Sunday, 07 February 2010

  • Opinion on the Super Bow(e)l

    ClockworkMustang: gonna engage in watching the footballs?
    seebeewrite: yes. and i couldn't be more furious about it
    ClockworkMustang: y?
    seebeewrite: The highlight of my week, is on at 9
    seebeewrite: The Super Bowl? Ends at 10.
    seebeewrite: I don't give a fuck about the Super Bowl.
  • Is This Wrong?

    Tell me it's not. I was watching Toddlers and Tiaras last night, and I had a very strong urge to one day enroll one of my daughters in a baby beauty pageant, so that during the Swimsuit round I could teach her to whip off her tiny sarong and wave it around like a burlesque dancer. I would be the really crude pageant mom who teaches her child age-inappropriate dance routines while chain-smoking and having an annoying horse-laugh.

Saturday, 06 February 2010

  • Snow! @ the Overlook Hotel

    There's... a lot of it. It didn't look too bad at first, until my dog tried to run into it, and promptly disappeared into a foot-deep hole. It's a bit too high to use the snow-blower:


    And I can't just shovel the van out and make my escape to somewhere permanently snow-free:


    So I guess I'll just hang out inside, and then start to get cabin fever and begin finding such juxtapositions as this, humorous:


    UPDATE:

    Gizmo, peeing on the border of the untouched backyard, and the driveway.


    And here's my left leg, disappearing into the abyss, while my right leg is safe on the driveway.
    It took over two hours to clear the giant driveway, using a combination of shovels, brooms, and the snowblower. As it stands, the van has a snow-hawk since I couldn't reach the very top of it with the shovel.

Wednesday, 03 February 2010

  • O!-H!

    "Idk about the rest of NE Ohio, but Akron is basically a giant fucking pothole at this point." - Pulse from this morning.

    I wasn't talking about Akron as a whole being shitty. I was talking about the ROADS. It's mid-winter, and the plows are beating the roads all to hell. See, in the summer, instead of fixing the roads, they just put thousands of useless asphalt patches along the sides of the roads. Then, when the plows run in the winter, they rip out those patches and then some, leaving behind these giant gaping holes on both sides of the roadway.

    Because it's impossible to avoid these potholes unless you have a free path to drive directly in the middle of the street, this also means salt. Or, whatever that calcium chloride shit is that everyone is using now. So, I hit all these potholes, which are filled up with salty water. Consequently, the van is a salt-caked beast. It's too cold to wash it, so I'm stuck Windexing my windshield, windows, and mirrors, just so I can see out of them.

    Around here, the streets are white because of all the salt/calcium stuff, and it's getting kind of gross. I can't wait until spring.

Sunday, 31 January 2010

  • Apple, Tree

    seebeewrite: they're frowning all the time
    ClockworkMustang: well they get THAT from you
    seebeewrite: wow, that's what everyone has said
    ClockworkMustang: you're such a grouch, so you made 2 little grouches
    seebeewrite: i'm not a grouch
    ClockworkMustang: stop being so negative
    seebeewrite: in any case
    seebeewrite: the nurse told me if they're not asleep, they're grumpy
    seebeewrite: or hungry. addie is getting fat.
    ClockworkMustang: hmmm. still no indication of which is the evil one?
    seebeewrite: no. they're equally displeased to be born

Saturday, 30 January 2010

  • Teeny Weeny Meanies

    My babies are only six days old and they are already gaining a reputation it took me YEARS to build. According to the nurse I talked to during my visit today, they are two very grumpy young ladies. If they're not sleeping, they're frowning. She says they don't cry a whole lot, but they are markedly annoyed at being born. Hell, there are rules in the outside world, can you believe that? They have to wake up, eat, breathe, poop, have their diapers changed... It's hard work being out here. They're not at all impressed.

    Both girls are putting on their weight and they eat fine. They just need to get their body temperature control issues in order, and then they can come home. I'm going stir-crazy here, so I hope that happens soon.

Friday, 29 January 2010

  • Groupings

    While I wait for the green light from the hospital to bring my girls home, I've been cleaning. Reorganizing, dusting, vacuuming, folding, storing.

    While one group of my possessions is being put away,


    another group of my possessions is making a depressing comeback.


    This box of assorted feminine hygiene products is going to be depleted in a hurry. In case there are any teenage girls reading this, the first box can lead to the hurried emptying of the second box, nine months later, so if you add certain items to that box now, you won't end up putting the first box away forever.

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

  • Schedules

    So... there's a schedule for when I can see my babies. It's somewhat annoying, because I want to see them all the time. Also, if the NICU nurse who brings them to my room is telling the truth, they are sleeping through most of the day.

    When they're not in my room, I just kind of sit here all day and wonder what's going on in the rest of my world. Since I can't be with the babies, I wish I was at work. I have my reasons.

    Instead, I'm doing homework. It's the most frustrating thing in the world, trying to do PRECALC when I have DAUGHTERS nearby. I would much rather be over-stimulating them than trying to figure out exponential laws.

Monday, 25 January 2010

  • I'm 23 years old. I fix computers for a living. I have a dog, Gizmo the Shih-Tzu. People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks. I'm pregnant after two IVFs, and due in March 2010.
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