Entries tagged "life"
the Heather Gold Show @SXSW Get Excited and Make Things : 3/13 3:30-5
Come to the Heather Gold Show @SXSW. This is my 10th show at SXSWi, with the theme this year of Get Excited & Make Things. Guests include Gina Trapani Jeremy Keith, Robin Sloan (snarkmarket.com) comic and filmmaker Negin Farsad (nerdcore rising) and you. We’ll be at a swank lounge-y place with tasty drinks called Malverde thanks to our space sponsors: Squarespace.
Easy calendaring and RSVP here. Now. What are you waiting for?
Laugh of the day: "I can practically smell Venice from here."
http://www.youtube.com/user/AuntBarbara#p/a/u/0/wnAxu8zwXZo
Aunt Barbara, America’s top Tupperware salesperson.
I’m in love and determined to find here here on Long Island. Best Paul Lynde laugh since, well, Paul Lynde.
(HT @murrayhill)
The family of now
16 months. That’s the answer.
What should I ask Mitt Romney who's trying to butch it up
He’s coming to my block. If I can get to tape some stuff, what ould youblike me to ask?
The closest I got to the Olympics
As a kid, one of my biggest dreams was to play in the Olympics.
My sport became an Olympic one a little bit late for me and my college program was weak enough that I was in no shape to even think about making the first Canadian team which happened a little after my graduation. Besides this circumstance, I probably didn’t have the talent to make it, or the focus. I did a lot of things in those days and to play at that level you have to pretty much do nothing else. One of my teammates, Maria Dennis was the last one cut for the first US Women’s team. Maria was and is an amazing amazing hockey player and I was really happy to see her acknowledged as such at a recent rededication of the rink I played in at Yale.
I did play against some people who did play in the Olympics. The photo above is a college game in which I’m getting around Sandra Whyte who played on the US Gold Medal Olympic team in 1988.
To say my hockey team was not treated well in college would be an understatement. We had to threaten a title IX suit the year after a graduated to make sure the program stayed. The coach of the men’s team at the time, Tim Taylor once said “no daughter of mine’s going to play ice hockey.”
Well many many things have changed. And it was a true thrill for me to see Hayley Wickenheiser chosen to read the athlete’s oath at Vancouver Games. She is recognized in Canada for the brilliant athlete she is (I did once get to play roller hockey against her. On the ice I’m not sure I’d be able to have kept up at all).
And now I see people tweeting about women’s hockey just like it’s a regular sport along with the rest of them. Nothing is more exciting that looking at the Olympics website and seeing the phrase Men’s Hockey.
Someday I hope I’ll get to see the Gold Medal game in person.
I peed in a small container this morning…
I peed in a small container first thing this morning.
That’s what the woman from the electronic box company help line told me to do.
“The first urine of the morning is the most concentrated.”
Ordinarily these days I’d just pee on the stick directly and then put it into the electronic box that monitors my surge in LH or lutenizing hormone. But my trip to the west coast got extended last week and I started my cycle there. So until noon, the little box still thinks it’s yesterday when I wake up. Thus the pee saving.
It’s the latest of many self-conscious moves I’ve had to make in an effort to get pregnant. I’ve had to check in so much during this insemination process, I’m totally the Mayor of my uterus.
Because we have limited funds, time (I turned 42 on Wednesday) and only as much sperm as we can afford, we have to be precise. We need to make each month’s insemination as high yield an attempt as possible. If next week’s doesn’t work I’ll get maybe 4 more tries. I feel like Luke trying to hit the Life Star.
When the nurse practicioner told me today that she recommended more monitoring every month I had to fight back tears as I explained that we weren’t doing monthly sonograms or more testing because we couldn’t afford it. If I can get pregnant, we’ll need 5k just for the 2nd parent adoption in NY.
It’s running us $560 for a .5cc vial per month. But this is top shelf stuff. Identity release, Grey Goose sperm. Over 66 million per cc. Sperm is ubiquitous. Sperm that can get you pregnant that is from someone who can be known to your kids but not challenge your legal custody is not.
But maybe the pain of all these details are going to pale in comparision to the joy of parenting. Just like coming out in the abstract makes all the hardships crystal clear. But all of those laws and prejudices are simply dwarfed by real love and the truth of who you are.
So tomorrow morning, again, I will pee in a small container.
This post is up here part of @3six5, a fun group project that told 365 stories for a year from 365 points of view curated by @Len Kendall and @DanielHonigman.
Actor with Downs burns Palin. NYTimes successfully edits out joke.
“My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.”
-Andrea Fay Friedman, the actor who played the character with Downs in recent Family Guy episode responds to Palin criticism. You can read most of the interview here
While they edited out the “show” part, the Times certainly did “tell.” Friedman:
I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor. I thought the line “I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska†was very funny. I think the word is “sarcasm.†In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.
Makes me wonder what other great bits they’ve edited out. Would love to read a Remainder Blog with them.
