I wrote this poem while I was in UCSF's Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital, on their locked ward, when Oskar was 9 days old ( Read more... )

So I had this baby, right, and he's pretty adorable and we dig him a lot and he's getting pretty smiley and that's kind of awesome. He's less awesome when I'm awake between 2 AM and 6 AM but he's still cool ( Read more... )

A quick story: there is an Amish furniture mill not far from where my mom and her partner camp on the weekends, and for a flat, low rate they let you come in and take a truckload of leftover wood pieces which campers love to have for their campfires. They roped me into helping them once, and I was a teenager-ish at the time--I reckon maybe 17 or ( Read more... )

listen, dudes. pregnancy blah blah blah. i know it has to sound like i complain a lot but i want to say that so far pregnancy has actually been a complete dream and i feel like the luckiest bitch in the world because of it. i had morning sickness for a month, but i didn't need to be hospitalised or anything, and i got over it. ever since the ( Read more... )

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for my birthday, before we left for our paris and uk trip (which sounds awesome, and it mostly was, but i had no concept of how fucking awful and painful wedging myself into coach airplane seats would be--transatlantic trips post-1st trimester--a dumb idea), dave gave me a card that was in the shape of a refrigerator and instead of opening the card ( Read more... )

Well, it seems that the morning sickness has fucked off. I've read in some places that morning sickness goes away and then will sometimes COME BACK before the end of the first trimester, and if that happens to me, I may have to torch San Francisco to the ground. But, I kind of feel like you do when you're in class and you haven't done the reading ( Read more... )

being pregnant is nice when you lie to yourself to make yourself feel better, like when you are on holiday and you try to put on a pair of cute capri pants and they just. barely. button, like you might want to get out of the path of where this button might fly, and they were never this tight, and you turn to your husband and go "damn, this baby ( Read more... )

So we went to Hawaii, and it was awesome. We got a Mustang convertible, popped in some reggae, and drove around for what felt like the entire weekend. I got Dave in the ocean, which was so warm and clear--I've never been in the ocean before where I can go way out from the shore and still see my feet below me. We went on a submarine and got to ( Read more... )

dave and i were sitting on the couch last night, talking about flump, when i decided to poke my tummy to see if i could feel anything. im chubby, obvs, and this is my first, so its going to take a while for me to properly show, which kind of sucks but is also kind of awesome because it means it will take a little while for me to grow out of my ( Read more... )