It's not just me. It's about a dozen people I know, half of them friends, and dozens more out there trying to reverse the declining birthrate of the past couple of years. (I read an article about the rate declining in 2007 & 2008 and am projecting a 2010 reversal. Or else there really is "something in the water.") Of course I'm thrilled with the ( Read more... )

If a new dad calls you and invites you to meet the baby, you have to bring something. Even if they say you don't have to bring anything. I understand, I mean, they have the *baby*, how can you really improve upon this?


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Oh man. Tiredness is starting to come in waves but I refuse to let it win. Let's chat.


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I can be a slow decision-maker. It may have something to do with being uber contrary, but it also has to do with my brain's tendency to automatically elaborate on every single little thing. So sometimes when I ask for advice, I'm just using that to shape up the information that's already in my head. Seth could have warned you all that it was ( Read more... )

Here's the first thing I bought for the babes (the yarn for the boleros was in the stash... though I broke down & bought another skein of green for matching hats and booties before the sex-identifying ultrasound):


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So I was up early--after a dream that ended with me biting off a guy's thumb--he was stealing the comics I'd labored over, but I wasn't really me, and no one else in the dream was anyone I knew, and this was after a better dream (but still difficult) about riding a bike that I continually got off, took apart, and had to reassemble to ride the next ( Read more... )

Lately -- ever since Friday afternoon, when I got a special message from my sister -- I've been very industrious. I'm cleaning everything, digging up the languishing projects that need finishing and mailing, and getting over the hangups involved therein. (You know, I want everything to be perfect--don't you?) I've also been staying up late to ( Read more... )

I had a plan for the day. I was well on my way to achieving that plan when someone brought me some Other Stuff and that killed the original plan and then I wasted a lot of time (mourning the original plan?). Now I'm just procrastinating, when I don't have time to procrastinate--I needed to do everything in the plan, but it's like my so-called ( Read more... )

Last night, a baby was born and a party was held, though one had nothing to do with the other. The day before, my coworker said to me, "We could bring My Pretty Nosehair," and I said, "It could be something borrowed!" So then I had to complete the quad. Seth helped think up something old:


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