Just sayin'...

Hi folks. Long time no see.

I'm two classes from done. Serious partying will commence after commencement on June 6th.

Those not interested in the negative, read no further. It's been nice chatting with you, looking forward to seeing my shadow soon (9 weeks to be exact).

Atticus had a $4000 nosebleed (don't EVER take your pets to MSU emergency vet care...EVER). I'll tell all about that later.Then he blew his ACL. YAY.

What really brought me to this place today (besides my insane lack of interest in the papers I'm supposed to be grading/writing) is the following tiny exchange:

Me to SIL: So, who's throwing you a baby shower? (baby due any minute. I spent weeks knitting a fine ass blanket in little bits between papers, driving, grading, teaching, studying, parenting...all that. The Curlicue Coverlet by Oat Couture. FINE I tell you...freakin' perfect)

SIL (rather snottily): Who does that? We don't have showers after the first baby (note: I never had a shower until the 3rd child...NONE). That isn't proper etiquette.

Me: silence. Clenched (and these moments are why I have dreams about my teeth crumbling in my mouth), astounded silence since YET AGAIN, I have fallen into the pit of disdain that follows SIL everywhere she goes.

I promptly forgot about the exchange since Charlie was busy kicking some major six-year-old butt at the floor hockey tournament (if you ever want prime examples of rabid parents, floor hockey is the place to be) and I can't call her a bitch while she's toting around that first unpleasant offspring on her pregnant, prissy hip. Tonight, two days later, it struck me over a plate of mashed potatos and some fine roast pork (thank you hubby) that she dissed me...again.

Well hell. That was a lot of time knitting to get dissed. I looked it up. We can TOO have showers after the first baby. Some small rules apply, but it's not IMPROPER (like she would know...I'd like to know when she ever read anything, even an etiquette book, past the first five pages).

New rule. Knitting is only for people who don't diss. We're going storebought for this baby. I'll buy her a grocery cart full of diapers and wipes and call it good.