Friday

[susandennis]

I was up late last night and, since I wanted to get up at 6 for my swim, when I did get into bed, I could not fall asleep.  But, it didn't really matter. I kind of enjoyed just laying there blanking out and just being. If 6 am came and I couldn't get up, I'd swim at 11.

6 am came and getting up was not a problem so swim I went. And it was fine. I'm listening to Dan Bucatinsky's Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight.  It's an ok read, but I'm kind of in the ok, I'm-ready-for-this-to-be-over stage. It's not bad enough to abandon and I think there's only about one more swim's worth left.

I ran into Julie, my friend from the pool, yesterday and she suggested we get together for a walk in the park sometime and I said great, any time is great for me and she said maybe next week.  And then I got home and looked at next week.  My normal totally free days are all missing next week. The housecleaner is coming, Chef Anita is coming, I have to go get blood work done and I have a doctor's appointment and that's for starters.

But today is free and clear and so, really, is the weekend so I'm not going to worry about next week until, er, next week.

My local NPR station is now airing a when-will-it-ever-end story about lactation stations at the work place.  I am soooooo OVER Mother's are superior beings stories.  ARUGH.  My plan to not let this crap bug me this year is pretty much a total fail.

On the up side, the Mariners are not sucking right now.  They aren't killing it either. Each game is a struggle but they are ending up on the right side more often now than the wrong and that gives watching the games a little fun wrinkle.

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[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Lactation stations? How funny. I was thinking of when I was nursing my first child and followed a couple of LJ communities devoted to the subject (useful for trouble-shooting issues and finding resources) and I saw A LOT of women dealing with issues where they wanted to pump and their employers weren't letting them, or making it a really hostile work environment for them. At the time many states didn't have laws to protect women in the workplace regarding this issue. Now there are stations. (That is so Washington.)

It was becoming an adult that made me realize how many people have a lot of feelings about Mother's/Father's Day. I never realized a holiday could be so loaded until I began to deal with my ish about Father's Day. (My Father was not a very kind man to say the least.) My Mother still has a lot of feelings about the day. Her Mother has been dead for a number of years and they had a complicated relationship, so FB and the like is kind of a minefield when people are saying how wonderful/special/the best their Mother is. Or they're saying how special/important Mothers are in general. My Mother who has four children still finds that sentiment to be kind of meh. She loves all of us like mad, and loved raising us, but she has kind of a pragamtic attitude that just being a Mother isn't some kind of super power. (other than not selling your kid when they play hot cross buns badly on a recorder.)

My brother is cautiously excited about the Mariners. But he doesn't trust that it will last. It is mostly a suspicious enjoyment. "What is going on here. Not that it is bad, but still..." I told him someone must have made a deal with a witch.

[susandennis]

Hilarious because it was even more 'washington' than that... the story was not about whether or not work lactation stations exist but how some are not lovely!!! "The place they gave us was no more than a closet." "Really? That's terrible!!!" "It's not at all acceptable." "Of course it isn't!!"

Ha!

At this point, if we were on the way to the World Series, I'd expect the worst. Buy, sucking less, as they are doing now, is better than sucking more, like they usually do. I'm counting my baseball blessings while they last which probably will not be long.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Lovely? Oh sweet jesus. What a bunch of moany ponies. And really, all a woman needs is a private place to sit and not be bothered for a bit. An outlet is good too. Other than that, it isn't like she needs a full bar, and a massage therapist.

A pleasing kind of sucking. "It's the Mariners... we'll accept it."