I was walking down the street and a street bum wished me a thanksgiving.  I returned the greeting.  He smiled and kept walking.  After a few steps, he turned back and said “i’ve got some food, it IS a good thanksgiving.” 

If only we could all see it that simply.

If you are an avid reader (whoever you are), you may have noticed that ‘Seek’ was down for a few days.  I decided to switching hosting services and apparently I don’t know how to do it very well.  We had a few problems, had to backtrack and start over. No worries, I worked out the kinks, and I THINK i got it right.  We’ll find out.  We did lose all the comments and you will likely have to reregister.  Your comments may be put in moderation the first time you comment but have no fears, I will be watching spam prison for those who don’t deserve it.  sorry for the downtime and welcome back.

Waiting in my car for 8:30am street cleaning and an open spot opened up. I started my ignition, hoping to snag it but there was a car fractions of seconds ahead of me that pulled in. I’m not about to fight over it so I backed up and reparked along the outside lane, went back to my book. A minute later a third pulled up and waited on the other side. I thought there was going to be some road rage when the newcomer tried to snake out the car that had been waiting. There were some tense words about “being respectful, I was waiting, you can even ask that girl (pointing to me)” I was disappointed there wasn’t more action. It surprises me how cutthroat it can be sometimes.

I’m getting a little sick of shuffling my car around from spot to spot and having to wake up early when I don’t need to. I guess that comes with the territory. I’ve been back and forth to Jersey so much that it’s hard to snap a good spot early enough to leave it there for a few days.

Just went in to see the baby. She’s beautiful…long and thin at 8lbs and 2oz. She has dark alert eyes and fuzzy black hair. Becky’s exhausted but fine.

“We have a baby.”

I don’t know anything! It’s KILLING ME!! Dad’s here, Carmen and Stephanie are here.

Becky just sent me a text, “I’m pushing, send mom in.”

How bad could it possibly be if she’s texting in the middle? Modern pharmaceuticals are amazing.

SHE’S STARTING TO PUSH!!!

She’s at 6 cm. Soooo boring. Becky’s drugged up and numb from the waist down and still whining about the pain. Such a baby.

Danny’s here now and the nurses are giving us unapproving glances since there are more of us than them. There’s no one else in the hall so it’s not like there’s anyone else to bother. Nazi nurses! Tanya and I stole hospital bracelets so we can look like Becky.

They just gave her the epidural and broke her water. She’s doing really well. She’s at 5cm. Tanya just arrived and is trying to convince Becky to let her examine her. Becky’s not having it.