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Tuesday I had a lady from the self-sufficiency list over for coffee, which was cool. She has a degree in environmental technology I think it was, and talking about doing a second one in sustainable energy systems. Wow. She had two blonde, blue eyed daughters. :-) And one chicken. I have two ducks and no daughters, but plenty of cats. We seemed to get on OK, which was nice. :-)

Thursday was the baby forum meet up, which was... interesting. Three hours, they talked about children. Three. Whole. Hours. Without. A. Break.

Please, every one, I hereby give you leave, leeway, license, even REQUEST that if I talk about my child too much, you will TELL ME. Suggest other topics! Sex! BDSM! Feminism! Books! Scientology even! I do expect that you will wait at least five minutes to see if I get over it myself, but then feel free to say "OK, stop right there. Finish that anecdote, and then we'll talk about sex."

Afterwards I went hunting for a haircut from someone I know from the local scene. I wanted some adult conversation without children mentioned. It wasn't to happen. So I made John take me out for dinner to a local food hall, and then we dropped in on

llbatt for a quick chat. This seemed to restore my sense of balance enough that I will willing to return home. :-)

After the abortive hair cut, I went home and started chatting to

vegetariansushi and while I was doing that, I went and checked out this webpage one of the ladies had mentioned, called bubclub. It had a birth story on it, so I thought cool, and started reading. Unfortunately, it turned out to be about a woman who's baby died in utero at nine months. It made me cry. It's made me sad for two days. Last night I cried some more on John and we discussed what would happen if this happens to us. But now I feel better for having cried all over John. Oh, and sex helps too *grin* I was a tad annoyed that there wasn't even a warning on the story. Most birth stories with unhappy endings do have them. :-(

So. Today we recieved 33ish kilos of fresh MEAT! Plus I have just sent dad and john off to grab the change table from the freecyle list. After that, it must be lunch time. I have more energy than I have had in a while, but today seems to be a quiet energy day. I'm just ... tired? Kind of? I actually slept deeply and well last night (although of course I did go to the loo about 6 or 7 times.) I could probably go and grab the dan brown book I am reading and finish it off. I just want to curl up and not do anything today. This week has been exhausting. And a bit harrowing. Lots of strangers, especially at a time when I'm really not up for strangers.

mynxii has very kindly offered to do vegie shopping for us this week despite this being the offweek for the co-op. I was going to say no, but I am glad I accepted her offer. It was very kind of her to offer for me! We watched Battlestar Galactica last night, which was cool, but three hours is a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time. I didn't mind it, but wasn't as enthused as John and

splanky. I think

mynxii liked it too. But also not as fannishly as John and

splanky. I made the best ever sushi last night. And I got all enthused and made flowers out of it. And I made a bacon and pineapple pizza too, which was good, and three dips, plus bread. Munchie munchie food.

Does it count as procrastinating if you're sitting around updating your blog when your only aim for the day is to eat, sit around and update your blog, and read things? :-)