Friday, October 08, 2004

• Procuring a dress to wear to a wedding: Seriously, you would not BELIEVE how difficult and time-consuming it has been to find a long-sleeved*, non-black**, semi-formal dress in a style that will be attractive on a person younger than 50. Royal purple - as seen on Kim Cattrell and Kristen Davis - is supposed to be the "it" color this season, but evidently that hasn't caught on yet at the stores where dresses cost less than the resale value of my car. I contemplated sending my regrets to the bride and groom ("Dahlings, I simply haven't a thing to wear..."), but then I remembered personally speaking with the bride about a month ago regarding needing to have a certain number of butts in the seats in order to avoid some wonky catering surcharge, and by gawd my butt WILL be present and accounted for in its reserved seat! So, on to Plan B: my mother is whipping up a dress for me to wear. In PURPLE. Because I am all about being part of "it".
  
  *It is October and I am officially cold. Sleeves, please. Fur-lined if possible.
  
  **Black is good for funerals and any other time you want to be dressed just like everybody else. *yawn* Color + open bar = festive.
  
  
• Reading infertility blogs: No idea why I'm so drawn to this group of blogs, but there you have it. To the best of my knowledge, I'm plenty fertile. Hell, judging by the fact that five of my friends are spawning in the next three months, there's even more than enough collateral fertility in my life. (My baby gift stash overfloweth. ENOUGH WITH THE SPAWNING, YOU CRAZY SPAWNERS!) That being said, there are no current plans to have more Mini Cheezletons. Oh, once upon a time, we had thought maybe we'd plan to have another baby when Sophie was 2 1/2. However, I did the math recently, and that would mean getting pregnant right now. Eh, pass.*
  
  *I reserve the right to change my hormones mind TOMORROW.
  
  
• Not sleeping: This has nothing to do with the above discussion of infertility-by-choice, but have I mentioned that Sophie (a.k.a. Our Lady of Perpetual Tantrumming) has only slept through the night about a dozen times since May? Yes, that would be FIVE CONSECUTIVE MONTHS of getting up during the middle of the night to soothe a kid who had ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM sleeping through the night from the age of 6 weeks until 16 months, i.e. MAY. A few more months of this nocturnal tendency and We'll all have developed glowing phosphorescent eyes.
  
  
• Redesigning the site: Yep, bored again. I'm not even going to hazard a guess on when the redesign will be done, all I can say is that IT WON'T BE BLUE.

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