Thursday, February 6, 2014 10:00 am I’m sitting at my desk at work, counting and re-counting the days. It should have happened by now. Actually, I should have started like around the 1st. It’s the 6th. 12:30 pm Leila is home sick, so I stop in at lunch to check on her before going onContinue reading “Positively pregnant”
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How to make the world suck less
It smells like pee in here. Pee and hopelessness. I sat clutching my call number, scanning the room for the source of the sour smell. I turned to my husband, nose wrinkled in disgust. “Do you smell that?” “What?” “It smells like pee.” “Oh, is that what that is? Maybe some kid couldn’t wait toContinue reading “How to make the world suck less”
It’s a gas
I’m inordinately paranoid about going to the dentist. Afraid that the drill will slip out of my dentist’s hands and accidentally bore out my eyeball, or that I will have to have a root canal. And it happened. The root canal, not the eyeball thing, which totally could happen. I’ve seen a lot of medical tvContinue reading “It’s a gas”