Confessions of a 20-something mother

[Eaquae Legit]

I've been wearing my mom's robe to bed the past while. It's very soft and it smells like her. I miss her so much. I can't imagine life really without her.

When I took her to the hospital in June, I didn't have a book and I was deadly bored with the waiting, so she gave me her trashy-romance-du-jour to read. I had it with me when they ran her into surgery and when I was badgering the hospital staff for someone, anyone, to tell me what was going on. I read it while she was in surgery, and after. When I finished it, I hung on to it. I couldn't let it go, couldn't lose it, until she got out of the ICU, in case it was the last thing I had of her.

Even now, it terrifies me how close I came to losing my mommy.

I want her home again. To STAY this time, dammit.

[Confessions]

I started crying this morning for no good reason. Then I stopped but I still wanted to cry. So I put music on I knew would make me cry.

[Young Val]

Confession: Vanessa Carlton's new single "Nolita Fairytale" pisses me off. I've lived here for over two years now and I've heard SoHo (South of Houston), I've heard TriBeCa (Triangle Below Canal), but I sure as hell have never heard NoLIta (North of Little Italy).

Now every freakin' college transplant is going to be prattling on about Nolita, Nolita! Freakin' hipsters! God, I'm not even remotely a New Yorker and still I hate this crap.

Elena, feel free to correct me. I will happily eat my words.

[zeroguy]

Hipsters, eh?

[LilBee91]

Confession: I have honestly never heard the term "hipster" used except to describe pants.

Confession: I'm not sure why that is. Either its ancient slang or it just hasn't migrated to the Northwest yet, or I'm freakishly out of touch.

[Mich]

I've heard it, but normally with the word "indie" preceding it.

[Gravity Defier]

Whereas I've heard of it in the way Kelly meant it, but not to describe pants. Maybe your hipsters are the same as our hip huggers or low jeans.

[zeroguy]

The only time I've heard that word (until now) has been in "Cat and Girl". I don't even really know what it means, except for the explanation in that specific comic I linked.

[Luet]

The only thing that came to mind when I heard it was from an episode of Seinfeld when Elaine thinks she has has rabies and is freaking out and calls Kramer a "hipster doofus". Hilarious.

I've never heard it refer to pants. I think we call them low-rise or hip huggers.

[Gravity Defier]

"The name that stuck, first taken from an ad campaign in The Village Voice by real estate agent William R. MacLeod, Jr. in 1994, was Nolita, an abbreviation for North of Little Italy." Wikipedia

"NoLita is south of NoHo, bounded on the north by Houston Street, on the east by the Bowery, on the south roughly by Broome Street, and on the west roughly by Lafayette Street." New York Magazine, 2003

"The neighborhood known as NoLIta—or North of Little Italy—seemed quaint, a living postcard of narrow streets, mom-and-pop stores and reasonable rent. Then, during the mid-1990s..." nycvisit.com

"NARROW RESULTS TO: Little Italy/nolita" Travel: Yahoo!


I think you get the point. People might not like it, or think it pretentious, but apparently, it's been around for a decade.

[Dr. Mobius]

Is your name Elena?

[Gravity Defier]

No, and thank goodness because I love my own too much to be happy with any other.

While we're asking stupid questions, is your name Bob?

[Young Val]

"The name that stuck, first taken from an ad campaign in The Village Voice by real estate agent William R. MacLeod, Jr. in 1994, was Nolita, an abbreviation for North of Little Italy." Wikipedia

"NoLita is south of NoHo, bounded on the north by Houston Street, on the east by the Bowery, on the south roughly by Broome Street, and on the west roughly by Lafayette Street." New York Magazine, 2003

"The neighborhood known as NoLIta—or North of Little Italy—seemed quaint, a living postcard of narrow streets, mom-and-pop stores and reasonable rent. Then, during the mid-1990s..." nycvisit.com

"NARROW RESULTS TO: Little Italy/nolita" Travel: Yahoo!


I think you get the point. People might not like it, or think it pretentious, but apparently, it's been around for a decade.

Oh yeah, but I'm talking in terms of being a part of the average New Yorker's Lexicon. I mean, I knew immediately what it meant--but no one actually uses the term. Ever.

[neo-dragon]

No, and thank goodness because I love my own too much to be happy with any other.

While we're asking stupid questions, is your name Bob?

You know, I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned it, but like your name too. In fact, if I were to have a daughter my current top pick for a name is "Alia". I like that spelling better.

My top pick for a boy at the moment is Malcolm, FYI.

...I guess the mother should have some say though.

[Eaquae Legit]

I'm partial to both Samuel and Caspian.

I really have no favourite girls' names, but I imagine it'll end up something Welsh, but not too Welsh, because I do have some mercy.

[Rei]

Because 'w' is indeed a vowel; and both 'll' and 'dd' are fricatives. Never mind what they do with 'u' in that language...

[Gravity Defier]

No, and thank goodness because I love my own too much to be happy with any other.

While we're asking stupid questions, is your name Bob?

You know, I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned it, but like your name too. In fact, if I were to have a daughter my current top pick for a name is "Alia". I like that spelling better.

Thank you, and thank you. While I get annoyed at misspellings of my name, name your child with an I. That will allow me to believe my version is relatively rare still, that any other way is an impostor of mine, and thus, I will feel special.

[Jayelle]

I'm partial to both Samuel and Caspian.

...That's my husband ('s alterego) and my nephew. Are you stalking me, Ali?

[Eaquae Legit]

If I am, I have been since I was 9 and first read Prince Caspian.

[Claire]

My roommate is visiting UChicago this weekend and a lot of people are gone for fall "break" (aka we get today off), so I have the best antisocial day planned. Gilmore Girls, popcorn, lemonade, my comforter, and my cognitive psych textbook .

[Gravity Defier]

I am, perhaps, having way too much fun with http://disney.go.com/fairies/

(On that note, if anyone decides to make a fairy, let me know...)

ETA: The last fairy I created:

[Confessions]

Tonight I considered calling a help line. You know, those ones where you call in and talk to the volunteers about what's bugging you. I didn't, because it would be silly. I wouldn't know what to say to a complete stranger who can't DO anything.

But I considered it, so it's kinda f****** obvious something's wrong. I just wish I could make it better.

[Dr. Mobius]

Call anyways. Sometimes the people who can't "do" anything are more helpful than those who can.

[Eddie Pinz]

I thought the "Major Geek Meltdown" Thread said "Major Greek Meltdown" and I was really confused. It makes a lot more sense now.

[Wind Swept]

This isn't a confession, but it is a link regarding confessions, and I didn't want to start a thread just to post it.

[Petra456]

Confession: I feel guilty about not going to my grandma's funeral not because of my grandma, but because I won't be there for my dad.

Confession: All I feel like is a financial burden to my parents, even after i've moved out.

Confession: While everyone I feel i've let down will disagree, I feel like a lousy friend and a lousy girlfriend.

[v-girl]

Confession: I am completely unprepared for next week--academically and emotionally. And now that I know what studying for exams entails, it makes it that much worse. Now I understand why ~1/3 of all med students are on antidepressants.

[Luet]

I'm not sure of the actual statistics but it would not surprise me at all if the percentage of the general population on antidepressants was close to that.

[Jayelle]

I am, perhaps, having way too much fun with http://disney.go.com/fairies/

(On that note, if anyone decides to make a fairy, let me know...)

Wow. That's more fun then it should be.

[Mich]

Confession: I've now skipped (or virtually skipped) all of my morning classes this week. I go to bed so late because I tell myself I wouldn't be able to fall asleep, but I probably could.

I should have taken later classes, I suppose.

[Gravity Defier]

Confession: I'm annoyed by the existence of MN right now. Bob overfloweth with it, and as if that weren't enough, I was sitting in a meeting that turned into MN talk for the first 10 minutes. YES. I get it. Woo. You're great, according to you. No, I most definitely am not jealous.

#2: This is really a personal thing that has nothing to do with the state or most of its citizens, and it's more than just a little bit silly but I'm okay with that.

[starlooker]

I'm really very petty at times.

[Oliver Dale]

I catch myself being petty and snippy and manipulative. I haven't yet decided if I even feel entirely bad about it.

[Mich]

I misread both of those as "pretty" at first, and found them quite trite.

[starlooker]

Before or after you realized they were petty?