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Besides my tweets, I haven't updated in ages (and I'm considering taking down the tweet feed, it's irritating me). Lessee, what's been going on...
I taught Kim's Bradley class, cycle 4 class 11, while she was in Williamsburg, VA; it was the "Are you ready?" class, so we finished watching Orgasmic Birth, went through the workbook materials (especially the Bradley Energy Saving Techniques article), and talked about what to pack for the hospital. This past Tuesday was class 12, so cycle 4 is over, now. I'm sort of sad. Of the five cycles I've attended, even though each one is unique, this one was so inspiring. All four couples started out reluctant to speak up in class and brought with them a general air of confusion. By the end of the cycle, their final labor rehearsal was incredible - each couple was in tune with their partner, moms were relaxing beautifully and everyone left their final class with a quiet air of confidence.
Two of the four couples are due in February; both of them have approached me about doula services, but only one actually contacted me after the class ended. I'd love to attend all of their births, I think they're all going to have beautiful labors, but I'm trying to stick to one client per month. So, it'll be interesting to see what happens if both February couples want to hire me...
Oh, and I busted my ankle again leaving Kim's house - it was really dark on her front step and I couldn't see - but fortunately, it was a light sprain. It's almost healed, just a little bruised, now.
My March mom and I went to Molly Shaker's prenatal breastfeeding class, which was great. What I don't get is: why would you pay $35 for a class and then not ask any questions at the end?... There were a lot of people who just looked clueless and scared in that room; all of them were first time parents. (After Molly took that poll to see who was a first timer, I wished she would've polled the dads and other support people to see how many of them had attended a birth, that would have been interesting.) One of the great things about Molly is how her communication style is so matter-of-fact but doesn't sacrifice tact. She and Melissa Harley are both really good at that, and I try to emulate them when I talk about birth-related stuff.
Bunch'a work stuff going on... ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) reo is leaving us; more associations are being put into the database; we have an upgrade to the DBMS coming up in the new year; I'm gearing up to clean out my file cabinet and archive some stuff. It's busy, but fortunately, no one's suffering from pre-event frazzled nerves - that's a nice thing about this time of year.
notyou23 and I joined the Smith family for a camping trip at the Suwannee river last weekend. I complained a lot on Twitter about it beforehand - but in the end, it wasn't such a bad experience. Aside from babysitting the drunks on Friday (I'm always the sober one these days), falling off a suddenly-upturned picnic table and being either wet or driving to/from Live Oak (to get tarps for leaky tents), there wasn't much to complain about. It rained, as expected, and it was very cold, but because I ended up taking Wendy and Dana to Orange Park on Saturday night, I only spent one night out there. There's another camping trip in the planning stages for January - "Just say no if you don't want to go," the Fuzzy One says, but he doesn't understand that by going, I'm making an effort to spend time with him. It's not my preferred choice of venue, but I'll take what I can get while we're living these lives of such disparate interests and dissimilar activities.
The guys' last minute request before I went to the campsite was to pick up cigars. I'd like to lie and say I made wonderful choices because of my own cigar smoking experiences - but the truth is, I haven't smoked since the last whiskey tasting I attended back in 2003, and I was scraping my brain trying to remember what was good and what the guys like to smoke. I think I managed to get a good enough variety and steer away from the mediocre, so I guess I accomplished the task well enough.
While we were gone, Father of the Fuzz had my truck so we could use his, and the belt that serves my alternator and a/c compressor broke. I knew the compressor was on death's door, but I didn't know it was a one-belt-to-rule-them-all sort of situation, otherwise I'd've fixed it a month ago when it first showed signs of having issues. (Still scratching my head over why my mechanic didn't tell me about the belt situation.) I should have my truck back in a few days, but in the meantime, I've been driving the Nissan, which is... well, fun. I miss driving a stick (RIP, Scarlet, taken from me too soon by a wretched drunk driver in a champagne colored SUV).
My house is a wreck. I feel like I'm never going to get to the point of organization. I know sometimes you gotta make a mess to clean a mess, but the enormity of mess made is at the point of ridiculous.
I've lost 26 pounds on Weight Watchers to date. The biggest thing that seems to have helped that effort is cutting out white sugar and flour. Second to that, eating at home more often has also helped. If I keep it up, I'll be around 200-210 pounds by July 2010, which is about what I weighed in 2003. When I get to 180, I'll be the weight I was when I started this LJ. (-:
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| Every Sad Story Needs Nuns. Yes, Virginia it is an update |
[15 Dec 2009|07:47am] |
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I'm doing eight drawings in honour of Hanukkah. Granted, it probably would have meant more if I started posting on the first night of Hanukkah, but details, details. Click on the picture above to be taken to the site and read more of my ramblings.
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| Three Things: The beginning of Hanukkah edition |
[12 Dec 2009|08:54am] |
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1.) The Hanukkah Aardvark* was very good to me on the first night of Hanukkah. He brought me a netbook. Granted, the Hanukkah Aardvark had me stand in line outside of Best Buy on Black Friday to get one at an insanely low price, as is the spirit of the Hanukkah Aardvark. It don't matter. I love it and have named it Severus.
2.) Three words. Major. League. Dreidel.
http://www.majorleaguedreidel.com/
3.) Tomorrow, as our third night present, I'm taking Jonathan to see Avenue Q. I am so excited. I haven't seen it since it was in previews.
*The Hanukkah Aardvark was not my idea, but stolen from an episode of the television show, Friends. Ross, wanting his son to get excited over his Jewish roots, creates the Hanukkah Aardvark as a rival to Christmas' Santa.
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1.) Monday's Shortpacked strip tells of the joy of working retail in December and the error of wishing someone a Happy Holiday instead of a Merry Christmas.
http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20091207.html
Originally only going to send this to myselftheliar but decided there might be a few other LJ friends who can relate to this scenario as well.
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Haters to the left, James Andrew is one fierce bitch. I hope that I am one tenth a GQMF as James Andrew is when I grow up.
Who is James Andrew? He is the ultimate dandy. Gatsby meets Gucci style. A GQMF. Below is a link to his blog where you can seen what he is doing, where he is doing it and what he is wearing while he does it.
http://www.whatisjameswearing.com/
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3.)Currently reading an alternate history, steampunk, zombie novel. It's called Boneshaker by Cherie Priest.
Currently listening to a lot of Tom Waits.
Currently obsessing over; amigurumi, almond milk, vegan pumpkin cranberry muffins, and Frank & Hilde.
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I learned about the thinksport water bottle through the Green and Crunchy blog.
She does a better job of explaining the awesomness that is the thinksport bottle in this entry.
Why I want a thinksport water bottle.
1.) I am without water bottle right now. Technically, I have one, but it leaks like a sieve. I can only use it if it never moves from an upright position. Might as well just use a mug. Unfortunately, mugs don't do too well on the leak free front, whilst bouncing around in a messenger bag.
2.) It has a tiny mesh screen. I could make loose tea on the go and not worry about getting debris stuck in my teeth.
3.) It can keep contents hot or cold.
4.) It's free of lead, cadmium, bisphenol-a, phthalates, and PVC.
5.) You can pour through a tiny spout or a larger wide mouth opening.
6.) It's adorable.
7.) Um...tea?
Want to pick up one for yourself, or get more information? Go to thinksport's website.
http://www.thinksportbottles.com/products1a.htm
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| The Big Announcement! |
[04 Dec 2009|06:36pm] |
As most of you know by now, I've had to delay opening my restaurant, The Night Kitchen, several times now. Well, we finally have a date by which we absolutely WILL open!
The Night Kitchen is proud to announce that we will be opening our doors to the public at 6pm on December 30th, 2009.
Due to ongoing difficulties with the LCB, we may not have any alcohol on the premises, but we are going to open anyway!
The soft opening some of you have heard me talk about, an invitational event for friends and family, will be delayed until we actually do have a liquor license, because many of our friends like to drink. But we will be open for New Years, and we're hoping to get some spillover when the bars close.
Anyway.
WOOHOO!
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