Comments on: Spiralling

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:54:43 +0000

Oh gawd. So it gets worse. Here I was, all grumpy and shocked (SHOCKED) that I could barely stay on my horse while it flung itself over wooden fences (I know, but I was shocked. SHOCKED) and then was equally incredulous when I tried to go running and turned around like a tenth of a mile later because oh ho! I was going to be ACTIVE PREGNANT WOMAN. Uh-huh. I was going to run and ski and ride right up until giving birth goddamnit…sure, right after this second nap of the morning and third pickle of the day. I’ll be right on that. Tomorrow. Definitely tomorrow. Nap nap drool…

By: Kristabella

Kristabella — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:34:21 +0000

I love and hate Facebook. I mostly hate Facebook when someone tags me in a high school band photo, which NO. Or when all of the high school people that “friend” me are married with kids. And I am not.

By: willikat

willikat — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:04:54 +0000

oh god, this post alternately had me in laughing fits and moments of jaw droppingness, but mostly laughing. i don’t think anyone will misconstrue your comments. unless they are klansmen, in which case they might be a little miffed you called them ignorant, but i mean…sometimes the truth hurts.

By: ZestyJenny

ZestyJenny — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:41:55 +0000

I’m sorry you are in so much pain. Have you considered trying chiro? It has totally changed my life. Three weeks ago I was yelping in pain whenever I got up from a chair, and now, just yesterday I spent the whole day walking around DC being touristy. I never could have done that before.

By: mar

mar — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:59:39 +0000

i like your philosophy, jonna. i should tell my bf that. he’s renting crappy & old (frat boy-types lived there before & it’s over 100 years old). he seems to think he’d want to buy the house to fix it up. you know, if we won the powerball. i think i will try to convince him of shiny & clean when the lease is up next summer.
i like the facebook connect, but then again, i don’t enjoy being attacked by people i went to hs with over political leanings. especially the one hick boy who now lives in alaska riding me about sarah palin’s experience.
and thanks to r-wizard! i could not think of that word when i first read your post this morning. even growing up in the barren wilds of north dakota, we only had a more muted racism. no klan up there. (okay, probably is. i don’t want to know about it)

By: jonniker

jonniker — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:08:49 +0000

Jeanne: Crap! It’s Erasure. I forgot

R: My God, quite the opposite. We’re moving into a condo building that is all shiny and new. I love older homes, but I realized I don’t like RENTING older homes when you can’t make the kind of improvements you want to make. It’s best to rent shiny and clean, buy old and unique, I think.

By: ali

ali — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:33:48 +0000

facebook has done that for me too. reintroduced me to people i totally should have been better friends with back then.

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:17:07 +0000

SCIATICA. Aaaaaarrrrggghhh. Mine was crippling last night, and Simon told me it was because I was overextending myself again. Overextending myself by sorting paperwork while seated at the dining room table. Yes.

I felt kind of silly doing so much prep work for the baby during the second trimester, when I still had SO MUCH time to go, but now that I’m helpless and constantly fatigued, I’m glad to have most of the lifting and shopping done. All I can muster the energy for these days is scrapbooking (oy), and even that can get tiring. Honestly, I used to think a lot of pregnant women were just lazy; now I know the truth.

By: Jenny, Bloggess

Jenny, Bloggess — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:46:15 +0000

I just walked in and my coworker was all “DID YOU KNOW THAT JONNIKER JUST MENTIONED YOU?! JONNIKER!!!!”

You are huge in Houston.

By: Amy K

Amy K — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:37:03 +0000

My upbringing in St. Louis was fairly culturally diverse and Klan-free, but my paternal grandmother in Florida will shout obscenities at black people if she sees them on television (I won’t even tell you her name for Tiger Woods). Her other granddaughter (my cousin) from Alabama used to have one black Barbie doll in her collection “to be the maid” for her white Barbies. It’s horrifying. It was horrifying when I was a kid, and it’s even more horrifying now that I’m older. My parents don’t seem to understand why I avoid that side of the family.

Pregnancy backache…gah. I’ve had it since about week six due to the relaxin hormone working more on my right side than my left, resulting in a pelvis that’s way out of alignment and a tailbone that feels like it’s been kicked. The physical therapist taught my husband how to pop my pelvis back into place twice daily, which helps some, but I’m not seeing much lifting or bending over in my near future. Hope you find some relief! Lying on ice helps a bit.