Yoinked from freewaydiva :

I saw a post about negative vs positive self-talk this week, and how women especially are pretty much programmed. So if you're reading this, I ask you all to think about 4 or 5 positive things about yourselves and either post them here or to your own LJ. Encourage everyone you know and love to start thinking lovingly and positively ( Read more... )

I know that 2009 was pretty horrid for a lot of people and, for many, 2010 has been no great shakes, so far. One way we might make the rest of 2010 a bit better is to spread some love around (RAWR!). So if you care to reply to this post I will give you a response of something I like about you ( Read more... )

So even though I never update livejournal, I can't resist doing that year-in-review livejournal meme. What I have learned, though, is that this year, I did not update livejournal. :P

Only entry in January: This morning, I threw up next to a dumpster on a busy street like a crazy homeless person.

One of two entries in February: So last night I was ( Read more... )

Try to tell me this isn't made of win:

THE FACTS:

- I married an artist.
- I myself have very little in the way of artistic ability (discounting music).
- We both have been wanting to create original things to decorate the baby's room.
- I have especially been thinking about this blanket I've had for a long time, a deep dark rich blue with orangey- ( Read more... )

Email from my clinic manager:

"Dear Team,

"I want to let you know of some police reports that I have been receiving recently regarding some incidents reported at [my place of employment].

"Apparently, since January 2009 to present, housekeeping has been finding both empty & half-empty wine bottles in 3 of the restrooms here. Specifically they have ( Read more... )

A man has come to our front desk who simultaneously reminds of my dad and of Ice-T. I am weirded out

Yesterday, our friends Megan and Michael gave us a car. As in, honest-to-goodness gave us a car. They had a friend move to Scotland to get married and give them his car to either sell or give away at their discretion. It's a 1996 Geo Prizm, four-door sedan. It runs. It is not moldy. (These were the two main features of the Sheas' old van that had ( Read more... )

One other thing: some poor girl just checked in for one of our hand specialists; very pretty, black eye, arm in a sling. I hope my assumption about her is wrong, or that she is able to get out of her situation very soon. But it reminded me once again of something my mind keeps coming back to: at the hospital, they asked me twice if I had recently ( Read more... )

So for the majority of my pregnancy, I have felt almost exactly equal parts fear and excitement about becoming a mother. (With the exception of the months where I felt equal parts fear, excitement, and total misery - thanks, hyperemesis gravidarum.) There is so much that will change - our lives will never be the same. But gradually, over the last ( Read more... )

My family has many songs that we have all sung together at every family gathering for years and years. I grew up singing these songs and rounds, and they are essentially a part of my bones now.

My mom was in town this past week (left this morning), and last night, we were sitting on my couch talking. The baby had been still for several hours. Mom ( Read more... )