According to an email I just got from my favorite local used kids' clothing store, there has been a last-minute amendment that excludes second-hand retailers:

"Sellers of used children's products, such as thrift stores and consignment stores, are not required to certify that those products meet the new lead limits, phthalates standard or new toy standards."

If you want to read the entire update go to: >[link]

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I knew a girl in college who was very religious and did not believe in premarital sex. She and her ministry major boyfriend seemed to have some control issues, however. When I found out they were having sex, I asked her if she was using some form of birth control. She told me no. I flipped. I was like, "Why don't you just get some condoms and have them in your purse??"

Her response? Because then it's premeditating sin and that's just wrong. They needed to stop sinning/having sex instead of planning to sin.

My head exploded and they had a baby about 10 months later.

Oh, just because it wasn't said explicitly earlier, apparently the odds of getting pregnant when having unprotected sex on a day at random are less than 3%. [link] Of course, if you're doing it regularly, you have a better shot of hitting a fertile day.

But studies have also shown (and the article mentions this) that women are hornier when they're ovulating, and much much less so during PMS and menstruation. So having sex on a "random day" is harder than it sounds.

Sure, sure. I'm just saying "having sex" does not have a pregnancy rate of more than 10%, like the girls Hil talked to thought.

IME, Christian teen events were hotbeds of nookie.

In the FAC I had a friend who believed it was at least partly deliberate. The official line, of course, was that you couldn't have sex until you got married. And the Church wouldn't marry you until you got baptised. So for those who followed the official conveyor belt, the pull of their hormones led them straight through the FAC's membership drive. For those who didn't, of course, the lack of birth control education ensured a lot of Church-sanctioned shotgun weddings, which also meant they were going to get baptised.

I don't really buy that the FAC was that calculating about it. However, the line of reasoning does tell me there's very little incentive for abstinence-only religious groups to change to more responsible attitudes re birth control. Teenage pregnancy helps them cement their own teens into a church-based societal matrix.

So I come home from yet another day from hell and discover I forgot to give MK his shot this morning. TODAY=ALL FAIL.

I totally forgot to give Swifty his shot on Tuesday night! He seems fine though.

Surely if I had loved ones around me I'd be abusing them right now. Still grumpy.

I need shrimp advice. I bought some shrimp at Whole Foods. I assumed they were ready to eat. But after eating one it occurred to me that I didn't know for sure that it was okay.

So, I seem to remember that uncooked shrimp looks kinda translucent and grey, but cooked shrimp, like cocktail shrimp is white. Am I correct?

I totally forgot to give Swifty his shot on Tuesday night! He seems fine though.

Yeah, MK just peed in front of the box, but then he's doing that intermittently since his last major crisis. Yo people, buy stock in any company that makes chuks (the lined plastic sheets like you see in the hospital) because I buy A LOT. Well, at least until he's regulated or not here anymore (i had a blunter thought but I can't type it. He's probably 16.) Another visit is due to see if his insulin needs more adjusting. He's still lower than pre-crisis, so I suspect so.

Why I like cats: when I am cranky, they are neutrals. Because they either ignore me with enough distain I'm put off or are more adoring than hell. Or a pain in the ass, but it is nonrelavent to the crank. Want a Loki, ita? (Oh god, I just tried to imagine you with this cat. Or, god forbid, MK. You'd completely be WTFis your issue STOP!)

I am a shrimp fool. White and pink or red veins, I assume is cooked.