Archive for April, 2011

24 speaking of the house project of the decade {video!}

The first part of this video is me climbing the stairs. The rest of it is me catching my breath. The pictures are older than the video (which is why you can see the screws and seams in the sheetrock), but they don’t come with a sound track of me panting, so there’s that. :: [...]

17 no, I’M more stressed.

When my stress level rises my coping mechanisms come out and my defense shields go up. I think that’s true of most of us. But a funny thing happens when I am coping, defending, surviving – it becomes all about me. My burden. My worries. My what-ifs. These stressors, though, (the house project of the [...]

33 peeking out to say hello

Not the baby. Me. No peeking on the baby’s part for a very long time, thankyouverymuch. (ok, so like, a month.) A quick update on our ultrasound last Friday: All is well in placenta land. We needed it to measure 3cm away, and it was 13cm. THIRTEEN! The technician quickly saw that everything measured fine, [...]

24 sheetrock and my placenta

Do you think the title of this post is some sort of cosmic first? I mean, have those words EVER been paired before? And so cavalierly? I guess maybe they have come accidentally stumbling from someone’s lips in a conversation I can’t really imagine? But typed out and previewed then published the whole interwebs to see, has it ever [...]