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site policies, disclosures, and disclaimers

Grumbles and Grunts by Jamie Frayer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

the works and images here are protected by a creative commons license which means you can't steal my shit.  and my photos are double-protected by being hosted with flickr pro.  i work hard to present consistently original content, so hands off.

comment policy

i love your comments; it's part of what makes this whole thing work.  we're building a community here so treat each other with respect.  debate is encouraged- being a jerk, not so much.

anonymous commenting is enabled. however, FYI most bloggers have traffic counters installed that see your computer's IP address, regardless of if you sign your name or not.  so yes, anonymous, i can actually see you.  i reserve the right to delete comments that attack other commenters, my family, or use graphic/disparaging language and i get make that call at my own discretion because i'm the boss around these parts.

disclosures

i don't receive paid compensation for anything i write on this blog.  if i choose to do a review or giveaway i'll be very clear if it is sponsored.  but most likely, it isn't.  this is a personal place, not a money place.

disclaimer

this is my bliggity blog, and as such everything represented here is solely my opinion from my perspective.  not even jon's.  mine and mine alone.

if you have a problem with something written here,

by all means, get the hell out.

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advertising is good for you.

you're totally busted!

you came here because you're following my dog, miss bang, on twitter.  now i can point my finger at you and laugh, but only inside my mind because i'm probably at the office right now and it would be weird if i just started laughing at my desk by myself.  ha!

i am actually not a dog.  this is my blog.

welcome, come on in.

main

the big blogroll of other people's blogs

*grumbles disclaimer:  if you would like to be added OR if you see your name here and would like to be removed just leave me a quick note here.  the majority of these people i don't know personally i just enjoy reading what they have to say and i have attempted to keep this in roughly alphabetical order, but i didn't try very hard.  the end.*

A Cup of Tea & A Wheat Penny
A Little Pregnant
Adam Claxon
Adventures in Babywearing
The Adventures of Lactating Girl
Amalah
Angheiz
Atheist Revolution
Athena Bee's
Barefoot Foodie
Beard Status
A Couple More Hours
Dad Gone Mad
Daily Coyote
Dooce
Evany
It's a Wonderful Life
Hobo Mama
Faultlines
FIND YOUR NESS!!!
Finslippy
Flotsam
Forgotten Ohio
Fussy
Girls Gone Child
Her Bad Mother
How I Became a Tattooed Mommy
I Pretty Much Hate Everything
Jonniker
Junket Juice
Knotty Yarn
Looky Daddy
Loralees Looney Tunes
Mamalogues
Metalia
Mighty Girl
Momsmith
Motherhood Uncensored
Motherbumper
The Mother Formerly Known As...
Musings from the Mason Maven
My Reality
Not That You Asked
Render Me Mama
Shifting Life
Skulls and Crossbones
Slynnro
SnarkyGirl '08
Tattoos and Drool
That's What I Thought
The Bloggess
The MommyBlog
The Typing Makes Me Sound Busy
The View from My Fishbowl
theshortestblogintheworld
Turtle Parade
Two Pretzels
Whisker Biscuit
Weird Nursing Tales
Wrestling Kitties
Written Permission

purely for laughs
Awkward Boners
Cake Wrecks
Cracked
Design Police
Emails from Assholes
Engrish
Lamebook
FML
Goths in Hot Weather
Lamebook
Let's Panic
Look at this Fucking Hipster
The Oatmeal
Overheard at the Office
Passive Aggressive Notes
People of Walmart
Photoshop Disasters
Postcards from Yo Momma
STFU Parents
Tales From Labor and Delivery
The Best of Craigslist
Unhappy Hipsters

pregnancy, birth, and parenting resources
At Your Cervix 
Attachment Parenting International
Alphamom
  -  Advice Smackdown
  -  0-40 Pregnancy Calendar
  -  The Bounce Back (Postpartum)
Babies and Bellies
Babble
Birth Sense
Dr. Sears
Kellymoms
Momversation
Nursing Birth

designgasms
veer
i love typography
the grid system
apartment therapy

you have no idea how badly i want you to write me a message

or you can email me straight to the source: thegrumbles {at} hotmail {dot} com
what took you so long?

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a variety ways to help you navigate the post archives...

start at the very beginning
(though i make no claims as to finer quality of the early posts)

or skip ahead to the important and fun parts:
the pregnancy announcement
the remodeling of the kitchen
the birth of jude

read by mood:
rants  –  thinking  –  working  –  hilarious  –  i'm a moron

read by family member:
fozzy wocka (jude)  –  jon  –  the dogs

featured subjects:
friday finds  –  my dreams  –  notes to jude

general topics:
baby  –  breastfeeding  –  computers  –  fall  –  family  –  famousss  –  foods  –  games  –  holidays  –  house  –  links  –  music  –  nablopomo  –  old times  –  parenting  –  politics and whatnot  –  postpartum  –  pregnancy  –  teh internets

OR, by month:

November 2008  –  December 2008

January 2009  –  February 2009  –  March 2009  –  April 2009  –  May 2009  –  June 2009  –  July 2009  –  August 2009  –  September 2009  –  October 2009  –  November 2009  –  December 2009

January 2010  –  February 2010  –  March 2010

about the grumbles

my name is jamie and this is my blog.
(and this is me, glaring at you from under my snowy hood. for some reason the pictures of myself that i always like best seem to be very angry ones. it must be because i'm so tough and mean. can't you see my nose ring?  that means i'm so tough and mean, you know.)

i'm a graphic designer living in cincinnati with my husband, our son jude, and our dogs.  i work full time in a marketing department.  i like fancy old-timey gun collecting, video games, movies, and eating. and zombies. and dogs. and the internet. in school i was a double emphasis in graphic design and printmaking. i like to sew. i only use apple computers. i hate talking on the telephone, i have a fear of going out in public by myself and i'm deathly afraid of loose hair. i'm obsessed with organic chocolate milk. we live in a house that was built in 1875.

i write here about my life which, since recently having a baby, is a lot of baby stuff.  i chronicled my pregnancy here and now since having jude i am {all of a sudden} a breastfeeding babywearing cosleeping cruncho.  it's parenting as a work in progress.

why we do this
why 'grumbles and grunts', anyway?

i don't like to capitalize the subjects of sentences or proper nouns. i have a firm grasp of grammar, i just don't like to do it.  it bothers some people.  i'm sorry... but not sorry enough to stop.

meet my family:

you can follow miss bang on twitter. she has many, many, many more followers than i do. and she's a dog. depressing, right?

read about legal stuffins

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