jaysaint Getting it all down on paper…

It’s our last day in Tucson and we’re lounging because we used up all the good ideas in the world. At least that’s what my fatigue is telling me. An argument could also be made that the fatigue is courtesy of a restless baby who would NOT stay asleep last night. I know I’m not exaggerating because he’s napping like he invented it today.

We punched our tourist tickets at Kitt Peak Observatory, the Sonora Desert Museum (javelinas!), Old Tucson and the Airplane Graveyard. I was excited to see “The Boneyard” but had no idea how much envy that destination would stir up amongst my east coast contacts. I spent the first half hour of the tour frantically trying to quiet Alden. He did not enjoy that we were on a slow-moving, confining bus, so he turned the complaining up to 11. The guide was very nice about it and did not let me catch him rolling his eyes once. Fortunately the baby outrage well is not that deep and he settled down for a good gnaw on my knuckle for the duration.

One fun development: As Alden’s babbling becomes more complex he shifts his complaining word. It’s the one thing he says over and over to describe his discontent. It started as “MaMaMaMaMaMa” and then evolved to “MemMemMemMemMem” and now it’s more like “NangNangNangNangNang.” I admit this last one is kind of charming and I might let him fuss just a second longer because of it.

But we didn’t come to Tucson for the tourism, the baby complaints, or the drydrydry air (seriously). We’ve had a dream of a visit with Sarah, who considerately ignored her looming finals for an entire week to humor our desire to hit the bloody mary bar. Sarah and I lived together for about a year before I left Atlanta and it remains remarkably easy for us to slip right back into that communal, comfortable relationship. We’re showing it off right now, as we’re a few feet away from each other and both face down in a laptop. Add in that Damon is across the room on a laptop as well and it makes us thoroughly modern and probably thoroughly annoying. Good think Alden is sleeping.

I get a lot of press releases.

This is the best one of the morning:

Bill Hider, VP of Marketing
Tel: xxxxxxxxxxx
Bill@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.LiveInHappyHomes.com
April 24, 2008

PARENTS REPORT: The Location Of Your Child’s Bed May Affect Their Development

This PARENTS REPORT is a Must Read for ALL Parents in the USA.

Download PARENTS REPORT: http://www.LiveInHappyHomes.com

Or reply to this e-mail and we’ll email the PARENTS REPORT to you (39KB)

Dear Jillian,

A CHILD’S BED, positioned over a disturbed area where dangerous and harmful energy is coming out of the earth, straight up to their bedroom, may affect children while they are sleeping.

No, not Radon and we’re not suggesting parents move or change their child’s bed, either.

Significantly, the PARENTS REPORT, details 8 case studies, summarizes another 49, and all but one case involves children exposed to a “disturbed area” either at home or at school.

Ms. Kathe Bachler, famous Austrian researcher and author of “Earth Radiation”, studied approximately 1,500 infants and toddlers as well as 3,000 school-aged children and teenagers. Ms. Bachler identified strong correlations between sleeping over disturbed areas and learning difficulties and illnesses.

Live In Happy Homes, Inc. is continuing Ms. Bachler’s efforts by teaching patients and practitioners in the United States about the effects of and providing solutions to negative energies that cause disturbed areas.

For example:

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Case #4014b, 6-Month-Old, Baby Girl, Austin:

From the day she was born, Austin would cry in her crib through the night. In addition, Austin was having acid reflux stomach problems.

When we evaluated Austin’s house on January 30, 2008, we found 24 negative energy sources entering her house, two of which encompassed Austin’s crib, leaving no place for the infant to avoid this disturbed area while she slept.

Three weeks after we eliminated the disturbed area within Austin’s crib, she was sleeping through the night and her stomach problems stopped.

What this means… Austin’s parents were not aware of any “problems” in their house. They had lived there only six months, a rather small percentage of their life. Austin, on the other hand, had spent her entire life in this house, sleeping in a disturbed area. Within 3 weeks after the negative energy was eliminated from Austin’s crib, Austin’s symptoms stopped.

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Ms. Bachler reports that seven important results are obtained when the disturbed area is eliminated from the child’s environment:

Sleep habits improved at once in almost all the children’s cases.
Appetite improved, especially for breakfast.
Better general health and well-being.
Attention span and interest in learning improved at once, especially in those subjects where the pupil was not too far behind.
Improved capacity for thinking and remembering.
In cases where the damage from zones of disturbance had lasted for only a short time, like a few months or one year at the most, the students’ performance in school improved immediately.
Gradually improved performance in almost all the other areas of study also.
Live In happy Homes, Inc., uses modern methods of detecting and eliminating disturbed areas from our children’s environments. The problem is, most parents are not aware of the issues or the solutions.

CONTACT: Bill@xxxxxxxx
Tel: xxxxxxxx

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Live In Happy Homes, Inc. is a privately held corporation in Baltimore, Maryland.
Live In happy Homes, Inc. owns the rights to the English translation of “Earth Radiation”.
Copyright © 2008 Live In happy Homes, Inc.

It’s my last week at Hearst. I made a point of transitioning my work as quickly as I could so that I would still be around to clarify and answer questions. And I did it so well that… I’m kind of bored. I made a list of things to accomplish this week and most of them are already done. Hence you see this rare workday posting from me.

I haven’t cleaned out my office significantly yet because that will prove to me that I’m leaving. Which makes a little hitch come up in my chest. I’m terribly excited to make this move. But the trees in Central Park (of which I have a fabulous view) have exploded into green and I haven’t spent enough time yet gazing out over them. I keep reminding myself that I will be even happier gazing at my son playing in his own backyard. But that backyard is theoretical to me, while my office and the park are real. I’m relying on logic to power me through.

As I type this I can see a naked guy in the condos across from my office. How can I give this up?

Well, I can. Because if we move to Tennessee we can afford a cleaning lady. And I will love her even more than I love random naked men, and that is a lot.

I think this is sweet.

I need something to keep my hands occupied at all times. If I’m talking to you on the phone I can guarantee I’m folding laundry or browsing photos on my computer. If I’m watching TV I’m also answering emails or flipping through a magazine.

I just found something even better: Free Rice. I’ve made it to level 47 so far.