Taking care of twins has been the first job I’ve had, since 1999, where I wasn’t sitting in front of a computer all day. It’s been a disorienting transition. Without sitting at a computer, it’s hard to know what time it is. Or what day it is. And sometimes, I forget what time of the [...]
Operation Thunder Babies: Life With Twins, Month Two
September 12, 2012 By 3 Comments
Okay, so yes, I’m still here. Meaning, I exist, as a “person” in the “world,” though I haven’t been in front of my computer, much less on the “internet.” Because, you know. Babies. Two of them. I was about to write an inventory of my whole day, but then I got exhausted and bored just [...]
Some Preggo Updates: Week 31
June 14, 2012 By 7 Comments
I still get people saying I’m not showing so much, especially for twins. Really? Can we talk about this? My belly button is still, just barely, pointing inward. It’s like watching someone inflate a balloon. They just keep going and going, and you see the balloon stretch, and you know that balloons can only get [...]
Being Pregnant Is Super Trashy
May 29, 2012 By 7 Comments
I have spent the majority of my life not being pregnant. I’m pretty good at it. In almost 39 years, I’ve spent the majority of that time not wanting to be pregnant, for whatever reason. I remember the heady days of my twenties, and not having a boyfriend, yet still waking up in a sweat [...]
Belly At 26 Weeks And Stuff
May 17, 2012 By 13 Comments
Are you ready for this belly? I’ve had a few people who haven’t seen me in a while and they are surprised I’m not showing more. Like, “You’re not massive! I thought you’d be grotesquely huge by now!” I feel pretty okay about that. I’m sort of tall, at 5’8,” and we know one of the [...]
File Under: Nuts, Running Around Like
April 2, 2012 By 11 Comments
Okay, so: Hello internet. I see you still exist even when I go away for a week or two. We have been running around like nutty whack-a-doos. Dave starts his new job in Portland *today.* Huge. This was the first big piece that needed to fall into place in order for us to move back [...]
Working. Or What I Call Work, Anyway
September 1, 2011 By 5 Comments
Yes, work. We do that sometimes, even though we don’t have employers. I have lists and lists and lists and lists of stuff filled with various things in multiple forms of media. I have no less than 6 lists on my desk written on paper. In neat little writing with red ink, because I like [...]
Here’s My Goddamned Happy List
August 17, 2011 By 8 Comments
I realized recently that I talk about My Goddamned Happy List all the time, but I never actually wrote it down. It’s mostly a mental list, but then it’s easy to forget what makes me happy, and then I’d be a walking existential crisis. And I know me, I’d probably start writing bad poetry. My [...]
My First Week of Semi-Employment
January 17, 2011 By 6 Comments
I have a very long list of things to get done “when I have the time.” Do you have one of these lists too? I began adding to it in earnest when it began to look like I’d be reducing my hours at my job. Now I have a list filled with projects and tasks [...]
Wrestling A Bear
October 25, 2010 By 4 Comments
This past weekend in Portland, we got hit with one of the first winter storms of the fall, meaning, it was rainy AND windy. So while the rain pounded and the trees swayed outside, we hunkered in and, wow, what a shit ton of stuff we got done over here. I listed a bunch of [...]
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