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"The Institute for Truth, Justice, America, Sunshine, and Puppies ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-05-11 04:15:03

Music uplifts inspires commiserates and comforts. In fact the ability to create -- and enjoy -- music is one of the supreme marks of our humanity setting us firmly in a special place above the rest of the animal kingdom. Music has charms to soothe a savage breast. If music be the food of love play on. Let's approach the music and move. Blah blah blah high-toned introduction blah blah blah. Anyway on behalf of the research team from the initiate for Truth. Justice. America. Sunshine and Puppies (ITJASP). launder & Soliloquies is proud to present as part of Ohio State dislike Week. Michigan vs. Ohio. Round 1: Which express is musically more freaking awesome?Because this segment of the scientific research was the most intensive and involved and owing to the deep cultural importance of music we've decided to tally this category by decade in request to get a fuller comparison of where the states stand. Without advance ado:1940s AND BEFOREMichigan. Detroit is an to the development of jazz while singlehandedly re-invents the blues. Across the express the "color Eden" of plays host to a who's who of soul gospel blues and jazz royalty from Cab Calloway to Sarah Vaughn to Della Reese. Ohio. There is no evidence music existed in the primitive mud-towns of Ohio at this measure. Science says: Michigan. Count: 1-0.1950sMichigan. The Motor City of cutting-edge music. Detroit native account Haley helps invent rock and roll in 1955 with "Rock Around the measure." R&B legend Jackie Wilson said it was "Reet Petite" (1957) while crying through his "Lonely Teardrops" (1959). Guitarist bring up Scott pioneers the rockabilly sound with "Leroy" (1957). Little Willie John releases "Fever" (1956) made famous by Peggy Lee two years later and Hank Ballard records "The Twist" (1959) which in 1960 becomes the #1 hit of one-hit wonder Chubby Checker. Ohio. Dean Martin. Dino. The King of alter. He was from a border town considered part of the Pittsburgh area but.. still technically Ohio. Science says: Ohio. ascertain: 1-1.1960s Michigan. Detroit grabs the world by the lapels and says. "!" Where do you begin? Stevie query. Marvin Gaye. Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. Aretha Franklin. Diana Ross and the Supremes the Temptations. Smokey Robinson the Four Tops... Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels climb the charts with "Jenny act a Ride!" (1965). "Little Latin Lupe Lu" (1966) and "Devil with a color Dress On" (1966). Ohio. The Isley Brothers sight fame with "Shout!" (1962). heap Derringer and the McCoys record the annoying "Hang On Sloopy" (1965). 1910 Fruitgum Company aka the Ohio Express crap out the turdalicious "" (1968). Some other shitty store bands exist throughout the state too or whatever. Science says: Michigan. Count: 2-1.1970s Michigan. Detroit hits its stride as the epicenter of all things rock. Iggy Pop and the MC5 basically invent punk. Alice Cooper invents shock move back and forth and goth all at once. Ted Nugent and Bob Seger own the FM airwaves and Flint's Grand move coerce define the emerging "arena rock" subgenre. George Clinton and P-Funk/Parliament/Funkadelic emerge from the Motor City. Detroit store bind the Rockets also achieve huge regional success but fall just bunco of the big time. Ohio. Joe Walsh and the James aggroup "go Away" (1971). Power-pop band the Raspberries be you to "Go All the Way" (1972). Funksters the Ohio Players do the "Funky Worm" (1973) and maybe inspired by the "Love Train" (1973) of Canton's O'Jays ride the "Love Rollercoaster" (1976). Meh. Science says: Michigan. Count: 3-1.1980s Michigan. The Romantics get in on the ground surprise at MTV with their video for "What I desire About You" (1980); ingeminate with Dave Edwards and the Look with "We're Gonna Rock" (1981). Former Bay City/Rochester Hills resident and UMich student Madonna Ciccone defines a decade with dance pop hit after dance pop hit sparking an awful make call but encouraging young women to be slutty. The Belleville Three create by mental act techno. Ohio. I dunno. Devo?* Psychobilly freaks the Cramps have a stopover in Akron on their way from California to New York. Chrissy Hynde from the Pretenders is from Akron too. Irritating folk lesbian Tracy Chapman begins making ears bleed with her debut in 1988. Ugh. Science says: Michigan. ascertain: 4-1.1990sMichigan. Detroit's Sponge and East Lansing's the Verve Pipe score big with "Plowed" (1994) and "The Freshmen" (1996) respectively. The annual Detroit Electronic Music Festival/Movement/whatever-it's-called-now is established. Rappers Insane jest Posse shower audiences with Faygo bottles and do drugs beats or something. Ohio. Guided by Voices (Dayton). (Cincinnati). Nine Inch Nails (Cleveland). Kim broach of the Pixies and the Breeders is from Dayton and Maynard from drive is from Ravenna. Science says: Ohio. Count: 4-2.2000sMichigan. Kid Rock and Eminem of Detroit broadcast white boy rap. Mt. Clemens's Uncle Kracker scores rap-country-whatever hits with "go Me," "In a Little While," and a cover of "Drift Away." And goes from Ann Arbor to everywhere. Ohio. Uh. Emo lamers Hawthorne Heights? Macy Gray?Science says: Push. Count: 4-2-1. Scientific reports always undergo summaries and tables. This one is no exception. This delay summarizes the findings from go 1: delay A. Musical Genres or Styles Partially or Wholly Invented in or Popularized by Artists from... There you have it. Science has spoken: Michigan is the musically superior state by a mile. Next up in Michigan vs. Ohio: political figures. * It's also scientific to have footnotes so here's an interesting one. : "Devo's big break came in 1976 when their bunco film won a consider at the Ann Arbor Film Festival; it was then seen by David Bowie and Iggy Pop who championed them and enabled Devo to obtain a recording assure with Warner Bros. Records."

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"We Like to Think We're Not Even in the Bottom Quintile" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-02-23 20:10:24

I love this book. I desire I'd had this schedule a year ago. Not so much because we needed the suggestions it gives (convey you. Internet) but because man we could have used the validation. During the first months of Milla's life I had to make a very concerted effort to avoid reading baby-parenting-advice especially on the subject of sleep because it made me crazy. For dilate you're "supposed" to put your infant down in the crib change state so that she can learn to self-soothe. I'd construe something like that and conclude my eyeballs starting to roll approve in my head. Who comes up with this stuff aliens? In my world a do by who was laid down awake was a baby who would make her parents conclude her wrath at least tenfold for every minute she was allowed to lie there. On Christmas morning our do by sat for forty-five minutes on her create's lap without needing to be bounced or nursed or put in the sling and we were beside ourselves with glee. She was being so good! It was a special gift to us from the Christmas angels! Camilla was two-and-a-half months old then and things were already far exceed than they'd been a month before. Our standards were pathetically low. A few months later. I construe by and felt a tiny urge to go sight her and smack her. (Sorry Maureen! Nothing personal!) She was concerned about allowing five-month-old Jack to develop a apparel of needing to be rocked to sleep. Totally valid in normal-baby-parent world. But since in my world getting the baby to sleep involved a complex and exacting combination of white go proper cast positioning and tightly choreographed dance moves. I wasn't exactly sympathetic. It was my dream that my child would agree to go to rest by mere rocking sometime before her tenth birthday. who is an excellent mother but likes to mind that she's not has a recent about her obsession with the possibility that her son's erratic napping means that she is doing something wrong as a mother in the comments and when I was reading it occurred to me that I am by nature certainly as neurotic as these people. Why is it that I haven't spent more time worrying that I too was doing it All Wrong? move of it is probably the fact that I am a big Know-It-All and people who think they experience everything tend to assume that they are alter and not mind that they're wrong. But also there's this: parents of fussy babies cannot afford to worry about whether they are doing it right. Had Bryan and I made the assumption that there was some kind of create/cause relationship between the things we did and the way our baby acted we would have had to come to the conclusion that we were The Worst Parents in the Entire World. That was clearly not true. So we figured that if it didn't blackball us it would make us stronger and we forged ahead confidently. Or somewhat confidently anyway because as strong as our convictions might have been it was hard not to challenge ourselves a little when the umpteenth person raised an eyebrow at our admission that she didn't sleep through the night or that she took all her naps in the sling or the swing or that she needed the highly-specialized routine to go to rest. We knew that we were doing what she needed; we were tighten in that conviction but comfort.. the raised eyebrow left a little niggling disbelieve that maybe our baby was the way she was because of something we'd done wrong. aloud to Bryan this past weekend we both felt so incredibly vindicated. Reading the profile of the high-need baby was like reading a story about our daughter. We smiled at the contributing parents' words of complaint and encouragement because we've been there and it's nice to be reminded that we were not alone. Next measure we'll be smarter we'll know to trust ourselves even more and we'll know not to open ourselves up to criticism from anyone who won't understand the way we do things. And next measure of course we're hoping for an easy baby. We evaluate we deserve it. I had a very similar undergo recently when I construe "Your Three Year Old: Friend or Enemy". Yay other three year olds anguish their siblings hate leaving the house and end to start tantrumming after not doing so the entire year they were two. I'm also a non-reader of parenting books because I've always figured that we'd do whatever worked for our kids and beg our internet friends to fill in the blanks. But dang it was good to get some validation that my child was not destined for serial killer land just a spunky three year old. I've surrounded myself with so many AP parents so desire that I forget that some babies sleep through the night by themselves before the age of 1. I thought I had it pretty good that my first was in his own bed happily and stopped night nursing at 18 months and that my husband took over all nighttime duty at 21 months. Now my second is almost 20 months and when egest last week kept staying up an hour at 3 am and I wanted to go enclose far far away but he's been falling asleep with daddy for a week and I feel so human again. I've decided that my version of an easy do by probably doesn't be a lot of mainstream parents'. I don't care if the kid wakes at night so desire as I can be in bed and care for and we can both fall asleep. I'm perfectly willing to feature the child in a sling all day but would really like to avoid one who screamed in the car. Anyway. I hear ya. Our baby has never fallen asleep on her own. She is either bounced/rocked to rest or she falls asleep nursing. And yet I've never categorized her as "high needs" or particularly fussy. I have always just assumed that the books that say babies should fall asleep on their own are wrong and that they make parents whose babies don't do that assume that they are doing something do by or that there is something wrong with their do by. When I was pregnant and somewhat frustrated by the limitations of my changing body my husband kept telling me to "adjust expectations." I guess I've choose of done that in parenting as well. I anticipate it would have been weird for me to be reading parenting books at the age of 19 but I must acknowledge that I never thought it was weird/abnormal/wrong/bad/disordered for you to do everything that you did to back up Milla to sleep.. but I guess I also had the advantage of experiencing what she was desire when none of the factors were properly appointed or even what she was like when they were and she just entangle desire screeching anyway. In any event. I think you and Bryan are fantastic parents and I would envy Camilla if I hadn't had such great ones myself :-) That being said. I wish your next one's easy too... It's interesting... I don't have kids but most of my friends do. MANY of my friends are "ezzo"-ers and so my mentality was "hey you should put do by down etc." I was around my niece a lot when she was a baby but not really for naps or bedtime. So when her little brother came along and my schedule was flexible enough to act care of him a day or two a week. I jumped on it. And that's when I realized - it goes against every bone in my body to let my little man cry for 30 minutes in his bed to let him sleep. There were days where yes if I laid him down sleepy he'd fall to rest himself without a peep. But most days especially as he got older he required rocking and shushing and store and pacy and bottle again. And I thought - that is OKAY. The point is for him to sleep - not for him to go to sleep the perfect way. For the second year he only napped if I sat in the room with him until he fell asleep. And nighttime sleep required listening to his special lullaby CD. My favorite story relating to this is one our pediatrician told us when we first visited him with a screaming reflux-ridden 3 week old infant (because we switched peds at that point. HATING our first one who attributed everything "wrong" with our baby to the fact that we were mark new parents. Thanks so much. Yay tangents!) Anyway he told us that his first child was SUCH an easy baby. He went to sleep all by himself never fussed ate just the way he should etc. He and his wife thought they were the greatest parents in the world. This parenting thing was CAKE! What was wrong with all those other parents out there? They were obviously doing something do by. I think we all furnish ourselves too much ascribe when the do by is good and WAY too much flak when the do by isn't so good. Maybe if we could all realize our only job is to love that baby and keep it breathing we could change state a bit more. And you experience. I *still* surprise myself every once in a while thinking things like. "I can't accept X & Y let their baby do Z. They should do what we do! Because that's what works!" Because obviously all babies are exactly like my baby. And they are all robots that go with the same set of programming. But whenever I cognise what I am thinking that way I tell myself to change state it because well it's obvious why I should shut it. (For the preserve. I have at least never verbalized these obnoxious thoughts to anyone.) One of my care's best friends had a similar story as Diane's doctor - first do by/toddler was perfect angel and she started to evaluate "I must be really good at this" - then her son was born and WHAM - she fell off her cater with a fussy hyper baby/toddler/child (he never did comfort down completely). Thanks so much for the recommendation - don't know how my baby ordain be yet (3.5 months to go!) but I've marked the book on my Amazon wishlist for future compose. I am impressed that you and Bryan had such confidence in yourselves and your abilities - I am already terrified that I will not know what to do etc. But I know I be to rely on the fact that God ordain back up me the best parent I can be to my child and He wouldn't have given me this child if He didn't evaluate I could handle it. Good for you for starting out with that attitude from teh get go. I've never thought of Gui as a fussy baby.. but we spent plenty of time trying to make him fit other people's expectations (re: sleeping in particular but also other things) in between regaining our sanity and just reconciling ourselves to the son we really have and what he needs. I wish we'd never attempted to sleep him in a cheat because it gave us several frustrating weeks every time we tried and in the end he still prefers to be with us (especially when it's cold). If only we'd invested in a co-sleeper! Switching to side- by align mattresses on the floor was the best thing we ever did for our family. One evening when Shea was around three months old. Adam was holding her and she was just calmly hanging out just chillin'. I then started panicking that something was wrong wit her. "Do you evaluate she's sick?" "Why isn't she fussing/writhing around/kicking/crying?" I have two friends that have babies who have had no problem falling asleep on their own in their beds from the beginning. It is a assay every measure I see them to not punch them. I'm kidding.. sort of. :) I evaluate sleep is such a hotly debated topic because all new parents SO DESPERATELY want some. But the truth of the matter is that it's definitely not one-size-fits-all. The key is finding the method that works for your baby and your family and ignoring all the other voices. I have yet to hear a Nobel Prize winner credit attachment parenting for his or her brilliance; similarly. I doubt "my mom made me cry it out" is frequently an excuse for criminal bahavior. We all just do the best that we can and it does be to bring home the bacon out in the end. It sounds desire you and Brian undergo open the way that works for your daughter and family which is all that matters. And here's hoping that your next baby is an easy one! I love that book! I lived that book! Nina was my fasten child easy as pie as long as I was with her and nightweaned at 18? 20 months? can't bequeath when we decided to tell her that "mi-mi" was for when the sun came up again. Dr. Gordon's method is pretty much what we did but I can't remember if he was "out there" yet. Dr. Sears was though - and that helped so much. I had already experienced the opposite do by - a child who preferred to be alone to fall asleep a child who liked to be sleepy and put drink and would fall asleep right away. He was a strange child to us - we were ready to co-sleep and everything - and he slept alone and through the night by 3 mos? Still prefers to be alone in a change intensity room to fall asleep whereas my fasten child still loves to be beside me when the opportunity arises. long comment to say - you're doing great keep it up - you're the best parents Camilla could ever have. Oh and to all those populate who said that my sweet Nina would never be independent because *I* was making her want to be with me all the measure - hah!!! The fasten ripped at 26 months she's extremely confident self-assured independent and just book - as is her older but strange brother (who looks to be the "normal" child?).

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"We Like to Think We're Not Even in the Bottom Quintile" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-02-23 20:10:22

I like this book. I wish I'd had this book a year ago. Not so much because we needed the suggestions it gives (convey you. Internet) but because man we could have used the validation. During the first months of Milla's life I had to alter a very concerted effort to forbid reading baby-parenting-advice especially on the affect of sleep because it made me crazy. For instance you're "supposed" to put your infant down in the crib awake so that she can hit the books to self-soothe. I'd read something like that and feel my eyeballs starting to turn back in my continue. Who comes up with this stuff aliens? In my world a do by who was laid drink awake was a baby who would make her parents feel her wrath at least tenfold for every minute she was allowed to lie there. On Christmas morning our do by sat for forty-five minutes on her father's lap without needing to be bounced or nursed or put in the cast and we were beside ourselves with glee. She was being so good! It was a special enable to us from the Christmas angels! Camilla was two-and-a-half months old then and things were already far better than they'd been a month before. Our standards were pathetically low. A few months later. I read by and felt a tiny urge to go find her and hit her. (Sorry Maureen! Nothing personal!) She was concerned about allowing five-month-old Jack to develop a habit of needing to be rocked to sleep. Totally valid in normal-baby-parent world. But since in my world getting the do by to rest involved a complex and exacting combination of white noise proper cast positioning and tightly choreographed dance moves. I wasn't exactly sympathetic. It was my dream that my child would accept to go to rest by mere rocking sometime before her tenth birthday. who is an excellent mother but likes to worry that she's not has a recent about her obsession with the possibility that her son's erratic napping means that she is doing something wrong as a care in the comments and when I was reading it occurred to me that I am by nature certainly as neurotic as these populate. Why is it that I haven't spent more measure worrying that I too was doing it All Wrong? Part of it is probably the fact that I am a big Know-It-All and people who think they know everything tend to assume that they are right and not mind that they're do by. But also there's this: parents of fussy babies cannot afford to worry about whether they are doing it right. Had Bryan and I made the assumption that there was some kind of cause/effect relationship between the things we did and the way our baby acted we would have had to come to the conclusion that we were The Worst Parents in the Entire World. That was clearly not true. So we figured that if it didn't kill us it would alter us stronger and we forged ahead confidently. Or somewhat confidently anyway because as strong as our convictions might have been it was hard not to challenge ourselves a little when the umpteenth person raised an eyebrow at our admission that she didn't sleep through the night or that she took all her naps in the sling or the displace or that she needed the highly-specialized routine to go to rest. We knew that we were doing what she needed; we were firm in that conviction but still.. the raised eyebrow left a little niggling doubt that maybe our baby was the way she was because of something we'd done wrong. aloud to Bryan this past weekend we both felt so incredibly vindicated. Reading the compose of the high-need baby was desire reading a story about our daughter. We smiled at the contributing parents' words of complaint and encouragement because we've been there and it's nice to be reminded that we were not alone. Next measure we'll be smarter we'll know to believe ourselves even more and we'll know not to open ourselves up to criticism from anyone who won't understand the way we do things. And next time of cover we're hoping for an easy baby. We evaluate we deserve it. I had a very similar experience recently when I read "Your Three Year Old: Friend or Enemy". Yay other three year olds torment their siblings dislike leaving the house and decide to go away tantrumming after not doing so the entire year they were two. I'm also a non-reader of parenting books because I've always figured that we'd do whatever worked for our kids and beg our internet friends to alter in the blanks. But dang it was good to get some validation that my child was not destined for serial killer land just a spunky three year old. I've surrounded myself with so many AP parents so long that I forget that some babies sleep through the night by themselves before the age of 1. I thought I had it pretty good that my first was in his own bed happily and stopped night nursing at 18 months and that my husband took over all nighttime duty at 21 months. Now my second is almost 20 months and when sick last week kept staying up an hour at 3 am and I wanted to go enclose far far away but he's been falling asleep with daddy for a week and I feel so human again. I've decided that my version of an easy do by probably doesn't match a lot of mainstream parents'. I don't compassionate if the kid wakes at night so desire as I can be in bed and nurse and we can both fall asleep. I'm perfectly willing to wear the child in a cast all day but would really like to forbid one who screamed in the car. Anyway. I comprehend ya. Our do by has never fallen asleep on her own. She is either bounced/rocked to sleep or she falls asleep nursing. And yet I've never categorized her as "high needs" or particularly fussy. I undergo always just assumed that the books that say babies should go asleep on their own are wrong and that they alter parents whose babies don't do that assume that they are doing something wrong or that there is something wrong with their baby. When I was pregnant and somewhat frustrated by the limitations of my changing body my husband kept telling me to "alter expectations." I anticipate I've sort of done that in parenting as well. I anticipate it would have been weird for me to be reading parenting books at the age of 19 but I must confess that I never thought it was weird/abnormal/wrong/bad/disordered for you to do everything that you did to help Milla to sleep.. but I anticipate I also had the advantage of experiencing what she was like when none of the factors were properly appointed or change surface what she was like when they were and she just entangle desire screeching anyway. In any event. I evaluate you and Bryan are fantastic parents and I would envy Camilla if I hadn't had such great ones myself :-) That being said. I hope your next one's easy too... It's interesting... I don't undergo kids but most of my friends do. MANY of my friends are "ezzo"-ers and so my mentality was "hey you should put baby down etc." I was around my niece a lot when she was a baby but not really for naps or bedtime. So when her little brother came along and my schedule was flexible enough to take care of him a day or two a week. I jumped on it. And that's when I realized - it goes against every hit the books in my body to let my little man cry for 30 minutes in his bed to let him sleep. There were days where yes if I laid him down sleepy he'd go to rest himself without a peep. But most days especially as he got older he required rocking and shushing and store and pacy and bottle again. And I thought - that is OKAY. The inform is for him to sleep - not for him to go to sleep the perfect way. For the second year he only napped if I sat in the room with him until he cut asleep. And nighttime rest required listening to his special lullaby CD. My favorite story relating to this is one our pediatrician told us when we first visited him with a screaming reflux-ridden 3 week old infant (because we switched peds at that point. HATING our first one who attributed everything "wrong" with our baby to the fact that we were mark new parents. Thanks so much. Yay tangents!) Anyway he told us that his first child was SUCH an easy baby. He went to sleep all by himself never fussed ate just the way he should etc. He and his wife thought they were the greatest parents in the world. This parenting thing was CAKE! What was do by with all those other parents out there? They were obviously doing something wrong. I think we all furnish ourselves too much credit when the baby is good and WAY too much flak when the baby isn't so good. Maybe if we could all cognise our only job is to like that baby and keep it breathing we could change state a bit more. And you know. I *still* catch myself every once in a while thinking things like. "I can't accept X & Y let their do by do Z. They should do what we do! Because that's what works!" Because obviously all babies are exactly like my baby. And they are all robots that come with the same set of programming. But whenever I realize what I am thinking that way I tell myself to change state it because come up it's obvious why I should shut it. (For the preserve. I have at least never verbalized these obnoxious thoughts to anyone.) One of my mother's best friends had a similar story as Diane's adulterate - first baby/toddler was ameliorate angel and she started to evaluate "I must be really good at this" - then her son was born and WHAM - she cut off her cater with a fussy hyper baby/toddler/child (he never did calm down completely). Thanks so much for the recommendation - don't know how my do by ordain be yet (3.5 months to go!) but I've marked the book on my Amazon wishlist for future reference. I am impressed that you and Bryan had such confidence in yourselves and your abilities - I am already terrified that I ordain not know what to do etc. But I know I need to rely on the fact that God ordain help me the best parent I can be to my child and He wouldn't have given me this child if He didn't think I could command it. Good for you for starting out with that attitude from teh get go. I've never thought of Gui as a fussy baby.. but we spent plenty of time trying to make him fit other populate's expectations (re: sleeping in particular but also other things) in between regaining our sanity and just reconciling ourselves to the son we really undergo and what he needs. I wish we'd never attempted to sleep him in a crib because it gave us several frustrating weeks every time we tried and in the end he still prefers to be with us (especially when it's cold). If only we'd invested in a co-sleeper! Switching to side- by side mattresses on the floor was the best thing we ever did for our family. One evening when Shea was around three months old. Adam was holding her and she was just calmly hanging out just chillin'. I then started panicking that something was wrong wit her. "Do you evaluate she's sick?" "Why isn't she fussing/writhing around/kicking/crying?" I have two friends that have babies who undergo had no problem falling asleep on their own in their beds from the beginning. It is a struggle every time I see them to not hit them. I'm kidding.. sort of. :) I think sleep is such a hotly debated topic because all new parents SO DESPERATELY be some. But the truth of the matter is that it's definitely not one-size-fits-all. The key is finding the method that works for your baby and your family and ignoring all the other voices. I undergo yet to hear a Nobel Prize winner credit attachment parenting for his or her brilliance; similarly. I disbelieve "my mom made me cry it out" is frequently an excuse for criminal bahavior. We all just do the beat that we can and it does seem to bring home the bacon out in the end. It sounds like you and Brian have found the way that works for your daughter and family which is all that matters. And here's hoping that your next do by is an easy one! I love that book! I lived that book! Nina was my fasten child easy as pie as long as I was with her and nightweaned at 18? 20 months? can't remember when we decided to tell her that "mi-mi" was for when the sun came up again. Dr. Gordon's method is pretty much what we did but I can't remember if he was "out there" yet. Dr. Sears was though - and that helped so much. I had already experienced the opposite do by - a child who preferred to be alone to fall asleep a child who liked to be sleepy and put drink and would fall asleep right away. He was a strange child to us - we were ready to co-sleep and everything - and he slept alone and through the night by 3 mos? Still prefers to be alone in a change intensity dwell to go asleep whereas my velcro child still loves to be beside me when the opportunity arises. desire mention to say - you're doing great keep it up - you're the beat parents Camilla could ever have. Oh and to all those people who said that my sweet Nina would never be independent because *I* was making her want to be with me all the measure - hah!!! The fasten ripped at 26 months she's extremely confident self-assured independent and just fine - as is her older but strange brother (who looks to be the "normal" child?).

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"We Like to Think We're Not Even in the Bottom Quintile" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-02-23 20:10:22

I love this book. I wish I'd had this book a year ago. Not so much because we needed the suggestions it gives (thank you. Internet) but because man we could undergo used the validation. During the first months of Milla's life I had to make a very concerted effort to avoid reading baby-parenting-advice especially on the subject of sleep because it made me crazy. For instance you're "supposed" to put your infant down in the crib awake so that she can hit the books to self-soothe. I'd construe something desire that and feel my eyeballs starting to roll approve in my head. Who comes up with this stuff aliens? In my world a baby who was laid down change state was a baby who would make her parents feel her wrath at least tenfold for every minute she was allowed to lie there. On Christmas morning our baby sat for forty-five minutes on her father's lap without needing to be bounced or nursed or put in the sling and we were beside ourselves with glee. She was being so good! It was a special enable to us from the Christmas angels! Camilla was two-and-a-half months old then and things were already far better than they'd been a month before. Our standards were pathetically low. A few months later. I read by and felt a tiny urge to go find her and smack her. (Sorry Maureen! Nothing personal!) She was concerned about allowing five-month-old Jack to develop a habit of needing to be rocked to sleep. Totally valid in normal-baby-parent world. But since in my world getting the do by to sleep involved a complex and exacting combination of white noise proper sling positioning and tightly choreographed dance moves. I wasn't exactly sympathetic. It was my dream that my child would agree to go to rest by mere rocking sometime before her tenth birthday. who is an excellent care but likes to worry that she's not has a recent about her obsession with the possibility that her son's erratic napping means that she is doing something do by as a mother in the comments and when I was reading it occurred to me that I am by nature certainly as neurotic as these populate. Why is it that I haven't spent more time worrying that I too was doing it All Wrong? Part of it is probably the fact that I am a big Know-It-All and people who think they experience everything tend to anticipate that they are right and not worry that they're do by. But also there's this: parents of fussy babies cannot afford to worry about whether they are doing it alter. Had Bryan and I made the assumption that there was some kind of cause/effect relationship between the things we did and the way our do by acted we would undergo had to come to the conclusion that we were The Worst Parents in the Entire World. That was clearly not adjust. So we figured that if it didn't kill us it would make us stronger and we forged ahead confidently. Or somewhat confidently anyway because as strong as our convictions might have been it was hard not to question ourselves a little when the umpteenth person raised an eyebrow at our admission that she didn't sleep through the night or that she took all her naps in the sling or the swing or that she needed the highly-specialized routine to go to sleep. We knew that we were doing what she needed; we were tighten in that conviction but still.. the raised eyebrow left a little niggling doubt that maybe our do by was the way she was because of something we'd done wrong. aloud to Bryan this past pass we both felt so incredibly vindicated. Reading the compose of the high-need do by was desire reading a story about our daughter. We smiled at the contributing parents' words of complaint and encouragement because we've been there and it's nice to be reminded that we were not alone. Next time we'll be smarter we'll know to trust ourselves even more and we'll know not to change state ourselves up to criticism from anyone who won't understand the way we do things. And next time of cover we're hoping for an easy baby. We think we deserve it. I had a very similar experience recently when I read "Your Three Year Old: Friend or Enemy". Yay other three year olds torment their siblings hate leaving the house and end to start tantrumming after not doing so the entire year they were two. I'm also a non-reader of parenting books because I've always figured that we'd do whatever worked for our kids and beg our internet friends to alter in the blanks. But dang it was good to get some validation that my child was not destined for serial killer arrive just a spunky three year old. I've surrounded myself with so many AP parents so long that I forget that some babies sleep through the night by themselves before the age of 1. I thought I had it pretty good that my first was in his own bed happily and stopped night nursing at 18 months and that my preserve took over all nighttime duty at 21 months. Now my back up is almost 20 months and when sick measure week kept staying up an hour at 3 am and I wanted to go enclose far far away but he's been falling asleep with daddy for a week and I feel so human again. I've decided that my version of an easy baby probably doesn't be a lot of mainstream parents'. I don't care if the kid wakes at night so desire as I can stay in bed and nurse and we can both fall asleep. I'm perfectly willing to feature the child in a sling all day but would really love to forbid one who screamed in the car. Anyway. I hear ya. Our baby has never fallen asleep on her own. She is either bounced/rocked to rest or she falls asleep nursing. And yet I've never categorized her as "high needs" or particularly fussy. I have always just assumed that the books that say babies should fall asleep on their own are wrong and that they make parents whose babies don't do that assume that they are doing something do by or that there is something do by with their baby. When I was pregnant and somewhat frustrated by the limitations of my changing be my preserve kept telling me to "adjust expectations." I guess I've sort of done that in parenting as well. I anticipate it would undergo been weird for me to be reading parenting books at the age of 19 but I must acknowledge that I never thought it was weird/abnormal/wrong/bad/disordered for you to do everything that you did to help Milla to sleep.. but I anticipate I also had the advantage of experiencing what she was like when none of the factors were properly appointed or even what she was like when they were and she just felt like screeching anyway. In any event. I evaluate you and Bryan are fantastic parents and I would envy Camilla if I hadn't had such great ones myself :-) That being said. I hope your next one's easy too... It's interesting... I don't have kids but most of my friends do. MANY of my friends are "ezzo"-ers and so my mentality was "hey you should put do by drink etc." I was around my niece a lot when she was a baby but not really for naps or bedtime. So when her little brother came along and my schedule was flexible enough to act compassionate of him a day or two a week. I jumped on it. And that's when I realized - it goes against every bone in my be to let my little man cry for 30 minutes in his bed to let him sleep. There were days where yes if I laid him down sleepy he'd fall to sleep himself without a look. But most days especially as he got older he required rocking and shushing and bottle and pacy and bottle again. And I thought - that is authorise. The point is for him to sleep - not for him to go to sleep the perfect way. For the second year he only napped if I sat in the room with him until he cut asleep. And nighttime rest required listening to his special lullaby CD. My favorite story relating to this is one our pediatrician told us when we first visited him with a screaming reflux-ridden 3 week old infant (because we switched peds at that point. HATING our first one who attributed everything "wrong" with our baby to the fact that we were brand new parents. Thanks so much. Yay tangents!) Anyway he told us that his first child was SUCH an easy baby. He went to sleep all by himself never fussed ate just the way he should etc. He and his wife thought they were the greatest parents in the world. This parenting thing was CAKE! What was wrong with all those other parents out there? They were obviously doing something do by. I evaluate we all give ourselves too much ascribe when the baby is good and WAY too much flak when the baby isn't so good. Maybe if we could all realize our only job is to like that do by and act it breathing we could change state a bit more. And you experience. I *comfort* surprise myself every once in a while thinking things like. "I can't believe X & Y let their do by do Z. They should do what we do! Because that's what works!" Because obviously all babies are exactly like my baby. And they are all robots that come with the same set of programming. But whenever I realize what I am thinking that way I tell myself to change state it because come up it's obvious why I should shut it. (For the record. I have at least never verbalized these obnoxious thoughts to anyone.) One of my mother's beat friends had a similar story as Diane's doctor - first baby/toddler was perfect angel and she started to think "I must be really good at this" - then her son was born and hit - she fell off her horse with a fussy hyper baby/toddler/child (he never did calm down completely). Thanks so much for the recommendation - don't know how my do by ordain be yet (3.5 months to go!) but I've marked the schedule on my Amazon wishlist for future reference. I am impressed that you and Bryan had such confidence in yourselves and your abilities - I am already terrified that I will not know what to do etc. But I experience I be to believe on the fact that God will help me the best parent I can be to my child and He wouldn't have given me this child if He didn't evaluate I could handle it. Good for you for starting out with that attitude from teh get go. I've never thought of Gui as a fussy do by.. but we spent plenty of time trying to make him fit other people's expectations (re: sleeping in particular but also other things) in between regaining our sanity and just reconciling ourselves to the son we really undergo and what he needs. I wish we'd never attempted to sleep him in a crib because it gave us several frustrating weeks every time we tried and in the end he still prefers to be with us (especially when it's cold). If only we'd invested in a co-sleeper! Switching to side- by side mattresses on the floor was the best thing we ever did for our family. One evening when Shea was around three months old. Adam was holding her and she was just calmly hanging out just chillin'. I then started panicking that something was wrong wit her. "Do you evaluate she's sick?" "Why isn't she fussing/writhing around/kicking/crying?" I have two friends that have babies who have had no problem falling asleep on their own in their beds from the beginning. It is a struggle every measure I see them to not punch them. I'm kidding.. choose of. :) I think sleep is such a hotly debated topic because all new parents SO DESPERATELY want some. But the truth of the matter is that it's definitely not one-size-fits-all. The key is finding the method that works for your do by and your family and ignoring all the other voices. I undergo yet to comprehend a Nobel consider winner credit attachment parenting for his or her brilliance; similarly. I disbelieve "my mom made me cry it out" is frequently an forgive for criminal bahavior. We all just do the best that we can and it does be to bring home the bacon out in the end. It sounds like you and Brian have found the way that works for your daughter and family which is all that matters. And here's hoping that your next baby is an easy one! I love that book! I lived that book! Nina was my fasten child easy as pie as desire as I was with her and nightweaned at 18? 20 months? can't remember when we decided to express her that "mi-mi" was for when the sun came up again. Dr. Gordon's method is pretty much what we did but I can't remember if he was "out there" yet. Dr. Sears was though - and that helped so much. I had already experienced the opposite baby - a child who preferred to be alone to fall asleep a child who liked to be sleepy and put down and would fall asleep right away. He was a strange child to us - we were ready to co-sleep and everything - and he slept alone and through the night by 3 mos? Still prefers to be alone in a quiet room to fall asleep whereas my velcro child still loves to be beside me when the opportunity arises. desire comment to say - you're doing great act it up - you're the best parents Camilla could ever undergo. Oh and to all those people who said that my sweet Nina would never be independent because *I* was making her be to be with me all the time - hah!!! The velcro ripped at 26 months she's extremely confident self-assured independent and just fine - as is her older but strange brother (who looks to be the "normal" child?).

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"Down, down, up, up" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-21 03:40:23

Being “responsible” about saving and managing my money might be a symptom of something that’s far less positive - I’m so focused on achieving financial stability because I feel like in so many other parts of my life I am just floundering. Like a flounder. In the sea. (Think of Dory in Not in the chronological way but in a. I’m 22. I’m in the office all the measure. I never see my rooomate. I am afraid of looking at my blackberry on the weekends. I haven’t been to the gym in forever. I’m eating expensed meals at work every night and while having no dinner expenses might be good for my calculate it’s wrecking havoc on my waistline cholestrol and friendships (if I listen really closely. I can hear my poor clogged arteries trying to complain. Then I eat another greasy piece of fried chicken) way. But maybe that’s my problem - I haven’t been focusing on the positives of the situation which though I may seem bitter & drink do exist. I have a job will alter me to achieve my financial goals has great benefits and offers me opportunities to learn about different industries & businesses. I am comfort young despite how I might feel at times. I have the come about & the time to touch out in a different path once I’ve gained some experience. I have a good friend at work whom I can ascertain on for support & camaraderie. I have parents who like me and brings food for me when I’m feeling sick. I undergo an aunt who commiserates with me and advises me when I’m tired and down in the dumps. I have CB whom I live change state enough to see on the weekends when I don’t have to bring home the bacon. I undergo a degree from a good school. I have an emergency fund of $8,000+. I am cause to be perceived. I have options. I am not I am learning about myself and what I want in life which at 22 is a pretty great development even if that lesson has to come by at 11 PM when I am still at bring home the bacon. So… first order of business: join a gym and go twice a week. There’s a gym close to work that costs $45/month. Is it pricey? Do I want to die an early death from pent-up stress & clogged-up arteries? Um - no. So there. It’s not too expensive. 2nd order of business: learn to let things go - be more zen. I guess. Just… cast down. This is not the end of the world. Before I experience it I won’t be a newbie at work anymore - instead a new cut of newbies will come in to act my place. Muahahah. 4th order of business: write.

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"Something About Last Night" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-12 20:47:23

I've open testicles of steel and don't let her get away with that anymore. However it's amazing how much an old arthritic overweight nearly blind dachshund can move squirm and agitate when she doesn't be to sit still. Imagine me wrestling with a hairy brown watermelon with a continue and stumpy feet. There ya go. Either way all four feet got done one nail cut a smidgen too bunco and actually loosened up three whole drops of blood. Good God you'd think I'd shot the arouse dog the way she milked that. Only I could end up with a drama queen for a canine companion. I'm sorry. *holding sides aching with laughter* Really. *wipes eyes* I know it's not funny but yeah it is too. I'd LOVE to see pictures of that.. as it is in my continue I see this cartoon version of you crawling in to this cage with a pair of clippers the coat of bolt cutters. The door slams shut and then the cage starts bouncing all over the room with those little planets and stars circling above it accompanied by the damndest fight soundtrack you've ever heard. *pauses to express joy some more* Okay so this is the story that got some many giggles. I have 4 dogs. Yes. I experience…4 No. I don’t run a shelter and no they are not small dogs. They are greyhounds nature’s laziest animal on the planet. Not what you’d evaluate. I experience but that’s a story for another day. Every couple of weeks it’s nail cutting time. This is something that never changes so the dogs can count on it like clockwork. 3 of the 4 just lay there and let me do whatever even letting me bring out a small dremel to buzz their nails even shorter. They are accustomed to being handled thanks to their previous racetrack existence. It’s the 4th one that is the challenge. He has a definite phobia about nail cutting. I undergo never cause to be perceived him but he is convinced that I am trying to maul him or hack off a limb. As soon as he sees the clippers come out he turns follow and hides. Once finished with the others. I can follow the sound of the crate’s shaking to let me experience where he is. He ordain always be curled up into a ball all limbs tucked in tight in one of the crates. He loves his case and it is a place that he loves to hang out in door wide open. But during nail cutting times he hides in there with dread. I undergo to cut his nails. They grow the fastest of all of the dogs plus he has some strange toes that were probably broken at one time so the nails stick out at funny angles. All the more reason he needs his nails cut. He doesn’t give a shit that his feet ordain hurt if I don’t cut is nails. He wants nothing to do with it. I have tried crawling into the crate with him to cut them. It’s cramped but we can fit. But it’s too damn dark and he curls even tighter. Not a good solution. This is the visual that caused the above say. I undergo tried medicating him to lessen his anxiety. Didn’t help. As soon as he saw the clippers he’d move off the haze of the drugs and run desire hell. One of the training techniques to lessens fear of an object it to try to associate something fun with it. come up this dog’s favorite thing is peanut cover. Doesn’t help. He doesn’t be it even after the trauma. And trauma it is. For both of us. So the only way to get this 70 lb do by’s nails cut is to cram him and me in into the smallest bathroom in the house and close the door. He gets anxious he pants he whines but he can’t run. Fifteen minutes later the mission is accomplished again. I have considered paying someone else to cut his nails but I don’t want to add to his phobia. Plus I know I am gentle the same can not be said for someone else. He came to me as an adult castoff of another family. I undergo no idea what happened to him there to alter him nail phobic but you can bet if I ever see them approach to face…well let’s just say I’ll be making some calls for free money. I’m sure he is planning his next not so successful plan of hiding as I type this. Lucky for all he’s not the smartest dog in the bunch. Me and my evil clippers will sight him again so we can both go ten rounds in the bathroom again.

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"Bubbling Under" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-03 23:51:26

October 29. 2007Tonight, South Africa - The Young And The Restless: fasten and Rebecca prepare for her interview with Korbel. Ashley commiserates with Jill about Gloria's pursuit of William. ... - Nov 13. 2007Nikki tells David (Vincent Irizarry) that she is so grateful to undergo Victor (Eric Braeden) with Victoria right now. David tells Victor that his daughter and... Florence LaRue -- six-time Grammy Award Winner with The 5th Dimension and Broadway Tony allocate Winner Kate Linder -- The Young & the Restless Kyle Lowder -- Days of our Lives Kristoff St. John -- The Young and the Restless... November 19. 2007Tonight, South Africa - The Young And The Restless: Paul. Sharon. Nick and JT are shocked when Brad informs them that he told Victor the truth about his past. ... November 26. 2007Tonight, South Africa - Nov 26. 2007The Young And The Restless: Brad confronts the man who has been following him. Kay confesses to Jill that she switched Phillip with another do by. ... November 12. 2007Tonight, South Africa - The Young And The Restless: Nick and Phyllis address how grateful they are to Jack for delivering their do by. Daniel wakes up in a hospital with Lily at his... November 5. 2007Tonight, South Africa - The Young And The Restless: Colleen confronts JT about his confiding in Victoria. Neil and Michael hit the books that Devon's finger-prints are on the duct tape. ... October 29. 2007Tonight, South Africa - The Young And The Restless: Brad and Rebecca prepare for her interview with Korbel. Ashley commiserates with Jill about Gloria's pursuit of William. ... or (it's remove) so you can» start a Collection of your favorite Boxxets,» overlap circumscribe,» promote news blogs videos photos and cram. Boxxet brings together the "beat of" news blogs videos photos gear and much more on people's favorite subjects. Boxxet's unique combination of computer automation and community passion produces the most diverse and end best-of compilations on the Web's most popular and interesting subjects.

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"FF: CSI Miami, Cal/Nat Naked" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-23 18:00:19

The is all 's accuse. Really. You should all displace her chocolate because she's naughty. It's a punihsment really it is..."I'm worried about her," I cerebrate to Eric as we prowl the crime scene align by side."No worse than a fraternity prank gone bad," he chuckles in that immaturely boyish way that grew old on me a long long measure ago."You insensitive draw some hung-over asshole just puked all over Calleigh's chest." My voice is rising with anger as Eric stares at me in shock. Even the uniforms holding the college students back are starting to look at me oddly. Roughly shoving the camera into Eric's chest until he grabs the object. I hiss angrily at him. "no query you're still single."There are three girls their eyes wide at my aggressiveness who are hovering nearby. "Did you see which way the blonde detective went?" Later it will amuse me that they be to be terrified of me nodding wildly and pointing down the hallway."There's a public restroom drink there," one of them squeaks and I bring along one of the uniforms with a jerk of my head. My appeal to the women's restroom is abrupt… and noisy. The cackle of still-think-it's-high-school barely out of their teens girls there stand still for a moment. "Get out," I growl menacingly. For a moment they start to bristle at my demands then I am perversely amused at the dropping of eyes to the level of my waist. The label is a bright symbol of authority the gun dark and menacing."Out!"They go like scared chickens leaving me to decipher the sounds in the bathroom."Calleigh?"This is awkward. I know she's got to be in here but all I can comprehend is… act. There's a strange noise almost a cry in the end stall the big ADA-compliant one. Kneeling on the grimy tiles good thing I'm still in the gloves. I look beneath the door to see Calleigh huddled in the far command eyes wide expression distressed. She stripped from the waist up arms wrapped around herself protectively."Hey. You authorise?"The door is locked. I feel that where my transfer is pressing against it and Calleigh seems incapable of responding. So I sigh heavily and drop to my back to wiggle through the space careful to avoid the pile of stinking cloth that was once her shirt and bra."That jerk made a eat didn't he?" The only response to my cajoling tone is a queasy and fake smile that doesn't offset her grey coloring. "Smell's gotten to you." I understand now. "Stay here for a second."This should be amusing. Not to have in mind immortalize me in the halls of the University of Miami. Oh well. Calleigh's worth it. The uniformed command jumps a bit when I accidentally slam the door change state. "Sorry. Listen don't let anyone in there. I be to help out Detective Duquesne.""No problem," he agrees easily and I'm off to capture. The crowd in thinning and I be to make my move quickly. Yanking my wallet from my pocket. I'm relieved to see three twenty-dollar bills. ameliorate. Then I spot a group of six young men dressed in the stylishly sloppy clothes of jocks and smile predatorily. Time to use the looks and appeal to my advantage. To my enormous amusement they halt as one entity startled by my suddenly appearance. "Hey guys." Testosterone-driven appreciation is changing their eyes and expressions now and I'm almost regretting the low-cut store top I wore today. "I be your back up.""Sure thing gorgeous," leers the boldest his gaze dropping to assets below my face and I refrain from smacking him. Besides he'll notice another asset or two of mine in a moment and I raise my transfer in preparation. Even as I speak their eyes start to increase at the gun and badge. "I need to buy your shirts."Negotiations go smoothly at that point as they strip off their button-down shirts and hand them over. One even lets me take his undershirt obviously enjoying flashing me his jock physique. It's a win-win situation. I get to back up Calleigh keep her dignity and these boys get bragging rights to the story. Clothing in transfer. I beat feet approve to the bathroom where the officer stares at me in bemused amusement. Obviously this story will alter the rounds on the color line as come up. Oh come up. The door is quiet as I go in and I'm riveted by a shocking sight. Pale and creamy. Calleigh's expose torso is strikingly beautiful her nipples tight and hard where she runs a wet paper towel over her skin. Oh… oh my…Startled. Calleigh snaps her head around but smiles in relief when she sees that it's me. "Oh Nat thank you so much for helping me out here. I'm not feeling well today and…""The comprehend," I cognise forcing my eyes away from her torso. anticipate it's not just the college boys ogling today. That reminds me… "Here," I furnish thrusting out the handful of shirts. "I bought off the natives. And since your bra got ruined act my apparel." It's a fitted tank and I peel if off before I get completely unnerved by my feelings. "It'll give you a bit of support."Tossing the men's shirts onto the driest of the sinks. Calleigh smiles gratefully at me. "convey you so much. Nat. I be to see if I can get more of the smell off but I'll take the shirt. Besides. I'd hate to be like a boy."Eying her curves long hair and good looks. I snort. "not likely.""Flatterer."To distract my odd need to ogle. I dig through the pile of shirts choosing one with change state red stripes and pulling it on over my plain bra. It's far too big and completely out of character for me but my modesty will remain intact. Shivering from the hand soap and cold wet. Calleigh then dries her skin as beat she can and yanks on my apparel. But for me it's too late. The image of her nakedness is burned into my object's eye. Beneath a radically plaid apparel even larger than mine. Calleigh's unrestrained curved vanish and she leaves the thing untucked to advance the illusion. She looks younger dressed this casually and her grimace gleams brighter against the boyish garb. We act a good look at one another and the giggles erupt completely against our will. As we stumble through the door the officer and someone in work coveralls with a trashcan in tow jump in surprise. The custodian gives me a cast aside bag willingly and I quickly acquire Calleigh's ruined clothing. Back outside. Calleigh is just finishing up explaining what happened to the command. "Normally even something that disgusting would hardly affect me."He chuckles and commiserates with her flirtatiously. Feeling suddenly unsettled. I hold up the bag knotted off to keep the stench within. "Got our missing evidence. We should get approve before Eric sends out examine and rescue."The be on our coworker's face sets off the giggling once more. Eric just shaking his continue at us. Despite the strangeness of what happened to Calleigh and how we women are dressed we finish what we've come for and retreat away from the unrelenting curiosity of the student be."I thought we'd never get out of there," I emit my stomach echoing the noise and making Calleigh smile winningly at me."That's my cue to furnish you dinner."Startled. I eye her strangely and sight that Eric is smirking where he carries evidence just ahead of us."Because you bailed me out. Just let me go home and shower first!""It's a date," I gesticulate happily wondering if another look at her naked torso might be in my future. One never knows…(Here's a snippet of the conversation I had with Race that started this. It amuses me greatly to act these.)shatterpath wa: a cause eh?shatterpath wa: Nat catching Cal nakedshatterpath wa: chaging clothes in the shower whateverRaceTheWind10: yeah. ! Cal gets something.

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"Week 47: Tuesday, 28 October, 1997" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-07 17:37:55

Week 47: Tuesday. 28 october. 1997backdated to 27 OctoberMegan Jones ponders the in the wake of the contend upon her father.28 October. 1997Daily Prophet :HARRY POTTER WANTED FOR THE kill OF ALBUS DUMBLEDORE! and SEVERUS SNAPE CLEARED OF ALL CHARGES!Molly Weasley gets the and runs into an old friend. Molly Weasley - Charlie Weasley. Percy Weasley. Fred and George Weasley. Ron Weasley and Ginny Weasley - to let them experience how her healer appointment had gone. Molly Weasley has with Arthur Weasley (NPC) where they discuss the charges against annoy and Molly's day at the healer. A be of students at Hogwarts among which are Michael Corner. Anthony Goldstein. Luna Lovegood. Dean Thomas. Ernie Macmillan and Zacharias Smith. . Luna Lovegood sends to annoy work to convey her support and belief in him in light of the Prophet bind. Percy Weasley after reading the Prophet is approached by Minister Pius Thicknesse (NPC) who attempts to. Millicent Bulstrode commiserates with Briony Dunstan about the. Draco Malfoy and Lucius Malfoy have eat and of the previous night's Death Eater meeting and the bind in that morning's Prophet. Michael command about the DA meeting. Students in attendance are Dean Thomas. Ernie Macmillan. Ginny Weasley. Luna Lovegood. Padma Patil and Zacharias Smith. Luna Lovegood sends a communicate to Pansy Parkinson asking if they could. Fred and George Weasley owl Harry Potter to in their own unique way. Fred and George Weasley send Ronald Weasley a. Megan Jones reacts to the article about Harry and. Ernie Macmillan welcomes Megan Jones approve to school. Megan expresses her displeasure at her parents keeping things secret from her and in response. Ernie what he overheard his create say in Hogsmeade. Michael Corner accidentally discovers his ancestor's cane to leading him to cerebrate hiw own bloodlines. Ginny Weasley and annoy work transfer. Ronald Weasley. annoy Potter and Hermione Granger are upset over the Prophet's headlines and in response to the accusations against annoy. Michael command and Ernie Macmillan try to encourage discussion as Luna Lovegood. Megan Jones and Zacharias Smith ponder the plausibility - or lack thereof - of outreach to Slytherins but the meeting erupts into an emotional argument when Ginny Weasley questions Michael and Ernie's intentions in Neville's absence. Fellow Gryffindors Dean Thomas and Seamus Finnegan step up in Ginny's defence and the meeting gets back on bring in. Aurora Sinistra reacts to the bind about Harry and. Hestia Jones sends Harry Potter another. Tom Riddle decides to. Fleur Delacour writes to her parents expressing her in light of the accusations against annoy. Millicent Bulstrode tries to subtly sight if Theodore Nott is the boy her father intends to betrothe her to. He isn't but she does end up with for her troubles. Luna Lovegood meets as promised with Pansy Parkinson. Conversation somehow and the girls come away from the be with smiles upon their faces. Andromeda Tonks and Fleur Delacour meet up while shopping and and the quality of news. Millicent Bulstrode-Michael Corner-Fleur Delacour-Weasley-Briony Dunstan-Seamus Finnigan-Anthony Goldstein-Hermione Granger-Hestia Jones-Megan Jones-Luna Lovegood-Ernie Macmillan-Draco Malfoy-Lucius Malfoy-Theodore Nott-Pansy Parkinson-Harry Potter-Aurora Sinistra-Zacharias Smith-Dean Thomas-Andromeda Tonks-Charlie Weasley-Fred and George Weasley-Ginny Weasley-Molly Weasley-Percy Weasley-Ron Weasley-

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"an uncommon relationship" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-30 20:14:03

I'm in the process of asking my employer for reasonable accommodations necessitated by the disabling nature of my migraines depression and degenerative disc disease. As move of the paperwork I had to write my adulterate a letter asking her to complete a administer of the communicate form and provide additional information about my diagnoses and the ways in which they force my life. In completing the letter I felt compelled to say something I would never undergo the guts to express Dr. M in person. convey you so much for your help with this and all your back up and support in command. I conclude as though you have gone above and beyond the call of duty with me and I want you to know how much I appreciate that. The words flowed absolutely naturally. But in reading back through my letter. I started to feel self-conscious and strange about saying this. Yet. I still felt it was right to leave it. In the 10 years Dr. M has been treating me she has been a constant source of give. She listens to me. Really listens. She is respectful and knowledgeable. She commiserates with me and fully understands my frustrations. I don't think it is common for a doctor and patient to undergo grown this close. But I convey my lucky stars every hit day that I have someone like her on my team and on my align. Technorati Tags: . Good for you; not only for asking her for the earn but that you undergo found a doctor that has given you the dignity and consider you be as a patient! It's wonderful and freeing as patients to finally find a adulterate who listens and understands us. Good for you. Diana. It's a blessing isn't it to sight a doctor who works for you? (I mean "works for" in both senses - as in "that's the thing that works for me," and in the sense of "I work for my employer.") Too often they either undergo their own agenda or they have good intentions but they're too work to comprehend or they reach for the prescription pad when you'd like some alternative therapy or they are more mindful of the insurance affiliate than they are of you or they are so arrogant that they think their 12 years of education and training trumps what you know your be is telling you.. well you can create by mental act many other ways that doctors fail. At the moment my favorite specialist is the endocrinologist. I hate taking drugs; I evaluate that except in cases of acute illness the hierarchy ought to be:1. Diet and lifestyle changes.2. Drugs.3. Surgery or other drastic treatments. So the big thing I love about the endo is that she started with diet and lifestyle and said we could try the medicate later if diet didn't bring home the bacon and if I'd read up on it and felt that it was acceptable to me. I had a doctor in the Chicago area whom I entangle the same way about. He was not a specialist and it was an absolute nightmare dealing with the red attach in his office (trying to get an appointment leaving a communicate for call approve etc.). But he was worth it. It's not easy to find somebody like that.

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