I never smile in pictures

The belly in all its glory at 18 weeks.  The baby has started moving around intermittently, most often while I’m watching baseball games.  Apparently even the prenatal crowd is angsty over the Yankees.
I think we’re all ready for Low-Impact/Reduction stuff to start.  I think I’m not ready for the fetal echo.  I’m off to wander [...]

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Problem solved and preparations begin

So I’m getting a ride to LI on Friday (on Day One of 90% reduction/Low-Impact Week no less, I’ll be in a car, which never happens) and will public transit back.  My MIL will pick me up on her way out to LI, though, so really it’s not so bad.  I am still freaking out [...]

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Barely a grown up

I do very few things that involve leaving my personal comfort zone (which is a little on the small side.) I don’t like new places or new people or new situations or, in fact, any sort of circumstance in which I might look like I don’t know what I’m doing.
Like banks. Switched around [...]

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Rhubarb?

Does anybody have any good recipes for rhubarb?  I’ve only ever had it plain and, well, not a fan.  We’re getting some this week from the CSA and I’m not sure if I want to use their compote recipe.

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Eat it, dammit

Back when I was in high school, I worked as a cashier in a large home improvement supah-center. One day one of the warehouse guys was at my friend’s register with his kid and a Happy Meal toy, the point of which was for the toy to gobble up some other aspect of the [...]

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Have you lost your mind?

So after much hemming and hawing and soul-searching and, well, mathing, I’ve decided to give this 90% Reduction thing a shot.  Fret not; this blog will not turn entirely into a logbook of my various projects, although of course I will be writing about them (remember my brain can only wrap itself around a few [...]

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I’d say I was blogged out…

but I’ve barely written anything in ages.  Truth is, being pregnant, hanging out with a 4 y/o, obsessing about whether the worms are thriving and how much trash we’re throwing out, trying to wean Lucy and myself off of television and trying to put together one big shopping trip day so as not to waste [...]

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Another blah-ti-blah post

I have to write today and I’m putting it off. I managed to wake myself up at 5:59 to get a head start, but can’t bring myself to open the doc and begin editing. I should be a raging ball of nerves by noon and apoplectic by two if I don’t get working, [...]

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God, I love the 2nd trimester

Really, what a glorious time of pregnancy. No swollen feet, the ability to walk more than a block without having to pee, no need to collapse on the couch after making the bed. I freaking love it. It’s not that I’m lazy ordinarily, but for some reason, the last few weeks have [...]

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Colds and other miseries

Woke up yesterday with scratchy throat, which expanded into ear pressure, and culminated with me falling asleep on the couch at the MIL’s after lunch. In bed by 7:30. I can swallow and my ears are fine, but the congestion is going to drive me crazy. Today I have to figure out [...]

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