Posted in fambly, photos on March 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
welcome welcome welcome to the world, mi sobrinito.
my sister, e, gave birth via c section to a really big and healthy baby boy this morning at 7:47 am.
ivp, et al, meet ruben carlos iii:
he weighs 8.75 lbs and is 20.5 inches long. did i mention he was born 3 weeks [...]
Posted in etc on March 21, 2009 | 10 Comments »
lazy saturday afternoon. 3:30. seventy-one degrees outside. sunny and breezy. the wall of windows is open. smoke from the coil of incense floats about the living room, smelling like sandalwood and burning leaves. h and jude nap upstairs, cuddled together like the mother and child they are. my [...]
Posted in baby jude, monthly letter, photos on March 19, 2009 | 10 Comments »
dear jude,
yesterday, you turned 9 months old. just. wow. really? how did that happen? i’m trying to wrap my head around the fact that you have now been outside as long as you were inside me, but i’m failing miserably. because weren’t you just born? weird.
here’s something else [...]
Posted in menstruality on March 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
so. nine months–to the day–after i gave birth to my daughter, i started to bleed again. a lot.
i haven’t had a normal period since september 2007. i can’t say i’ve missed it. and these cramps? total bullshit.
that’s all.
Posted in etc on March 10, 2009 | 13 Comments »
scene: check out line at HEB.
characters: one chicken, one male teenaged cashier, one female observant bagger
cashier: [maintains blank expression while scanning items]
chicken: [fumbles with touchpad to pay for big grocery bill]
bagger: [bagging two bunches of bananas, one yellow, one green] “so why do you buy green bananas?”
chicken: “we eat the yellow ones first, while the [...]
Posted in video on March 6, 2009 | 6 Comments »
this video–even with its unfortunate terrible lighting–is meant to make your friday.
Posted in baby jude, photos on March 2, 2009 | 14 Comments »
i’m at a loss. every day, i really want to write, and every day, i find it damn near impossible to carve out the time to do it. ideas for posts float in and out of my head like so many good intentions, and now i’m sitting here during a quiet moment at [...]
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