I was going to go to yoga this morning, but I woke up just late enough that I could only make it if I rushed, and I didn’t feel like rushing. So instead I am having a leisurely breakfast and figuring out how to use skype, since my fancy new laptop has a microphone [...]
Today I got a compliment from a random stranger, addressed to me, not to my belly, and I nearly started crying because I was so happy. And it was a stupid little thing too, I was on my way back from getting coffee, which I always get in my own mug, which is purple. [...]
Spontaneous Productivity Day! Ryan had the day off and I just got paid, so we decided to go down to the mattress store on Hawthorne and see how much it would cost to get a new bed. (My old futon is starting to show the strain, and now that I’m getting huge I [...]
I have a great many buttons on my bookbag, some political, some decorative. As I was waiting in line for my coffee this morning, a woman behind me said how much she liked my Pro-Choice button. I turned around to say thank you, and as I turned and she saw my belly, she [...]
I woke up this morning before my alarm went off sweating and with horrible leg cramps and largely terrified by a very vivid nightmare about an extremely bloody serial killer. Not the best way to start the day. But when I got to the coffeeshop (yes, I haven’t given up coffee yet, but [...]
We ended up not going to OMSI today, since Ryan got off work later than originally thought, so I spent most of the day with my mother instead. Mothers are good at cheering people up. We had ice cream and went exploring, and found a beautiful house with a wraparound porch and a [...]
So, yesterday was an interesting day. My body decided that vision and standing upright were for suckers shortly after I got to work, so rather than dealing with spreadsheets I got to take a nap on the couch while waiting for the first available doctor’s appointment. It turns out that everything is fine, [...]
It was such a gloriously warm afternoon that I went outside and drew chalk patterns on our front walk. There are three kids living in the house on the corner, and they had set up a card table on the sidewalk and were yelling, “Bake Sale for Haiti!” at every passing car, so I [...]
If I were on twitter, I would have had to post something last night about wearing a $95 hotel bathrobe. For about the last two months, I’d been planning a surprise night out for Ryan, and yesterday was the night. We went to a schmancy restaurant in the Pearl District (I had pear [...]
We went out to Indian food for my mother’s birthday last night. All six of us. I don’t know what’s stranger, my family all being adults now, with the wealth of new conversation topics and honesties that implies, or the mere fact of how we’ve expanded. It isn’t just me and my [...]