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After stumbling across this Ask Metafilter post about approaching parents of a newborn to tell them their baby is making too much noise, it reminded me how absolutely stressed I was about this before bringing Wesley home. My main point of anxiety revolved around the neighbors not signing up to bring home a newborn even [...]

I’ve had an exciting time since my post last week! Recap from Monday’s blood pressure check: BP was terrible (160/90) when they first took it, so about ten minutes later they re-checked and I’m so glad they did, because it improved a ton (134/82). Because it was so high initially and my leg/foot swelling was [...]

This past week, Baby got a LOT more active. I feel him/her throughout the day off and on and they are definite kicks and/or punches. It’s totally awesome and simultaneously really, really weird. Something is kicking my innards! Ack! It is cute now, but I bet it will not be cute several months from now [...]

I’ve decided recently that I really do like Fall. I always used to say Summer was my favorite season but I’m realizing as years go by that this isn’t true – I can’t handle hot weather, I hate being sweaty, and I don’t have a car with which to drive somewhere to go swimming. Overall, [...]

News on the apartment front: I managed to score a cute, simple little lamp at Target the other day, as well as a much-needed curtain rod. I am still getting used to our curtains, but it’s nice to finally have them up. About a week and a half ago, I ordered a narrow small side [...]

Since you all were so helpful in assisting my big purchase decision, I am now the proud new owner of a Grown-Up Couch from Room & Board. The couch is positively lovely. It fits both Daniel and I at the same time (lengthwise) and the color is exactly what I expected. It’s a bespeckled white-and-black [...]

All right, you talked me into it. COUCH ON THE WAY! We haven’t come to a concrete decision about the rug yet. It is a lot of money and there are nice looking rugs at IKEA that we should probably consider first. I do like the Pottery Barn rug, but… if it were roughly half [...]

Since it’s well-documented that I am a rug dunce and am trying to beautify my living room, I need some outside opinions. I want this rug: Daniel and I have been saving for an occasion like this, and the only other big-ticket item we are seriously considering is the Eugene sofa in Dita Salt: This [...]

As a result of receiving a couple of Target gift cards as well as a couple of Bed, Bath and Beyond gift cards as gifts for the wedding, I decided to redecorate our bathroom. Before Here are two photos of our bathroom before: Things worth mentioning about our bathroom: We rent. Therefore, even though I [...]

This time they are not on our porch, but they keep showing up in the bathroom. We have killed three identical spiders in the past week and I AM NOT ENJOYING IT. This morning’s spider was found on the inside of the shower curtain, so I tried to push the curtain closer to the front [...]

Maintenance has started cleaning! [Read the beginning of the story here.] We were supposed to have a follow-up visit today (our kitchen cupboards appear to be detaching themselves from the ceiling so we mentioned it when they came in last week) and I left a note about the mess in the basement. The note was [...]

I don’t do laundry nearly enough. If it gets really bad, I can usually find some long-neglected, ill-fitting t-shirt to wear for the day until I can get home to do laundry (or ask Daniel to take care of it). Today, though, he threw in a load and then later asked me to go downstairs [...]

Daniel just came home and told me that his co-worker Matt gave him a ride home and… …AND… MATT KILLED THE SPIDER. He held the lamp aside, grabbed a phone book that was laying on the stairs, and SKOOSHED it! (Apparently, he is tall.) If you need me, I’m going to be composing a heartfelt [...]

Lest I continue to create any more confusion, um, I am not a derby player. Sad! I know! It would be so cool, but I am not. I am, however, a spectator who is considering maybe eventually learning to skate well and try out for derby. So, um, when I say “our” team, I… I [...]

Thanks for your responses to my last post. I’m always interested in details of other people’s lives, and I’d love to change my own habits if they prove idiotic. We did some apartment-improvement recently and bought our first kitchen table (JOKKMOKK from IKEA) and a matching set of hampers (the hampers match, I mean – [...]