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seems like most of the women/couples i know are either pregnant or had a baby within the past year or so. i’m so happy for all of them (one is having twins - a boy and a girl!) it’s a celebration of life everywhere i turn.
Princess_Jennifred started her personal army family nine years ago, and has written one of the best happy birthday posts i’ve seen. congratulations, zach, happy birthday! nine years, way to go.
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i was all proud of myself for getting out of the house at a decent hour to get some errands done this morning. i drove to the hole fuds, which wasn’t open yet.
aside: it’s so weird to me, even after 7 years here, that things don’t open at a decent hour in the morning and they don’t stay open in the evenings. case in point, the farmer’s market 2 blocks from my house doesn’t start till 10AM! crazy!
anyhow, i thought i’d go to the chain store up the way instead since i new it was 1) open 2) less expensive and 3) across the street from my vet where i need to get meds for my meowers. it’s also next to starbucks. i know i get a lot of flack for going there, but it’s right next to the grocery store and i have a gift card. now starbucks was built on the idea that all the stores are the same, it’s easy and you know what you’re going to get. well, i got charged wrong for my drink and asked them to re-ring it. then the drink didn’t taste right so i brought it back and the woman didn’t offer to re-make it. i was still tired and hungry and getting grumpier and things not going right for me, so i just added some sugar and left (after dropping my lid on the floor).
i had two things on my grocery store list, but could only find one of them. then managed to pick the slowest moving line - even after they opened a new register and took some people from in front of me.
after that i nearly forgot to go to the vet’s! *sigh* i doubled back and pulled into the mostly empty parking lot. i looked at the hours on the door: SAT 8:30 — yes! it was 8:27. rock. on.
i sat in the car a few minutes then went to the door as one of the women who worked there was walking in. she looked at me and said, “we don’t open till nine.”
me, “well, the door days 8:30″
her, “today is sunday.”
me, “… oh. um. uh, i thought it was saturday.”
she let me in early and sold me the meds since it was just a quick pick up and not complex in the least.
THANK YOU, woman at the vet, you turned my whole day around!
other things i’m grateful for this weekend:
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today is bike to work day and, as far as i can tell, i pass exactly zero energizing stations on my route to work.
that’s fine, really. to be honest, i had planned to bike to work today before i even remembered that it was going to be bike to work day. today i’m going to the office closer to home, instead of in the city. i’m not splitting my time between them, as i do some occasional days now, and … i just bought a new folding bike! not that i needed a folding bike to get to this office, but it does have a nice little holder rack on the back so i can take my lunch or something heavyisher without putting it in my messenger bag. (maybe i’m packing it wrong so that lunch ends up mushed, but thems the breaks.)
i’m just very grateful that as these gas prices have gotten higher and higher i’ve been able to take public transportation to my old office (and have a very nice walk by the bay every day) and that now that i’m in my new office i had a friend selling her folding bike, i’m close enough to ride easily ( < 3 mi ), and i still get to go by a body of water every day. plus, dude y’all, my legs are going to look really good!
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yesterday i took lunch to my friends and their new beautiful baby girl. i can’t believe i forgot my camera in the car. but, really, my hands were full and i don’t think i would have wanted to set her down to get a photo.
she is, as most just born babies are, very wee. c is an expert swadler but rr is an expert escape artist. br tells me she just discovered her hands the other day. she seems to like them very much and was self comforting by sucking on the side of her left hand. none of the fingers actually stayed in her mouth on the few occasions that they made it in to begin with.
we talked about babies and relationships and love and what comforting movement and noises their little jewel prefers. her daddy even sang her a little song — i nearly melted right then and there.
after br and rr left for their meeting, i helped c measure for the handrails in the house (which is almost finished). then i drove down to the maker faire where i hung out with tut and dr. beth (and nomad and his date briefly). afterwards, we had dinner at this bizzare sushi restaurant in st. matt then i drove home and fell asleep on the couch watching tv i recorded earlier in the week. oops
being called “girly-head” by a curly haired four year old in a dress and pink shoes while giving her a piggy-back ride up a tall, steep hill on a dirt road
this song: http://rurl.org/pml
my cat looking at the drain when i reach to turn on the water in the tub (that’s where the water pools, it must come from that direction, too, no?)
big ‘ol trout swimming up against my ankles
watching momma mouse run with babies still attached (only because i knew they were actually safe)
watching previously mentioned four year old try to slide on nearly horizontal slide, set so low the end actually pointed up
