Monthly Archives: March 2008

mod*mom giveaways

March 31, 2008 – 10:23 am

Y’all, mod*mom is giving away some wicked cool stuff. Click over and check it out. (This isn’t entirely altruistic – I want to win stuff, too! But I will be duly delighted if one of my lovely readers is a lucky winner.)

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neither s nor sw

March 8, 2008 – 8:27 pm

Not So is at SXSWi. I? Am not. He promises to get swag for me, though. Swag makes everything okay, even seven straight days of solo parenting.
Which is not as bad as all that, actually – Not So has been gone since Thursday morning, and today was kind of okay, as far as days go. [...]

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puff

March 5, 2008 – 12:22 pm

Okay, the hell? I was in the bathroom washing my hands when I glanced in the mirror and saw a huge swollen lump on the bridge of my nose. Bug bite? Wasn’t there when I woke up, and I think I’d have noticed a bug on the bridge of my nose, even if I hadn’t [...]

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butterflies are free

March 5, 2008 – 11:38 am

Butterflies remember caterpillar experiences. Am I the only one who finds this ridiculously evocative? Imagine what it would be like to have memories of being an entirely different creature. I wonder if they’re dim or vivid. Are butterflies self-aware? I sort of hope not, since the tests that brought this discovery to light are somewhat [...]

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the twos, they are terrible

March 1, 2008 – 11:05 pm

I had heard about the Terrible Twos. They’re old wives’ tale quaint and antiquated, like when people would tell me not to reach above my head when I was pregnant. Hee, I thought. Surely my kid will sail on through his second year with his sunny disposition intact, and then we can be those annoying [...]

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