shell on May 29th, 2008

How come no one ever told me about this? Six TRILLION miles to a light year? So the North Star (300 light years) is so far away that the calculator on my Mac needed to insert letters into the final number (1.7597088e+15) of miles? Crikey. That’s really freaking big. I [...]

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shell on May 11th, 2008

I love my son more than I could ever hope to even begin to express. I felt a strong overwhelming sense of something for him from the day I found out I was pregnant and all the doctors were touching my shoulder and telling me they were sorry and we could try again in [...]

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shell on April 6th, 2008

Someone needs to help me NOT order Nathan’s first birthday cake from here.  They are so pretty.  And it only happens once.  And after seeing her storybook cake (in the children’s section of the cake gallery – just ANOTHER reason not to do your entire site in Flash) don’t you think she’d do an amazing [...]

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shell on December 29th, 2007

What did you get for Christmas?  Me?  Five prescriptions.  Yes, I said five.  Technically, I guess I got pneumonia and a sinus infection for Christmas and the prescriptions were for Boxing Day.  Do you give presents for Boxing Day?  Anyway.  At least Nathan is better.  We had two middle of the night trips to the [...]

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shell on December 6th, 2007

New picture of Nathan.
And so this isn’t completely off-topic we have three people left for which to buy Christmas presents. And we have a five month old baby who refuses to sleep. Ever. I’m pretty proud. Of the shopping, not the not sleeping. Oh, and everything that has been delivered? [...]

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shell on November 5th, 2007

Everyone, meet Mr. Clooney. Mr. Clooney, meet everyone. Isn’t he wonderful and ever so sexy? He is currently in my jeans! And I get to pinch and pull on him. I may need a moment to myself. In September Spr.int finally coughed up the cash (Isn’t it wonderful that [...]

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shell on September 14th, 2007

Good thing I finished knitting David’s beanie hat! (Pictures after I take them.) The weather in Yosemite is slated to drop below sixty tomorrow night. That fills me with more joy than is probably rational. Because we’ll be there. Not just because it’s going to be cool somewhere. We’re getting [...]

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shell on August 30th, 2007

So we’re back from vacation! A wonderful time was had by all – even those of us who came down with mastitis after seven pm on a Friday night while on an island in the middle of Lake Superior. Thank goodness for family with hordes and stashes of antibiotics!

We went to Minnesota to introduce [...]

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shell on August 19th, 2007

Is there a better face by which to be greeted? I think not.

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shell on July 25th, 2007

I have figured out a way to stop B@rry B0nds from destroying baseball history. Walk him. Is a win really more important than history? I don’t think so. So I say they should all walk the son of a b*tch. I’m just saying.
I have lots to say on the justic3 d3partm3nt [...]

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