So after I, nearly last minute, decided I really, really wanted a home birth, my fabulous & amazing Doula did some scrambling and found me a midwife who is available. Best of all, it’s someone she works with at a Birthing Center, so they know each other & work well together – which bodes well […]
Good bye, LA. It was fun for a short while but ya know… You were ok when it was just us, but then Nugget came along and you are no place to raise children. It’ll have been almost 2 years when we leave & I think that’s long enough to say you know a place […]
I can’t complain about Monday, ever again… Woke up this morning, Mr Nikki checked his email and found that HE GOT THE JOB IN SEATTLE. Finally, after an agonizing two weeks of waiting (during which time the HR guy leaked that they had to finish a couple more interviews) – MR NIKKI GOT THE JOB! […]
I do not scare easily. I’ll stick my face right up against the window of the terrariums at the zoo – the ones holding the exotic bugs & scorpions. I’ll say, “EEEEEEEW,” while I’m doing it, but I’ll still look. I typically refuse to kill bugs, either – I leave spiders where they are (unless […]
My mom sent me this link this morning and you can bet I bought one immediately. Mr Nikki, upon seeing the pictures, even practically demanded it. Cute, to say the least. Cute, happy baby, environmentally friendly, safe and everyone in Europe uses it! Sold! Mr Nikki sent me this link, about a hospital who refused […]
After… oh, what, over a year of no rain?… it started raining yesterday afternoon and STILL HAS NOT STOPPED. I am in heaven. (I am also avoiding driving because I learned very quickly that people in LA completely freak out and drive even worse than usual in any kind of real weather.) I am cozy-ing […]
It’s hard not to get your hopes up, even when you know you’ll be crushed if you do and things don’t turn out. Mr Nikki has a phone interview on Wednesday, for the mysterious JOB IN SEATTLE. And the person he’s interviewing with is someone that he interviewed with before, when they were at another […]
3 hour glucose test (last week) – annoying, but not brutal. Though they lie – it’s actually FOUR hours and you get stuck with a needle FOUR times. And WHEW! I do not have gestational diabetes. I realize it wouldn’t have been the worst thing ever, but the idea of having to monitor every moment […]
Speaking of wanting to make soups and things I CAN eat if this glucose thing doesn’t go over very well next week… As you all know (or maybe not), I’m obsessive about natural, whole foods. I’m thrilled that when I go visit my parents, my mom even points out that she bought bread that doesn’t […]
Yesterday started out great. I finally got my ass to the chiropractor and I didn’t realize how much I’d been hurting until I left the chiro’s office to walk to my car and called my mom to yell, gleefully, “THIS IS THE MOST PAIN-FREE 10 FEET I’VE WALKED IN WEEKS!” It’s sad when you notice […]
As you know, we had a whirlwind marriage – we ran off to Santa Barbara on the last weekend Mr Nikki could take a day off of work. No muss, no fuss, just as I like it. But that also meant no honeymoon, and for as much traveling as he & I did before we […]
It’s the same old shit going on, but I’m busier than ever. (Hence, the lack of posting.) My summer semester is in full gear – and I’m glad I didn’t take the third online class, as I’d fought to be allowed to do. One of my classes runs on a tight 4 day schedule . […]
