when I washed every dirty piece of laundry in the house except what I was wearing.

I just did this! In the process, I noticed that I own more blue shirts than every other color put together. I think I might have gone overboard on the blue on my last shopping trip. Now I crave more maroon, because it looks better with black pants.

When did I get interested in shopping? It's very distressing. And why didn't I do it when my parents were still paying for my clothes?

So. A while ago I'd contacted a woman on one of the dating sites, and she wrote back asking for my picture. I sent it, and then didn't hear from her again. A pretty clear signal, but I figured I'd give it one more shot. Wrote back to her, noting that she'd probably got the photo and realised the lorikeet was the good-looking one, but in my defence I'm the better kisser (lorikeets are all tongue).

She sent me her phone number this morning. Methinks this could be a good sign.

billytea, your funny side is showing.

My daughter's cats were both just sitting on the coffee table. I looked up just in time to see Tanner reach out with one paw and push Tucker off the edge. Hee.

Go you, billytea.

Annabel has another word--bayba for baby, though she uses it for older children, too. She pointed out all the baybas when DH took her to Target last night, and she came around to the computer while I had the scary pageant site up, and she pointed to the faces and said "bayba."

I'm impressed she can recognize them as human.

She sent me her phone number this morning. Methinks this could be a good sign.

Fortune favors the bold, bt. Go you!

Those pagent sites make me want to call Child Protective Services. And then bitch slap the mothers.

When my brother was a baby, he just loved seeing other babies. It was adorable. My mom bought him a baby doll for his first birthday and he was thrilled with it. Loved that doll.

I gots a question. And I have no idea why it suddenly occurred to me to wonder about it now other than terrible boredom, but anyway.

Why is it legal for Hustler and other pornographic entities to solicit and pay girls to have lots of sex with men on camera, but it's not generally legal for said men to pay those same girls for the sex straight up? And if it's something to do with the middle man, what about more amateurish pornographic enterprises, where a single man pays many women to have sex with him while he films it for distribution?

Is it something to do with spreading of disease? Must all hardcore pornographic models go through some sort of regulatory thing in order to perform? Is there any reason that exact same regulation system, assuming it exists, can't be extended to prostitution, and shouldn't be?

I'm not talking about the legality of the distribution of the pornography, which I understand falls under free expression et cetera. I'm wondering about the legality of the production of hardcore pornography. It seems to be straight-up prostitution, which is generally, technically, illegal.

Why is it legal for Hustler and other pornographic entities to solicit and pay girls to have lots of sex with men on camera, but it's not legal for said men to pay those same girls for the sex straight up?

Dude. I had totally been thinking about this since watching Pornucopia, in which I discovered that, unlike in the soft porn to which I was accustomed, in real porn, they actually do have sex.