In the spirit of the Snarky Squab's list of must-have items for the fourth trimester, here's a short list of requirements for making it through Gigi's first month:
Caffeine: a 16-ox double Americano (hot or cold) in the morning; a 12-oz of Coke in the afternoon; a few squares of dark chocolate anytime.
My PowerBook, open to Google Reader: catching up on the blogs is a great way to spend idle paternal time during nocturnal nursing sessions.
A hat: unwashed is the usual state of my hair nowadays.
A digital camera on the action-shot setting and loaded with charged batteries and space on its memory card: there are lots of Kodak Fujifilm moments around here right now.
Dim memories of the first time around: little of what happened during Julia's first month matters now, as they're very different babies.
The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin: an old album which I just discovered on my iPod and really, really enjoy. It takes a bit to get uses to Wayne Coyne's voice, but damn, no one else could sing "The Spiderbite Song" and make it matter (and not many other bands would dare that crazy drumming).