It was Pride Day in the Happy Valley, arguably one of my favorite days of the whole year in my little neck of the woods. It's just... well, I've lived a number of places and I've gone to a whole lot of Pride celebrations but there is something very special about the HV and I guess the best way to explain it is that Pride is just so... normal here. ( Read more... )

It's Pride day here in town, and it's a positively gorgeous day!

And I have to miss it.

And I'm super sad.

We did make it to Pride briefly before Exhausted Baby Meltdown Time:


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Got Punk down for a nap and was all set to get some stuff done. I went to the basement, did the clothes swap and was ready to get the diapers in when the phone rang. I had called the pediatrician's office like I was told and thought they were calling back, but it was a guy about a job. And he was going on and on and THEN the pediatrician's office ( Read more... )

It gets better ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Pride and we (work people) were all supposed to assemble at 10am to set up the float. I had been asking for nearly two weeks for an e-mail with the address or name of the actual meetup location, and instead got a lot of shoddy information that was not helpful, like, "You know, so-and-so's work," or "You know, it's on King Street and ( Read more... )

Last night I went over to Kriss (skreeky) and Jon's house so they could distract me from my misery, which was really very sweet. We ordered chinese take-out and watched some television, starting out with the Sox game, then to part of a Margaret Cho DVD, and then to Sweeney Todd (the demon barber of Fleet Street), which is apparently Jon's favorite musical ( Read more... )

1. We've chosen a new sperm bank (Xytex) and our top three donors. I need to call them tomorrow morning and see if it's possible to get all of the paperwork done (by the doctor) and sperm ordered and delivered before my next IUI. Which could be soon. So it's very possible that we missed the boat on switching this month, and I /really/ hope that's ( Read more... )