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TheLittleGuy has had 3 baby showers. A few pictures of his piles of soft blue things are at Flickr. Among many other things, he received lots and lots of fabulous blankets. The flickr version of this picture has notes on … Continue reading →

A few months back TheGuy and I went to a Schooner Fare concert at Wolf Trap and heard, for the first time, one of their early songs, “Quebecois.” It’s a good one and I now sing it periodically to TheLittleGuy. … Continue reading →

Public Service Announcement: I’ve created an email notify list for TheLittleGuy’s arrival. My plan is to add a bunch of people to it that we want to email once TLG decides to make his appearance, but I haven’t gotten around … Continue reading →

Some free association, just so I don’t feel like a totally lame weblogger – Election stuff? I keep wanting to just quote random things and write “That is such bullshit” about them. For example: the “controversy” about Obama’s pastor? Bullshit. … Continue reading →

Today’s pregnancy update: How do you know you’re in your 8th month of pregnancy? You try to leave your office at the end of the day (which is on the 9th floor) and have to stop to pee twice on … Continue reading →

Awhile back we ended up with a free subscription to Cat Fancy magazine for one reason or another. In the March 2008 issue they featured the “Siberian” cat breed. Reading through it, I realized that of all the cat breeds … Continue reading →

Found this over at Scalzi’s – John Legend covers “Pride (In the Name of Love)” — It is awesome. I love John Legend and I love this song. Not available as just a song on iTunes, though. Harrumph. I’d buy … Continue reading →

One of my parents’ kitties went to kitty heaven today – he had an aggressive cancer and had stopped eating. Poor baby. We are very sad. Farewell, Cinba. Even though we sometimes called you DevilCat, you were good to your … Continue reading →

Apart from the personal fun and unfun (mostly unfun) of pregnancy, there are of course huge politics associated with pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting. I have lots of opinions about most aspects (and did even before I was pregnant), and those … Continue reading →

The Washington Nationals opened their season at their new stadium on the Anacostia River Sunday night. By all accounts, it is a lovely and fun new place to go and spend wads of money (and to watch baseball). We didn’t … Continue reading →