Monday night a customer tossed scalding coffee all over one of the B&N cafe employees because he didn't like the taste of it. I've been expecting this. People have been getting ruder and ruder and ruder and I figured it was only a matter of time before one of us would actually be physically assaulted by someone. The heat is being partially ( Read more... )

Y O U ... C A N ... O N L Y ... T Y P E ... O N E ... W O R D ( Read more... )

I'm going crazy! I'm angry and frustrated and disappointed and I want to punch certain people in their faces repeatedly. Everything in this country seems to be designed to make sure that poor people stay poor. In order to be able to survive you have to be able to increase your income in huge leaps and bounds instead of the baby steps that ( Read more... )

Or maybe I just live in a stupid country? The sliding scales for income with things like Medicaid, low-income housing, and child care scholarships were created by people with absolutely no concept of reality. There is NO WAY IN HELL that we can afford daycare without help but according to the state of Montana, we're making too much money to ( Read more... )

For several reasons ( Read more... )

Go to "youtube.com".

Look up "Ask A Ninja".

Watch the "Ask A Ninja" videos (particularly the ones on how to kill a ninja, midget ninjas, and the ninja omnibus).

Thank me later for making your day better.

Benjamin just IS that cute.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v307/carabou/Baby%20Pictures/benandbunny4.jpg

At the top of my list of things that make me want to scream:

Finding out that the choices I've made in my life - choices that have actually made _me_ happy - have suddenly and (apparently) irrevocably made me a non-person to someone I care very much about.

What the hell?

I've been on an emotional roller coaster ever since Ben was born which I guess is to be expected. At first, I felt so overwhelmed from the pain and the exhaustion and the sheer newness of it all that I wasn't able to feel much else. Then, after having so much trouble with breastfeeding, I just felt pain, exhaustion, and a sense that I was in WAY ( Read more... )

Benjamin is FINALLY asleep so maybe I can get this down ( Read more... )