Har, har. What I have been up to over the past few weeks:

My birthday. Thanks to all those who acknowledged it. I turned 35 this year, which is really of no great significance other than I could run against Hillary, Barack and John if I wanted to. Which I do not. I already have enough problems in my life, and some ex-boyfriends that I'm not ( Read more... )

Ah, yes, one of the many phrases I use for the new puppy ( Read more... )

Irony, thy name is Nelly. I swear I had no idea when I put in that song from "Scrubs" about poo what was coming. (If you are particularly squeamish, you'll want to skip to the next paragraph.) I have been sick since Saturday, pretty much, with raging poo, so to speak. There is a nasty stomach bug going around and I think I caught it from one of ( Read more... )

Lord, this past week has been a small, slow torture. I think - I HOPE - that I am done with most of the stress-inducing activities and this week will be better. Most of the stress had to do with our real estate hell, which just keeps getting weirder and more awful, so I refuse to discuss it here. I'm sick of the whole thing ( Read more... )

Find my birth story for my daughter here. Like my son, she is a blessing who I love so much, even when she is driving me crazy ( Read more... )

I know I'm a day early for the "official" day of Halloween, but it's been a cornucopia of Halloween already around here. Our city was originally supposed to have trick-or-treat on Saturday night, but then we got a lovely storm. We were fortunate that we got no damage, just lots of rain, wind, and our lights flickering. Since we all knew the ( Read more... )

to my little man. He had a very nice family party this past Sunday, complete with a "Toy Story" cake, and got lots of nice summer clothes. He had cupcakes at pre-school today, and will be having the last party with his friends on Saturday. Then the birthday extravaganza will be done. Whew.

I actually managed to go out for my birthday and had what passes these days as a "social life." Even if it was just that one night :) It was sort of a last-minute spontaneous decision to drive into Boston with a few friends, partially based on the fact that my parents took both kids overnight. Our friend C. tried to plan a cool evening for my ( Read more... )

In anticipation of my birthday next Tuesday (and the lack of time I will probably have between now and then), I wanted to just write down a few thoughts before the dawning of year 33 in Nellymom world ( Read more... )

November 6, 2003 ( Read more... )