Life Coaching?
Nov. 17th, 2008 10:36 amHey everyone. I'm looking for a life coach type person to work with. Local to here would be best, but if you know someone really awesome who works remotely, that could work too. Thanks for any leads!
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Nov. 12th, 2008 12:31 pm |
Obama campaign collage Because some of you asked: here's the souvenir collage I did based on Pennsylvania campaign materials. |
Idiom (kidstuff)
Nov. 11th, 2008 03:32 pmSo, since it's Veteran's Day, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
projectmothra is home, and we decided to work through a "science" kit he was given for his birthday. He was doing an experiment with "invisible ink", during which you paint with baking soda solution on treated paper.
After playing for a bit, he came up to me and said "Did my eyes turn red?" I said "I hope not, did you get the chemicals in them?" He said "No. How long till they turn red?", and pointed at the kit instructions.
"Your writing will turn red before your eyes."
projectmothra is home, and we decided to work through a "science" kit he was given for his birthday. He was doing an experiment with "invisible ink", during which you paint with baking soda solution on treated paper. After playing for a bit, he came up to me and said "Did my eyes turn red?" I said "I hope not, did you get the chemicals in them?" He said "No. How long till they turn red?", and pointed at the kit instructions.
"Your writing will turn red before your eyes."
Campaign memorabilia
Nov. 10th, 2008 09:38 amI ended up with a bunch of Obama campaign materials when I came home from PA. After having cut up a bit of it for arts and crafts purposes, I don't really have any use for the rest. If you are the kind of person who likes this sort of thing, either for art/scrapbooking or of memorabilia, I'd love to send it to you rather than just recycling it.
Here's what I have. Request any or all, whatever you'll actually use or enjoy. First comment, first serve.
3 plastic lawn signs. I won't send the metal stakes, but off the stakes these will fold into an envelope fine, I think.
Some really pretty handouts on heavy cardstock, 9 X 4 vertical featuring a red and blue portrait very similar to the Shepard Fairey one that became so famous, and explaining people's voting rights. I have 54 of these.
Barack Obama's Plan for Economic Security. 9X9 foldout, lots of pretty pictures. 37 copies.
Pretty blue "Vote Obama November 4th" door hangers. Nice Obama/Biden pic on back. 4 copies.
Round stickers with the sunrise icon that say "I Voted Today for Barack Obama 11.4.08". 36 stickers.
Here's what I have. Request any or all, whatever you'll actually use or enjoy. First comment, first serve.
3 plastic lawn signs. I won't send the metal stakes, but off the stakes these will fold into an envelope fine, I think.
Some really pretty handouts on heavy cardstock, 9 X 4 vertical featuring a red and blue portrait very similar to the Shepard Fairey one that became so famous, and explaining people's voting rights. I have 54 of these.
Barack Obama's Plan for Economic Security. 9X9 foldout, lots of pretty pictures. 37 copies.
Pretty blue "Vote Obama November 4th" door hangers. Nice Obama/Biden pic on back. 4 copies.
Round stickers with the sunrise icon that say "I Voted Today for Barack Obama 11.4.08". 36 stickers.
Ask LJ Tech Service
Nov. 10th, 2008 08:36 amAnyone know a neat way to move the contents of a Yahoo! calendar smoothly over to Google Calendar? I'd like to switch over but have been procrastinating because I don't want to lose something by mistake.
Little Blogger
Nov. 9th, 2008 09:35 pmAlso, in vaguely boggling news, my just-turned-five year old son is actively blogging. I told him about NaBloPoMo and he decided to do it, so he's agreed to use his new computer to post in his LJ projectmothra every day in November, for a prize of a celebration dinner out anywhere he likes at the end of the month.
He's doing it pretty much entirely by himself. I'm reminding him to do it, and spelling things when he asks me to, and helping him out when he does things like pressing the insert key on the keyboard by mistake. But otherwise, it's all his work. I think he must have gotten the Bloom family writer genes.
Thank you so much to friends who have been commenting on the posts! He really loves to read your comments so much.
(Also, he has somehow gotten strangely obsessed with Mendelian genetics. I guess that comes from my side.)
projectmothra every day in November, for a prize of a celebration dinner out anywhere he likes at the end of the month. He's doing it pretty much entirely by himself. I'm reminding him to do it, and spelling things when he asks me to, and helping him out when he does things like pressing the insert key on the keyboard by mistake. But otherwise, it's all his work. I think he must have gotten the Bloom family writer genes.
Thank you so much to friends who have been commenting on the posts! He really loves to read your comments so much.
(Also, he has somehow gotten strangely obsessed with Mendelian genetics. I guess that comes from my side.)
I can't complain.
Nov. 9th, 2008 09:04 pmYesterday, on a whim and the Universe via oakenguy giving me a reminder, I dragged the family out to the New York Chocolate Show. I got a Good Karma micropayment in the form of someone randomly handing us a pair of tickets as we walked in, saving us $58 and an hour's wait in the rain. The show was next to a more general foodie show, which we didn't have tickets for, but from which we somehow managed to sample wheat beer, tea, mini-pancakes made by firemen, and the last few pieces of a little brunch demo piece a restaurant was doing, which consisted of lovely poached eggs and hollandaise sitting in a little cup of ham and placed on a round of white bread.
The show itself was a lot of fun. Most of the vendors were sampling stuff, though most of them were also selling retail, so it didn't have as much of a trade show feel as what I'm used to at these things. The remains of what had held up after the Chocolate Fashion Show were particularly impressive. A Batgirl bodice and giant chocolate wings with "Wham!" and "Pow!" and "Zowie!" all over them in brightly colored couverture particularly struck my fancy. I got to see the folks from TCHO in San Francisco, who make pure bean chocolates with very different characters based on their bean choices, and who still are selling most of their products as prototypes. They're all geeky-sciency and I think I might be in love. I got to try a lot of products with chocolate and chilies, but everyone who had had chocolate bacon at some point in the day was out of it by time I arrived. The only thing we actually purchased was some bars from a Sicilian line of chocolate made with raw sugar, the details of which I didn't quite get due to some combination of language barriers and salespeople talking out of their butts, but the effect of which was something kind of crunchy, while still being well-tempered, crisp, and not at all mealy. The other winner, which is going to go into the "try to reproduce this successfully at home" pile, was a truffle made with a smokey blue cheese, dark chocolate, and almonds, which actually worked together beautifully
Today I dragged the family into the city again and we went to the Brooklyn Flea Market. It's not really a flea market in terms of pricing, but they had a nice mix of vintage clothing and furniture, memorabilia, and cool artisan stuff. I got a set of arm/leg warmers made of the ends of stretchy shirts and sweater arms, serged together coarsely, in lovely browns and tiger prints, which will probably help keep me in the silly habit of wearing long skirts all winter. I also had an awesome pupusa with pork and cheese inside and some kind of relish on top.
Nothing fancy, this weekend. Mostly just enjoying what New York City has to offer, in a straightforward kind of way. But the fact is, I hadn't done quite that in way too long, and I enjoyed it.
oakenguy giving me a reminder, I dragged the family out to the New York Chocolate Show. I got a Good Karma micropayment in the form of someone randomly handing us a pair of tickets as we walked in, saving us $58 and an hour's wait in the rain. The show was next to a more general foodie show, which we didn't have tickets for, but from which we somehow managed to sample wheat beer, tea, mini-pancakes made by firemen, and the last few pieces of a little brunch demo piece a restaurant was doing, which consisted of lovely poached eggs and hollandaise sitting in a little cup of ham and placed on a round of white bread.The show itself was a lot of fun. Most of the vendors were sampling stuff, though most of them were also selling retail, so it didn't have as much of a trade show feel as what I'm used to at these things. The remains of what had held up after the Chocolate Fashion Show were particularly impressive. A Batgirl bodice and giant chocolate wings with "Wham!" and "Pow!" and "Zowie!" all over them in brightly colored couverture particularly struck my fancy. I got to see the folks from TCHO in San Francisco, who make pure bean chocolates with very different characters based on their bean choices, and who still are selling most of their products as prototypes. They're all geeky-sciency and I think I might be in love. I got to try a lot of products with chocolate and chilies, but everyone who had had chocolate bacon at some point in the day was out of it by time I arrived. The only thing we actually purchased was some bars from a Sicilian line of chocolate made with raw sugar, the details of which I didn't quite get due to some combination of language barriers and salespeople talking out of their butts, but the effect of which was something kind of crunchy, while still being well-tempered, crisp, and not at all mealy. The other winner, which is going to go into the "try to reproduce this successfully at home" pile, was a truffle made with a smokey blue cheese, dark chocolate, and almonds, which actually worked together beautifully
Today I dragged the family into the city again and we went to the Brooklyn Flea Market. It's not really a flea market in terms of pricing, but they had a nice mix of vintage clothing and furniture, memorabilia, and cool artisan stuff. I got a set of arm/leg warmers made of the ends of stretchy shirts and sweater arms, serged together coarsely, in lovely browns and tiger prints, which will probably help keep me in the silly habit of wearing long skirts all winter. I also had an awesome pupusa with pork and cheese inside and some kind of relish on top.
Nothing fancy, this weekend. Mostly just enjoying what New York City has to offer, in a straightforward kind of way. But the fact is, I hadn't done quite that in way too long, and I enjoyed it.
Absentee ballot
Oct. 24th, 2008 10:55 amI just got back home from voting this morning. I drove the half hour to the county Board of Elections, and I requested an absentee ballot, and I filled the little circles in with a pen, and I put it in its envelope and signed it and handed it to a friendly if kind of tired looking lady. There's something very satisfying about a paper ballot somehow, even if "voting" to me has always meant the click-click of levers, ever since they gave me the little practice machine in junior high school and I wondered why people needed to practice pulling levers.
In any case, I'll be driving out to Chester County in Pennsylvania for Election Day and the few days leading up to it, for canvassing and driving people to the polls and having a little solidarity with a group of people who really care about trying to get the country going in a better direction. I have to believe that maybe it could make a difference.
Four years ago, I had a tiny little nursing baby, and the weather was cold, and I was depressed and not really motivated to do much except for try to live my life day to day somehow. My girlfriend made a big deal of taking a chunk of time off work and driving with a bunch of people down to Florida to canvass, and I was very proud of her, but it seemed like a world I just could not be part of. Now I've got a kindergartener who is perfectly okay with letting Daddy take him on and off the school bus, feed him dinner, and put him to bed for a few days, and I don't feel like maybe I kind of want to be part of this. I feel like I really need to be part of this.
Maybe it will be a waste. Maybe I'll find myself hanging around a volunteer office which knows how to collect people more than it knows how to use them. Maybe I'll be knocking on doors alone and people will be angry and frustrated and I'll be cold and lonely and my depression will kick in. But I hope I'll be connected, and motivated, and ultimately be a little piece of helping to turn the country I love back around in a direction I want to see it going.
Wish me luck. Wish us all luck.
In any case, I'll be driving out to Chester County in Pennsylvania for Election Day and the few days leading up to it, for canvassing and driving people to the polls and having a little solidarity with a group of people who really care about trying to get the country going in a better direction. I have to believe that maybe it could make a difference.
Four years ago, I had a tiny little nursing baby, and the weather was cold, and I was depressed and not really motivated to do much except for try to live my life day to day somehow. My girlfriend made a big deal of taking a chunk of time off work and driving with a bunch of people down to Florida to canvass, and I was very proud of her, but it seemed like a world I just could not be part of. Now I've got a kindergartener who is perfectly okay with letting Daddy take him on and off the school bus, feed him dinner, and put him to bed for a few days, and I don't feel like maybe I kind of want to be part of this. I feel like I really need to be part of this.
Maybe it will be a waste. Maybe I'll find myself hanging around a volunteer office which knows how to collect people more than it knows how to use them. Maybe I'll be knocking on doors alone and people will be angry and frustrated and I'll be cold and lonely and my depression will kick in. But I hope I'll be connected, and motivated, and ultimately be a little piece of helping to turn the country I love back around in a direction I want to see it going.
Wish me luck. Wish us all luck.
Microvacation
Oct. 23rd, 2008 08:08 pmI took myself on a microvacation today, in the period of time between when I put the little guy on the school bus and when his school day ended. The two-hour drive through winding roads that changed from New York to Connecticut most obviously because the gas got much cheaper over the border was perfect in that New England smack-in-the-middle-of-fall way. Those colors are the big payoff for living around here the rest of the year. A stretch of Route 95 and a bit of college roadtrip nostalgia as I drove by the exit for Lighthouse Point, outside New Haven, lead me eventually to Guilford, CT, and to a little costume shop that also rented Segways.
After a few minutes in the parking lot practicing "oh crap I'm falling no wait it's fine", a friendly guy took me and a couple who were there for a birthday treat around the historic town, in a little line like schoolchildren or ducklings, all whizz-buzz down the sidewalk, stopping for dog walkers or quick hellos to all the people in town whom the guide knew.
Once you get used to it, riding a Segway is the most like just thinking you want to be somewhere and getting there that I've ever experienced. The gyroscope works on very small shifts of your center of gravity, just shifting weight from your heels to your toes, and so it feels like you are barely making the movements once you are used to the balance. The scooters go around ten miles an hour once you get going, so they're pretty zippy. And I just enjoyed being able to go tour houses built in the 1600s (the oldest stone house in New England, actually) with a contraption invented in 2002 so much. The weather was perfect, crisp and clear and not too chilly since I'd actually dressed right. And unlike most other sporty sorts of tours I've been on, hiking and boating and the like, I didn't end up being the goofy, clumsy one who slowed everyone down. I actually was able to do this as well as anyone else there. That was incredibly satisfying to me.
If I had an extra $5700 lying around, I'd definitely get myself one of these. I'd do all of my local errands on it and zoom along the bike paths anywhere I could manage. As it is, I'll have to go somewhere interesting and rent one again sometime next summer.
Maybe you can come with me.
After a few minutes in the parking lot practicing "oh crap I'm falling no wait it's fine", a friendly guy took me and a couple who were there for a birthday treat around the historic town, in a little line like schoolchildren or ducklings, all whizz-buzz down the sidewalk, stopping for dog walkers or quick hellos to all the people in town whom the guide knew.
Once you get used to it, riding a Segway is the most like just thinking you want to be somewhere and getting there that I've ever experienced. The gyroscope works on very small shifts of your center of gravity, just shifting weight from your heels to your toes, and so it feels like you are barely making the movements once you are used to the balance. The scooters go around ten miles an hour once you get going, so they're pretty zippy. And I just enjoyed being able to go tour houses built in the 1600s (the oldest stone house in New England, actually) with a contraption invented in 2002 so much. The weather was perfect, crisp and clear and not too chilly since I'd actually dressed right. And unlike most other sporty sorts of tours I've been on, hiking and boating and the like, I didn't end up being the goofy, clumsy one who slowed everyone down. I actually was able to do this as well as anyone else there. That was incredibly satisfying to me.
If I had an extra $5700 lying around, I'd definitely get myself one of these. I'd do all of my local errands on it and zoom along the bike paths anywhere I could manage. As it is, I'll have to go somewhere interesting and rent one again sometime next summer.
Maybe you can come with me.
Now I really feel like an at-home mom
Oct. 21st, 2008 11:23 amI took a big slug of Robotussin so I wouldn't cough all over the kids, and headed in for my first time as a parent aide in projectmothra's classroom this morning. I recognized most of the kids, which is good because they all wanted to know if I knew who they were. They wanted to know how I made my candy corn necklace. They were really a sweet bunch of kids, and mostly wanted my attention, which I haven't had since I used to teach Sunday school a long time ago.
I put away the books that she's been sending home with the kids twice a week for reading practice, and realized that my son is the only one reading with any skill in the class, that the rest of them are prereaders or extremely early readers, not really a mix. That was kind of interesting. The teacher told me he's obviously good at reading, but needs practice reporting about what he's read. So we'll work on that. I ran into the speech teacher who said they aren't really working on diction anymore, just on looking at people when they talk and figuring out when it is your turn to talk.
Nevertheless, Rhys seemed to be pretty engaged in the classroom. He put on his glasses to read without anyone asking him to. He likes to draw quickly, and tiny, compared to the other kids. I think really he doesn't like to draw very much.
I'll be going in once every other week or so, for the rest of the year or until my schedule changes. I really enjoyed the connection, and I'm feeling more confident that things are going okay in the classroom, even if I'm pretty sure he's not learning anything academically at all. But learning to listen and take directions is a pretty basic school skill, and I think he's working on that, so I guess that's good.
I need a new mommy icon.
projectmothra's classroom this morning. I recognized most of the kids, which is good because they all wanted to know if I knew who they were. They wanted to know how I made my candy corn necklace. They were really a sweet bunch of kids, and mostly wanted my attention, which I haven't had since I used to teach Sunday school a long time ago.I put away the books that she's been sending home with the kids twice a week for reading practice, and realized that my son is the only one reading with any skill in the class, that the rest of them are prereaders or extremely early readers, not really a mix. That was kind of interesting. The teacher told me he's obviously good at reading, but needs practice reporting about what he's read. So we'll work on that. I ran into the speech teacher who said they aren't really working on diction anymore, just on looking at people when they talk and figuring out when it is your turn to talk.
Nevertheless, Rhys seemed to be pretty engaged in the classroom. He put on his glasses to read without anyone asking him to. He likes to draw quickly, and tiny, compared to the other kids. I think really he doesn't like to draw very much.
I'll be going in once every other week or so, for the rest of the year or until my schedule changes. I really enjoyed the connection, and I'm feeling more confident that things are going okay in the classroom, even if I'm pretty sure he's not learning anything academically at all. But learning to listen and take directions is a pretty basic school skill, and I think he's working on that, so I guess that's good.
I need a new mommy icon.
Free stuff from Breath Palette!
Oct. 8th, 2008 08:17 pmA while back, I wrote a little review of the Japanese toothpaste "Breath Palette". Apparently they found it, and they commented! They write,
"Thanks beetiger for your kind words. Breath Palette is supposed to make a
daily non-think into fun. Is it for everyone? Of course not but we're
glad you tried it and were open to it. If any one wants to try it and
place an order at www.breathpalette.com, we will give a free tube and two
free mouthwash by just writing "Beetiger" in the check out instructions."
So if you are in the market for weird toothpaste, tell them I sent you. :)
"Thanks beetiger for your kind words. Breath Palette is supposed to make a
daily non-think into fun. Is it for everyone? Of course not but we're
glad you tried it and were open to it. If any one wants to try it and
place an order at www.breathpalette.com, we will give a free tube and two
free mouthwash by just writing "Beetiger" in the check out instructions."
So if you are in the market for weird toothpaste, tell them I sent you. :)
Catching up
Oct. 6th, 2008 08:25 amThere's been a lot of stuff in the last few weeks, including a really interesting if slow-paced theater workshop up in the mountains which ended with lediva not-quite breaking her foot and a truly dreadful sort of overnight ride home from Boston, the acquisition of new computers and rubber duckies, and way too many apples.
This weekend I managed to get out tolediva's place for a much more pleasant visit, including going to the 2008 IgNobel lectures and then cocktail-partying with IgNobel winners, one actual Nobel Laureate, and the rest of the Ig staff and associates, including sword swallower Dan Meyer and a good number of the rest of the winners.
It also included unusual Mexican food at Tu y Yo, a restaurant down the block fromlediva's place, where I got to remind myself that cuitlacoche is way too salty for me, but I also got to have a mini-tamale variety plate. Tamales are one of my favorite foods, and variety plates of small things always make me really happy, so I was sold. Seriously, you could give me 5 white castle sliders with different condiments on each on a cute plate and I'd be really happy. It's just how I am.
We also paid a short visit topostrodent, circuit_four, and shatterstripes, in order to pick up the signed print of the Six of Wands from the Egypt Urnash Tarot. I also ended up borrowing a whole prototype deck from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shatterstripes, to read with at the Samhain event run by my pagan Temple. I'm going to have to go review my Crowley, since that's the base meaning set that she uses. I'm looking forward to playing with it.
Also, there was snuggling and sleeping in. My kitty is good for that kind of thing. :)
I've finished up all of the consulting/freelance stuff I had on my plate for the moment, and am hoping something new falls into my lap somehow for the next little while. Otherwise, there's mostly getting the last things set forprojectmothra's birthday (including building some modest IKEA stuff, and various website stuff, and probably going over to see if I can be useful over at the local Obama office for the next few weeks. Today I'm giving platelets, which is a good way to feel virtuous while actually mostly spending two hours sitting around reading.
What have you been up to?
lediva not-quite breaking her foot and a truly dreadful sort of overnight ride home from Boston, the acquisition of new computers and rubber duckies, and way too many apples.This weekend I managed to get out to
lediva's place for a much more pleasant visit, including going to the 2008 IgNobel lectures and then cocktail-partying with IgNobel winners, one actual Nobel Laureate, and the rest of the Ig staff and associates, including sword swallower Dan Meyer and a good number of the rest of the winners. It also included unusual Mexican food at Tu y Yo, a restaurant down the block from
lediva's place, where I got to remind myself that cuitlacoche is way too salty for me, but I also got to have a mini-tamale variety plate. Tamales are one of my favorite foods, and variety plates of small things always make me really happy, so I was sold. Seriously, you could give me 5 white castle sliders with different condiments on each on a cute plate and I'd be really happy. It's just how I am.We also paid a short visit to
postrodent, circuit_four, and shatterstripes, in order to pick up the signed print of the Six of Wands from the Egypt Urnash Tarot. I also ended up borrowing a whole prototype deck from shatterstripes, to read with at the Samhain event run by my pagan Temple. I'm going to have to go review my Crowley, since that's the base meaning set that she uses. I'm looking forward to playing with it.Also, there was snuggling and sleeping in. My kitty is good for that kind of thing. :)
I've finished up all of the consulting/freelance stuff I had on my plate for the moment, and am hoping something new falls into my lap somehow for the next little while. Otherwise, there's mostly getting the last things set for
projectmothra's birthday (including building some modest IKEA stuff, and various website stuff, and probably going over to see if I can be useful over at the local Obama office for the next few weeks. Today I'm giving platelets, which is a good way to feel virtuous while actually mostly spending two hours sitting around reading. What have you been up to?
I waited all year for this?
Oct. 1st, 2008 09:25 pmLast year, I had the most awesomest candle someone gave me as part of a Halloween swap. I was a ghost shaped thing made out of paraffin that had a heat-sensitive electrical gadget inside, so that when you lit the candle, it glowed in a cycling rainbow of colors on the inside. I loved it, and burned it down to where the ghost head was all gone, so that it was just this weird vaguely chalicey looking thing of the two arms upraised over a wide base. Then it was November, and I figured I wouldn't light it again until the season came around. It sat on my bedroom dresser all year, waiting patiently.
So now it's the first of October, which is good enough for "the season" as far as I'm concerned. So I lit it, all excited, and...nothing. Apparently whatever battery was driving the rainbow light gadget ran out of battery over the year. Now it's just a hunk of paraffin with a wick in it, not a particularly pretty candle really. I think I'll enjoy the candlelight for the evening, but after I blow it out this time, I'm going to dissect the thing and look at the insides.
I need some new Halloween treats. I'm not doing the BPAL thing actively enough to be Switch Witching or anything, so I might have to shop for myself.
So now it's the first of October, which is good enough for "the season" as far as I'm concerned. So I lit it, all excited, and...nothing. Apparently whatever battery was driving the rainbow light gadget ran out of battery over the year. Now it's just a hunk of paraffin with a wick in it, not a particularly pretty candle really. I think I'll enjoy the candlelight for the evening, but after I blow it out this time, I'm going to dissect the thing and look at the insides.
I need some new Halloween treats. I'm not doing the BPAL thing actively enough to be Switch Witching or anything, so I might have to shop for myself.
Rainy Day Sale!
Sep. 27th, 2008 08:27 amToday is NYC Pagan Pride, usually one of my biggest vending days of the year. Weather here is supposed to be windy thunderstorms, so I can't actually go there and sell or I'm risking a lot of useless and wet incense, but sadly the organization has already spent the vending fees, so I'm out $125, plus everything I usually make at this event.
If you've been thinking of buying incense or shirts from me, today would be a really good day to do that. So, I'm going to have a mini-sale here, to hopefully make this a good vending day after all, and make myself less grumpy.
Use coupon code FALL210083 in the cart at either Mother's Hearth or Little Pagans between now and September 30th, and get 15% off any order. Feel free to send your friends as well!
Thanks for the support!
If you've been thinking of buying incense or shirts from me, today would be a really good day to do that. So, I'm going to have a mini-sale here, to hopefully make this a good vending day after all, and make myself less grumpy.
Use coupon code FALL210083 in the cart at either Mother's Hearth or Little Pagans between now and September 30th, and get 15% off any order. Feel free to send your friends as well!
Thanks for the support!
Anyone with kids close to potty training?
Sep. 23rd, 2008 08:34 amApparently since the last time I sold used cloth diapering stuff on eBay, they've disallowed it. The lot is already packed up and ready to ship, though, so I thought I'd put a listing here.
I've got 8 pairs of Diaperaps brand training pants, size 3T. Half were bought new by me and were used by Rhys; half were used by one child before Rhys. Great for cloth diapered kids who are transitioning to underwear but need a little extra support for nighttime or long trips. Some of them have a circus design, and some have a cute puppy design.
The company's listing for the product is here.
Please let me know if you are interested, and feel free to pass this information on to anyone whom you think could use these. Value if new would be $80.00 for the set. Price to you for this set is make-an-offer, whatever you think is reasonable. Shipping should probably be around $8.00 for the weight.
Thanks!
I've got 8 pairs of Diaperaps brand training pants, size 3T. Half were bought new by me and were used by Rhys; half were used by one child before Rhys. Great for cloth diapered kids who are transitioning to underwear but need a little extra support for nighttime or long trips. Some of them have a circus design, and some have a cute puppy design.
The company's listing for the product is here.
Please let me know if you are interested, and feel free to pass this information on to anyone whom you think could use these. Value if new would be $80.00 for the set. Price to you for this set is make-an-offer, whatever you think is reasonable. Shipping should probably be around $8.00 for the weight.
Thanks!
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Sep. 15th, 2008 08:29 amI've been feeling a little neglectful of this journal, for this past while.
Perhaps it's that I've been feeling more mopey than introspective, or that I'm having trouble settling in to my home schedule for now, or that I'm having the anxiety that I've had forprojectmothra's birthday every year, that no one will be there for him. He has a few kids he wants to invite that ride his school bus, but I have no clue if he's really connected with them, as he can't even actually remember their names, so I can't really do that, and in any case I think they are third graders who I'm glad are sweet to him but probably won't come to a kindergarten party. I dropped invites into the neighbors' boxes a few days ago and so far they've ignored them. I'm going to invite a few of the kids from preschool last year, but they are all in different school districts and I suspect have moved on. I hate this stuff. Hate hate hate it. So I'm kind of a giant bundle of stress about that.
(By the way, if any of you guys want to send the boy a birthday postcard or something, ping me for our address if you don't have it. Birthday is October 13.)
The teacher sent home a little "getting to know your child" questionnaire that needed to go back to school today, in preparation for meet the teacher night this week. I ended up writing a page and a half typed. I'm so worried that I'm going to skew the teacher's impressions of him in the wrong way, that I'm presenting his accomplishments with too much pride or too much worry, that I'm presenting the ways in which he needs to work on some skills in a way that doesn't give him enough credit.
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On Saturday I went out to vend incense at Salon Con in NJ. I didn't do very well with the vending -- mostly the vendors selling things that people could add to their costume immediately were the ones that did well -- but the people-watching was magnificent, with really some of the most gorgeous steampunk fashion I've ever seen floating through the hallways. I kind of don't get the whole tiny hat thing for women that appeared to be very popular, though.
Doing some contract writing for friends over the next few days. Very very grateful for the work at this point. Perhaps it's distracting me from figuring out what I want to do longer term, but having something to do during the day that makes me feel like I'm helping someone I like out while bringing some money into the household is a very good thing right now.
I have an eeePC on order that supposedly is going to ship today. I hope it's a good distraction, and/or a useful tool. I also need to order a low-end PC forprojectmothra, as that's what he's requested as a birthday gift.
Hey, other parents...this school stress thing...it's not constant for the next 16-20 years, is it?
Perhaps it's that I've been feeling more mopey than introspective, or that I'm having trouble settling in to my home schedule for now, or that I'm having the anxiety that I've had for
projectmothra's birthday every year, that no one will be there for him. He has a few kids he wants to invite that ride his school bus, but I have no clue if he's really connected with them, as he can't even actually remember their names, so I can't really do that, and in any case I think they are third graders who I'm glad are sweet to him but probably won't come to a kindergarten party. I dropped invites into the neighbors' boxes a few days ago and so far they've ignored them. I'm going to invite a few of the kids from preschool last year, but they are all in different school districts and I suspect have moved on. I hate this stuff. Hate hate hate it. So I'm kind of a giant bundle of stress about that.(By the way, if any of you guys want to send the boy a birthday postcard or something, ping me for our address if you don't have it. Birthday is October 13.)
The teacher sent home a little "getting to know your child" questionnaire that needed to go back to school today, in preparation for meet the teacher night this week. I ended up writing a page and a half typed. I'm so worried that I'm going to skew the teacher's impressions of him in the wrong way, that I'm presenting his accomplishments with too much pride or too much worry, that I'm presenting the ways in which he needs to work on some skills in a way that doesn't give him enough credit.
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On Saturday I went out to vend incense at Salon Con in NJ. I didn't do very well with the vending -- mostly the vendors selling things that people could add to their costume immediately were the ones that did well -- but the people-watching was magnificent, with really some of the most gorgeous steampunk fashion I've ever seen floating through the hallways. I kind of don't get the whole tiny hat thing for women that appeared to be very popular, though.
Doing some contract writing for friends over the next few days. Very very grateful for the work at this point. Perhaps it's distracting me from figuring out what I want to do longer term, but having something to do during the day that makes me feel like I'm helping someone I like out while bringing some money into the household is a very good thing right now.
I have an eeePC on order that supposedly is going to ship today. I hope it's a good distraction, and/or a useful tool. I also need to order a low-end PC for
projectmothra, as that's what he's requested as a birthday gift. Hey, other parents...this school stress thing...it's not constant for the next 16-20 years, is it?
Hey NYC Area Obama/Biden supporters!
Sep. 5th, 2008 08:30 pmAnyone want to join me to go to "The Audacity of Jokes II", a fundraiser featuring a bunch of cool comedians and also Jonathan Coulton? C'mon, rock the geek vote, you know you want to!
