Emerging, Phoenix-ish, From The Embers Of My Ridiculous Chest Cold

Cold finally starting to taper off. Slowly. This has been a tough one. Lowell has been sick too and we have made quite a pair. See Lung Hacker and Snot Spigot! Come one, come all! On that sideshow note, I have noticed that I have been much less vigilant this pregnancy. In swift succession the other day I ate brie, painted my toenails, and cleaned the toilet with a pungent solvent. Just call me the poor man's Crystal Lil.

Matthew is growing a goatee. This happens every so often and I try very hard to be supportive. I am not a huge fan of facial hair on him, not because of how it looks, but because of how it feels. Even when his beard is grown out it's pretty spiky so this inbetween period is brutal. I squirm when he goes to plant one on me. It's like kissing a toilet brush. Again, trying to be supportive, but possibly failing. Hope he doesn't read this.

Currently loving this: Online Communities Map. And pretty much everything else available for order on this site. The sudo command t-shirt gave me quite a good chuckle. I was trying to think up a good one for a maternity t-shirt but then realized that my current milieu includes absolutely no one who would get the joke. Sometimes I miss hanging out with geeks all day.

I almost wrote an entire post about how the Mr. Clean magic eraser is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. Then I slapped myself on the head for being such a stereotype. How can I scoff at these ridiculous commercials of housewives swooning over their fantastic cleaning products when I seriously want to bring that little white brick to bed with me at night? Somewhere in some alternate universe far, far away my former self is shaking her head at this entire paragraph.

Current pro of having a girl: don't have to revisit circumcision debate. Hurray! Current con: finding a name. Choosing a girl's name is proving to be very difficult. I realized I was getting desperate the other day when I started perusing spam senders for possibilites. Gustie Orelie? Sounding good at this point.

Comments

[supa]

dying at the "toilet brush" bit. and that map is precious.

glad to see you getting rid of that cold!

[Deanna]

I want to hear more about the Magic Eraser. Will it get the gunk off my stovetop that the Soft Scrub wouldn't?

[LetterB]

Oh Deanna, that's just the beginning. I use it every time I clean my stovetop and it works wonders. And seeing as I clean my stovetop about once a month that is really saying something.

[bingsmom]

It works on shower grout as well.

[bingsmom]

It works on shower grout as well.

[bingsmom]

oops I hit that post thing twice.

[juliloquy]

Can you talk him down to a soul patch? Less toilet-brush impact but sexaay.

I routinely ignore the no-brie rule. Seems overly cautious to me.

Good luck with the names!

[kilowatthour]

oh yeah. i definitely eat the brie. all the brie we can get here in the u.s. is mega-pasteurized and what-not anyway, so what the hell. the thing that kills me is the deli meat. i can't decide where i stand on that one.

also, i am now inspired to investigate the wonders of the magic eraser.

[Kevin]

Well, it could be worse...you could be a guy that loves Mr. Clean's Magic Eraser as much as you (I) do.
That thing is the bomb..did I just say that, yo?
Mr. Clean, c'mon he's handsome, muscular, silky smooth dome, knows how to accessorize with that earring, and that tight white t-shirt...I'm just saying, if he would have met me in my drunken college years with his magic eraser, who knows where the road could have taken us.
Mr. Clean, call me.

[Jill]

Check out nymbler.com

[LetterB]

Oh Jill, why did you do that to me. I was almost in bed...

[Alexa]

Oh for heaven's sake. I haven't had much time for blog-reading in the last...uh...two months, which is the only possible excuse for the fact that I am only now seeing your good news. Congratulations! Extremely belatedly!
And yes, Magic Erasers are the best thing ever.

[kara]

crystal lil, ha ha ha! hmmmmm, i kind of like the name electra....

[kara]

tell matthew to do the goatee (or a Fu Manchu) sans moustache. it looks very tough and sexy but the mouth area is free of spikes so you can still kiss.

[wordgirl]

Few things are more miserable than a cold when one is pregnant...unless it's a sinus infection. Hope all is better soon...and congrats on the daughter.