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`A Bit of Everything, Mostly Nothing
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`Though lots has been happening lately, I haven't felt very inspired
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`about documenting it.  I think I've had too many journal-ish entries
`as of late, and was hoping for something more interesting.
` However, I've just been spending most of my time keeping up with
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`the cleaning, reading other peoples' blogs, and noticing my belly
`increasing in size.
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`One bit of excitement- we've started getting tomatoes on our
`plants!!  So far, only our mini, yellow, pear-tomatoes have ripened,
`and I haven't yet had a big enough harvest to populate an entire
`salad, but they're yummy enough to pop in plain.  Even though I
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`didn't spend one cent on plants for our garden, between gifts from
`my mother and a neighbor, we somehow ended up with 12 tomato
`plants of various species- all planted within two 3x4 foot boxes.
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`Here's a glimpse of the massiveness of our tomato tangle- I hope I'll
`be able to reach them all! Needless to say, I've already started
`researching tomato recipes... if you have any great ones, I'm alllll
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`ears.
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`Everything else seems to be going just great!  Jay has started
`having "official business" to attend to, and I've been lucky enough
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`be be invited to a couple of faculty breakfasts the past couple of
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`days.  It's funny to all of a sudden be on the other
`end of the spectrum in academia.  I'm not old
`enough to be married to a professor.
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`We had another uneventful baby check-up on
`Monday, and I've so far gained 19 pounds during
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`this pregnancy, which means I'm allowed 6 more
`pounds in the next 3.5 weeks.  Wahoo! Bring on
`the ice cream :)  I must admit, for as comfortable
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`as I've been the last 8 months, I really can't
`complain about anything.  However, in the past
`couple of days, I've noticed that it takes a great
`amount of effort to get out of my chair, so I have
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`to be sure I don't need to get up for awhile, every
`time I sit somewhere comfy.  (Which is usually to
`read yet another birthing/nursing/baby book.)  I
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`Me
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`Jay
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`My man
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`The Frog
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`have three more preggy-books to finish and 2 more
`to peruse before I'm willing to lose the belly, and
`then I can get back to reading "normal" things...  I have a real hankering to read a really great novel.  Any
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`recommendations?
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`W e d n e s d a y , A u g u s t 1 3 , 2 0 0 8
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`"Termintes", Toys, and Taxes
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`I can't believe it's already mid-August!  My, my, time flies...
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`My Boy
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`For those of you wondering about how my ant misfortune turned out, I ended up discovering that night (via the lovely
`interweb) that they were, in fact, carpenter ants.  I.e. these were not the cute annoyances that take over picnics on red-
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`checked table-clothes, these are the monsters that eat at your house like termites.  And of course after checking out the
`box my ant-killer came in, it specifically says "will not work for fire or carpenter ants".  SO we ended up calling an
`exterminator and I've been finding dead ants all over my house ever since. (Less of them every day- I think I only found 3
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`yesterday.)  This is good, no?
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`Now that I don't have to patrol the ant population, I've had more time for more important things, like cleaning the old
`toys my sister and sister-in-law have given us for our little one.  (I can't believe I'm far enough along to start counting the
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`weeks backward instead of forward!)  This kid already has more toys than I had my whole childhood career, so Jay and I
`have pacted to never buy him another toy again.  (We'll see how long that actually lasts...)  Well, maybe once he's grown
`out of Mr. Potato Head...
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`Peach
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`Anyway, our kitchen countertops seem to be ever-littered with drying toys, but I'm hoping today will be the last.  Yay!
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`As far as other exciting occurrences...  We got our property tax appraisal last week.  Yikes!  All the unexpected joys of
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`"owning" a home (I mean, paying a bank that owns our home).  The notice tells you what your taxes were last year and if
`the rate has increased, tells you what they are this year and when the board meeting occurs so that you can voice your
`opinion about the whole thing.  
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`Well, the rate has increased.
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`Being strongly opposed to taxes, we decided this might be a great opportunity to utilize our democratic rights and "do
`something" about this.  Jay gives a great summary of the whole event here.  The quick and dirty version, though, is even
`though everyone who showed up was basically complaining about the tax (and at least one of the board members
`mentioned this before she made her final approving vote on the tax increase) the vote to pass the tax raise was
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`unanimous by all board members.  Sheesh!  What a waste of 3-and-a-half hours... (and we left the meeting early.)
` That's the first time Jay and I have been out past 10pm in a long time- and it wasn't even fun!
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`Anyway, I at least feel like I've done my patriotic duty and learned a little bit about the bureaucracy of "the system".  I
`only have one question-  were the mac-books that all the board members using paid for by tax dollars?  'Cause I'm pretty
`sure they need that nice of equipment for all their pretty power-point presentations. (Did I mention that the board
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`President took notes during the whole event by hand?)
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`F r i d a y , A u g u s t 1 , 2 0 0 8
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`Awesome Pants and Giant Ants
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`A couple of things:
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`1)  My life just got 10 times better yesterday - I got a new pair of pants!
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`Usually, though it's fun to get new clothes, a new piece of wearable fashion rarely does more for me than allow me to
`brag about how cheap it was (because if I bought it, it was cheap) and make me feel a bit more "hip" or "cute" or "stylin"
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`for a little while.  But this new article is an extraordinary bit of fabric.  Indeed.  And anyone who knows me, and finds
`out that I paid FULL PRICE for these (i.e. they were not on sale-  I'm no thief!) would instantly have gigantic red flags
`furiously waving in their brains because Libby never buys clothing unless it's on sale.  
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`These pants are a breath of fresh air.  Literally.  What's so great about them, you ask?  Well, honestly, I don't think
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`anyone could possible understand until they've carried around a small child (that feels really huge) as if someone has
`decided to attach a watermelon to their front.  I didn't realize how uncomfortable all my other maternity pants were
`until I tried Motherhood Maternity's Secret-fit Belly. Sitting is once again comfortable!  No red lines under the belly and I
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`have lost that breezy, I-feel-like-a-disgusting-man-with-a-beer-belly-so-huge-that-no-shirt-will-cover-it sensation.  All I
`can say is I'll be wearing these every day until the little one decides to emerge and I'm not looking back.
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`2) We have ants.  Big ones.
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`It's weird though because I'm not really sure what they're doing.  I've watched and watched their trail and they are not
`headed anywhere near our food.  They commence from a small hole between the molding and tile right next to the front
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`door on the right side.  Then they crawl along the base of the door into another hole in the molding and tile on the other
`side of the door (on the left).  A little bit later it emerges and returns to the initial hole (on the right).  There is no sign
`of food or carrying anything of any kind.  Very strange.  Also, I rarely see more than one or two out at a time.
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`I have considered that maybe the ant that reappears from the left side is not the same one that entered, so I started
`sucking them up with a vacuum.  It seems that nothing comes out unless something went in.  (unless they're smart enough
`to wait for me to leave...)  
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`We tried squirting that ant food stuff that they're supposed to eat up and take back to the colony to kill the whole lot,
`but it hasn't worked.  I might add that we had some much smaller ants in the guest-bath shower, and the same ant food
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`seemed to work like a charm.  But these ants won't even touch the ant-food.
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`Any suggestions?
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`In the mean time, I have permanently parked our vacuum right next to the front door, and every time I pass by, I look for
`my next victim.  I don't think I've killed so many bugs in my life as I have this week alone.  I probably suck up about 20
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`ants everyday and they just keep coming.  
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