Good morning!

QUICK. GO GET THIS AND COME BACK.

I've learned my lesson on notifications in-case-of-earthquake from the '94 Northridge quake. The quake woke me and Cliff up - we took it in, shook it off and tried to go back to sleep. Tried, mind.

Because the phone started ringing off the hook 15 minutes later.

So, pre-emptive strike last night, guys.

We're dealing with big-effort control issues on the part of kiddo - both with regards to what he will eat, and when he will sleep.

Jim is fond of the end-run around it with regards to sleep - we just pack him up and drive up and down the 405 for about 20 minutes.

UH. Last night? Yeah.

We'd passed the epicenter not 15 minutes prior.

And how was your weekend?

Good morning!

QUICK. GO GET THIS AND COME BACK.

I've learned my lesson on notifications in-case-of-earthquake from the '94 Northridge quake. The quake woke me and Cliff up - we took it in, shook it off and tried to go back to sleep. Tried, mind.

Because the phone started ringing off the hook 15 minutes later.

So, pre-emptive strike last night, guys.

We're dealing with big-effort control issues on the part of kiddo - both with regards to what he will eat, and when he will sleep.

Jim is fond of the end-run around it with regards to sleep - we just pack him up and drive up and down the 405 for about 20 minutes.

UH. Last night? Yeah.

We'd passed the epicenter not 15 minutes prior.

And how was your weekend?

Good morning!

QUICK. GO GET THIS AND COME BACK.

I've learned my lesson on notifications in-case-of-earthquake from the '94 Northridge quake. The quake woke me and Cliff up - we took it in, shook it off and tried to go back to sleep. Tried, mind.

Because the phone started ringing off the hook 15 minutes later.

So, pre-emptive strike last night, guys.

We're dealing with big-effort control issues on the part of kiddo - both with regards to what he will eat, and when he will sleep.

Jim is fond of the end-run around it with regards to sleep - we just pack him up and drive up and down the 405 for about 20 minutes.

UH. Last night? Yeah.

We'd passed the epicenter not 15 minutes prior.

And how was your weekend?

Yikes.

That whole SITE is made of awesome. Go check their archives!

Reasonable gold?

Try a Stevie Wonder/Destiny's Child that has a 'could be addictive' label on it, and oh mama - Bootystition.

And ZZ Top/Pink is so smooth, it's hard to believe it's a mash.

Nods to yendi - just so nice on a Monday morning. So. Nice.

Yikes.

That whole SITE is made of awesome. Go check their archives!

Reasonable gold?

Try a Stevie Wonder/Destiny's Child that has a 'could be addictive' label on it, and oh mama - Bootystition.

And ZZ Top/Pink is so smooth, it's hard to believe it's a mash.

Nods to yendi - just so nice on a Monday morning. So. Nice.

Yikes.

That whole SITE is made of awesome. Go check their archives!

Reasonable gold?

Try a Stevie Wonder/Destiny's Child that has a 'could be addictive' label on it, and oh mama - Bootystition.

And ZZ Top/Pink is so smooth, it's hard to believe it's a mash.

Nods to yendi - just so nice on a Monday morning. So. Nice.

Update -

On the stand Friday, Sieferman recounted being hospitalized in June because of fears she might harm herself and her daughters. She'd lost a job in May, she said, part of a spiral that began in 2004 when she was laid off from the Guidant Corp. (now Boston Scientific).

61 years old, educated to the gills - two daughters from China - and she's now signing her parental rights away (her kids are going to be adopted by a relative) and entering the penal system for at least 11 years.

The kids survived and are doing well - according to the report.

...

Everyone has a breaking point. It's 2009 - and struggling since 2004? I'd have to say the breaking point was passed and ignored - wouldn't you?

The real bitch I have with this? I found this on one of my PAP mailing lists - and the poster was all gushy about 'oh, I'm so glad the kids are okay, I was so worried about them!'

(Uh, how many kids in the domestic foster care system right now?)

Ghad, no wonder then. Mother didn't matter, did she? (And wouldn't a hospitalization for depression trigger SOME set of services? Hul-LO?)

Relative is taking the kids. Yay for being an adult in your majority and untouchable until you actually Do Something Bad. That's the only thing my head will allow that there is a relative able to adopt the kids, but couldn't do a damn thing prior to prevent this from happening in the first place.

Just saying.

Everyone lives. Everyone gets a second chance. Rocks didn't fall, everyone didn't die.

*kicks*

Update -

On the stand Friday, Sieferman recounted being hospitalized in June because of fears she might harm herself and her daughters. She'd lost a job in May, she said, part of a spiral that began in 2004 when she was laid off from the Guidant Corp. (now Boston Scientific).

61 years old, educated to the gills - two daughters from China - and she's now signing her parental rights away (her kids are going to be adopted by a relative) and entering the penal system for at least 11 years.

The kids survived and are doing well - according to the report.

...

Everyone has a breaking point. It's 2009 - and struggling since 2004? I'd have to say the breaking point was passed and ignored - wouldn't you?

The real bitch I have with this? I found this on one of my PAP mailing lists - and the poster was all gushy about 'oh, I'm so glad the kids are okay, I was so worried about them!'

(Uh, how many kids in the domestic foster care system right now?)

Ghad, no wonder then. Mother didn't matter, did she? (And wouldn't a hospitalization for depression trigger SOME set of services? Hul-LO?)

Relative is taking the kids. Yay for being an adult in your majority and untouchable until you actually Do Something Bad. That's the only thing my head will allow that there is a relative able to adopt the kids, but couldn't do a damn thing prior to prevent this from happening in the first place.

Just saying.

Everyone lives. Everyone gets a second chance. Rocks didn't fall, everyone didn't die.

*kicks*

Update -

On the stand Friday, Sieferman recounted being hospitalized in June because of fears she might harm herself and her daughters. She'd lost a job in May, she said, part of a spiral that began in 2004 when she was laid off from the Guidant Corp. (now Boston Scientific).

61 years old, educated to the gills - two daughters from China - and she's now signing her parental rights away (her kids are going to be adopted by a relative) and entering the penal system for at least 11 years.

The kids survived and are doing well - according to the report.

...

Everyone has a breaking point. It's 2009 - and struggling since 2004? I'd have to say the breaking point was passed and ignored - wouldn't you?

The real bitch I have with this? I found this on one of my PAP mailing lists - and the poster was all gushy about 'oh, I'm so glad the kids are okay, I was so worried about them!'

(Uh, how many kids in the domestic foster care system right now?)

Ghad, no wonder then. Mother didn't matter, did she? (And wouldn't a hospitalization for depression trigger SOME set of services? Hul-LO?)

Relative is taking the kids. Yay for being an adult in your majority and untouchable until you actually Do Something Bad. That's the only thing my head will allow that there is a relative able to adopt the kids, but couldn't do a damn thing prior to prevent this from happening in the first place.

Just saying.

Everyone lives. Everyone gets a second chance. Rocks didn't fall, everyone didn't die.

*kicks*