Month: July 2008

  • What would you change about the way your parents raised you?

    I would have stopped "lending" me money every time I asked or found myself in a jam.  Perhaps I would have learned to stop spending if I had to suffer the REAL consequences much earlier in life...
       

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  • Haiku Friday!!!

    Please jump right in with your own.

    oreos

     

    I have gotten fat.

    Too many Oreos near me.

    Who made up these rules?

     

    Rain Thunder Boom Boom

    Garage Sale Tomorrow: POOF!

    I needed money.  :(

     

    Happy Sad Happy

    Bipolar relationships ache

    Where's my Oreos?

     

     

  • The Math Speaks Volumes.

    A recent study shows that sex actually gets better with age.  Good to know!  But as I read through this article, it jumped out at me right away:

    "Beckman and colleagues interviewed four groups of 70-year-olds in Sweden about their sex lives between 1971 and 2001. They found that 68 percent of married men said they were having sex in 2001, up from 52 percent in the early '70s.

    The number of married women having sex rose to 54 percent in the group interviewed in 2000-2001, up from 30 percent in the early 70s.

    And 12 percent of unmarried women interviewed in 2000-2001 said they were having sex, up from less than 1 percent in the early '70s. The number of women reporting high sexual satisfaction also increased, with more women reporting an orgasm during sex and fewer reporting never having had one."

    Well, SUPER yay! for that last part, but, um....68% married men and 54% married women?  Who exactly are the other 14% of geezer married men having nookie time with??  The 12% of geriatric unmarried women???

    This article turned from "YAY!" to "Screw it, why do I even try to believe in fidelity anymore" in an instant.  It never changes, does it? 

    Why can't men be faithful???  I know, I know, there are the chosen few out there who can be.  But most of them? NO.  Clearly not!  It's right there in print.  It's there in everyday life.  It's there in relationships I've had first or second or third had knowledge of....it's all there...no denying it.

    It makes me not ever want to fall in love again.  I am 110% built for long term faithfulness and it appears I'm going to live a long and lonely if not constantly crushed and forlorned life.....

    Yay for me.

     

     

  • I simply love them. They are NORMAL.  REGULAR. ORDINARY. These people are like me.  I want them at the forefront of my country.  And yes, I am the original Obama Girl.....

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    Anyhoo, nothing to report on the front other than INSANE busy-ness.  Vacation is desperately needed.  Have I mentioned before that my son is allergic to peanuts?  That seriously sucks.  Not only can he never enjoy the heavenliness of Reeces, but coming anywhere in contact with peanut-anything could be literally leathal to him.  What is scary is that apparrantly in the last 10 years, peanut allergies have DOUBLED in schools.  Fortunately, most schools are well aware and prepared for these kids, but it still is frightening.  I worry about the one time I am not there and no one knows where his epi-pen is.  Terrifying.

    But on a (very much) less seriously note....death by peanut butter cup?  I suppose there are worse ways....