Archive for July, 2004

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Saturday, July 31st, 2004

Maybe you don’t understand how much he talks.
When the first rays of sunlight sneak in through the heavy, double-sided, light-blocking dark navy blue curtains, he starts mumbling in his sleep. You’ll often overhear cranky grumblings like “No, no…. Go ‘way.” Or “Jayce. Toyyyy. Noo….” (referring to a horrifying incident where he was asked to [...]

Oops

Friday, July 30th, 2004

I just ate bacon for lunch. No sandwich, no eggs, just the bacon. It was an accident… Kevin was making it for later, I kept stealing little bites thinking in a minute I’d make myself a sandwich or something… and then half the bacon was gone and I was too full to eat anything else.

Captain’s log

Friday, July 30th, 2004

You don’t have to read this. I just want record of how funny my kid was at this age, in case later on down the road he never does funny things. This way we’ll at least be able to look back and say See? I knew he was funny at some point.
This week we [...]

Neurotic photographer. Neurographer!

Sunday, July 25th, 2004

There’s this old house. It’s falling in and it’s tiny, but someone seems to live there. There are always scrawny-looking cats hanging out on the porch. More than once I’ve seen a cat eating out of a small metal dish in front of the door.
I soooo want a picture of this scene, but I can’t [...]

Liberal idealism

Thursday, July 22nd, 2004

So I had all these ideas about only feeding my kid organic, sugar-free food. I mean, not freaky obsessively, just kinda… mostly. Foods containing hormones and preservatives creep me out… not enough to stop eating them myself, but enough to make me hesitate to give them to someone who is so developy as Nicolaus. So [...]