The baby who disdains sippy cups reached for DH's water he was drinking from a regular plastic tumbler. He held it for her to drink, and she sipped like a pro and begged for more.

Nice to know she won't be drinking from bottles at 18 when we send her off to college.

ION, I had a mini-epiphany about to-do lists and scheduling and managing my self-employed lifestyle. I was stressing myself out unnecessarily by treating my to-do list as my job itself. So I drove myself nuts trying to get every single thing on each day's list done, something I never did in my old job unless faced with a hard-and-fast deadline. I don't know why I was doing it so differently, except that I was trying to impose structure on myself and overdid it. But this week I started treating my list as an overall guide to remind myself of what I need to get done, and moving things that don't happen one day on to the next without feeling guilty over it. And I'm getting a lot done and feeling good about myself.

Good for you, Susan. It sounds like a balance is coming to your life.

Timlies! I skimmed like a stone skipping along the water, but in a textual way.

I should not be awake. Just took drugs to try and fix this. Damn if I don't hope this is going to end up a drive-by cause I will sleep soon.

And rewatching The O.C. I have to admit that I adore this show (which is totally many people in Natter's fault, you know who you are...) a little too much. And though I wriggle in joy at The Seth, I would not kick Ryan out of bed. I'd invite him there actually. Or mebbe that Tate Donovan guy.

The Blockbuster version of Netflix is sending me Season One since I only started watching this year. It's a sickness. With snark and pretty, so a good sickness.

I did cut my hair yesterday. Well I paid someone who is actually competent to do it for me. There are no pictures as my camera has a dead battery and I haven't upgraded my phone to one of them pix-able ones. But I cut it. And as short as it has been in years and years. Not Hec short, but it doesn't even hit the tops of my shoulder anymore. And I think it is kinda pretty.

Next I add some more red, partially as several of my hairs have decided to go gray (actually much whiter than gray, which rocks in the Thank You Grandma way) and semi-perm colors are a miracle of science.

Oh and I got a pedi. I feel like a vintage Mustang, all candy apple red... That was yesterday too.

And the eyebrow wax that was being chatted about a few days ago.

I am pretty for being sick still.

I had an hour-long burst of what passed for energy yesterday and lucked out with appointments. Said burst is all kinds of gone. Just want to sleep now.

Oh and I love your tag Maria.

Aaaaand, I have insomnia. Trying to decide if it is too late for Ambien.

I took IBS meds (bless the people that decided nightshade might be useful in a medical sense) and Advil for the headache and unhappy tummy combo so I feel a little woozy but not in the actually going to sleep way.

Firefox outsmarted me for a while but I think I made it bend to my will. It flat-out rejected any cookies and kept me from b.org for a while. We had a discussion. It now accepts some cookies. The bitch learns.

Damn, and the cats don't. Puppycat is nibbling at the bamboo. Oh well.

UPN is showing A Murder of Crows which is good. And SG-1's Sam's dad is in it. In gold-leafed laurel headwear. My brain is remaking the movie as I type. I'm also warming up NOLA because it is raining in the movie and I am tired of rain.

Want sleep.

Cass appears to have been all alone in her insomnia. I only had 10 messages to catch up to this morning.

Slackers. Or, huh, sleepers.

Actually, it just occurred to me that I do need practical advice re babymaking and hair -- I vaguely recall hearing that heavy-duty chemical-rich hair dyeing is a no during pregnancy. Is this in fact so? If so, is it safe to get a big gray-obliterating chemical bath as long as one does so before actually beginning to try for a baby, or should someone who's contemplating trying within the next six months or so stop right now? And is absolutely all dyeing verboten, or is there some alternative product that is safe for use during pregnancy? Henna? Watercolor paint? Sharpies?

Go mascara, choose mascara.

JZ, it depends on the OB. Either way, don't worry about coloring pre-pregnancy. But do talk to your own health care provider about it, once you are pregnant.

My OB would end up in a fist fight with Plei's OB. He said not to worry about the fumes in the salon, but was a nay-sayer even about the sort of highlights where they put the plastic cap on you, and pull your hair through with a crochet-like hook, therefore keeping the dye off your skin. And he is young, so it's not like this was something he learned before the earth cooled. My stylist, on the other hand, thought he was on crack.

What the OB also said though, was, "Look, plenty of women color their hair during pregnancy, and don't have trouble. I can't tell you it is okay, because there is risk, and why take on a risk for something like that, but plenty of people would go ahead and do it, anyhow."

I decided not to do it, basically for my own sanity, so that if anything went wrong, I wouldn't spend the rest of my life blaming myself for coloring my hair.

My OB was "meh" with haircolor. I got some painted on highlights early in the 2nd trimester and it grew out pretty naturally, carrying me through the whole prenancy without too much gray showing through.

But then, I was more worried about the effects of the trip to Vegas we took while I was pregnant but unaware than the effects of haircolor. YGuiltMV.

There was some comedian who used to go on about how it was funny that women weren't supposed to drink alcohol while pregnant, given that without it, fewer of us would get pregnant in the first place.

There was some comedian who used to go on about how it was funny that women weren't supposed to drink alcohol while pregnant, given that without it, fewer of us would get pregnant in the first place.

So. True.

Huh. Without alcohol, Nick would not exist.

I woke up this morning to find that he'd stopped my norton antivirus from running, changed my home page and fiddled with the font settings on my browser.

I also colored my hair with either Kara or Aidan, and never thought about not doing it or asking about it until after. No one was harmed so far as I know, though if it was Kara it may have stunted the brain cells that tell her mommy's getting close to explosion and it would be wise to take cover.