Woot! We made it! Mother and baby both safely home and so long as Mother follows orders and takes it very easy for a few weeks, it’s all gonna be okay. And Auntie gets to go HOME!!!
Continue readingNanny is here so I am free for a bit and I realized the only thing that makes me feel better is to look up Alia/Ranbir quotes and get that nice sensation of irritation.
Continue readingIf you thought “gee, I wonder if there have been no new posts because things in Margaret’s life have gone a bit off, but I hope that isn’t true” you were right and it is true.
Continue readingHappy Tuesday! MommySister and Daddy might be coming home from the hospital today with Baby Brother! False alarms Thursday evening and Saturday morning which meant Auntie caring for confused Nephew A. Also, Nephew A got a 24 hour bug and threw up over everything on Friday. I had to throw away my dress. And then the real alarm started Saturday afternoon and I have been solo caring for a small human being since then. Well, the nanny was here for a few hours yesterday so I was able to wash my hair (HEAVEN!), but mostly solo. Once Mommy and Daddy and Baby Brother are home, it will get easier, right? Because babies make everything better?
Continue readingHappy Saturday!!! I should be folding more laundry (there was a vomit incident yesterday that resulted in stripping the couch and me changing clothes twice), but instead I am BEING A HUMAN and doing a FOR REAL ACTUAL BLOG POST.
Continue readingOh boy! Nephew B really REALLY wants to arrive. So at some point, possibly tonight, I will become the sole emotional and physical guardian of a 3 year old. Until his parents bring baby brother home.
Continue readingIm boooored. Nephew is still asleep and I am resisting the urge to go wake him up so he will play with me.
Continue readingI survived! I arrived! No Nephew B yet. But Nephew A, after brief suspicion, has temporarily accepted me. Although I anticipate a reversal during times of stress. I am new and scary and not his parents, he will probably hit me at some point in the next 24 hours.
Continue readingHappy Monday! I got within an hour of my sister’s by 9pm last night and we made a decision for me to stay at a hotel within emergency call zone instead of arriving in the middle of bedtime when we are all tired. And now I am relaxing in my big huge hotel bed and thinking “do I really want to leave here and go be beaten up by a 2 year old who is mad at me for not being Mommy?”
Continue readingBased on latest reports from my sister, Nephew B is really REALLY ready to get here. So instead of a nice slow drive today ending with a pleasant watchalong, I’m gonna shoot for getting within a few hours of their house by the end of the day so I can be on call. Unfortunately, all the way there just seems EXTREMELY unlikely. Unless I get an Auntie adrenaline rush.
Continue readingSilly silly post for a stressy stressy day. I woke up at 6am ready to hit the road, only I’m not leaving until tomorrow. But I’m ready! I’m packed! I’m planned! I’m hyped! Instead of getting in the car and driving, I will write this silly silly post.
Continue readingThis is the weekend of my insane cross-country driving trip (assuming my COVID tests from yesterday come back negative, now my brain has decided to worry about that). Anyway, I’m planning to drive all day and then stop early evening to get a hotel before I wear myself out, so I could do a watchalong Saturday or Sunday evening. Or early Monday Morning, my last driving day when I will have earned a slow start.
Continue readingI watched it! The whole thing! It was very stressful. Boys, driving tests, making college decisions, BLECH! And if that wasn’t enough, disappointing your parents the WORST THING EVER. But yes, a great show, an easy watch, and lots of fun easter eggs for Hindi film fans.
Continue readingHappy Wednesday! And Happy Ms Marvel Finale Day! I’m gonna try to finish it today, but I make no promises. I do promise to finish it eventually, and write a lovely review/discussion area, so hold on to your thoughts for that, it is coming shortly.
Continue readingIt’s my sister’s birthday! She is 38 today, 9 months pregnant, and absolutely miserable! Not that her life sucks, just that she’s 9 months pregnant and it’s high summer and apparently that means everything hurts all the time.
Continue readingHappy Monday! This post comes to you from the Halifax airport! We take a flight from here to Toronto and then Toronto to Chicago, and then I am finally home with Albie Dog by about 5pm Chicago time. Everything would be working perfectly except that my headphones broke so I have to hold the right ear in place with my hand. This is a bit of a problem because the headphones are both my preferred method of airplane entertainment and (way more important) the best solution for MASSIVE PRESSURE CHANGE EAR PAIN. So, I will just have to hold them on my head really tight with both hands and then it will be fine. Yes, I already checked, the airport stores are sold out.
Continue readingHappy Saturday! I am writing this in my hotel bed while my Mom snores gently next to me. the time change has totally messed us up, in the Real World it isn’t even 6am yet. But on PEI where we are traveling, it is almost 8. So should we still be in bed or not?
Continue readingHappy Wednesday!!! This post comes to you from Midway airport where I am watching the bags while Mom is in the bathroom.
Continue readingThank you townsandtulips for the suggestion! Hopefully this is a fun conversation for us to have 🙂
Continue readingHappy Monday! I am so glad I have the day off work. I’ve got so much to do to prepare for my back to back trips. And also, I’ll probably end up doing a little work just so I am less overwhelmed tomorrow.
Continue readingYaaaaaaaaaaaay, an American musical! So glad I get to share this one with you. And it is good for y’all to see it, because this is one of many classic American musicals that influenced both Farah Khan and Prabhudeva in their work. For real, Farah even acknowledges this one in particular as one of her hidden tributes in “Dhoom Tana”.
Continue readingI have a terrible feeling none of you listened to me and read this book (who hadn’t read it already). So I’m gonna say again, READ IT! I just re-read it for this post, and it is good as I remember, and as unique. It’s a fascinating true-feeling document of a very specific time and place and people.
Continue readingNo particular reason for this thinky post, or at least no more than usual. There’s always stuff about female artists, actresses and writers and everything, that frames them as “intuitive” and “feeling” instead of thinking. And conversely, a man can’t make an emotional decision EVER, we always have to search for the “logic” behind it.
Continue readingHappy Saturday! I get a 3 day weekend, and then right after it is over I go to Prince Edward Island with my Mom, and then come back, and then almost immediately leave to go stay at my sisters until Nephew B arrives. So I have to organize and take out recycling and plant things and all kinds of stuff this weekend!
Continue readingDecision! Semi! Sunday is the day, but what is the movie?
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