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This being the first year of extended daylight savings time, we started out a bit later. I waited until the sun started to set and got Lauren suited up in her bat costume. I wanted to take her and leave Ross to give out treats.
This was Lauren's first time trick or treating. Last year, she was only 2 and Ross was working anyway so I dressed her up ( Read more... ) -
Halloween
I'm experiencing technical difficulties with posting this morning. Let's try this one more time...
Lauren's first year going out trick or treating:
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Most Wanted
Late December 23rd, 2004, Lauren was conceived. We were in no way trying - this was the only occasion we had not been vigilant about birth control. I blame Mike’s Hard Lemonade.
We would never have chosen that particular time to get pregnant. I was unemployed and my EI benefits had just expired. We lived in an apartment that was already too small ( Read more... ) -
Goodbye Abby
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I think I just broke Lauren's heart.
In the winter, she got a fish - a beta named Abby (although Abby was clearly a male). It was Ross' idea - he wanted a fish and thought Lauren would be excited about it.
He would let her feed it, and she looked at it sometimes, but because of where its little cube has to be, it wasn't visible unless we ( Read more... ) -
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I am neither depressed nor agitated. My current state of limbo is not related to the crazy ( Read more... ) -
Proud
On Saturday, Lauren will be only a month short of 3 years old. I wish to stop time now, please.
Some of her recent material.
Last Thursday:
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...it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain
I feel pain, searing pain that goes through the core of me. I just want it to stop. Being utterly unable to stop crying...no wait, sobbing and rocking, rolling things over in my mind, absorbing everything. I have never felt so weak and pathetic.
The tiny part of me that is insightful these days has some thoughts:- The shock of stopping ( Read more... )
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Fat
Yesterday, Poi posted a link to a Slate article talking (in part) about fat imagery and associations in Wall-E. The timing was pretty apt: I had seen Wall-E and Kung Fu Panda within a week of one another.
Kung Fu Panda. Free family movie promotion at the theatre in my parents' town. I took Lauren (largely because the theatre wrongly posted the ( Read more... ) -
For Eve
Whilst staying up all night looking at graphics, I stumbled upon a couple pictures of peacocks and I thought of you :)
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Friday
The great decluttering sell-off: I have one pick-up today and it's this afternoon when I would be home anyway. I simply don't have the patience for inconsiderate asses right now. Who arranges a time to pick something up, after being warned that I don't respond well to waiting for no-shows, and then just flakes? And, they often email a day later ( Read more... )
