If there's one way to make a person hate humanity, it's attempting to shop in Union Square on a Friday afternoon before Christmas.  Mom needed some new clothes, and we usually get together on Fridays so we figured, why not?  Ugh, we learned even before we parked.  The crowds were insane, people were rude, and everything took fifty times longer than ( Read more... )

Give or take, of course. I cannot believe that I am so close to my due date. This ride is about to get a lot more interesting. Not that I've been bored, ever... But... I am going to be the mama of *2* kidlets! I know, thanks Capt. Obvious, but sometimes I feel like I'm going to be giving birth to Tai again. Yes, Slyko will be a newborn, as he ( Read more... )

It may be about time to tell Mom that I'm pretty much done with her input on my birth plan.  Since my last update, she has sent me an 'email of intent' where she said:

( oh family, I can't quit you... )

OK, admission time - I have always laughed about the instructions in pregnancy tests.  I've always thought, "Come on... how hard is it to pee on a stick?"  Eat my words time ( Read more... )

I shouldn't really be updating this journal.  I should be working on my novel - which is where all of my writing-ness has gone lately.  Hence the no-updatey here.  But, I went for a drive with my mom, had a delicious lunch (also with my mom) outside, in the sun, at which I ate too much banana cream pie.  So, now I have no brain power and I have to ( Read more... )

I ask you.  I'd start worrying that I've got multiple personalities and I'm losing time or something (a la Sybil), but my life just isn't that interesting.  (Which - maybe - is too bad.  Then I could write a book, get on Oprah and have my 15 minutes of fame.)

Despite my pre-trip jitters, the holiday down in the desert went pretty well.  Sure, there ( Read more... )

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Of course I came down with whatever plague Tai had this morning.  I woke up feeling a little weird and soon the stuffiness set in and then the sinus headache and general feeling of yuck.  So instead of celebrating my first day of having Tai back to school by going to Starbucks for a much-missed Pumpkin Spice Latte and some good writing, I spent it ( Read more... )

No matter how spread out they are.  I'm not sure whether it's living with extra people or whether it's the whole 'Christmas must be perfect' thing that isn't particular to my family, but which the ladies excel at... (though I am working on that and I try to encourage Mom to remember that good enough is, indeed Good), or whether it's something else ( Read more... )

Today was:  last minute present shopping, pancakes, present opening, crazy running around (by Tai), napping (for Tai), lunch, yuletide reading (must make a rec post), sale shopping at Coldwater Creek, checking out the lights at the Living Desert, dinner at La Pinata, more reading, more Tai running while naked - post bath - and now "Best of Dana Carvey on ( Read more... )