Oh goddamn, this is so hard sometimes. I can't imagine it's any easier being an introvert married to an extrovert, but the stress and lack of sleep may have officially gotten to us. I have zero idea of what we were just fighting about but when I'm done pumping, I'm going to give him a hug, even if he is still in the shower. We deserve hugs.

It seems I'm Lieutenant Commander Unrealistic Expectations. My clothes don't fit. Shouldn't they fit by now? Well, let's see, 3 weeks and 1 day ago, you were pregnant with twins. What do you think? Someday, I'll be promoted to Captain Obvious. Just keep my chin up and my nose clean. It's like being in the military -I only have 2 pair of pants that ( Read more... )

So the long and short of it is that infertility drugs are extremely hard on me. And I thought the angst of a miscarriage was an emotional thing, and that because of how i had been approaching everything, that i wouldn't be affected, I'd just move on. Yep, it's pretty much emotional, no, your brain pretty much has no control over it. And just when ( Read more... )

I spent 2 hrs and was about 2/3 done with a really emotional post and i put my finger on the screen of the iPoodle somewhere and it's gone. Gone gone gone.
Fuck.

You'll get it eventually.

Pleased to report that after a week of physical, sometimes blinding pain, I am baking cookies and (carefully) dancing around my kitchen to Pandora's Irish Pub channel. It seems that taking it easy and ding alot of sitting was actually part of the problem, so instead of sitting and resting today, I'm moving around. That being said, I am doing things ( Read more... )

And with that, hopefully my adventures in plumbing have ended for a long time. I highly recommend Richard Cook Jr Plumbing & Heating in Laurel.

The plumber wound up using a Sawzall and a hacksaw (where the Sawzall didn't work) to get the rusted-on bolts off the toilet. Evidently brass is far better than steel for this sort of thing. I told him I ( Read more... )

Because some of you are not on facebook, where the pictures can also be found and because, quite frankly, I'm proud I was actually able to manage this, this is a peek at last Wednesday's sailing night on, yes, Talk Like A Pirate Day. I figured since it was a sailing night, I should do something pi-radical. A sword would get in my way, a hat would ( Read more... )