I predict that the primaries will not be over tomorrow.  I'm not sure how much more of this I can take...

I am feeling it so acutely today.  I have memories of winter days in 1993 that simply can not have been 15 years ago, and yet, there it is.

I just want to gather the time around me like a blanket.

I can't take it anymore!  I'm going to go to bed and listen to the news in the morning.  What a freaking horse race.  Won't it be interesting if this goes all the way to the convention?  I don't know if I can stand it...

 We found a new nanny, and she's awesome.  When I get home, my kitchen is clean, the toys are all picked up, and my kid is happy and clean and has a full tummy.  They go on long walks in all kinds of weather.  Tomorrow morning R and I have a play observation session at a preschool, and another one next week at the waldorf school (can't get enough ( Read more... )

We woke up this morning to find the following email...

Hi Jay and Julie, I was looking for your number to call but I must of deleted the email you had send me with your number, my husband just came back from sea to inform me that he got deploy and has to leave the country for a year to live in Iraq and he's not leaving us behind its too far from ( Read more... )

One more full day, then one half day with all the attendant mayhem of the all-school assembly to go before my nice long winter break.  I am more than ready for a vacation.  And it actually may be a vacation, since we managed to find someone to care for the wee one when I go back to work in January ( Read more... )

My Livejournal beat up your Myspace page.

This is by far the BEST all-staff email I have ever seen:

To:  All Staff
From: ******(name redacted)
Re:  Hershey Kisses

Do not eat the Hershey Kisses!!!!! It was a tragic and unforeseen  incident. I will not be supplying kisses in the future. If  anyone has a stash hidden, please dispose of them. I apologize for the situation. The M&Ms are still good ( Read more... )

Jay, who never leaves the house, brought home a cold and I am on the tail end of this family epidemic.  My child is very clingy today, and it is beastly hot for the first day of Autumn.  I have to go to the pharmacy and pick up my meds so my asthma doesn't flare up from this cold, but I really don't want to go out because frankly I look a ( Read more... )

My very good friend is finally pregnant after 5 years of woe.  (where have you heard that one before?)  She's the one I made the quilt for; her baby boy is due around Thanksgiving.  Last Wednesday, she went into the hospital, where she will stay, on the labor and delivery floor, until the baby is born ( Read more... )