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cue the freakin olympic anthem, baybee.

And, bonus random photos. The sweater in the bottom pic is one I made.

Ah, the joys of letting the Man into your house.

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Intake with the state went really well today. Very well. Better than the hospital visit of 2 weeks ago. We’re gettin a plan, goals are set, she did a holistic assessment on Sean and, I feel/think, has a much better handle on our little man and a good sense of where his verbal issues lie. Also, god bless him, because he was in his own home playing with his own toys, he engaged with her in a much more natural way, chatting with her spontaneously, explaining to her about his toys, naming them- which is not something the hospitial clinician observed in her office.

More on this later, as it was really pretty demented and bizarre.

I’m trying to be funny. Really, I am. Always look on the bright side of life and all that.

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-Work kicking my ass
-Laundry kicking my ass
-Kicking the ass of the knitting olympics: 1 sweater done, front and back of sweater #2 done, 1/4 done with first sleeve.
-New design kicks ass, many thanks to Madeleine Powers of Peony Bud

edited to add…the ability to spell is also kicking my ass.

(The scene. Bed, Sunday morning, in the dewey afterglow. Why no sex the night before? Because one of the goddamn pipes froze and so it had been a fun filled several hours of setting up heaters and running water and calling Allstate to confirm damage from a burst pipe would, in fact, be covered)

Wench: “So…yesterday, when I called Allstate, I guess they’ve outsourced to India.”
Lad: “Yeah, big news about 2 months ago.”
Wench: “Well, I had to explain to some woman in Bangalore about frozen pipes, and she responded to me like I was an idiot, of course that sort of damage is covered.”
Lad: “Well, I guess I’m glad she thought you were an idiot.”
Wench: “Actually, I said you were concerned we weren’t covered because of the flood exclusion. She tut-tutted and snapped, ‘Men!’”
Lad: “….I’ve been told by a woman in Bangalore?”
Wench: “Welcome to the global economy.”

3 minutes later, the Lad was off and running.
Lad: “So, there were a lot of Indians in my neighborhood on Long Island, and I would hang out with these girls, we’d be over at one of their houses, and they’d have these tapes of Bollywood movies, and they’re just insane. I mean, they had subtitles, and the production values were, like, 1960s flower power video and big musical number…”
Wench: *stunned silence the Lad knows so much about Bollywood*
Lad: *gyrates to demonstrate dances in Bollywood movie.*
Wench: “You can stop that pelvic thrusting right now
Lad: “Baby, that’s not what you said 20 minutes ago.”
Wench: “20 minutes ago I was not picturing you in a salwar kameez.”

do not adjust your television set.

we control the…

Oh nevermind. Site design foo in process. Sit back in anticipation, ladies and gentlemen.

Today, before a Senate committee, Michael Chertoff, Director of Homeland Security, said Katrina was “one of the most difficult and traumatic experiences of my life.”

Yeah dude. You and tens of thousands of people left injured, homeless, peniless, hopeless; without food, shelter, medical attention, or water; left for dead, left to die, killed outright.

Oh wait.
You had clean clothes, water, food, a place to sleep. Well said, Director Chertoff, you self absorbed incompetent suit more concerned with spin and covering your own ass than doing your damn job

said the spider to the fly. Now that I’ve got you in my web, you’re stuck here helplessly as I disgorge days, weeks of random thoughts, deep and otherwise. You’ve been warned.

I promise at the end not to suck all your blood and vital juices out. Really!

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