Oh, Belly, 'Tis of Thee ...

Here he is, little Antonio is growing by the minute -- exponentially it sometimes feels like:



Happy Birthday, Cancerians!! I'm glad to hear your party was a success, Carol -- you are the consummate hostess with the mostest, after all.

As for moving to Texas, well, I have to admit -- I'm in love with the city. I don't want to leave New York!! It's so creatively alive and infinitely complex and interesting. They'll have to take me kicking and screaming -- especially now that my freelance business is taking off. The phone's been ringing off the hook for garden design and installation projects -- I just got a huge $10K job, the biggest one yet -- my client is having me design her terrace completely, including furniture, a fountain, gorgeous Japanese Maples, trellises for ivies to climb on all sides -- it's truly a garden paradise. It looks like all the hard work is finally starting to pay off -- Anthony was right when he told me to stick with what I love and eventually everything will start to come together... just in time for 'lil Antonio!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

AMAZING IMAGE UPLOADER THINGY!

Diana,
Happy belated birthday! It sounds like you had a wonderful time. I can't wait to see you and give you a big fat hug!

Diana, I am so happy for you. Your dreams are coming true. One day, you are dreaming about how things will be, then you blink, and they are. Congratulations on everything so far. So much more is yet to come. So much joy and serene bliss...

Amber,
How is your belly?

If you click on Killy's picture on the side-bar, you will be taken to the amazing image uploader thingy! I don't know how I did it, don't ask me to figure it out, I am so proud of myself for doing it all by myself, but I did it! I added a button!
YAY
YAYAYYAYYAYAYYAYAYYYAYYYYYY

Such small things make me so happy.

Speaking of small things, This weekend was a BLAST!

Killy, Killito and I hosted our first official party. Our HouseWarming party!

It was a success! Not only did most people show up, we had very little leftovers. Our neighbors were there; Killy's family was present with his mom and two sisters; my family was present with my sister; some of my co-workers were there; Amber, and John, Tag and Liz and their dog, Wes and Claire and even Killy's step-father was there! It was great! Everyone had a great time and we were very tired afterwards. Killito did pretty well though. He didn't take his afternoon nap at the usual time because of all the excitement, but he did enjoy a 2 hour nap later, enough to rev him up for more action play with his cousin Ezra.

I was very happy because my house finally felt like a home. Where people can gather to eat, laugh and have a good time.

We missed everyone who wasn't able to make it though...

I'll post pics later.

LOVE

Photo

Carol,

Have you ever paid someone else to clean your house for you? We did it for the first time yesterday to celebrate our 1-year wedding anniversary -- what a dream that was to come home from work to a sparkling apartment! This woman was amazing -- she even cleaned the grout between the tiles in our kitchen -- we've decided this is something we must treat ourselves to at least once a year to really get those itsy-bitsy details that make such a difference but no one ever really has time for ...

I have a belly shot I can post to the blog, but i don't know how -- whatever happened to the amazing uploader thingey?

stuff & nonsense

Amber,
thanks for bringing some semblance of intellect to this blog. The only time I have time to think about what I want to post is during the time that I have while at work, which is no time because I'm constantly doing something or wasting my time with fast searches and brief browsings. No time at home time because when I am not playing with my baby and loving him, I am cooking or cleaning the kitchen or folding the laundry or eyeballing the laundry while cooking in the kitchen, the entire time with my little boy fighting against the wall of my legs whimpering for me to pick him up because he remembers better days or if my son is busy making mischief elsewhere, my husband is fighting against the wall of my back for my attention because he remembers better days while I am washing dishes or folding laundry...
I read a book once
I actually bought and read Maus
SO GOOD
I am only grateful that we don't own a T.V. otherwise i'd be wasting valuable time trying to watch idiocy...
I painted my kitchen green
Am planning my hosuewarming party for this Sunday...
I listened to NPR this morning and heard this article about green roofs which reminded me of you...

Diana,
I'm thinking pink and dark red, almost brown...

Liz,
What's up!

I started walking/running and doing Yoga, thanks to Claire (formerly known as Belinda) and am loving my little house!

Miss you all!

Amber,
What's new with the belly? Have you had your 24 oz steak well done yet? How much do you weigh? Any ultra-sounds and what-not? Are you still looking for a house? There's one for sale right down the street from where Killy and I live and love.

The rain is beautiful through our windows...

Squeamish

Diana,

That's interesting the way you kind of switch gears in your mind to cross between clinical and subjective experience, the left and right hemispheres.

I've always been a tad squeamish -- can't stand to watch horror films, fainted at the sight of my own bloody nose as a teen-ager, went through a brief if vivid phobia of needles, etc.

I figured it must be a matter of tuning out the vividness of life that made the difference between my gut reactions and a more level-headed approach -- but also wondered if any of it was learned or innate ...

Also, I always wondered if people who are exposed to lots of medical ailments start having a radar for that sort of thing at dinner parties and social interactions -- i.e. I'm talking politely to Mrs. Jones at the hors d'oeuvres table but really I can tell by the pink rash on her neck that she's got acute gangliata of the colon -- okay, I'm making stuff up here -- but do things like that start to pop up in the mind?? -- i.e. I'm nodding politely as though I were listening to what you're saying but really I'm just picturing what a mess your colon must look like right about now??!

hehehe -- I think my imagination would go wild exposed to that much detailed information about the human body on a daily basis -- sometimes I do have dreams about my plants -- I've dreamt that a variety of white scale insect that attacks the stems of kentia palms was all over my body and it itched sooooo bad -- and I've dreamt about parasitic weeds suffocating my plants, growing faster than I can pull them out ...

I guess what I'm also saying is that I don't see how anything like hemorroid removal or pap smears can ever become so routine that you stop associating the personality of the patient with the procedure and become completely clinical -- and then I wonder if you start to care more or less for people after being so intimately familiar with their bodies, or is that something you turn on and off as well?

My HouseWarming Party!

Yes, it's true, I am finally going to have my housewarming party!
It will start on Saturday, June 26, 2004 and run through Sunday June 27, 2004.
Please come those of you who can!

Amber,
When are you going to send us pics of yo belly!

Family updates...

Adolfo knows how to use no.
It's cute because he says it, pensively and decisively, not brattily. He is also going through some SEVERE terrible twos. BOY. Especially with me. It's probably because he knows he is breaking my heart when he cries when I tell him NO. It's not usual for me to say no to him, so when I do, he has a fit.

Killy is studying something called Cheetah (???) on the computer whenever he gets a break from being the world's best dad and husband.

We have fallen into somewhat of a regular schedule and things are still being unboxed and put away...

I have 6 shirts in my Pixeltees store.

CarolinaBlythe

OK
So I found the Blythe doll that looks like me.
Except she has green eyes in this picture
Which is really not an issue because I too have multicolored eyes...

Fashion Diva and Ultra-Punk girl.
She was born two years after me, but then I've always been a late bloomer.

Claire (formerly known as Belinda) stopped by the house last night, whilst I was out doing my daily jog. I came home and there she was propped against my kitchen counter sipping a Coronita, Killy was making tostadas... We got to talking about her little head and futuristic ultra-modern homes (i just stuck my whole arm down the front of my dress to scratch my belly and nobody saw 8-0 !!) I woke up this morning with this idea in my head and remembered a couple of articles I saw back when I was looking for a house to buy... Here's one treasure, Dome Houses.

The Human Animal

So, Diana, what's it like getting so intimately familiar with so many different bodies? Do you look at people differently now after seeing so much exposed flesh? Do people seem more or less animal-like to you now? It must affect you on some level of perception -- I'm curious to know how?? Were you ever squeamish about blood and guts, or are you one of those people who was just born with nerves of steel?

Cosmic Bunny Monkeys (C)

Who wants to start a girl punk band?
I will be lead singer.
We will sing cartoon medleys...

diana - so when will you be in Houston!

Do you like red for a bedroom?

rituals

don't know what's become of them
i think they are still being born
at least here in my home
where my family spends teetery weekends
together trying to find the groove

seems to me that they're around
hiding in the corner
with the tumbling pile of shoes
or maybe curling under the bed
with the dustballs and the legos

maybe they haven't been unpacked yet

in any case
morning is a slow move
from perfect to real
where real is a moon-faced oval
dreaming on a purr

congratulations!

Great fun!

glad your man got over it! Sometime it's worth the wait, you'll find yourself saying that more often later... :-)

HEY

I just bought Killy a really cool book for Father's day!
I got him
MAUS - by Art Spiegelman
great book!

She bangs

Yesterday finally my hot hunk 'o man gave it to me good -- wow, I needed that, girls!! I think it was all thanks to the talk he had with his best friend, who went on and on about how great pregnant sex is and how extra horny his wife was when she was pregnant and how there's no need to worry about hurting the baby, etc, etc -- Hallelujah!!!