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I'm up early on Saturday mornings, usually stirred out of bed by a combination of aching hips and hunger. (These days "getting up" has a different meaning than "waking up" since I'm now waking about 5 times a night from the bathroom breaks or - my favorite - the baby's seemingly endless hiccuping.) This morning, my husband is asleep in bed, leaving ( Read more... )

Week 29 Status Check:Baby is resting comfortably with his back against Tummy Left (like Stage Left, but in utero), his head down and arms and legs located on Tummy Right. His little feet occasionally like to test the elasticity of my belly by stretching out alllll the wayyyy, jostling whatever I had for dinner/lunch/breakfast before retracting and/ ( Read more... )

Dear LJverse,

We joke that a writer's job is defined by navel contemplation. Hilariously, my navel is now a constant source of distraction from writing. These days there is a teeny something (Foot? Hand?) under it that kicks and punches at it all the time. Ironically, this bellybutton-tastic activity has sort of derailed my writing impulses. ( Read more... )

First things first - I am making good on my birthday wishes. Special b-day shout-outs go to k8nKane, penny_sieve, starnightmuse, truesalcove, uponadream, and damoyre! Wishing you all a great year ahead ( Read more... )

First off, a resounding "Happy Birthday!" to my fellow Taureans (or is that Tauruses? Tauri?) celebrating another year of existence on the earthly shore. While travel, work, and other happenings have kept me off of the LJ for a while, I've updated my LJ account to send me email to my hotmail account... which means my yahoo account, which has been ( Read more... )

It's been so long since I've written here, it hardly needs saying that a lot has happened. I miss this community of thinkers, artists, writers, and above all, friends. On this LiveJournal, with your supportive input, I've peeled back my personal onion to find something true, expressive, and strong tucked within accumulated layers of self doubt, ( Read more... )

There's no truly effective way to say "I know it's been ages since I've updated and all, but I randomly have drawbles and you're the only people I want to share it with because I love you and miss you and wish I was on here all the time instead of having a job". So I'm just going to post these and hope that a) everyone in the LJ world is doing ( Read more... )

... to usher in my return to LJ.

First off, thank you major_dallas for giving me the nudge to participate in this most awesome LJ community, help_japan - a huge LJ initiative in which users auction off items in return for donations to benefit the Japanese recovery effort ( Read more... )

Am rushing to put this up before I have to gather my crap together for another work trip, but CLICK!

ARTSES!! :D

( In which I break my art hiatus with the wonderful help of Pennswoods)

NOTE: Thank you to all who submitted prompts for this - if only we could have tackled them all. I truly wish pennswoods and I had more time to draw together, as it made me ( Read more... )