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aryanhwyAh, wonderful...
I just got to chat on AIM with Amy for the last 3 and a half hours. I wish that we were both online at the same time more often. I really miss being able to talk with her, especially now that she can't email at work any more. Sometimes you really need someone other than your husband to talk about things with, both for advice and for validation, and for the "oh, you too?" response. It's nice to know that I'm not the only wife who sometimes feels like failure as a wife when she's unable to cheer her husband up. It's also nice to know I'm not the only young married woman my age who's beginning to think more and more seriously about kids. It's nice to know you're not the only one.
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Yesterday was a great day for bird-spotting. On the way out, I saw two moderately large, black-ish birds on the grass next to the bike path, and upon getting a good look, it was like a large sign got imprinted on my brain "RAVEN". These were definitely ravens. There was no doubt about it. I finally understand what is meant by all the heraldic discussions about ravens having a hairy ruff. A few weeks ago there was a large black bird outside our office window and we were debating whether it was a raven or a crow, and I can say now emphatically that it was a crow. Had it been a raven, it would have been obvious. I'd never seen a raven before, but there's no doubt, that's what these two were.
The bike path we took went in part through a park, and over a little streamlet. Biking back, I saw two adult swans and five or six cygnets - they're now the size of their parents, but still that dirty grey color. And then, right as we had almost made it home, I looked into the canal and saw a mother mallard with around *9* little fluffy ducklings - they were swimming so fast I couldn't count them easily, but there were a lot. And they looked incredibly young, too, no more than a week old. I guess when you don't have to worry about migrating, having your ducklings early enough so that they get their flight feathers by fall is less important.
I just got to chat on AIM with Amy for the last 3 and a half hours. I wish that we were both online at the same time more often. I really miss being able to talk with her, especially now that she can't email at work any more. Sometimes you really need someone other than your husband to talk about things with, both for advice and for validation, and for the "oh, you too?" response. It's nice to know that I'm not the only wife who sometimes feels like failure as a wife when she's unable to cheer her husband up. It's also nice to know I'm not the only young married woman my age who's beginning to think more and more seriously about kids. It's nice to know you're not the only one.
(change of topic now)
Yesterday was a great day for bird-spotting. On the way out, I saw two moderately large, black-ish birds on the grass next to the bike path, and upon getting a good look, it was like a large sign got imprinted on my brain "RAVEN". These were definitely ravens. There was no doubt about it. I finally understand what is meant by all the heraldic discussions about ravens having a hairy ruff. A few weeks ago there was a large black bird outside our office window and we were debating whether it was a raven or a crow, and I can say now emphatically that it was a crow. Had it been a raven, it would have been obvious. I'd never seen a raven before, but there's no doubt, that's what these two were.
The bike path we took went in part through a park, and over a little streamlet. Biking back, I saw two adult swans and five or six cygnets - they're now the size of their parents, but still that dirty grey color. And then, right as we had almost made it home, I looked into the canal and saw a mother mallard with around *9* little fluffy ducklings - they were swimming so fast I couldn't count them easily, but there were a lot. And they looked incredibly young, too, no more than a week old. I guess when you don't have to worry about migrating, having your ducklings early enough so that they get their flight feathers by fall is less important.
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Date: 2006-07-03 09:30 pm (UTC)>to talk about things with, both for advice and for validation,
This is not new. This is why, after all, girlfriends and drinking buddies
were invented. :-) You need spouses to talk things over with that
you couldn't tell your best friend - and vice versa. They're safety
valves for each other.
(Or so I am told, livelong bachelor that I am.)
>and for the "oh, you too?" response. It's nice to know that I'm not the
>only wife who sometimes feels like failure as a wife when she's unable
>to cheer her husband up.
Yeah. It's happened to me, too, and I'm not even married. . .
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Date: 2006-07-04 07:34 am (UTC)I know it's not, it's just that sometimes I can go for so long without talking about things with someone other than Joel that I forget how nice it is to be able to.
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Date: 2006-07-04 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-03 10:36 pm (UTC)Never again will you look at a crow, or even a rook, and think 'big'. I'd never seen a raven until I came up here, but it's a bird I'm sure you never forget.