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• 6 weeks today

  when i realized it’d be almost 13 weeks since i posted – math made easy to do thanks to my last subject line – it was time to get some thoughts out. even if brief, i really do enjoy writing not just for my own edification but because i always hear from others when i do. i still read journals and blogs even if my comments are either brief or non-existent. the baby sometimes lets me type, sometimes does not. [...]

• where i was going to bitch completely about my braces

  now i will only bitch slightly. the adjustment? SUCKED ASS. my front left tooth was SO sensitive changing out the elastics was like pulling it out sans novocaine. then the ortho looked in my mouth and said, ‘oh, we haven’t been aggressive enough’ – that really might be one of the last things you want to hear at that moment in time. he then proceeded to put five (5!!!) sets of powerchains (see this picture, not linked for those that [...]

• SnooOOoOOOoOw

  yes we got a lot of it. more coming tonight but oh so thankfully it will not be anything significant. in total we had over 35″ here over the two storms total. probably closer to 40 but i didn’t measure so i don’t want to make such grandiose claims. husband bought a snowblower prior to the storm – he’d wanted to do so for a while, and we’d been using our neighbors (and getting his driveway too as a payback [...]

• christmas = whirlwind

  i can’t even believe it’s over already and that we’re back in mass. and we even came back a day later than we originally planned to. we left last tuesday night, and had a quick awesome drive thanks to husband. we do it at night with the boy, leaving after dinner and pjs so he falls asleep quickly and sleeps the whole way. makes for a tired night for poor chris, but i get up in the morning with alex [...]

• because i like to be prepared for the apocolypse.

  i have a long running joke (and it’s really like 90% a joke ) that i like to be well prepared in the event that there is a total breakdown of social services (TBOSS as it is referred to in my house). i had a childhood fear of mass death and destruction, and sane planning for it helps keep me somewhat distracted and happy. i swear it sounds more crazy than it is. but as a part of [...]