I have a weird pet peeve. When two cars are facing each other at a 4-way stop and one is going straight and the other is turning left, the one going straight has the right of way. This isn't just a random rule, it's actually more efficient for the flow of traffic. It drives me crazy when the left-turner cuts in front of the straight-away-er.
I know what you're thinking. What's so unusual about that? Lots of people hate bad driving. But the thing is, I get just as upset, if not more so, at the kind soul going straight who waves people in front of her. These sweet people are just trying to be nice, and all I can think is, "You just wasted 3 seconds of everyone's time! Just GO when you're supposed to!" And it's even worse when you have two kind souls waving at each other and holding up everyone behind them!
So I shared mine, what's yours?
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Random updates
Sweetie's finger--
We had Sweetie's follow up last Friday. There is no sign of infection! No need to worry about the bone! We are informally doing PT and massage every day. He wants to monitor her every so often, and maybe when she is older we'll need to work on the scar to regain her full movement. But she has most of the range of motion, just can't straighten it all the way, and it doesn't seem to hurt her. He thinks she doesn't use it because of habit, and there isn't anything wrong with it to keep her from using it. Thank you for all of the prayers on her behalf!
Papa Runner in India
Papa safely arrived in India. Other than a rough bedtime the other night, the girls are handling things okay. We'll all sleep better when he's home, though.
Team in Training
We officially start training in two weeks! I'm not much of a runner, but I am big on goals. I'm excited about doing this. We heard there may be a double jogging stroller available from a friend of a friend, so that's another answer to prayer. Still don't have our website quite ready, but I'll let you know when it's up.
We had Sweetie's follow up last Friday. There is no sign of infection! No need to worry about the bone! We are informally doing PT and massage every day. He wants to monitor her every so often, and maybe when she is older we'll need to work on the scar to regain her full movement. But she has most of the range of motion, just can't straighten it all the way, and it doesn't seem to hurt her. He thinks she doesn't use it because of habit, and there isn't anything wrong with it to keep her from using it. Thank you for all of the prayers on her behalf!
Papa Runner in India
Papa safely arrived in India. Other than a rough bedtime the other night, the girls are handling things okay. We'll all sleep better when he's home, though.
Team in Training
We officially start training in two weeks! I'm not much of a runner, but I am big on goals. I'm excited about doing this. We heard there may be a double jogging stroller available from a friend of a friend, so that's another answer to prayer. Still don't have our website quite ready, but I'll let you know when it's up.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Single Motherhood
Papa Runner left this morning for a 9 day trip to India. MUCH better than the 3 months last time, but still I'm not looking forward to a week by myself. The weekends have lots of plans, so they'll go fast, but the week will be long. Anyone up for a girl's night out, maybe Thursday? We could go out, or everyone could come to my place.
Even though Papa has a ticket to fly into Bloomington, I'm picking him up at O'Hare. Because I miss him that much? No, because the Bloomington flight is due to land just 1 hour before the Super Bowl and is very unreliable . If I pick him up, we can be sure to be home in time for the game. AND we're hosting his family this year, so there will already be people at our house waiting for us. Yay! :)
Even though Papa has a ticket to fly into Bloomington, I'm picking him up at O'Hare. Because I miss him that much? No, because the Bloomington flight is due to land just 1 hour before the Super Bowl and is very unreliable . If I pick him up, we can be sure to be home in time for the game. AND we're hosting his family this year, so there will already be people at our house waiting for us. Yay! :)
Friday, January 18, 2008
I HATE IT!!! HATEHATEHATEHATEHATE
I was doing some research into clothes shopping. I confirmed something I've long suspected. Do you know what the difference is between a size 16 Misses and a size 16 Women's? The Women's size has an extra 2 inches in the bust and hips. In other words, Women's sizes are ideal for curvy women.
I went to Victoria's Secret today and got professionally measured. I'm currently a DD cup. I think everyone would agree that DD = curvy. So Women's size styles would look great on me.
The problem? I'm only 5'2" and have a small bone structure. So even though I'm 15 pounds overweight (and believe me, it shows) I'm still only a size 10. Women's sizes don't start until at least 14, usually 16. So I need to gain 40 pounds or so to be able to fit into a flattering style! Either that or learn to make my own clothes. (Without a pattern, because they don't make size 10W patterns, either!)
There have to be stores that sell clothes for small but curvy women. I wonder where movie stars with crazy implants shop. Of course, they're movie stars so it's probably somewhere out of my price range. *grumble*
I went to Victoria's Secret today and got professionally measured. I'm currently a DD cup. I think everyone would agree that DD = curvy. So Women's size styles would look great on me.
The problem? I'm only 5'2" and have a small bone structure. So even though I'm 15 pounds overweight (and believe me, it shows) I'm still only a size 10. Women's sizes don't start until at least 14, usually 16. So I need to gain 40 pounds or so to be able to fit into a flattering style! Either that or learn to make my own clothes. (Without a pattern, because they don't make size 10W patterns, either!)
There have to be stores that sell clothes for small but curvy women. I wonder where movie stars with crazy implants shop. Of course, they're movie stars so it's probably somewhere out of my price range. *grumble*
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
13.1 Here We Come!
Papa Runner and I signed up for Team In Training last night. We're going to run a half marathon in San Diego on June 1! We'll be raising money (minimum $4000 each) for research for Leukemia and other blood cancers. We'll have a website where you can make online donations if you feel so moved, and as soon as it's up and running I'll post a link. Anyone else from the area who wants to join us, just let me know!
ETA:
I’ve been thinking up fundraiser events and wondered if any of you, or someone you know, would be interested in any of these:
Girls’ Night Out--Cover fee of, say, $20, I provide drinks/dessert
Baby Wearing Clinic--$10 class on why and how to wear your baby, with handmade slings, wraps, and mei tais available for sale
Karaoke Party
Cubs Game Viewing Party
If you would be interested in attending any of these, or if you have any other ideas, leave me a comment.
ETA:
I’ve been thinking up fundraiser events and wondered if any of you, or someone you know, would be interested in any of these:
Girls’ Night Out--Cover fee of, say, $20, I provide drinks/dessert
Baby Wearing Clinic--$10 class on why and how to wear your baby, with handmade slings, wraps, and mei tais available for sale
Karaoke Party
Cubs Game Viewing Party
If you would be interested in attending any of these, or if you have any other ideas, leave me a comment.
Monday, January 14, 2008
My Blog's Name
We were with some friends last night, and they asked about the name of my blog. "The Cover and Title Page" comes from my favorite passage of my favorite book series, the Chronicles of Narnia. In the last two pages of the last book, the Narnian world has ended and the characters have gone to Aslan's Country (Heaven.) This passage never fails to move me to tears:
...but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
So my blog is about my earthly life, the cover and title page, and I look forward to beginning the real adventure some day in Heaven.
(Quotation from The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis)
...but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
So my blog is about my earthly life, the cover and title page, and I look forward to beginning the real adventure some day in Heaven.
(Quotation from The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis)
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