Rosemary in Danbury
Like every week, Veronika and I were grocery shopping at Stew Leonard's. Only today we had to fight the crowds as tomorrow is New Year's Eve and everyone needs to get their dinner stuff ready. So as I'm pushing my gut and my cart through the throngs of people, a woman bumps into me from the back. She turns around, as do I, and says with a smile: "I'm sorry!"
That woman was Mia Farrow.
Posted at 04:15 PM on December 30, 2005 | Comments (3)28 weeks: It's not pretty
This picture is fuzzy but oh, so realistic! The padding on the hips, the shirt sliding up, the pants sliding down... I told Lincoln this is when I start feeling like that fat sweaty kid in school. You know, the one whose pants are always about to fall off, his undershirt and underwear showing, messy and always a little out of breath. That's me. That cute pregnant look you see in the GAP ads lasts about 3 1/2 minutes in my case. From the throes of nausea I expertly slide into full-on cow mode.
But anyway... this is a fun time because being big means the baby is coming soon. Maybe 2-3 months doesn't sound soon to you, but it is to me. That's a few weeks until my life is all unraveled again... in a exhausting but good way. I am getting excited and anxious and selective in my memory. The knowledge about the raw first weeks of mothering a newborn has to be clouded, so I can look forward to having a baby and be positive about birthing for 30+ hours...
Martha should've hired me.
I made these. Be impressed.
For Veronika Fans
There is a new entry in the commentary: Funny things she says
There are new albums uploaded on snapfish.com and also an audio file of her singing the ABC song. It's all in the LINKS section.
Alle Jahre Wieder
...I get the Christmas homesickness. I won't bore you with the details, the magical details of Christmas in Central Europe. I did that a few years ago and besides Rick Steves did a much better job.
Anyway, I added a photo site to my links in order to aide my imagination on the bad days: Zoom Vienna. Check it out, the photos are great.
Posted at 08:46 PM on December 15, 2005Free psychic at the library!
I am working at the circulation desk checking out this lady's books...
- So baby's coming soon, huh?
- In March.
- (Matter of factly:) Oh, you won't make it that long. Do you know what you're having?
- Well, it looks like it's a boy. From what I saw anyway.
- Oh, so you actually went in and they showed you?
- (Me, perplexed as to how else I would know) Uh, yeah.
- (She lowers her voice and winks at me) Well, you know, I'm very good at this. I haven't been wrong in... oh, I don't know. You know, at my age... I'm 74... I usually guess right. (Pauses) I know what you're having. But I won't tell you. Just let me know when you have your baby.
Uhm, and then? You're gonna tell me you just KNEW it was a boy?
I love the library.
In the series of things you should never say to a pregnant woman
Especially one you don't know and just saw in the mall:
"You are due in March and you are THAT BIG?!!"
Lady, you are far beyond your 40ies and you are that RUDE? No, I didn't say that. I was too dumbfounded. I just wish.
Posted at 01:57 PM on December 06, 2005 | Comments (3)