3 posts tagged “random”

What better way to start off a new month than with an ankle brace? I sprained my ankle on my birthday (the 30th, for those of you keeping score) -- apparently, while walking around the library teaching. So yesterday, I got to go to the urgent care clinic, after doing lots of workers comp documentation. No fractures, according to the x-rays. But the brace they gave me is giving me blisters. (Good thing I have Hello Kitty bandaids.) I may decorate the brace with stickers, to amuse myself.

Of course, this means that I most likely can't get a pedicure at the spa I am going to next weekend (to celebrate my mother-in-law's 60th birthday, a bunch of us are having a weekend at a spa in Wisconsin -- I love the Midwest in October!). Maybe I will just have to get a manicure instead, or a hot stones massage.

I've been eating gluten-free cupcakes since Sunday. I ordered 3 dozen, since I get tired of baking my own cakes. They're very yummy, even if getting a little stale. The mocha frosting on the chocolate cupcake is my favorite.

I wonder if anything mystical will happen, because I went to bed at 10:01pm on 10-01. I muttered "rabbit, rabbit" to myself, but maybe that was the wrong thing to say.

I want a kitten. I want a Rocking Nut Road Snickers. Sadly, only one of these items is in my purse. (Or, maybe this is a good thing.)

A listserv made up of people from my coed literary fraternity have been haiku fools lately. And some of them are combining politics and lolcats delightfully. It's pretty awesome.

Holy cats! My nose
Runs and runs -- sniffle sniffle
I really hate colds.

* do a search for the phrase "free bristol palin" in google -- I found a maternity shirt in cafepress with this logo on it. i have no words.

* i am currently hooked on cakewrecks -- it makes me hungry and amused.

* the elder boy is getting glasses. he is excited about it, which is cool.

* strapless bras suck.

* eczema sucks.

* the baby is getting used to childcare, and actually napped all afternoon there -- squee!

* spouse has a lot of trips to europe coming up -- i am trying to decide what he should buy me (i am thinking loose tea and chocolate).

* did i mention i am working part-time now? in a community college library, which i like.

* i need to lose weight again. bleah.

* did people really think that michael jackson and pamela anderson were an item?

* my mother only bought one pair of shoes on her latest visit -- this is a record.

* the election makes me nervous. but i loved olbermann's rant on 9/11.

* my mother-in-law worked in one of the buildings across from the WTC, the one that had a building collapsed on it (she got out okay). i was pregnant with my first child on 9/11/2001. i apologized to my belly on 9/11. but i cannot celebrate patriot's day, not when i think of how the idea of patriotism has been warped to mean "jingoism" and "hate."

* tonight is back-to-school night. i wonder if the school's new principal will ask me if i am the nanny.

• damn you meg cabot! maybe it's the hormones, but you made me cry with princess on the brink!
• the bears game yesterday (tivo'd, naturally) was freakin' awesome! the defense gave me some frights in the second half, but they redeemed themselves with an excellent first half, and the last quarter rocked. dude, rex grossman was on fire! now, if i hadn't lived in chicago for 10+ years, i would have rooted for new orleans, who stephen colbert hoped would redeem the bush administration with a victory. and the saints did great this year. but for me, it's all about the bears, even though i live in the LA area now. (san diego WHO?)
• last night, i was kept awake with the prospect of compiling a list of books for the coming of age group at our UU church (coming of age is like confirmation, but since it's UU, we expect the kids to define their own beliefs). i found this exercise in bibliography development to be a lot of fun (more fun than, say, developing worksheets for information literacy). i am trying to decide what this means. (can i get away with recommending neil gaiman's graphic novel "seasons of mists" to eight graders?)
• we found snow last weekend, in sequoia national forest. it made me happy.
• the boy last night cuddled my belly a lot and kept saying, "MY baby, MY baby." he's quite jealous and protective of his baby.
• i made gluten-free bread this weekend, and even though it has corn starch in it, i am still in heaven (i'm allergic to corn). yea, toast!
• i am addicted to glutino's frozen gluten-free pizza -- pizza that actually tastes good! of course, i have to take four lactaid pills whenever i eat it, but it's a small price to pay.
• my husband has been amusingly befuddled and pleased by my good mood of late. it's cute.
• the baby moves a lot. i am officially half-way through my pregnancy. the baby doesn't like ultrasound scanners pushing down on him/her, and was stubbornly presenting his/her back instead of a profile last week. sounds like the baby will fit well in our family.