February 2012
1 post
...hi there
i read somewhere that you should never apologize for a blog absence b/c who the hell really cares? but since i miss YOU when you’re gone (yes, you!) i’ll apologize.
the primary (and probably pretty obvious) reason for the hiatus has been…
welcome to the world tumblr, delilah sage!
delilah joined our family at 8:38am, january 19th, after a really quite perfect and relatively...
January 2012
8 posts
i'm a pc ... for now?
my computer might be dead.
i guess it should be - it’s at least 6.5 years old, at my conservative estimate. and for some reason, as of a few weeks ago, it just won’t turn on. i plugged it into every outlet on two different power strips, then tried skipping the power strip altogether and tried different outlets - which all work for different devices, lamps, etc., so no reason it...
non-stressed
here we are, 40w1d. this feels familiar now.
went to the dr’s office this morning for a non-stress test - they strap 2 monitors to my belly to track baby’s heart rate and any contractions i might have, and just have me sit there for about 20 minutes.
turns out i had a few contractions which i barely felt (just like last time) and heart rate and baby’s movement/kick count were...
opey dope
a few weeks ago, greg had picked harley up from day care, and when i got home he said, “she’s been singing something that ends with OPEY DOPE. do you know what that is?”
she heard him say this and thought ‘opey dope’ was just about the funniest thing she’d ever heard. she went around saying ‘opey dope’ and giggling like crazy.
finally a few days...
umcanyounot asked: You have my blessing to have your baby.
AHH THANK YOU
you totally just reminded me i was supposed to call her today!
quyenhuynh replied to your post: sorry in advance
[redacted] the whole time i was in labor, i was pissed that i haven’t cleaned the house and the housekeeper was not scheduled.
sorry in advance
i seem to recall some people on tumblr having a problem with mentions of dilation and other things of the tmi-pregnant variety.
well, sorry.
i have to know, tumblr mamas? how quickly did you go from 2cm to baby? i wasn’t feeling at all like we’d meet this little girl before sunday (i mean, the doctor predicted it and everything, come on), but greg just called and told me that...
COME OUT COME OUT
there might be a baby on SUNDAY!
that’s the doctor’s prediction, anyway. i’m going with it.
1/15/12… let’s do this.
December 2011
6 posts
on delegating
my boss has given *me* the responsibility of deciding who (of the 2 others on my team) should be managing which accounts of mine, while i’m out.
this is proving to be a lot more stressful of a situation than i anticipated.
i was feeling motivated when i got here
now … not so much.
happy tears
some really awesome things just happened/are happening/are about to happen and today one of those things actually made me cry (bet you’ll never guess which one).
husband opened up his own company! (a coworker told me today that makes me a business owner, too! how neat!! but yea, obviously credit entirely to him. so pumped for him and his new venture.)
a very dear friend and his very...
gossip girl here (sorry)
Can someone please tell me why the whole Rhodes family acknowledges a random stranger that carol picked up off the street? Don’t they know what their actual cousin/niece/granddaughter looked like? Or did she happen to find that much of a perfect lookalike?!
Get email about 2012 holiday schedule, immediately...
calamityshana:
kimbaland:
Ooh something to write!
Again, I love you guys. But I must be the only one who has lowercase PTSD from HS, college and the few years after where it felt like I carried a planner EVERYWHERE and wrote in it all the time, for everything. I have an iPhone now, which is where I store all my reminders and appts and there’s handy feature that ALERTS ME when I have...
November 2011
12 posts
not awesome
husband’s car dying again
but also kind of a little bit awesome
husband waiting for a tow means getting home before him to intercept evidence of ill-advised online shipping binge
Million-dollar idea:
megburns:
(aka something I want to exist so I assume others will as well)
Cart sharing.
When online shopping, I really wish I had the ability to share my entire cart via email. I need friend’s opinions before purchasing and it’s really annoying to gather individual links/photos to send myself.
I know shoebuy.com has something like this, but I feel like it should be developed as a social...
the good wife
i’m considering getting greg tickets to the big ten championship game.
it’s in indianapolis in two weeks, and there are some reasonably priced tickets on stubhub and the flights are pretty cheap.
should i tell him? i feel like it would be such a fun surprise, but then i have to make plans for who he’d go with and he might want to decide that for himself?
hmm.. scratch that,...
survey
how many browser tabs do you have open right now? is that more or less than usual?
my answer: 19, more than usual. i’m doing some pre-holiday browsing.
a couple of things
working from home today so i can attend a coworker’s baby shower in our jersey office. just didn’t make sense to go to work in the city this morning, b/c i’d have to come back into the city to be able to get home, and that’s clearly just ridiculous.
working from home when harley isn’t around means i can actually get some work done, so that’s novel. plus i...
Watchnefariousnewt:
the-mtblog:
Jon Stewart took to The Daily Show last night to talk about the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal, and gave a serious commentary about how people knew of Sandusky’s abuse and didn’t do anything, as well as the recent student rioting over the firing of coach Joe Paterno.
thebluehour asked: Re: Sandusky --- I 100% agree that he should be vilified from the rafters. But until people know his name, I think any attention drawn to it, is good. B/c while Paterno didn't technically do anything wrong, he also didn't do anything right and I think he should be help responsible for his lack of action too. I guess that's the price of fame, you are more exposed. If this was a small...
two cents or so
not really sure why i feel a need to chime in about this, but here i go.
it seems pretty cut and dry to almost everyone paying attention that joe paterno did not do enough. he did not meet (and certainly did not exceed) whatever moral obligation we, as a society, put upon a person in a position of power and respect.
that said, he did report the issue.
and the only reason people are as obsessed...
maybe buy some blue stuff just in case?
last night i had the inevitable (i think) dream that we had a boy.
in the dream, i didn’t even remember giving birth (maybe i’ll have a c-section…?) and there i was in a hospital room and the nurses were cleaning up some LARGE baby boy with a thick shock of dark hair and beautiful brown eyes, who was cooing and mewing and babbling up a STORM for a not-even-day-old...
October 2011
27 posts
1 tag
not-so-surprise visit
so greg and harley are going to come up to my office at some point soon and i sit really near the elevators and even though i know i’ll most likely get a call first from security downstairs letting me know they’re here, everytime i hear the elevator DING! my heart kinda jumps and i peek out of my door to see if they’re here.
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freaky friday
so this was a longer story, but it’s kind of boring, so here’s the short version.
normally, my mom comes to our house to watch harley on fridays… except today that wasn’t able to happen. she’s actually in the hospital with my dad this morning while he has surgery to repair his torn achilles. OUCH.
greg and i each felt like the timing wasn’t great to take day...
really frustrated and hungry
how come the internet tells me that no fasting is needed for the one-hour ‘glucose challenge screening’ but my doctor’s prescription blank has a one word note that says ‘fasting’ ???
this is incredibly frustrating. i’m off in an hour-ish to go drink 75grams of THESUGARIESTDRINKINALLTHELAND after which i will get poked with needles and then crash miserably...
well that sounds like fun
thinking about checking this out this weekend…
Williams Nursery in Westfield offers kids a hayride for $5 through a spooky graveyard to a pumpkin patch where they can pick their own pumpkins that range in price depending on size. The nursery also offers a hay maze and a game called Perturbed Birds that is a real-life version of Angry Birds, where kids get to use sling shots to propel...
sesame street genius
(or maybe that’s not something to brag about? oh well.)
first, a brief back story… my parents have a cookie monster shape sorting toy at their house that harley loves. and my dad does awesome voices, so one day he was doing his funny cookie monster voice and he said, “hello harley” in this funny gravelly voice. and she repeats it in her own version of...
Why we should use the Oxford Comma
ryanewolf:
latefines:
thoseglassdungeons:
A direct quote from The Times newspaper, talking about a Peter Ustinov documentary and saying that:
“highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector”.
I nearly shot coffee out of my nose… hahahahahahaha
*dies laughing*
ZING!
house update
not so surprisingly, things are moving a little slower than the GO-GO-GO timeline we might have wanted, to ensure that maybe we had a room to move into before the baby arrives. that’s NOT going to happen.
but since that reality has set in, somehow the stress of when this all gets done isn’t really there, and i can just be excited knowing it’s happening at all and lose hours on...
survey
can we talk for a minute about whether or not i have a boot problem?
how many pairs of boots do you own?
my answer is … 8.
and i would really love for these to join the family. (but i’m not going to, i promise.)
strikes and gutters
apparently i’ve used this title before, i guess i’m predictable
things that suck:
work (for now, anyway)
feeling sick
a general funky malaise i’ve been having that’s sort of spiraling lately
things that don’t suck:
birthday goings-on to look forward to
a fun and different (and, i think, totally awesome) bday gift procured for my bff that i can’t wait to...
5 tags
1 tag
thebluehour asked: How did you come up w/ Harley's name? (for the record, I LOVE it). Did you have a 2nd choice? Is that in the running for Baby #2?