Timelies all!

Grmph...I need more sleep. (I know, what else is new?)

But it's almost Valentines Day! It comes in red, too!

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I suspect much panicking.

It entertains me to picture account executives freaking out across the globe.

Thanks for the link, Plei. Was labor gratifying for you?

Oddly, yes.

In a blurry sort of way.

Oddly, yes.

This is the differentest thing I've heard about mothering ever. Not to imply you're different from other mothers, more that it's different from anything I could have guess.

I also would describe my labor as gratifying. In the same way that doing anything physical and hard and succeeding is gratifying, like climbing a mountain. And oh the endorphins when you're done! (As a non-athlete, I don't get a lot of endorphins in my life).

What happens in labour if you don't try? They yell at you to push and stuff--what if you just fucking can't? Does that mean they have to do a caesarian to avoid bad stuff?

I'm all about the endorphin rush, but not so much when it gets you a dependent human. Though I'd love to sit up (or loll limply) after labour and enthuse "That was better than krav!" Mostly for reaction's sake.

I never thought I'd say this: Maybe Mariah's problem is that she wears too much clothing.

While I'm serial posting, this article tells of weirdness, but the choice of graphic cracks me up.

I happened to be at the hospital visiting another new mom when a friend of mine gave birth. After 20 hours. I've never seen anyone that exhausted be that perky in my life. Hell, she's perky normally, and I don't think I've ever seen her that perky before. If she could have stood without falling, she'd have been bouncing off the walls. Apparently, she reacts very cheerily to the endorphin rush.

shrift, we are sharing a day. You know what doesn't help you calm down from three rush requests and discovering your developers fucked up 2 years ago and no one told you? Dealing with fuckhead drivers including one ambulance. I pull out of the way. Some moron pulls parallel to me, blocking the road. I move to allow the ambulance to pass. So does fuckhead. Meanwhile, the damned truck is now tailgating me, honking, blinding me with its lights and I'm just trying to get out of the way and people are getting in MY way.

Then it passes me and parks in the one ONE! location which is only wide enough for one vehicle. They finally moved, but I was yelling at that point.

God I hate people.

ita, thanks to you I'm now know what the hell is going on (well, not really, but I know what it isn't) when I get the weird stress headaches that feel like someone tightened my scalp at the back of my head. I figured it was some weird muscle thing (and would ponder if unscrewing my head might work,) but no! It's right where all those ocipi... nerves are! I couldn't figure out how it could be muscles, because my neck and shoulders never hurt with those things. My scalp is just too tight and crampy.