Spring tulips

This year, the tulips have been amazing! Our front garden is wild with them, and they are enormous and gorgeous. It's really a shame that they bloom so quickly and then are gone for the rest of the year.

As I've written before on this blog, tulips are my favorite flower. I mention it pretty much every time Chris gets me a bouquet of tulips for a special occasion. Have I also mentioned that my engagement ring is a Tulipset mounting? He's a good guy, that Chris.

I have lots of pictures of our tulips (including our failed attempts at having Zachary tiptoe through them), but I don't have time to post them right now. Here's a teaser to whet your appetite:

Chris is a very happy man

Holy cow...

...pun intended.

At work, I've been frequenting one of the "New Mothers Rooms" (they used to be called "Lactation Rooms"...I wonder why they changed the name?). These rooms are great. They are set up with several lactation stations (is that like "Conjunction Junction"?) -- private areas equipped with a comfy chair, a small table, a pump, a timer/clock, and trashy magazines. The room itself has a sink, storage cabinets, and a refrigerator. It's a surprisingly popular place; there has only been one time that I've been in there alone.

To use the pumps, you bring in your own accessory set (tubing, bottles, etc.) and hook up. For the last two weeks, I've been using a set with a broken valve. It works, but not very well. Today I brought in the (unbroken) accessories from my pump at home...and WOW. These pumps rock. Talk about industrial-grade action! What would normally take me about 20-30 minutes (spread out over two sessions) took me less than 10 minutes!

Speaking of pumping (and who would've thought I'd ever spend an entire post talking about it), I saw a blog tagline that always makes me laugh. "I pump, therefore I am. Tired." Amen.

I'm concerned

Maybe I'm just a paranoid mama, but I'm a little concerned about the changes we are about to make. Zachary starts daycare on Monday, and my stomach is twisted up into a huge knot. I know I'm going to cry again. And here I thought I was already over that "back to work" hurdle.

Taking care, of my: organism;

My daily horoscope for today:

"If you're suffering from some sort of disorder, don't abuse sedative or soporific drugs: your organism could be completely upset; above all, avoid self-medication, which is always dangerous."

My thoughts on my daily horoscope:

• What is a soporific drug? How is it different from a sedative?
• If I'm not suffering from a disorder, does that mean I can abuse them?
• Is there a reason the word "abuse" is used? Does this mean that I can use soporific drugs (disorder notwithstanding) as long as I don't abuse them?
• Which organism specifically will be upset?
• By "upset", do you mean angry? Or unsettled? Off-balance? Tipped over?
• Do you get points for every punctuation mark you use?
• Double points for less popular punctuation like colons and semi-colons?