i swear i'll take my $0.99 reusable shopping bag and throttle them ( Read more... )

so tired.  since josh got up with clara the night before last and he let me sleep in yesterday, today was my day to get up early ( Read more... )

so happy that obama won.  stayed up to watch the speeches.  so tired.  slept through josh getting up for clara last night!  i think that's happened once.

anyway, phew.

totally freaking out about the election.  sigh.  want to know what happens, but i only want one result!  aaaaaaack!  i'm just uploading more clara photos and watching tivo'd rachel maddow (that i've already seen, but her paranoia, i find it comforting ( Read more... )

but lest someone actually think i'm uh, not of this opinion, let it be known:

Copy this sentence into your LiveJournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

(or have been or will be in a heterosexual marriage)

seriously, i'd love it if all the gay folks in ( Read more... )

my little girl turned 1 yesterday, and it was a great day.  thank you to everyone who came to celebrate!  I know clara had an awesome time and so did her parents.  It was a good party for the wee ones and a good party for the grown-ups, who could ask for more!

i still can't believe she's been on this planet for a whole year.  i'm so glad it's over ( Read more... )

while normally i would love to have josh around, and in fact i was really sad he went to work today.... it is really nice to have a day to get things almost back in "order" in the house.  there is so much laundry, cleaning, cooking, shoping, la la la that needs doing in my world and when josh is here i don't want to do it i just want to hang out ( Read more... )

or is it 6?  i dunno.  last weekend was the we're replacing all of our windows weekend.  we actually didn't replace _all_ of them.  we decided to forego the basement windows, we didn't even order them, and the short wide one in the dining room that doesn't open that we decided to make into two casements stradling a fixed window... well, we decided ( Read more... )

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

i'm guessing you have some idea of what I think the answer to that question is, but, i'm putting it out there any who.

clara is back to having sleep issues, this time it's different, but she's leaping ahead developmentally and physically and i have a feeling that has something to do with her sleep issues.  i ( Read more... )

just got back from DC.  it was a nice visit.  even though the drive home was difficult.  we went down to see my brother get promoted to chief petty officer.  it was a nice ceremony and it was quite amazing to see these military guys openly crying.  it's a really important promotion for my brother and it was awesome to be there.  while we were in DC ( Read more... )