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a breech in several acts: act two | another damn life
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A blog about a stranger's dumb life. A breech in several acts: act two. A breech in several acts: act two. December 7, 2014. I learned that I had a baby who was breech. ACT TWO: THE WEEK OF MAGICAL THINKING. I went into my 35-week appointment thinking something felt different. I thought that the baby had almost certainly changed positions. So you can already see where this is going. If the ECV went awry, there was a chance a c-section would have to be performed right away. Which maybe didn’t ma...8220;Th...
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i hate mother’s day and you can too | another damn life
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A blog about a stranger's dumb life. I hate mother’s day and you can too. I hate mother’s day and you can too. May 10, 2015. I’ve been learning to write clickbaity titles for work, can you tell? I do not want you to hate Mother’s Day and honestly, it’s uncharacteristic of me to throw the scantest of shade on a holiday that so heavily features breakfast foods. But lots of things have long made me uncomfortable about this day and I’m about to drop a load of elucidation in this bitch. I get this one day.
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Uncategorized | another damn life
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A blog about a stranger's dumb life. RSS feed for this section. February 4, 2016. When good got gone. On Christmas Day my back went out, or rather it started kind of seizing up, starting at the top of my right hip and radiating…. July 29, 2015. Requiem for a boobdream. I guess breastfeeding, for me, is over? I’m still pumping for now, but the actual part that involves baby and boob in proximity to one…. May 21, 2015. Becoming a mother has made me a much better person. Sorry, autocorrect! May 10, 2015.
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relationships | another damn life
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A blog about a stranger's dumb life. RSS feed for this section. April 13, 2015. A decade of us. The day before I first met the beau I spent a couple of hours after work at a Wet Seal-like store, trying on jeans. The pair…. February 20, 2013. How we got over. There’s no one thing you can point to, in the end. There isn’t 1 weird trick that fixes temporary apathy in a relationship; that rekindles…. February 8, 2013. October 4, 2012. How to have a second anniversary. Have you ever had an anniversary? Now i ...
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rant | another damn life
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A blog about a stranger's dumb life. RSS feed for this section. February 9, 2015. What they tell you. People have a lot of stuff to tell you about new babies. Everyone tells you: Is the baby fed? Then that’s enough! Perhaps this is…. November 19, 2014. I want stuff. I want so much stuff it’s stressing me out. Let me rephrase that. I want stuff so much but then I go…. December 11, 2013. Oh hell damn no. September 13, 2013. All hands on the bad one. July 25, 2013. May 30, 2013. December 10, 2012. I hate fo...
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the right stuff | another damn life
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A blog about a stranger's dumb life. November 19, 2014. I want so much stuff it’s stressing me out. Let me rephrase that. I want stuff so much but then I go to buy it and I worry it’s not the right stuff and I worry it’s not the right price point and so I don’t do anything at all. I am frozen. Immobile. Suspended for eternity in an amber of helplessness. And still I fret. Stuff I want a rug for the spare bedroom. I want a lamp. I want three lamps. I have such a desire for ambient lighting tha...Next week...
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announcement | another damn life
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A blog about a stranger's dumb life. RSS feed for this section. January 13, 2015. The future is meow. On New Year’s Day in 2015 I somehow managed to start a new: bottle of lotion tube of lip gloss pack of contacts pot of…. October 28, 2014. What’s a clever way to tell you I’m pregnant? Because I don’t have one. I have been trying to think of something to say about…. October 1, 2013. July 11, 2013. September 19, 2012. I'm on Twitter and Instagram, in case this pleases you. Coffee and Zombie Movies. Risk a...
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a breech in several acts: act one | another damn life
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A blog about a stranger's dumb life. A breech in several acts: act one. A breech in several acts: act one. December 3, 2014. Babies can be breech. I knew this, intellectually, and yet I still sort of believed it was something that happened only to other people. So you can already see where this is going. ACT ONE: A WORLD OF NOPE. At week 33, my doctor gave me my first ultrasound since week 23, so I got a glimpse at what baby had been up to over the previous ten weeks. And guess what? As I was leaving she...
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musings | another damn life
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A blog about a stranger's dumb life. RSS feed for this section. April 1, 2016. Back at the beginning of March, six of the beau’s college friends flew out from California for a surprise visit (they rented their own house and…. September 25, 2015. Now i know a few things about you that most people don’t. One morning back in August a rainbow drew me out onto my porch but what caught my eye instead was an old van parked on my street. It was…. June 12, 2015. May 21, 2015. April 13, 2015. A decade of us. One o...
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what they tell you | another damn life
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A blog about a stranger's dumb life. What they tell you. What they tell you. February 9, 2015. People have a lot of stuff to tell you about new babies. Everyone tells you: Is the baby fed? Then that’s enough! Everyone tells you: Just sleep when the baby sleeps! You don’t have a baby in a goddamn vacuum. The stupid thing about your life with a baby is that it continues more or less without you, and every day that passes means digging out from under a bigger mountain of laundry, bills, chores, pa...Sometim...
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