Unless he decides to come earlier, Bastian will be born Saturday morning. After much deliberation--and some tears--we've decided to schedule a c-section. There are too many factors pointing toward this choice to ignore. My doc is relieved because she feels this is absolutely the right choice but thought she would have to try to convince me. She ( Read more... )

35 weeks as of tomorrow and the tech says Sebastian is 7lbs. Another whopper on the way!

The boys--Chaz and Marcus--are settled into the armchairs in Chaz's room, studying together with mugs of coffee. It's very cute :-)

My cousin, Jacklyn Duff, would like to win a grant from Pepsi in order to help educate kids across the US in *fun* ways. She's an amazing young woman (she worked on the space shuttle for 3 years!) and I'm quite sure she would engage children that otherwise would regard learning about science as a chore. Please help by voting for her every day this ( Read more... )

The ceiling fan/light is finally up in the new kitchen and today we will be working on the resulting ceiling patching and the second coat of wall paint (post primer!). We will be handing out candy in the new neighborhood while doing the reno. We are starting late today because I've been getting awful charlie horses (ah, to be pregnant) and Marc ( Read more... )

I bought a house last week. It's a good size and we like the neighborhood, but there is a lot of work ahead of us. So far, we've only worked on the kitchen. Some remuddler installed the cabinets w/o a level. Ferserious. We've removed all but one upper cabinet and that is how it will stay. I have a large framed mirror for one stretch of wall and we ( Read more... )

I found out last Friday that I've lost all 4lbs I'd managed to gain in the past few months. Luckily, I'm a fat grrl, so this is not a major concern even though I'm preggers. On the one hand, I'm not surprised by the loss because I have little desire to eat much of the time. I do, however, because I have a schedule of what types of food to eat every ( Read more... )

Marc and I went to one of the local second-run theaters to see Salt today. I didn't hate it. In fact, I thought it was fun and was relieved that so much of the action relied on the chase and not fantastical, poorly-done special effects. Sure, physics went out the window at times, and the reveal was not surprising, but it totally engaged me anyway ( Read more... )

Amusing webcom about the fat=unfit/unhealthy bs:

http://www.riotnrrdcomics.com/2010/10/55-defense/

Enjoy!

So, while looking for another missing message, I discovered that gmail has been sending everything from lj to the spam filter since early October. I'm gonna reply to your comments now, guys. For those of you who had a b-day in that time...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!