but you have lee there. Me? NSM. Home alone cleaning and organizing. Not so fun.

I would send you a house elf that I had one. Promise.

but you have lee there. Me? NSM.

You will have me, in LA at least. Maybe not soon, but someday.

No contractions! I forbid them. For now, anyway. I may change my mind later.

Me too! For now.

Lee, tell me about your tagline. Is it a personal mission, a quoted one, or both?

Quoted, from the Dixie Chicks, but also personal, once I figure out the something.

I need a house-elf. and possibly a therapist. And definitely a bottle of champagne and the ability to consume it right now. i have none of these things.

Some of the kids said they felt bad about how they acted last semester and had they known I was pregnant they would have been nicer. @@.

I freaked them out to today when I mentioned the brain grows first and then the skull grows around the brain. Also, that one of the kids wedges body parts beneath my ribs and pushes.

ita, I have an intrusive nosy question. are you IMable?

Lee breaks internets. I think. Watch her carefully!

Crap, I just realized it is the 14th. I missed my complex's Guardian Angels meeting! (I wanted to go cause I was curious about what they are about and what they propose.)

Do you know what they do, sara?

With leg lifts, you need to have the other leg bent and tighten your lower pelvic muscles to support your back. Press your lower back inito the floor. (Or bed. My PT told me to do them on the bed, since I have a firm mattress.) And arms at your sides for more support, not behind your head. Sit-ups, just don't. Do crunches and pelvic tilts

I just do side leg lifts to work on my hips and then fold the top leg over so the foot on the floor in front of the other knee and lift the lower leg, thus working on the inner thigh (which desperately need help). My situps consist of lifting both legs about a foot off the floor and doing crunches with my hands behind my heads, and then have one ankle resting on the other knee while crossing over with my opposite elbow attempting to reach the knee to work on my side stomach muscles.

I think what screwed up the back was the feet-off-the-floor crunches, since that's what hurt when I started doing them. Should have listened to my body and stopped there. Doing better now that I've had heat on it most of the day.

Lee breaks internets. I think. Watch her carefully!

Only other people's!

Also, ssshhh.

Some of the kids said they felt bad about how they acted last semester and had they known I was pregnant they would have been nicer. @@.

Hahaha! Lord that over them. If you are so inclined. As if threatening to puke on them wasn't sympathetic enough!

I freaked them out to today when I mentioned the brain grows first and then the skull grows around the brain. Also, that one of the kids wedges body parts beneath my ribs and pushes.

Score! Of course, this is now freaking me out. You are closer to even for the placenta thing. Just wait until you are teaching and they see a limb travel across your belly. I have to admit, I kinda shrieked when out for lunch with a very pregnant friend and this lump travelled across her belly and knocked her plate out of the way. She claimed it was a foot. Me? ALIENS IN TRISH! Of course, that alien is now 3 and a big sister. Eek!

Do you know what they do, sara?

Only vaguely from a brief google. I remember hearing about the NYC issues back in the day. Sorta neighborhood-watchy but more aggressive than NW these days, kinda. More outreachy, for sure. I wish I'd gone so I could have more of an opinion of this particular incarnation.

For the record, the no-knead bread is not originally mine. I reported on a recipe I got from the NY Times.

And, overall, I'm back to kneaded bread. I prefer a -- a more kneaded result, I guess. I'm not that big into rough crusts, and I prefer sweet breads anyway (the no-knead takes no sugar), so I tend to make milk breads these days: with an egg and milk and butter. And cinnamon or nutmeg or sometimes rosemary.