May 1, 2009
January 13, 2009
the problem with moving #421
ah, yes. we have moved.
lost angels. i still haven’t gotten my head around it. so let’s get back to that part and the huge pain in the ass that was later.
aside from the obvious problems of moving, the ones that pop up later are those that you can’t really see until you get there to wherever you’re going to. like all those little solutions you came up to make life work just right in your old house, no longer work in your new house. that little set of shelves you put the microwave and cookbooks on next to the stove? no room for it in the new kitchen. those little metal pull-out drawers that worked so well in your old closet? now your new closets are a completely different shape, size, and depth. that cool thing you finally found to hold up your brooms and mops in your broom closet? sort of useless when the new house doesn’t even HAVE a broom closet. and that package of stainless steel appliance wipes? not so handy when there are no longer any stainless steel appliances, are they?
it’s like you finally got really good at tetris, and then suddenly someone gave you a new level. a new level that’s ROUND.
December 12, 2008
yes we can!
what else could rouse me from my moving-caused-blog-paralysis? word of a hello kitty hospital! from reuters:
YUANLIN, Taiwan, Dec 5 (Reuters Life!) - Mommy, daddy — and Hello Kitty — welcome newborns at a cat-themed Taiwan maternity hospital that hopes the Japanese cartoon icon will ease the stress of childbirth as well as boost business.
The 30-bed Hau Sheng Hospital in Yuanlin in central Taiwan claims to be the only institution of its kind authorised by the popular cartoon cat’s parent company Sanrio Co Ltd.
Newborns get everything Hello Kitty but a set of whiskers, including pink or blue receiving blankets, nurses dressed in pink uniforms with cat-themed aprons, cot linen and room decor.
In the lobby, a Hello Kitty statue in a doctor’s uniform greets patients, and twice a year people in feline costumes visit mothers and children.
The cat’s likeness even shows up on birth certificate covers.
Director Tsai Tsung-chi said he hopes the white, mouthless cat that is one of the world’s most recognisable characters will ease the pain and fear associated with childbirth and being admitted into hospital.
“I wish that everyone who comes here, mothers who suffer while giving birth and children who suffer from an illness, can get medical care while seeing these kitties and bring a smile to their faces, helping forget about discomfort and recover faster,” he told Reuters.
Tsai opened the hospital with T$100 million ($3 million) in his hometown of 126,000 because his mother, wife and daughter all like the cartoon cat.
“Unlike traditional hospitals that are mostly white, I feel this one is pretty good,” said Chen Shing-chiu, 38, mother of a newborn baby boy. “I like Hello Kitty very much myself.”
November 13, 2008
November 7, 2008
god bless america, pt. 2
November 4, 2008
obama
Published: November 4, 2008
Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday, sweeping away the last racial barrier in American politics with ease as the country chose him as its first black chief executive.
The election of Mr. Obama amounted to a national catharsis a repudiation of a historically unpopular Republican president and his economic and foreign policies, and an embrace of Mr. Obamas call for a change in the direction and the tone of the country.
But it was just as much a strikingly symbolic moment in the evolution of the nations fraught racial history, a breakthrough that would have seemed unthinkable just two years ago.
i honestly never thought i’d live to see the day. i kept breaking down in tears with both disbelief and joy.
yet my amazement is tempered by the shame of california approving prop 8. on the same day where we break through such barriers and actually elect a minority as president, how do we simultaneously mandate discrimination?
so far we’ve come, so far to go.
still, god bless america. incredible.
October 31, 2008
October 19, 2008
October 15, 2008
October 13, 2008
family values
and THEN after getting back from the hospital and just trying to get her healthy and get her daily asthma treatments to something that i can deal with and not have to have the nanny worry about, we get KICKED OUT OF OUR NANNYSHARE.
something about the nanny not feeling comfortable enough to take care of snapper in case something happens again, and not having the medical training for this.
which leaves us FRACKED at least. because it’s sort of hard to go back to work when NO ONE is watching your child. and when you have NO TIME or NOTICE to find other options.
thanks a lot.
