Today- July 31, 2007. My last day in this ‘suck-you-in-till-the-memory-of-who-you-were-before-banking-is-just-a-vague-memory’ job. I feel like an innocent convict escaping from Alcatraz.
Freedom.
At last.
Archive for July, 2007
Euphoria
Posted in JobHunting, Quickies on July 31, 2007 | 4 Comments »
An Endless Horizon
Posted in Mira, Parenthood on July 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Being a parent is damn cool. Sure, there are the oh-my-god-I-want-to-rip-my-hair-out days when Mira sets about testing her vocal cords. Yeah, she’s young but she can warp window panes with those screams and with continued practice I’m sure she’ll shatter a glass by the time she’s a teenager. But the rest of the days are [...]
Enrolling in Hogwarts – an online apology
Posted in Books, Reading, tagged Dostoevsky, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling on July 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
For the record I was never a Harry Potter fan. I ridiculed my friends for caving into the cult phenomenon that is Harry’s world- for waiting in line outside Barnes and Noble hours before midnight on the day of a new release; I chuckled for those hapless souls sporting the iconic black, round rimmed [...]
Yet another reason why I love Howard
Posted in Howard on July 25, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In the midst of a phone conversation with Howard, he announces that he’s dizzy.
“Why are you dizzy?”
Howard has one of those jobs where he’s just as likely to be hanging out on some rooftop or wriggling through some crawlspace as he is to be at his desk. He had mentioned earlier in the conversation that [...]
One Year Later
Posted in Mira, Parenthood on July 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Who knew that planning a birthday party for a one year old could be so time consuming and hectic? Luckily the event was a major success and I had more guests show up than anticipated- which just goes to show you can’t estimate a number of attendees by the RSVPs you get.
The house was literally [...]
KaBAAAAMMM ! ! !
Posted in Howard, Uncategorized, tagged heat lightning, lightning, nature photography, thunder storms on July 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Aside from the stifling boil your eyeballs heat of Florida summers, you have to love them for the awesome lightning shows they produce. Summer nights here are filled with heavy clouds that are equally likely to produce or not produce rain; and even on nights when you aren’t graced with showers the skies [...]
What not to do to your significant other on Friday the 13th
Posted in Howard, Parenthood on July 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday rocked. I spent the whole day alone with my daughter. Both Howard and Bob are out of town so we had the house to ourselves. We took advantage of the solitude to do silly mommy-baby stuff. We danced and sang, took an extra long bath, ran circles in the living room, and thoroughly played [...]
Living
Posted in Quickies on July 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You can’t make room for the future when you are full of the past.
To Tina, April, and pregnant women everywhere . . .
Posted in Mira, Parenthood, tagged babies, childbirth, Pregnancy on July 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
. . . you have no idea how good it will get!
May 22, 2007
Dear Mira,
At ten months old you have officially been out in the world longer than you were in my belly. You seem to like it out here. You’ve taken an active interest in the going-ons around you; you [...]
To be read while humming “Manic Monday”
Posted in Quickies on July 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Granted I’ve been in banking for the past five years, so I can’t say with certainty whether this Monday morning routine happens anywhere else with such regularity. But every Monday- every single one since I’ve been here starts out the same. Haggard looking, disheveled employees straggle in anywhere between 5 minutes and 45 minutes later [...]
