Hooray! Just what I've been looking for!

This is going to be my next big purchase...

8' refrigerated salad bar w/ sneeze guard for sale.

and you wonder why children are the way they are

My parents listened to talk radio when they used to have their own business (making hot tub covers), and at that time I felt a bit annoyed by having to listen to talk radio when I was working (Rush Limbaugh a bit boring when you're a teen). Dr. Laura (Schlessinger) wasn't so bad - she had some good ideas. She's on the radio here locally, as well as online on her home station in CA. I try to listen to Dr. Laura most every day now. It breaks up the monotony of work, and gives me something to think about.

On Thursday, I was listening to Dr. Laura and heard the following:

20 yr old girl writes in to dr laura of her co-worker who just came back after maternity leave. The girl asked the new mom how she felt leaving her baby and coming back to work. The co-worker said it was hard to leave her baby but the baby smiled when dropped off at the babysitter. (The baby's 1.5 months old!) Later in the day, the co-worker gets back from her lunch hour, and the girl asks how lunch was. The co-worker says she went home for lunch, and it was good. The girl questioned if co-worker stopped to see baby. Co-worker says no, it wouldn’t be good, it would only make the baby cry, and then the babysitter would have to deal with the crying baby.

The co-worker was more concerned with the babysitter dealing with a crying baby than with why the baby was crying.

It makes me sad. I understand that some people need to continue to work when they have children, only because they desperately need the money to survive. But I'm a firm believer in planning to have a child, and having some money set aside. I also strongly believe that the parents should work it out so that one of them is home with the child all the time. There is no reason that children should be brought up by other people, just because the parents didn't plan, or are too selfish/career-centered to stay home and raise their child. I really think it's horrible!

dodgeball

Not sure how many have seen the movie "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story". It's one of my new favorites, and I'm not really sure why. It makes me laugh - and who doesn't love Ben Stiller as a pumped up weirdo. It's greatly amusing to me...

other people's lives

In looking at a former academy friend's blog, I found a link to http://www.dooce.com/. He titles it "Really funny. Really well written. Really good pictures. Really... good."

I would tend to agree. Here's one of her posts that I found just outrageous, but somehow oddly amusing at the same time. http://www.dooce.com/archives/daily/01_05_2005.html

library

Our public library has 6 locations throughout town. We have a county library too, that has 10 locations throughout the area. The county library closest to our house is kind of small, and more for reserving and picking up, rather than perusing for hours and finding all sorts of stuff. The public library closest to our house is larger, and has more of a selection. After finding them, we began going there just about every Friday (our day off). We'd collect movies for the weekend, and magazines, books, etc. It's great.

Until last Friday when we went in, and they told us they had new hours for 2005. So here's their hours: T 12pm to 8pm Th, Sa 10am to 6pm Su, M, W, F Closed. Looks like we've lost our weekly Friday visit to the library.

Granted, we can visit other branches, but they're not as close. And the county library is ok, you just have to figure out what you want, reserve it and get it to our branch for pick up. And then you have to wait until 1:00pm when they open. I'd not mind going to the public library downtown main branch, but you have to pay for parking there, or walk over a mile to park in free areas.

I'm a bit bummed about this. I'm not sure why they decided to change their hours and days (probably financial reasons) but I think this may come back to bite them.

The pig

Something we found very amusing from Spokane's Spokesman Review, InLife section, The Slice article, Tuesday, January 4, 2005:

Contest time: "My son's family is into charades," wrote Judy McKeehan. "Margaux, 5, got the subject of 'chopping wood'. As soon as she began making chopping motions, Nicole, 2, shouted out, 'Whipping the pig!'

"They all wondered, what pig? What whip? (They live in suburban Cleveland.)

"Needless to say, 'Whipping the pig' became a default guess anytime someone was stumped."

come on, snow!

Hooray for us! It started snowing yesterday afternoon, around 2p or something, and didn't stop until sometime last night after 11p. We have 4 inches or more, with 3-5" more expected to come along tonight. Granted, this doesn't even come close to the 30" Reno has, but it's still snow, and it's still white outside, and we have icicles, and it's just so cool!

I say, "come on, snow!"