Okay -- I give -- I'll say "uncle" or whatever the hell else the universe would like me to say, but I JUST CANNOT STAND THIS PAIN ANY LONGER!!!! I am seriously ready to drive myself to an emergency room (on the condition that I could actually still walk to my van, get in it, and drive) and beg for a c-section. I am beyond being able to sanely deal ( Read more... )

I have had two wonderful experiences with community in the past twenty-four hours that I feel moved to share ( Read more... )

I am still having ongoing leg cramps in my left (nerve damaged) leg, but they had lessened in intensity and duration, if not frequency. I was still having them nearly every night, usually multiple times a night, but they weren't lasting for excrutiatingly long amounts of time ( Read more... )

Though most of you think of February 14th as Valentine's Day, in our house it is considered our anniversary. The only unfortunate thing about starting to date on Valentine's Day is that the entire country celebrates with you every year, which while festive, makes it difficult to do things like go out to dinner ( Read more... )

Per my question yesterday (or earlier this morning, depending on how you view it) I'm still not sure why I can't ever seem to just "do the minimum" for school assignments. Actually, I am just grateful when there isn't a maximum ( Read more... )

Why can't I ever do the minimum for a school assignment? I mean really -- why ( Read more... )

I finally had my molar extracted today after having problems with it for the past month and a half. I had hoped to keep it until after the baby is born, but things didn't work out that way. Over Christmas, it was one of two teeth that started to hurt BADLY, and the dentist found that it had a crack on the back of it that was difficult to see from ( Read more... )

Once again Cincinnati has been hit by The Great White Death, and this time it seems we were a bit less prepared. "An inch or so, perhaps a bit more in some outlying areas," is what the weatherman was telling me on the phone as I was driving in near white out conditions this afternoon ( Read more... )

First of all, I want to again complain about the use of the word "submission" to designate a piece of writing turned in for consideration for publication. I still don't care for the word or anything that it designates ( Read more... )

…. if I do say so myself. I think I might have tried, once, a long long time ago, to make potato soup, and if I recollect, it didn't turn out like the soup in my head. This time, however -- delicious ( Read more... )