So N's mother likes to send those stupid Have a Happy Day type emails with scrolling marquees and glitter and blinking gifs with happy, feel-good messages that 2% of the time make me feel good and the other 98% of the time make me wanna barf.

Tonight, though, she sends THIS bullshit, and I don't think she was being ironic...
( CHRISTMAS MESSAGE - 21ST CENTURY STYLE )

The plan was to head down to Cherry Beach for promise, a electronica event, running from 3-11 today. We went once last summer and had a fantastic time, so we thought we'd try it out again. The Smallest had a pair of toddler-sized, sound-muffling headphones borrowed from my friend. No need to worry about the bass killing his ear drums and giving him ( Read more... )

N and I went to Dark Rave last night. This marked my first club outing since getting pregnant in late 2006. I never felt I could leave the boy for long enough to make a club night viable, since he needed to nurse every two hours at night until recently. Lately, he's been nursing every 3-4 hours, and the previous night, he didn't nurse at all for 6 ( Read more... )

someone on my flist posted the following embed from youtube:

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my son saw the youtube still above and kept pointing at it and saying "bunny bunny bunny". I had no idea what he was talking about, so i clicked on it and, lo, there are bunnies in this video. granted, they're kinda fucked up looking, but they're recognizably bunnies ( Read more... )

So there's a local photographer, who is supposedly really well-known (and oft-plagiarized/copied), who is doing a coffeetable book on the beauty of breastfeeding. I emailed him, telling him (his wife, actually, who is his business manager) I would be willing to model for them. I was responding to a call for models that had been forwarded to me. ( Read more... )