How to feel more human

I feel frumpy.  Dumpy and frumpy and schlumpy.  Bleh.  There’s plenty of reasons for that.  Weight, clothing, time, energy.  Whatever.  Standard mommy stuff, right?  But one thing stuck out as a downer that I could actually do something about in short order.
Finally, after nearly eight months, I made an appointment to get my hair done.  [...]

Bum Foot

So, I’m apparently 29-going-on-70.  Why?  I mean, aside from the knitting and quilting?  Because I’ve been going to a podiatrist.  Every time I’m in there, I feel like I pull the average age down about a decade.  Anyways, I have a bum left foot.  I noticed over the summer that my foot really hurt when [...]

You’re kidding, right?

It’s like a bad joke.
Ages and ages ago, I wrote about my OB/GYN office and their really annoying habit of cancelling appointments either the day of or the day before.  Basically, they make office appointments even when they’re the on-call doc at the hospital.  So I was always getting calls that my doctor was in [...]

Flying leap into 2003

We finally got a DVR box from our cable company shortly before the Olympics started.  And no, I’m not quite as lame as that sounds.  We had a TiVo several years ago, which a friend had gotten us as a wedding present.  And we used it, and we loved it.  But then, the day I [...]

What a throwback

Sometimes I’m not sure which era I live in.  In some ways, I totally feel the whole modern woman thing.  And in some ways, I think part of me lives in the 1950s.  What have I been doing in between watching the Olympics in the evening?

Working on another new quilt, this time for my niece…

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Not that special.

So, my friend Nancy over at the Zimmer Zoo has tagged me.  And we all know, I love me some memes.  Here we go:
The subject:
“6 UN-spectacular things about me”
The rules:
1. Link the person who tagged you.
2. Mention the rules on your blog.
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking [...]

Olympic Madness

I friggin love the summer Olympics.  As I mentioned before, I’ll watch practically anything.  It’s been like 12 hours since the opening ceremonies aired, and I’ve already watched women’s basketball, men’s beach volleyball, and men’s soccer.  Oh, and it was my motivation to FINALLY switch to a DVR box from my cable company (I know, [...]

I’ve missed you

I think I had to take off my wedding and engagement rings for good when I was about 12 weeks pregnant.  I had gained some weight before I got pregnant, so they were already a little snug.  And I started hanging on to extra water early, so the rings quickly came off. I was bummed, [...]

Mind on my money

… and money on my mind.
I’m lucky, for a combination of reasons, we don’t have to worry too much about money.  Good job, generous family, and any number of other things mean that we don’t have to stress about the essentials.  Sure, the value of our house has probably dropped (ack, we bought at the [...]

Boston, you’re my home

OK, I think it’s kind of a lame song.  Nothing compared to Frank Sinatra singing “Chicago.”  But regardless of soundtrack, eight years ago yesterday, Boston became my new home town.  I was four days post-college-graduation, starting my one-year master’s degree program at Boston University a few weeks later.  In fact, I [...]