The software is not letting me work. That's okay, I didn't want to work anyway.

My oldest niece got fired from the "perfect" job that turned out to be not so great. She has decided that she isn't suited for working in a corporate environment and she plans to concentrate on her clothing design business. Unsurprisingly, I agree with her.

Jackson: No! F–k no! I’m in one of the best woman-action-movies ever f–king made — The Long Kiss Goodnight.

I loved that movie. Loved Geena Davis.

Wait, what g-string? I didn't see a g-string.

Good luck Tom!

I had to do a fasting glucose test this morning. I went to the wrong place first. Then I had to have blood drawn, wait an hour for those results, drink liquid sugar adn wait another two hours for more bloodwork. The whole time I would have happily killed someone for a coffee.

Now I have my first counselling session tonight and I am all agitated. Being grown-up sucks.

My mother fasted all day yesterday for a test today and then ate something last night after my sister left. ::facepalm::

I'm going to tell them not to reschedule the test; there's very little they could learn that would make a difference, anyway.

Social Security Baby Name lists are out (late - they usually come out the Friday before Mother's Day!) [link]

In shocker news, Michael, which was #1 for 40 years, is now out of the top 5 boy names.

Casper's name keeps on rising - #24 now, it was #88 when we named her! - and Dillo's and mine didn't move much.

Scroll to the bottom to see how creative spelling can get.

Interesting - the old-fashioned-girls-names trend seems to be bleeding over into boys names, just barely edging out boys-names-that-end-in-N. Lots more biblical names on that list than in years past.

Ugh. There's really no graceful way to say "friend, I really like the stuff you post on Facebook and appreciate the fact that you try to have substantive and thoughtful discussions there, but that other guy you're related to has gotten so nasty and abusive that I no longer participate or even like them because I fear having him pop up in my notifications all day when I do."

Matilda has ticked up from #800 to #769, and my brother and SIL's newborn, Amelia, is at #30.

So I bought a thing that is almost slightly too big for my suitcase. After about twenty minutes of poking, I have it ALMOST zipped.

No, it's not the kind of thing I can sit on.

Analysis of biggest-rising boy names: [link]

326 baby boys were named Raylan last year! (And one dog, that I know of.)

Social Security Baby Name lists are out

Kaylee! Zoe! Malcolm! Serenity!

I'm gonna come right out and say it - Nevaeh is a stupid name. (It's "Heaven" spelled backwards.) It's hard to even know how to pronounce it.