Kind of a packed weekend
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flexagonThis weekend I saw a lot of my engaged friends B and D. First, on Friday night I went over to their place and watched Saved, which B pretty much knew I would like (she and I were both raised in fundamentalist Christian households). After a long week it was so humanizing just to sit and watch a movie with friends. And yes, I did like the movie quite a lot... If there's one thing I know about it's turning away from the Christian faith in senior year of high school, even if I wasn't so dramatic about it. Oddest of all, it actually made me twingy thinking about having a baby, until I reviewed just what it showed me about that:
* You will vomit once during pregnancy, but you won't suffer any loss of agility or other discomfort.
* You won't worry about money or have doubts that you'll be a good parent, or much of anything along those lines, though you will worry about other things.
* You will really look pregnant for exactly one day. On that day you'll wear a sexy red dress, and still be able to dance with no problem.
* Labor will happen so quickly that nobody has a chance to change their clothes. After the birth you won't even be sweaty, and all your friends and family will be around you.
* When you look at your baby you'll be sure that life has meaning (this one alone is probably true).
So, on Saturday morning I snapped back to being my usual self.
The rest of the weekend was mostly spent working on the kitchen. Our new cabinets arrived on Friday, and the next day B and D came over to help us install them. I didn't help much with the real work because D and HLM are both so good... I mostly spent the time talking with B while cutting up all the boxes and bundling them into little bundles for recycling, and going out on snack-buying duty. HLM and I were going to buy them dinner to thank them but ended up saying we'd help them move at the end of July instead--something I find very satisfying, by the way. Friendships have a good base when they're built on really helping the other person do things, and I like it that B and I have both helped each other move and get through weddings and such. It's easier to feel close to a person like that than a person I've just gone out to dinner with a bunch of times, you know? Even if she and I do sometimes ignore each other for a few months. And there's nothing wrong with dinners :)
Anyway, I love the new cabinetry. It looks great, and having the new wall cabinets enabled us to take down the old ones that were always right in my face when I was at the sink. Suddenly that whole side of the room is so much more open! Both HLM and I are thinking that if we get the same cabinets for the other side and for the pantry, we might never feel compelled to do a full kitchen remodel at all... and that's very good financial news. So we are happy. There's still some work left to do: we need pulls, and one of the older cabinets still needs to be cut down to a smaller size to fit next to the dishwasher, and I'm doing to do some sanding/spackling and paint a deep blue accent wall across from the new countertop. But functionally and spatially, you can really see things coming together now.
I'm continuing to find SuperFoods Rx very interesting. This is definitely the book for people tired of thinking about carbs, protein, fat, and all that yadda yadda... it's aimed much more at eating the foods that will get you to old age without cancer, retinal degeneration, wrinkly skin and heart disease (and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bluechromis, you'll be glad to know that all but two are vegetarian, though one of the remaining 12 is soy). I found it so weird when it called out green beans as part of the legume family though! I know, I know, they're green beans, so obviously they're beans, I just don't think of them as beans. A little glitch in my personal ontology.
* You will vomit once during pregnancy, but you won't suffer any loss of agility or other discomfort.
* You won't worry about money or have doubts that you'll be a good parent, or much of anything along those lines, though you will worry about other things.
* You will really look pregnant for exactly one day. On that day you'll wear a sexy red dress, and still be able to dance with no problem.
* Labor will happen so quickly that nobody has a chance to change their clothes. After the birth you won't even be sweaty, and all your friends and family will be around you.
* When you look at your baby you'll be sure that life has meaning (this one alone is probably true).
So, on Saturday morning I snapped back to being my usual self.
The rest of the weekend was mostly spent working on the kitchen. Our new cabinets arrived on Friday, and the next day B and D came over to help us install them. I didn't help much with the real work because D and HLM are both so good... I mostly spent the time talking with B while cutting up all the boxes and bundling them into little bundles for recycling, and going out on snack-buying duty. HLM and I were going to buy them dinner to thank them but ended up saying we'd help them move at the end of July instead--something I find very satisfying, by the way. Friendships have a good base when they're built on really helping the other person do things, and I like it that B and I have both helped each other move and get through weddings and such. It's easier to feel close to a person like that than a person I've just gone out to dinner with a bunch of times, you know? Even if she and I do sometimes ignore each other for a few months. And there's nothing wrong with dinners :)
Anyway, I love the new cabinetry. It looks great, and having the new wall cabinets enabled us to take down the old ones that were always right in my face when I was at the sink. Suddenly that whole side of the room is so much more open! Both HLM and I are thinking that if we get the same cabinets for the other side and for the pantry, we might never feel compelled to do a full kitchen remodel at all... and that's very good financial news. So we are happy. There's still some work left to do: we need pulls, and one of the older cabinets still needs to be cut down to a smaller size to fit next to the dishwasher, and I'm doing to do some sanding/spackling and paint a deep blue accent wall across from the new countertop. But functionally and spatially, you can really see things coming together now.
I'm continuing to find SuperFoods Rx very interesting. This is definitely the book for people tired of thinking about carbs, protein, fat, and all that yadda yadda... it's aimed much more at eating the foods that will get you to old age without cancer, retinal degeneration, wrinkly skin and heart disease (and
bluechromis, you'll be glad to know that all but two are vegetarian, though one of the remaining 12 is soy). I found it so weird when it called out green beans as part of the legume family though! I know, I know, they're green beans, so obviously they're beans, I just don't think of them as beans. A little glitch in my personal ontology.
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Date: 2005-06-06 04:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-06 06:09 pm (UTC)Want to come over this weekend?
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Date: 2005-06-07 08:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-07 06:31 pm (UTC)What say? If you feel like it, maybe that followed by meeting blue for lunch?
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Date: 2005-06-07 06:45 pm (UTC)Oh, hey, and I just got Flight to the Lonesome Place today, and I LOVE it. No way am I reselling it. It's a library discard, and has that wonderful, 30-year old library smell to it, with the thicker, durable paper, the crinkly dust cover... I love books. I'm glad this one will have a good home.
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Date: 2005-06-08 03:44 am (UTC)And, yay for Flight to the Lonesome Place. I meant to tell you, there's quite a story behind the supposed reissue of it... I was an inch away from asking the Key estate for the publishing rights myself when the existing publishers announced a paperback reissue. But the reissue never happened.
There are a lot more available used on Amazon than there used to be though... all for between $40 and $100. The people who sold yours to you really didn't do their homework. :)