Yes, certainly

[mizarchivist]

I'm gonna try to do cold turkey. I also realize it might fall 100% flat and I'll just have to try again later, but I won't know that for a few days into it, I think.
I have a thing for Pygment from Entrope, btw. Or maybe for you? I forget. It's on my kitchen table.
You are welcome to come by... whenever? I don't think I have any more evening plans til maybe next Saturday.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Sympathy with non-sleeping/hungry baby travails. Xander wants to nurse about as frequently as CF. Last night he was WIDE AWAKE for close to an hour around 12:30 a.m. and the only way to get him to back to sleep was to get in bed and nurse him. I think we got several hours of sleep out of him after that, but I'm not quite sure. Memory: hazy.

[mizarchivist]

Yeah. And the thing is: I don't think either your boy or mine needs the nursing for sustenance. They either just can't quite figure out how to ease themselves back to sleep, and/or maybe miss us for being gone all day and want the comfort of it. And I feel like a raging asshole for not being able to let him have that for longer. It's just- what good will I be to him or myself if I'm run ragged from the No Good Sleep.

[dani-namaste.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the plan! I hope it goes swimmingly.

[mizarchivist]

thanks. I take a bit of solace in knowing I'm so not the first person to have to make this work. Also, this is not going to be the worst thing that I do to this poor child in his lifetime... and ultimately for the best. yadda yadda

*hugs*

[taura-g.livejournal.com]

If you would like help and/or company Sunday or some evening next week, let me know.

Re: *hugs*

[mizarchivist]

I could use company Sunday, sure- That sounds great

Re: *hugs*

[taura-g.livejournal.com]

Sure thing... just let me know when you want to see me and I will be there.

[kebbykate.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I remember when E hit 12 lbs. the pediatrician said, "She's big enough to go five or six hours now, so make sure she does."

E slept really well initially and usually gave me at least 5 hours once every night, though usually that 5 hours began at 2 a.m. But when she was 6 months old and went to daycare she began with the chronic ear infections, leading to an eventual ear tube surgery the day after her first birthday. Anyhow, the poor thing could not sleep properly through the night. I soon learned to keep infant tylenol or ibuprofen bedside, give her a dose, put her on the boob and tuck us both into my bed. The nursing soothed her until the pain meds kicked in, and so then she'd fall asleep and I would too. But then we really wanted her out of our bed, so we sleep trained her at about 18 months and that was fine until she started getting sick the following winter (i.e. 3 months later). I felt like I had no choice but to have her in bed with me because it quieted her down fast and I could get some sleep. We sleep trained again the following spring and it mostly took, but still...

Then we had the divine Miss M...who was not a good sleeper at the start. Fortunately at some point, because I'm a night owl, she got to the point where her last night time wake up was not long before I wanted to go to bed, and if she woke up after that it was around 5 or 6 in the morning and she was officially DADDY'S BABY, so I could sleep in a bit. (She was old enough at that point that some baby food could be substituted for nursing.)

My dear friend E ruthlessly sleep trained her children because, as she said, "I spend my whole day with them hanging on to me and I need some time when my body is my own." (She also suffers from chronic pain, so sleep is vital to her continued well-being.)

You will work out what works for you and I will keep you in my prayers.