So, I posted about this on Facebook last week, and figured it was about time I talked about it here: my husband and I are expecting our first kid this spring ( Read more... )

For some reason I've been thinking a lot lately about one of the major messages from Louisa May Alcott's book Little Women and its sequels. The message is basically that you need to find a balance in life between work and play, and it's most clearly expressed in Chapter 11 - Experiments. Here's what I see as the money quote, from the very end of ( Read more... )

Body: A little stuffed up, but nothing seems to hurt too much.

Stress Level: 2

Reading: Work: a Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott
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Body: Meh. Nothing specific seems wrong, but I don't feel right.

Stress Level: 4. I'm not sure why, but things that shouldn't bother me at all have been bothering me a lot the last few days. Hopefully this and the body meh-ness are both hormonal and will go away on a few days.

Book Review: I finished Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
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Body: Everything seems OK this morning. Although... I'm sneezing a lot. Hopefully this doesn't mean I'm coming down with a cold.

Stress Level: 1

Reading: I'm still reading Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
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Body: My right hip and knee keep feeling like they're about to fail, but nothing actually hurts. I can live with that as long as I don't have to do too much walking.

Stress Level: 1

Book Review: Everyday Foods in War Time by Mary Swartz Rose
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Body: Everything seems OK so far.

Stress Level: 3

Book Review: I've heard such good things about Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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Body: My right arm is still a little painful, but nothing else seems to be bothering me.

Stress Level: 3

Reading: Again, lots of sample chapters, but nothing that grabbed my attention.

Hearing: Music. So far the iPod has been playing lots of Tom's Rush collection and a lot of filk.

Etsy Find: A pattern to make a stuffed bookwyrm. I suspect ( Read more... )

Body: My right wrist and forearm have been giving me intermittent grief for quite a while. I'm starting to think I should have it checked out for Carpel Tunnel.

Stress Level: 2

Book Review: I finished Sunrise Alley by Catherine Asaro
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Body: So freaking cold. I can't seem to get warm, and the cold is making all of my joints hurt.

Stress Level: 2

Book Review: Finished The Crazy Years by Spider Robinson
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