I have another 2nd-baby baby shower to attend tomorrow. The 2nd-baby shower is a trickier beast than the standard first-baby shower. I have no problem getting gifts for a first-baby shower, because ...
Posted by Summer at 08:39 PM
As soon as I'd typed the title for this entry, the phone rang. It was my neighbor's girlfriend, asking me for advice on where to get her hair cut. I was flattered that my haircut inspires such ...
Posted by Summer at 09:54 PM
The hero of the day is my cousin. Even though he's got a two-week-old baby at home, when he heard about our plumbing problems he came out after work to help us fix the trainwreck that is our shower. ...
Posted by Summer at 02:35 AM
Three Sundays ago, Vince and Dorian went to Home Despot to purchase the materials to fix the shower. "It's a start," I noted to my mother the next day. "Now that he has the materials, ...
Posted by Summer at 02:56 PM
We fixed the bathroom mirror, and we fixed it good. We fixed it by ripping it off of the wall. Those big-tooth tiles were too firmly stuck to remove, so I ...
Posted by Summer at 05:23 PM
I managed to get through the Rodney Yee Power Yoga DVD without stopping, falling on my head, or cursing (much). I then took some arnica (which is good for overexertion and muscle strain, as well as ...
Posted by Summer at 02:57 PM
It's almost 10am, and snow has just started to fall. "Heart attack snow," said the man on the Weather Channel in a chipper voice. The weather gurus are calling for up to 8 inches of heavy, ...
Posted by Summer at 04:04 PM
This is why I love having a blog. I can ask a question like "how do you cut tile?" and I actually get answers. Lissy, thanks for confirming that ...
Posted by Summer at 10:07 PM
After fortifying myself with a large cup of coffee and a SpongeBob SquarePants cookie (it was on post-Valentine's clearance at Target for 30 cents, and came with three food-coloring markers. I bought ...
Posted by Summer at 09:22 PM
A long time ago, before Dorian was even conceived, Vince and I decided to fix up the basement a bit. When we bought the house, the basement was finished, but nasty-finished. The walls were blue faux-...
Posted by Summer at 01:14 AM
We interrupt the ongoing Lenten reflections to bring you the following rant about other people's children.I had this idea that I was a non-judgemental mom. I've got my own ideas about ...
Posted by Summer at 02:54 PM
I started to respond to the wonderful comments I got on the last entry in the comments section, and then realized that I had too much to say to cram it into the comments. And hey, it's my own blog, ...
Posted by Summer at 04:17 AM
Any etiquette guru will tell you that there are four big topics that you should avoid in polite conversation. Money, sex, politics, religion. Don't go there, for fear of being labeled impolite. ...
Posted by Summer at 01:34 AM
Vince and I, in many ways, are very romantic. Not a day passes without kisses, cuddles, and multiple "I love you"s. I know he loves me. He knows I love him. We are very happy. But for ...
Posted by Summer at 05:29 PM
2001 was, I think, the Year of the Rabbit, but for us it was the Year of the Bad Dog. It wasn't a good year for a lot of people; forgive me, but that may just be the understatement of the ...
Posted by Summer at 07:36 PM
The boy has started calling himself "boy". He doesn't say his name, at least so far as I can tell, but he's got a good grip on the words "me", "I", "my" and &...
Posted by Summer at 09:59 PM
I knew the monkey year had one last surprise for me: flu! Yesterday Dorian surprised me after lunch by demanding "bed". Bed? You want to go to bed? Weren't you just begging me to go out ...
Posted by Summer at 02:20 PM
The Year of the Cock, that is. What did you think I was talking about? You have a dirty mind.Tomorrow is the last day of the Year of the Monkey, and I wish it was today. This year can't ...
Posted by Summer at 09:45 PM
Yes, Bob Marley's birthday was celebrated appropriately. Or perhaps it was celebrated inappropriately; you be the judge.We scrapped Vince's Arboretum idea and instead joined a friend and ...
Posted by Summer at 02:57 AM
Today is, or would have been, Bob Marley's 60th birthday. Feel free to celebrate this event in any way you deem appropriate.When I was a freshman in college (I am deliberately NOT ...
Posted by Summer at 02:51 PM
I knew I shouldn't complain.I met Julia for lunch ...
Posted by Summer at 01:46 AM
I was quite vague about My Dream Kitchen yesterday, and yet you all gave me some great ideas. I think I need to talk a little more about what we've currently got, and what we'd be building.
Posted by Summer at 05:44 PM
Things I could be complaining about, but I'm not, because I'm not complaining:-- The bruises on my eyelids. While my computer was having KERNEL PANIC yesterday, I went to the mall while ...
Posted by Summer at 08:46 PM
If just one more thing in my house breaks, I'm going to lose my freaking mind. And if that one more thing that ...
Posted by Summer at 04:01 PM
There is nothing, NOTHING, like being woken out of a sound sleep by the noise of your toddler playing with a chainsaw.It's a toy chainsaw, naturally, and naturally enough it was given to ...
Posted by Summer at 04:45 PM
I am down in the dumps about the fact that I live in a dump.Still no running water. My manly-man husband did his manly-man husband duty and tried to fix the broken pipe. We're lucky, he ...
Posted by Summer at 04:30 PM
Our Annual January Plumbing Distaster just went down. Once again, our easy-freezy pipes have sprung a leak, if by "leak" you mean "inch-long gash spewing hot water". And it's <...
Posted by Summer at 07:23 PM
1. A very effective method for cutting down my Internet time is to have my husband remove the keyboard from my computer and hide it in the basement for four days.2. I have to be very ...
Posted by Summer at 05:06 PM
Let me start by saying this: I'm fine. Totally fine. So fine that the radiologist-doctor said something along the lines of "I'm not sure why your doctor sent you here" for the breast ...
Posted by Summer at 08:24 PM
Today I went to the dentist for the first time in three years.It occurs to me that what I, at least, truly dread about dentist visits isn't the pain, but the chastising. I hate the ...
Posted by Summer at 09:45 PM
Right before New Year's, I made the painful decision to give up my morning 4-shot latte and instead replace it with a glassful of Source of Life Energy Shake. Mrs. Stripper Pants introduced me to ...
Posted by Summer at 04:32 PM
I'm wrecked from the unaccustomed strain of putting in a full day in the office, so instead of offering up a real blog entry, I wish to call your attention to a few ...
Posted by Summer at 11:39 PM
A few photos from the fabulous birthday playgroup we had this morning:The front of the birthday cake
Posted by Summer at 09:03 PM
Dorian is having a doot-doot birthday. It is all about the doots. Here a doot, there a doot, everywhere a doot-doot.(What's a doot? A doot-doot is any sort of wheeled vehicle. Cars, ...
Posted by Summer at 01:01 AM
The night I gave birth to Dorian was bitterly cold. I dressed myself hurriedly, in between trips to the bathroom to vomit, and I shoved my feet into shoes without socks. Shortly afterward, as I ...
Posted by Summer at 03:08 AM
I feel the need to apologize for the fact that I can't seem to come up with a cohesive idea for a blog entry. All I've got are scattered thoughts, so that will have to do....I've been putting together ...
Posted by Summer at 05:48 PM
There's not much going on here, but I'm compelled to make note of some important events happening elsewhere in the blogosphere.First of all, Tertia...
Posted by Summer at 07:43 PM
Remember how I was really worried about something over Christmas? And then I did some research, and I felt much ...
Posted by Summer at 01:00 AM
Today I sat in US District Court, wondering "how much of this can I blog about?"I'm pretty certain that I can tell you about the Jury Lounge, with its multiple TV sets all tuned ...
Posted by Summer at 01:02 AM
It's resolution time again.The depressing thing about resolutions is that you have to admit your failures. What is a resolution, after all, other than a promise to quit being such a ...
Posted by Summer at 05:06 PM
I'm back. I have just been so busy Christmatizing and Holidaying I haven't been able to post. But I'm back, and I even have a poop story.Holiday, Part 4...
Posted by Summer at 08:39 PM
This is where is gets a little less cheery.During the week leading up to Christmas, I found out something worrisome. I'm not going to go into any details, but I'll say that this ...
Posted by Summer at 04:44 PM
We were all tired by the time we got home after the Christmas Eve party. Dorian was in that magical toddler state known as "overtired", which ironically produces not a deep sleep, but a ...
Posted by Summer at 09:19 PM
When Christmas -- a holiday that normal people cram into one pajama-clad morning -- lasts three or more days, it's not going to be easy to fit it into one blog entry. Therefore I'm not even going to ...
Posted by Summer at 10:05 PM
I knew we were in for it when Vince started muttering "Christmas overload" on Thursday night.That's right, Thursday. The day BEFORE Christmas Eve.That was when he ...
Posted by Summer at 05:09 PM
I'm up early this morning. Vince and Dorian are still asleep, and since it's very dark and sputtering rain, if they follow their normal pattern they'll sleep for at least another hour. My baby ...
Posted by Summer at 02:13 PM
Ok. Done wrapping boxes of chocolates. I've got two half-gallon bottles of vodka -- one with clementines, cloves and cinnamon, one with cinnamon, cardamom, red and black pepper -- steeping on my ...
Posted by Summer at 11:00 PM
Or maybe a little bit longer. There's an entry in me somewhere, just waiting to be typed out, but it's going to have to wait until after I go ...
Posted by Summer at 07:43 PM
I am - gettin' so cold - I wanna put more clothes on!(Yes, that's the way my mind ...
Posted by Summer at 03:23 PM
Not an hour after I posted yesterday's entry -- the one in which I detailed the so funny story of my grandfather's funeral -- my father called me. This in itself is a somewhat unusual event. He was ...
Posted by Summer at 04:15 PM
I'm still not quite sure about the etiquette of trackback. I mean, here Julie is, stuck in a house without ...
Posted by Summer at 03:23 PM
Here's one for the baby book: Age 23 months -- Dorian sneaks a girl up to his bedroom for the first time. We had playgroup here this morning -- 9 babies and ...
Posted by Summer at 08:03 PM
Today is the day I will get my Christmas tree up. Really. It's not as if it's a big production; it's just a 4' tall fake tree that sits on top of a table. It still has the lights on it from last ...
Posted by Summer at 04:32 PM
Thank you to everyone who entered the Summertime Generic Gift Contest. Need some ideas for holiday gifts? I've got them right here. (These are the entries I received, as I received them, in no particular order.)<...
Posted by Summer at 01:33 AM
I was so excited to see that a number of you have already entered the Summertime Generic Gift Contest. (Keep sending in those entries! You've got until 8pm on Friday!) But surprisingly, none of ...
Posted by Summer at 07:48 PM
Dude! It's the first ever Summertime contest!It's December, which means that most of us still have to do our holiday shopping, and I suspect that everyone has Posted by Summer at 02:50 PM
My chickens, I am so sorry to have left you for so long, but you see, my time has been swallowed up by Fabulous! Parties! Perhaps I exaggerate a little, but actually my weekend was chock-full of ...
Posted by Summer at 04:09 PM
Things that have recently broken or been destroyed in my home:<...
Posted by Summer at 04:00 PM
In the last month, Dorian has developed a huge appetite for books, and he's suddenly become very good with his letters. Everywhere we go, he's pointing out and naming the letters he sees... on ...
Posted by Summer at 01:09 AM
Oh, if only everything I complained about could be so easily solved!We went over to Vince's dad's house tonight so Vince could set up his new printer. While Baba got dinner ready for us, ...
Posted by Summer at 02:05 AM
This year will be the tenth Christmas I've shared with Vince's family. From the very beginning of our relationship, we knew that we were ...
Posted by Summer at 06:11 PM
Dorian has started calling me "Mommy". I'm pissed. No, really! I am such a huge bitch that I am mad that my child is calling me "Mommy" rather than my prefered appellation, &...
Posted by Summer at 06:18 PM
I just saw the news posted over on Tertia's blog that Julie of ...
Posted by Summer at 03:00 PM
For the six years that Vince and I lived in sin before our marriage, Thanksgiving was the cruelest holiday for us. It was a grueling marathon, a torment. Awful. Inhuman and injust. You see, we both come from ...
Posted by Summer at 06:20 PM
Today is Day Three of the Zicam Experiment. So far, it looks like the television commercial told the truth. I have a cold, yes, but it's not nearly as bad as colds usually are for me. I'm a delicate flower, you see, ...
Posted by Summer at 07:30 PM
What joy, my blog is back online after a long, looooong weekend of "database recovery". Damn you, Blog-City hacker! But we're back, and to celebrate our return I think I'll talk about drugstore matters. Dorian's sick....
Posted by Summer at 04:07 PM
Since I've got nothing pressing to write about today, I'm going to bend to Jamie's wishes and tell the Miss Manners story. I've decided to take the bold move of writing this story out with the real names (no vowels ...
Posted by Summer at 03:28 PM
I just left the toddler strapped into his high chair eating tomato soup while I did some paniced, last-minute cleaning before guests show up. Oh my God. Even the dog is covered in savory red spots.
Posted by Summer at 05:59 PM
Thank you Alicia, Cristin, and Sara for tossing me some support on my whiny last post. You're all right. Baby steps. Baby steps. We've only been really focusing on this dream for two weeks, and we have made ...
Posted by Summer at 05:19 PM
I'm feeling down today. I'm feeling like our dream is farther away than ever, and at the same time I'm feeling more and more that staying here is not an option. I love my neighborhood here in DC. I love the charming ...
Posted by Summer at 03:19 PM
I've long been jealous of bloggers who get really bizarre hits from Google. It took me a long time to figure out how to see these one-hit searches (I have to reset my referal log frequently, or the one-hitters will ...
Posted by Summer at 07:31 PM
I'm coming clean about the dream. I am so not good at vague! I've always been a reveal-all, share-all kind of girl. (Goes along with being a slut, ya know?) Besides, ...
Posted by Summer at 05:11 PM
(This entry was inspired by these Posted by Summer at 01:17 AM
Yesterday Dorian and I went to a birthday party for a girl who used to be in our playgroup. It was a bright fall day, and we walked the 3/4 mile up to the birthday girl's house. A perfect day for a ...
Posted by Summer at 05:00 AM
Last night, my friend (the one mentioned in yesterday's entry) came over for dinner. We'd planned this little dinner party before her ...
Posted by Summer at 07:19 PM
One result of having had such a public miscarriage -- and refusing to shut up about it afterwards -- is that I've become something of the local go-to girl on matters odd and bloody. Yesterday evening,...
Posted by Summer at 08:22 PM
What's that sound, that faint but persistent sound heard in every corner of the United States of America this morning? It sounds like... hoofbeats. Four sets of them, I think. Look, there they are!...
Posted by Summer at 04:54 PM
As promised, some nice distracting jabber about my beach trip. Really, nothing overwhelmingly exciting happened, which is exactly what we needed. Let me scroll through the days, and share ...
Posted by Summer at 10:31 PM
Today, after Vince and Dorian returned from the polls, I took Dorian out on the Metro. We went to Cleveland Park, I got my hair cut (which I desperately needed, as you'll see from the
Posted by Summer at 09:23 PM
I really, really need to go work on the laundry -- I ordered Vince to take Dorian outside to play, and to his resentful "what are you going to do?" I snippily replied I had to fold laundry --...
Posted by Summer at 08:04 PM
It's now noon on Halloween, and I've been home for 10.5 hours. After a whopping five straight hours of sleep, I've got my third load of laundry in the wash (how is is possible that I did a load of ...
Posted by Summer at 05:20 PM
I'll be home sometime today, but I don't know if I'll have time to blog. Probably not. So for your viewing pleasure, here are some photos from the trip we took to the Outer Banks last October, when Dorian was nine months old.<...
Posted by Summer at 05:00 AM
It's been a long, long time since I've gotten more than just a little tiddly, but back in high school and college and grad school, I was a lush. I was a big ol' drunken fool. I did some really ...
Posted by Summer at 05:00 AM
I'm afraid these stockpiled entries are a bit boring... perhaps I'll need to dig back into my scandalous past and pull out another story, but for now, here's more inane chatter from the boring mother ...
Posted by Summer at 05:00 AM
Just a random listing of things Dorian says.Flying machines (airplanes, helicopters) are "ah-ma", for some reason. Anything with wheels -- from a tractor to a truck to a ...
Posted by Summer at 05:00 AM
It's funny, I remember so many of the details of the worst date I ever went on, but not the name of the guy I was with. What was it? Eh, it doesn't matter. I'll call him Joe, just cause that's ...
Posted by Summer at 05:00 AM
This is yet another of my written-in-advance entries. In real time, I just wrote the pirate entry, so I'm in the mood for a bit of fluff....
Posted by Summer at 05:00 AM
100 Things About Me!I like to command the dog with lines from hip-hop songs, e.g. "Olga, back that thing up".
Posted by Summer at 05:00 AM
Ever since I had to go on bedrest for my first pregnancy -- or really, ever since we got cable -- I've been slowly becoming more and more of a TV addict. Unfortunately, I tend to like to watch crap, ...
Posted by Summer at 05:00 AM
Today I'm leaving for a week-long vacation. We've rented a townhouse in Kitty Hawk, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and we're going down for a week of doing nothing more productive than digging ...
Posted by Summer at 05:00 AM
I love my redhaired mama-friend. I was supposed to host our neighborhood playgroup this morning, but in the midst of yesterday's medical drama, I sent out an emergency email to our playgroup listserv ...
Posted by Summer at 05:59 PM
After much whining and head-banging and phone-calling, I finally did get in to see my doctor this afternoon. And I only had to wait 70 minutes in the waiting room, can you imagine? That's actually ...
Posted by Summer at 12:34 AM
A few fun facts: I have mild asthma, which doesn't normally bother me unless I'm sick or exposed to cats. I don't take maintenance medication for it, just albuterol whenever it acts up. Usually I ...
Posted by Summer at 03:55 PM
I live in the capital of the United States of America, the command center of one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful nations. One could argue that Washington, DC is the de facto capital of ...
Posted by Summer at 04:28 PM
I try to not have too many regrets about the bad things that have happened in my life, the mistakes, the tragedies, because all my experiences have made me who am I today, and I like who I am. And ...
Posted by Summer at 04:42 PM
Friday's exhaustion blossomed into Saturday's sinus infection. Since then, I've had a short-notice visit from one set of my inlaws (requiring, of course, a manic cleanup of living room, dining room, ...
Posted by Summer at 02:37 PM
I should have known better. I'm kicking myself, metaphorically, because to do so literally right now would be too much like exercise. Why the hell did I have to say that Dorian was sleeping well at ...
Posted by Summer at 10:51 PM
Did anyone else notice that the President had a little fleck of spittle at the corner of his mouth for the first half of the debate?Just had to mention it.
Posted by Summer at 02:39 AM
My friends, I am free.I an free from the tyranny of handwashing dishes. I am free from the piles of crusty oatmeal bowls that colonized my kitchen counters. I am free from the need to ...
Posted by Summer at 03:28 PM
We've been having terrible trouble recently getting Dorian to nap. Let me clarify: HE WON'T NAP. He hasn't taken a nap since last Thursday, and frankly, I'm going a little nuts here. Yesterday, I ...
Posted by Summer at 07:30 PM
I am still without a dishwasher. It's been nine days now since Vince began the task of installing the new one. Current status:-- The sink works. This ...
Posted by Summer at 05:49 PM
If anyone would like to ask some real questions, please feel free. Now on to the made-up questions!What did you do last night, Summer?Vince ...
Posted by Summer at 08:18 PM
On Friday, October 6, 2000, I woke up alone in a narrow room flooded with light. There's not much furniture in the room, just a lonely dresser, a queen-size mattress on the floor. The oak ...
Posted by Summer at 04:53 PM
Monday was indeed much better than Sunday. Especially since Sunday ended as craptacularly as it began... I had a miserable allergy attack while we had guests over, and I wound up excusing myself to ...
Posted by Summer at 09:32 PM
My ass.Nothing has been easy this Sunday. Every time I turn around, some little thing goes wrong. Just for fun -- well, no, it's really just because I want to bitch, and hopefully you'...
Posted by Summer at 08:58 PM
Dorian's best friend is four months older than he is, but is much larger. This works to our advantage, since he now gets hand-me-downs from his friend. On Sunday, we got four huge bags containing ...
Posted by Summer at 09:44 PM
I hate going this long without posting, but forces have conspired against me. For one thing, almost nothing noteworthy has happened in the last few days. I know that this is a good thing, that my ...
Posted by Summer at 09:22 PM
Yesterday I went shopping with my dear friend Mrs. Stripper Pants. We traveled to our hunting shopping ground of yore, and visited three stores: ...
Posted by Summer at 03:44 PM
Sorry, I just can't manage to come up with an overarching theme for this one. On to the random updates!1. I announced a ...
Posted by Summer at 02:22 PM
I read a lot of blogs. Every day I do a full click-through of every blog on my blogroll and quite a few that aren't. There are about five or so that are particular favorites of mine, all authors ...
Posted by Summer at 01:24 AM
Yesterday I spent at home alone, running the office by myself, while Vince was leading a jury towards the conviction of a car thief and Dorian enjoyed the company of my mother. Today I once again ...
Posted by Summer at 12:28 AM
Last night I was flipping through the channels trying to find something to watch after Jay and SIlent Bob Strike Back. I briefly landed on E!, which was ...
Posted by Summer at 11:42 PM
When Dorian got his first tooth at five months old, we dutifully began brushing his teeth. His first dental hygenie set was from Oral-B, consisting of floride-free "training toothpaste" ...
Posted by Summer at 12:28 AM
If my dear friend who wore the sexy stripper pants with the zippered fleece vest is reading this, could you please send me another email? My computer's current ditziness means that all my messages ...
Posted by Summer at 12:14 AM
I should be dealing with one of the many, many office problems that decided to pop up only after Vince was safely sequestered in the Jury Selection Lounge at the DC Superior Court, but instead, I'll ...
Posted by Summer at 03:38 PM
Thanks for reminding me, Alyce. The cannon. It was on my mental list of things to write about, but I forgot about it, possibly because it wasn't as traumatic for me as it was for all my guests.<...
Posted by Summer at 07:12 PM
I am now officially over 30. I'm clinging desperately to the far end of the 18-30 demographic, but the clock is ticking. Another 362 days, and I'll no longer be allowed to watch MTV.We ...
Posted by Summer at 05:24 PM
Also, happy 30th birthday to me.I'll be back tomorrow to spill the beans about my party. So far, though, the birthday gifts I've gotten kick ass.My party's in five hours, and ...
Posted by Summer at 04:54 PM
This entry is to ask a simple question: is the Summertime Fertility Donation Scheme offensive? Luckily, I have a poll function, so please read this entry and then step to your right and cast your vote. It all started ...
Posted by Summer at 12:44 AM
Last night I had dinner with Paige Davis. (For my US audience: you know, Perky Paige from Trading Spaces. For my overseas readers: the too-...
Posted by Summer at 01:45 AM
It's Labor Day. Two years ago on Labor Day, Dorian's cousin was born. Today, on Labor Day, I found out about two new pregnancies -- Moxie's and Posted by Summer at 02:37 AM
Yesterday I built 217 web pages.I'm not kidding. Vince and I are building our company's new website... and have I mentioned what our company does? We do consular services: travel visas, ...
Posted by Summer at 11:45 PM
Yesterday I finished putting the new cabinet pulls on all the kitchen cabinets. It turned out to be a two day job, since I can only work during naptimes, and also because it takes a long time to scrub kitchen ...
Posted by Summer at 01:43 PM
Meanwhile, my life is really nice.We've been pool-sitting for my father-in-law while he and his wife are in Florida, shopping for a winter residence. We've spent every afternoon at the pool for the ...
Posted by Summer at 01:13 PM
I've just read the most awful news. Julia is living every mother's nightmare for the eighth ...
Posted by Summer at 08:59 PM
Remember when I took Dorian to the doctor because I thought he had a plantar wart, but actually it was just a splinter? And I felt all stupid and overprotective for ...
Posted by Summer at 02:16 PM
Vince is currently mildly annoyed with me over a purchase I made online. I bought these:Can you guess what it is? It's a drawer ...
Posted by Summer at 07:08 PM
The amazing burst of energy I had a week or so ago is gone. It couldn't have lasted, it was just too out of character. I did exactly ZERO cleaning this weekend, and I can't say I did a lot last week. I'm someone ...
Posted by Summer at 10:35 AM
More tales from the last few days....Shock the MonkeyVince has finally managed to construct a functional computer for himself. As if that alone weren't ...
Posted by Summer at 10:15 AM
I haven't been posting as often as is my norm, so you might be wondering what else I could possibly be doing with my time. Recently, I've been spending my non-office, non-baby time doing one of three things:1....
Posted by Summer at 02:08 PM
I met my dad for dinner last night. It's the first time I've seen him alone in years -- usually I've been accompanied by Vince and, more recently, Dorian. My relationship with my father is a strange one, but at ...
Posted by Summer at 10:08 AM
My mother took Dorian overnight tonight, to make up for the fact that she's traveling on Friday and will miss her normal day with Dorian. Vince and I took advantage of our temporary childlessness and went out. We ...
Posted by Summer at 08:42 PM
My mother doesn't get it. She can't understand why I consider myself so lucky. She looks at me and doesn't see a lucky woman, doesn't see a woman constantly thanking God for her blessings. She thinks I'm unlucky....
Posted by Summer at 08:33 PM
I can't quite believe it myself, that I haven't posted an entry since Monday. That's not like me. Hopefully none of you worried that I had died on the toilet a la Elvis. ...
Posted by Summer at 10:34 PM
Since I still can't upload photos, I've had to resort to outright thievery to obtain a photo of my new haircut to share with you all. This photo was taken at the party for Baby Joe, and I stole it from the Baby Joe ...
Posted by Summer at 09:19 PM
I feel the need to come clean about something. I'm afraid that you might hate me, because frankly, if I didn't know the full story and I wasn't me, I'd hate me too. You see, I'm thin. Really thin, at the moment, ...
Posted by Summer at 10:12 AM
But first, a few administrative notes. First, let me apologize that I haven't been able to post pictures for a while. We're still running at less than our normal household complement of computers (can I tell you ...
Posted by Summer at 12:51 PM
Dorian does not yet have full command of the English language, so he frequently communicates with us via gesture and association. When he wants us to go outside or just do Posted by Summer at 04:55 PM
I have a date tonight. I'm going out to a swanky restaurant with my hot husband. You see, it's DC Restaurant Week, when many of the finest restaurants in the city offer fixed-price three course meals at the bargain rate of $20 for ...
Posted by Summer at 02:59 PM
Sunday, 25 July 20047:45 pm -- Dorian goes to bed.8:00 pm -- Dorian cries piteously, requires administration ...
Posted by Summer at 08:50 AM
Three days of enormous excitement, all rolled into one blog entry!Ok, maybe the excitement isn't ...
Posted by Summer at 02:01 PM
After spending several hours yesterday perusing hairstyle websites, I think I've come up with an idea for a somewhat drastic haircut. Let me show you some pictures of what I'm thinking about.I'm ...
Posted by Summer at 10:31 AM
We have reached the magical number of 100 entries to this blog. How nice! Even nicer is the grin that Ben Franklin is giving me from the $100 bill sitting on my desk, and nice-nice-nicer still is knowing that he's ...
Posted by Summer at 11:57 PM
As you can see, we've got a new look here at Summertime. I've been fiddling around with templates for a while, and had an all-lavender number ready to go, but when I posted it last night I realized that I don't ...
Posted by Summer at 04:06 PM
If you'll look down and to your left, you'll see a new sidebar blurb that reads: "This site is featured on FreakBlog. Visit it!" This bears some ...
Posted by Summer at 02:20 PM
Really, this should be two separate entries, but when am I going to have the time to post two separate entries? Entry 1: Babies! The Summertime Fertility Donation Scheme is working well. Monica, the very first awardee and the ...
Posted by Summer at 01:07 AM
It seems that bitching about the flies in my last entry has resulted in the immediate vanishment of all flies from my house. Poof! Just like that, they're gone. When I went downstairs yesterday morning, there wasn't a fly to be found. ...
Posted by Summer at 07:26 PM
This afternoon I'm taking Dorian to the doctor so she can look at his foot. My mother and I have already unofficially diagnosed a plantar wart; there's a family tendency to get them, but we're still impressed that he managed to pick ...
Posted by Summer at 03:42 AM