Hey all-

I've mentioned this in thread, but Tom and I are moving to New Orleans! And on Monday May 10, after the movers get all our stuff, we will be hanging out at the Salem BeerWorks (in Salem, MA) at the bar, drinking beer and catching up with folks and saying goodbye. Localistas, feel free to drop in! 5/10, 6-9pm. If you have questions, you can find me in Natter or Bitches, or you can email me at my profile address.

THANK YOU THANK YOU from Dan and I for the lovely -- and quite unexpected -- wedding present! Wow -- Buffistae are, quite simply, the best people on the planet.

Please, lovely contributors, email me your IRL address (if you wish) so I may send out proper thank you's. Profile addy is good.

If not, please accept our humble thanks. How lovely and thoughtful you all are!

Dan and I are gobsmacked. In a wonderful way!

So, this is a two parter - first, thank you thank you thank you to the lovely and wonderful Buffistas that sent me such a beautiful bouquet of flowers! When you live in a foreign country and don't know a soul, you don't much expect the floral delivery folks to stop at YOUR house. They made my day! I don't know why I was so surprised, I guess I just temporarily forgot that the Buffistas are the most amazing and thoughtful group on the planet. I am blessed to be a part of such a group, even from a distance.

Secondly, an update, which I have been horribly remiss in offering up. As noted in my last post, I had an emergency C-section on March 31st. Unfortunately, I developed the nastiest abscess you ever did see in my incision. It was 4 centimeters deep at the beginning. I was in the hospital for two weeks. We are at home now, but I am still recovering. At this point the wound is less than 2 centimeters deep and seems to be clear of infection, but its still a freaking hole in my stomach! There is a nurse that comes daily (was twice a day until this week) to change my dressings. Its doing WAY better, I have very little pain now, and I am very mobile. The baby is doing AMAZING, she is growing insanely fast, weighing in at 9.9 pounds and measuring 22 inches already. Breastfeeding is going well, clearly. She is a complete mama's girl, she wants to be near me every single second, which is exhausting but wonderful at the same time.

Again, you're all welcome to keep tabs on us via my blog, though I'm lucky to manage once a week updates at this point. Or if you wanna bypass all the wordiness and just skip directly to the cute baby pictures, check out my Photobucket page.

Thank you again for the bouquet, and for being just generally wonderful!

I have more photos of Ryan up on Flickr: [link] Includes highlights from his first birthday party (his actual birthday starts about an hour from now - in two hours it'll be exactly one year since his birth at 1 a.m.), and saying farewell to his grandparents at the airport. They promise they'll be back later in the year. How could they not? [link]

I got a job offer.

xposted with Natter and Beep Me:

DCers, the Tennant/Stewart Hamlet is being rebroadcast TONIGHT at 1:30AM (technically Friday) on WETA (channel 26 in my neck of the woods) I'm tivoing, so may be able to burn discs if I can figure it out.

The Girl's father's surgery was a success! He's cancer-free, and we hope it will stay that way. It was big big surgery so he'll be in recovery for a while, but everyone is very hopeful over in Houston (at the cancer clinic).

I will be grey for the next week, as I move back to CA. I will have my edge iPhone. And hopefully wi-fi in hotels.

Hi folks. Historic Green, the nonprofit that organizes the green rebuilding thing in New Orleans, would love to talk to some kind of nonprofit mentor, particular concerning issues of how to manage personalities (IOW how do you fire a volunteer?).

If anyone has experience they'd like to share, or knows of an organization that does that kind of mentoring, please to hit me up at profile addy. Thanks!