As I sit in the living room and watch my partner sleep on the floor while our son drapes himself across his father, I am bursting with sappy loviness. A huge percentage of my feelings for Rick have to do with the kind of papa he is to our son. I love to see how much Gabe adores his father. I know at some point these relationships will shift and ( Read more... )

The smoking smell seems to have worsened. I feel my throat constricting. The air I am breathing in our house feels polluted, not at all fresh. What do I do about? Do I go asking around in the building about people's smoking habits? DO I complain to my landlord? I do have a lease, is not being able to breathe in the space grounds for breaking the ( Read more... )

It appears as though I have been in a bad mood for about one month. Huh!

The last couple of weeks I have been picking up the faint smell of cigarettes. We have been here since mid October and I have never smelled anything. This morning I woke up and the hallway that leads to our apt smells of stale beer and alcohol. The cigarette smell seems to be getting worse. I noticed lots of butts on the ground outside one of the ( Read more... )

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Where does your sense of self worth come from? within? your job? your roles in life? the money you make? sexual knotches in your belt? your friends? accomplishments? how you change the world? video game scores? what?

I have now had two LJ entries that I post not show up on my account. Is there anyway to find it again, I spent a lot of time thinking and writing both posts and now they are gone? why does this happen?

I am a Harry Potter fan, well I should rephrase that. I have really enjoyed reading the HP series with my husband and now child. I HATE Hollywood! Well, maybe I should say- strongly dislike- as there is enough hate in the world and well they are just movies. Enough time passes from one HP movie to when the next one is released that I forget how ( Read more... )

Gabe made his first graph with me yesterday. He and I catagorized his marbles into colors and sizes. Then after reading a book on graphs he was ALL about it! We made a simple bar graph, I did the first half and he did the rest. Then we moved onto Venn Diagram and Pie Charts. He is interested in bird watching and keeping an artists nature journal.

how does a slipped disc happen sitting on the couch for a not excessive amount of time? I seem to have done this. Went for chiropractic and now I am icing and heating alternately and either walking, standing or laying down but not sitting. Doing computer lying down is not very fun and all of our horizontal surfaces are too short to do it standing. ( Read more... )