Happy Birthday, Nilly-Baby!
Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity. I can handle myself.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
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Fred Pete - Feb 26, 2013 6:28:04 am PST #26740 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Laura - Feb 26, 2013 6:39:36 am PST #26741 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
And yet, people like Nilly are reproducing.
I was reminded the other day of a extraordinarily brilliant friend of mine. He was in his 80s when my first son was born and when he visited me in the hospital it was the very first baby he had ever held. We used to go to lunch often. He reminded me of my dad, super engineer, was head of the national engineers society or whatever for years.
When I first told Gordon that I was pregnant he looked at me like I was stark raving mad. He argued with me that I surely had more important things to accomplish with my life, etc, etc. He was dead serious. He had been married forever, but they didn't have children because his contributions to the world were much more important. Of course my argument was that it didn't make a whole lot of evolutionary sense to only let the dumb reproduce.
Anyway, I feel better about the world when people like Nilly reproduce because I know the world is a better place with her children in it.
hippocampus - Feb 26, 2013 6:42:45 am PST #26742 of 30001
not your mom's socks.
YAY Nilly Baby! Thank you for the update, Shir!
Glamcookie - Feb 26, 2013 6:44:37 am PST #26743 of 30001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Of course my argument was that it didn't make a whole lot of evolutionary sense to only let the dumb reproduce.
Have you seen Idiocracy? Not a very good movie, but the first 15 minutes are absolutely brilliant (and depressing).
Shir - Feb 26, 2013 6:46:46 am PST #26744 of 30001
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I know the world is a better place with her children in it.
Yes. That.
Steph L. - Feb 26, 2013 6:57:10 am PST #26745 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Have you seen Idiocracy? Not a very good movie, but the first 15 minutes are absolutely brilliant (and depressing).
My immediate takeaway from the movie (other than "Plants crave it," which has become an oft-repeated phrase in our house) was that it was dumb as hell.
But it stuck with me, and in my more pessimistic moments, I'm convinced, totally convinced, that it's wildly accurate about human development.
Glamcookie - Feb 26, 2013 6:58:50 am PST #26746 of 30001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Yeah, the movie overall was no good. But that opener is totally worth watching! You'll laugh, you'll cry...
Steph L. - Feb 26, 2013 7:00:51 am PST #26747 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
You'll laugh, you'll cry...
You'll name your kid Frito.
meara - Feb 26, 2013 7:19:26 am PST #26748 of 30001
He argued with me that I surely had more important things to accomplish with my life, etc, etc. He was dead serious. He had been married forever, but they didn't have children because his contributions to the world were much more important
...was his wife also making these vitally important contributions?? I suddenly feel kind of bad for her. Eesh.
Scrappy - Feb 26, 2013 8:01:39 am PST #26749 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Welcome to the world, Nilly-daughter!