miscellany

[moominmolly]

Out of curiosity, I googled "Molly needs", and learned that out of the top 10 hits, 5 were for animals needing new homes (4 dogs and a horse). So, apparently, not only is Molly a popular dog name -- I've known at least 3 Molly-dogs, myself -- but it's a popular name for dogs that need to be given away.

Yesterday, we moved our bed and dresser down into our newly-refinished basement bedroom. When we went to sleep I felt like I was camping out, but when I woke up to a purring kitty nestled up against my feet, I felt like it was our bedroom. Excellent! We have so much more floor space, now. I'm looking forward to watching it shape up.

There was an article in the New York Times the other day about toilet-training infants, although the proponents of the idea seem to not like the word "training". Have any of you known people who've tried this? It seems labor-intensive, but definitely interesting. I like the idea of never training a child to rely on diapers 100% of the time, and then having to untrain them a couple of years later. It seems to be all over the place, suddenly: the "elimination communication" forum on mothering.com mentions People Magazine and Good Morning America in addition to the Times article. I'm probably going to the local group listed on diaperfreebaby.org on the 17th to see what they have to say, but anecdotal "we tried this" stories would be welcome. (And, ahh, please don't just chime in with "what a stupid idea", since I'm actually looking for information.)

Also, I decided against doing the 10k walk today, even though they already have my registration money. The idea of potentially spending 2 - 2.5 hours in the rain was bad enough, but my back also hurts from moving stuff around and cutting carpet last night. It just didn't seem like a good idea, anymore. I might walk 10k with D again next weekendish, just to see if I can cut my time down a bit more. Also, it's a lovely distraction and it makes me feel all capable.

Work news: on Friday, some coworkers were joking about making an illicit late-night furniture raid to snag me a Huge Comfy Chair. This partucular HCC had been previously swiped from a nearly-unused self-study room by a facilities guy for another pregnant woman in the department, who had her baby in September and is currently out on maternity leave. I thought that my coworkers were joking, but when I came in to the office this morning, there it was. (Here's a special bonus shot of the other half of my cubicle, so you can see that I'm not locked in a cage -- it's actually a very nice, isolated corner window cube with trees right outside.)

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