I don’t know many uses for dead flies.
OK. I only know the one where they die and you throw them away. But if there are other uses, I am certain this would be my favorite.
Private-i sent me a link to a site that uses dead flies to make cartoons. It is morbid. It is gross. It is creepy. It is OUTSTANDING.
This one is my favorite – I think. The river dancing flies were a close second.
There were many great things and many horrible things that I remember about labor and my eventual c-section. The one thing that always sticks out is how badly I wanted a drink of water.
I was not supposed to have anything to eat from midnight the night before, have nothing to drink other than a sip of water to take my meds in the morning and labor started at 8:30 AM. By 2:50 AM the NEXT DAY, I was mighty thirsty. I was famished. I couldn’t believe the torture the mean nurses and docs were doing to me.
The wonderful nurse I had in recovery was the one person who gave me a drink of water. I don’t recall her name, but she was my favorite person in the whole world at the time. She gave me water.
Even in hind site, I don’t understand why I couldn’t have ANYTHING. NOTHING. Hubby was a good sport and kept getting me ice chips. Not nearly satisfying enough, but I had to make do. He’d get mad at me when he caught me drinking the melted water.
NOW – a new study says that I was tortured w/ out cause. “Women should be allowed to eat and drink what they want during labor.”
HALLELUJAH! OK – I didn’t really worry about food because I was nauseous, but I wanted WATER. How bad could this be?
If I do get to have another child, I think I will make one of my interview questions for my OB if I can have water. Even if she/he is a little… sketchy, if they let me have water it will be worth major bonus points.
Is that so wrong?
Although I don’t generally have “bad Mondays”, I took the opportunity to cancel my own Monday this week and opted to go skiing instead. I had a few hesitations with this plan.
- I hadn’t been skiing in over 15 years.
- I enjoy having all my parts where they go and generally discourage moving body parts into places they don’t belong (i.e. my knee bending the wrong way, etc.)
- VA isn’t known for good skiing and where I went was almost all man-made snow (translation in my brain was ice)
- Skiing is physically difficult and I am (to put it kindly) out of shape.
- Skiing requires a lot of equipment that I haven’t had in about 10 years.
Even though I was nervous, I did it. I did it with a lesson. My lesson was much easier than I thought it would be, so my confidence was good when I got on the ski lift. I then proceeded to fall on the slope leaving the ski lift.
I hate that slope!
I got up and the rest of the day went well. I even got enough confidence to go to the intermediate slope when the easy slope got crowded.
For those of you who haven’t been skiing and have thought about getting back into it, the beginner skis are awesome! They are short and wide. I remember my first time skis were about as tall as I was. The skis I had on yesterday were about 3.5 feet tall and were much wider than I remember skis being. This really really really helped with the whole crossing skis problem!
I think I will have to go again this season. Maybe even go twice.
What did you do in your past that you’d like to do again?
Here are a few questions for you to think about:
- When did “Costco” and/or “Sam’s Club” become an adjective to describe a large amount of something? (for example: “I got a Sam’s Club size of cheesy poofs”)
- Why does the Bean (and all babies, I suspect) enjoy taking toys out of her cabinet more than actually playing with the toys she is removing?
- If fate is who is making the choices in my life, who the heck is he/she? Can we discuss a few recent choices? Same question if you want to say “things happen for a reason” – I’d like to know why sometimes.
- Why does Monday get such a bad rap?
Discuss among yourselves.
I’d like to thank “Hoo” for giving me a chuckle today – I love it!
My personal favorites are 4, 12 and 13. Which are your favorites?
I can’t say I was all that shocked when I heard that the cistern we had decommissioned in the summer time was only decommissioned in the sense that water was no longer actively being pulled from it and no longer being added to it. Apparently all the drain water from the gutters is still filling it. (That makes TOTAL sense, right?)
When I asked C about the potential of it freezing (causing a pretty big flood hazard very close to the house) – his response was the equally non-shocking “Oh, I thought that might happen.” This lead me to re-explain my desire to know everything that could go wrong and how to fix it. The explanation is something along the lines of “if it would make your wife worry about it at your house, I would like to know.” This statement was originally replied with “but I don’t have a ___ (whatever went wrong at the time)”.
Now that we know that the decommissioned cistern is being filled – I wish we could continue to use the rain water… alas… I would rather not have a flood in a space attached to the house. I am told that this problem is being resolved. I also hope, once again, that this is the last time I hear “I thought that might happen.”
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A woman at the gym had a t-shirt from an event she either was a part of, or organized, called “The Lazy Man”. I asked about it and she said it was adapted from The Iron Man.
The thing about the Lazy Man that is different from the Iron Man is that you do it over a month.
This still isn’t easy. Definitely isn’t “lazy” – but I think it is a good goal for myself in 2010.
This works out to:
That totally sounds doable! I can do that, right? I think I can. Can you?
Who’s with me? Yep – I am talking to you.
Since we are 1/2 way through January, and February is a short month – I am going to first try it in March.
I found a few new blogs (that are all the same company as many other favorites), but wanted to share.
www.epicute.com – I thought of Squishy on this one
www.myfirstfail.com - I wonder what the Bean’s first fail will be?
I have also been reading this one off and on for a while, but thought I’d go ahead and share. www.notmartha.orgThe “Martha” that she isn’t is Martha Stewart. She has good links to good stuff – just a little scattered (like me).
Consider yourself educated 
Now share your favorites with me – I love fun new stuff and all my sources are drying up.
Dear Internet User,
I don’t understand what makes you think I want your chain mail (or prayer, or wish to save a kid from cancer, or want to get money from Microsoft, or whatever). For those mails that threaten a hex me if I don’t forward your mail to 100s of people, you should know by now that I don’t forward these mails – so why do you wish a hex on me for not following the directions? Have I done something to wrong you?
To me, these messages are worse than Spam. At least Spam has a purpose (even though the purpose is to make some f’n jerk tons of money by sending me offers to expand parts I don’t have). Chain mail is sent by people who know me (in theory) – but both are treated the same. Trash.
If you are one of the concerned people about what might happen if you don’t send the email, I would like for you to take this permission slip that I got from Redbook. I will even take some of the responsibility… but only if you will stop sending me your crap.
Redbook (and I) hereby gives ____Your Name Here____ permission to allow chain mail to die with you. Redbook (and I) will assume responsibility for any curse or hex associated with ignoring such mail.
Thanks!
Feminism is a funny thing. The stereo type of a feminist is some butch, man-hating he-woman. I consider myself a feminist. I am not the most “femme” woman in the world, I am far from a man-hating he-woman. I feel like a “feminist” is simply someone who is proud of women and feel like women can do anything and should be “allowed” to do anything. This post was from two articles that talk about successful women. It is my ode to feminism… may we continue to grow out of the meek and mild ladies of yester-year, and “roar” into the future.
The first article is talking about how women are slowly (but surely) taking over the workplace. This is paving the way for women to have “it all”. One of the things the article talks about is having to deal with “the juggle”. Now that I have a kiddo – I feel that more than I thought I would. I really envy the stay at home moms, but not sure I would give up working if I had the option. Part of the reason I would struggle is my job makes it as easy as possible to both work and have a family. This is only possible because of all the hard work all the women before me did. I tip my hat to you, and hope you are proud of where we are so far.
The second article just asks “What three women over 40 have wowed you?” Narrowing to three is the tough part – so I will categorize:
My historical three would be Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Rosa Parks.
My historical, but still living list would be Jane Goodall, Maya Angelou, Sandra Day O’Connor
My “last decade” list would include J.K. Rowling (she made the world read about a wizard), Oprah (not for being rich, but for giving back), Condoleezza Rice (for having the hardest job on the planet at one of the hardest times, and still kept her grace)
My mother was a great inspiration in my feminism, and I hope I can do the same for the Bean.
What three women have wowed you?
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