The Mono

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Two Lumps comic for Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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Hi all! My name is Amanda. I'm 23 and I'm a dyscalculic Pagan belly dancing chick from NYC; I'm so glad I found you guys. I've never really liked children but it wasn't until I hit 17 or 18 years old that I decided that nope, kids are NOT in my future. At all. Ever.

( Department of Backstory time )

It's gotten to the point where I just try to do my own thing and just hope and pray that someone hires me ASAP. If I ever wanted kids, I think this just sealed the deal firmly in the "hell no" category.

My dysfunctional family: making me childfree since I was 18 haha.

To Alex-dancingshaman.

I knew you not near enough, but enough to know that the warriors of Valhalla are now bowing before Zod.


***ETA2: Hail and Farewall to Zod from the members of CC26:




***ETA1: Changed the usericon. It's the Air Force Memorial in Washington DC.

Alex and I both served in the USAF. Different times, different places, so I never knew him in service. While we both walked away with more then a tarnished view of the military, I know he too was proud of his service.

Haven't pointed to a request like this for a long time, but an old friend of mine thought she'd have longer to save up for her husband's hospice and funeral expenses, and the schedule sort of shifted away from their plans -- Money's needed sooner rather than later.

Please have a look if you've got a handful of bucks to spare. Paypal's even waiving fees for a minute or two.

http://britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com/2287220.html

( twitty stuff I said today - cut for your pleasure (or not!) )

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This is the version of 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' that I'm most familiar with!

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I'm starting to really hate those Flip Mino camera commercials. It's always what is supposed to be videos made by normal people with their Flip cameras. They usually aren't too bad. Usually. One that managed to get turned into a commercial is a video called "Screaming Contest". Two small children, one with some form of food mush all over her face, just making annoying screaming-type noises. The older child is doing most of the screaming and then the little sister joins in near the end.

Why do they think this makes a good commercial? Why do they think this makes people want to run out and buy these cameras? I sure as hell don't have any interest in buying it after seeing this on TV.

Why is it that submitting a picture of your kid or voting for a "cute kid" is the best idea for a contest they had?

http://www.e85challenge.com/flexfuelchallenge/

Dawn

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I collected a bunch of pictures this afternoon. I don't know if this is the right time for these or not. I'm upside down today. But I liked looking at them so I thought maybe you might like looking at them, too. Let me know if the link doesn't work. I had a hard time figuring out LiveJournal's security for the pictures. pics.livejournal.com/therobbergirl/gallery/000163sw

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I didn't win. BUT I really am okay with that; I did a lot of writing, and once again it has prodded me; it helped me make some decisions about what I want to do with stuff, and what my priorities are. I might declare a PerNon-NoWriMo at some point for another project, but right now my primary goal is to Just Keep Writing Every Day.

Last night (this morning, really) I had a dream in which my Secondary Main Character in NotB walked right past me without looking at me. I was annoyed, because I immediately recognized him, and I was like "HEY! I'm your CREATOR, don't you dare SNUB ME!" but that's pretty much exactly what he did. That probably Means Something, but I have no idea what that might be. So my revenge is writing the other story instead. HAHAHA TAKE THAT. I don't think he cares. :(

... aaaaand oh right I need to make a dentist appt. today. Call to make the appointment today, not to go in necessarily today. Thank you for reminding me. Also I need to update my magnetic calendar. Anything else? I should prep foodstuff... do a load of laundry... hm. I think that's about it.

For the longest time, she complained about me getting my tubes tied, since I sprung it on her so suddenly. This past Thanksgiving Day, we were watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Dora the Explorer balloon came on and she looked over at me and said, thank you for not having kids, we would be listening to Dora all day long and then Spongebob came down, she repeated the same comment to me.

To which I said, Amen, mom. I doubt you would be watching all of your CSIs and other shows if I had kids. Now, what do we do about the big brat kid up there in the other bedroom.

To which my mom said, I doubt he'll have any kids because he's too old(and what woman in their right mind would take in a hoarding male like him, who has rage issues and has a criminal history of stalking) and that he would hate them and he'll ignore them like the plague. He's not daddy material.

I looked at my mom and said I love you, mom.

She said, of all three of my kids, you and David are the best ones in the bunch.

Now that is a huge compliment and the thing is the only kid that gets oohhs and aaaahhhhs from us is kittens, puppies and foals. Human babies look like aliens to us.

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