Hey, New Life Church. Focus on your own damned family now, why don't you? Get your sanctimonious paws out of telling people they need to be all straight and mundane and normal. Glass fucking houses, people, your OWN (former) LEADER seems to have a bit of an issue with being yanked out of the closet here ( Read more... )

In a highly unscientific, random sampling of strangers both with and without children, I have discovered an interesting item. Namely, that it is apparently easier for the common person to believe that any small child with long hair must be a girl. This datum applies even if the long-haired child in question is wearing clothing emblazoned with such ( Read more... )

75 years ago: A woman named Ann Dunham would have been unable to marry her husband, and the father of her first child. Why? She was white. He was black. She married her husband in Hawaii in 1961, and there were still at least 19 states with laws specifically prohibiting her marriage then. The last of those laws preventing a white from marrying a ( Read more... )

Yep. I voted. That and the Mary Poppins quote are all you're gonna get out of me about it. Now off to harass doctors at their offices...bleh.

I just attempted to watch the Tim Burton version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Note that I say "attempted" here ( Read more... )

 While driving home from work, I spotted the most interesting little place. A place which inspired many amused thoughts.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you...

V's Barbershop

Explosives to the left, meat pies to the right.

Twelve and a half years ago, I spent an hour in the pet store, talking to and playing with a litter of black kittens. I chose the smallest, the runt of the litter. I was afraid they'd card me, afraid they'd say no, because I wasn't 18 yet, but they didn't. I'd fought with Mom six months ago over getting my first cat, Shadow, and she'd finally ( Read more... )

Goodbye, Demon. I'm going to miss your snuggling on my lap, and your headbutting me while I'm trying to type. I'm going to miss your careless tail knocking things on my desk over. I'm going to miss your nipping my hand when I pet you wrong. I'm going to miss you, Demonkitten. Oh, I'm going to miss you...

I yet live. We have moved to Phoenix as of the middle of October. That was an annoying move, but I'm so far much happier here. Ahhh, dry heat. And it's SO nice to be out of the roachtrap hellhole apartment.

The kids are all doing quite well. Charles is completely potty-trained, and we're working on getting Josh trained. They're brilliant, sweet, ( Read more... )

"No parent should have to bury their child."

Some of you may know that I was 4 months pregnant with our third child.

We went to the doctor's office yesterday for a checkup, and discovered that the baby was dead. From appearances, the umbilical cord was twisted around and cut off blood flow to the baby.

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