Our daycare plan is to get an au pair, assuming I find a job next fall/winter. They are slightly more expensive than regular daycare, but they are around at all hours and would solve some of the problems caused for us by DH's crazy work hours.
Gwen: Demon, OK? The whole nine—cloven feet and horns and teeth. He wasn't wearing lamé though. Lorne: Yeah, the evil ones can't pull it off. It gets camp.
'Harm's Way'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Stephanie - Feb 11, 2005 1:41:24 pm PST #6565 of 10002
Trust my rage
amych - Feb 11, 2005 1:41:52 pm PST #6566 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Word has gotten out through the Girl Scout Mafia: quote Addams Family at the scary people in black clothes, and they'll buy boxes of Thin Mints.
Hrrmph. I wear black to work every day, and nobody quotes the Addams Family or sells me Thin Mints!
salaries normally compound
For values of "normal" that include no job I've ever had.
DXMachina - Feb 11, 2005 1:45:16 pm PST #6567 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
The Girl Scouts managed to miss me this year. No cookies. I am sad.
DavidS - Feb 11, 2005 1:46:00 pm PST #6568 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But I can't see being on the road constantly with an infant, or a toddler.
A lot of musicians do it. Kristen Hirsh took her kids out on the road for months at a time. Vaudeville families did it. There are a lot of things that are probably easier about it. If you're not stuck with a rigid job schedule, then juggling parenting and work is a lot easier.
Betsy HP - Feb 11, 2005 1:46:49 pm PST #6569 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Compound as in you get a raise, and frequently the raise is a COLA raise of N% of your previous year.
So if you stay out of work 5 years, you don't lose salary + 5*N; you lose (salary * 1.N) raised to the fifth power.
Atropa - Feb 11, 2005 1:47:33 pm PST #6570 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The Girl Scouts managed to miss me this year.
We have ones in our neighborhood this year. I answered the door last weekend to a pair of teeny-tiny baby Girl Scouts, who did indeed quote Addams Family at me. After I marked down how many boxes I wanted, they scampered down our front stairs calling out "Mom! Mom! We sold cookies to the witchy lady! She's nice!"
Betsy HP - Feb 11, 2005 1:48:20 pm PST #6571 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Awwww.
Liese S. - Feb 11, 2005 1:49:36 pm PST #6572 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
A lot of musicians do it.
A lot of musicians' kids are fucked up, too, though.
That came out needlessly harshly. But you know.
Though the flexibility is definitely an easier-making thing.
Betsy HP - Feb 11, 2005 1:50:26 pm PST #6573 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I wonder how Deadhead kids turn out? There must be some of them who grew up migratory.
Circus kids have it different, because the circus is a self-sustaining community that moves together from place to place.
Liese S. - Feb 11, 2005 1:50:29 pm PST #6574 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hee, Jilli! Yay for teeny little brave Scouts who now have a revised impression of witchy ladies.