Growing WarriorsJust your typical family…

Women who don’t have their own email address….so the “from” line always reads, “Dick and Jane Smith” or “Dick Smith” but then it is signed “love Jane” I NEVER see an email from a man where the “from” line reads “Jane Smith” adn then it is signed “love Dick”

Come on gals. Its 2006 – every ISP gives you 5 or so email addresses to use, and if not, everywhere you go online will give you a free email address – hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc., etc., etc.,

Don’t get me started on postages envelopes or cards signed/addressed “Mr. and Mrs. Dick Smith” – um hello? When I married Eric I did not become “Mrs. Eric” He did not absorb me into his idenity.

Ok, I know this is minor..there are bigger issues in the world. Like I said…a SMALL pet peeve of mine. Since this is a family site, I steer clear from the big pet peeves….

Eric got to see NYC tonight and may get to see it again this week….or on other trips. I am so JEALOUS. I got to see Office Max and the Taco Bell drive-in along with a softball field tonight. Anyone jealous of me?

So I joined a CSA, and got my first batch of freshly picked, organically grown goodies yesterday! I got a bunch of bright flavorful lettuce (can’t remember what kind), a bag of YUMMY spinach, some eggs (no baby chickens came out), some rhubarb (we’re going to make a pie tomorrow!), some other green thing with flowers and vine like shoots that I can’t remember the name to but tastes really good on a salad even though I can’t quite muster the nerve to eat the flowers thing..and some radishes, which I hate, but hey. Anyway, I have been enjoying the most lovely salads!

My vow with the CSA is to eat everything I get (except those dang radishes – oh, and the flowers), even if I have no idea what I am eating. Figure that will help with my goal to get more fruits and veggies in my diet as well.

In other news, I went to my neighborhood book club last night, and had a very enjoyable time. Drank probably 2 glasses of wine too many (3 glasses seems like a good amount for me, but I had five – shh, don’t tell my mom, k?), so got kinda chatty. I’m normally so shy and reserved, so I hope I didn’t say anything embarrassing But it was SO much fun (maybe because of the wine, huh?). After the meeting broke up around 11, three of us sat in the driveway chatting.. I didn’t get home until after 12:30! The topic of the evening was largely on birth (oh, we should have discussed the book?? hmm…that’s odd!), as the host is 7 months pregnant with her first child. Odd how you get 12 women in a room, and if one is pregnant, the other 11 feel the need to share their stories and advice. This poor woman sat there like a deer in the headlights. “You MUST get the epideral” was quickly followed by 3 or 4 epidural horror stories. “Big babies MUST result in a c-section” was quickly followed with stories about 13lb babies being born naturally with no tearing. It was really quite comical to be honest. But this poor poor woman. And it was a bit discouraging how FREAKISH the three of us who had natural childbirths were made to feel…”You did WHAT? OMG, WHY?????” Of course I was the only one who had had 2 of her babies at home in a horse trough. TRUMP!

Sarah tagged me quite a while ago, and I keep forgetting to DO it.

Six Weird Qualities or Habits I Have:
1. I will narrate my life in song rather frequently…and I am known to increase the volume and intensity if a child starts begging me to stop.
2. I can move my big toe from side to side, independant from the other toes. Try it. Most folks can only move their big toe up and down.
3. I HATE marshmallows. HATE them. I’ve been told that’s weird.
4. I am VERY picky about how the dishes get loaded into the machine, and will often redo it if someone tries to “help”
5. Many of my new grey hairs want to grow in standing straight up and curly (the rest of my hair is pretty straight)
6. I claim to be rather normal

I tag:
Andrea
Gina
Diane
Marti

And I thought Eric was bad! OMG

Oh, if only I’d paid more attention in the 70s

Its pretty sad when Quicken suggests you schedule your transactions with the liquor store, isn’t it?

Today it said that $28.32 was overdue to Discount Liquor. Best get on that

Ok, quick intro – Jess moved out a couple of months ago – originally she was living in an apt with a teen mom. She lasted about 5 weeks there before moving in with another friend. Just before moving out of the apt with the teen mom, Jess got $3000 from a car accident she was in. She happily took that to the bank to open a checking account – her first ever. Then the next day, she and her roommate got into a big fight and Jess moved out – this was on a Friday or Saturday. The next Monday she went to the bank and told them NOT to mail her debit card or her checks to that address. They said fine. Well a week later (give or take), Jess goes to the bank to check her balance and learns that she has $156 in the bank – apparently the bank sent her stuff to her old address and the ex-roommate swiped something like $2600 from Jess. Over $500 is a felony. The bank is refunding Jess’s money, because it was their fault, and because it was on a visa check card which is protected like a credit card. No problem there.

Now here is what I don’t get (besides the fact of how did the ex-roommate justify this to herself??? Did she think she wouldn’t get caught? That Jess wouldn’t care? WHAT???), since this happened, the ex-roommate’s father has been calling Jess up threatening her (threatening to sue her because she moved out early – even though they demanded she move out, and even though she wasn’t on the lease – good luck there!) & begging her not to place charges because she has a baby (whatever). They don’t seem to get that this is the bank’s case, not Jessica’s. The bank has photos of this girl using the ATM – they have this girl admitting to it, etc., It really is out of Jess’s hands (not to mention that this girl is a FELON!). ANYWAY, the dad of the roommate is offering to pay Jess the money she stole, anything. And then, just today, the bank called Jess and told her that the girl is STILL writing checks on the account! Even though she KNOWS that she is under investigation and likely to face felony charges – even though she KNOWS that this bank account has been closed. Even though all of her friends and her family know what she has been doing, she is still writing CHECKS!

So what I don’t get – HOW can that father be willing to bail her out, and how can that father be so angry at the person his daughter victimized???? Its obvious that this girl never learned right from wrong and it is obvious that her father never taught her! I just don’t get it. I don’t get it at all. And some of their mutual friends are actually taking this girl’s side, blaming Jessica because this girl is going to go to jail and be separated from her son. Um, excuse me?? Jess should just forgive and forget that this girl stole nearly $3k from her?? This is NOT Jess’s fault here! This girl is doing this to herself.

And excuse me, but if I were this girl’s father, I would say, “Well dear, you sure did a stupid thing, I hope your jail term isn’t too rough on you” – he isn’t holding his daughter accountable at all. She committed a felony! And everyone feels sorry for her??? And even in the midst of all of this, she is continuing to do this???