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. [...]
I know the traditional response to finding out that one of your husband’s customers is posting missed connections ads about him would be raving jealousy, but instead I find it highly amusing. Now at least he knows what it feels like to read one of those ads about yourself, and he agrees with me [...]
What I should do right now is get dressed, call up some people and go down to Saturday Market. What I think will probably happen instead is I will continue to sit here in my bathrobe, eating ice cream and playing with my new computer.
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 [...]
Why yes, random person at work/in the dentist’s waiting room/on the street/on the bus/in line to buy a donut, I am pregnant, thank you for noticing. This does not, however, make me public property, and it does not entitle you to ask intrusive personal questions about my lifestyle or my medical choices. If [...]
It only took me 4 years, but I have finally made contact with the local SCA! There’s a girl who lives in my neighborhood that I’ve been seeing on the bus frequently, and we’ve been chatting a bit, and this morning we discovered that we were both SCAdians, and we spent the whole rest [...]
James Taylor and Carole King make me remember what music is for. I took my mother to see them perform at the Rose Garden last night. When I saw that they were touring I knew we had to go, because how many more opportunities are we going to have to see them sing? [...]
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 [...]
I originally came up here to post about how boring the census was, and how if I was trying to get demographic information on all my citizens I could come up with some much more interesting questions, but then when I checked my email I found a message from the couple who gave us their [...]
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 [...]