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the ghost of lobster dinners past

| December 19, 2008

1993: as near as i can figure, lobster dinners started christmas of my junior year of high school. the original guests included my parents and me. the menu has changed little since that first meal: lobster, baked potato, and a salad, although the salad dropped off in the early 2000′s because it just got in [...]

mini-rant

| November 17, 2008

you’ll either know what i’m talking about or you won’t and i’ve got too much other stuff going on to track down the related links. you know what? being a parent sometimes sucks. sometimes it has ridiculous consequences like ruined clothes and broken backs and any number of less than awe-inspiring moments. it’s okay to [...]

cold november reign

| 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: [...]

not my best day

| March 31, 2008

so…it’s been a week. and then another week. …and then a third week? surely not. i think it’s only been the two. anyway, my “a week and then i’ll see,” week is totally up. the first week was full of all sorts of potential planning. i didn’t get very far because, well, it wasn’t the [...]

2007: in review

| January 1, 2008

so, how’d i do? drink less soda (maybe 1 a day?) well, i’m not sure what “less” was before i got pregnant, but due to pregnancy and breastfeeding, i’ve cut back to 1-2 “doses” of caffeine a day. that’s certainly less than the “triple venti” mornings i used to have. i’d call this one accomplished     [...]

no nanowrimo this year

| November 1, 2007

i don’t think i realized how much this would bum me out. today marks the beginning of national novel writing month (or nanowrimo for short). i have “participated” for the last 3 years, but last year was the first year i managed to pull of 50K words in 30 days on a single storyline. this [...]

psst!

| October 20, 2007

i’m less than 2 weeks from my due date. all the interesting stuff is going on at the baby site :)

2007 mid-ish year recap

| 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 [...]

annoucement!

| July 10, 2007

it (will be) a girl! at today’s doctor’s visit we asked very nicely if we might take another look at the baby to see if we could determine the gender since the kid was so … uncooperative last month and she let us. so… charlotte anne will be making her way into the world on [...]

milestone reached

| 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 it would mean [...]