Ooh dammit. This is why I prefer only reading series several years after they're all done!

signed, Just finished the fourth Temeraire book. Dammit!

This was me, on the bus to work one morning the week the book came out. Curse you, Naomi Novik, with the leaving us in such suspense!

Oh, and Plei? Ray Toro is my favorite today.

Tep, I want you to know that the last time I was in a LUSH they were taking votes for "old favorites you want brought back" and I voted for Ickle Baby just for you.

I'm home right now -- Matilda has had some congestion and some kind of stomach ick for the last few days (she's blowing through five diapers a day at daycare), and last night she drooled like a runny faucet for 20 minutes and then threw up.

So we're home. She is still runny-nosed and drooly and blazing through her diapers but seems fine and cheerful. It's just me who's a wreck (along with the congestion and ick has been four or five nights in a row of her snapping awake whimpering and sobbing at somewhere between midnight and four, working herself up into a full swivet unless she's given a bottle, and then falling asleep and peeing in (our) bed; after half a week of this, Hec and I are twitchy bundles of raw sleepless nerves).

And now I'm fretting about my soon-to-be-ex-boss, drifting around all alone in the office. I feel like I've just given him a side of abandonment to go with yesterday's official resignation abandonment entrée.

On the upside, the coffee maker just finished popping out my second latte of the morning, and it turns out that Matilda loves scrambled eggs with ricotta and pasta sauce. Yay expanding palate!

Lush has had some difficulty creating a line of baby products without doing animal testing - apparently it's really hard to make a no-tears formulation without being able to test it on actual eyes.

We use the baby bathtub for D during the week because it fills up faster than a regular tub. On weekends we get in the big bathtub with him. Taking him into the shower isn't really an option until we get bathmats (the floors of our tubs aren't textured enough for him to sit safely).

And Kat, step AWAY from the UrbanBaby boards! Those people are crazy!

Jessica, they are! But they are familiarly crazy. I'm also amused by how each of the daily emails is about some cool hip product to buy.

Instead of working today, I've decided to feed my Bad Mommy feeling with [link]

Lush has had some difficulty creating a line of baby products without doing animal testing - apparently it's really hard to make a no-tears formulation without being able to test it on actual eyes.

Huh. You'd think the basic science would be far along enough at this point that you could test that on people eyes (and that ultimately you'd have to anyway).

Also, damn, all y'all. I woke up this morning to the worst nosebleed I've had in a long long time.

Yikes, Liese!

I feel like I've just given him a side of abandonment to go with yesterday's official resignation abandonment entrée.

JZ, resignation is not abandonment.

Kat - that's awesome.

Man, I wish my kid could eat eggs without puking.

Oh, and Plei? Ray Toro is my favorite today.

WOO! TOROSAURUS!

the internets is failing to entertain me.