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Toddler talks a lot now, and she’s very aware of her body, my body, and Husband’s body. She’s also very interested in my tattoos, which she calls “too-tas” and insists on touching them every night. She also tells me she wants her own too-tas, and points on her body where she wants to get them.
Life’s hard some days, but she’s a joy.
It seems like the older I get, the more irrationally angry casual censorship makes me. And it isn't just the "unalive" "grape" alleged filter-dodging vernacular, but the way normal words will be peppered with asterisks, or screenshots will have words like "gay" "hell" "fuck" etc either partially or entirely blurred. Who is this helping? What is the purpose of it, except to reinforce shame and elevate a flimsy perception of purity and safety, however those things manifest. It's so tiresome and I'm sick of it.
"But on TikTok..."
Then go the fuck back to TikTok? Get! Get back in your cage! I'm free from TikTok and refuse to be exposed to their culture!
We landed in New York Thursday morning and left Monday morning. And what did we arrive to? A massive water leak at my in-laws place that will require replacing 100 sq ft of flooring! And possibly more! And we couldn’t use the a/c because that’s where the leak was coming from!!! In August!!!!
I’m never making such a short trip with such long flights ever again. At least Toddler enjoyed the trip because she didn’t have to deal with building management and the insurance company.
Thank you, tumblr, for reminding me that this blog is 15 (!!!) years old. I’m rarely here anymore for various reasons, but it’s fun to stop by once in a while to check in.
Also if anyone has recommendations for NYC things to do, I’m all ears. Haven’t been since 2019, and I’ll be staying UES for a wedding.
Got Botox, got the job, and celebrated by eating Spanish cheese and bread from Costco. Also enjoyed doing absolutely nothing this holiday weekend since we’re not religious and Toddler has no concept of the Easter bunny. She did do an egg hunt today at daycare, which required some assistance from her teacher.
Been a bit since my last post, but all is well here in the middle of the ocean. Baby is now a walking, opinionated Toddler (so much dramatic pointing and grunting!) who is simultaneously the best thing I’ve ever done and the most exhausting thing in the universe. She stopped breastfeeding last week, so we made it my goal of one year and then some. Yay!
I’m more than halfway done with my job and applying for others now, which is nerve-racking given the state of the world currently. Had an interview last week, and we’ll see if they want me. If they don’t, I have a couple of other leads. My current boss has also hinted that he’d keep me for another year if I don’t find anything out there, so we’ll see. I don’t feel much like a lawyer in the current gig (and the pay reflects that), but it’s nice to leave work at work and not feel chained to my email inbox.
So that’s the update. Excited to get Botox and lasers and all sorts of things now that I’m no longer pregnant or breastfeeding.
Also very wild that 7 years ago today Husband and I were in Hawaii finding our first place, and we’ve been here ever since! It doesn’t feel like it’s been that long at all. And now I’m a lawyer and we’re married and have a baby!
2024 was generally a pretty good year! 2025 isn’t off to the best start as I’ve had bronchitis and Baby did not do well on her flights to and from Honolulu to Atlanta, but we got her passport in the mail and plan on going on more trips this summer. And probably another one in December! It was fun traveling for Christmas and new years, so we’re thinking Japan for next Christmas.
Now on to finding a job for September 2025, as mine expires at the end of August.
Life is mostly fine, minus the baby getting Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease and missing a week of daycare right after thanksgiving. She’s a great eater, learning to stand on her own now, snd has almost three teeth. We’re going to the east coast (Georgia and Florida) for Christmas and nye so we’ll see how well she does with those flights.
It’s my first time being fully solo with Baby since husband is out of town for a conference until Saturday, and guess what - she gets a stomach bug at daycare! And can’t go back until Friday! And I can’t work from home at my new job! And I’m supposed to have an assignment due Friday!
So now I have to take tomorrow off to make sure Baby doesn’t puke anymore. And somehow figure out when I’m going to finish this thing for my judge that I said I’d have done by Friday. Great. I love her, but I hate this.
This is apparently a hotter take than I thought but: hating on lawyers as a profession, calling them inherently dishonest etc. is politically reactionary. It discourages defendants from seeking legal counsel, puts forth the idea that it’s inherently suspicious to insist on seeing a lawyer before you answer police questioning (your constitutional right!) etc. which ultimately just benefits the state in making it easier for them to convict you. This is one of those things that “progressives” who were raised conservative often don’t realize is one of the parts of their parents’ worldview they should question more, but they should. Not only are lawyers not The Problem with “our system,” but having someone who is educated in the law whose job is to represent your interests in court — getting one regardless of your ability to pay, even! — is in fact one of the best parts of it.
I hate how all the crime shows do this as well. "Urgh, lawyers are the worst", "I hate lawyers", "People are dying and our witness is wasting time with a lawyer." It's copaganda! Fuck that. You have a right to a lawyer for a reason, use your rights!
Also in the same realm: "People sue for everything now!" or any similar criticism of "ridiculous" jury verdicts in civil cases. Tort reform is a conservative ploy to make sure major corporations don't have to see any actual consequences when they do shit like pollute your groundwater, give an entire community cancer, or burn a woman so bad she has third degree burns requiring skin grafts all so they could sell more coffee.
Baby is six months old, and has been in daycare for one month now. In that month she has had 3 fevers, likely got Covid (Husband tested positive for it yesterday!), and gone through literally 160 diapers. I hate it! But I also do not want to stay home with her and neither does my husband. We both genuinely enjoy our jobs and frankly we need to be a two salary household to afford Honolulu.
I start a new job tomorrow and hope that I don’t get sick like everyone else in my family. I’m working as a law clerk for a judge for the next year, so taking a break from actually practicing law. But I’ll still be keeping my law license active anyways because I’m applying for jobs for fall 2025 soon, and those jobs may require an active license.
Sick baby and sick husband is a terrible way to spend the weekend before a new gig. 0/10 do no recommend.
Baby has been in daycare for six (6) days and she already came down with her first sickness. Oh joy.
It’s either a bad cold or mild COVID, but at her age they’re treated the same so they’re not testing her. We’re monitoring her fever and hoping her congestion clears up soon. Thankfully she’s still able to eat and sleep well, she’s just extra clingy and a little fussier than normal.
We all survived day 1 back in the office!
Baby drank from bottles throughout the day, Husband did a great job cleaning and taking care of her, and I got caught up on everything I missed in the last four months at work.
Some…questionable rulings happened while I was gone that we’re trying to undue, but beyond that I’m not in too much shit work-wise. One of my cases is going to settle, one of my cases is going to go the (state) Supreme Court, and I have a new case in the works. Fun!
Baby gets another round of vaccines tomorrow, so we’ll see how she handles that and me having to go into the office. Hopefully she’s just sleepy like she was last time.
I’m back to work on Monday, and feeling both excited to not have a baby attached to me all day (I can wear my hair down again!) but also sad that I’ll only see her for a few hours now. And not looking forward to pumping at work at all. Baby is also not really drinking from a bottle (meaning she’ll do less than an ounce after 10 minutes of trying to feed her), so Husband might have to bring her by the office to feed her from time to time if she refuses to drink from her bottle with him.
Also still dealing with some after effects of pushing for 3 hours that might require surgery to fix if pelvic floor therapy can’t. Lovely! But at least my old clothes all fit now. Picking up a 17 lb almost 4 month over and over again old is exhausting!
