Spring had better get here soon, because anticipation of garden season is KILLING MEEEEEEEEEEE.

FIVE MORE DAYS OF FEBRUARY BY GOD.

Rose is having a sleepover chez Grandma tonight, so: grownup day! So far spent napping, cleaning up, foiling glass, and watching Labyrinth. ♥ ♥ ♥ What a great movie. I love how they make it understatedly clear that this other world is imaginary without making it "just" imaginary - without making it any less real ( Read more... )

I hope it's OK that it's taken me almost an hour to drink the 4 glasses of water I'm supposed to consume an hour before my ultrasound appointment, because bleahhhhh. This is as fast as I can go, dammit ( Read more... )

Definitely feeling better. Thank God. Spent 2h tonight tidying and going through paper and finance shit that I have been mostly ignoring in my prostrate exhaustion the last little while. The finance shit was alarming in its disarray at first, but fortunately the unpaid bills I let pile up are matched by a pile of uncashed cheques. This is how ( Read more... )

Another awesome post from Blue Milk, reviewing a book that I haven't read but that sounds depressingly spot-on ( Read more... )

I ♥ my family.

Also: the fog of exhaustion - is it lifting a little?? Maybe???? Fingers crossed!

Daycare had to close today unexpectedly, so I am home with the Zoo. We spent a rather enchanting morning making sugar cookies. Dough for butter tarts is also chilling in the fridge ( Read more... )

So for those not on my facebook flist, we are expecting baby #2 in July ( Read more... )

I learned an Ancient Ninja Secret today, namely how to actually brown diced meat. I could not figure out why I always seemed to end up with all this liquid in the pan, resulting in meat that was cooked, but more boiled than actually fried, unless you cook it until all the liquid boils off ( Read more... )

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