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I hate feeling like this, and I hate always leaning on ND. He's tired and overworked and stressed, too.

Oh, I am so sorry that you are feeling like this but glad that you have the ability to lean also.

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Kinda cryptic - but I need some ~ma for C.

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I hate feeling like this, and I hate always leaning on ND

So sorry you are feeling down. However, leaning is part of loving. Sometimes you lean on more than others lean on you, I guess.

ION, when do we get pictures of red-haired-Kristin??

eta: also, unspecified ~ma as needed for C.

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Laura, doing reasonably well, you know how it is, always something more that needs to be done. Ms. H is fine, we spent yesterday with friends and she give me a gift certificate for a bookstore yesterday so I pranced about for a bit...

Fred Pete, Cashmere, KristenT, Brenda M, thank you all for your birthday wishes. Considering my own low profile here, all wishes are welcome...

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~ma for C.

I just watched a delayed race and, wow, the roller coaster. Now the year is over (okay, not for Nascar but that is pretty much just methadone for me, not my drug of choice) for way too long. sniff...

I also can't believe that I am feeling possibly tired again after I slept all damn day.

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Poor Cass.

If your body says sleep, you should.

But, before you do, could you hop on IM?

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hop

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Generic unlabeled plasticine -ma for C, in all the quantities she needs, to be shaped and arranged and named as she and you need.

Also, billytea continues, as per usual, to be possibly the most emotionally mature man on the planet. It is an honor to know you, sir, except for the part where I'd have to lock up my daughter if I had one.

Bleah. Long, weary weekend, though neither so long nor so weary as Hec's -- I'm fairly sure he's at work again right now. One of my brothers came in for a brief visit yesterday, on a quick side jaunt from a business trip his boss in Portland, OR, sent him on. And now I'm all fretful on his behalf.

He and my SIL have been in counseling for a few months over the babies issue; they agreed when they married some eight years ago that they wanted them, and now they're in their mid-thirties and he is painfully overready for parenthood and she's been waffling, saying she's not quite ready yet, for the last two years. And she's a couple years older than he is, and insulin-dependent-with-a-pump-diabetic, so there are huge health issues associated with continuing to wait for Ready. He's referred to the babies issue as a mild bone of contention a couple of times in the past, but yesterday he said, very quietly, "Ultimately, it'd be a dealbreaker." And then kind of shrugged like it wasn't a big deal and it'd all work out, but his voice and his face didn't go with the jaunty little shrug at all. And now I'm feeling all horribly fretful and big-sister protective. Dammit, he was supposed to be all happily-ever-after and done with! The fretting part was supposed to be done!

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• **Super-star ~ma for C.***

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