“Hee-haw!”Thursday evening, Doug and I saw It’s a Wonderful Life at the Brattle with Ezra and Terri. It was only the eleventy-billionth time I’d seen it, of course, but my first big-screen experience — details like the extent of Uncle Billy’s menagerie, for instance, really jumped out for me. It was cool that […]

So OK, things are a little stressful, both because of work and my inability to think about Christmas before December. But not so bad, really — as long as I can keep multiple, updated lists in my head at all times, I’ll be fine.
Anyway, it’s Monday night. I woke up at 4:30 a.m. this morning […]

I skived off work today to do some Christmas shopping, run errands, and oh yeah, not work. When I left the house around 1:15, it was rain-sleeting, and much of the snow that had fallen during the morning was melting. An hour later, whiteout conditions were […]

Not to mention a big relief.
It’s not like having a baby would be the worst thing in the world at this point. Oh wait, yes it would. For one thing, I’m not sure where in our apartment we’d have room to stow it. For another, aaaggghhhhhhh!
As always, my sweetie was incredibly supportive and helpful. Someday, […]

After feeling wound up tighter than a gnat’s eyelash for the past couple of weeks, I finally buckled and bought a pregnancy test at CVS after work tonight. Now I just need to wait until my bladder is full enough for the damn thing to work. It might be, but it’s kind of difficult to […]