China has just banned fiction having to do with time travel as it promotes a "dangerous belief system". No lie...

I am so proud of my daughter today. We had a surprise baby shower and one of the people there was kind enough to give Rachel a present as well. It was like a stuffed animal except made of a different material to make it ok for a bath. It was an octopus. When asked what the octopus' name was she proudly declared it to be "Octopus Prime ( Read more... )

Recently I've taken to suggesting shows to Rachel that we can watch together. For those of you not "in the know" Rachel's autism makes it difficult to get her to watch anything that she isn't used to watching. We then run into the problem where eventually once she's seen one of the shows on Nick Jr umpteen million times, she's bored with it but ( Read more... )

Yes, yes I posted a little short a week or so ago but other than that I haven't posted in months. I still live and as you have probably guessed from my previous post we're looking for a house. We like our apartment but with the baby on the way we really need another room. Rachel's room is a great size but there's no way with her being autistic that ( Read more... )

It bothers me sometimes when I take Rachel to places for children and I see parents clustered around some table at one part in the place and how they can just let their children run wild and not even care about what's going on. Part of me is disgusted by their lack of concern for their own children. The other part of me is envious that they can be ( Read more... )

It really really fills me with anger that grocery stores, at least the ones here, don't seem to realize that milk jugs need to be bagged. Yes, they have handles but the handles are tiny. Try lifting four milk jugs with one hand and see how easy it is, but if you have two to a plastic bag then it becomes easy. I know that we as a society have become ( Read more... )

The really annoying problem with home buying is the down payment. The monthly payments aren't a problem. My current rent is the same as what I'd pay on a mortgage for a very expensive house if I was able to put 5% down. Its just a problem of where that initial money comes from. When rent is so high and you're forced to live hand-to-mouth you're not ( Read more... )

No, a dishwasher is not a luxury item realtor lady, it is a necessity.

Seriously anyone who reads this, do any of you not have a dishwasher? Half the houses we've looked at so far do not. My real estate agent says that she doesn't have one either. I understand that most of the houses here were built either in the 1920's or the 1950's unless you ( Read more... )

So explain this to me. We get a lot of flack from people about Rachel being autistic. Only the professionals who deal with autistic children "get it" because they know what to look for and Rachel is mildly autistic. So yes uninformed people who think that autistic children should just sit in a corner stacking blocks with no awareness of the outside ( Read more... )

I love Tron. I loved it as a kid. I've seen it more recently and I still think it holds up pretty well. I'm still impressed that a movie about computers in the early 80's actually gets the terminology correct ( Read more... )