The Green Room

The view from here at 17 weeks.

Oh, and did I mention that my father got laid off? Today was his last day. Apparently my parents have known that this was coming for a month, but they didn’t bother to tell me because I have ‘other things to think about.’ I don’t think my mother would have told me [...]

Today is the day that I’m thankful for not being a medieval history blogger, because if you are, there is apparently no way to avoid having twins. The Rebel Lettriste just had twin boys, and now Medieval Woman has found out that she is having twins. This has totally killed whatever lingering interest [...]

Maternity dresses are the comfiest thing ever. Why don’t they design regular women’s clothes to be so comfortable? Clearly something should be done about this.

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 [...]

The kitten is trying to lick my nail polish off. I guess he doesn’t like purple.

I wish it was possible, when a couple decided that they wanted to have children, that they could also decide which one of them was going to be pregnant. (This is where lesbian couples have a decided advantage over heterosexuals. What we really need is to be like Ursula LeGuin’s Gethenians.) I [...]

Not a long post, because I should be in bed, but we just got home from our date (we got all dressed up and had dinner in the fifties diner, and then went to the movies), and I wanted to share how pleasantly surprised I was by the Sherlock Holmes movie. I went in [...]

$2 grilled cheese sandwiches for teh win!

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, [...]