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17 April 2008 By Leave a Comment

I can get in from my laptop/wireless!  I have no idea if that extends to everyone else who was having trouble logging in and we are working hard to rectify the entire situation. We’re looking at a virtual private server, which is somewhere in between a dedicated and what we pay now.

I had an IEP meeting for Dorian this morning and it was over in 20 minutes lol  He is so easy. His IEP is strictly for speech. We discussed Malachai a bit as well, got a new copy of his revised IEP and were told we could call back at the end of the year and even throughout the summer to see if his 1-1 aid was approved. Now it sounds like they are expecting it to be approved only parttime or some such nonsense. I am hoping we get one full time.

I am so using this as a general update.

I am also looking forward to having the insurance fully taken care of and active so I can get him to the ped. to watch him walk all pigeon toed and get a referral to an orthopedist (is there a middle man between the ped and ortho?) so have it corrected. I have a call in to our dentist because he has two cavities (it’s actually one, but it’s in the back of his front teeth, smack in the middle, on both teeth) to find out if they take our new ins and to get him in there.

I started my chicken soup for pesach, and I’ll start my brisket later this afternoon. We were invited to lunch on Sunday, we ran into a friend of mine at Sams this morning and she invited us for Monday lunch and my Gram is now wanting us over Monday night for dinner. My friend was going to invite us over for Sunday night dinner, but seder starts and ends so late (they’re frum) she wasn’t sure if it was good for the kids (she’ll be putting her kids to bed, I’m sure).

Stellar issued the refund yesterday and are claiming it will take 24 – 48 hours to show up. Amazing it comes out as soon as the card is run.

All in all, it was a good and productive day for me!

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Passover

15 April 2008 By Leave a Comment

This year we were not invited to my aunts house for Pesach dinner. No big deal. However, my Gram called me last week to ask what we were doing. I said nothing yet, I was going to call and invite you down. So we planned to have second night at our house, with my other Gram and aunt. Then somehow it turned into use going to my Gram’s house for second night (and inviting my dads mom and sister along too) and since my dads fam wont go to my moms fam’s house, we invited my dads fam over for first night.

I just got a call from my Gram and she said she isn’t feeling well and maybe I should just come pick up the food to bring home for second night. I told her I would call her tomorrow and see how she is feeling and we’ll go from there.

My entire life my Zaide has run the seder. My entire life. I have never, not once, not had seder with him.

I wonder if it is because my Gram is so old, she sounds tired all the time, her health is starting to fail. She’s been depressed since mom died. Well, first night is on moms birthday this year. So I wonder if she just doesn’t want to deal with us because of that. But it’s one more thing that I am losing – I have a feeling this would have been the last year I’d have to go to a seder with them.

We haven’t been invited to seder at any of the peoples homes from the shul – which is fine – a frum seder starts after sundown and ends around 2 or 3 AM – you get to eat around midnight. I don’t even know where to start to host my own – I know my dad wont conduct it, and it would take me forever. I can read Hebrew, but not that well, I’m quite rusty. My brother wont do it (I don’t know if he can) and Michael can’t read the Hebrew to do it.

I didn’t realize how much this upset me… I am not a religious person – not by my definition and measuring stick. I am a traditional person… and all my traditions seem to dead or dying. You do this because it’s what you do. I have no idea where to get a shank bone (can I ask the butcher at Publix? Does it have to be kosher? I feel like an ass calling up the Rabbi with these stupid questions – things I should very well know the answer to!). I know what food to cook, and I know what order to serve it in. I can’t run a Pesach dinner.

My dad doesn’t even want to have a proper dinner. We are having his mom and sister over first night, but they aren’t expecting a seder. They would be just as happy if we ordered in Chinese.

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yay, kids have health care

12 April 2008 By Leave a Comment

So I get a letter in the mail today saying I didn’t complete the application. This is the second letter of this nature I’ve gotten. I sent them the supposedly  missing info last time. This time they say they need my phone number. Fuckers, you’ve called me, you have it. They are closed today, so whatever.

Second letter I get states they were approved, and I need to send in 20$ to begin coverage. Whoohoo! I need to find 20$. My entire monthly premium for all three kids is 20$.

On the flip side, I am having a craptastic day. I am hot and uncomfortable. My period is just about due, right in time for my doc appt on Monday I bet! I guess it’s fine, I needed my IUD checked anyway. It means my kids are on my last, frazzled, worn down nerve today. As far as I am concerned they wont shut up, sit down and entertain themselves while I knit in peace and quiet.

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ShutUpSitDown – politics of body hair

7 April 2008 By Leave a Comment

First of all, before you read my diatribe, go read this one:
http://shutupsitdown.blogspot.com/2008/04/politics-of-body-hair.html

Back? Hello there! I agree with much of what was said, but perhaps not for the reasons… Mostly they revolve around my own preferences and how I don’t feel they are societally driven.

I shave my legs maybe 4 times a year, but I shave my vulva every 6 or 8 weeks vs. my armpits… whenever I wear a sleeveless top and the hair is too long for my taste, and I have my brows waxed every three weeks.

The hair on my legs doesn’t grow that fast, and when it is there, it’s pretty silky and virtually invisible unless you are up close and personal. I’ve been shaving/trimming my vulva since the hair started growing. I just don’t like it. I find I am much more sexually sensitive without a ton of hair, thought to be honest, at the longest I’ve let it go I didn’t have the “natural bush” that bush loving men want to see. I shaved my arms for years. I just don’t like body hair. Is it a societally charged disdain? I have no idea. I don’t think it is… in my life I’ve seen both ends of the pendulum – natural, hairy, but beautiful women and fully shorn, equally beautiful women.

Why do I have my eyebrows waxed? Don’t laugh. I had natural brows till 97ish and my friend attacked them with some tweezers. Thus became a low affair with the stylized brows of the 40′s and 50′s. Totally socially driven. As the years have gone by, they’ve gotten less arched, less drawn on. They follow the natural arch, I mostly clean up the straggly ones on the outside. Many of the current “hot” actresses, actors too!, are going au natural on the brows.

I feel like too much of a hypocrite saying I am natural. My usual saying is “mostly natural, slightly modified.” I dye my hair. I have tattoos. I have piercings (indeed, I have big chunks of cartilage outright removed). I shave, pluck and wax. I straighten (not so much anymore). I do a lot that isn’t strictly natural.

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Busy Little Bee

7 April 2008 By Leave a Comment

Today we went to two food stores. I saved almost 50$ at Albertsons, whoohoo! I probably didn’t save shit at Sams, but I never do.

We dropped Sasha off to be groomed. We can see her face! Michael called around to find the cheapest place for Scarlett to get her shots and then be groomed. The place we go wouldn’t take her without proof of rabies vaccine, which we didn’t have. Poor puppy. She goes in on Thursday for a check up, shots and grooming. We also looked into training, but it’s quite expensive. She went on the pad in the bathroom last night, and I didn’t find any errant shit anywhere else, so maybe it’s a good sign. Then we just need to work on her excessive barking. All the time. At everything.

Michael phoned the camp we’re sending the boys to in order to find out when the latest we can register is (May) and if they could go without vaccines. Yes, we just need a copy of the exemption (which is currently at the school). I am still undecided on sending Shivie.

I made an appointment with the MW that was attending when I had Dorian. Sheila is no longer there, she is only at the hospital. I am very, very upset over that. I don’t especially like the other MW, but I don’t dislike her either. I am taking my sister for her first check. It dawned on me last night she has never been to anyone other than the pediatrician and I thought it better she know what to expect and have it done by a person I know and trust than stumble around trying to find a doc in a few years not know what is normal for a check. I told her she could be mortified I am taking her now, but in five years time she’ll be glad it was me and not dad and that I took her so she knows what to expect. She said that’s fine, but I’m 16 now and I can be embarrassed. Fine with me.

Michael just took Dorian out for a haircut, because we forgot to go yesterday. Yesterday we went to see my gram and zaide. They look well :-)   As we left zaide gave me a huge hug and told me I am doing a good job. Yay, go me. It was well timed although somewhat random.

I think that’s all the current news. We’re having mini turkey burgers, twice baked potatoes and fries tonight (I want the potatoes, Michael wants the fries b/c I keep forgetting to make them on his off days). I’ve got the potatoes in now since they take the longest. I am thinking about applying to one of those online schools for a degree, but we are in debt already, I can’t see racking up more for a degree I’ll probably not use (I was thinking early childhood education, which is birth to eight years). Tattooing fell by the way-way-way side. I had a somewhat steady stream of work, but it’s slowed to a stop right now. Not a big deal, it gives me time to putter around. I’m knitting the marsupial bag out of one of the Stitch n’ Bitch books. I’m about five inches into it, so a couple more days of working on it at night and then felting it. I think I might line it too… I guess it depend on how it felts.

So that’s it!

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