low foot clearance http://www.lowfootclearance.com/ surreptitiously blogging since 2005 en Copyright 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 02:09:44 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss dented my mother got into a minor accident today -- one of the rear doors on her pt cruiser swung open and smacked into a parked car. she didn't even realize it until someone following her stopped and told her to go back because it was the nice thing to do. she went back and knocked at the door of the house where the car was parked. no answer, so she seemed to feel she was off the hook.

when she told me about this, i just looked at her. jesu cristo. i told her to go back to the car and leave a note. how can she assume a car parked in front of a house belongs to the owners of that house? and just because no one answered the door, how does that absolve her of responsibility?

me: i know if you went outside and saw your car had been damaged you'd be mad.
her: [wheedling] but it's not really a dent.

sometimes i feel like the parent in this relationship.

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/05/dented.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/05/dented.html stuff Wed, 14 May 2008 02:09:44 -0800 nola our girl was born friday afternoon. since her birth, we have proceeded to come up with a variety of unflattering nicknames for her -- major briggs, triops, seven pound burger, squeakers -- but i think it's fair to say these names were coined with affection.

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/05/nola.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/05/nola.html t-rex Mon, 05 May 2008 23:49:17 -0800 induction appt at 8:30 and away we go...

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/05/induction_appt_at_830.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/05/induction_appt_at_830.html t-rex Fri, 02 May 2008 07:36:53 -0800 warmth at some point in the early morning, cam brought paul over to our bed. i didn't realize it until a couple of hours later -- cam had already gotten out of bed and started work for the day when paul woke me up.

paul: mommy?
me: hm?
paul: daddy already got up.
me: okay.
paul: i have to get closer to you because i want some warmness.
me: okay, let's snuggle.

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/05/warmth.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/05/warmth.html mr. baby Thu, 01 May 2008 00:26:01 -0800 40th thursday tomorrow is my due date, but i don't expect to spend it in the hospital. nope, we'll save that for friday.

tomorrow paul and i are going to spend the day together while cam works from home (his last day before a two-week vacation). i am not sure what we're going to do. we've talked about a walk, i've thought about baking a cake, but chances are just as good that we'll sit on the couch and watch a variety of tivo'd shows about tornadoes. i'm not really sure how the day will go, but i am determined to not take up the day with housework and nesting-type crap when this is the last day that paul will be an only child. it will be a good day, goddammit.

today cam and i talked a little about stuff we'll do once the baby arrives. we'll come along to preschool, i declare bravely, we'll go for picnics, all four of us. we'll fly a kite, cam says, making a mental note to buy a new one because god only knows where the old one went. we smile, but there's a hint of nervous desperation behind it because we know that very soon things will NEVER BE THE SAME. may paul forgive us for what we are about to do to his world.

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/40th_thursday.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/40th_thursday.html t-rex Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:47:03 -0800 wah wah wah (cue the tiny violins) i know that i should be actively writing about the joys of nesting and the miracle of (waiting for) birth, but i'm just too damned tired, sick and stressed. this is not the way i envisioned my maternity leave would start. i guess i should be glad -- at the very least -- that i can suffer through the braxton-hicks contractions and hot flashes in the comfort of my own home.

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/wah_wah_wah_cue_the_tiny_violi.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/wah_wah_wah_cue_the_tiny_violi.html t-rex Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:12:37 -0800 suffer why is everyone sick?

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/suffer.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/suffer.html ranty Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:01:35 -0800 i wish i were four me: paul, how old are you?
paul: four.
me: four, not forty?
paul: four years old.
me: what do you do when you're four?
paul: supposedly eat all day.
paul: [grinning] couch.
me: sit on the couch?
paul: and do nothing.
paul: crumbs!
paul: crumbs on the couch!

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/i_wish_i_were_four.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/i_wish_i_were_four.html mr. baby Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:04:27 -0800 postage hostage this baby better be born before may 12 -- i will be most irritated if i have to pay additional postage when i send out the baby announcements.

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/postage_hostage.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/postage_hostage.html t-rex Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:40:22 -0800 school day went to paul's preschool today. he's doing so well. he's so adorable. cam's right -- everyone likes paul. he is really destined to be a man coddled by women.

low point: a little girl asked me if i was going to have a baby -- because the teacher was talking to them, i was too afraid to say anything for fear it would be disruptive. she must have thought i was dumb. (i chuckled to (and at) myself later.)

high point: paul's strut. that boy can walk. that will be useful when he grows up.

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/school_day.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/school_day.html mr. baby Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:23:29 -0800 blending working from home is turning this week into a fog filled with couch-sitting and overeating. what day is it today?

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/blending.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/blending.html stuff Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:48:29 -0800 an honest woman i brought home the decorations from the baby shower. one of them was a centerpiece -- a heart-shaped "baby" sign mounted on a lavender honeycomb tissue thing. (sorry, i don't know how else to describe it.) paul found it very amusing -- and quickly found a bizarre use for it.

paul: [holding it up] when i put this in front of you, i'm going to marry you, mommy.

what?

cam: you can't marry mommy, that's my job.

paul then spent about 15-20 minutes chasing me around the house to put the centerpiece at my feet. he seemed to have shed his oedipal moment, though, and kept telling cam that it was time to marry me.

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/an_honest_woman.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/an_honest_woman.html mr. baby Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:42:55 -0800 gifty had my baby shower yesterday. went surprisingly well, but man, i have a lot of thank you cards to write now. people are entirely too generous.

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/gifty.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/gifty.html t-rex Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:39:52 -0800 a monday in april another weekend has passed by and i have managed to remain pregnant. this is both a good thing (my jewish doctor would have missed the birth) and bad (my work baby shower is today and i hate being the center of attention).

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/a_monday_in_april.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/a_monday_in_april.html stuff Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:31:47 -0800 the similarity between 8 weeks and 38 weeks at 8 weeks:
asleep by 8.

at 38 weeks:
asleep by 8.

]]> http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/the_similarity_between_8_weeks.html http://www.lowfootclearance.com/2008/04/the_similarity_between_8_weeks.html t-rex Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:35:46 -0800