I get worked over with guilt if I come in with a sniffle,

I get guilt from work if I DON'T come in with a sniffle. You come in here unless you're dying.

I need to do sub plans and all the prep for that too.

And then the sub will have the kids doing something else. It seems the boys never do anything related to their studies when they have a sub. This is the best part of having a sub.

Speaking as a former sub, I loved it when the teachers actually had lesson plans for me, but they rarely did. I subbed every day for an entire school year and I think I got lesson plans 3 times.

Two studies down! Two to go!

Go, vw!!!

I may be wrong, but I THINK some bitches might be the teensiest bit interested in this film.

Oh, dear. My, yes.

Ok. I'm pooping out. I think it's time for an extended break.

Yeah, but it'll probably fit in January of 2006. I know she's wee, but I saw your lj entry about how quickly she's gained weight.

Hee! If I'm lucky. She's a tiny eating machine, but at 1 month, most NB stuff is just starting to fit her now.

Em's the same way. She's 5 1/2 months and still wearing a lot of her 0-3 months stuff. Which cracks me up cause I was told by so many people that she would probably not wear any of the 0-3 months stuff. Yay for small and healthy babies!

Yay for bigger babies, too!

Yay babies!

Then there are babies like my little brother was: 10 pounds, 9 1/2 ounces. The hospital didn't have a t-shirt big enough for him. I think he went straight to 6-months clothes, maybe some 3-6 months, but mostly 6 months.

Request for some shallow ~ma~

I put in in February for tickets to LA Antiques Roadshow. They start sending out the tickets this month. I really want to go. So can I have some shallow ARS~ma??

When the Antiques Roadshow came to Salt Lake several years ago, we all just stood in line. Unfortunately, I only showed up on Saturday, not realizing that people had camped out all night. Also, a bunch of folks drove in from Denver and parked their RVs at the convention center while taking shifts in the line. Stupid Roadshow usurpers.

Here's to your shallow ars, Aimée

HAIR COLOR QUESTIONS

To maintain my currently black hair I've been using Clairol Natural Instincts. I'm thinking of switching to Manic Panic. I have two questions:

a) Can I re-close the jar? Can I just touch up my roots and save the rest for a few weeks later? My ends hold the color just about perfectly.

b) Say I put on one of the purple/black or blue/black shades. Will they read at all? Will they read in some horrible way? A hint of purple I could probably get away with here in lawyer-land, but not much more.

Energy ~ma for vw.

Shallow ~ma for Aimée. How in the world will you decide what to take? I know (tangentially) one of the appraisers of Folk Art. She's married into old family friends of my husband's and for a while they lived in SF so I got to admire the stuff in their apartment.

Annabel mostly wears 18-month, though some of the 12-month stuff still fits, and I'm starting to put her in 24-month/2T, just because most of her current wardrobe came from a big bag of freecycle hand-me-downs from a kid who was in 24-month clothes during the summer. But the odds of DH and I having a kid who's anything other than tall and big-boned were pretty much nonexistent. Her rate of growth is slowing a bit, but the pede said it was normal, because DH and I aren't that tall. My reply: "So you're saying she's going to be 5'8" or so like me instead of 6'1" like her cousin Julie." Her: "Exactly." Me: "OK, I'll cross 'WNBA star' of the list of ways she can care for her parents in their old age."

Now I'm wondering if I'm unusual for not worrying more about Annabel's health or checking her breathing more often! Also, while I love her lots, I don't find that maternal language for talking about her comes naturally to me. So if I try to say things like, "I never would've imagined it was possible to love someone this much," it feels like I'm saying a line from someone else's script. (I do, however, regularly tell DH that we have the bestest daughter-girl in the whole world, so maybe it's all a matter of semantics.)