http://www.6thaprm.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 29 May 2008 13:31:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en November 5 Not sick! I even swallowed a pill and nothing happened. November 7 Felt the funniest bump in my stomach. Like a bubble that popped out and popped back. What goes? November 8 I'm constantly starved these days. An amazing gnawing goes on and on in the pit of my stomach. Spaghetti will douse ... http://www.6thaprm.com/2008/05/27/armistice-day/ November 1 Free, at last, from the deceits of the roaring shower water. I can be sick in peace. Eliza even looks sympathetic. I rushed down to meet Morn on the early train from New York and waited for four trains, but no mother. I wired: WHERE ARE YOU. At noon the ... http://www.6thaprm.com/2008/05/27/im-not-sick-just-as-the-doctor-promised/ October 27 Letter from Mom. She gets here on the first. Dug out the long neglected W.P.B. chart and, taking my courage between my teeth, filled it in: Waist, 28½ inches; Stomach, 35 inches; Hips, 39 inches; Bust, 35 inches; Weight, 120 pounds. But I can still wear the slacks if I ... http://www.6thaprm.com/2008/04/05/baby-shower-for-peggy/ October 23 Big weekend ahead. Bob and Mary Hutton are coming out. She and I don't get along too well and I really want to pour it on. Hope I can make Lucretia cooperate and wear her shoes. October 24 This is a fine thing! Some dopey Joe called up when Peggy and ... http://www.6thaprm.com/2008/04/05/im-going-to-have-a-baby-arent-you-delighted/ October 18 A wire from Mother: "Have stopped pulling out grey hairs. Hold everything. Coming to see that swimming pool." October 21 A date with Pat and the Ruppels for the theater. Also I have to visit a couple of new mothers in hospital. Also I must do something about this morning sickness before ... http://www.6thaprm.com/2008/04/05/babies-wrapped-in-their-individual-blankets/ October 9 God bless the country! Birds and squirrels don't gawk. Maybe it's all my imagination but I'm certainly learning what it means to be the "cynosure of all eyes" . Yesterday a woman got up to give me her seat in a crowded restaurant. I thanked her politely and to ... http://www.6thaprm.com/2008/04/05/the-blessed-event-will-be-in-late-april/ October 7 Into New York, just Pat and me, for a blowout. We had dinner at Louis and Armand's; then to the Ballet Russe. We stayed at the Ambassador-far too much money, of course, but it was our first big night in town in quite a spell. This morning a beautiful luscious ... http://www.6thaprm.com/2008/03/29/about-the-third-month/ October 4 Dinner at the Boss' with Leopold Stokowski as guest of honor. Stokowski, all pink and white, can be the most charming man in the world if he puts his mind to it, and he sure put his mind to it tonight. I sat at his right at dinner and basked ... http://www.6thaprm.com/2008/03/29/bulge-i-see-before-me/ October 1 Went back to the doctor, as ordered, now that the critical "period" is over. Besides, I had to find out what effect no pills and much tomato soup was going to have on Jake. Wore my slacks, for an unmatronly touch. How many days has it been now that I ... http://www.6thaprm.com/2008/03/29/doctors-office-waiting-room-scene/ September 28 The fruits of my telephoning poured in all afternoon and with pretty nonchalance and a "nothing at all, really", showed them to the shower rooms (on the ground floor of the studio wing), and waved them into the swimming pool. We even, after a good deal of experimenting with ... http://www.6thaprm.com/2008/03/23/cleopatras-love-dream/