Njia

May 16th, 2014 at 8:04 AM ^

My wife was in labor for 24 hours with our first child with contractions 5-7 min apart over that entire duration. My drive from work to home to the hospital (U-M Medical Center FTW!) was more than a bit nerve racking. Needless to say, she was completely worn out by the time our daughter was born.

Mabel Pines

May 16th, 2014 at 8:36 AM ^

I've been in labor for 9 hours total for 3 kids!  I am pretty wimpy, though.  Today is day two of Frankenmuth yard sales.  I was excited to make $520 in the rain yesterday.  Although my hubby reminds me that I "make" nothing, only "recoup" some.  Quit rainin' on my parade, hubby!!!

And that is my fave Jake Ryan play.  I often go back and read his Hello post.  It's good stuff.

ND Sux

May 16th, 2014 at 8:54 AM ^

I'm heading to the World Expo of Beer festival in Frankenmuth on Saturday.  Are you telling me there's a city-wide yard sale event going on also?  When do people open up?  Is it happening Sunday also? 

My GF loves to walk around and browse...gotta keep the lady happy.  Thanks for any info. 

Mabel Pines

May 16th, 2014 at 9:47 AM ^

but some people will still have sales tomorrow. Drive around the subdivision behind mcdonalds on main street and also the older subdivision right across from the schools. (Just east on genessee street) You will see signs if anyone is open. Enjoy the beer fest!

Crash

May 16th, 2014 at 9:39 AM ^

Has your wife by any chance ever had any procedures up in that area?  My wife had pre-cancerous cells removed a long time ago.  Fast forward to a couple years ago, she goes into labor.  We go to the hospital, they admit her, then wait for several hours with no progress (with regard to dialation).  Then one of the doctors decides to help things along by making a small incision into the scar tissue leftover from the procedure done to her years back.  Then boom, water breaks, dialates to full within an hour or so, baby comes out about an hour later.

 

The scar tissue was holding everything back from stretching like it's supposed to, and my wife was adamant about not having a c-section so things got pretty tense for a little while.

LSAClassOf2000

May 16th, 2014 at 8:13 AM ^

This weekend will be a continuation of the massive vegetable operation now going on in my yard - if it warms up a bit, some of the stuff we started indoors might find its way outside. That my kids have kept interest in this exercise this far into it is quite amazing to me, and hopefully, they begin to get the appreciation for how not everything comes in a bag of flash frozen things. My son has expressed interest in planting the tomatoes in "his" spot - now I have to explain that this is where we planted onions, unless of course he is trying to tell me that he dislikes onions. 

I also intend to introduce my daughter to more offerings of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and try to get her to not request the same five episodes over and over, although to be fair, her tastes are quite good. Among the ones on her playlist are "Skydivers" (which has the hilarious industrial arts short), "Manos: The Hands Of Fate" and "Overdrawn At The Memory Bank" (Raoul Julia's finest moment it is not). 

samdrussBLUE

May 16th, 2014 at 8:14 AM ^

Victory for softball today!! Let's just win out this region, avoid any part of the losers bracket and potentially an 11pm start time tomorrow night

Prince Lover

May 16th, 2014 at 8:15 AM ^

Hello weekend my old friend! My weekend highlight: I'm mowing the yard. Not very exciting I know, but the mower has been in the shop going on 2 weeks so my yard is embarrassing! Say goodbye to my foot long grass!

JHendo

May 16th, 2014 at 8:28 AM ^

My mom is in town, which for once is a good thing.  Getting through work today, and then tomorrow, for the first time in 8 1/2 months (since my daughter was born), my wife and I are leaving town for a night sans baby.  Woohoo!

jdon

May 16th, 2014 at 8:29 AM ^

I am in a really good mood this morning;  just had a great talk with my students about the most positive way to defeat bullies (not being afraid of bullies, supporting (loving) the students who are picked on).  Then we got into the kindness of strangers and the value of  simple nod or wave hello. 

things have been tough at my school lately and this reminded me of how great the job can be.  I have like 20 kids who hang out in my room before school each morning and I told each of the twenty to share what we talked about with two friends today...

I'll stop rambling, but life is good, lets all posbang the shit out of each other and remember there are some great people on this planet.   In fact there are far more good guys than bad guys!

jdon

 

readyourguard

May 16th, 2014 at 8:31 AM ^

Shoulders square to the LOS. Shuffles down the line to close the gap. Uses his hands well. Keeps outside contain. Great job Jake. I hope Frank Clark is paying attention.