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Archive for April, 2009

ashamed

today i allowed myself to be degraded.  i allowed someone more senior than me to minimize my skills and experience in front of my co-workers and my boss under the alleged guise of appeasing a client.  while it was happening i sat there even as my boss defended me, a little disbelieving, listening to this [...]

fifty is as fifty does

The signs are everywhere that I’m getting old. sigh… I was in J Jill buying a pair of office pants last week. I already have a brown pair, but I wanted a black pair in the same style. As I paid, chatting with the lovely 60-ish salesperson, she mentioned that the company has recently changed [...]

nine months

Nine months ago, at this very moment (9:24pm) I was sitting in the hospital hooked up to a fetal monitor experiencing no contractions whatsoever.  I was waiting for my doctor to get there, having been promised that as soon as he was done with dinner he’d be right there.  What he neglected to mention was that [...]

in a nutshell

I don’t have the strength to write a post with a well written intro, and really, if you’re not me I think this one is pretty high on the boring scale.  (File under: Dear Diary:) YAY! – Emily Kate is officially crawling.  And pulling up, grabbing things, chattering, and cruising.  Most of the time I [...]