I feel bleary-eyed and disoriented, having emerged from the least-relaxing weekend ever. It began with a 24-hour migraine, the worst I have had in several years, the sort where you are in too much pain to sleep, and even the darkest room is too bright to be borne. The cats were delighted, as I spent […]
According to my highly sophisticated temperature detection system, which involves stepping outside and timing how long it takes me to crumple, whimpering, to the ground, it is now 215 degrees Fahrenheit. Obviously the only sensible thing to do on a day like this is to stay home with the lights off drinking iced tea in […]
Now, I am new to this, but from what I can tell, the first part of an IVF cycle is entirely spent making phone calls and being placed on hold. Who knew? If you had told me before this process began that in order to have a baby I would have to listen to smooth […]
Well bless my soul, I seem to have missed my second bloggiversary. I could have sworn this site was born on July twenty-somethingth, but no: yesterday Flotsam entered its Terrible Twos.
Apparently this age is “punctuated by temper tantrums and aggression,” just to warn you. There may also be “biting and hitting.” Parenting sites suggest that […]
I was going to write this entry yesterday, but it is probably just as well that I didn’t, as it would have consisted primarily of the word COCKSUCKER repeated with escalating font size and number of exclamation points. Today I have cooled down enough to instead provide you with a dispassionate recitation of the facts:
Fact […]
Sorry for the two-part post, but the recounting of my appointment got longer than expected and I simply could not subject my fine readers to such a thing all in one sitting. Someone may make the point that if they are so tedious, perhaps my reproductive updates are best kept to myself, but I would […]
Wednesday Scott and I had our “Comprehensive Appointment,” which included an ultrasound and sonohistogram for me, consent signings, and a meeting with the clinic’s financial coordinator. Scott has never been present for my ultrasounds before, so I was looking forward to showing him the wand that sees more action than he does and giving him […]
I’ve never been so happy to be at work. I am moments from passionately tonguing my Ethernet port, so grateful am I to be connected to the wonderful wide world of the web. Our new apartment has no phone, Internet, or television, and will not until Thursday afternoon. Thursday! Afternoon! It is like Manor House, […]
I do not care for fireworks—nay, they terrify me. Partly this is due to an episode of Lassie I saw as an impressionable youth in which Timmy befriended a little boy who had been blinded by fireworks, and partly this is merely due, in my opinion, to common sense. One cannot control whether one is […]
I cleverly took pictures of the new apartment BEFORE the movers arrived and filled it with boxes, before it was filled with anything, in fact, except sunlight and the scrumptious green dutch oven we received as a wedding present, which I opted to move myself out of a paranoid fear that the professional, licensed, bonded […]
