Is it an ordinary thing to get a note from Fannie Mae saying your mortgage was purchased by them?

Is it an ordinary thing to get a note from Fannie Mae saying your mortgage was purchased by them?

In this day and age? I wouldn't be surprised to see a note from Wal-Mart saying they'd bought your mortgage.

Sean, this would be a good time to think about reaching out to your dad. I don't know if that is possible for either of you. And it might not be. But losing family is hard and it can make for a way to come together again if you wanted that option.

I've been watching Gina Torres on Suits looking incredibly fierce and it made me want to step up my game.

Seriously if anyone can give her a run for her money, it's you. And I just like the idea that you look fiercer because of Gina Torres. It's sprinkles on top of whipped cream on top of awesome. And fun with drinks.

Omnis, yes.

If it was my head , Matt would tell me to go and Nag me. If it was Matt's head he would not go .

If you aren't feeling woozy or dizzy and it isn't worse ... but if it isn't better in the morning..I don't know.

{{Sean}}

I am having a moment of "Damn, that's stupid - even for you, Self!" and I can't post it anywhere else so ya'll are getting subjected to my randomness once again.

Our friends have 2 year old daughter. She is all of the nice and awesome things toddlers are and she has ginormous blond curls that I would have killed for as a teenager. Anyway, they dress her in what they call gender neutral, which means they just buy clothes for her, they don't care if it's "boy" or "girl" clothes.

Now, in theory, I totally get it and agree with it. Buying kids clothes is freaking spendy and while they are of an age in which they don't, typically, have much of an opinion of what they wear? Put 'em in whatever fits and is appropriate for the weather conditions.

In practice? Well, the latest picture of her is in a green dinosaur t-shirt and plaid Bermuda shorts and she is just cute as a button (as per usual) but I'm looking at her, and all of the other pictures of her in other clothes, and I'm thinking, "For the love of Mike! Will you put that child in something girly! Let her be a *girl*!"

(Now before I get jumped on for gender stuff, I want to caveat this with - I *KNOW*. I. *KNOW*. I am wrong. She is no less a girl because of her clothes. It's just my surface reaction. How I come out on the other end is more logical and in agreement with her parents and less pure my aesthetically based.)

You need to examine why you want to force gender essentialism on this poor toddler, Aimee! Boo! It's a societal construct! Don't be a slave to the kyriarchy (sp?)!

Do you feel better now?

Seriously, though, if she wants to dress girly when she gets older I expect she will.

Steph, hope that head of yours feels better. Sounds like a bad bruise, esp with the coloration. I've had bruises like that before, ones that don't hurt much the first couple days but then get all tender when the color appears. I am a klutz so I bruise a lot.

Sean, I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother, and about your difficulties with your father.

Thanks, Hec. I know I shouldn't *care* what the hell they dress her in (and really, I truly don't), but my ingrained, bone deep, stereotypical girlyness is so hard to let go of sometimes.

Wait until she's old enough to voice her opinions on her clothes, Aims. It'll come soon enough. I dressed Liv in lots of black and gender neutral stuff but low and behold, the girly girl erupted when she got to pick her own outfits.