Shopaholic I am NOT

Okay all you shoppers, where on earth do you find the energy? How can you keep track of what you see where? How can you care?
I just spent a few hours today shopping. For very specific items. Pants that won’t be too sweltering. A couple nice shirts to go with them. Good gawds that took [...]

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First Weekend of Being Back at Work

Sometimes weekends can be high pressure to enjoy. You know, Cameron’s in daycare, I’m working, so we MUST enjoy the weekend at all costs. This sometimes means that the weekends are just plain awful – not that Cameron tantrums any worse than usual or things go particularly badly, just that there’s the comparison. It was [...]

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First Day

Today was overwhelming and exhausting, but also fantastic. Once I get the hang of things it’s going to be overall pretty easy, a few hassles of course, but manageable.
So, I am now the lab manager / administrator for a large health sciences oriented research center at the University. Okay, why the secrecy, why don’t [...]

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Dear Cameron,

I’m sorry I was such a crab tonight. I know you were tantruming because you were tired, and I know you’re having trouble getting to sleep because you’re tired. You needed me to get you in bed earlier.
Cameron sweetheart, when you tantrum it takes ten times longer to get you into bed. When you insist [...]

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TOTALLY FREAKING OUT

I got the job! I start tomorrow! Whee!
I have so much to do today it’s not even funny.

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