Question: I'm supposed to staple my W-2 forms to my Form 1040A to my Form 8880, right? Not just use a paperclip?

Gotta say, connie, I'm inclined to side with Son #2.

My maternal grandfather smoked a pack a day until he was nearly 80. After grandma died (of lung cancer--she was also a pack a day smoker) he was a widower in a Seniors-only apartment complex. Every other day one of his admiring female neighbors would leave him a plate of cookies or a pie. (The man lurved his pie.) When my aunt asked Grandpa's doctor to read the riot act to him, the doctor said something along the lines of, "The man has bone cancer, prostate cancer, semi-blocked arteries, and God knows what else. Let him have his pie."

Grandpa died at ~83. His last words were, hand to God, "My arm hurts. It's 'cause all the pretty nurses won't stop laying on it." Yeah, it might have been nice for him to see 84, but he was a grownup (and a cut-up) and he wanted his pie.

Why Tom DeLay should be pushed out of an airplane:

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said this yesterday about Terri Schiavo: Like other Republican lawmakers championing Schiavo's bill, DeLay often suggests she is alert and potentially treatable. "She talks and she laughs and she expresses likes and discomforts," he said Sunday evening. "It won't take a miracle to help Terri Schiavo. It will only take the medical care and therapy that patients require."

Terri Schiavo doesn't talk. She doesn't have the brain lobes necessary to talk. Her court-appointed guardian ad litem, the guy who isn't in bed with either side, says she's in a persistent vegetative state.

Tom DeLay is lying.

Owen just managed to unscrew his bottle lid and dump four ounces of formula down the front of his shirt. Now he's laughing and sucking on the disconnected nipple and banging the empty bottle on the dog.

Sounds like my kind of boy.

Owen amuses me.

If the Royal Family amuses you, read this.

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Your food snobbery is showing.

How so? I eat diner food all the time.

And the best cheeseburger places don't even provide spoons.

You wouldn't list Burger In A Cup as one of the best cheeseburger places? Pffft. t /Burger In A Cup Snob

I like the idea of being turned into sparkly jewelry.

I think it’s a little odd. It’s not so much the fact that you’d be wearing grandma around your neck, it’s the idea that there is no physical permanent place to lay flowers or the fact that you can be pawned off. I’m just uncomfortable with the thought of someone wearing my remains.

We keep discussing the whole will/living will thing, and bogging down on the fact there's really no one in either family who's ideally suited to raise Annabel if both of us were gone.

My mother has told me many times that if she and her husband (not my dad) were to die she would want me to raise my 8-year old brother. I’ve told her many times to write it down, sign it and send me a copy, but she hasn’t done it yet.

I have found the wakes and funerals I have been to, to be useful to me, as a mourner. It sort of finishes it off.

I agree. What also helped me finalize my grandmother’s death in my mind was actually watching them put the casket into the ground. I didn’t get to see this with my grandfather and it always sort of felt like unfinished business.

I'm full of spaghetti.

A staple meal for the P-C diet!

There's bound to be something you'll walk in and they'll say, "Yes! She's perfect!"

Actually, I have one of these places. Home. :)

Awwwww!

But there is an outlet in case I decide to plug something in and prove that you can convert heat into electricity or something.

That’s not the weirdest thing about your oven, though. What I was annoyed at was the fact that a 10x15” pan will not fit. A 9x13” will barely fit but you need to watch your hands when pulling out the pan.

Aimée – I love the haircut!

Yay Deena for house buying!

Congratulations to Raquel!

Question: I'm supposed to staple my W-2 forms to my Form 1040A to my Form 8880, right? Not just use a paperclip?

Use staples. Paperclips fall off too easily.

I've rescued the dog and Owen is in a dry shirt.