September 29, 2008 by Avy.

I’m watching ER (which I like NEVER do) and it’s pandaemonium! Seriously! Blood everywhere. Kiddie Bloods and Crips trying to kill each other IN the hospital. Seriously. One kid was stabbing a kid in triage with a scalpel at least 30 times. I’m like “wtf?!” I’m sure this stuff is overblown for TV, but I can’t help but think this has happened somewhere. There’s also a doomsday cult’s mass suicide that was full of fail. There’s like 10 of those people in there. The ER is totally understaffed and there are also 2 near-death/drowning victims, a teen mom whose belly was sliced open and her baby was stolen, battered 20y/o girl who has obviously been “domestic violenced” (as I like to call it).

Yes! Xavier’s asleep. Time for me to get some noms.

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September 27, 2008 by Avy.

As much as I love nihongo, I think it’d be smart for me to learn Chinese in it;s place. This is Philadelphia. Seriously. There is so much more use for Chinese languages than Japanese in this city. Spanish is so easy that I don’t really care about being fluent. Cantonese and Mandarin are so damned hard. It’s like learning a song with different melodies even is the lyrics are the same verse-by-verse.  I’ve tried to learn before but it’s just so hard! I can read some kanji, but it’s the speaking that’s hard for me. I figure I have until the end of next month to learn some polite things. If I’m still full of fail by the end of my maternity leave, I can accept defeat.

I’m pretty sure Xavier just pooped. Eww.

Laters!

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September 25, 2008 by Avy.

So who wants to buy me one? Seriously. I think it’s do wonders for my back. And I think we all have heard and felt my knee by now.

These things are pretty cool though. I think Erik’s the one who first told me about them. Apparently the infrared part removes toxins that a regular sauna doesn’t get to.  I ended up getting even more info from this  Infrared Sauna site. I didn’t even think about this before, but you can burn 900 calories in 30minutes with these things! i knew regular saunas did a little, but this seems like something I can get behind. I wish my gym had them. I only burn like a third of that on the elliptical machine.

So far infrared saunas seem to be the way to go. I dunno why anyone would buy a regular sauna over this kind. I need money so we can have one

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September 25, 2008 by Avy.

I found this organization through Eliza Dushku’s website. (Joss Whedon is putting Dollhouse on hold because of poor script quality. It sucks to wait, but I trust his judgement)

Anyway… 10,000 Girls is a non-profit in Senegal that offers education and employment opportunities to women. What’s cooler is that th whole thing is run/maintained by the girls. Check it out. I think the site needs a facelift, but it’s still great what 10k girls can do :-p

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September 23, 2008 by Avy.

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The small bear wants what the small bear wants.

Today was a busy day. I couldn’t sleep at all. I tried to no avail. At some point I set up the stroller and walked to the corner store with the bear in tow. That normally takes 3-5 minutes…

Today it took 15 minutes.

My pelvis + left hip hurts so much that coming back home took even longer. I was standing around the deli waiting for my cuts and I needed to sit!

Oh so get this, the milk I bought was for 9/18 so I had to go back after getting all the way home. So more walking, only this time with no stroller. I used the Snugli carrier. The other ones are for slightly bigger bears.

Woah. I’m tired of typing. Bye.

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