Monthly Archives: March 2002

I put up a few new photos in the Yahoo! albums I’ve been using, but will soon be forced to find another way to display them as Yahoo is changing their rules and taking the fun out of everything. So … Continue reading →

Let me tell you, hellzapoppin’ around here now that the Nut’s almost nine months old. He wants to eat everything with his hands, for one thing, which creates an ungodly mess. Cheerios everywhere. Then the third tooth starts cutting through. … Continue reading →

I realized it was time to come out of mourning. I’ve literally been sitting around grieving — for the way the baby has changed my relationship with Jack, for the stupid lost job, for being stuck in this inanely gorgeous … Continue reading →

I bought a roll of 100 stamps, instead of two little books, and I paid the bills. I got the laundry done and took the garbage out. Your new jacket is hanging in your closet. The answering machine works again. … Continue reading →

1. No pit bulls — female yellow or chocolate labs, but not black 2. It is now acceptably manly to wear a helmet while cycling 3. A t-shirt is okay while napping, but not pants 4. Pizza only from Giovanni’s … Continue reading →

Back when I was pregnant I found it impossible to imagine what having a baby around all the time would really be like. I hadn’t planned on becoming pregnant — indeed, I’d never imagined myself to be mother material at … Continue reading →

Is it a neurosis of modern life or is it my reading list? — you just don’t find truly cruel characters in novels any more. But go back into the nineteenth century and whew. People are torturing kittens and beating … Continue reading →

THANKS 1,000,000 to Chris for the quick, cheerful, and unselfish help with my template problem. Doesn’t everything look better now? Can you remember what Fussy used to look like? That big ugly striped useless cell on the far right? It’s … Continue reading →

If you haven’t read it in a much-forwarded e-mail yet, here’s the story of the cat who got its head caught in a garbage disposal.