Go Mr. Sparky!

Sparky, BTW, I owe you a thank you card. (Perkins and Aimee are also owed--I've got a big backlog at the moment!)

Just wanted to let you know that, as soon as I get a milk-free moment or two, I'm going to attempt to get those in the mail.

(I'm covered, as usual, in milk, and haven't had a chance to even shower it off today. Hell, at this point, Lily and I both need to be hosed down. I thought I'd have five minutes to clean up about fifteen minutes ago, but I fear I wasted those on that thing known as "lunch".)

Late to the conversation as always, but BF hurt like hell for the first week or two. Tiny baby with a wee mouth + flat nipples = pain and latch problems. I'm just glad that it worked out, even if she does seem to be constantly attached these days.

Sparky, BTW, I owe you a thank you card.

No, you don't. I now know you actually got it, and since I picked it off your list, I know it was something you needed/wanted. So, now I know everything a card would have told me. If I'd sent it directly to you, it would have come with a pre-written, stamped thank-you card that you would only have had to sign and send back to me -- something I generally include with baby gifts since I don't want people worrying about manners when they should be enjoying the time with baby!

I don't need one either, love.

Signed, Has her own backlog.

What they never tell you is why Wile E. Coyote never spoke: coyotes sound like babies screaming. Really. Most summer nights at my parents' house for ten years.

If I'd sent it directly to you, it would have come with a pre-written, stamped thank-you card that you would only have had to sign and send back to me -- something I generally include with baby gifts since I don't want people worrying about manners when they should be enjoying the time with baby!

Genius!

I'm so going to recommend this practice for an upcoming baby shower. And will never send another gift without such.

coyotes sound like babies screaming.

Huh, whenever I hear a pack of them roaming down Franklin Blvd, they make a weird burbling susurration that sounds like some laughing, idiot elder god from a Lovecraft story.

Sean, are you sure they're coyotes? I mean, have you looked? Because if you didn't get a visual ID, it probably was an Elder God. I hear they like to hang in Hollywood these days.

The coyote stories are both creepy and amusing. I hear we have some in DC, as well, but I haven't seen them yet. I think the rats are fighting them off. Because god knows our rats are big enough to do so.

New Rant: So, if your place of work is CALLED "FedEx/Kinkos", you should either know how to work the FedEx stuff, or you should know which coworker does, so you can say "I'm sorry, I'm not really familiar with that yet, but [insertcoworkername] can help you". You should NOT insist that it can't be done, then try to do it, leave me very suspicious if the package I just paid $25 for will actually make it to it's destination and back to me, AND make me nearly miss the last pickup at your store (when I got there 45 minutes before it). DAMN. I've taken a comment card to send in and complain.

(I'm sending in a visa application. I had to prepay for them to send it back to me. I'm still worried it won't get sent back to me. Since I need my passport back rather urgently--like, don't have time to fuck around with people leaving messages that I need to come get it or send them money or whatever, which would probably take extra days for them to bother to do? This is a large concern)

I wish I had more practical experience with BF before I tried it. Someone to say, "hell, yeah, it's going to hurt for a little while." Instead of it hurting and then reading all this crap about how if it hurts, you're doing it wrong--the latch is wrong, etc. Never said, "if your baby sucks like a hoover, it might also hurt." Pfffftttttbbbbb. I'd have tried harder to stick it out. Rather than get discouraged that I was doing it wrong and give up. But the BF books are afraid of scaring women out of doing it. *sigh* /Rantypants

DH just called. He said chances are "slim" he'll make it home tonight. His flight out of Tallahassee was delayed and he only had a 40 minutes to make a connecting flight in Charlotte. If he can't get a later flight out of Charlotte, he's screwed.

I wish I had more practical experience with BF before I tried it. Someone to say, "hell, yeah, it's going to hurt for a little while." Instead of it hurting and then reading all this crap about how if it hurts, you're doing it wrong--the latch is wrong, etc. Never said, "if your baby sucks like a hoover, it might also hurt." Pfffftttttbbbbb. I'd have tried harder to stick it out. Rather than get discouraged that I was doing it wrong and give up. But the BF books are afraid of scaring women out of doing it. *sigh* /Rantypants

This is a really funny paragraph until you realize BF /= boyfriend.