Yesterday I decided to line up to get vaccinated against H1N1. The vaccine was just being rolled out in this city and I happen to be in one of the high-risk groups (pregnant and more than 20 weeks along, as well as being a woman in my 20s) so I decided that yes, I would [...]
by AEB on October 27, 2009
I love Twitter. I love that I can connect with people there. I love that Twitter makes my job easier. I love that I can ask Twitter a question and get a multitude of answers back. I love that I have met some of the people I follow on Twitter and they are all as [...]
by AEB on October 20, 2009
When I was 16 I planned on killing myself. I knew that I was never going to go anywhere, I was never going to be anything, I was never going to contribute to the world and I was only making things harder for everyone I loved by being here, wasting space, costing money. I decided [...]
by AEB on October 17, 2009
I just pulled this off my old Livejournal after a discussion on Twitter about changing your name after marriage. ‘Twas a good rant. Over the past few years I have grown, matured and come to realize that I am a feminist, though I used to be one of those women that considered it a scary [...]
by AEB on October 17, 2009
After hearing about it on Twitter a few times and mentioning that I was thinking about doing it, I officially signed up for National Novel Writing Month last night. Basically, it’s a challenge to write 50,000 words in the month of November, with quantity being more important than quality. That amounts to about 1,700 words [...]
by AEB on October 9, 2009
This morning in the car I nearly turned to Joe and said that it’s not possible that we’ve been married for two years, it just doesn’t seem true. It doesn’t seem like we’ve been together for over four years either. It seems like we’ve been together forever and not very long at all. We started [...]
by AEB on October 6, 2009
I am determined to be a fit mum. I’m about 7 months into this pregnancy and I feel totally out of shape. Before I got pregnant I was going to the gym sporadically, I was trying to take the stairs at work (I could get up six of the ten flights), I was thinking about [...]
by AEB on October 5, 2009