she's not a girl anymore though

• Anyone surprised? Not . . . - Mimi
  • I just recently saw her on a bunch of - magazines...sm
    • Please remember that these photos are - trose
      • Of course I realize that, but - magazines...sm
        • For her age, I don't think she looks great at all - sm
  • How proud her parents must be to have such a pathetic... - lmmt
    • girls act that way because their parents are too lazy - to teach them better
      • If they watch TV and go on line and go to school, parents can't do squat these days. - nm
        • both my children do just that and they are - anon
        • lazy parents don't monitor their kids or keep them on the right - track every day. n/m
      • Her mother isn't too lazy to teach her better sm - trose
    • I was so proud of my 14yr old - trose
      • Paris - There's always Paris
        • Too Funny! nm - trose
    • explain to young girls how dumb and useless these celebs are. - only reason they're in the media. N/M
  • Addiction - sm
    • Yes, but LL should have people to look out for her - you ex-SIL I am sure could not -
      • she's not a girl anymore though - sm
        • I know always think of that movie when I see her! (nm) - Lisa
  • I haven't heard this? sm - trose
    • yes, she's still in jail this morning . . . nm - Mimi
      • Just heard the same thing on FOX - ss
        • Also DUI, pulled over at 2:15 a.m. - ss
          • Good grief... - trose
          • Now have heard they found cocaine - Mimi
            • Yes, and she was VERY UPSET - ss
              • Talking about her mother now on FOX - ss
                • I agree - LL may be 21 but has had bad influence for years (sm) - Lisa
                  • I think Dina should be investigated - ss
                    • I don't know about the supplying part - trose

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In order to maintain a roof over our head and food on the table, etc., I finally put my foot down with my "spender" of a husband.  His check (around half as much as mine) is now directly deposited into the checking account that he has no access to period.

If there is money left over after bills are paid and he sees something he absolutely has to have then I buy it.

I know it sounds like I "wear the pants" in the family, but we wouldn't have any pants if I left finances up to him.  This man could spend his whole paycheck in a half an hour and just bring home "stuff" because it was "cool."  We have been able to buy a house and we haven't had the power or phone shut off in over 5 years.

If I hadn't done this, we'd have been living in a shack with no running water, but you can bet your paycheck that we'd have a big screen TV. 

In October we got a 7-week old cat from a local vet.  We loved her, she was a sweet ball of fluff.  She is mainly an indoor cat but does like to go out a few times a day.  A few weeks back she started eliminating (both) on my down comfortor, which is a PITA to wash!!!  I thought it was just the comfortor so I would just put it away every day after i woke up.  I thought maybe it was the litter so I have changed the type of litter I used and that seemed to help.  But last night she peed on the bed itself, not the comfortor.  The mattress is only about 6 months old, i'm very upset about this!!

Consequently to me disciplining her for this, the cat does not like me anymore.  She does not allow me to pet her, she will no longer sit in my lap.  The only time she is friendly with me is when I am making food in the kitchen and she comes and rubs on my legs because she wants food.  The only thing I did was take her and put her outside when she eliminated on the bed.  I use a spray bottle to keep her off of the table and now to completely keep her out of my room.  She does not eliminate anywhere else in the house but my bed and the litter pan.

Besides this she plays rough.  She is always biting and scratching.  Maybe it has just been too long since I had a kitten and forgot but do they normally do that? she is not very loving.  This makes me sad as I wanted a lazy Garfield type cat LOL.  I know it's not fair for me to expect her to act a certain way but I can't help being dissapointed.  She is ruining my bed.  I have started putting her outside more but my youngest gets sad when I do as he thinks she won't come back and that is a battle.

Anybody had problems like this?  I know there is a spray you can buy so they will not eliminate on certain places but won't she just find somewhere else to do it?

When you fight for space in a home, you get over the fear. If they aren't too "fast", I catch them and put them outside. Not afraid of anything else except heights. Can't even get on a step stool.

I was a tomboy growing up and played with all kinds of insects and bugs except spiders. Even brought home a garter snake, bat, and mouse as a house pets. Can't imagine why my mom was so upset.

I was so busy working that most of my friends gave up and I can't blame them. My closest dearest friend of 30-some years died 2 years ago. We only kept in touch by phone in the past 5 years prior to her death.

I have 2 internet friends, one the wife of my boy friend (not boyfriend) from elementary school and one who shares genealogy family with me. He was the brother I never had.

Oh, and my husband. We've been best friends for 40 some years.

They came here to PA to protest a soldier's funeral this winter.  The only thing they hadn't planned on was the fact that the town where the funeral was held was so small, there was one main street in and out...and that was blocked by the Harley riders and others, so they didn't get in.

My 7-year-old child was invited to a B-day party for a little boy that was also turning 7.  Anyway, when it came to opening gifts, he got Wii game toys, the different controlers and games.  I did not even know the kid had a Wii game, but it seemed like everyone else did.   I bought him a race track and a game of Go Fish.  The race track got an "I already have that" comment and the Go Fish was "what the heck." He did not say that but he kinid of looked at it like that and put it back in the bag.  I wondered if he even knows what Go Fish is.  The only games my child has are board games, card games, those free games you can play on the computer and 1 game that plugs into the TV.  It looks like a joystick and it has 3 games in it.  These games have helped her in her reading because she has to read directions.  She can identify a lot of the ocean fish. 

I was treated like an outcast at the party anyway.  I tried to join in conversations with the other mothers, I would get ignored or very short answers, some would actually walk away.  Then one mother actually turned her back to me to talk to another so I would just listen.  They were talking about building houses, they have lots of land blah blah blah.   They were giving each other advice on what to do with it all.   When the conversation turned to how their kids are struggling in this subject or that that is when I got up and left because they toned their conversation down and then shut it off completely when then thought I was listening, so I thought that was my cue  just leave so they can vent to one another about it.  It was more about the teachers expecting too much blah blah blah.   I have known some of these mothers or their spouses since we were little kids.  They really treated me like trash back then.  I thought that now that we were in our 30s, have not had much contact with each other since HS until now that our kids are going to school together, it would be like water under the bridge.  Guess not.  The families  were wealthier than we were (just about every family was wealthier than we were back then lol) but I know they can't have it that good.  Well, actually I don't know what is in their bank account or care.  The only thing I did have over them is my kid is not struggling in school.  She is making straight As on all her subjects. 

The only reason I went was because my 7-year-old and the 7-year-old boy are really good friends and I thought that maybe me and the other mother could find something in common.  At school, they are in separable so I really wanted dd to go to help him celebrate his special day.  I could not help but notice that dd played with him more and the others were playing among themselves.  I do worry if that tee's the parents off.  I worry that they are going to discriminate against DD because I was a poor little nobody back in school and they were popular.   I worry that they are going to start refusing to let the little boy play with dd and it will break her heart and hate me.  I take baths, I practice clean living, always have, no drugs, alcohol.  I don't even smoke cigarettes.  I pay my bills.  Everything I own, I got honestly, paid for it myself.  Of course, it isn't as fancy as theirs.  H is not from here, he went to school elsewhere.  I used to worry about that too back when we 1st started dating..Him finding out I was an outcast, dork or whatever and hate me.  Now I worry that my child is going find out and resent me. 

For those of us who lived through the "British Invasion", or even if you didn't but saw replays of some of the groups singing, you would remember that the teen girls would scream and cry.  Cry.  Yes.  So when I saw that pitiful-looking little girl, I thought she was planted there sort of as a flashback to the British Invasion period.  If that was the reason, it did not work out well.  They should have had a group of them doing that.  As it was, it just made her look like she desperately needs a psychiatrist. 

but did you notice how enthralled she was with Sanjaya?  that's why I think it is millions of little girls that age voting for him.

Just my thoughts.  My other thought is that AI seems to have run its course.