I had a baby! Her name is Clara, she is 23 days old today, and she is pretty much the best ever. She is very much a "with" baby - as long as she's with someone, life is fine and she's pretty chill. Just don't try to put her down ( Read more... )

Disclaimer #1: the next person who tells me a horror story about pregnancy, childbirth, or body-issues relating to pregnancy in general is getting a fist to the face. I'm not fucking kidding. Disclaimer #2: I'm (mostly) managing to be polite to people's faces, but it's wearing really. damn. thin. So ranting on LJ seemed more sensible than exploding ( Read more... )

The perils of cat ownership ( Read more... )

To make a long story very short: the past 3 weeks have been crisis-mode at work. I've been at work for 10+ hours a day. About 25% of that is actually getting stuff fixed. The other 75% is the politicking problem-fixing dance of the large corporation. This entire thing is working on my very. last. nerve ( Read more... )

Today, my husband and I took a hairdryer, a flathead screwdriver, and brute force to my laptop screen, attempting to pry off the (shattered) glass ( Read more... )

Last night, I was hanging out with people - old friends, and their friends. We were all a few drinks in, and I was whining about my computer being broken, which obviously led to jokes about my computer breaking as a result of what it's seen, to which I responded something along the lines of "well, it's certainly seen enough porn for that to happen ( Read more... )

Complaint: the screen on my 4-year-old macbook is cracked (the LEDs don't seem to be affected, but the crack is growing a bit, so I've only got so much time to fix it). Apple charges 600$+ for replacements. I am pondering Options. Option #1 involves trying to fix it myself, via the logic that once the crack spreads and screws up the screen, the ( Read more... )

Bike to the grocery store, I said.

I haven't ridden a bike in 10 years, but how hard can it be, I said.

It's close - only about 20 blocks away, I said.

I'm not that out of shape, I said ( Read more... )

1) A husband who is Smoking Hot in a suit and provides make-outs on request ( Read more... )

God, I am so fucking lucky.

(aka: the past few weeks have been incredibly rough and shitty... but this evening is some kind of excellent  and the rest of the universe can be put on hold.)