Miscellaneous

How not to spend a Saturday night from midnight 'til 4:45 am

Posted on February 10, 2008
In the ER with your daughter, who has a nasty, croupy cough.  Good times.  She's fine (although sick) and sleeping with the aid of a steroid shot, Motrin, Tylenol, and a humidifier (all purchased around 5 am this morning - thank you 24-hour Rite Aid) although Matthew and I are seriously wiped out...

8 months already

Posted on February 05, 2008
It's crazy how fast time passes now.  I'm still confused that it's winter -- shouldn't we be in August right now, maybe September?  In any case, Peach continues to grow and grow. She turned 8 months today!  I can't believe it's been so long -- or that it's been so fast...

Me, balanced?

Posted on February 04, 2008
I've been asked to participate in a Work/Life Balance panel put on by the Women's Law Caucus at my law school.  While flattered to have been asked (my mentee from last year, now a pregnant 2L herself, nominated me), I am at quite a loss for what to say...

Today's Public Service Announcement

Posted on January 30, 2008
Save us from people who put everyone else at risk because they refuse to vaccinate their kids.   There is no evidence that vaccines cause autism and overwhelming evidence that vaccines don't cause autism.  Seriously.  Repeat after me: vaccines don't cause autism...

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Thank you, Miss Maryland 2001

Posted on January 30, 2008
Nothing -- and I mean nothing -- improves a female attorney's street cred with male attorneys like saying, "Hey, Miss Maryland 2001 just commented on my blog."   Holy-shmoly.  I really got to bask in some reflected glory there -- thank you, Kelly, for doing wonders for my reputation in Washington County, Oregon...

Peach Blogging

Posted on January 28, 2008

TV Review: Miss America

Posted on January 27, 2008
Wait!  Don't take away my feminist credentials just yet!  So, yes, Matthew and I just watched the Miss America Pageant.  I've never watched it before, but after I got sucked into watching all four episodes of Miss America: Reality Check (seriously: I am a TLC junkie these days), I really wanted Utah, Washington, or Alaska to win...

Waving the Elephant of Truce

Posted on January 23, 2008
After her morning snooze, Peach started to play in her crib with a stuffed toy.  From my angle in the chair across the room, though, this is what I saw. And sitting (with some help getting there):

Shame on the NYT

Posted on January 23, 2008
For not supporting Linda Greenhouse in a more substantial way against the attacks of M. Edward Whelan III.*  Full disclosure: I enjoy Greenhouse's reporting on the Supreme Court, devoured her bio of Justice Blackmun, and do not share toothpaste with Greenhouse (or Blackmun, for that matter)...

Punchline looking for a joke

Posted on January 22, 2008
A lawyer who can't talk.  How ironic. (But other than the lost voice and the sinus problems, I'm doing a hell of a lot better than I was on Sunday, when I was dealing with the after-effects of the stomach bug AND the cold.  And I'm feeling somewhat proud of myself for clearing off ancient shows from the bedroom's TiVo...

Wake me when it's over, please

Posted on January 19, 2008
Matthew and I have a quasi-serious rule about illness, and have since the begininng of our relationship.  Neither of us does sick well (he gets cranky and noncompliant and I get peevish and push myself too hard), so we say that only one of us can be sick at a time...

Spoke too soon

Posted on January 18, 2008
Little Girl* did not stop vomiting.  I ended up calling her physician and under advice, have only given her very small amounts of food at a time. (When she'd eat -- lots of times she refused to eat at all.)  At five this morning, she woke up ravenous, but I only let her eat two ounces, because I really didn't want to be thrown up again...

State of the House

Posted on January 17, 2008
Matthew: recovering from sprained ankle and using cane, House, MD-style.  Peach: projectile vomiting, followed by dry heaving and bile vomit every half hour.  Me:  Painful sore throat and generalized achiness, headache, and generalized feeling sorry for self...

So far, so good?

Posted on January 16, 2008
The Peach had her first day at "school."  (I detest the term "day care" and can't think of anything better.  I decided on "school" so that when the time comes for kindergarten, "school" is something she's an old pro at, mentally speaking...

Thank you, my early adopting husband!

Posted on January 15, 2008
Today a card came from Intuit, the people who make Quicken. I almost tossed it into the trash immediately (I can't begin to count how much junk mail they've sent us over the years), but opened it on a whim.  Inside?  A $50 Amazon gift card because Matthew was among the first 50 people to upgrade to Quicken 2008...

Contracting Work Dissected

Posted on January 14, 2008
One of the ways I've earned money since law school is by doing contract research and writing.  Almost all of my contracting work has come from solo practitioners, and the rest from small firms, so I can't speak to the big-firm contracting experiences (mostly negative) I've read about online, where the contractors are in sweatshop-like conditions...

Shameless L&C Classmate Gossip

Posted on January 10, 2008
In case anyone has been wondering what Mr. S.C. has been up to...apparently, it's with a judge with a big mouth.  Whoopsie! Thanks to Skelly for bringing this to our attention.

One...step...at...a...time...

Posted on January 08, 2008
I'm becoming one of those bloggers -- you know, the type that only posts once in a blue moon, and when she does, it's all whining about how busy she is.  What do I do, you ask? As you can see from previous posts, I feed the baby, change the baby, play with the baby, repeat, try to get a couple of things done before the cycle starts all over again...

A day in the life, redux

Posted on January 04, 2008
Yesterday was amazing, crazy, and wonderfully productive.  Peach and I worked our tails off, and she was a trooper, up to and including going to the courthouse.  (She had her usual reaction to the courthouse.  She pooped.)  I did a bit of everything and felt wonderful about the day - I crossed more off my to-do list than I have in a long while...

Birth Certificate Remorse

Posted on January 01, 2008
CNN.com's  story about naming remorse (and changing) fascinates me.  When we decided on "Eden Alexandra," I knew that it was highly unlikely that we'd want to call her Eden at the beginning, something that was even more true when she arrived more than a month early...

10 things I wish I'd known before getting pregnant

Posted on December 31, 2007
I?d been thinking about this post for a little while, but now that a close family member is expecting a baby, I pushed it to the forefront.  Here are a few of the things that I wish I?d known at the time Peach was born (I?ve already listed the de rigueur gear in a previous post, and LL has some fantastic updates to her list, five months on)...

The baby's first Christmas, Grinch-style

Posted on December 28, 2007
Holidays in my family are high drama.  Six Chrystals with big personalities, then grandparents with big personalities - yikes.  So it was stressful getting to church Christmas eve, stressful getting up for stockings to unwrap, stressful with the formal breakfast, stressful waiting for four children, grandparents, and parents to all get ready for the formal unwrapping of gifts, the tallying of gifts for the purposes of thank you notes, and the painful one-by-one unwrapping...

Lawyers Appreciate....

Posted on December 24, 2007
PT-LawMom tagged me to participate in this year's "Lawyers Appreciate..."  campaign.  Here are five of the things I appreciate the most in my practice. Honesty.  From clients, opposing parties, opposing counsel, staff, and jurists...

Product Review: Bissell Pet Hair Eraser Vacuum

Posted on December 23, 2007
We have a meticulously researched, reviewed, and relatively young vacuum.  It's broken.  That's how I ended up at Target a couple of weeks back, looking at vacuums. I am not the Consumer Reports maven in our family (that would be Matthew).  All I really knew about vacuums was that I wanted a decent upright until the fancy canister was repaired...

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