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cold november reign

kelly | October 26, 2008

here’s what’s happening in the next month (in general planning order and including the last week of october):

3+ birthday parties: two dinners, one casino night. (ever wonder why the end of october and the beginning of november is so chock full of birthdays? valentine’s day is appx 38 weeks earlier.)
make hella baby food: finger [...]

one gloomy thought before celebrating

kelly | June 27, 2008

it isn’t father’s day, or his birthday, or the day he died or the funeral or any of those anniversaries that flatten my resistance to the absence of my father. it’s june 21, december 21, and my birthday.
last year it smacked me in the face when my dad didn’t call at 10:50 in the morning [...]

2007 mid-ish year recap

kelly | September 1, 2007

wherein kelly throws herself a whiny pity party and decides upon review that she really doesn’t care about the tense shifting and inconsistent capitalization enough to do anything about it.
let’s recap, shall we?
January
bad: found out my dad’s “spots” were very terminal pancreatic cancer
February
good: *finally* sold our damn house.
bittersweet: found out friends were pregnant (what? i’m [...]

milestone reached

kelly | June 27, 2007

Today I turned 30 years old.
It was both more and less traumatic than I had anticipated. I was worried earlier in the year/last year that if I wasn’t pregnant, it was going to be an ugly day. There’s this sort of unspoken “line” at 30 that makes pregnancy harder, etc, and [...]

2007: a look ahead

kelly | January 1, 2007

here’s the things that i’d like to do this year:

drink less soda (maybe 1 a day?)
drink way more water (some in the form of tea)
wean myself mostly off of caffeine by march-ish
exercise regularly (once week by march, adding a “once” every week every quarter)
read one book a month (pitiful goal, i know, but considering i [...]

today is…

kelly | August 1, 2005

casey’s birthday.
so happy birthday casey :)
assuming casey ever comes here