http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/ Fri, 18 May 2012 23:12:57 +0000 MyBB http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4486 Thu, 17 May 2012 19:44:59 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4486
Now, don't get me wrong. A college education is a good thing. The more you know, the better, but to make it a requirement for a position is absurd.]]>
Now, don't get me wrong. A college education is a good thing. The more you know, the better, but to make it a requirement for a position is absurd.]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4485 Thu, 17 May 2012 19:09:30 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4485 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4484 Thu, 17 May 2012 09:17:08 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4484
http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_206...its-eating

For some reason I can't transfer the whole article for you to read here. See photos at your own risk.]]>
http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_206...its-eating

For some reason I can't transfer the whole article for you to read here. See photos at your own risk.]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4483 Wed, 16 May 2012 03:19:01 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4483
This is the first I've posted about this online. My step dad is in the hospital. (Sometimes, I refer to him as my dad, but I don't call him "Dad." I call him by his first name. Anyhow...) I got a call from my mom yesterday afternoon informing me that B's doctor admitted him to the hospital yesterday. B had been feeling very tired, had trouble breathing, gained a whole lot of weight in a very short period, and my mom said his legs and feet were "not good." (It was swelling, water weight.) He had an appointment yesterday, and his doctor determined he has congestive heart failure and admitted him for testing and observation.

I wrapped up things at work as fast as I could at work, then at home, then dropped off my two "special (feeding) needs" kitties at the kennel. (I was blessed that T, the owner, had space at the last minute for them like that!) We left dry food for the others--I have two of those dispenser-type feeders. THEN, we hit the road and got to the hospital about 1/2 hour before visiting hours were over. Now, I'm at my parents' house. They didn't have anyone to come to the house to look after their animals, which is why my mom called me.

B looked as good as can be expected. He was still struggling to breathe, but I believe he is stable. He was in good spirits. Mom won't leave his side. I have to go back later this morning and take them some things. (I wish Mom would get some decent food in her. We are taking her some.) I will know more when we go back over to the hospital, unless Mom calls.

I have taken today off and will let work and the kennel know if I am staying longer. The cats at home should be fine for today, but if I stay over, I'll need to go home tomorrow to at least check on them. I told Mom I would stick around as long as I need to. One of my step sisters and her husband were there last night, too, and we may or may not see them. I think he is coming over to mow the yard for my folks.

Anyhow, if you're the praying kind--I don't care what religion--please keep us all in your thoughts, especially B. He's got a very pragmatic view of the situation, but the family is huge, and I know none of us are ready for anything bad to happen, especially my mom! I'm OK. Just worried about them both. When I'm not at the hospital, I'm going to be taking it easy here at the house. I only slept about five hours last night, so I know I'm going to be tired.

Oh, well. I'm rambling at this point. Thanks for reading/listening.

Jen M.]]>
This is the first I've posted about this online. My step dad is in the hospital. (Sometimes, I refer to him as my dad, but I don't call him "Dad." I call him by his first name. Anyhow...) I got a call from my mom yesterday afternoon informing me that B's doctor admitted him to the hospital yesterday. B had been feeling very tired, had trouble breathing, gained a whole lot of weight in a very short period, and my mom said his legs and feet were "not good." (It was swelling, water weight.) He had an appointment yesterday, and his doctor determined he has congestive heart failure and admitted him for testing and observation.

I wrapped up things at work as fast as I could at work, then at home, then dropped off my two "special (feeding) needs" kitties at the kennel. (I was blessed that T, the owner, had space at the last minute for them like that!) We left dry food for the others--I have two of those dispenser-type feeders. THEN, we hit the road and got to the hospital about 1/2 hour before visiting hours were over. Now, I'm at my parents' house. They didn't have anyone to come to the house to look after their animals, which is why my mom called me.

B looked as good as can be expected. He was still struggling to breathe, but I believe he is stable. He was in good spirits. Mom won't leave his side. I have to go back later this morning and take them some things. (I wish Mom would get some decent food in her. We are taking her some.) I will know more when we go back over to the hospital, unless Mom calls.

I have taken today off and will let work and the kennel know if I am staying longer. The cats at home should be fine for today, but if I stay over, I'll need to go home tomorrow to at least check on them. I told Mom I would stick around as long as I need to. One of my step sisters and her husband were there last night, too, and we may or may not see them. I think he is coming over to mow the yard for my folks.

Anyhow, if you're the praying kind--I don't care what religion--please keep us all in your thoughts, especially B. He's got a very pragmatic view of the situation, but the family is huge, and I know none of us are ready for anything bad to happen, especially my mom! I'm OK. Just worried about them both. When I'm not at the hospital, I'm going to be taking it easy here at the house. I only slept about five hours last night, so I know I'm going to be tired.

Oh, well. I'm rambling at this point. Thanks for reading/listening.

Jen M.]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4482 Tue, 15 May 2012 07:41:46 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4482 http://www.rall.com/rallblog/2012/05/15/...s-struggle

SYNDICATED COLUMN: The Last Civil Rights Struggle
May 15th, 2012

Sluts of America, Arise!

“A sitting United States president took sides in what many people consider the last civil rights movement,” Adam Nagourney of The New York Times wrote in reaction to Barack Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage.

The last civil rights movement?

No.

Sadly, even as he belatedly championed equality for some, the president’s statement expressed a pernicious, widely accepted form of prejudice.

Look for the caveat as you read: “I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors, when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together…at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”

In Obama’s worldview, in other words, it’s okay to be gay. But only if you behave like straight people—straight as in hetero, and straight as in conventional.

Obama is exposed as a monogamist: one who discriminates against people who have sex with multiple partners. Monogamism is commonplace. And it is bigotry. Monogamism is no more justifiable than racism or sexism or homophobia and, one day, it will be as reviled.

Mia McKenzie of the blog Black Girl Dangerous responds to Obama: “So, basically, what the President is saying is that same-sex couples who are in relationships that look a certain way (monogamous, for example) should be able to have all the rights of straight people. Hmm. What about those of us, queer and straight, who aren’t into monogamy but are into committed relationships? (And, for the record, you can be poly and be committed to multiple people).”

To which I’ll add: What about people, straight and gay, who sleep with multiple partners? What about those who don’t want committed relationships? Shouldn’t they get tax breaks and insurance benefits too?

And what about the open, tricky, ever-so-dirty secret—that many people in “incredibly committed monogamous relationships” cheat, that they’re de facto polygamists or just garden-variety sluts? (“A full 99 percent of Americans say they expect their spouse to be faithful,” according to U.S. News & World Report in 2008 but, The New York Times reported the same year, “University of Washington researchers have found that the lifetime rate of infidelity for men over 60 increased to 28 percent in 2006.” Hmm. Not to mention, obviously, that not all cheaters confess their sluttery to pollsters.)

Like all oppressed people, sluts have their work cut out for them.

“The Ethical Slut” (1997) by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt unleashed a landmark broadside against monogamy with a simple argument: anything that two consenting adults do is okay as long as they approach one another, and their other partners, with honesty and openness. Casual hook-ups, open relationships, swinging, group sex, and other alternative forms of sexual expression, wrote Mmes. Easton and Liszt, are not immoral so don’t feel guilty about them. “We believe it’s okay to have sex with anybody you love, and we believe in loving everybody,” they wrote.

Fifteen years later, however, tens of millions of sluts live underground, compelled to sneak around. Unlike straights and Obama-approved monogamous gays, America’s secret sluts have to hide their sex lives from their friends, families and coworkers. (Ethical sluts tell their partners the truth.) “My FWB and I had an awesome foursome with this couple we met online” isn’t the smartest Monday-morning conversation starter for the wannabe upwardly mobile.

Monogamy may be a myth, to paraphrase the title of the 1989 book that found that roughly half of all married Americans cheat, but as Obama’s statement suggests, it’s harder to kill than herpes.

Now here comes “The Monogamy Gap: Men, Love and the Reality of Cheating” by Eric Anderson (Oxford University Press, 256 pages, $49.99), a devastating critique of monogamy that has been ignored by book reviewers and buried by the mainstream media.

“The Ethical Slut” says it’s OKAY to be slutty. “The Monogamy Gap” goes further. It states loudly, brashly—and mostly convincingly—that while monogamy is right for some people, it’s wrong for most. Which makes monogamism a form of bigotry not only based on a lie, but like other forms of discrimination, downright bad for society.

Not so deep down, we know he’s right. When there’s a public sex scandal—John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, etc.—you don’t hear a lot of expressions of anger or disgust, just harrumphs and how-about-thats from people, most of whom can easily imagine themselves “guilty” of the same “crime”: hard-wired horniness.

“I suggest that we need multiple forms of culturally acceptable sexual relationship types—including sexually open relationships—that exist without hierarchy or hegemony,” Anderson writes.

Men, Anderson asserts, are trapped in a state of “dyadic dissonance” in which they are painfully torn between monogamist social programming and their sexual desires to sleep with multiple partners. “If [men] entertain with their partners the possibility that sex and love are separate and that they could maintain the love with their partner while seeking thrilling sex with outsiders (an open sexual relationship), they risk losing their partners. Even mentioning this is thought to be an affront to love. Love, they falsely believe, is enhanced through sex, and sex with outsiders is falsely believed to detract from the love of a couple. We all too often believe that if our partner ceases to desire us sexually, he or she ceases to love us.”

What is a [stymied] manslut to do?

“In desiring but not wanting to cheat,” Anderson continues, “men set out to rectify their dissonance through pornography, visualizing themselves having sex with someone else while having sex with their partner, and/or flirting with others online. Eventually, however, these imagined/cyber forms of extradyadic sex are not enough. Men strongly desire to have sex with someone else, and they often begin to feel anger or aggression at their partner because (at one level) it is their partner that is preventing them from having the type of sex that every cell in their body demands.”

So they screw around.

But cheaters aren’t bad people. They’re just sluts. They’re wired that way. Many—most of us—are sluts. Don’t be shocked. After all, contemporary marriage—based on love rather than property, monogamous rather than polygamous—is still in its experimental stage, less than a century old. And the rate of divorce suggests that the experiment isn’t going well.

Anderson says monogamism forces us to choose between guilt and frustration: “Although cheating remains almost universally taboo in modern societies, my research suggests that cheating might actually save relationships [because] cheating permits men to have the sex with others they somatically desire…with cheating they do not have to deal with the threat of losing their partners by mentioning their sexual desires for others.”

I have some issues with “The Monogamy Gap.” Anderson concludes that “it is only in open relationships where long-term sexual and romantic satisfaction can be found for people who somatically desire sex with others,” yet he hardly considers the needs and desires of heterosexual women. Do they want open relationships? Maybe. Maybe not. Also, Anderson’s preferred model—one or several core committed, longer-term relationships plus à la carte “hit it and quit it” assignations—leaves out other formats, such as swinging (which is barely discussed).

Overall, however, I strongly recommend “The Monogamy Gap” for anyone who wonders why a society that elevates monogamy can’t seem to follow its rules. America needs to begin this discussion.

(Ted Rall’s next book is “The Book of Obama: How We Went From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt,” out May 29. His website is tedrall.com.)]]> http://www.rall.com/rallblog/2012/05/15/...s-struggle

SYNDICATED COLUMN: The Last Civil Rights Struggle
May 15th, 2012

Sluts of America, Arise!

“A sitting United States president took sides in what many people consider the last civil rights movement,” Adam Nagourney of The New York Times wrote in reaction to Barack Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage.

The last civil rights movement?

No.

Sadly, even as he belatedly championed equality for some, the president’s statement expressed a pernicious, widely accepted form of prejudice.

Look for the caveat as you read: “I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors, when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together…at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”

In Obama’s worldview, in other words, it’s okay to be gay. But only if you behave like straight people—straight as in hetero, and straight as in conventional.

Obama is exposed as a monogamist: one who discriminates against people who have sex with multiple partners. Monogamism is commonplace. And it is bigotry. Monogamism is no more justifiable than racism or sexism or homophobia and, one day, it will be as reviled.

Mia McKenzie of the blog Black Girl Dangerous responds to Obama: “So, basically, what the President is saying is that same-sex couples who are in relationships that look a certain way (monogamous, for example) should be able to have all the rights of straight people. Hmm. What about those of us, queer and straight, who aren’t into monogamy but are into committed relationships? (And, for the record, you can be poly and be committed to multiple people).”

To which I’ll add: What about people, straight and gay, who sleep with multiple partners? What about those who don’t want committed relationships? Shouldn’t they get tax breaks and insurance benefits too?

And what about the open, tricky, ever-so-dirty secret—that many people in “incredibly committed monogamous relationships” cheat, that they’re de facto polygamists or just garden-variety sluts? (“A full 99 percent of Americans say they expect their spouse to be faithful,” according to U.S. News & World Report in 2008 but, The New York Times reported the same year, “University of Washington researchers have found that the lifetime rate of infidelity for men over 60 increased to 28 percent in 2006.” Hmm. Not to mention, obviously, that not all cheaters confess their sluttery to pollsters.)

Like all oppressed people, sluts have their work cut out for them.

“The Ethical Slut” (1997) by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt unleashed a landmark broadside against monogamy with a simple argument: anything that two consenting adults do is okay as long as they approach one another, and their other partners, with honesty and openness. Casual hook-ups, open relationships, swinging, group sex, and other alternative forms of sexual expression, wrote Mmes. Easton and Liszt, are not immoral so don’t feel guilty about them. “We believe it’s okay to have sex with anybody you love, and we believe in loving everybody,” they wrote.

Fifteen years later, however, tens of millions of sluts live underground, compelled to sneak around. Unlike straights and Obama-approved monogamous gays, America’s secret sluts have to hide their sex lives from their friends, families and coworkers. (Ethical sluts tell their partners the truth.) “My FWB and I had an awesome foursome with this couple we met online” isn’t the smartest Monday-morning conversation starter for the wannabe upwardly mobile.

Monogamy may be a myth, to paraphrase the title of the 1989 book that found that roughly half of all married Americans cheat, but as Obama’s statement suggests, it’s harder to kill than herpes.

Now here comes “The Monogamy Gap: Men, Love and the Reality of Cheating” by Eric Anderson (Oxford University Press, 256 pages, $49.99), a devastating critique of monogamy that has been ignored by book reviewers and buried by the mainstream media.

“The Ethical Slut” says it’s OKAY to be slutty. “The Monogamy Gap” goes further. It states loudly, brashly—and mostly convincingly—that while monogamy is right for some people, it’s wrong for most. Which makes monogamism a form of bigotry not only based on a lie, but like other forms of discrimination, downright bad for society.

Not so deep down, we know he’s right. When there’s a public sex scandal—John Edwards, Eliot Spitzer, etc.—you don’t hear a lot of expressions of anger or disgust, just harrumphs and how-about-thats from people, most of whom can easily imagine themselves “guilty” of the same “crime”: hard-wired horniness.

“I suggest that we need multiple forms of culturally acceptable sexual relationship types—including sexually open relationships—that exist without hierarchy or hegemony,” Anderson writes.

Men, Anderson asserts, are trapped in a state of “dyadic dissonance” in which they are painfully torn between monogamist social programming and their sexual desires to sleep with multiple partners. “If [men] entertain with their partners the possibility that sex and love are separate and that they could maintain the love with their partner while seeking thrilling sex with outsiders (an open sexual relationship), they risk losing their partners. Even mentioning this is thought to be an affront to love. Love, they falsely believe, is enhanced through sex, and sex with outsiders is falsely believed to detract from the love of a couple. We all too often believe that if our partner ceases to desire us sexually, he or she ceases to love us.”

What is a [stymied] manslut to do?

“In desiring but not wanting to cheat,” Anderson continues, “men set out to rectify their dissonance through pornography, visualizing themselves having sex with someone else while having sex with their partner, and/or flirting with others online. Eventually, however, these imagined/cyber forms of extradyadic sex are not enough. Men strongly desire to have sex with someone else, and they often begin to feel anger or aggression at their partner because (at one level) it is their partner that is preventing them from having the type of sex that every cell in their body demands.”

So they screw around.

But cheaters aren’t bad people. They’re just sluts. They’re wired that way. Many—most of us—are sluts. Don’t be shocked. After all, contemporary marriage—based on love rather than property, monogamous rather than polygamous—is still in its experimental stage, less than a century old. And the rate of divorce suggests that the experiment isn’t going well.

Anderson says monogamism forces us to choose between guilt and frustration: “Although cheating remains almost universally taboo in modern societies, my research suggests that cheating might actually save relationships [because] cheating permits men to have the sex with others they somatically desire…with cheating they do not have to deal with the threat of losing their partners by mentioning their sexual desires for others.”

I have some issues with “The Monogamy Gap.” Anderson concludes that “it is only in open relationships where long-term sexual and romantic satisfaction can be found for people who somatically desire sex with others,” yet he hardly considers the needs and desires of heterosexual women. Do they want open relationships? Maybe. Maybe not. Also, Anderson’s preferred model—one or several core committed, longer-term relationships plus à la carte “hit it and quit it” assignations—leaves out other formats, such as swinging (which is barely discussed).

Overall, however, I strongly recommend “The Monogamy Gap” for anyone who wonders why a society that elevates monogamy can’t seem to follow its rules. America needs to begin this discussion.

(Ted Rall’s next book is “The Book of Obama: How We Went From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt,” out May 29. His website is tedrall.com.)]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4481 Sun, 13 May 2012 18:39:01 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4481
Tenants include a two year old and a four year old.

Ahem

I can't complain, as they've been golden so far. I hear VERY little, and they don't seem to be home much. Maybe they are in day care until the evening and then go to visit grandparents/dad on the weekends? All I know is that I have been HUGELY relieved, as I expected the worst when I saw little kids were moving in next door.

We share a front porch. My front door is straight ahead in the picture, and the neighbour's door is on th left. Get a load of this. My front porch. GOOD LORD.

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Tenants include a two year old and a four year old.

Ahem

I can't complain, as they've been golden so far. I hear VERY little, and they don't seem to be home much. Maybe they are in day care until the evening and then go to visit grandparents/dad on the weekends? All I know is that I have been HUGELY relieved, as I expected the worst when I saw little kids were moving in next door.

We share a front porch. My front door is straight ahead in the picture, and the neighbour's door is on th left. Get a load of this. My front porch. GOOD LORD.

]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4480 Sun, 13 May 2012 08:25:44 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4480
It takes me about an hour and a half as it is, but I'm not really that fastidious. I like a clean home and keep it up but I'm not fanatical about it.

Cleaning up after five cats is about as much upkeep as I can handle. That's a lot of fur

MEOW =^..^=]]>
It takes me about an hour and a half as it is, but I'm not really that fastidious. I like a clean home and keep it up but I'm not fanatical about it.

Cleaning up after five cats is about as much upkeep as I can handle. That's a lot of fur

MEOW =^..^=]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4479 Sat, 12 May 2012 12:05:47 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4479 Around the World in 80 Plates for the recipes and sightseeing. We mute the players' interpersonal nonsense. The parts we like are fun.

Anyone else?]]> Around the World in 80 Plates for the recipes and sightseeing. We mute the players' interpersonal nonsense. The parts we like are fun.

Anyone else?]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4478 Sat, 12 May 2012 04:47:03 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4478
Out of my female friends (of which I have three very good ones), we all seem to have three or four other friends. I hook up with each one differently and we talk about different things. I'm not sure - no, I'm very sure - that we all couldn't hang out together on a regular basis. We are too different and each friend relates to me on a different level and I can talk to each one about different aspects of my life. Some things I keep from one friend, that I will tell another.

My husband had one good friend who has pretty much moved away (in rehab, etc...I won't bore you with details) and the only other male friends he hangs out with are the SO's of my friends and he only hangs out with them when we are together as couples.

I find it kind of odd but I just asked my BFF and she said that her SO doesn't have any friends either. He just tags along with her and her friends.

So, in your experience do women generally have more friends than men? Are women just more social than men? Do we make friends more easily than men?]]>
Out of my female friends (of which I have three very good ones), we all seem to have three or four other friends. I hook up with each one differently and we talk about different things. I'm not sure - no, I'm very sure - that we all couldn't hang out together on a regular basis. We are too different and each friend relates to me on a different level and I can talk to each one about different aspects of my life. Some things I keep from one friend, that I will tell another.

My husband had one good friend who has pretty much moved away (in rehab, etc...I won't bore you with details) and the only other male friends he hangs out with are the SO's of my friends and he only hangs out with them when we are together as couples.

I find it kind of odd but I just asked my BFF and she said that her SO doesn't have any friends either. He just tags along with her and her friends.

So, in your experience do women generally have more friends than men? Are women just more social than men? Do we make friends more easily than men?]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4477 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:08:04 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4477
The flares have not gone away, and they are just as frequent as they were; HOWEVER, my base energy level is definitely up. When I am not sick, I feel even better than I did before, and I'm accomplishing more and--when I'm not sick--I am not crashing as much. I actually feel able to exercise and have started making a plan for that.

That said, I have a long way to go as far as the flares are concerned, but we are also looking at my diet.

Anyone else having acupuncture done? I think it's great!

Jen M.]]>
The flares have not gone away, and they are just as frequent as they were; HOWEVER, my base energy level is definitely up. When I am not sick, I feel even better than I did before, and I'm accomplishing more and--when I'm not sick--I am not crashing as much. I actually feel able to exercise and have started making a plan for that.

That said, I have a long way to go as far as the flares are concerned, but we are also looking at my diet.

Anyone else having acupuncture done? I think it's great!

Jen M.]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4476 Fri, 11 May 2012 13:54:15 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4476
The shows begins on the premise that all of that comes crashing down around her, and now she has to find a place to live and ends up with THE roommate from hell. (The B--- in Apt. 23.) It's a really funny show. James Van Der Beek is in it, and he's hilarious!

Anyone seen this show?

Jen M.]]>
The shows begins on the premise that all of that comes crashing down around her, and now she has to find a place to live and ends up with THE roommate from hell. (The B--- in Apt. 23.) It's a really funny show. James Van Der Beek is in it, and he's hilarious!

Anyone seen this show?

Jen M.]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4475 Fri, 11 May 2012 09:19:58 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4475
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/time-ma...00989.html]]>
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/time-ma...00989.html]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4474 Fri, 11 May 2012 04:05:28 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4474
Please put your personal beliefs aside.

I personally think it has cost him the election but I have to give him props for coming out (no pun intended) and supporting legalized same sex marriage. The fundies must be having conniptions.]]>
Please put your personal beliefs aside.

I personally think it has cost him the election but I have to give him props for coming out (no pun intended) and supporting legalized same sex marriage. The fundies must be having conniptions.]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4473 Thu, 10 May 2012 05:28:24 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4473
My bedroom curtains were really thin and the streetlights plus my neighbor's lights bothered me at night. Unfortunately, in June/July we also go to bed before it's dark out, which drives me nuts.

I researched the blackout curtains but they want $20/panel - I didn't really want to spend $80 on curtains... so I bought some blackout fabric online and sewed it to my existing curtains. Only $35 and I'm really happy with how it came out. It was about 2.5 hours of work. The "new" curtains are so heavy they bent my curtain rod, but that's OK, it's worth it. ]]>
My bedroom curtains were really thin and the streetlights plus my neighbor's lights bothered me at night. Unfortunately, in June/July we also go to bed before it's dark out, which drives me nuts.

I researched the blackout curtains but they want $20/panel - I didn't really want to spend $80 on curtains... so I bought some blackout fabric online and sewed it to my existing curtains. Only $35 and I'm really happy with how it came out. It was about 2.5 hours of work. The "new" curtains are so heavy they bent my curtain rod, but that's OK, it's worth it. ]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4472 Wed, 09 May 2012 15:00:52 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4472
My BIL's wife and I have never really gotten allong. She made such a big deal about not letting our nieces and nephew call me "aunt" until DH & I were legally married, even though we had been engaged for almost a year prior. She even corrected them and other people when they referred to me as aunt. Then she made a big deal about DH & I not wanting kids because there is not point in being married if you aren't going to have kids.

I can't say that I am surprised or sorry that they are getting divorced. But I do feel bad that my nieces and nephew will have to go through it.]]>
My BIL's wife and I have never really gotten allong. She made such a big deal about not letting our nieces and nephew call me "aunt" until DH & I were legally married, even though we had been engaged for almost a year prior. She even corrected them and other people when they referred to me as aunt. Then she made a big deal about DH & I not wanting kids because there is not point in being married if you aren't going to have kids.

I can't say that I am surprised or sorry that they are getting divorced. But I do feel bad that my nieces and nephew will have to go through it.]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4471 Wed, 09 May 2012 08:22:55 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4471
For the linkaphobes: This column talks about what she feels has caused human population growth to be so out of control and a few possible solutions (besides infanticide, war, etc. LOL!)

Linkydoo

I read this blog pretty religiously, and I've learned a lot from doing so. It's got me thinking about how to prepare my own household for the unknown. I still have a lot to learn, though!

Jen M.]]>
For the linkaphobes: This column talks about what she feels has caused human population growth to be so out of control and a few possible solutions (besides infanticide, war, etc. LOL!)

Linkydoo

I read this blog pretty religiously, and I've learned a lot from doing so. It's got me thinking about how to prepare my own household for the unknown. I still have a lot to learn, though!

Jen M.]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4470 Wed, 09 May 2012 04:03:38 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4470
PINK SLIP OR GREEN LIGHT?

The coming days will tell for these on-the-bubble series:

Alcatraz

Are You There, Chelsea?

Awake

Body of Proof

Community

Cougar Town

CSI: Miami

CSI: New York

Fashion Star

GCB

A Gifted Man

Hart of Dixie

Last Man Standing

Missing

Nikita

NYC 22

Rob!

Rules of Engagement

The Secret Circle

Shark Tank

Touch

Unforgettable

Up All Night

Whitney



Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment...z1uMxinGRr]]>
PINK SLIP OR GREEN LIGHT?

The coming days will tell for these on-the-bubble series:

Alcatraz

Are You There, Chelsea?

Awake

Body of Proof

Community

Cougar Town

CSI: Miami

CSI: New York

Fashion Star

GCB

A Gifted Man

Hart of Dixie

Last Man Standing

Missing

Nikita

NYC 22

Rob!

Rules of Engagement

The Secret Circle

Shark Tank

Touch

Unforgettable

Up All Night

Whitney



Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment...z1uMxinGRr]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4469 Tue, 08 May 2012 20:55:24 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4469
http://www.washingtonpost.com/conversati...ssion.html]]>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/conversati...ssion.html]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4468 Mon, 07 May 2012 20:12:04 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4468 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ed-83.html

poor George. I use to love it when he did "Judy Judy Judy" Cause we have a cousin by the name of Judy
Poor George, he will be missed. And my heart goes out to his family & friends

OK this is one, I wonder who will be next?]]> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...ed-83.html

poor George. I use to love it when he did "Judy Judy Judy" Cause we have a cousin by the name of Judy
Poor George, he will be missed. And my heart goes out to his family & friends

OK this is one, I wonder who will be next?]]> http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4467 Mon, 07 May 2012 14:02:48 -0700 http://www.wekidyounot.org/wkyn/showthread.php?tid=4467
Of course everyone gaped at me and I said, "Hey, if he gets to scream, I get to scream."

No one said a word.

I'm doing it from now on.]]>
Of course everyone gaped at me and I said, "Hey, if he gets to scream, I get to scream."

No one said a word.

I'm doing it from now on.]]>