The doctor’s office called the house today while I was at work, to say that there’s some sort of issue with my insurance and the colpo. My insurance company is in the midst of a big contract fight with the hospital where Noah was born, and somehow this is bleeding into this, even though the company and the doctor said it wouldn’t.

The strange thing is that they had me do a ton of paperwork related to this while I was there, and the message they left basically said something that made no sense at all. It has something to do with the fact that my insurance is through the California branch of the insurance company, although we’re in Georgia.

I don’t need to even say that my insurance hasn’t changed one iota, right?

So, grrr. Crab. Crank. Hopefully I’ll get it resolved in the morning before we leave on our beach weekend.

In the mean time, here are a bunch of adorable gratuitous pictures of Noah. And I promise to take pictures that include Jill and Noah while we’re at the beach!!!

See, My Toes Are Clean

I think our days of being able to bathe Noah in the sink are numbered. Which is too bad, because it’s easy, and he likes it.

Happy With My Rattle

Doesn’t he just look content with his toy? I love that!

Mmmmm, My Own Remote

Our best recent dollar store find! Of course, he does still try to take the real remote. But he likes this one too.

Easily Distracted from His Explorations

Heh. His fingers were in my mouth off-and-on this evening for more than an hour. Not the most comfortable, but so sweet.

That's Mommy's Face

Yes, I saved the best for last. How could I do otherwise???

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone! We’ll catch back up with the blogosphere when we get home.

Jul 192006
 

Warning, this post may contain information you would really rather not know about me.

If you don’t want to get personal AND you don’t know the definition of something below, don’t click on the link, and it will all be fine.

COLPOS SUCK.

They hurt like hell. More after the fact than during, but during, too.

Ow. Ow. Ow. Dammit I SAID OWWWWW.

Please send good vibes that I just have funny looking cells. You know. Funny lookin. More’n most cells even.

I won’t know for a few weeks, but this is the second time in a year I’ve done this dance, and last time the colpo results came back totally normal.

(Bonus points will be awarded to the first person to correctly identify the movie reference in this post.)

 

Ok, this is the best week ever. :)

I’ve been wanting to blog about Noah’s greatest accomplishment to date, but since we haven’t caught it on film, I’ve been holding off.

Too bad, you just have to trust me.

Noah is kissing.

Whatever he did that made our hearts melt before is nothing to getting kisses.

It works like this. He leans in, grabs your ear, or a fistful of hair, and your nose or cheek or chin, and then pulls your face towards him, cheek first. Then he hangs out there, mouth open, grinning, drooling all over your face. Mostly, you’re not allowed to move. At least not for several seconds.

And if you wiggle slightly to kiss his cheek in return, he giggles with delight.

It’s the best.

The absolute most amazing delicious best thing ever.

Kisses.

 

  Please save me! 
  Originally uploaded by LizaWasHere.

My mean, horrible Mommies are feeding me the most disgusting thing I’ve ever put in my mouth, and I’m including monkey feet in that list. Can’t they see how much I’m suffering?

I do NOT understand why they think this is so great. The watery apple juice, that i understood. Plus it comes in a big shiny glass and it’s a pretty color. But this? Bleagh!

Can I have some pizza?

PS They even recorded me in action, actually slurping up some of this "cereal" stuff:

 

I’ve just accepted a new position within my company!

Starting in ~2 weeks, I will be working in the legal department, as Compliance Counsel — the person responsible for dealing with requests for information from law enforcement. I’m EXTREMELY excited — this job description looks as if it had been written just for me.

Wish me luck!!!

 

Last week, my company had one of those big corporate meetings where everyone gets together and the CEO and senior executives tell us how exciting everything is, all the great stuff we’ve been doing lately, and all the even more amazing things that are coming soon.

They’re fun meetings. I assume most big companies do them, although I’d never been to anything like them when I worked in the non-profit sector. If you aren’t familiar with them, think of a big pep rally, with some sort of corporate logo shwag as a gift at the end.

Ours lasted 2 hours, with the last 15 minutes reserved for questions.

The biggest thing that we heard about in the first hour or so was how we’re building our very cool future by providing Municipal Wireless Broadband access.

There’s a misperception that I shared with most of the Internet world, I think, which was that "Muni Wi-Fi" was going to provide free wireless Internet access in public areas of the cities that create it. Instead, Muni Wi-Fi is going to be more like a giant wireless hotspot covering the whole city, with options to pay for access on a short term basis or by subscription like regular Internet access at home.

I had a few conflicting thoughts about this, particularly when I thought we were providing it in public spaces for free. On the one hand, it’s very cool, and awesome that wireless broadband will be available everywhere in major urban areas, and even if it isn’t free, it’ll be a helluva lot cheaper than cable, which is my only option where I live. On the other hand, especially if it were free, do we really want to be offering unfiltered access in places like playgrounds in parks?

(Aside: I oppose mandatory filtering in libraries. People go to libraries looking for a wide range of information and reading material. The best, most accurate filters, the ones I would use in my own home, will overblock. That’s a problem for libraries. Any inappropriate behavior relating to Internet use in the library should be dealt with as a behavior problem.)

I’ve been trying to find appropriate people to ask about this for awhile. Unfortunately, the Muni Wi-Fi team is only partly in my city, and they’re totally swamped, and I hadn’t gotten an answer.

So I stood up during the question and answer period and said, into a microphone, in front of over 1000 people:

Our company has had a great reputation as being First Amendment friendly and privacy protecting for a long time. But I have to admit, I have a concern about Muni Wi-Fi. I’m afraid that I’m going to see the headline, "E*rthLink Provided Free P*rn in the Park."

Cue the gasps of roughly 1200 people, including the CEO.

First he teased and joked about what kind of web sites I might be going to at work, and then he kicked the question over to the VP for the Muni Wi-Fi business. He indicated that he thought if anyone was doing anything they shouldn’t be doing in the park, local law enforcement ought to arrest them. And he added that Muni Wi-Fi access is Internet access like any other kind of Internet access, and should be held to the same standards — which are free and open access, unless people choose to use web filters or parental controls.

Then the CEO jumped back in and added that we have not given and will not be giving out our customers’ email or web surfing information.

Every single day since then, someone — or multiple people — have approached me at work, in the elevator, getting coffee, etc. I am now known as "P*rn in the Park Woman."

Oh yeah, and I used the asterisk because I already get enough weird google hits. I certainly don’t want to start getting them related to my imaginary scary headline, especially with my workplace in the search.

 

Lizzie and Anna correctly identified the song in my head as "Arms Wide Open" by Creed.

CrazyMixedUp
CD Listserv:
Jill is of the view that you really don’t want us to
include that song on the CD and you would skip it every time. Or at
least most times. She is lobbying hard against it. I think it’s a
beautiful song about being a parent, and that it fits perfectly with
the eclectic mix we’re finally putting together for our long overdue CD.

(Jill does not think that. And she is in charge of music in our house, and was in charge of the CD. So if she’s right, don’t think that all the songs are like that one, just because I think it’s a perfect fit. Not that she’s right this time. ;-) )

Thanks to Calliope and the Photo Friday voting,  we can solve this problem democratically. BTW, anyone can vote, not just members of the listserv. But if you’re on the listserv and you have as strong of a feeling about this song as Jill does, please say something in the comments.

The song "Arms Wide Open" by Creed is….
A beautiful and touching song about parenting.
OK, I guess.
Not my cuppa, but hey, it’s your mix. You two duke it out.
If it were my car, and it came on, I’d change the station.
If it were your car, and it came on, I’d change the station.
Makes me want to stab myself in the forehead with a pen.
Never heard of it.
 
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