I did not follow in the typical student of Computer Science student fashion and actually had not read the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings series until after college!  I waited to  read them, the C.S. Lewis books and a bunch of other classics until we were living in Mexico in 2003.  I LOVED the LOTR books and became really obsessed with the Led Zeppellin song “Ramble On” because of all of the references to LOTR.  Are you familiar with the song’s chorus?

Ramble On, And now’s the time, the time is now, to sing my song.
I’m goin’ ’round the world, I got to find my girl, on my way.
I’ve been this way ten years to the day, Ramble On,
Gotta find the queen of all my dreams.

I still love it to this day.

Has anyone ever told you the trick about coming up with passwords for your computer that use the first letter of each word in a song lyric, so it will be easier to remember?I should warn you that you also get the song in your head every time you type the password, so be careful what you choose.  At my company, our passwords are 12-characters long, so you have to have some sort of trick to remember the password.  In my Zeppelin/Ramble On kick, I tried this approach for my new password and this is what I came up with based on NOW’S THE TIME, THE TIME IS NOW:

nttttin

With so many consecutive t’s the password police balked at the password and when I told Andy about what I had tried to do he thought I was the biggest dork.  I literally remember him laughing at me.  He still brings it up occasionally, years later.

Oh and finally the real point of this post.

NOW’S THE TIME, THE TIME IS NOW!  I am weaning Miss Belén.  She is almost 13-months old.  She is working on six additional teeth to add to her existing six.  She really doesn’t seem all that interested anymore, at least not any more interested to be drinking from my boob than a bottle.  She actually makes this cute little noise every time she sees milk or a food she really likes.  She used to just make that sound for me when I would walk into the room, tit(s) exposed, but now she makes it for a lot of different things.  She is over me, or my breast milk at least.

I am mostly over it too.  I thought I was going to have a really hard time with it emotionally, but it honestly really feels like NOW’S THE TIME, THE TIME IS NOW!

Have you ever walked into a store with really empty shelves?  It is kind of strange really.  It is like, I am serious enough about this business to rent some retail space, but I am not serious enough about it that I want to fill my shelves with product you might be interested in.  If you think about it, those teenagers who work at the grocery store bringing all of the products to the front of the aisle every night have a really important job because it makes their store look serious about selling you what you need.

I know you have to be wondering what my point is by now, I am almost there.

When I was trying to think of an analogy for my boobs in the weaning process, I thought of a store, with partially empty shelves where nobody visited the entire day.  I have these boobs that still have servings of breastmilk in them, yet there is not a customer for the milk.  My old customer has moved on.  She walks now.  She almost has 12 teeth.  She can sign the word for milk.  But yet this product I produce still engorges me allowing me  to have knockers a moment longer.

So that’s it…as you ask yourself if the point was worth of all of the rambling.  It has been four entire days since I breastfed Belén, not since Monday night!  I thought I might be all dried up by now and I am definitely not, so I decided to go do some internet searching and found this on yahoo:

You should be comfortable within a few days to 2 weeks. However, it can take months to completely dry up. If you were to try to express milk, there could be drops in there for up to a year (the longer you were nursing, the longer it takes *generally* to dry up entirely).

UP TO A YEAR! Um, no, I do not choose to believe that is possible.  I will take the “few days” please.

I know it is kind of personal, but for all of my mommy, lady friend readers, how long did it take you?

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