Today I was watching Elizabeth Gilbert's talk on TED, "Your Elusive Creative Genius", which made the point that this vision we have of the tortured artist is kind of self perpetuating, and if we look back historically to the times when your inspiration, your art came from outside sources, muses, or genius, that it takes the pressure off of us ( Read more... )

Figured I'd stop in here after...oh I dunno....four years or so? Still alive. Kid's awesome. Good enough for now.

bout the annual review ( Read more... )

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just pretty much waiting to go into labor this week...i am trying to get my mix cds ready to go in case i want to listen to some tunes while i'm there...

got my norm, fiona apple, marley, paul simon, cruxshadows....

anyone got suggestions???

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omg just kill me now. all the coughing is causing the muscles around my lungs to tense up, along w/ the pregnancy back pain, and a mysterious pain under my left shoulder blade which my mom is worried might be a sign of onsetting pneumonia....great...

so i'm all signed up for my birthing class...i'm really looking forward to it, and it's on my night off, so even better :-D ( Read more... )

i had my 2nd midwife app yesterday, with my diagnostic ultrasound ( Read more... )

sooo much has been happening lately. i don't even know where to start ( Read more... )

is my birthday, send me some love :-D