Monthly Archives: May 2006

Starting training

So. I did indeed make it to my fitness evaluation, thanks to a last minute save by Carl, who took a long lunch to watch Noah because I was really freaky about leaving him at the gym daycare. Partly because … Continue reading

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Choices I

(Probably an ongoing navel gazing series, as I start to make some decisions about work.) I think what I wanted most to say about what Jen hit as the proverbial nail on the head for me in her post (especially … Continue reading

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Mother’s Day food for thought

Jen over at MUBAR says: The reality is that when you are a woman and you have children, you lose something. You gain something infinitely better — even on the worst day, children are a gift — but that does … Continue reading

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Fucking sales staff

So, we’ve been behind the ball on Emily’s monument because the granite we’d chosen was out of stock and they tried to contact us but we’d moved (or whatever; I freely admit that I did not follow up until after … Continue reading

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More with the speed updates

Noah’s here crawling around so we’ll see how long he’s content to amuse himself. It depends on how many non-toy things he finds to play with. Because he has pretty much only distain for toys these days, with a few … Continue reading

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Quick quick

I calculate I have 15 minutes before Noah wakes up so a fast update, and responses to comments later. Thank you guys! Yesterday we spent a goodly part of the day at a vast fabulous nursery (the plant kind) with … Continue reading

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Driving the angst levels lower // Baby Signs

Today has been a really good day. One of the things that prompted the identity crisis last week was Magdalynn changing words around at Mother Goose. The song in question was pretty – ew, about mothers being always right and … Continue reading

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I should have updated :)

Yesterday got much much better after writing through a scene, which conveniently took about an hour – the same length of time that Noah & Carl were gone. Getting my latent angst out on the screen was a much better … Continue reading

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Whimper

And then when I open The File for the book I always think this is what I thought was good? But it sucks!. Whimper. All this is just angst and drama, but it certainly is falling in spades today.

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Bitchy head dump.

This is probably going to be a crazily non-linear entry. I’m gearing up for writing, as after I looked on the edge of a breakdown Carl found the time to take Noah to get tung oil. Carl looked mopey since … Continue reading

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