Write about the baby

I was on the phone with my boss yesterday (who is also a friend and who still believes in the illusion that I am in fact a writer despite the fact that I really haven't written anything since teaching absorbed every spare moment of my life), and he asked if I've written anything about the baby.

Well, I haven't, but it's not because I haven't wanted to.

It's because I'm nervous and excited and scared and busying myself with five million things to get ready for the baby so that I don't have to think about the actual baby, and all of that leaves my very tired and generally 'uncreative'.

I've always been kind of a gestational writer. I tend to mull ideas and lines over and over (and over and over) in my head before I write them down. This is probably one of the reasons poetry suits me well - if I tried to write books, I'd never remember all the lines. But, it's time to actually get thoughts on paper before I forget everything I've been thinking about; so, I'm going to set myself a goal of writing each day this month. I probably won't be as diligent as Amy, but I'm going try. And, we should be home for most of this month, which will help things.

Look for feeble insights to come later, blog stalkers. For now, it's off to grocery store!

And we're back

For those of you that stalk Suellen's blog, you may have noticed that we've spend a good deal of time out of town recently. Well, we're back, and none of the crazy family time managed to kill us (nor did my mowing of our hugely overgrown lawn when we returned - though the lawn mower did go on strike for about 4 hours in the middle).

Anyway here goes...

1. A smile is sometimes hard to do on command. I'm not a good 'on command' smiler. I always look stupid. This made the baby shower particularly painful.
2. Life Boat is my favorite board or card game, though I usually end up dying.
3. I would love to have more time to read in my life and less work related stress.
4. When I think of the Summer Solstice, I think man it's getting hot outside. Where did we buy this house, on the sun?
5. I just remembered I need to figure out how much mulch to buy tomorrow.
6. One of my favorite song lyrics goes like this:
you'll fight and you'll make it through
You'll fake it if you have to
And you'll show up for work with a smile
And you'll be better
You'll be smarter
More grown up and a better daughter or son
And a real good friend. - Rilo Kiley
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to going to ComedySportz to celebrate my birthday (yea oldness!), tomorrow my plans include moving furniture and remulching (yea sore back!) and Sunday, I want to remember what it was like to be young and not have a bad back!

Almost Done!

I'm squeezing this in on my last Friday of work before summer. Yippie!

1. Idle hands are...wait....I don't think I know what those are.
2. I love standing half-asleep in the shower. It's a great way to wake up
3. My favorite time of the day is when everything is done. Unfortunately, that's about 30 seconds before I fall asleep.
4. The last tea I drank was yuck I hate tea.
5. I like to sit on our deck in the Summer. It's my new favorite place.
6. My mother always said be sure to say 'I love you' before you hang up the phone with someone you care about. Ok, well, she didn't actually ever say that, but she always did it.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to shopping for graduation gifts, tomorrow my plans include University's graduation and a tour of parties and Sunday, I want to sleep, but I'll probably have to mow the lawn!