I realised (thanks, Mandy!) that I hadn't given any kind of pregnancy update since 18 August. That's when I had registered a several day spike in my blood pressure, and was predicting the beginning of the end ( Read more... )

The book thing. Pft. I made the mistake of counting. Not that 2010 was hard. Eight books.

Eight.

It's almost September, and I've read eight books. How sad is that? I can really tell where things started to drop off, when I look at my 2009 numbers. It was right around when Melissa came home. Last year, I only read 54 books ( Read more... )

We're at 16 weeks. The pressure in my head, and the check ins with the home blood pressure monitor, show a steady rise in my blood pressure. Pending the ob visit, 8 days hence, where I'm sure he'll just confirm this... I'm now on my way to preeclampsia. I imagine, at this point, he'll take my blood pressure and declare me ready for the high risk ( Read more... )

I've decided it's well past time to pick up actual reading, again. I honestly never thought I'd go this long without it. I always looked at Jason funny when he talked about he used to read a lot, but then stopped because of other things. I never imagined that "other things" could ever take reading away from me ( Read more... )

12 August 2010 is Jason's and my 10-year wedding anniversary ( Read more... )

Our au pair arrives stateside on Monday the 9th, and at our house on Thursday the 12th! Woot! We're really looking forward to this. Her room is painted, thanks to the family handyman (friend of my parents, whom my mom is paying as a gift to the new baby). We just need to move out the rest of the crud (server rack, stuff out of the closet, etc ( Read more... )

Me: "What should have have for dinner with the children?"
Jason: "That is a good idea..."
Me: "..."
Me: "It was a question."

Yeah, I disappeared. Sorry about that, anyone who cares. :) I hit a point in my life where a 400 character facebook update was suiting me much better than writing and keeping up with lj. Unfortunately, that means I don't know a lot of what's been going on with my lj friends. :( That's the worst part about poofing for a year. I fell out of ( Read more... )

Driving along a residential street, this morning, I was being tailgated by a jerk in a Cadillac (I think) with one of those fake rag tops. They were pulling to the left, then zooming up, then lagging a little to zoom more. Basically being unsafe and a pain in the butt.

Suddenly, on a double yellow line, they zoomed around me and started speeding ( Read more... )

James decided, about 3 months ago, that he wanted to join the renaissance faire cast with us (Jason and me). I was vaguely skeptical that the desire would stick, but fully supportive of him ( Read more... )