I managed to speed through most of this trip as we were doing the James Brown turnaround version of a road trip – there and back in 72 hours. At one point, I was driving about 90 mph, which the truck does effortlessly, and I thought about roadtrips with my family. My father, who had an unnatural love of uniforms and all icons of authority such as diplomas, had a badge in his wallet and a…
The other day Scott was cutting my hair and I was telling him about someone who fell into an affair and he asked, “What did they trip on?” We both laughed but what I love about him is how hard he laughs even at his own jokes. Our baby might be born on the same day as him. Well we fell in love with fall and foilage on this trip – miles after miles of umber,…
Be thankful for living trust your luck, and march to the front like a soldier. Rudyard Kipling
What a trip! We travelled many miles through fall foilage with butterflies in our stomachs and spent the day with an incredible family. One of the best things we learned was that the baby was conceived while listening to Bob Marley. The second best was meeting complete strangers and feeling like you could adopt the entire family. Even Lucky the dog. Don’t worry about a thing Cause every little thing is gonna to be all…
At the doctor’s office the other day for a routine check up, I got on the scale and tipped it. Yikes! Then I was at step class and the instructor said, “Don’t lose my number because you’re going to need me after the holidays – the average weight gain is 7 pounds.” Damn.
Like many things – the more you know, the harder it is to go about with your neanderthal ways. T came home the other day and said we might think about becoming vegetarians. And we both sighed. I ate mainly vegetarian for twenty years without realizing I was doing something. Then I started eating meat again. If you really think about things like eating meat, how chickens are raised, and that a pig is no…
Apparently the government thinks it’s unhealthy that we eat raw oysters twelve months out of the year – and so they are going to do something about it. Basically, they did nothing about Katrina and Rita and the aftermath but sit around with their fingers in their butt but for some reason they got an urge to ban raw oyster eating six months out of the year because it can kill you. Seeing how we’ve…
We are headed off to another state to vest ourselves a little more into this baby prospect this weekend, while this weekend comes off of a week long conference that T hosted here, as well as houseguests in and out for a week, we’re sort of looking forward to the long drive ahead to sort of square ourselves. When I was walking Loca this morning, we took a long walk through the park and I…
We’re knee deep in hope that very soon we’ll have a little baby in this house. You know what they say – don’t buy anything for the baby till it comes. Don’t get your hopes up until you have the baby in your hands. The baby isn’t yours till it is signed over to you. Don’t Don’t Don’t. Hello! Our hopes are up. How could they not be?