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Festive occasions
I don't know which is happier-making, money in the mail or a sudden loss of a kilo plus when you step on the scale in the morning. As it's Sunday, you can figure for yourselves which constitutes today's happiness. As an object lesson, I lugged a 10-kilo bag of road salt home yesterday (22 pounds for the imperialists) and even factoring in the unwieldiness of road salt, like the worst kind of squashy parcel baby, the idea that I'm carrying two of those about my person now is a great impetus to virtue. The realization that I've lost half a bag of road salt since the summer is extremely satisfying. My knees certainly have ceased to grumble as much as they did.
Meanwhile, if the book is correct, it's![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shiny_monkey's birthday. Happy birthday, shiny_monkey!
Ganked fromkickinpants:
Leave a comment here and I will:
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.
Meanwhile, if the book is correct, it's
shiny_monkey's birthday. Happy birthday, shiny_monkey!Ganked from
kickinpants:Leave a comment here and I will:
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.
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have no timeto do this in my journal for other peeps I'll do this here if you don't mind! ^_~1. Umm I guess I stalked you from later answers (#2 & 3) and wondered if you would, you did and hee I is a happy chappy! ^__^
2. Gaiden. I followed you from Yomogi *hearts*
3. OOh this is a toughie. How can I just pick one? ^_~ I love your expanse of knowledge, form books to languages, beautiful fluid writing skill to ummm...well anything really, and that you are never condescending, or patronising even when you have cause to be. *loves*
4. "Tea with the/a White Dragon"
5. Hmmm another toughie, as there are quite a few that I do want to ask... so hey so say I leave it for another time.
5. Goujun with his eyebrow raised complete with death glare.
6. I hope here is ok instead. ^__^
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2. Oddly, when I think about it, I associate you most with Shahrazad's blue dragon picture. Possibly because I associate you with Shahrazad? Possibly because she smiles at us out of the occasional icon? Oh dear, yes, the classic maternal lament: 'but am I no more than Shahrazad's Mother'?
3. You're warm and funny and generous and an all-round Good Friend. Also (closer to my age + more involved with kids) than most fen I know, = basic connection.
4. I seem to recall you baking until two in the morning, was it? Reading until 2 I understand, but baking seems so... Zan. (Also the Owlish Man and the Cock-a-Roach and the Gold Card, in a different sense.)
5. Home birth or hospital?
6. Demon Hakkai.
7. And you already did.
Survive til New Year's!
5:
... Hmm will it be okay to answer here..it may be scary for a few people...ah what the heck...
Girl was an emergency c-section at 32 weeks (thankfully not dangerously early). she was so tiny, twenty cm in length and 1.5 kg. But she was strong. Apparently one of very few preemies they let go home after the normal checks.
Boy at full term started of naturally BUT decided he didn't want to come out and in the end they had to wheel me into the OR. >.< but he was a healthy 3 kgs and 50 cm in length. Very average. I love average. ^__^
Heh! I hope so too! Have sent the i-l off to the airport and packed what things we had accumulated over four weeks and taken leave of my dad's. the children are abed already and though I did the bare minimum, I still have to go back and give it a pretty thorough clean. AS well as sorting out stuff on the home front. *sigh!*
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Meh- better learn the possibilities before you start the process, say I.
TINY!!! but cool about being able to go home. Most preemies I know were a couple of weeks in incubators or whatever those things are called. Over here, if you've had one caesarean they automatically schedule them for any subsequents. You have to fight to get a normal delivery- and yeah, the possibility of complications being as it is, people often wind up with an operation anyway.
Bye-bye in-laws, hello Dad. So it goes. Hang in.
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