So yesterday I was telling people at work about the birth, and I knew that people's reactions to the idea of my taking pictures would be bad, but I didn't expect the idea of a home birth to knock people back on their heels. I guess I've gotten so used to the idea that I have forgotten how weird I thought it was at first, too.

I used to think that Cynthia was a little loony for not wanting drugs or to go to a hospital or anything, but I'll tell you, after seeing the whole thing I have come completely 'round.
It really seems to be the way to go!

You're not strapped down to the bed or anything, you can be in any position in any room doing anything, whatever the mother is most comfortable doing, that's what she gets to do.

And then after the baby is born, there's no huge rush to measure and weigh her and bathe her and take her away--parents and baby stay together, and because there are no drugs in the baby's system, she can start to nurse right away. Bonnie was nursing twenty minutes after her birth.

And then after all that, you're home and you can sleep in your own bed and have dinner in your own house, and I really think that that's what I'll do when I have kids.

So I'm gone for one day and I get to work and I'm in trouble! They needed to find something yesterday in the chaos that is that my desk, and they had to root around and I have been told in no uncertain terms that I had better get organized or I would be written up!!

I, of course, think that's hysterical.

I saw a Crazy Eddie commercial last night.

I don't kow how many of you are going to know what the hell I'm talking about, but Crazy Eddie was an electronics store in New York with these wildly annoying commercials with this guy screaming "Crazy Eddie, his prices are INSANE!!!!!!" that were on TV every ten seconds in the eighties, but the chain closed and the owner went to jail and everything, and I was thrilled to completely forget about them.

Well, I guess somebody bought the name, because there's a new store opening, and there was a commercial last night...
and it was the same spokesman.

I will only accept this time-traveling if I also get to be 22.

O, by the way, I registered my domain yesterday...

(wasn't that casual? I've been working on my delivery--it's really hard not to say yippee!!)

One year ago today:
Throws a whole new light on that character...

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