tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-216910122008-04-29T20:21:44.800-04:00art-sweetnoreply@blogger.comBlogger170125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21691012.post-1167548892456516152006-12-31T01:30:00.000-05:002006-12-31T02:08:12.500-05:00

I can now be found at: http://artsweet.wordpress.com. Please update your links and rss feeds... Smooches, Art

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Some of the better search strings through which people have found this blog. And my snarky responses. The "Go Back to School" Awards a sad song about a kids abused - I don't know why you were looking for this, but you might have more luck if you corrected your grammar.how long does a female butterfly stay pregnant? - I think butterflies lay eggs. See mammals vs. insects for more help.Name of

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Pili writes: "I am in an internet cafe here in FARAWAY PLACE and the young lady that works here comes over to my screen while I"m looking at the pictures and says, 'Is that your child?' Wha! Imagine my delight to say - yes!!! What an amazing thing." When I read this email a huge smile spread over my face. Imagining a stranger 8400 miles away from us knowing somehow - from the expression on her

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Before I start blathering on: Merry Christmas to all my friends who celebrate Christmas and happy mandatory day off to the rest of us! I am at my parents' apt. and every time I get on the computer and start looking at blogs or even thinking about blogging one of them pops up behind me. It's crazy. I feel like I'm trying to look at pictures of nekkid ladies when really all I want to do is check

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I'm.... (yawn)...back. And it's done. I fudged the deadline a bit and so am not feeling very good about myself at the moment. Especially since that meant telling my advisor I had actually mailed it when in fact I was just planning to go to the post office in a couple of hours not being totally upfront with my advisor, and I feel terrible about that. And then my computer literally ate a

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1) I must wish a huge and happy birthday to the sweetest, most fabulously wonderful, Piliest of Pilis in the whole wide world. I can't wait until we've lived more of our lives together than without each other. Even if that takes a while, because well - you're old(er than me). SMOOCH. 2) If you're not reading the posts over at lesbian family get over there now. I am humbled to be joining a team

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... after a nasty email to FedEx (thanks Bernard, for the research!) and a very contrite phone call from Memphis, the documents have finally been delivered to the correct Antigua! That's all for now.

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The endo appt. was good. Really good. Not perfect - why can't doctors use "high" and "low" instead of "bad" and "good" when they're talking about your blood sugars? But for starters, my A1C was 7.5. That's the lowest it's been in... a long time. And the doctor sat and listened and looked at me, not my chart. For almost an hour. We talked about where to find carb counts for ethnic foods; about

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Just when I thought everything was going smoothly in the paperwork department. Our corrected POA & other documents appear to be taking a nice Caribbean vacation in Antigua, West Indies, courtesy of FedEx. They are supposed to be redirected to Guatemala and be there by Monday. Off to the endo, g-d help me.

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Yes, I'm still on reduced blog privileges. Yes, part of the anxiety is from the deadline breathing hot stinky air down my neck But mostly my anxiety level has shot up to new heights because I came home today to a message reminding me that I have an appointment tomorrow with a new endocrinologist. An appointment I had conveniently managed to forget about. You may recall that I dumped McClinic

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First of all, I am so honored to learn that I have been nominated for not one, but two, diabetes OC awards. Some fabulous person (I swear it wasn't me!) nominated me for Best Adult with Type I and Best Female Blogger. I am up against some pretty stiff competition and I'm honestly not sure that I will vote for myself over these folks. But hey, I'm not going to stop you from voting for me... I

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I haven't participated in the Perfect Post awards before, but I saw a button on someone's blog for them, on the same day that I read this post. I immediately emailed Lucinda and asked if I could nominate a post. (Links to the other Perfect Posts are up at her site and at Momma K's.) Here's my nomination: With simple, direct words, and even more eloquent photographs, Sandra takes us through one

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This one's for Andrea, who asked: Did our Power of Attorney (lets the attorney in Guatemala act on our behalf in Guatebaby's adoption) come back from being authenticated at the Consulate today? Since I couldn't find your email address, and since it is a classic story in the poor-me genre, and I'm always a sucker for sympathy, I'll give you your answer here, Andrea. Why, yes, yes the POA did

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I love my Pili dearly, but it will surprise no one who knows us to hear that she's not an attentive-to-small-details person. [Well, except when it comes to congealed toothpaste on the toothpaste tube and shoes left under the dining room table. Then she's a nutcase.] She just stopped into my office with her newly renotarized doctor's note, which had to be done over because the notary's signature

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The only thing that is keeping me from chewing my arm off with frustration about the fact that the Guatemalan consulate has STILL not returned our authenticated power of attorney document to us despite the fact that it was received there a week ago is the knowledge that PGN (and, I would imagine, family court as well) is on their holiday slowdown, and we wouldn't be moving even if all our

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For me thanksgiving is all about the Food and the Family (F is for... ) We go to my cousin's house, have a delicious meal (eat way too much - I wish I could do a 48 hour square bolus for thanksgiving) and enjoy seeing relatives I don't get to see often enough. When I was younger, I found the whole family thing overwhelming and stifling, but I think I've mellowed and my family has mellowed as well

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For all of you parents out there who felt thwarted by the "please don't tell my life is going to change" command in the previous post... We have been thinking about the possibility that a Real Baby may enter our lives sometime in the not too distant future. This means that some Real Baby Stuff will need to enter our lives. There are some things I strongly suspect we can live without, and you

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to your regular photo friday edition. But not without first saying Thank You Thank You Thank You for all your wonderful Guatebaby comments. We are definitely saving those for the baby book. "Look sweetie chubbycheeks, lots of people in the internet love you. And we do too. night-night" On that note. E is for... Early Morning. Actually, I was just going to bed. Those of you who are

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Warning, those prone to tears may want tissues close at hand. At 4pm yesterday, my cell phone rang. I didn't recognize the number, so I ignored it. Then our home phone rang. This time the caller ID showed the name of GAL (Guatemala Agency Lady, for those just tuning in). My heart crawled to a stop. In my last email exchange with her, she had told us to hurry up with the documents we had

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(knock wood, ptut, ptut, ptut, etc.) He's a big boy. 20.5" long. NINE POUNDS. Absolutely adorable.

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... Diabetes.

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I have never been a competitive race walker. Unless you count being lapped by 90 year old ladies as competitive. And I don't mean the kind of 90 year old ladies who are cover models for Prevention magazine. I mean the ones who can't make it all the way around the mall without stopping for coffee. Twice. I am: hopelessly confused by right and left, neurotic about being followed while

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As I mentioned a few posts ago, November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. Today is "D-blogger day". Our goal on this day is to spread awareness through our blogs about what life with diabetes is like. Instead of writing something new, I'd like to share an essay I wrote in high school. I've learned a lot and experienced a lot since then, and later this week, I'll reflect on that. Let me

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Her second child was born less than two months ago. And you idiots think that the only families worth protecting look like hers? If you haven't already done so, vote today. And please, vote to protect my family. If you have a respectful disagreement, I'm willing to hear it. Cowardly anonymous comments will be deleted posthaste.

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I have been tagged by Scott and Shannon to present five unusual facts about myself. Although I am very tired from a whirlwind bloggy get-together in which I. Squeezed. The Chuzzle. I will comply, with a slight twist. I present to you: five truths and a lie. You decide - which is the lie? I have a very hard time telling left and right apart and failed a driving test because of this. I learned

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