I know it’s more conventional for the mom to share her birth story, after all, she’s the one who had to actually push a tiny person out from inside her. But maybe I’m just not conventional because I feel the urge to share our story, from my perspective. I have relived our story so many [...]
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Relief and Frustration
So I had my knee surgery on Tuesday. For those not in the know, I had a torn ACL – which I tore a few weeks before my wedding – and after having some trouble playing softball this summer I booked the surgery. The best surgeon possible performed the operation and I’ve got some of [...]
Toronto = multicultural + nice and polite people
Toronto is whacking me over the head with its multiculturalism and its niceness.
I can say this because I am in Toronto. Whoops, did we forget to tell you? We are in North America for a few weeks, the original intention of returning to be here for my dear cugina’s (and maid of honour!) wedding celebration [...]
fat stuff coming through
jft: where’s the remote?
[rIAm looks under some papers next to her]
rIAm: here it is! it was hiding underneath the fat overhanging from my thigh.
jft: looks like it’s still in one piece!
rIAm: why do you reinforce my fat?
jft: because it needs scaffolding to support it… and if I didn’t use scaffolding then I would need something [...]
Two Months in the Life
Two months ago, rIAm and I were preparing to head to Toronto. rIAm went first by air, I went a couple days later by car. But two months ago today, we were finishing rIAm’s packing, figuring out what I still needed to do here, and otherwise enjoying our last hours together in Chicago as “single” [...]
“Do not disturb… romance in progress”
We’ve been on honeymoon since 2 August and just got back to Chicago last night. It was a rude awakening but details of just how rude it was will have to wait until we’ve gotten some much needed rest and oriented ourselves back to non-vacation life.
Someone actually had the do not disturb sign I quoted [...]
The last days of our engagement
j. and I made pasta e broccoli last night for dinner and I commented to him as he served me a steaming hot portion in our beautiful white pasta bowls, “This is the last time we’ll be making this dish together as an unmarried couple.” And after I said it, I felt both a [...]
This title was a lot more interesting when I thought today was my second favorite Beatle’s birthday *
But it’s still a super important, interesting, wonderful and superkalafragilisticks day. Why? Because it’s joshua’s birthday. woohoo!
happy, happY, hapPY, haPPY, hAPPY, HAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY to jft, my amazing fiancé and blogging partner, amongst many, many other supportive and wonderful things.
It looks like February 24 is good day to be born on.
Dearest j., I need to [...]
