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Not mine.  Hee. I am over at Kir’s Corner today, along with some awesome bloggers, helping her celebrate with stories of the best birthday gifts ever.  Check it out.
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One of Hayden’s favorite stories is about the time I found snake poop in one of my kitchen cabinets. I never found the snake. He also loooves it when I tell him about having to take “paragark” (aka paragoric) when I was a kid.  There was no such think as children’s Motrin or even...
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I tend to keep to myself.  I don’t have a mommies group and I don’t do lunch.  I have to make myself call people on the phone.  It’s not that I don’t love them or that I don’t think of them multiple times a day.  They should  know that.  They should feel me reaching...
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I am finally in a deep sleep.  Dreaming in fact, when I hear Arthur barking like crazy. In my half-dead state, I jab Scott awake and tell him to go fix it. He just lies there. Arthur is still barking. I give him a shove and mumble something about being the man of the...
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Maybe writing is like therapy.  You do it until you don’t need it anymore. Although I started blogging for myself, I feel guilty when I don’t write because this has turned into something more. Each week I think, I am going to start blogging again! But I’d rather be outside. This year-long writer’s block...
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I am not the sweetest, but I am often thoughtful. I will serve you something warm and surprise you with something small. I am a giver of advice, which is sometimes unsolicited. I am someone who wets her pants from laughter and sheds tears of joy.  If you make me laugh you’ll have me...
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I spent my last year of graduate school interning with a rheumatologist.  Most of the patients I saw were referred for signs or symptoms of a rheumatic illness: joint pain, swelling, stiffness, headaches, vascular problems, abnormal lab values. Occasionally there was someone with a simple case of osteoarthritis, but most of these people were...
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Remember that meme awhile back, “What’s in your purse?  And everybody took pictures of the insides of their purses and laughed at the crazy crap they carry around every day? I didn’t participate in that meme because pictures of my purse would have been boring. I only have two things in my purse- a...
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I’ve been trying not to complain about my hair, which is not doing much in terms of improving my outlook because Hayden just complains about it for me. In fact, several times in the past week he has expressed disappointment with my hair’s lack of length and luster.  He has also made is quite...
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Seriously.  Maybe if this kid could stay well for more than a few days at a time I could get something done.  And maybe WRITE SOMETHING.  He has been sick four times since July 1, and I’ve decided that being away from other viral children is actually what is making him sick. IT IS...
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It’s going to be 107 again today.  In an attempt to stay cool we have been hanging out at Ralphs, but we’ve run out of things to buy look at so we’re back to watching TV. - – - – - – - – - - Me:  Hayden, did you know that I used...
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It bugs me when something awesome happens and ruins something terrible.  Like this week, when a mission to Mars trumped the shooting of innocent people in a temple, the very place where they should feel most safe. I picture this Wade Michael Page, and ex-US military man, storming into that temple with America, Fuck...
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After nearly a week of server problems I can finally log in to my own blog. I am sure  you were all wondering where I was (heh heh), and just in time to disappear again- I am leaving for BlogHer in two days! No, I haven’t packed anything. Or typed out instructions and emergency...
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When I was sixteen years old everyone went to the REM concert.  Everyone but me because I went to Disneyland with my family.  Did I mention that I was sixteen? Disneyland with parents, a four year old, and an eleven year old was just that.  NOT COOL.  Although, admittedly, that trip made for some...
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