I've been lucky the past two days. We were figuring on me doing all the state regs since our vendors in India are on holiday, or so we thought. Apparently, they were working yesterday because there were regs in our daily feed. I went to look at the regs for today to start working on them, and our person handing regs down in Little Rock is adding them today! I'm just going to make sure she's getting everything before I leave at 4:00. Yay for me not having to do them, because my brain is mush due to lack of sleep, and I'm sure I'd fuck it up.

Sending ~ma to Fred and hubs and Kat and anyone else in need. I know we have a lot of folks around here going through tough times.

What Burrell said. Times eleventy million.

Lots of health ~ma to your hubs, Fred Pete, and coping ~ma to you.

And more coping ~ma to Kat.

Kathy, good luck getting through the day, and then I hope you can get some rest!

Zombie poodle.

Whoa.

Ugh, a good friend of mine posted a rant on Facebook about how she should get a tax credit for not having children, because she is not contributing to overpopulation and environmental degradation, and how having children is a "lifestyle choice." I spent the day with her and her husband AND MY CHILDREN two weekends ago, but this makes me feel like I don't want to see her socially any more, if she feels my kids are just a lifestyle choice. They are human beings!

Is there any way to successfully bring this up with her, do you think, or should I write her off? It's a pity, they are our only old friends in the new city.

She probably didn't think about the way she put it, flea, but yeah, poor choice of words. I'm not sure how you bring that up, though, even if I'm sure she values your kids as more than a "lifestyle choice."

If my eye doesn't stop twitching, I'm going to go nuts.

Thanks for the thoughts, folks. I'm working half-days the rest of the week to allow maximum use of visiting hours, (which are limited to the evenings) and still get a decent amouont of sleep.

I talked to Hubs this morning, and he's doing better. No word on when he can come home, but we're playing it by ear.

I totally read that as beer instead of bear. My brain was providing commentary like "Oh, beer behind the building. That's not so bad. But why do they want people to park elsewhere? Are they afraid people will stop and get drunk on the way into work? If that's the case, perhaps they shouldn't chill beer behind the building. Allyson works at a very odd place."

Not just you.

Ugh, a good friend of mine posted a rant on Facebook about how she should get a tax credit for not having children, because she is not contributing to overpopulation and environmental degradation, and how having children is a "lifestyle choice."

Someone should explain to her that those "lifestyle choices" are going to be the ones paying for her social security.

Sometimes I feel laughed at by Big Bang Theory, though I'm the wrong kind of geek entirely and bad enough at math to make the whole posse drink gin out of the cat dish. But I'm more like them than casual hot girl Penny--we share the same tendencies toward intensity and whatnot.Like my mom won't watch L&O with me anymore cause I keep "correcting it" with wisdom from David simon. Cash, they do sort of remind me of savants I used to know. I think I still like Community better. (I hate to admit it cause I really love "Baby Mama" and "mean Girls" but I don't think 30 Rock is that funny.)Maybe it's cause I'm a writer who routinely dresses like shit, or maybe it's hard for me to be *truly* atypical and deal with how the show presents Liz Lemon's Hollywood Ugly. If she's gross, I should be in a cage someplace, right?)

They are human beings!

I suspect it's an instance of her complete disassociating the policy issue she's talking about from the immediate, personal, context.

IOW, she really doesn't think about your kids being human beings when she's writing that post. She's just (probably) copypasting from some other "childfree" forum.

The personal is political, but I think we often forget about the personal in our politics.

You could tell her that you found her use of "lifestyle choice" an affront, as your children are, in fact, human beings. And if she thinks it's so unfair that you get tax credits for them, she doesn't have to spend any time with them.