if you're pretending to feel the ducks, that might get you some other folks giving you the side-eye...

sociology is my favourite section of the book store :) i can only imagine what they'll be thinking about my Google history, should they be so interested. i'm fascinated by so many things... probably lots of them could get me put on a list somewhere. i might look up an actress' birthday, followed by a Russian hip hop…

does that actually work? being as i share this computer with all my kids and several other adults, i use Incognito for *ahem* private readings so it doesn't save to the history and all that. but does it actually work in a situation like this?

what is that from? it looks naggingly familiar, but i just can't figure it out.

i want THAT sandwich.

gaaaahhh... that second one reminds me of a friend of my son's who came over while my sister and i were re-shelving my vast collection of books.

an excellent observation on this whole mess. i think i'll go crawl under my blankets, too :(

i basically stopped shaving my legs about 5 years ago. i give in once in awhile and do my lower legs, but maybe, like, once a year? i just don't care, and neither do my guys, so why waste the time? i'm also a natural redhead with red/blonde body hair so i know i'm lucky, but i still don't see the point in the…

the whole "parallel play" thing can be a real issue for a lot of people. my boyfriend and i have been together nearly 5 years and it still bugs him when i read while he's watching tv (for example). i say that we can be together in the same room and doing different things, but he feels that if we are together we should…

that's about the level of room cleaning i expect from my 4 boys. and, good lord, yes, that teen boy funk is just... indescribable, but "wet goat" is a good comparison!

i have 4 sons, who share 2 bedrooms. the little boys' room is a mess, but not terribly dirty or gross. just toys and clothes everywhere. the teen and almost-teen room smells like a hamster cage that needs a good cleaning. i honestly don't know why, either. tomorrow, we're stripping all the beds and washing blankets…

oh, man, i read that book obsessively in about 3rd or 4th grade. i must have checked it out from the school library a dozen times. it scared the hell out of me, too, because i've always had a terror of tornadoes.

hear, hear!

well. i just discovered that the $50 Visa gift card my MIL gave me for Christmas has been stolen. i opened my night table drawer and found the packaging with the card missing and i KNOW i'm not the one who took it out. i was saving that for emergency gas money, and now, i'm sure that one of my son's friends is…

of course, adding extra children makes things harder when you're poor, but lots of choices in life are more complicated than just figuring the monetary value of those choices.

i'm confused... where did i say that people can't decide for themselves? all i was trying to do was explain that the OP's premise that you can wait to have kids until you have enough money is not something that is always the "only" way to do things. in our case, we had good jobs, we had disposable income, we planned…

did you miss the bit where i said i was on the pill when i got pregnant with #3? and #4 was a complete oops, yes, but while i may be pro-choice, my choice was to keep and raise my child. also, you may notice that second to last paragraph, which i started with "now, my baby is 8". so, clearly, i'm not still having…

you know, when i got pregnant at 17 (thanks, gyno that told me i'd "never be able to get pregnant"), i was out of school, working 3 jobs, and supporting myself. my boyfriend was working 2 jobs. we were golden. i went down to part time work at 1 job after the baby, and we qualified for WIC (we lived in a very expensive…

it's called officially called SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program) now, not food stamps, but everyone still calls it food stamps anyway. you access them with an EBT card (electronic benefits transfer) for both food stamps and cash benefits.

the decision to have kids was kind of made for me before i ever had a chance to consider it much (i got pregnant at 17 and, while i am pro-choice, my choice was to keep my baby). i had 3 more kids over the next 5 years, and am currently listening to my houseful of boys argue with each other over who gets to pick what…