About your not-so-humble author
Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
Search me
Copyright
Text is under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 license.
All images (except those by other authors, which are credited as such) are ©1995-2012 Krista Grothoff, all rights reserved. If you have a good reason to reproduce my images, you'd better get permission from me first. I have my reasons.
Archives
Subscribe to my blather
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Week 9: Guess what, world? We’re having a baby!
[Special note to those reading via RSS - I'm sorry for the horde of spam you just got or will get because I'm posting all of these pregnancy posts at once - I wanted to wait until the ultrasound to … Continue reading
Week 9: Pins and needles…
Day 57 – 8 weeks Go me – I haven’t posted in over a week, partly because I just haven’t had much to say, and partly because I haven’t felt like it. My stomach has been fussy, I’ve been tired, … Continue reading
Week 7: Sometimes you feel like a nut…
Day 46. Symptom watch has become ever more annoying. I haven’t awakened after 8:30 for the past 2 weeks or so, and this morning, I was having heavy, evil dreams, and slept until 10:30. As a matter of fact, except … Continue reading
Week 7: Anxiety rules supreme
Day 43. We’re now at 6 weeks, and I’m getting a little tired of my own constant monitoring of my own symptoms. It’s out of control. For example: Yesterday, I was really sick in the morning. Today? I’m just fine. … Continue reading
Week 6: My luck is running out, I’m afraid
Day 42. You know that morning sickness I didn’t have? Woke up to take meds. Took pill. Wanted to be sick. Woke up later to eat breakfast. Felt a little queasy. Ate breakfast. Want to be sick. It’s still not … Continue reading
Week 6: I’m not sure I’d call it morning sickness, but it’s still not my favorite thing…
Day 41. This is a not-very-interesting post about my stomach. You have been warned. Every morning, at least an hour before I eat breakfast, I have to take medication. I have to take it first thing in the morning, on … Continue reading
The problem with telling your own story
Or: How I learned to love my lack of anonymity on the Internet. The Internet is forever. For those of you who think you can post something stupid – or have something stupid posted about you – and not have … Continue reading
Week 6: Let the Multiple Personality Disorder begin!
Day 38. I’m proud of myself – I initially was afraid I’d post every day, multiple times a day until my ultrasound just as a way of keeping myself sane, but that doesn’t appear to be the case yet. Maybe … Continue reading
Things you never want to have to do
Things you never want to have to do, #62 File an amended tax return due to some lameasses not sending us a form indicating additional income in a year when: You moved in the middle of the year. One of … Continue reading
Week 6: Rule #1 – Plan for bathroom breaks.
Day 36. 5 weeks pregnant. Which is to say, not very pregnant. But pregnant enough. The challenge of sitting through a whole Easter service today without jumping up to go to the bathroom every five minutes was… entertaining. And with … Continue reading


