. . . I'll be at 30,000 unique hits to this site, unless there's a huge drop in traffic.

Every 10K visit mark gets easier to get to—they come closer and closer together.

However, I'm not yet at the point that I can claim I'm getting all Dan Rather's old viewers. Not yet.

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The husband and I are driving up to Santa Barbara for a two-night mini-vacation. I believe he'll be taking his computer, so there will be a dialup connection through his Earthlink account, but if all goes well you won't hear a word from me until Monday night.

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Today Attila the Hub and I took a class on "Baby Basics" at the adoption agency. My attitude swings back and forth, but is trending more positive these days. When the attitude slips, I start to resent the fact that it's such hard work and such a long wait to adopt a baby. When it's good, I'm glad that we have an opportunity to learn so much about how to raise a kid before we are actually faced with one.

I tell a friend of my husband's that we'll be asking the customer-service people at the California Highway Patrol to check the positioning of our car seat, to make sure the tolerances are correct. He tells me, "what they're telling you is not the real world of parenting."

I want to answer, "it's the real world of adoptive parenting, where the standards are consistently higher than they are for any biological parent."

But I hold my tongue and remind myself that if there's ever an accident when my baby is in the car, I'll be happy the seat was installed correctly.

I first decided that I did indeed want to become a mother 14 years ago. We started trying six years ago. Even if we're approved, we'll probably have to wait another two years before we're matched with a biological mother and can anticipate actually getting a child.

It's been a long road, and with a little luck we'll be approved in November. Our social worker is coming by for a home visit on the 10th.

You'd think that three weeks would be enough time to clean, straighten, and baby-proof (to social-worker standards) a 2800-square-foot house.

But I'm shaking in my T'ai Chi shoes. So wish me luck. (And tell me what your best cleaning/organizing tips and favorite safety gadgets are.)

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Does anyone have a Gmail invite they can spare? I got one a month ago, but I was still working on my old machine and couldn't make use of it before it expired.

I'm on Yahoo, and it's gone from bad to just horrible; I can't even get my mail half the time and when I do I can't respond to it.

Thanks!

UPDATE: Got one. Thank you for playing.

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1 You were so nice about nixing my stalker that I'll send you one of mine. I also put you on the blogroll. Nice to meet you . One thing ... could you remove the block to my site (can't post a comment if I include my URL)?

Posted by: Jheka at October 06, 2004 02:23 PM (5vNbL)

2 I'll try. Apparently you are blacklisted within my blog collective because of your stalker. I'll see what I can do.

Posted by: Attila Girl at October 06, 2004 02:52 PM (SuJa4)

3 Whoops ... sorry. I thought that I got invites when I signed up but gmail didn't give me any. If I get one, I'll send it right over.

Posted by: Jheka at October 06, 2004 03:06 PM (5vNbL)

4 Hello, can you please sent me a gmail invite? thanks for being generous...

Posted by: samantha at November 07, 2004 01:06 AM (gSiDt)

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