Nicole, look! Google knows what day it is!
To commemorate a past event, you kill and eat an animal. It's a ritual sacrifice, with pie.
Anya ,'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 32: I think I'm sobering up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
brenda m - Sep 27, 2006 5:22:07 am PDT #5156 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
lisah - Sep 27, 2006 5:24:28 am PDT #5157 of 10000
Punishingly Intricate
Happy B'day, Nicole! Yay Cake!! Yay Vacation!!! BOO working on your birthday!!!
§ ita § - Sep 27, 2006 5:30:08 am PDT #5158 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Happy birthday, Nicole!
Lee - Sep 27, 2006 5:31:05 am PDT #5159 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Happy Birthday Nicole!!!!
Glamcookie - Sep 27, 2006 5:32:29 am PDT #5160 of 10000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Aw, congrats again to the Zmayhem clan. Very sweet birthing story.
Congrats to ND!
Happy birthday to Nicole!
And I'm off to get ready for my grad school orientation. Why do I feel 5 years old?
brenda m - Sep 27, 2006 5:35:19 am PDT #5161 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Don't forget your lunchbox, Gloom.
Amy - Sep 27, 2006 5:39:22 am PDT #5162 of 10000
Because books.
Sunflowers rock.
Also, AmyLiz, I've been meaning to tell you that one of my early b-day gifts was Bad Boys Of Summer (thanks again, Sail!) and I loved your story!
Aw. ::blushing:: I'm glad you liked it!
P.M. Marc - Sep 27, 2006 6:10:20 am PDT #5163 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
It's nice to have nurses on call and having someone bring you hot (if bland) meals
David, bring her food. We sent my in-laws out for Indian the next day. After hospital food, it was heaven.
Mmm. Korma.
Also, suggest to JZ that, if they have an LC on staff, she meet with them--I keep forgetting to suggest this to every new mother, but I found it incredibly helpful, and it probably saved me from some of the nastier problems that can crop up in the early days of nursing, considering I was dealing with flattish nipples and a tiny baby mouth.
DavidS - Sep 27, 2006 6:11:36 am PDT #5164 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Awwww, Fuck.
Matilda had to be taken to the NICU last night. She had bile in her stomach and had to have it pumped out. Apparently she swallowed some of her own mess in utero while doing her practice breathing before she was born.
Matilda was getting fussy and distressed last night so JZ called the nurse to bring her over to the bed. The nurse patted Matilda on the back and some dark mucus came up. They took her to the nursery and she vomited some more dark stuff. So they took her to the NICU to get her stomach suctioned out. JZ went down there at 2:30am and held Matilda while they did the procedures and stayed with her until 5:30. That's not how you want to spend the night after you've had abdominal surgery!
Poor little Matilda, that's a fine welcome to the world. And poor JZ being up all night and moving around after a C-section.
So I'll make it back over there in time for rounds and hear what the doctors say. Night nurse said there's a good chance she'll be released back to us today since the stomach was suctioned twice and sonogram shows no intestinal blockage. So it looks like everything's out that needs to be out and I hope that is all the problem that's going on.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 27, 2006 6:13:28 am PDT #5165 of 10000
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Oh, no, poor Matilda and JZ. I hope today is better. Much, much better. Poor things.