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Dude.

All my posts from San Francisco were either about birthday stuffs or travel hijinks. I don't think I mentioned (enough, anyway) how friggin' exhausting it is to watch a baby. I had help, too. My mom and I had the baby to ourselves for about twelve hours for each of the last two days I was there, and maaaaaaaan. Babies need stuff, like, ALL THE DAMNED TIME. If they're not hungry, they probably need a diaper changed. My niece is adorable in that changing her diaper is like her favorite thing in the world after food; she wiggles and kicks and smiles and just lovey-loves it.

If it's not the diaper, maybe it's a nap. She might just need stimulation--take her on a walk, walk around with her, lay her on her back under her play-station thing. There's always something. Even when she naps, it's like a conditional--a transitory period dependent either on you doing something to make her sleep (taking her out in the stroller/car or walking her around until she drifts off) or her only sleeping long enough for you to get tired yourself but not to also fall asleep (you can't, either, 'cause you have to be up if she is and I could sleep through a baby crying easy).

My sister seems to think I was good with baby (maybe I was--I got her down for naps pretty easily), and she kept saying, "Now, don't you want one?" My mother, GOD BLESS HER, was like, "Honey, I think she's even less likely to have one now." Proof positive that my mom knows me pretty damn well. It's okay; my sister has good taste when it comes to clothes and she got me a nice top for my birthday. She also got me a revenge-of-the-thrift-store outfit that's blindingly yellow and of the polyester persuasion, but that was a joke. I just need to do one better on her birthday to show her up.

But yeah, babies is mad tiring, yo. I don't think I ever hit the pillow so hard as I've done in the last few days.

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!

BEST SPAM SUBJECT LINE EVER:

"Get a visit from the Big Dick fairy"


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So immature!

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Okay...what?

I'm confused by this tree of links I touched off from this article at Pandagon today. Well, not confused. More like angry. Yeah, angry.

Okay, is it bad that Pelosi's gone to Syria, seeing as she's a) third in line to the Presidency and, b) Syria's like on our international shit list (but behind Iran! Maybe we'll run out of troops before we think to invade them ::coughcoughtoolatecough::)? Israel doesn't seem to be freaking out the way don't-know-better, hate-Islam-therefore-Israel-must-be-fantastic-how-dare-you-not-be-100%-checking-in-with-them-on-every-bit-of-foreign-diplomacy right wingers are. I thought making overtures to figure out our problems with countries like Syria was part of, I dunno, the strategy to get rid of terrorism that's supposedly behind this war we're fighting in a country we didn't actually have any legit beef with (other than hurt Republican pride, that is).

Then there's this where it seems the hubbub is as much over Pelosi debasing herself with a scarf as embarrassing the country by visiting a "terrorist" nation. 'Cause if that's really it? I'm gonna hurl. Personally, I believe that, if you're going into a house of worship, even if you think the rules are fucking stupid (I do myself), you follow them. The holier the site, the more reverence you should show, if not of the mythology then at least to the faith of the people. Yes, women are targets of the restrictions in religious institutions most of the time, but still--you go to the holiest of holies (I saw a pic where Pelosi was standing next to the tomb supposed to contain the head of John the Baptist--that's pretty damn holy), you show respect by doing it according to their rules.

I say the exception is elsewhere. No, I don't want Pelosi to offend the dignitaries or whatever in Syria, but the rest of the time, were I her, I wouldn't wear that scarf for my life. Because I am all about showing respect where faith and spiritual matters are concerned. Wearing a token of subserviance outside the religious institution, even in a country where the religious and the political are pretty incestuously close, is not cool. Sorry, just wouldn't do it. Then again, I'm not the House Speaker...