HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASH!

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Happy Birthday, Cashmere!!!!!!

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he called the office, found out that his second-in-command thinks it's wonderful and that it's also 35 pages, and decided I didn't need to read it to him. I had to make a few minor edits and it's all done.

Yay!

Now I'm plotting for a nap.

DoubleYay!

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Good news Susan. Glad Annabel is doing fine.

I remember after CJ had his spinal surgery, we were so cautious about every little thing that seemed out of normal. Even though he was our second child, the 6 year age gap had dulled some of our memoried of what was normal.

Happy Birthday Matt!!!

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around dealing with another month without my assistant. Somehow this time is harder than the previous 6 months. I had so much pinned on "she will be back in October". Gah.

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Dude. Peanut butter and applesauce sandwiches are GOOD.

Also, I just sold my desktop computer. I miss him already, but the $1500 in cash I got for him is a very reasonable trade.

ETA: Oh! And I'm so glad Annabel is doing well.

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Happy Birthday Matt! (Repeated from Movies)

Susan, that's a good response from the doctor. Have you thought about your plan of action if you get Annabel tested and she's fine? (I assume you've thought about the alternative.)

Wish me luck - we are doing our first day-long roadtrip tomorrow in Greece and with baby. We've done a 6-hour jaunt, but this will be closer to 10.

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Luck-ma vibes to Raq and family ----~~~~~{{{{{

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Yay, Annabel!

Good luck on travelling with the wee one, Raq.

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Have you thought about your plan of action if you get Annabel tested and she's fine? (I assume you've thought about the alternative.)

Pretty much keep doing what I've been doing the past few days--keep interacting with Annabel, concentrating on talking to her, labeling things for her, and trying to hint at ways she could talk to us.

Not that I wasn't doing that stuff before the past few days, but now I'm being a lot more mindful about it. Also, between my busyness with the conference and all of Dylan's staying late at work over the reaccreditation, we've probably been less involved with her in the last month than normal. So I'm trying to make up for it a bit.

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Sounds delightful. I'm originally from Alpena, MI, which is right on the northeastern coast of the lower peninsula of Michigan. [link]

Okay, so our weather is kind of a pussy next to your weather.

I've been living in central NC for the past several years and trying to find a job somewhere closer to a major coast and further north.

I'm from here. I live one town north of where I grew up (about 10 miles north of Boston), so in some ways I'm not a good spokesmodel for the place. I suspect I'd still be in Alpena, MI, if I'd been born there. Our winters are a little better than Michigans and our summers are a little better than North Carolinas, and bother are shorter. If you're in Boston, you're on the coast. If you're in a surrounding town, you're 5-10 miles from the coast. North or south of the city, you're an hour or two away from the Cape and islands, and the beaches of southern Maine and southern New Hampshire, and only a couple of hours away from the White Mountain range, as well. Our Falls are wonderful (although this one has been a bit rainy of late).

There are a lot of colleges in and around Boston, so there's usually a lot to do. There are a lot of major hospitals which means you have easy access to healthcare (and they're decent places to work, as well). There's the theatre district. Our bars close on the early side for a major city (unless that has changed from the days when I used to go out). Public transpo isn't bad (it isn't great, though). You can live a few towns away and conceivably be on a busline, the subway line, and the commuter rail line.

I think Theodosia works for a publishing house, fwiw.

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