I love my babies like crazy and love being a mom AND I think it's totally overwhelming much of the time.
Yes, this.
Having a child adds all kinds of stress and worry, but I can't imagine a world without Annabel in it.
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Susan W. - Apr 01, 2008 8:31:04 am PDT #2676 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
lisah - Apr 01, 2008 8:42:50 am PDT #2677 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Loves on lisah.
awww thanks! I need that right now. Heart is minorly breaking over something I just read that I kind of wish was an April Fool's but I know isn't. about someone I'm mostly over but, I guess, not completely. feh.
beekaytee - Apr 01, 2008 8:48:28 am PDT #2678 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I wanna meet my kid!
How wonderful.
so your attitudes towards life are the big factor.
How true.
I worked with a woman today who is endeavoring to shift the lifelong habit of expecting a negative outcome...as a means of protection through preemptive pain...in favor of realizing that she can handle anything that comes along. It seems that simply opting for a positive outcome skips a step and seems un-doable. But she could embrace the idea of positively dealing with adversity.
She's been able to do this already in her non-intimate relationships...but is resisting it with her SO.
Sometimes it makes me sad that we put so much significance on our intimate relationships that we can squeeze the life right out of them.
Why shouldn't the person you hold dearest get MORE of a break than anyone else? Why is it that we so often hand that person more of a BURDEN than we would anyone else?
beth b - Apr 01, 2008 8:50:37 am PDT #2679 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Why shouldn't the person you hold dearest get MORE of a break than anyone else?
yup
vw bug - Apr 01, 2008 8:52:02 am PDT #2680 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Ok. I've paid bills, balanced my checkbook, figured out my budget for the rest of the month, made a grocery list, filled out some paperwork that needs to be mailed (and found and copied all of the documentation that goes with it), attended classes, made advising appointments on campus, and made arrangements to be interviewed for an informational video next week.
Do we think that's enough productive procrastination (well, going to class wasn't really procrastination) to make my work on my thesis really effective, or do I need to do a few more things before attacking the thesis? (I do have a complete draft, by the way. I only have fairly minor changes to make, and I've still got 5 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes and 10 seconds before it's due!)
Glamcookie - Apr 01, 2008 8:55:16 am PDT #2681 of 10001
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
{{{lisah}}}
Pix - Apr 01, 2008 8:55:21 am PDT #2682 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Morning(ish) everyone. Thanks for your kind words earlier. I'm trying not to feel too bummed about the England thing.
Aimee, I'm sorry your boss so clearly has his priorities so screwed up.
GC, I'm so excited for you and GF!
vw, the pictures are beautiful, and you look so happy!
{{lisah}} Sorry you're having a rough day, hon.
tommyrot - Apr 01, 2008 8:57:58 am PDT #2683 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Aimee, I'm sorry your boss so clearly has his priorities so screwed up.
Yeah. If Aimee is that important to him, he should be treating her as a valued employee that he wants to keep....
WindSparrow - Apr 01, 2008 9:01:48 am PDT #2684 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Yeah. If Aimee is that important to him, he should be treating her as a valued employee that he wants to keep....Too true.
ION, I'm smiling and having heart-wibbles due to GC and GF.
Stephanie - Apr 01, 2008 9:20:15 am PDT #2685 of 10001
Trust my rage
I saw my brother and wife and new baby in the hospital this morning. It was very cute to see my very big brother trying to put this tiny diaper on the baby. He actually did drop her a bit and then caught her just fine. Anyway, he was so tender with her and it was so cool to see that.
Cash, if you are around, how far is Stevens Point from the Twin Cities? I'm thinking it's too far to visit, but I thought I'd ask.