Maybe he looked at Sparky - who is small and slim - and figured she lives on six lettuce leaves and sparkling water?

Anyone else kind of relieved that not only fat people get this sort of shit?

Sparky, I am muy impressed with you standing up to him.

ION, I just faxed off some documents to the investigator dealing with the complaint against my former employers. I am a petty enough person that, even if there ends up being no ruling in my favor*, I am deriving considerable satisfaction from GIVING THEM SOME SHIT AND MAKING THEM PAY A LAWYER. See, I'm not your employee anymore, my need to KISS YOUR ASS is OVER. Your ability to walk all over me without any sort of response is over as well. SO FUCK YOU!

*There is no reason to assume this, btw. The complaint has already progressed through several stages where it could have been rejected.

DH has been having an insanely busy week. He is the creative director of the Mazda press events at the auto show. Bad is that he is working a 12-hour day today. Good is that Patrick Dempsey races for Mazda and was at the booth today. DH edged over close to him so I could overhear him chatting, just because he could.

This event has kept him busy for the last month, but it pays him about one-third of his income for the year. He also LOVES Mazdas, so he likes working with the designers and executives.

And now I'm earwormed with "Zoom ZOOM zoom! (Zoom zoom!)" I figured I'd share the joy.

So, I just made an appointment for Toto to get groomed before Thanksgiving.

Ooh thanks for the reminder. I need to see if I can get Frank in. I finally found a grooming place that I love. It seems to be fairly non-traumatic for him. And it's cheap and it's right around the corner from where I work and it's independently owned.

What about one of these, vw? [link]

In the "I love my kids" category-- a girl was picking on Nate's best friend, who's a small, slender boy and Nate, being Nate, just looked at her and said, "Telling you to shut up would be a waste of time and energy so I'm just not even going to bother."

Said it stopped her in her tracks.

And am I a bad mommy for having laughed like a loon when he told me the story?

Barb, no, you're a good mommy - you've taught him to use his brain.

xkcd today is a buffista crosspost for certain.

Barb, you should be a proud mommy.

have y'all heard about the transition website? [link]

Barb you should be very proud to have a son that not only stands up for his friends but one who is smart enough to do it with sarcasm.