I was glancing through past entries, trying to find a particular one/see if I'd posted a particular thing. Dear lord all my entries from the past year/year and a half are depressing.
Um. I promise there've been a lot of good times and things, too, for what it's worth. Honest. It's that lately I'm mostly on Facebook, and I come here for ranting. The hilarious/joyous moments stay over there, or get collected and posted all at once in Overheard Lately entries.
But to give you some of the nifty things from lately, The Saga is finally for real this time drawing to a conclusion; we've found a system of asthma medication that's working, and I've been doing a lot more walking lately and am very happy about it. Yay, exercise! (at least, by recent standards). I start work again on Monday (third try; I ended up signed off again last time).
I'm feeling and looking a LOT more pregnant, which admittedly is a mixed blessing. My 20 week ultrasound was recently, and Batbaby appears healthy, and is a girl. =) Which I'd started hoping for despite always having said/thought I wanted one of each, so I'm quite pleased about that.
Mom came to visit, partly because she thought (correctly) that I/we needed looking after given recent events. This was both incredibly helpful and a huge pleasure. She got to play with Robin a lot; Robin still doesn't like anyone touching her or picking her up aside from a few uber-trusted ones, but she enjoyed playing with Mom and knows to call her 'Oma'. (German for grandmother, and the nickname Mom chose for herself). In small pleasure, Mom and Chris and I all went for afternoon tea at the Balmoral and spoiled ourselves silly with decadent treats. Which were decorated with tiny ghosts for Halloween. They were very cute.
Best, while Mom left this morning and that's rather sad, she'll be back again in six weeks for Christmas. So soon! =) I've seen a lot of my parents this year and it's definitely been the best part of the year.
As another neat thing...we failed to get to Florida for one last trip before the baby's born (won't get back to the States for years, traveling on planes for 18+ hours with one toddler was bad enough and we can't face the prospect of doing it with a toddler and a baby). We failed to get to Germany to see my brother and meet his wife. We even failed to make it to bloody Cambridge, which was the next crackpot hope. But we damn well are going to get down to York for just a couple days of holiday and I'm really looking forward to it. We both love York, it's a neat place to be and I have some nifty friends there, we have a little money to splurge on a nice place to stay in the center of town, booyeah.
Um. I promise there've been a lot of good times and things, too, for what it's worth. Honest. It's that lately I'm mostly on Facebook, and I come here for ranting. The hilarious/joyous moments stay over there, or get collected and posted all at once in Overheard Lately entries.
But to give you some of the nifty things from lately, The Saga is finally for real this time drawing to a conclusion; we've found a system of asthma medication that's working, and I've been doing a lot more walking lately and am very happy about it. Yay, exercise! (at least, by recent standards). I start work again on Monday (third try; I ended up signed off again last time).
I'm feeling and looking a LOT more pregnant, which admittedly is a mixed blessing. My 20 week ultrasound was recently, and Batbaby appears healthy, and is a girl. =) Which I'd started hoping for despite always having said/thought I wanted one of each, so I'm quite pleased about that.
Mom came to visit, partly because she thought (correctly) that I/we needed looking after given recent events. This was both incredibly helpful and a huge pleasure. She got to play with Robin a lot; Robin still doesn't like anyone touching her or picking her up aside from a few uber-trusted ones, but she enjoyed playing with Mom and knows to call her 'Oma'. (German for grandmother, and the nickname Mom chose for herself). In small pleasure, Mom and Chris and I all went for afternoon tea at the Balmoral and spoiled ourselves silly with decadent treats. Which were decorated with tiny ghosts for Halloween. They were very cute.
Best, while Mom left this morning and that's rather sad, she'll be back again in six weeks for Christmas. So soon! =) I've seen a lot of my parents this year and it's definitely been the best part of the year.
As another neat thing...we failed to get to Florida for one last trip before the baby's born (won't get back to the States for years, traveling on planes for 18+ hours with one toddler was bad enough and we can't face the prospect of doing it with a toddler and a baby). We failed to get to Germany to see my brother and meet his wife. We even failed to make it to bloody Cambridge, which was the next crackpot hope. But we damn well are going to get down to York for just a couple days of holiday and I'm really looking forward to it. We both love York, it's a neat place to be and I have some nifty friends there, we have a little money to splurge on a nice place to stay in the center of town, booyeah.