it's the start of day 7 of this government shutdown and lots has happened since my post on friday. most importantly, baby norah arrived on friday!
we went up to the hospital saturday morning for a visit and she is so so cute. i haven't held a newborn in over 10 years, and it's such a cool experience. i was like, wait, we had dinner with you thursday night!
eric and i took turns holding her for about an hour and a half and then had to make ourselves leave. we spent the rest of the afternoon talking about babies and how we should have one soon.
here is eric holding norah. look at her foot in his hand! i think i need one immediately.
both baby and momma are healthy, rebecca looks amazing, and both parents are so happy she is here. i hope we look that good 24 hours after having a baby!
otherwise, the furlough continues in this town where there always seems to be something newsworthy happening. thursday a lady crashed her car into white house barricades then lead a police chase up pennsylvania ending with her getting killed and an officer wounded (he's since been released). friday a man set himself on fire on the mall and died that night. and then sunday, on our metro system that is always having issues, there was a fire on the red line that killed one worker and injured two others. that's a lot for 4 days. i don't know that any of these things have to do with the shutdown, but they certainly fit in with the current morale of the city. everybody has just had it.
meanwhile, we've been trying to get in on as much of the free stuff as is out there. this weekend we ate a few discounted meals and i got this nice furlough swag from whole foods.
it seems that the furlough perks are coming to and end though. z-burger was losing too much money and had to stop giving out free burgers, and as soon as the house passed the retroactive pay bill, the discounts started to disappear. it was fun while it lasted! and i'm very happy to hear we will still be paid... i can throw my trader joe's application in the trash!
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