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Friday, January 26th, 2007

Just what I need…

Another way to procrastinate.
I went through and did a bunch of housekeeping in the links department.  Added some new ones, removed links to people whose sites no longer exist (is there anything more irritating than thinking you’re going to read a nice lesbian baby story and landing on a page full of flashing ads for [...]

1 Comment » - Posted in site stuff by Art-Sweet

Sunday, January 21st, 2007

Taxing Thoughts

On Tuesday, the office manager at my new job gave me a thick folder of forms to fill out.
License plate #? Crap, I can’t remember that. I had to get new plates when someone stole one of my plates, and I still haven’t learned the new number yet.
Code of ethics? Yes, I promise not to [...]

12 Comments » - Posted in The Political Is Personal by Art-Sweet

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

What Will Boys Be?

In all my fantasies of having a child, I always imagined having a girl. A feisty, spunky, worm-loving, mud-puddle-hopping, pink-disdaining, peace-loving, punk-rock kind of girl, but still, a girl. As Galloping Cats noted in a comment oh so many moons ago… “i think it’s easier to work on bending gender stereotypes for girls than for [...]

12 Comments » - Posted in Adoption, Parenting 202, The Political Is Personal by Art-Sweet

Sunday, January 7th, 2007

A Belated Introduction

Did anyone else have days of the week underwear growing up? Every year I buy my partner-lover-sweetheart-wife dishtowels. One year I bought her days of the week dish towels. She has a thing about dish towels. I felt like the stereotypical bad husband, buying my wife dishtowels for Hanukkah Christmas Winter Holiday, except that [...]

3 Comments » - Posted in Adoption, We're a Family! (Just the 2 of us), site stuff by Art-Sweet