Win the Essential Babywearing Stash from Along for the Ride (one Beco Butterfly, one Hotsling baby pouch, one BabyHawk Mei Tai, one Zolowear Ring Sling, and one Gypsy Mama Wrap)
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| Date: | 2008-04-12 00:32 |
| Subject: | Friday |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  awake | | Music: | Spin Doctors | Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong |
Ugh. I feel like CRAP.
MIL took me shopping for a dress for my sister's wedding today. It took three hours. Three. Hours. At the mall. Shopping. I don't think I've ever really expressed to you how much I hate shopping. I hate shopping.
So, she made an appointment at Von Maur with a "personal shopper". Unfortunately, the first 45 min of the appointment were me getting my make-up done at the Clinique counter. The end result, which everyone but me apparently loved, was an added 10 years and 100 packs of cigarettes to my face. I hated it. I kept seeing myself in the mirror and feeling like I was living in one of those scifi shows where the character switches bodies. I'd make faces and then be weirded out when the stranger in the mirror made the same face back. MIL seemed genuinely surprised I didn't want to buy anything from the Clinique counter. I scrubbed my face thoroughly as soon as I got home. The worst part is... OK, you know those optical illusions where it looks like one thing to some people and it looks like something else to other people? And it looks one way to you until you force yourself to see it the other way, and then you really can't see it the first way anymore? Well, now every time I look in the mirror, I see that chain smoking fat lady with the heavy jowls looking back at me, even without the make-up. As recently as yesterday, I was thinking my face looked refreshingly thinner.
On top of it all, I think I'm coming down with something. My throat and ears feel a smidge achy, and my back feels very achy (this means fever 99.9% of the time for me). It was cold and rainy and horribly windy when we were out, and it took me forever to warm up when we got home. I pumped the heat up 3 degrees to do it.
I did get a dress. Not the dress I liked best, but the one that I liked 2nd best that fit better than the one I liked best. My favorite was too tight through the bust and too loose elsewhere. It was nicely structured through the waist and made me look about 10 lb lighter, which was nice. Number 2 is not structured, and must be worn with a "shaping" undergarment to smooth out the lumps and bumps. There's one dress I really liked online that I haven't tried on (apparently, you can't do that on the computer), and I think I'm going to order it and see if I like it better than the one I got. If not, well, the one I ended up with will do, and MIL paid for it, so I don't have to grump about it being more $$$ than I wanted to $$.
BSG brought some YAY! to my day. Oh, scifi, how do I love you (when you're not on my face).
Because of the shopping, K- didn't get to nap properly. Now she's wide awake. As soon as she dozes off, I'm going to BED. I promise not to read 1-2 chapters of Deathly Hallows before turning off the lights, too! Oh, and speaking of Harry Potter, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) earthmoon and alunatic you were totally wrong when you said Mrs. Weasley was really trying to hook up Bill and Tonks in HBP. Totally wrong. *goes to fetch book from other end of the house* *returns w/ OOTP* *says bad word* *goes to fetch correct book from other end of the house*
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Just a warning for anyone considering ordering a gift plant through FTD.com. My husband got me a miniature rose for Valentine's Day (he's in Iraq, so mail order was the only way to go), and it was infested with aphids. I didn't realize until after they had infected my other houseplants. My fuchsia was especially hard hit, but they're also on the new growth on my dwarf citrus trees.
I called FTD to complain, and the CSR said, "Sorry. There's nothing I can do for you." I've complained to the BBB, but I also want to warn other consumers: FTD plants are infested with aphids, and they don't care!
Update: This was shipped via DHL from TN (I'm in Iowa). As far as I can see, there was no indication that the plant came from anyone other than just "FTD".
Anyway, FTD just called me (mere hours after my BBB complaint), apologized profusely (I requested an apology in my complaint) and offered a replacement (um, no thanks) or refund (which I accepted). I'll still never do business with them again.
I've never been happy about those home-invading Asian lady beetles
before! Whenever I find one in the house, I move it to my plants. I'm
also manually cleaning the leaves at least every other day.
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| Date: | 2008-02-18 10:54 |
| Subject: | Two! |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  cold |
There are TWO red-bellied woodpeckers on my tree right now. That's a first. I knew there were two of them, because one's male and one's female, but I'e never seen them both at the same time, and right now, they're only about 2' away from each other on the tree!
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Log Cabin Afghan Square
Log Cabin Baby Blanket
Knit Bit: Log Cabin Technique
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I think there was more I wanted to say, but it's now 12:45, so that will have to do.
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| Date: | 2008-01-02 18:58 |
| Subject: | OMG |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  excited |
Robin McKinley has an LJ? How did I not know this??? robinmckinley
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Five.
That's the number of black-capped chickadees currently in my tree or on my new feeder. I've never seen more than one at a time, so that's cool.
There's also a white-breasted nuthatch and a downy woodpecker on the tree right now.
This year, we're up to at least three downy woodpeckers, and one of them is missing a foot. I see him on my finch feeder a lot. He appears to be healthy, aside from the one-foot thing.
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Eddie Izzard- Death Star Canteen in LEGOS!
I'm watching the other ones now.
Also, who was cast in the roll of Reepicheep in the next Narnia movie? Yes, Eddie Izzard.
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| Date: | 2007-12-24 12:07 |
| Subject: | Overheard |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | amused |
N-: (climbing on Hubby's chair) Dad, I'm going to fall off and crack my head open if you keep pushing on me.
Hubby: (trying absentmindedly to stop her from climbing) Oh, would that be a bad thing?
N-: Yes, because Momma loves me.
Also, I find this hilarious. Clinton urges Iowa voters to caucus on wrong day
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| Date: | 2007-12-18 13:30 |
| Subject: | Note to self |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  hungry |
Baking Christmas cookies the day before going totally wheat free? Not the smartest idea you've ever had.
In related news, I have the most self control any person has ever had in the history of the world. Yes. I do.
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| Date: | 2007-12-15 22:42 |
| Subject: | Not. Happy. |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  annoyed |
I made a special trip to the HFS today to pick up some gluten free bread so I could start my wheat elimination diet. I got home, dished up some soup from the crockpot, and went to pull out a slice of bread... only to notice the sell by date: 13 October.
Of course, the HFS was already closed for the day and they aren't open on Sundays. And, come Monday, I now have to drive back across town with a newborn who doesn't appreciate car rides.
I? Am not happy!
Also, I desperately want a Zelenka "I am losing the will to live" icon. I can't believe no one has made that one yet.
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| Date: | 2007-11-29 21:03 |
| Subject: | Hey, Steph... |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  confused |
Do you have any more info on the toxicity of Clove Oil? Someone recommended rubbing it on a baby's gums to alleviate teething pain, and I told them what you said ("A caution about clove oil. It can cause cancer. It is an anesthetic for fish, but it can't be used in fish intended for human consumption because of the carcinogenic qualities of the oil."), and now they're wondering how it can be bad if we cook with cloves.
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| Date: | 2007-11-28 10:03 |
| Subject: | Star Wars |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  silly |
Cloud City = Marine Research Facility.
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| Date: | 2007-11-08 13:10 |
| Subject: | Baby girl |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | happy |
Born last night a little after 11 pm. She arrived before the midwife, again. ;-) Brown hair, blue eyes, 22" and 7 lb. 12 oz.
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How to destroy the earth. Excerpt: "The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy."
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| Date: | 2007-11-04 22:53 |
| Subject: | It's official |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: | irked |
The box with the newborn clothes did not make it to our house. We opened and double checked every single box. It's been well over a year since we left Germany, so there's no way to claim the loss with the military. It's mostly just really frustrating because I'd finally gotten to the point where I had enough "good" clothes (ie, soft, 100% cotton) that I didn't have to use any of the "bad" clothes (polyester), and a lot of them were also really cute. Now, I get to replace them, which is also a PITB, and it irks me to spend money on something that I had covered, damn it.
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A corporate entity goes above and beyond: Zappos.
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R- started throwing up a little after noon. N- has thrown up twice in the past forty minutes. It is now 3:10 am. I'm going to be dead tired tomorrow. :-(
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| Date: | 2007-10-12 18:19 |
| Subject: | Movie and TV |
| Security: | Public |
| Mood: |  geeky |
MIL's movie, The Final Season, hit theaters today. You should go see it.
Also, MIL's friend, Tyrees Allen, has a role on Women's Murder Club, which premiers on ABC tonight.
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