Sorry for lack of updates! I usually have time to either check my flist (which I've been doing) or post to my journal, heh. Working steadily when I can on my SGA Big Bang, feeding the wee lemon, and trying to get some sleep, that's my life lately ( Read more... )

I'm posting this to a few different places, so some of this stuff you may have seen already/read about. But, I figured I might as well post the birth story here as well as in the typical places, right? The most updated and pertinent information is in section three. Before you ask (and you can still ask, I just might not be able to respond right ( Read more... )

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ( Read more... )

There's a lyric in a song no one knows that goes, 'Time won't you please slow down? Can't you see that I'm coming? What's your hurry?' That is how I feel, lately.

The home front:
Things are going well, if by 'well' I mean we need to get the kitchen remodeled ASAP which means I need to clean it up a lot and I haven't and gah; the garage door is ( Read more... )

So, since the overwhelming majority of folks wanted to be on the baby filter, I thought the best option would be to lj-cut baby posts so that those who don't wish to read it can scroll past. So, if you're one of the few who did respond with 'no filter for me, thanks,' that's why you're seeing this! Incidentally, the tags aren't referring to ( Read more... )

So, I'm sitting here waiting for the plumber to show up WITH HIS JACKHAMMER (no, that's sadly not a euphemism) to dig up our concrete garage to fix a ROOT BALL that's clogging our bathroom line. We got two estimates for the work, and picked the one that's less money (but, this morning I remembered that the one that's less money would have been more ( Read more... )

Nooooo :(

Barack Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham dies.

I really wished she could have lived till election day. My heart goes out to Obama and his family.
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Something to cheer us all up--an Obama impromptu musical number
set to 'One Day More' from Les Miserables.

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This is from the best recording of Les Mis EVER (okay, I'm biased, but ( Read more... )

... keep me in your thoughts? I'm pregnant--yay good news--and I... gosh, I really want to keep this one. And I've started bleeding. Which naturally brings to mind what happened last time. Given that last time I knew for a total of 15 days before I lost the baby and today marks my 15th day of knowing and it happens to be the same days of the week ( Read more... )

Here are pictures of my house and the... okay, remember how I said there was a tree in my back yard? It turns out that it's not actually a tree. IT'S A BRANCH. D: Click for larger; I didn't want to overwhelm anyone's flist.


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I just looked out my back window, looking for the long, overhanging branch that had broken off and landed in our back yard and roof. It's there, a tangled mess of three inch thick snapped branches and drooping leaves, attached to the six inch angled tree up the hill that is our 'back yard ( Read more... )