Everydaystranger

Had a meeting with some folk all morning.
My stomach was rubbed.
Twice.
Imagine how pleased I am about that.
-H.

The Lemonheads are moving along. I still haven’t gained any more weight than the 7 kilos (15 pounds) I put on in the first 12 weeks, and I know I keep going on about it but I simply just don’t look 4.5 months pregnant with twins. The other twin moms at similar growth [...]

The Memorial Dar weekend (we had Monday off here, too) was spent in a flurry of depression over the seriously foul weather (it rained all weekend, complete with gale-force winds and chilly temperatures) and petty arguments over nothing, arguments which cast the house in a gloomy color of mocha. I spent a lot of [...]

So we’re a bit….um…liberal when it comes to the mechanics involving sex. I don’t mean we march around naked (although he’s prone to) and I don’t mean liberal as in us walking around carrying signs saying “Trotsky simply wasn’t committed enough…and blow jobs are life, comrade!”
No, I mean we have always had a very [...]

When we first laid eyes on our perfect little house, we knew that it was the perfect little house for us.
And the emphasis on that has always been with the word “little”.
We live in this area of England because it gives us:
1) Easy access to Heathrow for his kids to come visit
2) Easy access into [...]

My entire life my face has given everything away.
I’m one of those people who couldn’t have a poker face if thrust a fireplace tool up my nose and tried. I don’t know what it is about me, but apparently I give away my every thoughts every time I have one (which is often, as [...]

Iceland was as raw as I thought it would be.
We headed out at oh-God-hundred on Wednesday morning, hurtling to Gatwick Airport at times when not even the donut man is thinking about making the donuts. We parked our car at a long-term parking place, took the shuttle to the airport, and checked in. [...]

Angus often comes up with winners that make me wish I had a pen in my hand, so that I could scribble them down on the outside of my hand for future reference. Most of the time I think: Yup. I am so blogging that. Other times I think: Eh, they wouldn’t [...]

So on Friday I bunked off work early (I had actually earned this-I worked very long hours last week writing technical documents that made my eyes cross) in order to purchase clothing to accommodate the needs of my burgeoning waistline. When I was last in the States I bought a pair of jeans from [...]

So, I was warned by others that if/when I ever got knocked up, that basketball known as my uterus would become public property. Ripe for the opinions, advice (well-intentioned or otherwise), and for people touching me (no one’s tried that yet. I will personally bitch slap the first person who does*. I am [...]

Maybe it’s best to have a once a week update on the Lemonheads, or else people will think I’m baby crazy (which I’m not, but I admit being knocked up does factor in my mind somewhat).
So far, everything here is fine. I’ve hit week 15 now, and this is where the parties get started.
Being [...]

Growing up, I worshipped the TV.
I still do.
I have absolutely zero shame about the big plasma TV hanging in the living room (and the other one hanging in the kitchen). I have zero shame about our Sky Plus box (the UK equivalent of satellite + Tivo). I have zero shame about the DVDs [...]

Last night Angus and I watched The Ice Storm, a film which I knew Angus would like and was not disappointed (it had no special effects, not very many characters, dysfunctional families, and a suitably depressing story line. He did have a problem with the electrocution scene-this is a hazard of watching films with [...]

A few days ago I had a business meeting in the nearby office of Company X. Now, it’s been almost 4 years since I lost my job with Company X and despite my cottage cheese memory I can still tell you what it felt like to be told that I was being laid off, [...]

So, I knew it would happen.
I was surprised to not see it more on Statia’s site when she was pregnant. I used to fear going into her comments, because I figured it would be there. I think she mostly escaped unscathed. I’ve seen it on some of what are referred to as [...]

Thank you very much for the nice comments on our last post. I promise I won’t talk about the babies all the time from here on, but here’s a bit more background.
We’re 14 weeks pregnant exactly today. Although our due date is Halloween there’s no way in hell we’ll actually make that date [...]

29 May 2007
Bewared of Unplanned Works
Our midwife visit is tomorrow, in which we’re hoping to go over…well, to be honest, neither of us has a fucking clue what it is we’re supposed to go over. We’re supposed to go over something, anyway, possibly the early view of a birth plan, my weight, what topiary [...]

I look into the fridge again in hopes that it may yield something interesting. I don’t know what I’m expecting to find, I only know that I want something. I’ve had a whole wheat English muffin, a bowl of yogurt and granola, and a handful of cheese crackers so God knows I shouldn’t [...]