july 13 - return from world travel
september 5 - jen and jason's wedding
september 25 - carla and drew's wedding
october 23 - my neice or nephew's due date
thanksgiving - florida for jonathan's bar mitzvah and turkey

* = i have a ticket (or reservation), sucka! otherwise gotta get one.

that'll do for now.

( past stuff i did )

Is that what's happening? I wouldn't hate it...

Ian and I rang in 2013 in bed. I was so sick, and so long asleep, that the midnight hour passed entirely unnoticed. It seems like 2013, so far, has been a lot about hospitals, failing health, and loss. I'm hoping that this is a trend that starts changing soon. But I feel the need to purge this and put it all in one place ( Read more... )

I still read through everything y'all are posting! And even comment sometimes. And love you all! I just, since I've been so focused on Fertility Treatment stuff, have been primarily blogging about that elsewhere. If you wanna read it, you can find it here on blogspotMy life has basically been swallowed by IUI and home buying. Ian and I close ( Read more... )

heya peeps. so, i started another little blog where i plan to chronicle this journey of infertility stuff. it's not very interesting to most people, i'm sure. and a lot of people say things that make me feel terrible (unintentionally of course), which is why i've been mostly not writing about this all. so i don't want the blog to be as public ( Read more... )

it's been like 1000 years since i've written anything on lj. haven't been super inspired or motivated to write much, but thought i'd give an end of the year/beginning of the year mini-update at least. basically, everything looks pretty identical right now to how it looked a year ago, in spite of all kinds of potential change and excitement that ( Read more... )

the new library on 81st avenue opened. i can't begin to explain how exciting and inspiring and empowering and amazing this is. i love oakland so much sometimes it makes me almost cry. sometimes i really remember that my job is a job in public service and that there is no other public i can imagine serving right now. and this investment, right in ( Read more... )

Ok, people have been incredibly generous in their support of 826 Valencia and my spelling bee team, Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe. But I am still just about halfway to my goal and the team as a whole has a ways to go. You have no idea how badly I want to kick the butts of Lemony Snicket, Adam Savage, Thao Nguyen, and Michael Chabon raise money for 826 ( Read more... )

Hi all! I think that this is the first time I've participated in an event for charity that required me to fund raise, so I'm sorry if I'm not very graceful at it. But the cause is really important to me, so I decided to get past my awkwardness and give it a go!

(Here's the link, but there's more information below!I'm trying to raise money for an ( Read more... )

i've done this a few years in a row - i found the last two year's and couldn't find the previous. but that's ok. here it is again ( Read more... )