* Dh & I went to see "Moneyball" recently, in which Brad Pitt plays the GM of the Oakland As baseball team. He's also the devoted divorced dad of a 12-year-old girl who plays the guitar. Gulp.
* Earlier this week, we stepped off our morning train in the city, & were almost immediately engulfed in a crowd of kids. Hundreds of them. (Including, I'm sure, many 12-year-olds.)(The NOISE!!) We couldn't figure out what was going on -- & then I saw someone's T-shirt, remembered a news story I had read, & everything clicked into place. They were all headed to "We Day" at the Air Canada Centre, the brainchild of Craig Kielburger of Free the Children -- which he founded when HE was only 12. Part of me wished I could go too. ; )
* My much-younger (30ish) boss is engaged & planning a summer 2012 wedding. Which means she'll probably be pregnant by Christmas 2012, right? Then, of course, she'll go on mat leave for a year... which means I'll have to get used to a new interim boss, again. I've already had three different immediate bosses in the last year & a half. I'm getting too old for this.... :p
* I know she's already got baby fever: I was standing in a group of girls beside her when a woman pushing a stroller with an adorable sleeping baby went by. "My ovaries hurt," she moaned.
* A coworker who's currently on mat leave dropped by today with her dh & their absolutely adorable 6-month-old daughter. I was proud that I felt only the briefest pang. I think I was too enchanted by those chubby cheeks. (Yes, I couldn't resist giving them a gentle pinch!)
* Another coworker's birthday is coming up soon & she's taking the day off. She'll be 26. In other words, I'm definitely old enough to be her mother. Erk.
* As if I needed to be reminded of that, she told me it's her mom's birthday soon too. Her mom will be 52. I'm younger than her mom -- but only just. Double erk.
* Suddenly, I press "publish" on Blogger -- and it actually works!! I haven't been able to do that in months.
* On the other hand, I can no longer get "preview," "link," bullets, boldface, or several other functions on the "compose" window to work now. Arrrrrggggggh. (With comments, it seems like I can comment on some Blogger blogs but not others, depending on how their comment window is configured.)
* All my problems with Blogger started earlier this spring, around the time my browser automatically upgraded itself to IE9. Do you think there might be a link there? Is there anyone out there using Blogger who has NOT had any problems with it over the last several months??
I hate doing the age math. I remember being an obnoxious 25 year old, and now I could be the parent to one.
ReplyDeleteI have heard so many people complaining about Blogger issues lately. I had commenting problems a while ago, but have been good lately.
One of the things about being childless is that age maths isn't always necessary. Until my friend's announce they're grandparents. They don't seem old enough because I don't seem old enough! It's a shock.
ReplyDeleteI haven't had a problem commenting on blogger ... but I've not beeing using IE. I'm a Safari, G Chrome or Firefox user. That said, commenting now from an IE computer.
I so identify with your bracing yourself for the inevitable pregnancy of your boss. I react with the "here we go again" resignation anytime someone I know gets married...
ReplyDeleteBTW I had a similar problem between IE8 and different online software and had to uninstall IE8. Going back to IE7 solved all of my problems.