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August 28th, 2020
12:04 am
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August 1st, 2008
04:32 pm - *happy sigh*
scubajim and I took the day off today and went up to Lusk Caves. Now, you can walk through the caves and enjoy the experience, or you could rock hop to try not to get your feet wet and be playful that way...
...or you could put on a helmet and belly crawl through tiny cracks and openings, twisting your shoulders 180 degrees off from your hips to get around the corners, scratching and bruising up your limbs/stomach/back, all in the name of fun.
Great times.
I am so thankful that I am not claustrophobic and that I am flexible.
I am so sore.
Going to bed after a shower and trying to get the cramp out of my back that is squeezing my spine.
I'm not 23 any more. =(. lol.
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June 8th, 2006
09:57 am
Her head is rounding so she no longer looks like Baby Voldemort.
Her eyes are much clearer, so you can see pupils and flecks of yellow in her blues. She looked fish-eyed for awhile.
She has a cute little button nose.
And she's growing. She's starting to move her head in order to reach for things she wants. She is using her arms to push against things she doesn't want or to pull desired objects nearer. She's also spending much more time awake and looking around at the big wide world.
We've been taking her out for walks in the woods nearly everyday this past week. She's been sung to and serenaded with a guitar. She's been held, cuddled, cherished, and adored...
I love that baby girl. I am excited to live through the rest of the moments we have allotted us.
And she has such amazing parents...you two are positively superb. I love you both so much.
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okay - gushing over, must clean house.
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June 4th, 2006
12:18 pm
i just met the mother-in-law once removed...
...wow.
=)
It went alright.
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May 31st, 2006
10:01 pm
Mom is great.
Baby is wonderful. She is gorgeous. She is also latching on right away, and the time between when the head first made an appearance and when we saw her toes was less than 20 minutes. There was one giant push and head-ears-arm-arm-body all popped out. She was barely caught!
7.08 was her weight, and she was born at 5:50-ish p.m. she's a tall baby, and small, and really really adorable. She doesn't have that new-baby wrinkled grape thing going.
Dad and I got through it. That's all I'll say for now. Wow, what a day.
*hugs* and thanks for the support.
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01:48 pm
we're going into the hospital
good blessings and prayers are welcome
all is good, no worries
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09:10 am - Baby coming
We have been up since 2am Tuesday morning. I have slept about 10 hours since waking Monday morning.
The midwife says that once she is dilated to four centimeters, it will take an average of another 10 hours before the baby arrives.
I am tired, but don't want to sleep more than "Mom." Her contractions are hitting the yelling and swearing phase, and it twists my heart each time. There are a couple of other people here with me, and I am enjoying a quiet break to pound on this mother-beeping keyboard as hard as my fingers would like.
I am torn between feeling like there is nothing that I can do, and feeling like anything I try would be useless.
And I can't believe that I am looking for support or for help in this time. I mean - I'm not "Mom."
The other two here have been kind...reminding me that I can sleep, and that I should have fluids, and generally asking me how I am.
I wish I had more to say - pounding on this keyboard is comforting.
I'm glad I'm not alone.
I'm glad I decided years ago that I wasn't going to ever get pregnant.
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May 26th, 2006
11:20 am - Lessons learned from gardening
Gloves help you to a) not cut your own fingers with your garden shears and b) not get bitten alive by mosquitoes.
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May 25th, 2006
10:48 am - To have tomato powder in your food supply
Easy way:
Mail order it and have it shipped to your home.
Hard way, tapping into fierce independence, frugality, and subbornness:
- buy large cans of crushed tomatoes
- spend days stinking up your house cooking it in a slow cooker until you arrive at tomato paste
- spend even more days rotating them through odd cycles of a food dehydrator
- grind it into a powder in a blender
Moment of sheer stupidity:
not completely drying your blender before engaging in that last step.
...shit...
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May 24th, 2006
03:05 pm - I took Gabriel out for the afternoon...
and kept feeling like a woman in man's clothing...even with impromptu side-burns and guy-ish make-up.
It was a touch hard undoing Gabrielle from the night before. You can only make your hands change so often in a 24 hour period.
I do like the man-outfit though, except for the slight difficulty in breathing with a chest-binder.
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02:52 pm - Gabrielle emerges...
I started the evening with a long, luxurious bath,
bath bomb sizzling
skin all exfoliated.
My nails - perfect.
My feet - filed and pumice-stoned.
My hair, pampered and left to dry in
curly, sensual ringlets.
It was my turn last night...
(kink cut)
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02:50 pm
Happy Anniversary to dagibbs and I!!
It's been a year-ish since we pounced each other in Salem Mass. and amused our friends for a week after while deciding if we were going out or the victims of a fling.
=)
He's been wonderful...and I look forward to our adventures for the next years...
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I love you
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May 21st, 2006
08:10 am
Self-therapy again...
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May 20th, 2006
09:11 pm
FYI - there are latex finger cots close to my kitchen for the times when I slice my fingers open cutting up veggies. They do not fit over my toys...
...otherwise I would have used "Gabrielle's" icon instead. =P
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Been spending more time in "Gabriel" lately, for relief from the usual processing that *I* and usually going through. It's been a comfort, and I am getting more used to the role.
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later in the evening:
The best way to hide from the world is to strap on some leather, pop in some ear plugs, and climb on the back of a bike for several hours.
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07:23 am
So I've cranked up the exercising, and I have to consume more calories in order to match.
riiiiiigggggghhhttttt....
struggling with that one a little. Nothing serious, but enough to gravitate towards 'softer foods' (such as yoghurt, juice, protein shakes, ensure cans, etc) in order to 'sneak in' more calories to my diet and to not have to actually *chew* - forcing me to realise with each movement what, and how much, I am actually eating.
I will call this the muscle stiffness that bothers me most. Most people get achy limbs and sore muscles...I have a diet that doesn't stretch very easily, and I have to coax it to work.
Just saying it's there....
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May 19th, 2006
05:18 pm
Who'd have thought that English would be so handy.
Wondering about a person's thoughts/feelings/intentions? Tired of wondering for hours in the dark about what is really meant when ... ? Cheer up! Simply ask!
(wow, it really works. I am learning to use this tool more often)
Anyway, going either for a run or a nap.
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May 18th, 2006
02:55 pm - Hiking news
I have decided to leave in mid-July instead of mid-June, as that is the recommended start date for southbound AT-hikers.
Thus, I will be attending my family's reunion. This, btw, is the reunion where I would have introduced most of the family to my German. We were thinking of getting to it after getting married in Germany (can we spell jet lag?).
Today, I went to get my first draft of my will written...that was an exercise in "In the future, what would you like to have done with etc.?" For someone without a solid future, it was a touch difficult. =)
I then went to MEC and exchanged a jacket I didn't like (bought last fall) and got my HIKING POLES! I love them!!
edit:
AND....
I am going to have a hiking partner for the hardest part of the trail! She's LJ-less, but is from Maine, and has been collecting hiking gear for awhile hoping to hike this part of the trail. =D!!!
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May 17th, 2006
May 16th, 2006
05:43 pm - You know what your priorities are when...
I have a family reunion in Saskatchewan this summer on the July 1st weekend.
Reasons to go:
- I can finally see the house my Mom grew up in
- I can finally see my family's farm that my Grandfather started after 'the War.'
- I can witness my childhood's favourite cousin get married
- it might be the last "big reunion" that we have before my Grandma passes away, and because of family complications (baaaaad history), it might be the last
- I can see some cousins for the first time in 10 years (I have 31 first-cousins btw)
- I can show "The Albertans" that there is another way to live your life (i.e. expose them to 'strange' me)
- I can connect with a cousin who is also a little aberrant, for some of the same reasons
- there are a lot of reasons to celebrate the family this year, besides the aforementioned wedding.
Reasons not to:
- it wouldn't be my first choice for how to spend a weekend. Family doesn't mean that much to me.
- money
- my trip will get further postponed.
Still pondering...
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May 15th, 2006
01:50 pm - Meanwhile...
Kink filter...
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