I moved to Ireland five years ago today. My nephew, age two and a half, announced excitedly as we came into Dublin, “Auntie Catie, Auntie Catie, this is the Wiver Wiffey!” I often think about that as I cross the Wiver Wiffey now. :) And about four hours after I arrived, jet-lagged and exhausted, my sister said to me, brightly, “So how do you like living in Ireland?” *laughs* The answer is, pretty well. For the first year or 18 months or so we kept saying “It’s like living in…
Author: mizkit
some things make a post
I went to Baby Cinema today and saw “The Kids Are All Right”, which I think misappropriated the title of The Who song, but that’s neither here nor there. It’s the sort of movie I wanted to see and would have felt vaguely disappointed about not seeing but now having seen it I can safely say I wouldn’t actually have missed it if I hadn’t seen it. (Capiche?) Probably most of that is due to Mark Ruffalo, who I find to be not so much unattractive as creepy, so his…
repetitive motion injury
Last night my wrist started hurting. It felt thick, like it needed to be popped (a very familiar sensation, from working four years on the slime line in a cannery), but I couldn’t get it to pop. I took some aspirin and went to bed and noticed it was still vaguely thick-feeling this morning. It didn’t hurt, though, until I scooped Young Indiana up and swept him around in the fashion I usually do. And my wrist went “HEY MOTHERF*CKER WATCH WHAT YOU’RE DOING!” So now I have a wrist…
nothing else
If I do nothing else today (and when I say “do nothing else”, I mean write, go buy some baby ibuprofen, grocery shop and finish the laundry, all of which must be done), I will get the goddamned laundry room cleaned. While I’m at it, I would like to solve world hunger and bring peace to the masses. Michelle Sagara is writing a really fascinating and insightful series of posts about having an Asperger child, which was prompted by the bullying posts a few weeks ago. They’re good reading (long;…
Daddy’s Boy
(perhaps I am turning LJ into another version of FB or Twitter, where I post snippet-length things, but at least I’m posting, right? o.o)