alexist

Aliza seems to be adjusting well to her cot. So that's good. Neil was afraid she wouldn't like being alone but she doesn't seem to mind, at least when she's in bed! (She won't tolerate it during the day--cries the minute I leave the room. It can get annoying when I need to go to the bathroom!) The only trouble is that it takes me a minute longer to wake up and react when she cries.

Meanwhile I have discovered an annoying bug in iTunes. If you have multiple tracks from an album, one purchased from ITMS and the others home-ripped (I don't have any albums with 2 purchased tracks and multiple home-ripped ones), the ITMS track always comes before the home ripped one in the sort display, no matter what you do to the ID3 information. So although "Ziggy Stardust" is track 9 and "Starman" is track 4, "Ziggy Stardust" plays first--even though in all other cases, iTunes sorts by track number. I'm going nuts trying to fix this as I have several albums with this problem! It only seems to occur in recently purchased tracks--I don't remember seeing this before.

For the past few days she's had a gooey discharge from her left eye. She's been absolutely fine otherwise, and it doesn't look like conjunctivitis--her eye isn't pink. I decided to wait and see, because many eye infections are viral and will disappear on their own. (I remember reading an article saying that a lot of times, unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for eye problems.) Well, it hasn't. :-( Now I'll have to ring the GP in the morning and hope they can see her straight away, because I'm having my wisdom teeth out at 11:30! (Since it's a Bank Holiday weekend and they won't be open again till Tuesday I don't want to wait any longer.)

I still can't work out what it could be--did Ye Olde Google and the only thing that fits is a blocked tear duct but why would she develop that suddenly? Anyway, because it hasn't gotten better, a visit to the GP can't hurt.

I'd consider switching to them. The plastic ones just end up clogging my rubbish bin. But I have a problem: I see people going on about these damn bags made from fairtrade organic unbleached cotton and it just gets my cynicism up. It makes me want to special order bags made from bleached, pesticide-doused, horribly subsidised US-grown cotton bag, sewn by Chinese prison slave labour. But completely label and slogan free.