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slow, while the baby nurses
am really excited to read a book i heard about on the intarwebz ( Read more... ) -
quick, while someone else is holding the baby:
(Pardon, there are many different post ideas here, i'm just going to try and get them out rather than continue ruminating on them in the shower ( Read more... ) -
snippet
hello, here i am.
sam is playing with his triceratops pencil sharpener while singing "it's all getting better, it's getting great" over and over
adam is playing with my shoelaces
owen is showering
the pizza delivery guy is on his way. life is good. :}
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interesting stuff:
"Schwartz draws particular attention to Lane's assertion that Americans are paying for increased affluence and freedom with a substantial decrease in the quality and quantity of community. What was once given by family, neighborhood and workplace now must be achieved and actively cultivated on an individual basis. The social fabric is no longer a ( Read more... ) -
how i am...
a non lj friend asked how i was, and i wrote her a nice long email... and since some lj friends had asked the same thing, i thought i'd post my note here, as well:
i was horribly sick last week (yea, projectile vomiting!) but am better this week. even made it to the gym briefly, this afternoon.
i've been merely surviving for a while now (though i ( Read more... ) -
longer post, sam cuteness, adam astonishes, mouse heaven is not in my house
mr mouse is not the adult version of one of the two babies we had before. one, i knew had died while we were on vacation in england. the other apparently died under the couch cushion. the cleaning lady found its dried and dessicated body a while ago.
we don't pay her enough.
:X
(it doesn't help that i imagine it curled up there to sleep, and being ( Read more... ) -
mouse in the house
how soon they forget... a mouse just crawled out of the woodwork. (as soon as owen left to pick up the laundry. how does it *know* i'm pinned to my chair with a sleeping baby ( Read more... ) -
my election experience... (skip if you're exhausted)
(just so's i can say I Was There)
got to the school/polling station around 10:45, didn't get out until 11:30. i've never had to wait longer than for them to offer me a cookie or a seat while they tried to spell my name.
saw two friends and an aquaintance, chatted with strangers. adam blinked serenely and granted his adoring public a few benevolent ( Read more... ) -
still here
life has been slowly trending upward, i think ( Read more... )