Just decided to share some of the stuff that's caught my interest on my Google Reader/Twitter feed lately. Excerpts below with links provided if you want to read the whole thing.

A Spark of Wisdom: Why we can't always have a 'productive' conversation"It's not necessary to lecture me - or any minority for that matter - on the tone of our arguments ( Read more... )

Eve-Eve-Eve-Eve-Eve ( Read more... )

I am alive, I just rarely have two hands free to mess around on the laptop. (And by rarely, I mean once every couple of weeks.) 99.9% of my online messing about is done on my phone in one hand and the baby in the other ( Read more... )

My water broke an hour ago ( Read more... )

Lots of contractions today. They stop when I walk around. Some sciatic pain on the right side, which is annoying.

I hope my midwife will check me today if I ask nicely. All these contractions had better be doing some work!

A couple of months ago I saw my dentist because I could feel a pretty big cavity in one of my wisdom teeth with my tongue. I got x-rayed and was told that while I had cavities in 3 of 4 of my wisdom teeth and they would all have to come out, that it could wait a few months until after the baby was born ( Read more... )

[pet peeve]
Reading "mines" when the correct word is "mine."

For example, "I'm mad at him for eating those grapes because they were mines."

NOT. ACCEPTABLE.
[/pet peeve]

So far there have been six babies born in my due date club, half of which are a set of boy triplets. (There was another set of triplets in my DDC at one point, but one of them miscarried, reducing the set to twins - MOST sets of triplet conceptions don't actually result in healthy triplet births.) At least one woman has reached full term at 37 ( Read more... )

Me: Being a werewolf would be cool under certain strict conditions.

Ikey: Like what?

Me: Like if it didn't hurt to transform.

Ikey: Okay...

Me: And if you didn't turn into a bloodthirsty monster with no control over your actions.

Ikey: So what you're saying is, being a werewolf would be cool if it was like Animorphs?

*cue hysterical laughter, during ( Read more... )

It's dividend time at REI! Whoo-hoo!!