(1734,431,'Fey','darklyfey@gmail.com','','72.143.10.96','2007-08-07 11:15:14','2007-08-07 11:15:14','That\'s the cutest thing I\'ve heard in a long, long time.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1735,431,'Lynn','lmh6914@comcast.net','','66.30.160.47','2007-08-07 19:55:50','2007-08-07 19:55:50','Life through the eyes (and ears) of a child-a really wonderful thing! (brought a smile to my face after a really crappy day-thanks!)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1736,431,'sweatpantsmom','marsha_tm@yahoo.com','','68.122.51.141','2007-08-08 04:44:42','2007-08-08 04:44:42','Ahhh...crickets chirping. Now, my 9-year old uses them to signify a silent response to a stupid question.\n\nMe: Who wants to unload the dishwasher?\n\nHer: *cricket cricket*\n\nBeware when they learn sarcasm.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1737,431,'B@B@(Sue)','sugeidy08@gmail.com','','70.156.204.142','2007-08-10 11:47:16','2007-08-10 11:47:16','how cute!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1738,431,'kristi','butterflylady97@yahoo.com','','76.1.70.27','2007-08-14 15:51:43','2007-08-14 15:51:43','Out of the mouths of babes. Isn\'t it awesome what kids notice?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1739,432,'the weirdgirl','weirdgirl@mindspring.com','','75.61.131.9','2007-08-01 17:00:11','2007-08-01 17:00:11','Thank you for passing this on! I had never heard of this.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1740,432,'amie','mapalenchar@comcast.net','','71.204.201.115','2007-08-02 00:06:08','2007-08-02 00:06:08','Is this the same as Pagets disease?My mother had that , a rare form of breast cancer- often misdiagnosed as skin disorder.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1741,432,'Miguelina.','everydaytreats@gmail.com','','71.174.243.43','2007-08-02 00:15:05','2007-08-02 00:15:05','I think it\'s different, but I need to read up on it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1742,433,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','216.97.164.102','2007-08-01 01:21:49','2007-08-01 01:21:49','I\'m horrible about keeping things alive.  I actually just bought a potted plant last week and it\'s already brown and crusty.  *sniff*\n\nThank god my man is all about doing lawn stuff!  He keeps us in the green.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1743,433,'pinks &amp; blues girls','jane@pinksandblues.com','','68.9.175.243','2007-08-01 09:54:17','2007-08-01 09:54:17','I have never been a gardener, but I am going to start now... we just buried our beloved dog (he was our child) in our yard and I want to plant a beautiful garden around him.  So I am right here with you trying to figure this out!\n\nJane, Pinks & Blues Girls\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1744,433,'Mom101','Mom101@mac.com','','74.73.52.109','2007-08-01 23:01:28','2007-08-01 23:01:28','This headline is absolutely brilliant. I didn\'t even know what an arborist was, let alone whether they made house calls.\n\nAnd thanks for the great comment at my place and for contributing to the discussion. Much appreciated, mama.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1745,433,'Tere','tere.the.blogger@gmail.com','','67.63.36.92','2007-08-07 10:16:11','2007-08-07 10:16:11','This is funny, because I LOVE gardening and suck at it - have no clue what I\'m doing! But a local blogger/friend who has a magic touch with flowers and plants has been guiding me, for which I\'m incredibly grateful.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1746,434,'Kevin Charnas','kcharnas@yahoo.com','','128.111.138.204','2007-07-26 14:31:03','2007-07-26 14:31:03','That just made me gasp and swoon...\n\nI want one, NOW!!\n\nAre you sure you don\'t want to talk about it?  It sounds like it might be just as delish as that drinkie-poo.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1747,434,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','151.203.249.192','2007-07-26 20:32:13','2007-07-26 20:32:13','IIIIII can\'t resist...trying to find exactly what I missed...its just another day without you...\n\nCan I help that I love Jon Secada?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1748,434,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.62.101.2','2007-07-27 23:49:38','2007-07-27 23:49:38','Oh yes, I want one of those! *Very* good that a trip like you described in the last few posts had this as its reward.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1749,434,'allie`','olivasao5@aol.com','','64.12.112.138','2007-07-29 14:10:39','2007-07-29 14:10:39','I just recently discover your blog, I got to read some of your entries this morning; and i really enjoy it. I love the way you write and express your self.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1750,434,'Tere','tere.the.blogger@gmail.com','','67.63.36.92','2007-08-07 10:21:34','2007-08-07 10:21:34','Oh my hell - love this!\n\nYeah, margaritas in Hialeah is indeed an oxymoron! But now I have to know which restaurant!\n\nOh, and my 6th degree of KC - when she arrived here from Cuba, my mom worked at the dry cleaners where KC used to take his clothes. She\'s always said he was really nice, but that he and his clothes REEKED of pot. Heh.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1751,436,'Kristen','kmei26@yahoo.com','','70.2.172.31','2007-07-23 07:29:25','2007-07-23 07:29:25','Oy. Please continue this soon. I\'m headed to BlogHer with the baby and I need HELP.\n\nWhat to bring? Stroller? Car seat? Not so much?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1752,436,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','151.203.249.192','2007-07-23 22:11:49','2007-07-23 22:11:49','I feel all kinds of anxious just READING about this experience.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1753,436,'Jennifer','jenleah@hotmail.com','','67.177.76.15','2007-07-24 11:28:50','2007-07-24 11:28:50','I\'m thinking that the 12 hour drive in a car with two small children is sounding better and better!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1754,436,'Sue(B@B@)','sugeidy08@gmail.com','','65.3.243.82','2007-07-25 10:33:22','2007-07-25 10:33:22','oh oh.. there\'s a to be continue...Trouble....\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1755,436,'Sue','snackishblog@yahoo.com','','209.78.214.253','2007-07-25 13:50:48','2007-07-25 13:50:48','The TSA people are just insane. Like your baby\'s little shoes are a danger to society.\n\nLast time I got the inspection because I dared to make the woman look at me and acknowlege that I was human - she had grabbed my ticket from my hand, not looking at me, and pointed an imperious finger where I was supposed to go. \"Please?\" I said. That did it. She sent me to the screening.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1756,436,'Katja from Skimbaco','info@skimbaco.com','','69.145.203.74','2007-07-25 14:15:57','2007-07-25 14:15:57','You do deserve a medal!\n\nBut believe me, you and the kids will get better every time.. the kids will get more used to traveling, and you will get more used to that nothing goes as planned and it\'s crazy (and requires extra patience - I wish they sold that in bottles). BUT it is possible, and sometimes even enjoyable. And the younger you get them used to traveling, the better.\n\nKatja from Skimbaco\n\nPs. I have tons of traveling tips for parents either flying or drying on my blog.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1757,436,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.62.101.2','2007-07-27 23:47:13','2007-07-27 23:47:13','You DO deserve a medal! Oh my LORD!\n\nYour post made me grind my teeth and laugh out loud, both ... aren\'t those security people JERKS!? They just stand there, with nothing to do but watch you, but THEY do not help you with one damned thing! I remember one time doing the stroller/kid/etc. juggle, and I snarled at one guy as I left, \"Thanks for the help.\" Why aren\'t they trained to help out?\n\nAnd the toothpaste thing? HA. Been there. The tube is nearly empty -- doesn\'t matter. Sheesh. Also? What moron came up with this X ounces policy? Someone could just divide the explosives among various containers, and recombine it once on board! Double sheesh.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1758,437,'Valerie','imswt4tweety@msn.com','','141.154.68.168','2007-07-21 13:24:14','2007-07-21 13:24:14','Sounds like a good idea to me!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1759,437,'GHD','graciemh@yahoo.com','','71.170.193.122','2007-07-22 22:31:32','2007-07-22 22:31:32','What an EXCELLENT idea about Christmas in July... and no guilt about the baby announcements. My sister-in-law waited until her kids are 6 months old to send theirs because (and these are HER words) \"that\'s when they\'re finally pretty\"... HA\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1760,437,'Sue(B@B@)','sugeidy08@gmail.com','','65.3.243.82','2007-07-25 10:28:16','2007-07-25 10:28:16','hahaha that\'s soo funny...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1761,437,'Jennie','jenncanzo@yahoo.com','','216.185.104.70','2007-08-20 17:48:44','2007-08-20 17:48:44','This is a cuuuuute idea. I love it. We thought about sending our holiday card out at Valentine\'s this past year because holiday is so general, is it not? But, then we got too busy (lazy?) to do even that.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1762,438,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','71.174.226.80','2007-07-19 19:05:20','2007-07-19 19:05:20','When I saw Migelina in my rss feeds I tried to remember if I had subscribed to a new blog. But it\'s you! I love the new name. So much more \'you\' than reluctant housewife. It\'s nice.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1763,438,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-07-19 20:36:30','2007-07-19 20:36:30','Ditto what Margalit said.  Seeing the name of this feed confused the hell out of me.  But I like it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1764,438,'Miguelina','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','71.174.90.82','2007-07-19 21:24:28','2007-07-19 21:24:28','Glad you guys like it!  I was getting bored with the blog name.  Reluctant Housewife seems so...negative, somehow.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1765,438,'Kari','kari.rowles@gmail.com','','66.41.104.204','2007-07-20 07:49:16','2007-07-20 07:49:16','Ohhh, I love it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1766,438,'Erin','ekf73@Yahoo.com','','208.3.91.146','2007-07-20 10:49:06','2007-07-20 10:49:06','Also loving the new name.  And dying to hear more about balancing a newborn and a toddler.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1767,438,'dana','thedanafilesblog@gmail.com','','75.8.59.202','2007-07-20 11:08:45','2007-07-20 11:08:45','Cute!  I think it has a wonderful ring to it.  And the name is more vibrant than \"Jane\".  Which is my plain middle name!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1768,438,'Miguelina','everdaytreats@gmail.com','','71.174.90.82','2007-07-20 13:37:11','2007-07-20 13:37:11','Erin,\n\nI have to tell you about traveling with a newborn and 2 year old.  ALL BY YOURSELF.  On an airplane.\n\nBut I\'m still recovering from that.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1769,438,'Paula','sarmiento.paula@gmail.com','','65.7.222.203','2007-07-20 21:24:21','2007-07-20 21:24:21','I like Miguelina it sounds intelligent, exotic, and positive.\nI share my opinion with Mrs. Chicky \"Reluctant Housewife seems so...negative, somehow\".\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1770,438,'GHD','graciemh@yahoo.com','','71.170.193.122','2007-07-22 22:33:31','2007-07-22 22:33:31','The new name is very pretty, indeed\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1771,438,'Sue(B@B@)','sugeidy08@gmail.com','','65.3.243.82','2007-07-25 10:18:45','2007-07-25 10:18:45','Is a pretty name..and now that u say that..I miss my second name too..it\'s Matilde.. as you i didn\'t like my..but after I saw the movie \"Matilde\" i like it even more...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1772,439,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','75.81.190.157','2007-06-27 19:14:30','2007-06-27 19:14:30','I\'m so relieved you all are safe, but that is the worst. I\'m sorry about the car!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1773,439,'metalia','metaliablog@gmail.com','','69.121.163.72','2007-06-27 19:32:46','2007-06-27 19:32:46','Oh my God!  I\'m so happy to hear that you\'re all okay.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1774,439,'Jennifer','jenleah@hotmail.com','','67.177.76.15','2007-06-27 21:48:58','2007-06-27 21:48:58','How scary, especially with your kids in the car.  I\'m so glad you all are safe and unhurt.\n\nI probably would have made a fool of myself, cursing and crying.  You should be proud that you held it together.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1775,439,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-06-27 21:50:01','2007-06-27 21:50:01','Don\'t worry about that.  You\'re all safe and that\'s what matters.\n\nAnd you\'re still ridiculously lucky because you had so many people offer their help.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1776,439,'Karen@FamilyBriefs.com','karenherring4@gmail.com','','65.81.145.173','2007-06-27 21:51:36','2007-06-27 21:51:36','I\'m so glad you are all okay - having an accident with my kids in the car always worries me.  There are always going to be those \"what-ifs,\" but they aren\'t worth looking at or worry about because \"they aren\'t.\"  So just remind yourself have lucky you are - you\'re all okay, right?  So you\'re lucky and you just continue on your merry way.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1777,439,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','71.184.120.140','2007-06-28 02:16:18','2007-06-28 02:16:18','There is NOTHING scarier than being in a car accident when your kids are in the car. Nothing. Even if they seem totally OK, I hope you got them checked out at the ER. Kids are amazing and car seats are great, but they still do get jostled around in an accident.\n\nYou\'re so lucky it was just the car that was injured. It\'s amazing that so many people were so generous with their help. People say that New Englanders are unfriendly, but this is proof that they are dead wrong.\n\nI\'m so glad you\'re all OK.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1778,439,'ksklein','snow_flake@gmx.de','','91.13.231.243','2007-06-28 04:41:19','2007-06-28 04:41:19','glad you are all safe.\nwe´ve been involved in 3 accidents (not our fault) - always with our little kids/babies and so far we have been soooo lucky. nothing ever happened to them. i´m glad that our car is pretty safe. it was really scary to see the  other cars after these incidents. they were all usually totally wrecked.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1779,439,'Doodle Bean','doodle-bean@hotmail.com','','132.183.13.73','2007-06-28 09:39:27','2007-06-28 09:39:27','Glad to hear you\'re o.k.  It could have been so much worse -- definitely something for which to be grateful.\n\nYou know an accident isn\'t that bad when you can replay the details in your mind afterward.\n\n20 years later and I still don\'t have a conscious memory of when the drunk slammed into my car, dragging it into an embankment and causing it to roll over 2.5 times!  I get sweaty and tense beyond all understanding when I hear screeching brakes or impacting metal, so I know the memories are in there somewhere.\n\nOn the other hand, I can replay in excruciating detail the accident when some putz ran a stop sign and hit me on my bicycle (I flew through the air, my right shoulder lower than my left and thought, \"Hmmm, I think I may have just broken my leg.  It hurts!  That would also explain that cracking sound I heard a millisecond ago... Hmmm, I guess I\'ll hit soon so I should tuck my chin and get ready to roll.  Hmmmm, it appears that my shoulder is hurt also.\" and so on)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1780,439,'RELUCTANT HOUSEWIFE','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','71.174.90.82','2007-06-28 10:35:45','2007-06-28 10:35:45','Thanks everybody...it\'s been a week since the accident and we\'re all fine.  I\'m trying to follow Karen\'s advice (they-arent!  they aren\'t!) Dealing with the insurance company is NOT fine, but that\'s to be expected.\n\nDoodle Bean:  You\'re so right!  I can remember every detail of this, the stupidest accident ever.  It\'s like a movie playing in my head, over and over and over...\n\nMargalit:  People here are nice, and this happened in a \"swell\" town with a snooty reputation.  I can tell you that if this had happened in Miami people would have laughed at us.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1781,439,'B@B@','sugeidy08@gmail.com','','65.8.66.66','2007-06-28 16:40:38','2007-06-28 16:40:38','Thank god you\'re all fine...you right here in florida will be diferent.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1782,439,'Christie','crasberry@suddenlink.net','','74.193.36.72','2007-06-28 20:45:37','2007-06-28 20:45:37','So thankful you are all OK (except for maybe dealing with the crazy insurance folks)!  We got rearended when my son was 3 months old, and we all had whiplash, cuts, etc EXCEPT my son!  Praise God for car seats!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1783,439,'Mike','pahre@comcast.net','','71.192.137.155','2007-06-29 10:51:15','2007-06-29 10:51:15','I\'m glad to hear you and your family are OK.Opening a car door into traffic is a violation, usually $20-30 (depending on the city).  It more often causes injury to bicyclists (who refer to it as getting \"doored\") than cars because the latter are much larger and noisier.  Nonetheless, when talking to the police and insurance company, repeatedly emphasize that the other driver illegally opened her car door into traffic so that you don\'t get stuck with any of the blame or liability.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1784,439,'Kris','clouth@gmail.com','','68.160.162.8','2007-06-29 20:39:56','2007-06-29 20:39:56','I\'ve been in an accident with the kids in the car, it\'s so upsetting.I\'m so glad everyone\'s ok!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1785,439,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2007-06-30 09:41:15','2007-06-30 09:41:15','Oh my goodness...how terribly frightening! My sister had an accident with her baby in the car, and I was just sick over it. They were not injured badly, but I couldn\'t shake the what ifs.\n\nI\'m so glad you all are okay.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1786,439,'Amy','sbmoms@gmail.com','','75.67.232.201','2007-07-02 08:20:20','2007-07-02 08:20:20','OMG! That\'s so scary! I\'m glad you and your boys are fine. I know your head is filled with all the what ifs. But you really couldn\'t have prevented this. Just be grateful and happy that you are all safe.\n\nTake care.\n\nAmy\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1787,439,'pinks &amp; blues girls','jane@pinksandblues.com','','70.181.60.161','2007-07-03 15:31:39','2007-07-03 15:31:39','This has almost happened to me so many times.  People just do not pay attention to oncoming traffic when they\'re getting out of their cars, and it is so dangerous!  Too many distractions...\n\nThankfully you are all OK.  But it\'s certainly not something you want to happen.\n\nJane, Pinks & Blues Girls (and fellow NE Mama)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1788,439,'christina','chris.bee@hotmail.com','','65.34.13.135','2007-07-04 09:19:40','2007-07-04 09:19:40','I am so glad that you are all okay. I\'ve been in an accident. Everything is so jumbled and there is such a grayscale.  Good job keeping your cool.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1789,440,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','75.8.47.223','2007-06-19 16:58:27','2007-06-19 16:58:27','Awwww.....what a sweetie!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1790,440,'Patois','wheeallthewayhome@gmail.com','','71.121.2.45','2007-06-24 10:07:11','2007-06-24 10:07:11','Oh, yeah, definitely sounds as if you\'re an old married couple. But George must be on your list, right?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1791,441,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-06-15 08:54:38','2007-06-15 08:54:38','I\'m with you.  On occasion I do miss my younger days but I don\'t want to relive them.  I want to be fearless and fabulous, and I think that mostly comes with age and experience.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1792,442,'Jennifer','jenleah@hotmail.com','','67.177.76.15','2007-06-13 08:02:18','2007-06-13 08:02:18','I was wondering where you\'d been.  I would have freaked at the fever, too.  Hope you get a chance to relax once your husband is home.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1793,442,'jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','198.4.159.6','2007-06-13 09:18:13','2007-06-13 09:18:13','This also sounds sort of sucky. But I do have one piece of good news for you. You have 365 days to return your shoes. I know this because I have a pair sitting in my dining room that I\'ve been trying to get around to returning since February.\n\nSo there\'s that.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1794,442,'B@B@','sugeidy08@gmail.com','','70.156.204.51','2007-06-13 09:35:22','2007-06-13 09:35:22','hahaha you sang Dora Out loud..hahaha that\'s cool... that means you\'re a superdupermom...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1795,442,'Reluctant Housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','71.174.90.82','2007-06-13 11:13:27','2007-06-13 11:13:27','Seriously?  You get a full year to make up your mind?  I sense a full-on addiction brewing...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1796,442,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','65.24.159.22','2007-06-13 16:36:50','2007-06-13 16:36:50','OK, I\'m freaking out at having to watch two kids for 5 hours a day while my husband goes back to work part-time. 9 entire days? I think I would have been in tears by day 3, if not sooner. You are a Supermom.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1797,442,'metalia','metaliablog@gmail.com','','69.121.163.72','2007-06-16 23:28:47','2007-06-16 23:28:47','Hope everyone is feeling better soon.\n\nI can\'t find my summer clothes, either!  They\'ve mysteriously disappeared.  Hmmm...Perhaps I\'ll parlay this into an excuse to purchase a new wardrobe.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1798,442,'feener','feener44@gmail.com','','24.0.242.8','2007-06-18 21:48:27','2007-06-18 21:48:27','god bless ya !!! I hate missing out on the fun stuff, I missed my hubby\'s friend\'s wedding in cabo b/c our first was just born.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1799,442,'Kelly','kmfacenda@comcast.net','','68.83.139.248','2007-07-07 13:44:55','2007-07-07 13:44:55','You are awesome.  I freak out if I have to spend one night alone with my two little ones, and I can usually be found driving up to my in-laws for some company.\n\nNine days?  I bow at your feet.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1800,444,'island jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.56.195','2007-06-08 12:22:43','2007-06-08 12:22:43','My parents are very catholic and my 4 siblings and I all were left with biblical middle names... one middle name from the bible and one middle name that came from a relative...\nPicking names is soooo difficult... Rita Rudner did a hilarious skit about it one time.  I\'ll have to see if I can find it on youtube...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1801,444,'Gossip Monger','hollywoodhoopla@gmail.com','','24.24.161.75','2007-06-09 04:10:53','2007-06-09 04:10:53','I\'ve enjoyed browsing on your site and like the tone of it. I\'ll have to check back later and read some more.\n\nContinued success to you,\n\nwww.Gossipgonewild.com\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1802,444,'Jennifer','jenleah@hotmail.com','','67.177.76.15','2007-06-09 08:10:58','2007-06-09 08:10:58','I love to hear about how people name their kids!\n\nI\'m Catholic, and you know, it never occured to me to name them after saints! Hope I don\'t get struck down!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1803,444,'GrannyG','grannygg38@gmail.com','','75.65.6.90','2007-06-26 11:57:12','2007-06-26 11:57:12','My new granddaughter was named after me (Georgia a very old-fashioned name), I was so proud!  My son sent out an automated birth announcement phone call and email to about 100 their friends and family telling everybody her name & birth info.  This was something I had never heard of before, but it was really special.  They sent the announcement out through a service called SnappyBaby.com\n\nCheers to all of your baby names!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1804,445,'Jennifer','jenleah@hotmail.com','','67.177.76.15','2007-05-31 15:25:07','2007-05-31 15:25:07','Congrats on your new home!!!\n\nMy husband is forever making fun of my blogging...pisses me right off!\n\nAnd Sebastian sounds like a very impressive handy man!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1805,445,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-05-31 22:35:26','2007-05-31 22:35:26','Hee hee!\n\nWelcome to home ownership.  It\'s a bee-yotch.\n\nCongrats!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1806,445,'Karen','karenherring4@gmail.com','','65.81.140.188','2007-06-06 21:53:36','2007-06-06 21:53:36','Need I say that it was probably Sebastian that \"broke\" the stupid thing in the first place?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1807,445,'PinkPowerSuit','natasha@pinkpowersuit.com','','198.53.9.29','2007-06-12 13:18:11','2007-06-12 13:18:11','That is too funny and I\'m embarassed to say that I relate!!\n\nI still haven\'t posted on my blog yet that the camera cord that got me SO angry on a Saturday (The Transformation of a Supremely Bad Mood) doesn\'t exist.  I searched and searched and I never even had it to begin with.  Never came with a cord!  Embarassing.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1808,447,'Homemom3','eliza_ferree@yahoo.com','','24.197.110.135','2007-05-18 09:22:05','2007-05-18 09:22:05','It is scary when you think of our little boys growing up into men and during that process they want to be dangerous. Hmm, book sounds interesting and possibly a great book for boys, especially if they are like talks dads will eventually have with their sons anyways.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1809,447,'Jennifer','jenleah@hotmail.com','','67.177.76.15','2007-05-18 16:38:55','2007-05-18 16:38:55','Oh yes, I completely agree about danger!  I don\'t do danger so well.  My 18 month old has no concept of danger and just goes for it...no matter how high, sharp, or steep.\n\nThanks for the encouragement at my blog.  So very much appreciated!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1810,447,'Her Bad Mother','caconnors@rogers.com','','74.99.204.161','2007-05-18 21:01:23','2007-05-18 21:01:23','I TOTALLY agree about the whining about \'why for boys?\' blah blah. Nobody said that girls couldn\'t read it. And why shouldn\'t boys have a special book? Bah.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1811,447,'Becky..Absent Minded Housewife','absentmindedhousewife@yahoo.com','','207.171.203.254','2007-05-19 14:15:47','2007-05-19 14:15:47','I\'m the mother of three boys.  I\'m expecting years of rampant body hair growth around here.\n\nThere is nothing wrong with men encouraging their boys to be men...nothing.  That doesn\'t mean they will grow up to be insensitive male pigs, scratching their balls, whilst drinking stinky beers and discussing jumping out of planes and nunchucks.\n\nIt is about honor and sometimes honor means facing a little danger.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1812,447,'LifeAsIKnowIt','chrisanne_d@yahoo.com','','151.199.36.67','2007-05-20 21:21:16','2007-05-20 21:21:16','Just found your blog through NE Mamas site.\nI too have two little boys.  I learn a little more each day on the ups and downs of raising boys!  More than anything it is an adventure.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1813,447,'Audrey - Pinks &amp; Blues','audrey523@mac.com','','68.9.73.103','2007-05-24 14:04:32','2007-05-24 14:04:32','As a mom of three boys... all younger than 3... I completely understand where you coming from. Even yesterday while we were at the park, all I wanted to do was sit and get some sun for 30 minutes... but my fear of them falling off the slide or banging into the \"big\" boys on the swings... this is what being a mom is all about - trying to eliminate the dangers when we can. I know someday I won\'t be with them 100% of the time... I just pray I teach them right from wrong.\nGreat blog... so glad I found it.\n- Audrey\nwww.pinksandblues.com\n<a href=\"http://www.pinksandbluesgirls.wordpress.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.pinksandbluesgirls.wordpress.com</a>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1814,447,'judy','judybrune@mac.com','','24.90.248.88','2007-05-25 06:54:57','2007-05-25 06:54:57','Hi Roxanna,\nI tagged you for a meme!! Go checkout what you have to do:\n<a href=\"http://www.goodyblog.com/playing_house/2007/05/im_it.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.goodyblog.com/playing_house/2007/05/im_it.html</a>\nxoox\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1815,447,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','66.174.92.162','2007-05-27 21:08:12','2007-05-27 21:08:12','Wow, I\'m so with you on that anxiety/letting your kids be WITHOUT anxiety thing. It\'s such a hard balance to strike. And I don\'t even read Vanity Fair (although I probably should).\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1816,449,'adrienne','adriennejackson@gmail.com','','216.197.191.107','2007-05-17 09:14:44','2007-05-17 09:14:44','it\'s all disappointing now, but nothing will be more thrilling than when those favourite jeans fit.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1817,449,'sabrina','smola@care.com','','65.217.247.186','2007-05-17 14:57:49','2007-05-17 14:57:49','Have you checked out that new show- Notes from the Underbelly? Pretty funny.\n\nAnyways in the episode last night, one of the main characters (post child 5 weeks) was walking her baby, and ran into another very very fit woman, (also post child 5 weeks). The fit woman remarked that she was thinner than she was before the baby! Ok who wants to hear that?!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1818,449,'the weirdgirl','weirdgirl@mindspring.com','','75.61.134.155','2007-05-23 13:16:00','2007-05-23 13:16:00','Oh, I HATED that period after the pregnancy! Things should fit but they don\'t, or they\'re lumpy in the wrong spots, and people tell you you look great (you know, compared to when you were pregnant) but NOTHING FITS!!  I had to go to a wedding four months after my son was born and, even with the weight I had lost, I STILL had the worst time cobbling together an outfit that fit.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1819,449,'Michelle','armas.design@gmail.com','','24.90.252.48','2007-05-27 20:45:51','2007-05-27 20:45:51','you are so funny! I have not had children (but when I imagine it, I am scared to death they will be boys, b/c they kinda freak me out, how funny is that) but anyway, you are funny. There is an article in this month\'s Self magazine about why you should just embrace your post pregers body with the \"extra\" and just buy new clothes. Not that you have time to read a magazine Lol, but I thought it might help. Love your blog.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1820,450,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','75.81.190.157','2007-05-14 14:59:30','2007-05-14 14:59:30','YAY! Now, let\'s see some pics!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1821,450,'MamaMichelsBabies','codynessnkids@yahoo.com','','71.63.154.118','2007-05-15 00:06:15','2007-05-15 00:06:15','6 weeks already? Wow... seems like a few weeks ago I stumbled here just in time for your nesting big time post.\n\nGood to hear the grocery store wasn\'t traumatic... and it will continue to get easier until that fear is a hazy memory mostly blocked out with the memory of sore nips and bags under your eyes.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1822,450,'Amanda','manda_paige@hotmail.com','','24.70.119.78','2007-05-15 10:43:59','2007-05-15 10:43:59','It\'s mighty encouraging to hear that adding a second child is doable, and even enjoyable.  It\'s still not on my own radar yet (our fist is only 10 months) but maybe someday.  I too, second the call for photos!  I love baby shots, oh yes I do.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1823,450,'Mary','m4rose@cebridge.net','','209.33.3.110','2007-05-15 11:52:58','2007-05-15 11:52:58','You are very fortunate to have two beautiful children and it is perfectly normal how you feel.  Here is a weblink to a blog you might like.  The blog is written by five women with toddlers to teenagers.  Read some of their entries and you will feel completely normal!  : )\n\n<a href=\"http://blogs.chron.com/mamadrama/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.chron.com/mamadrama/</a>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1824,450,'the weirdgirl','weirdgirl@mindspring.com','','75.61.128.69','2007-05-16 01:27:52','2007-05-16 01:27:52','I\'m so impressed! I don\'t even go to the grocery store now and I\'ve only got one kid.\n\nSounds like you are doing great.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1825,450,'Jess','jayemwright@gmail.com','','138.88.9.176','2007-05-21 19:42:21','2007-05-21 19:42:21','Mine are only a year apart, and when my second was born my first was only a year.  My God, the guilt.  I almost did go insane.  Then I got over it, and now they\'re two little boogers who play together just long enough for me to shower.  Ahhhh.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1826,452,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','75.7.244.190','2007-05-11 13:55:17','2007-05-11 13:55:17','Grover was my favorite on Sesame Street when I was little.  I love him, and now my son loves him, too!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1827,452,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.com','','71.232.106.87','2007-05-11 16:29:47','2007-05-11 16:29:47','Oh, I LOATHE Dora.  Bossy little cow.  And Wonderpets freak me out, too.  Have you discovered the creepiness that is Oobi?  Talking hands, I kid you not.  Talking hands with googly eyes.  F-f-f-f-freaky.\n\nI am a big fan of Grover, too.  And Cookie Monster, although sometimes Cookie eats apples now, which is just wrong.\n\nMy two year-old is a huge fan of The Upside Down Show.  It\'s funny, but they only made 13 episodes.  I have seen them all 8,942 times.  Each.\n\nYou know you\'re a mother when you have serious debates over who\'s better - Joe or Steve.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1828,452,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','209.6.228.28','2007-05-11 17:00:42','2007-05-11 17:00:42','Steve.  Obviously.  He always looked like he wanted to be somewhere else.  Poor Steve.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1829,452,'subarctic mama','nicolestellon@hotmail.com','','66.230.82.220','2007-05-12 17:54:23','2007-05-12 17:54:23','Dora. Nasty. I\'m secretly happy when there\'s an accident in the Dora underpants. At least then the mess lands on someone who deserves it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1830,452,'metalia','metaliablog@gmail.com','','69.121.163.72','2007-05-16 23:21:48','2007-05-16 23:21:48','Hee! I saw that Dora sketch on SNL, and nearly peed my pants.  It was so spot-on.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1831,453,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-05-10 08:30:27','2007-05-10 08:30:27','You\'ve got to be kidding me.  All it took was some grease in a can?  Menino had probably been considering getting a team of MIT students to help him take the whole thing apart to fix it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1832,454,'Wander','wandersworld@gmail.com','','207.69.139.9','2007-05-04 18:03:45','2007-05-04 18:03:45','That sounds like a little slice of heaven in it\'s self.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1833,454,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','65.24.159.22','2007-05-04 20:40:10','2007-05-04 20:40:10','Amazing! I can see how you would hear angels singing - I\'d have to keep pinching myself to make sure I wasn\'t dreaming.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1834,454,'Yemi','buchela@dalianmitmita.com','','221.201.215.60','2007-05-05 05:39:22','2007-05-05 05:39:22','Wow, I mean, wow.  Congrats.  That is a huge thing.\n\nHow do you guys get your kids, infants no less, to sleep through the night?!\n\nMy son is 1 and still wakes up several times.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1835,454,'kara','karalwh@gmail.com','','71.163.19.72','2007-05-05 08:42:34','2007-05-05 08:42:34','Wow I\'m jealous...especially about the sleeping in until 9am and having grandpa helping out while you get a latte....Enjoy!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1836,454,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-05-05 10:11:40','2007-05-05 10:11:40','Damn.  My kid sleeps through the night and I still don\'t have time for a pedicure.  I\'m jealous!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1837,454,'christina','chris.bee@hotmail.com','','68.201.6.91','2007-05-05 22:40:32','2007-05-05 22:40:32','Awesome! You deserve a latte and a pedi... sleeping until nine? you are living on the wild side lady.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1838,454,'island jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.56.195','2007-05-06 13:59:41','2007-05-06 13:59:41','I could Hear Handel\'s Messiah playing as I read this post... Heaven indeed!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1839,455,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','68.160.146.248','2007-04-28 19:52:27','2007-04-28 19:52:27','I\'d love to know if the Nose Frida really works.  I am so over the turkey baster.  I think it\'s wonderful that your husband was able to spend time at home with you guys - my daughter was just a week old when my husband had to travel for work.  I was so afraid, too.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1840,455,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','71.174.224.184','2007-04-29 02:01:58','2007-04-29 02:01:58','If you need any help or support, please call me. Between my and the Girl, I\'m sure we could help you get to Star Market, especially when you\'re home alone. Email me if you don\'t still have my number.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1841,455,'christina','chris.bee@hotmail.com','','68.201.6.91','2007-04-30 21:49:11','2007-04-30 21:49:11','I think about that all the time. Here they have the jumbo carts which come attached with a \"big brother\" seat.\nI love your blog, so I\'ve finally blogrolled you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1842,455,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','209.6.228.28','2007-04-30 23:02:00','2007-04-30 23:02:00','Hey Margalit - thanks for the offer!  I have calmed down a bit since I posted and realized that God invented Peapod for a reason.  See how I let anxiety just roll off my back?\n\nHowever, if the girl is up for babysitting duty...I may give you a call!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1843,455,'Emily','emilyepalmer@yahoo.com','','75.63.253.152','2007-05-01 00:07:15','2007-05-01 00:07:15','I found your blog listed on one of my favorite blogs, \'More, More, More\' and had to leave a comment.  I can totally relate to this post.  I\'m about to have my second child, my first is a toddler, and I\'m already stressing about the things you\'ve mentioned! So fun to read someone else\'s thoughts/concerns on it too!\n\nGreat blog!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1844,455,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','67.175.116.181','2007-05-01 09:51:46','2007-05-01 09:51:46','I know it\'s a different situation, but I remember the first time I was alone with J after I brought him home from the hospital. Talk about panic. I can only imagine with two.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1845,455,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-05-01 12:01:45','2007-05-01 12:01:45','I don\'t even have two kids and I\'m terrified at the idea of taking both to the supermarket.  But you\'ll figure it out.  And like you said, there\'s always delivery.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1846,455,'MamaMichelsBabies','codynessnkids@yahoo.com','','71.63.154.118','2007-05-01 22:57:33','2007-05-01 22:57:33','It gets easier, and with every new outing or function, you start relaxing more, but boy, I remember bringing Boom home and having a 3 year old... yeah it was scary. It\'s awesome that you have all of that help with meals and Hubs being home for the first bit, makes things go way smoother.\n\nYou could always go my route.. take out. Lots and lots of take out the first few weeks.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1847,455,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.com','','71.232.106.87','2007-05-01 23:50:09','2007-05-01 23:50:09','You could do what I do on the rare occasions that I venture out with both children - get one of those carts with the car attached to it.  Boo thinks it\'s the best thing ever to sit in that and the Bug just hangs out in her car seat, cooing and gurgling at passersby.  However, make sure you frisk the toddler before leaving the store - they keep strange things down there at toddler level.  I wound up buying some ramen noodle thing because Boo had peeled it open and started eating it while I was obliviously loading up the cart with real food.\n\nGood luck on your week away.  TCBIM went away for a week shortly after the Bug was born.  Not a lot of fun, really.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1848,455,'Katrina','klyn74@msn.com','','72.205.4.244','2007-05-02 14:55:58','2007-05-02 14:55:58','I have a 2-1/2 yr old and a 6 month old. I\'ve been ordering online from Peapod since I was 8 months pregnant with #2. When we actually have to go to the store I put the toddler in the seat of the cart and wear the baby in the Bjorn. Unless of course the baby\'s asleep, then the entire car seat goes in the cart, the toddler goes in the seat, and the groceries go in one of those  hand-held baskets that I put at the bottom of the rolling cart.  See? Easy :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1849,455,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','209.6.228.28','2007-05-02 15:25:47','2007-05-02 15:25:47','Oh my...my head might just explode.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1850,455,'Jennifer','jenleah@hotmail.com','','67.177.76.15','2007-05-04 16:38:29','2007-05-04 16:38:29','I\'m hear via The Good Blogs...had to comment.\n\nI\'m having #2 in one week.  Scared and excited and appreciative of posts like this that tell it like it is.  Thanks!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1851,456,'dana','thedanafilesblog@gmail.com','','75.8.45.102','2007-04-19 09:33:55','2007-04-19 09:33:55','I\'ve always wondered if I\'d be prepared as well for a second child as I was with Dawson.  But then I think back and realize no amount of preparation was enough.  I think that\'s what is keeping me from having Baby #2 just yet.\n\nCongratulations on the new baby!  I hope you can get some rest once in awhile!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1852,456,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.com','','71.232.106.87','2007-04-19 23:56:16','2007-04-19 23:56:16','Yeah, I was rudely awakened when I brought the Bug home.  I felt like a zombie for quite a while.\n\nDo you have someone to help you once in a while, so you can get some sleep?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1853,456,'christina','chris.bee@hotmail.com','','68.201.6.91','2007-04-21 00:38:36','2007-04-21 00:38:36','Oh my, you have your hands full! Good luck. I think we forget the hardships of having a newborn because we become blinded by the beauty of all the little things they do to make us smile.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1854,456,'Mary Tsao','mary.tsao@gmail.com','','209.204.188.168','2007-04-22 00:43:48','2007-04-22 00:43:48','Oh my gosh -- a belated congratulations to you! Love the picture of you with your two babies. You look great!\n\nI ditto the thought about getting help. Sleep is a good thing.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1855,456,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','67.175.116.181','2007-04-22 19:44:57','2007-04-22 19:44:57','Well, I haven\'t visited in a while but CONGRATULATIONS to you! He\'s BEAUTIFULLY BEAUTIFUL.\n\nMy kid\'s only 11 months and I\'ve already forgotten about all that stuff.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1856,456,'suburbankamikaze','patdunnigan@att.net','','68.72.82.159','2007-04-23 11:34:34','2007-04-23 11:34:34','Congratulations on your beautiful little boy.\nDon\'t be too hard on yourself. Those baby days fly by so fast, who can remember? I am always amazed at how little expertise I have to share with friends and their new babies despite having been there, twice, not so long ago.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1857,457,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2007-04-10 15:42:42','2007-04-10 15:42:42','What a gorgeous, gorgeous baby! Congratulations to you!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1858,457,'Megan','megan@megancreates.com','','24.62.102.132','2007-04-10 15:54:50','2007-04-10 15:54:50','Congratulations! He\'s so sweet! Hooray!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1859,457,'Peter','peterorvetti@gmail.com','','72.83.210.20','2007-04-10 16:31:16','2007-04-10 16:31:16','Three beautiful people all in one little bed.  How lovely!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1860,457,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','75.83.164.29','2007-04-10 16:36:19','2007-04-10 16:36:19','No one\'s hair is allowed to be that shiny after birthing a child. ;)\n\nCongratulations! He is absolutely beautiful!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1861,457,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-04-10 16:50:04','2007-04-10 16:50:04','I was wondering if this was why you hadn\'t posted in a while.\n\nCongratulations!!  He\'s beautiful and I love the name you decided on.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1862,457,'Laura','laura@kovax.org','','24.74.115.206','2007-04-10 18:02:29','2007-04-10 18:02:29','Congratulations!  Great name.  You look wonderful too, especially for just popping out such a big baby!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1863,457,'jennster','jenn@jennster.com','','63.82.98.50','2007-04-10 18:11:00','2007-04-10 18:11:00','perfect!  you look BEAUTIFUL!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1864,457,'K','kmei26@yahoo.com','','72.78.133.36','2007-04-10 21:05:56','2007-04-10 21:05:56','YAY! I\'ve been waiting to find out.\n\nWhat a lovely family -- congrats!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1865,457,'Lala','wardellchambers@gmail.com','','74.106.132.68','2007-04-10 22:18:25','2007-04-10 22:18:25','Beautiful he is, and so are you. Congratulations.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1866,457,'Izzy','izzymom@gmail.com','','72.77.248.137','2007-04-10 22:32:14','2007-04-10 22:32:14','Congratulations! Benjamin is a doll and the three of you are completely adorable :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1867,457,'Andrea','littlebalddoctors@charter.net','','75.132.181.230','2007-04-10 22:41:59','2007-04-10 22:41:59','Congratulations!  He\'s gorgeous!  And so are you and the big brother.  What a beautiful family you\'ve got!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1868,457,'Liz','lizengel1@yahoo.com','','68.183.77.38','2007-04-11 00:34:01','2007-04-11 00:34:01','Yay! Congrats on making two gorgeous men in a row!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1869,457,'Yemi','Buchela@dalianmitmita.com','','221.201.121.149','2007-04-11 01:57:53','2007-04-11 01:57:53','Wow, congrats.  You guys look beautiful.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1870,457,'Mrs. Flinger','frisbeeflingers@gmail.com','','71.112.243.90','2007-04-11 02:12:57','2007-04-11 02:12:57','Saw the pics over on flickr and thought I\'d say hi here, too, because with such a cute baby, you can\'t hear congrats enough. :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1871,457,'jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','198.4.159.6','2007-04-11 09:05:55','2007-04-11 09:05:55','Wow! You look fantastic, and that baby ain\'t too shabby looking, either.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1872,457,'Kris','krisunderwood@gmail.com','','75.68.251.21','2007-04-11 09:24:48','2007-04-11 09:24:48','How lovely! congrats.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1873,457,'Kari','kari.rowles@gmail.com','','66.41.104.204','2007-04-11 13:57:31','2007-04-11 13:57:31','Congratulations -- he\'s perfect.\n\nHoly crap, you look fabulous after just giving birth!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1874,457,'violeta','viole.ramirez@gmail.com','','189.162.92.1','2007-04-11 15:31:58','2007-04-11 15:31:58','Felicidades, está precioso tu bebé.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1875,457,'Amy','sbmoms@gmail.com','','75.67.232.201','2007-04-11 19:23:15','2007-04-11 19:23:15','Congratulations! I\'ve been checking in every day. He\'s adorable. What a wonderful family!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1876,457,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','216.97.164.102','2007-04-12 21:02:46','2007-04-12 21:02:46','How wonderful!!\n\nWhat a beautiful family!!  CONGRATS! :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1877,457,'Carrie_in_TN','none@unknown.com','','69.245.22.231','2007-04-12 22:41:34','2007-04-12 22:41:34','Bellezas. Congratulations!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1878,457,'lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','70.114.7.134','2007-04-12 23:49:39','2007-04-12 23:49:39','Congrats! I\'m so happy for you. You have a beautiful family.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1879,457,'ksklein','snow_flake@gmx.de','','80.218.151.177','2007-04-13 01:29:16','2007-04-13 01:29:16','congratulations! what a cutie.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1880,457,'the domestic minx','slinkyminx666@yahoo.com.au','','144.131.243.242','2007-04-13 06:02:26','2007-04-13 06:02:26','Congratulations on the birth of your adorable baby boy xxx\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1881,457,'christina','chris.bee@hotmail.com','','68.201.6.91','2007-04-14 01:30:49','2007-04-14 01:30:49','what a beautiful baby. You look great in this picture for just giving birth! I just came across your blog and I will ddefinetely be back!\n\n\nP.S. Benjamin goes wonderfully with Sebastian.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1882,457,'Alex &amp; Rosie','Rosalex@aol.com','','64.12.116.207','2007-04-16 11:40:23','2007-04-16 11:40:23','Felicitaciones querida Sobrina, bellissimo baby, al igual que Sebastian. Un beso bien grande y sobre todo mucha salud y felicidad.\nLes queremos mucho y esperamos verlos  pronto en un futuro cercano.\nSaludos a mi sobrino Lucas, se ve muy bien como padre.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1883,457,'MamaMichelsBabies','codynessnkids@yahoo.com','','71.63.154.118','2007-04-17 09:42:51','2007-04-17 09:42:51','De lurking here. Congrats!!! I\'m in total agreement with the others, you look so good after having just gave birth!\n\nHe\'s gorgeous!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1884,457,'Kristina Brooke','kristina@kristinabrooke.org','','67.86.231.3','2007-04-19 13:45:38','2007-04-19 13:45:38','Congrats. You have a beautiful little boy.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1885,457,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.com','','71.232.106.87','2007-04-19 23:53:14','2007-04-19 23:53:14','Oh, he\'s gorgeous!  Congratulations.  Benjamin is a great name.\n\nDamn, woman.  You sure that\'s you in the picture and not some stunt woman?  You look great.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1886,457,'judy','judybrune@mac.com','','24.90.248.88','2007-04-21 07:41:21','2007-04-21 07:41:21','Congratulations! Mazel Tov! You look radiant and your baby sooooooo cute!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1887,457,'the weirdgirl','weirdgirl@mindspring.com','','75.41.120.116','2007-04-22 12:38:05','2007-04-22 12:38:05','Oh, congratulations!! Sorry I\'m late. Both of your sons are beautiful!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1888,457,'Wendy','wendy@thingsinyourhead.com','','75.176.55.20','2007-04-24 23:12:51','2007-04-24 23:12:51','AAAAH! Congratulations! I am a week late and such a loser - but man, what a gorgeous family!!! congrats again!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1889,457,'lildb','lildbsnack@yahoo.com','','24.22.108.12','2007-04-26 01:04:32','2007-04-26 01:04:32','goddamn.  I knew you were pretty, but I wasn\'t aware that you were a fricking supermodel.\n\nalso, your new baby is so darned sweet.  congratulations, luv.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1890,458,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','71.174.228.108','2007-03-27 18:30:42','2007-03-27 18:30:42','Wow. Congratulations. Can\'t wait to hear where you\'re moving. I assume you\'re leaving our fair city?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1891,458,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-03-27 20:16:33','2007-03-27 20:16:33','Hurrah on the house!  Same town you were looking in before?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1892,458,'the domestic minx','slinkyminx666@yahoo.com.au','','139.168.253.102','2007-03-28 02:59:57','2007-03-28 02:59:57','Congratulations - of the non-pre-empting the jinx thing kind!!\nWell done.\nAnd baby makes three.\nxxx\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1893,458,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','75.8.45.102','2007-03-30 13:24:01','2007-03-30 13:24:01','Any day now!  I hope it all goes well!! :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1894,458,'Peter','peterorvetti@gmail.com','','65.210.113.10','2007-04-01 09:11:00','2007-04-01 09:11:00','Wow, that\'s efficiency.  What would you have bought if you\'d had a whole month?  A boat, maybe?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1895,458,'little miss mel','elisabethlarkin@yahoo.com','','216.93.201.237','2007-04-03 11:51:09','2007-04-03 11:51:09','Good luck on your upcoming birth!\n\nwhat helped me was hooking up with hubby, walking everyday, and eating spicy food.\nHonestly, I don\'t think anything specific works for everybody. Happy hunting on finding your own concoction. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1896,458,'shelly','John-shelly@weblog-index.com','','24.231.241.240','2007-04-04 21:18:28','2007-04-04 21:18:28','Hi.  I really like your blog. Was wondering if you want to add it to my directory? Thanks Shelly\n\n<a href=\"http://www.weblog-index.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Weblog index</a>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1897,458,'thethinker','theoryofthought@gmail.com','','24.167.85.142','2007-04-08 22:44:15','2007-04-08 22:44:15','Good luck with the house (and the baby)!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1898,459,'Megan','megan@megancreates.com','','24.62.102.132','2007-03-22 12:50:03','2007-03-22 12:50:03','Wooo! It\'s all happening! I\'ll do a happy jig for you and all the good vibes I can for feeling better...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1899,459,'Amy','sbmoms@gmail.com','','75.67.232.201','2007-03-22 21:09:12','2007-03-22 21:09:12','OMG! Take care of yourself! You\'re so close. Rest as much as you can and be well.\n\nThinking of you.\n\nAmy :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1900,459,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','68.48.231.139','2007-03-22 21:22:05','2007-03-22 21:22:05','Sinus problems are tough when you aren\'t on the verge of birth!  I can\'t imagine how you must feel.\n\nSending you get well wishes and a humidifier.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1901,459,'the domestic minx','slinkyminx666@yahoo.com.au','','124.178.119.44','2007-03-23 02:31:00','2007-03-23 02:31:00','Oh baby xx\nTake care of yourself.\nNot long to go.\nSinuses be gone!!!!\nxxxxxxx\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1902,459,'the weirdgirl','weirdgirl@mindspring.com','','75.41.120.116','2007-03-23 13:24:44','2007-03-23 13:24:44','Oh my god! Congrats!  Effacing and dilation are good!  Take care and I\'ll keep you in my thoughts.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1903,459,'la abuelita Luly','sarmiento.paula@gmail.com','','65.7.222.203','2007-03-23 14:28:24','2007-03-23 14:28:24','Please baby wait!  If the captain does not stop in any traffic light, I will be there in nine hours.\n\nSee you soon,\n(la abuelita Luly)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1904,459,'Izzy','izzymom@gmail.com','','72.77.248.137','2007-03-24 00:46:07','2007-03-24 00:46:07','Oh, man! I know what you\'re going through. I had  two or three head colds and subsequent sinus infections when I was pregnant. You poor thing! (Saline nasal spray is helpful and safe to use)\n\nI hope you get to feeling better and that you have a wonderful and easy delivery!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1905,459,'Pendullum','Pendullum@aol.com','','67.70.85.127','2007-03-25 09:12:18','2007-03-25 09:12:18','Woman! Stay in bed take care of yourself...\nGet lots of sleep...Have hubby wait on you... Use the baby monitor to ask for beverages and maybe a temple rub!\nAnd hope you are better in time for delivery day...and the welcoming of your beautiful new baby!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1906,459,'Yemi','Buchela@dalianmitmita.com','','221.201.221.233','2007-03-29 01:20:07','2007-03-29 01:20:07','I hope you have a great birth experience!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1907,460,'Lissa','flowers295@aol.com','','70.115.244.177','2007-03-16 17:09:56','2007-03-16 17:09:56','Damn it! There goes my diet.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1908,460,'Megan','megan@megancreates.com','','24.62.102.132','2007-03-16 17:34:52','2007-03-16 17:34:52','Holy Crap!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1909,460,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.com','','71.232.106.87','2007-03-16 17:43:56','2007-03-16 17:43:56','Drooooooool.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1910,460,'the domestic minx','slinkyminx666@yahoo.com.au','','124.178.119.44','2007-03-17 01:56:13','2007-03-17 01:56:13','Let them eat cake indeed!\nLet ME eat it!\nAll of it!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1911,460,'ilker','ilker@thethinkingblog.com','','81.213.70.162','2007-03-19 20:03:49','2007-03-19 20:03:49','*Homer voice*\n\nHmmmm... cake!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1912,461,'Undercover Angel','angel.kidzoo@gmail.com','','216.208.194.41','2007-03-13 10:56:04','2007-03-13 10:56:04','The name game is an interesting one.  With my first born, I thought about calling him Shadow, but instead he got my maiden name as his first name (Brandon).\n\nI wanted to call my second child Forrest, but the movie Forrest Gump came out the same year so I debated between Daulton (after the Eagles song) or Dustin. The night I went into labour I met the security guard in the elevator and his name was Daulton - and that\'s what I named the baby.\n\nWith my third child, I couldn\'t think of a name, but he looked just like his father so I called him Daniel.\n\nWhen I was pregnant with my daughter, Daulton came home and said that if he was lucky enough to have a little sister he wanted her to be called Sarah.  My grandmothers name was Sarah.  That\'s the name she wound up with.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1913,461,'jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','198.4.159.6','2007-03-13 12:28:36','2007-03-13 12:28:36','I love thinking about names. As you know, my cat is named Sebastian---and if I hadn\'t used it already on him I would have it on the as yet to be conceived baby name list. I love it.\n\nThere is actually a good, non-trendy and well researched baby name book out there. I can\'t remember the name (I\'ll check when I get home) but one of the cool features is that it suggests sibling names that are in the same style of a certain name.\n\n<b>RELUCTANT HOUSEWIFE:  We have that book!  The Baby Name Wizard - we love it!  She\'s also on ivillage, I think</b>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1914,461,'Anne Glamore','anneglamore@gmail.com','','71.91.3.120','2007-03-13 12:31:03','2007-03-13 12:31:03','As a fellow cavalier, I\'d like to point out that you could call him Hoo.\n\nNot that it would make life easy.\n\nRELUCTANT HOUSEWIFE:  Brilliant!  How did we miss that?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1915,461,'Wyliekat','wyliekat@gmail.com','','64.42.217.69','2007-03-13 14:26:37','2007-03-13 14:26:37','I have a name that I love, but I doubt I could ever convince Hubby to use it, assuming we ever have a second child (too political around these parts). I\'ll offer it up to you now, in case you\'re interested. Riel. It\'s French, (pronounced REE-ell).\n\nAfter this guy:\n\n<a href=\"http://library2.usask.ca/northwest/background/riel.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://library2.usask.ca/northwest/background/riel.htm</a>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1916,461,'little miss mel','elisabethlarkin@yahoo.com','','216.93.201.237','2007-03-13 14:38:52','2007-03-13 14:38:52','We didn\'t share our baby names with anyone either. Hubs asked if we should share them with his parents. I said \"do you want to know their opinion?\" Sometimes people just can\'t keep their opinions to themselves.\n\nWe ended up having a boy and his name was the first and only boy name we came up with. Easy.\n\nLove the name of your son. Good luck on your next one!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1917,461,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.com','','71.232.106.87','2007-03-13 20:18:22','2007-03-13 20:18:22','Oh, I like the name Sebastian.  It immediately brings to mind Brideshead Revisited.  I suppose Aloysius is a bit twee, but that\'s one source for naming options.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1918,461,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-03-13 20:26:25','2007-03-13 20:26:25','Aw c\'mon, Bob is a nice name.  :)\n\nSebastian is a beautiful name.  I\'m sure whatever you come up with will be great.  He can\'t be Baby Boy X forever.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1919,461,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','65.24.159.22','2007-03-13 20:45:31','2007-03-13 20:45:31','I love the name Sebastian. I know how hard it can be to come up with a suitable sibling name, though. We\'re having another girl, and can\'t think of a good name to go with our first daughter, Cordelia. I was looking at other Shakespeare names, but now I\'m branching out to other names that are less common, too.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1920,461,'dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','70.224.253.116','2007-03-13 21:00:20','2007-03-13 21:00:20','Naming our son was a battle for me and my husband.  He pretty much hated what I loved and vice versa.\n\nIf we have another child I\'m certain it will be the same way once again!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1921,461,'the domestic minx','slinkyminx666@yahoo.com.au','','124.178.119.44','2007-03-14 04:25:15','2007-03-14 04:25:15','Oh I love Sebastian!!\nI agree, it is so deliciously Brideshead, little miss, which appeals to my British sensibilities, and Aloysius I\'m afraid would be yes, just a little too, well, gay .\nWhat about Xavier.\nIt is strong and brave and sensitive and hopefully exists without embarassing connotation...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1922,461,'Mom of 3','shd@citlink.net','','74.37.166.216','2007-03-19 16:26:23','2007-03-19 16:26:23','At least you know it is a boy so you only have to agonize over one possible name!  We never knew the sex of our babies.  The last one was going to be named after my Mom if it was a girl, but the boy name was so hard!  I think boy names are much harder! We ended up with a girl, but after much debate, for a boy it was going to be Colin (pronounced the English way as in Colin Firth, not the American way as in Colin Powell).  Good Luck!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1923,461,'Minal','minal.srivastava@gmail.com','','210.18.56.221','2007-03-31 00:44:59','2007-03-31 00:44:59','\n\n..yes, names can be tricky. Just saw \'The Namesake\'  last night and the movie is still fresh in my mind.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1924,461,'University Update','','http://www.universityupdate.com/ACC/Miami/1482224.aspx?src=blog','71.127.130.131','2007-03-13 10:04:19','2007-03-13 10:04:19','<strong>The Name Game</strong>\n\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1925,462,'Megan','megan@megancreates.com','','24.62.102.132','2007-03-12 15:21:09','2007-03-12 15:21:09','I was actually thinking about this topic the other day after seeing a commercial for that stuff on tv. It made me sad because it\'s fun to discover colors and creativity on one\'s own; not Crayola\'s version. I hate the idea of a mess though too. I don\'t have kids yet and I wonder what to do when I do. My friend has \"craft day\" once per week with her kids so that she doesn\'t have to deal with the mess every day...just the one. And she has a little area just for crafts and has firm rules for her kids in terms of what is allowed, etc. She puts a drop cloth down around the area so if a mess is made, it get\'s dropped on the washable cloth for easy cleanup. It all sounds good in theory. Good luck!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1926,462,'JChevais','jenn.c@laposte.net','','205.134.17.55','2007-03-13 10:27:18','2007-03-13 10:27:18','Actually... I think I read somewhere that Van Gogh started painting in his late 20s...  I think he initially wanted to be a priest. :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1927,462,'Undercover Angel','angel.kidzoo@gmail.com','','216.208.194.41','2007-03-13 10:50:52','2007-03-13 10:50:52','I know, I hate doing messy stuff with the kids too.  It just seems to be so much work to get it all out, and then to clean it all up - and it\'s not like they help with the cleanup!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1933,464,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-03-07 18:37:44','2007-03-07 18:37:44','Happy Birthday!  I\'d love to see that lobster impersonation.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1934,466,'Courtney Berry','Pnkldybg11@aim.com','','63.230.169.135','2007-02-23 16:41:29','2007-02-23 16:41:29','Hi there, just clicked over to your blog out of curiosity. I like this latest post...I don\'t understand why some people (mostly those who\'ve never been a parent) think it\'s okay to criticize others for their decisions on parenthood. I, for one, think being a mother is the greatest gift! I feel blessed by what I have been giving, not just with my kids, but with my husband too. And, as for those who have a problem with that, I think they\'re just bitter, synical wankers who\'ve got nothing better to do than complain about someone else\'s life! ;p Of course motherhood, parenthood, is challenging, but there\'s never a dull moment, is there? It\'s a roller coaster ride, that\'s what makes it great!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1935,466,'Jenni','justchickenfeed@yahoo.com','','71.168.35.230','2007-02-23 17:34:00','2007-02-23 17:34:00','Amen.  I love being a mom and a wife.  I am educated, confidant and secure, yet I am constantly talked down to because I am \"just\" a mother.  I made the choice to stay home, and made the choice to stop working from home a few years ago.  Now that I am expecting number 4, I get the rudest comments.  \"Are you finished yet?\"  \"Don\'t you think the world is overpopulated\" or my favorite \"Haven\'t you figured out what causes that?\".\n\nI know of moms who fit each of your above categories, but they still are awesome women.  Who cares if we follow trends, who doesn\'t - to some degree?  Who cares about a few drinks or a boob popping out now and then?  Our kids would see much more by watching any prime-time TV show.\n\nIt is hard not to get up in arms about this subject, but I think the best way is just to continue to be the best moms we can.  And not try to be perfect.  We all get frustrated and say bad words and scream sometimes.  We all have days where we wish we could trade them in!  But at the end of the day, we know we are the best mom for our little beasts.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1936,466,'Kris','krisunderwood@gmail.com','','75.68.194.158','2007-02-24 10:43:11','2007-02-24 10:43:11','All I have to say is- who do you think propogates all of this shit? We are constantly slammed with images, words, catch phrases from the media, etc. etc., contantly telling us that we (mothers) <i>should</i> be trendy or this or that, then <i>we</i> get slammed for going along with it. And-whoever said the only reason most of us are having kids because it\'s <i>cool</i> is on some serious crack.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1937,466,'MamaMichelsBabies','codynessnkids@yahoo.com','','75.72.166.70','2007-02-24 11:28:41','2007-02-24 11:28:41','The breastfeeding hysteria is best.. now expecting my 5th I hear the same comments another poster Courtney Berry hears.. only my personal favorite so far is someone telling us we need a tv, because obviously we need the distraction. I just wish my kids would have taken to the breast, instead I spent months pumping and bottle feeding until I dried up, if they\'d had, I\'d be one of those reviled women who wouldn\'t care who sees a lil boob. Or alot.. if some guy is going to be uncomfortable seeing a bit of skin, I pray he never goes to the beach.\n\nMommyhood is ugly, poopy, messy, gassy, pukey, and we wouldn\'t do it if we didn\'t love it. I wonder how many of those writers are parents, I would lay money that not many are, if they were, they\'d understand that THIS is the toughest job you\'ll ever love. the Marines ain\'t got nothin on this mess.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1938,466,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','162.138.176.51','2007-02-26 07:57:47','2007-02-26 07:57:47','I agree with all you\'ve said.  And how come it is that our generation of parents has been questioned, probed, disrespected like no generation other before us?\n\n(I don\'t really give a crap if the media questions my parenting techniques, honestly -- I just find it very annoying.)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1939,466,'Wyliekat','wyliekat@gmail.com','','64.42.217.69','2007-02-26 08:25:37','2007-02-26 08:25:37','De-lurking to comment on this one.\n\nThe dripping sarcasm on these stories boggles me. Why the distaste for people who are honest about child-rearing, you know? That\'s what I think of it as. Honesty. When our mothers were raising us, it wasn\'t okay to tell other people that sometimes you were too tired, sometimes you were bored by the fifteenth round of \"ring around the rosy\", sometimes you just wanted to get away from being the parent for a few days.\n\nHow many of them wanted to, but never did? How many of us would never have been that honest, if there wasn\'t a community around them (bloggers, etc) saying \"I know *exactly* what you mean!\"\n\nI think this \"hipster\" parent idea (though I\'d hardly consider myself in this category, I suspect the writers might, simply by virtue of the fact that a) I blog and b) I maintain a life outside of parenthood) is simply that our generation is trying to figure out how to be a parent and be happy. AT THE SAME TIME.\n\nIt\'s the same philosophy I see my fellow Gen-Xers apply to everything - if you find a way to be happy within yourself, you\'ll be better at whatever it is you\'re doing.\n\nAnd that is what\'s so damned threatening about it. Parenting (or indeed, life in general) isn\'t supposed to make you happy. It\'s supposed to make you miserable so that our parent\'s generation can finally say \"Remember when I said \'just wait until you have kids of your own?\'\" and then cackle with glee.\n\nUltimately, I think there is a permanent and irrevocable misunderstanding between our two generations.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1940,466,'Andrea','littlebalddoctors@charter.net','','71.10.209.252','2007-02-26 12:24:52','2007-02-26 12:24:52','I like what Wyliekat said: \"Why the distaste for people who are honest about child-rearing, you know?\"\n\nI don\'t get it.  And I\'m sorry if my refusal to wear Mom Jeans pisses somebody off, but I didn\'t leave my sense of style (what tiny bit I have) in the hospital delivery room.\n\nI had a baby because I wanted to have a baby.  Not because it\'s suddenly popular or cool or trendy.  Because I wanted a child.  To raise.  Until adulthood.  I knew as well as any first time parent can know in advance what I was getting myself into: at least two decades of worry and tedium and joy and wonder and difficulties and triumphs and love.  I wouldn\'t trade it for anything, nor did I need to trade in much (except spare time) to do it.  But I CERTAINLY didn\'t do it to fit into some imaginary cult hipster parent following.\n\nGreat post!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1941,466,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','209.6.228.28','2007-02-26 12:33:04','2007-02-26 12:33:04','Yes Wyliekat!  Yes!\n\nWhat\'s so wrong with trying to parent and be happy at the same time?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1942,466,'Wyliekat','wyliekat@gmail.com','','64.42.217.69','2007-02-26 15:23:41','2007-02-26 15:23:41','Because it\'s clearly not how they did things. Therefore it\'s lazy, or selfish, or \"trendy\" *major eye roll*. What makes me laugh so often about it is that I think we as a generation have more in common with our parents parents than the boomers have with anyone. Sandwich generation, indeed.\n\nI love my mother. I\'ve met and respected many boomers. But as a generation, I find them self-absorbed, self-congratulatory and generally disdainful of anyone not of their value-set. Because for them, life was one great burden of working yourself to death to acquire success (in whatever they chose to do) and That\'s The Way It Ought To Be.\n\nOr that\'s how my theory goes.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1943,466,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','63.139.109.226','2007-02-26 15:41:52','2007-02-26 15:41:52','Sing it sister!\n\nI hope Brooks comes home to find his front door plastered with chick peas hurled by angry hummus lovers everywhere.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1944,466,'the weirdgirl','weirdgirl@mindspring.com','','75.41.126.163','2007-02-26 22:59:32','2007-02-26 22:59:32','Hey, weren\'t those moms in the 50s all hopped up on valium and martinis? And those parents in the 70s, forcing their children to wear bell bottoms and social consciousness... how self-absorbed can you get?\n\nI think the media purposely started this so-called \"controversy\" just so they\'d have something to write about. Nothing like squashing people minding their own business to get out of real journalism.  The sad thing to me is when the online parents commenting get whipped into a frenzy and start hurling insults at each other.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1945,466,'judy','judy.goldberg@meredith.com','','24.90.249.226','2007-02-27 20:17:47','2007-02-27 20:17:47','I agree with you Mom101. I\'ve been resisiting saying anything about this whole hip parents thing for weeks, hoping it would just die because it\'s too stupid to live. But since I\'m from Park Slope (apparently ground zero of hipster parenting) and ended up talking about it in the park with someone this morning, it\'s infiltrated my real-life (as opposed to my internet reading life) I just can\'t take it any more. Reluctant Housewife: I think grouping all those things togetheer was brilliant. It\'s all just parent bashing, and Mom101, your so dead on because this is purely invented. Some of my best friends are so-called hip parents and they are totally nice to me even though I\'m a dork-parent (and this I know because my 13-year-old has told me so many times.) Anyway thanks for being so smart about this!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1946,466,'squawks','squawksvox@gmail.com','','207.180.140.3','2007-02-27 22:48:20','2007-02-27 22:48:20','You know, I kind of wish I could turn into a parody of a \'50s housewife. At least then I\'d know what the heck to make for dinner.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1947,466,'Her Bad Mother','caconnors@rogers.com','','74.99.204.161','2007-03-02 09:15:57','2007-03-02 09:15:57','A to the freakin\' MEN. How this things ever hit the news/Internet/whatever is a total mystery to me. Absurd.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1948,466,'the domestic minx','slinkyminx666@yahoo.com.au','','60.231.240.148','2007-03-07 23:58:21','2007-03-07 23:58:21','After many years of being a proud, hip and forward thinking mother I am still embracing and occasionally loathing my domesticity.  I too am educated, independent, confident and well-travelled but of all the things I\'ve ever done, motherhood has been and still is the most demanding, the most difficult and ultimately the most delicious.  It offends me greatly to read this crap written about young mothers/any mothers in the media. Who are these people?\nBravo Wyliekat, you sum it up well!\nI\'m with Squawks, however, on the 50\'s housewife thing.  I\'m at a loss over what to cook and I may need another glass of wine to sort the issue out...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1949,467,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','68.160.189.219','2007-02-21 17:33:41','2007-02-21 17:33:41','One of my good girlfriends bought a Honda Pilot when she was pregnant with her 3rd baby this past summer.  When she was 37 weeks pregnant to be exact.  She went to have the third carseat (!) installed in her Honda CR-V and they basically told her \"no go - you need  car with a third row\" so off she went to the dealership.  She really likes the Pilot.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1950,467,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','71.174.228.74','2007-02-21 21:03:16','2007-02-21 21:03:16','I have a dodge caravan. Not a grand, a regular caravan. It is the exact same length of a Toyota Camry. It isn\'t big, but it easily seats seven plus a dog. Drives like a car, not like a truck. And although you\'re high up, you\'re not so high, like in some SUVs, that people can\'t see over you. I like it a lot, but it is a minivan. No doubt about it. And it fit two car seats easily in the second seat, and would fit a third as well. Very roomy.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1951,467,'Jenni','justchickenfeed@yahoo.com','','71.168.35.230','2007-02-22 06:57:11','2007-02-22 06:57:11','I can relate.  I had my third the same year I turned 30.  I told my husband that if we had to buy a minivan, too that I would probably turn gray and instantly wrinkle.  We ended up buying a Suburban because we had three in car seats at once, and could not find another vehicle to fit all the car seats!  Plus we have room for growth, which is good because, once again, we are getting the \"haven\'t you guys figured out how that happens yet?\" question.  Thankfully, I live in the Podunkville, so I don\'t ever have to parallel park.  I hope you find what you need.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1952,467,'Andrea','littlebalddoctors@charter.net','','71.10.209.252','2007-02-22 10:50:08','2007-02-22 10:50:08','We used to drive a Suburban (I loved it even though it was big) but we couldn\'t afford the gas.  It was getting to be $75-$80 just to fill the tank.  Yikes.  So we downsized to a Jeep Liberty.  I HATED THAT CAR.  It wasn\'t comfortable.  It had very little room.  It was difficult to climb in and out.  Going to the grocery store could only involve one of us because we needed all the seats for our grocery bags, plus the back.  HATE.  So we just traded that in three weeks ago for a Dodge Durango.  I don\'t like minivans and refuse to drive one.  They are very practical, but I just cannot reconcile how they look with their functionality.  Our Durango has comfortable third row seating, a nice size \"trunk\" area, and I don\'t feel that it\'s enormous, though parallel parking it would be a little difficult.  I\'ve never had to try, really.  But it\'s not a behemoth like our Suburban (still fits in our garage comfortably) and it\'s not toy sized like the Liberty.  Not to mention it\'s easy to fill the tank, and it gets decent gas mileage for its size: 18-22 mpg.\n\nGood luck.  And congratulations on your second pregnancy.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1953,467,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','209.6.228.28','2007-02-22 13:13:47','2007-02-22 13:13:47','Thanks for your emails and comments..it\'s good to know I\'m not alone!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1954,467,'Megan','megan@megancreates.com','','65.169.114.198','2007-02-22 14:26:44','2007-02-22 14:26:44','My neighbor has 3 kids and she also drives a Honda Pilot. They all pile in and never seem to have a problem. Plus she\'s usually carrying everything under the sun with them too. She\'s one busy person; and her car seems to work out well.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1955,467,'Carrie_in_TN','none@unknown.com','','69.245.22.231','2007-02-22 20:23:27','2007-02-22 20:23:27','I have a week-old Pilot. I love it. We did have the cross bars installed on the roof so that if we travel with a bunch of stuff we can throw it up there...I\'m with you on the mini-van resistance. I do like them, but currently cannot bring myself to drive one. My last car was an Accord. Love Honda.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1956,467,'jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','75.69.228.15','2007-02-23 17:40:50','2007-02-23 17:40:50','We\'re car shopping too, and I HATE big cars. But if you must have one, my sister has a Honda Pilot and it\'s quite nice. It easily fits two carseats. She just had her third, so I assume that will fit in there, too.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1957,467,'Izzy','izzymom@gmail.com','','72.77.248.137','2007-03-03 23:33:24','2007-03-03 23:33:24','I used to be very anti-minivan but I\'ve resigned myself to driving one.\n\nI did a lot of research and the one thing that made me go the minivan route as opposed to an SUV is that they are lower and don\'t roll as easily as SUV\'s do. If you opt for an SUV, get one that\'s wider and sits a little lower.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1958,468,'Laura','laura@kovax.org','','24.63.8.72','2007-02-16 15:02:50','2007-02-16 15:02:50','Good luck finding something.  I\'m moving to Charlotte next week because I can\'t go through that.  I\'d rather spend 250 or under for 4 bedrooms, even if it means I am far from my relatives and everything I\'ve ever known.  I just can\'t do the renting thing up here anymore.  And the snow-bleh!\n\nWhat town was the house in?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1959,468,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-02-16 15:43:30','2007-02-16 15:43:30','You do realize that I\'ve had dreams about that house since I read this post the first time, right?  Houses like that just don\'t exist in a reasonable price range.  Like your above commenter we\'ve been thinking of moving to NC because prices around here are unreasonable.  Why the heck do you think we live way out in the sticks?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1960,468,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-02-16 15:47:58','2007-02-16 15:47:58','You do realize that I\'ve had dreams about that house since I read this post the first time, right?  Houses like that just don\'t exist in a reasonable price range.  Like your above commenter we\'ve been thinking of moving to NC because prices around here are unreasonable.  Why the heck do you think we live way out in the sticks?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1961,468,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','71.174.228.74','2007-02-16 16:13:15','2007-02-16 16:13:15','The prices have fallen so much in the last year that I\'m betting you\'ll find something soon. The town that wonderful house with the 50K kitchen is in must be the town with the new Nordies going up, and if so, they have good schools and it is so much cheaper than where we both live. It\'s not THAT far out of town, but yes, it does seem awfully rural compared to our city.\n\nI\'ve seen quite a few capes in our city for under 400 that look nice. They\'re in decent neighborhoods, southside-ish, and actually quite livable. I bet you\'ve seen them all, huh?\n\nI hope you feel better soon. It sucks to be sick and pregnant.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1962,468,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','207.180.160.85','2007-02-16 18:10:49','2007-02-16 18:10:49','Thanks.  I hope I feel better too!\n\nYou do realize that a househunter\'s work is never done.  We will be out there at open houses this weekend.  So if you\'re househunting in the western suburbs and a germophobe - stay home.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1963,468,'am\'ti b','brieedorr@yahoo.com','','65.96.188.9','2007-02-26 12:52:44','2007-02-26 12:52:44','rememeber here in mass a cemetery is like a park, people who don\'t know a soul buried in them come to visit.  they are famous for being lovely in the bay state.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1964,470,'mrs. chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-01-19 17:46:10','2007-01-19 17:46:10','I haven\'t even read the article yet and I already hate you... for making me drool.  I lurve me some Blue Ribbon.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1965,470,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','71.174.229.53','2007-01-19 18:14:16','2007-01-19 18:14:16','Just looking at the sign makes my mouth water. My absolute favorite place to eat in town. The cole slaw, the ribs, the desserts. Oh man, it is so freaking good. I just wish there were a few more seats because we are way over on the other side of town and takeaway doesn\'t work for us. Maybe they\'ll open a branch near the new Paneras? She asks hopefully?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1966,470,'Jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','75.69.228.15','2007-01-19 18:47:26','2007-01-19 18:47:26','I love Blue Ribbon BBQ. Love. Off to read the review.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1967,470,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.com','','71.232.106.87','2007-01-19 21:59:50','2007-01-19 21:59:50','Ooooh. I haven\'t gone there yet, but it\'s on my list of places.  I went to Redbones and loved it and I\'ve heard raves about Blue Ribbon.  Mmmmm, bbq.  I do love me some  bbq.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1968,470,'Laura','laura@kovax.org','','24.34.112.28','2007-01-21 09:41:54','2007-01-21 09:41:54','Hahaha, I read you and had no idea you lived near me!  I\'m right by Arlington Center (although soon moving to Charlotte).  Small world!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1969,470,'David','dstefanini.student@manhattan.edu','','71.167.171.9','2007-01-23 19:21:21','2007-01-23 19:21:21','I love the blog that you have. I was wondering if you would link my blog to yours and in return I would do the same for your blog. If you want to, my site name is American Legends and the URL is:\n\nwww.americanlegends.blogspot.com\n\nIf you want to do this just go to my blog and in one of the comments just write your blog name and the URL and I will add it to my site.\n\nThanks,\nDavid\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1970,470,'dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','70.224.206.19','2007-01-30 23:02:06','2007-01-30 23:02:06','This is a really neat picture!  And the girl\'s guide is a great resource!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1971,470,'am\'ti b','brieedorr@yahoo.com','','65.96.188.9','2007-02-14 11:26:46','2007-02-14 11:26:46','bbq is famous where we are from and for months living in cambridge we couldn\'t find any (worth eating), until we happened upon the blue ribbon in arlington.  the guys there are actually nice (not common around these parts) and the food is great.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1972,471,'Megan Carty','megan@megancreates.com','','66.30.4.88','2007-01-17 14:57:30','2007-01-17 14:57:30','That was hilarious. But don\'t take that the wrong way. :)\nI make it my policy to never even comment at all. The last thing I want to ever do is say \"When are you due?\" and the woman isn\'t pregnant. I\'ve decided that unless I see the baby being born right there; then it\'s best to keep my observations to myself.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1973,471,'island jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.56.195','2007-01-17 15:19:45','2007-01-17 15:19:45','I hear you on the belly thing.  With my second baby I was enormous before I had even hit the 12 week mark.  It\'s like my b ody was saying \"Oh ya, I remember this- I\'m going to let it all hang out and quit fighting it...\"  My due date was actually March 3rd but i would just say \'February\' to anyone who asked...\nSometimes its so annoying, along with the sideways, slack jawed glance and the \'Are you having TWINS??\" remark... gawd I love that one.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1974,471,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','75.83.164.29','2007-01-17 15:39:28','2007-01-17 15:39:28','Ohhhhh C\'MON! I wanna see the cute belly. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1975,471,'Lynn','lmh6914@comcast.net','','66.30.160.47','2007-01-17 19:20:48','2007-01-17 19:20:48','I will NEVER understand why strangers feel compelled to make an unsolicited comment on (or worse touch!!) pregnant women. Seriously, do they not realize how ridiculous that is (or how they may set off an emotional meltdown or a tirade of epic proportions depending on how the hormone swing is at that moment)\nThese are also the same morons who put their faces inches away from your baby when they are in a carriage in public.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1976,471,'Corey','biculturalfamily@gmail.com','','67.183.140.178','2007-01-18 14:55:39','2007-01-18 14:55:39','Oh gosh, I remember this!  With my first son, a supermarket cashier said to me, \"Oh, twins!  How exciting!  When my wife was pregnant with twins she looked just like you!\"  Uh, what?  I almost felt bad telling him that the last we checked via ultrasound, there was still only one baby in there.  Needless to say, I didn\'t shop in that supermarket for a few weeks, just to let the dust settle.\n\nI was always one of those \"big belly\" pregnancy ladies.  Ok, let\'s face it, I was just kind of big everywhere during pregnancy but REALLY big in the belly area.  I have horrible stomach muscles so I blamed it on them.  In fact, I knew I was pregnant with baby #3 when a little bit of bulging was appearing between my ribs and waist... and I was only one day past my expected period!!\n\nAnyway, pregnancy bellies aside, now that I moved my blog to blogger, I\'m taking the time to stop by and say hello to everyone!  I\'m going to try and be a more regular visitor now!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1977,471,'Megan Carty','megan@megancreates.com','','66.30.4.88','2007-01-19 12:53:10','2007-01-19 12:53:10','By the way, I\'ve \"tagged\" you from my site to write 6 weird things about yourself. Don\'t feel you have to do it; I was supposed to tag 6 people and thought other\'s should have the link to your blog. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1978,471,'Lisse','melissamclaughlintingley@yahoo.com','','75.69.137.176','2007-01-23 10:09:39','2007-01-23 10:09:39','I don\'t comment on other people\'s bellies either. I\'ve never been pregnant but I fear I would rip people\'s heads off with all the violations of personal space.\n\nI\'ve been reading some of your archives and came across the landlady post here <a href=\"http://www.reluctanthousewife.com/2006/10/yes_were_still_.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.reluctanthousewife.com/2006/10/yes_were_still_.html</a>\n\nWhen I lived in Newton, I had a crazy neighbor lady that I called Vera. She wasn\'t my landlord, but she was related to him. Wow that brought back memories!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1979,471,'Mrs. Flinger','frisbeeflingers@gmail.com','','71.113.82.32','2007-01-28 01:00:57','2007-01-28 01:00:57','THANK YOU THANK YOU! I keep getting that all. the. time. I\'m almost five months pregnant and SURE, I look maybe 32 weeks and all but I\'m still due in June.\n\nYou\'re so my new best friend. Big ol\' bellies unite! :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1980,471,'Shana','isoldesmom@gmail.com','','130.13.252.80','2007-01-28 13:50:56','2007-01-28 13:50:56','I run a website, Babes in Blogland, that lists ttc, expecting, and parenting bloggers to help us all find one another.  I\'ve added your site to the blogroll.  If you need me to correct any information or if you would like for me to remove the link, please let me know.\n\nThank you and congratulations.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1981,471,'eipwek','taranorwood@yahoo.com','','70.178.171.109','2007-01-30 14:51:48','2007-01-30 14:51:48','People can be so horrible without even thinking twice about it. When I got back from a recent vacation, some sweet lady I know warned me about travelling \"this close to your due date, \'cause babies can come early sometimes.\" I was 28 weeks along. Sheesh.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1982,471,'Peter','peterorvetti@gmail.com','','72.83.72.134','2007-02-05 17:13:42','2007-02-05 17:13:42','Yes, I never saw the point in this.  We were off by a whole month -- and the Lads were full-term; it was a miscalculation from the start.  Just say \"February 30\" and move on.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1983,471,'Liz','lizengel1@yahoo.com','','63.110.38.58','2007-02-16 14:50:01','2007-02-16 14:50:01','Oh! Oh! When I was FIVE months pregnant a woman in a scrapbooking store guessed that I was overdue! And then a waitress in a Chinese restaurant literally reduced me to tears when she heard that I was still months away from my due date and proclaimed that I must be having twins to be the size that I was (needless to say I was not). Grrr.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1984,472,'Megan Carty','megan@megancreates.com','','66.30.4.88','2007-01-05 15:38:19','2007-01-05 15:38:19','That brought tears to my eyes....what a special time!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1985,472,'Riley','nolimitdevoe@gmail.com','','68.5.242.196','2007-01-07 23:47:00','2007-01-07 23:47:00','It\'s so true, we do not give enough credit to the fun times of toddlerhood. My husband actually calls them the \'Terrific\' Twos, but of course, he doesn\'t spend every day at home with them... (but that\'s another story)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1986,472,'Poppy','poppy2006@gmail.com','','66.167.68.214','2007-01-08 17:25:50','2007-01-08 17:25:50','Yes, let\'s hear it for toddlers! I really enjoyed my kids at that age.\n\nOf course, there was that wonderful feeling of liberation when they were both toilet-trained and I could leave the house without a diaper bag ... ;)\n\nThanks for stopping by!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1987,472,'Amanda Franks','frankferter2002@hotmail.com','','24.57.148.9','2007-01-10 19:02:48','2007-01-10 19:02:48','My oldest daugther is 22 months old right now and I wanted to say thanks for the reminder. I too love all the experiences you mentioned, but there are moments when it\'s hard to forget them, (usually when trying to figure out what she wants). We have another daughter who is 3 months old on Friday and I too find myself wishing we could fast forward a bit. It\'s harder then I thought to go back to feeling unconnected, or at least a different kind of connected. Thanks again for the reminder!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1988,472,'petitegourmand','studio9@sympatico.ca','','65.95.114.162','2007-01-10 21:16:36','2007-01-10 21:16:36','my daughter is 20 months now and I absolutely love this stage.\nI think toddlers get a bit of a bad rap,\nmind you she did have her first temper tantrum in the middle of a store the other day.\nI actually found it pretty funny..\nnot sure if everyone else in the store was amused though.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1989,472,'jen','jen4232000@yahoo.com','','66.174.93.99','2007-01-12 01:43:13','2007-01-12 01:43:13','great post. mine is 2.5 months and I cannot believe how fun she is.  it\'s the best stage, yet.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1990,472,'Jenn','jml@jennifermattern.com','','70.109.252.161','2007-01-13 16:45:37','2007-01-13 16:45:37','\"Working ourselves out of a job.\" Perfect. Just perfect.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1991,472,'dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','70.224.199.164','2007-01-15 19:47:12','2007-01-15 19:47:12','See, now my two year old is demanding.  Over energized and he drives me a little nuts! :)  But I love him.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1992,472,'Drunken Housewife','rat@drunkenhousewife.com','','208.201.229.41','2007-01-21 02:20:23','2007-01-21 02:20:23','Mine are 7 and 4, and I often miss their toddlerhood.  I loved having a tiny sidekick, a  funny little person.  They are still funny, but they\'re so much more independent.\n\nMy eldest was a dream as a two year-old, a treasure (she was a nightmare at age 12-20 months, given to huge, full-body tantrums which could go on for 45 minutes without ceasing in decibels or violence).  I loved having her with me as a two year-old.  I miss that toddler.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1993,472,'Mrs. Flinger','frisbeeflingers@gmail.com','','71.113.82.32','2007-01-28 01:02:44','2007-01-28 01:02:44','Oh, it\'s so true. We\'re coming out of the hard stage (for us) and we\'re now in to a honeymoon, \"OMG, when did you get so big?\" stage. She\'s still two. Just two. And two isn\'t so bad, really. They are so much more fun now.\n\nBut I couldn\'t say it nearly as good as you just did. :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1994,472,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','65.24.159.22','2007-02-01 21:58:06','2007-02-01 21:58:06','So, so true! Even though some days can be incredibly stressful (like today), I think toddlerhood is, so far, my favorite stage of childhood. She\'s so willing to jump right into anything, explore as much as possible, and is so uninhibited.\n\nI actually dread going back to the newborn days again, and I\'m sure I\'ll look forward to baby #2 getting to toddlerhood.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1995,473,'Megan Carty','megan@megancreates.com','','66.30.4.88','2007-01-03 10:46:27','2007-01-03 10:46:27','Wow! That was very interesting. Thank you for all the links and info; It gives me something to ponder for when we have children...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1996,473,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2007-01-03 19:44:37','2007-01-03 19:44:37','I want to learn different languages just for the waiter thing.  That drives me crazy!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1997,473,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','67.175.117.178','2007-01-03 21:53:50','2007-01-03 21:53:50','That\'s so interesting! I only speak one language at home, but I\'ve always been very good at picking up languages and can understand french, spanish and german enough to know when the waiters are talking about me. Too bad I like Chinese food the best and have as yet been unable to figure out Mandarin.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1998,473,'the weirdgirl','weirdgirl@mindspring.com','','75.41.126.163','2007-01-13 11:45:43','2007-01-13 11:45:43','I admire your commitment to teach more than one language! I think it absolutely is a benefit. Unfortunately, my father didn\'t speak Spanish around the house much when I was young  (he was busy being \"American\") and neither I nor my older brother ever picked up more than a little. My two younger brothers got to hear more Spanish after my dad went back to his \"roots\".  One brother is completely bilingual Spanish/English, and the other knows some Spanish and quite a bit of Japanese, as well as English.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(1999,473,'Her Bad Mother','caconnors@rogers.com','','74.99.204.161','2007-02-10 19:03:37','2007-02-10 19:03:37','We\'re committed to making sure that WonderBaby is exposed to more than just English, in part because I\'m multilingual and VERY grateful for it. Her caregiver only speaks Spanish to her, and I only speak Spanish when her caregiver is around - but beyond that it\'s difficult, as you say. I try to read her stories in Spanish and French, and that\'s fine, but there is only so much story-telling, and the rest of the time I just forget. All of which is to say - LONGWINDEDLY - that this list of resources is phenomenal and I am VERY grateful for it!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2000,473,'Santi','sdharmaputra@yahoo.com','','24.15.172.11','2007-02-14 10:02:48','2007-02-14 10:02:48','Hi Roxanna! I got your blog from the Multilingual Living magazine. Nice to meet you.  Thanks for the links .. very useful for my trilingual kids *Indonesian, French, English*.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2001,474,'jen','jen4232000@yahoo.com','','71.141.105.11','2007-01-01 18:21:02','2007-01-01 18:21:02','an absolutely delicious looking cake, there, sister.\n\nhappy new year to you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2002,474,'Kids Furniture Mama','blog@themagicalrockinghorse.com','','4.244.48.4','2007-01-01 21:12:51','2007-01-01 21:12:51','I love a white Christmas, but I see your point on the beach one as well.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2003,474,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','68.48.231.139','2007-01-02 13:35:38','2007-01-02 13:35:38','Oh my goodness, gracious.  That cake is sinful and wonderful and should be right in front of me.\n\nHAPPY 2007!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2004,474,'Megan Carty','megan@megancreates.com','','66.30.4.88','2007-01-03 10:47:56','2007-01-03 10:47:56','Happy \'07! Looks like this will be quite a year for you! And now I know why I couldn\'t find the chocolate I needed for my cake recipe.....\n:)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2005,474,'DAD','roque_sarmiento@yahoo.com','','12.150.211.2','2007-01-04 16:21:46','2007-01-04 16:21:46','How about baking one for your dad.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2006,475,'Megan','megan@megancreates.com','','66.30.4.88','2006-12-15 06:05:58','2006-12-15 06:05:58','Wow! So beautifully touched on. I\'ve never imagined myself not having a daughter either; but you give me something to think about.  Congratulations! (And they say boys tend to favor the mothers...so you\'ll get plenty of love and affection, that\'s for sure!)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2007,475,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-12-15 07:16:51','2006-12-15 07:16:51','I\'m the mom of two boys, and it is a special, unique, interesting thing.\n\nI really assumed I would have a daughter, which is just silly, but I did.\nI cried when I found out I was having a boy. I had no brothers, and I didn\'t feel equipped to raise a boy.\n\nTwelve years later, I don\'t think I\'d know how to do anything else.\n\nBeing the lone female definitely has it\'s advantages, but I\'m afraid your doctor is right.  Your bathrooms are in for it. ;?)\n\nCongratulations!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2008,475,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-12-15 09:04:08','2006-12-15 09:04:08','Yay!  A boy!  I like your take on being a mother of boys.  It is your duty to be feminine but it will also be your duty to get a little dirty from time to time.  Either way, it sounds good to me!  Congratulations.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2009,475,'jen','jen4232000@yahoo.com','','71.141.128.196','2006-12-15 12:53:19','2006-12-15 12:53:19','congratulations!\n\nyou also get to save money on weddings and don\'t have to deal w/ teenage pms...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2010,475,'dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','70.224.211.34','2006-12-15 21:52:55','2006-12-15 21:52:55','Oh my gosh!  Congrats!  Where the heck have I been that I didn\'t know you were pregnant?  I must be losing my memory.\n\nNeedless to say, I\'m so happy for you!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2011,475,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.14.170.110','2006-12-15 23:44:30','2006-12-15 23:44:30','Awww, yay!  Congrats again!  If I were to birth a little one (ack!), I\'d hope for a boy.\n\nI grew up with brothers...I know how to handle \'em!  :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2012,475,'Sunshine Scribe','sunshinescribeblog@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.99','2006-12-16 08:09:57','2006-12-16 08:09:57','As a mom of boys (one 5 and an 18 year old step son) welcome to the club!  It is a sisterhood I tell ya and I wouldn\'t trade it for the world.  Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2013,475,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.195.249','2006-12-16 19:07:08','2006-12-16 19:07:08','That\'s so exciting, congrats. And from what I\'ve  heard, you moms with boys actually get off easy in the bathroom department. At least you won\'t be cleaning glitter out of the drains for a decade.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2014,475,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.com','','71.232.106.87','2006-12-17 13:58:38','2006-12-17 13:58:38','Congratulations!  I only have one boy.  He\'s fantastic, but he feels completely outnumbered by the three girls that followed him.  Of course, he does love having an adoring coterie.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2015,475,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','67.175.113.155','2006-12-20 18:29:21','2006-12-20 18:29:21','Wow, congrats! I, too, have always just \"assumed\" I\'d have a daughter, for many of the same reasons you stated. Now I have one boy, and we babysat this weekend for a little girl and I have to say I was shocked at how differently I felt toward her - I mean, granted she\'s not my own kid, but my reaction was totally different than to my son. Weird.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2016,475,'Wendy','wendy@thingsinyourhead.com','','75.176.55.20','2006-12-26 13:23:18','2006-12-26 13:23:18','Congratulations! I only have one but am outnumbered here as well - I love raising a boy but sometimes my heart cries out for a pink or purple outfit I always thought I\'d have a daughter too- Ah well...Congratulations again!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2017,475,'nonlineargirl','norarachel@gmail.com','','159.121.168.133','2006-12-27 16:16:57','2006-12-27 16:16:57','Congratulations!  Just think of all those hidden benefits of being in this new club!\n\nI think I have felt as you did - that being a mom of girls seemed more obvious because I saw it happen when I was a kid.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2018,475,'whymommy','toddlerplanet@gmail.com','','72.66.95.90','2006-12-27 21:13:42','2006-12-27 21:13:42','Ack!  Mother-in-law?  I suppose that\'s true!  I have a very active all-boy 2 year old (who has mostly gender neutral toys but prefers trucks to dolls 10-1) and am expecting our second and last baby any day -- and he\'s a boy too.  So I\'m working through this as well, and it\'s an interesting trip.\n\nMom Of Boys is a nice title, though.  I might borrow this in a future post (with credit) -- thanks for the thoughts.  Just found you via Motherhood Uncensored -- but I\'ll be back!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2019,475,'Mary Tsao','mary.tsao@gmail.com','','209.204.188.168','2006-12-29 14:25:10','2006-12-29 14:25:10','Congratulations! There\'s probably a special place in Heaven for Moms of Boys. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2020,475,'GIRL\'S GONE CHILD','rebeccawoolf@hotmail.com','','69.237.145.220','2007-01-03 02:27:39','2007-01-03 02:27:39','Congrats to you on your BOY!!!! Between us (and whoever reads these comments) I would be THRILLED to have another boy. And another. Good for you, lady. Brothers have an awesome bond, too. Special. Love.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2021,475,'the weirdgirl','weirdgirl@mindspring.com','','71.141.107.2','2007-01-08 14:58:57','2007-01-08 14:58:57','Congrats and ROCK ON with the girly stuff!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2022,475,'Lisse','melissamclaughlintingley@yahoo.com','','75.67.134.1','2007-01-13 17:54:42','2007-01-13 17:54:42','Congratulations! I just found this site via Izzy Mom. I am also the mother of 2 boys, ages 4 & 5. Life is --- noisy. They do, however, have their own bathroom, and someday they will learn how to clean it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2023,475,'Karen (familybriefs.com)','karenherring4@gmail.com','','74.227.244.49','2007-05-19 00:01:57','2007-05-19 00:01:57','Yes, I thought I was lucky when I just had two boys - that seems like a lifetime ago.  Somehow our family just didn\'t feel complete, so we went for baby #3.  To our complete shock, it was a girl!  But we didn\'t stop there - baby #4 (now 10-mos) was also a girl!\n\nWe love the dress up and \"girly\" things too, but I love that my 2-year-old girl can go play in the mud with her brothers just as good as the next boy!  In return, my 4-year-old loves to play Barbie with her.\n\nSo even if you stay a mother to 2 boys or expand your family, paint their toenails and play Barbie and dress up with them.  Then go scrub their bathroom!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2024,476,'Megan','megan@megancreates.com','','66.30.4.88','2006-12-12 18:07:33','2006-12-12 18:07:33','Good for you for trying!!! The fact you worked on it is an accomplishment, especially in your special circumstances! Happy Holidays!!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2025,476,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','67.175.113.155','2006-12-13 19:56:28','2006-12-13 19:56:28','The no pine-needles thing is enough to set me rejoicing. Hallelujah, and such.\n\n1,700 words a day???? Lofty, lofty goal! I also, have joined a writing group, and so far, nobody\'s laughed at me. To my face, at least.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2026,477,'julia','book_ish@yaoo.com','','71.232.106.87','2006-11-08 18:49:51','2006-11-08 18:49:51','Doing the happy, happy, joy, joy dance here, too.\n\n\nWhy won\'t your blog remember my info?  Doesn\'t it like me?  *sniffle*  Snubbed by a computer, how humiliating.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2027,477,'Kevin Charnas','kcharnas@yahoo.com','','71.102.189.17','2006-11-12 11:50:01','2006-11-12 11:50:01','REJOICE!!!  REJOICE AND BE GLAD!!!\n\nand that I am...  :)\n\nNow if we could just relocate him to Iraq.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2028,477,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','64.134.204.88','2006-11-13 09:46:33','2006-11-13 09:46:33','Now I know you posted this a few days ago, but we don\'t have to stop rejoicing yet, right?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2029,477,'Janet','sliceofpink@gmail.com','','65.211.248.1','2006-11-29 17:17:18','2006-11-29 17:17:18','Still celebrating here!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2030,478,'Megan','megan@megancreates.com','','66.30.4.88','2006-11-08 12:04:53','2006-11-08 12:04:53','Wooo!\nOh well. We\'re doomed to go to the packi it seems. Although that gives me a nice excuse to go carte blanche in there since the liquor choices abound! See what happens??!! If I could get my wine at the grocery store like normal people I might have self control. (Please note that I\'m kidding)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2031,478,'Wander','wandersway@gmail.com','','207.69.137.23','2006-11-08 15:02:10','2006-11-08 15:02:10','Hey, count your blessings.  At least you don\'t have to go to a neighboring county which is a two hour drive round trip to purchase any type of liquor.\nI too am a happy camper over the election results.  Let us just hope that \'08 will be as good.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2032,478,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','70.20.25.12','2006-11-08 16:29:01','2006-11-08 16:29:01','I suggest a weekly field trip to Coolidge Corner for two buck check at TJs. You in?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2033,478,'lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-11-08 17:46:49','2006-11-08 17:46:49','I would like to think that it was our post that got people to go in droves to the polls! Yes that\'s it!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2034,478,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.com','','71.232.106.87','2006-11-08 18:48:34','2006-11-08 18:48:34','I was bummed that Question 1 didn\'t pass, but yeah, the rest of the results more than made up for it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2035,478,'Kevin Charnas','kcharnas@yahoo.com','','71.102.189.17','2006-11-12 11:55:27','2006-11-12 11:55:27','there is hope...and thank goodness it keeps me going.\n\nhowever, YOU HAVE TO GO TO A PACKAGE STORE TO GET WINE???  HUH???  WHAA???  I may have to come to Mass.  and help you campaign against this next time.  :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2036,478,'martes','bhoomm@yahoo.com','','65.115.176.53','2006-12-02 12:58:17','2006-12-02 12:58:17','you mean you can\'t buy wine in Star Market anymore ?? I used to live in Boston until a few years ago..\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2037,479,'denise','jdthomas909@comcast.net','','71.192.180.114','2006-11-07 13:32:24','2006-11-07 13:32:24','Dear Housewife,\nI must accept my fate as being dead to you, which pains me because you seem like fun (and a drinker to boot, can\'t beat that). However, if you, and others like you, are allowed to buy wine at the grocery store instead of taking a few more steps to visit your local package store, I will be poor. You see, kind housewife, my husband owns a package store (does anyone else hear the angels sing when I say that, or is it just me?). I implore you, if you have not already voted, to consider what this ballot question will do to small businesspeople across the state. I do not mean short businesspeople, I mean people who own small businesses. I will gladly bring the hooch to your door, but please reconsider!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2038,479,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','207.180.160.85','2006-11-07 13:36:24','2006-11-07 13:36:24','Ahh, but there is the problem.  My local package store is crap - expensive and dirty.  Maybe I should visit your husband\'s?\n\n(By the way, I\'ve lived in 3 other states and liquor stores do just fine.  Don\'t fret!  I\'ll still need a place to get Gin.)\n\nPS:  Since you\'ve offered door-to-door delivery of hooch, you are exempt from death in my eyes.  But my mind is made up, and the vote has been cast.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2039,479,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','151.203.38.4','2006-11-07 14:00:46','2006-11-07 14:00:46','I voted yes on #1 also.  I think it\'s crazy that I could buy my wine at Whole Foods on River St. in Cambridge but I can\'t buy it at the Whole Foods new my new house.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2040,479,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-11-07 14:20:15','2006-11-07 14:20:15','*raising hand*\n\nOoh!  Me!  I already voted.\n\n*patting myself on back*\n\nBut I\'m not getting into the way I voted on Questions 1, 2 or 3.  I\'m old school that way.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2041,479,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.com','','71.232.106.87','2006-11-07 14:28:46','2006-11-07 14:28:46','I voted, I voted!  I voted yes on #1.  I used to be able to buy wine at the market when I lived in the middle of the state, but out here in the western hinterlands, I can\'t.  And the package stores near me suck, too.\n\nI\'m waiting very impatiently for the results.  I haven\'t looked forward to election results this much since Clinton was elected in \'92.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2042,479,'jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','198.4.159.6','2006-11-07 14:54:51','2006-11-07 14:54:51','I have to agree with you on Question 1. Man, was moving from Maine to Massachusetts a shock. At least we can buy booze on Sundays now. It wasn\'t so long ago that we couldn\'t. I agree that it really isn\'t going to affect the package stores. Competition is a good thing, in my opinion.\n\nSorry, Denise. You know I love you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2043,479,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-11-07 15:02:16','2006-11-07 15:02:16','I feel like I\'m always saying the same things on everyone\'s blog who urges us to vote! :)\n\nI\'m going after work.  I tried to go before work, but there was a line and not enough time (and I should try to rhyme)...so there you have it!\n\nThat was nuts.  :D\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2044,479,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','70.20.25.12','2006-11-07 20:27:11','2006-11-07 20:27:11','I voted Yes on 1. I\'m dying for some 2 buck chuck at TJs. But we just saw that 57% voted no with 6 precincts counted. I\'m gonna be really ticked if it loses.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2045,480,'moonstruck mama','moonstruckmichelle@yahoo.com','','72.93.185.26','2006-11-02 10:00:20','2006-11-02 10:00:20','I\'ve been meaning to congratulate you on taking on the Nanowrimo challenge! It peaked my interest as well when I read about the event right here on your blog, but I have trouble starting from scratch. I know I\'d cheat and copy and paste big sections from other works in progress and write garbage in between. Keep up the \"good\" work! (And I loved the Crazy Landlady post...)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2046,480,'Gabriel','dorioo@gmail.com','','69.218.247.165','2006-11-03 09:31:14','2006-11-03 09:31:14','Writing garbage is fun.\n\nIn high school, I would write a \"stream of consciousness\".\n\nSometimes it would be garbage. But most of the time it was very interesting. At least to me. :)\n\npEace.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2047,480,'GIRL\'S GONE CHILD','rebeccawoolf@hotmail.com','','69.237.153.150','2006-11-04 17:06:54','2006-11-04 17:06:54','Go, Mama, GO!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2048,480,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-11-06 09:15:14','2006-11-06 09:15:14','I am such a wimp.  I decided not to take the NaNoWriMo challenge yet.  I\'m doing the NaBloPoMo instead.  Soooo not the same, but still fun!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2049,480,'Superfantastic','graham_lori@hotmail.com','','206.127.6.3','2006-11-06 15:29:25','2006-11-06 15:29:25','It\'s so hard not to go back and delete, isn\'t it?  Rest assured, my novel is truly terrible as well.  I think I may have even written \"that\'s a horse of a different color.\"  Ok, I don\'t think I did, I KNOW I did.  But I was weak!  I was behind!  And it added seven words!  Besides, there\'s no deleting it now.\n\nYour sidebar meter is SO fancy!  I swear, knowing that I have to put my word count on my blog was the only thing keeping me from giving up last night and just going to bed.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2050,481,'Megan','megan@megancreates.com','','66.30.4.88','2006-10-26 15:32:32','2006-10-26 15:32:32','Yikes! Well, you\'ve been thrown in the pool now, huh? Or pushed.\nI\'ll send you good vibes; that\'s all I\'ve got since I\'m no writer.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2051,481,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','71.245.231.152','2006-10-26 16:35:42','2006-10-26 16:35:42','I got a mention in that column a couple of months ago and I was shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you. I had no clue of how he found me. :-)\n\nAs for character names, throw it out to us to help you. Tell us the gender, ethnicity, and age of the characters, and we\'ll think up some fun names for them. Maybe something you can use.\n\nI can\'t believe you\'re doing this. I thought about it, but there is NOTHING in my mind that would make a god novel.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2052,481,'Megan','megan@megancreates.com','','66.30.4.88','2006-10-26 17:50:33','2006-10-26 17:50:33','I was thinking a bit and realize your tone in all your posts is very entertaining in the first person. You could totally write a novel about a woman who has her first child, turns 30, etc. all in a funny and relatable spin. I\'m not sure what the hook would be, but essentially I bet you could write about yourself/semi-autobiographical and it would be fun to read...since your posts are always fun...I loved the snippet about your trip (I didn\'t love that you couldn\'t have a ton of fun, but I loved the tone of  how you wrote about it). Perhaps the heroine goes about writing a novel from a contest she enters on a fluke and maybe she actually gets high praise and a book deal in the end? (After all of her bumps and trips along the way).\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2053,481,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-10-26 22:18:07','2006-10-26 22:18:07','Okay, that\'s just creepy.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2054,481,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.com','','71.232.106.87','2006-10-26 23:31:24','2006-10-26 23:31:24','You got mentioned in the Globe??!  Wow.  I\'m impressed.\n\nGood luck with NaNoWriMo.  I haven\'t dared tackle that one yet.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2055,481,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','67.175.115.176','2006-10-27 00:42:06','2006-10-27 00:42:06','You could pretend they got it wrong and do Nablopomo instead!\n\nYou\'re only 30! Christ on a cracker woman. Me, too - but you wear it so better!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2056,481,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.13','2006-10-29 19:20:52','2006-10-29 19:20:52','ROFL!\n\nHA!  See, now, that\'s what you get for even considering leaving me all alone in the NaNoWriMo world! And with you who inspired me to join!\n\nFor shame, woman....for.shame.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2057,481,'Superfantastic','graham_lori@hotmail.com','','206.127.6.3','2006-10-31 11:30:35','2006-10-31 11:30:35','What is this \"outline\" you speak of?  All you NEED is an idea!  That\'s all I have!  (Ok, so I\'ve never done this before either and have no idea whether that\'s all you need.  But planning?  Not happening here.  Copious consumption of Halloween candy?  Why, yes!)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2058,481,'lisa','imcalledlisa@yahoo.ca','','24.77.71.14','2006-11-03 01:02:19','2006-11-03 01:02:19','Hey, thats really cool to be more than slightly mentioned in the paper like that! I think it\'s a great challenge you took, good luck with it!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2059,482,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','70.34.53.210','2006-10-19 23:58:27','2006-10-19 23:58:27','She sounds horrible. How do you deal with her?!  Please tell me she doesn\'t call you everyday.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2060,482,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','71.245.231.152','2006-10-20 04:03:17','2006-10-20 04:03:17','Every single landlord in this city is nuts. They are all totally and completely asshat nuts. Mine won\'t do ANY repair work, despite the fact that she\'s damaging her property by ignoring it. Property that is assessed at well over a million dollars. Property that has 4 rental units, has been paid for in total for at least 50 years if not more (inherited), property that has a leaky roof, leaking plumbing, no electricity in one bathroom due to said leaky roof, etc. She just ignores all requests for repairs. Ignores them no matter how many times you ask. And she\'s getting over 7K in rent a month. You would think she could afford to do some upkeep, but nope. She even has her brother do the lawn care so she doesn\'t have to pay him.\n\nThey really are all just like this. Oy, could I tell you stories!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2061,482,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-10-20 11:05:26','2006-10-20 11:05:26','I won\'t bore you with stories of my husband\'s old landlords in that same town you\'re living in.  Let\'s just say that I agree with you and, sadly, I suspect it\'s at least a state-wide epidemic if not a nation-wide problem.  Down with crazy landlords!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2062,482,'Tuesdayef','tuesdayef@aol.com','','152.163.100.204','2006-10-20 13:16:55','2006-10-20 13:16:55','That is horrific.\nI would have to unplug the phone. You know, to not have electric things running.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2063,482,'April','canaaden@sbcglobal.net','','69.235.0.30','2006-10-21 21:44:29','2006-10-21 21:44:29','Yikes. My husband and I recently had to start renting after owning our last two houses. It\'s...different...to rent...but at least you don\'t have to pay all the maintenance costs yourself!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2064,482,'Femke','operationbrando@gmail.com','','69.86.88.39','2006-10-22 11:25:29','2006-10-22 11:25:29','This sounds a bit too familiar not to leave a comment.\nNewton is most likely filled with aging, (widowed) older ladies, who rent out part of their house. The only way you can afford owning there is if you have moved in before 1945.\nWe just moved from Newton to New York City and part of the reason was the inability to ever own anything in an area that we liked and second our 73 year old landlady who lived above us. She neglected her house in such a way, that our furniture was slowly sliding to the right side of every room because the structure on that side was completely rotten.\nBefore I knew it, I was washing her windows, her curtains, changing light bulbs, testing fire extinguishers, shoveling snow, raking leaves. And we were paying RENT!!!!! Her kids came by once a year and left it all up to us. We even carried all the emergency numbers in case we would find her....\nIt is refreshing to have a younger couple as landlords now, who care about their brownstone and their tenants. They even do our trash. But after our previous experience I will probably stay paranoid for a while longer.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2065,482,'Jenny','daisymaeperez73@hotmail.com','','162.121.252.4','2006-10-23 11:11:44','2006-10-23 11:11:44','Hee!  But she did at least make for a hilarious blog entry.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2066,482,'jen','jen4232000@yahoo.com','','69.239.75.130','2006-10-23 13:59:40','2006-10-23 13:59:40','so not (ok kinda) funny...\n\nseriously, i work in fair housing, you do have privacy rights...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2067,482,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.195.249','2006-10-23 14:12:49','2006-10-23 14:12:49','Ah, a shitty market and a crazy landlady. Just the two things I like reading about as we get ready to sell our place...and rent!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2068,482,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','67.175.115.176','2006-10-23 21:25:59','2006-10-23 21:25:59','If you ever find out how she knew about the pregnancy, you must post that!\n\nAnd it\'s been a while since I\'ve been by so CONGRATULATIONS. A H&H 9 months to you and that belly bean.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2069,482,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','71.245.231.152','2006-10-23 23:42:45','2006-10-23 23:42:45','Wow, I used to think it was our extremely bad luck that we got such shitty landlords in our fair city, but after reading Femke, Mrs Chicky, and your comments, I realize that it\'s really a problem. The landlords and landlady\'s ARE insane. They are clueless about how to be landlords, and because they have 2-family housing, they don\'t have to follow much of the rental laws because they have less than 3 units.\n\nMaybe we need a tenants union? :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2070,482,'Stacie','staciemincher@hotmail.com','','64.223.126.197','2006-10-25 02:28:36','2006-10-25 02:28:36','Been there, done that.  Now one of our rules is to NOT live in the same building as the landlord.  Even better if the landlord lives far away in a different town in a different part of the state.  Why is it that the landlords want to check all of your references, but you can\'t check theirs?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2071,482,'Megan','mlcassid@yahoo.com','','66.30.4.88','2006-10-25 09:38:28','2006-10-25 09:38:28','My landlady at my old apt. lived below me. She used to sneak into my apartment when I wasn\'t there and take things. Then, she would return them in odd places around the apt. When I confronted her about it, she denied. But that night (while I was away doing laundry) she snuck in and returned a few of the items...she put them on the kitchen floor. As if they\'d always been sitting in the middle of the floor!!!!!! Even creepier, a lot of the items were random, but she\'d had to go through my drawers and private things to get them.\nI\'m so glad I don\'t live there anymore. *sigh* FREAK!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2072,483,'Megan','mlcassid@yahoo.com','','66.30.4.88','2006-10-13 12:59:41','2006-10-13 12:59:41','Wow! Good for you! I\'ve never done anything like that either. My guess is you decide on a topic and go one word at a time. You can\'t eat an elephant in one bite, right? Have fun with it!!! :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2073,483,'Blog_Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-10-13 14:37:29','2006-10-13 14:37:29','WOW, good for you! I considered it, but I\'m way too intimidated. I don\'t work well under pressure. Best of luck. Let us know how it goes!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2074,483,'jen','jen4232000@yahoo.com','','69.239.75.130','2006-10-17 17:51:59','2006-10-17 17:51:59','i think it\'s tremendous.  nothing wasted in the trying, either..\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2075,483,'Karen Rani','karenrani@troll-baby.com','','65.95.188.195','2006-10-17 22:13:45','2006-10-17 22:13:45','I did it last year.  I didn\'t finish but the whole idea of quantity, not quality, will give you a pantload of ideas to blog about later.  Have fun - don\'t pressure yourself - something is better than nothing.  So just enjoy the flow of words, much like the rambling of me in this comment. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2076,483,'Jenny','daisymaeperez73@hotmail.com','','72.181.187.209','2006-10-18 22:05:38','2006-10-18 22:05:38','That is awesome!\n\nI\'ve never done it myself but I\'ve started out many times and never finished.  If you need help procrastinating I\'m your girl.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2077,483,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.13','2006-10-19 21:05:05','2006-10-19 21:05:05','I\'m totally considering this this year.  I guess all I need to do is make the jump, right?\n\n*skeered*\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2078,483,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.13','2006-10-19 21:26:38','2006-10-19 21:26:38','Um.  You know what?  I\'ve been teetering on this for TWO years.  I always say \"eh, I can\'t do that.\"\n\nAfter I read your post (and after remembering Gemini\'s Wisdom did is doing it too), I went back and signed up.\n\nI\'M DOING IT TOO.\n\nI\'m already sweating.  Lord help me.\n\n(and thanks for the final push!)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2079,483,'Katie','silverzebra@hotmail.com','','63.96.204.102','2006-10-20 13:50:21','2006-10-20 13:50:21','I won nano in 03 and 05. You can do it.  Make a plan. Get an outline, a sketch, a storyboard, some sort of something you can hang your story on so you have some idea of where you are going. You need at least a glimmer of a path.  I crashed and burned out in 04 because I went in with no plan.  Good luck!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2080,484,'jen','jen4232000@yahoo.com','','69.239.75.130','2006-10-10 15:07:21','2006-10-10 15:07:21','i\'ve read your blog on and off - and noted you were away on holiday - first time commenting...but just know i\'ve enjoyed your posts, and your trip (bumps and all) looked fabulous, and lastly...congrats.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2081,484,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','68.162.207.252','2006-10-10 16:14:35','2006-10-10 16:14:35','CONGRATULATIONS!  That is fantastic!  But Europe?  Without the stinky cheese and wine?  You are a champ, seriously.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2082,484,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','216.15.121.46','2006-10-10 16:45:32','2006-10-10 16:45:32','But the big question is, did you move? Are you still \"in town\"?  Congrats on the pregnancy and preschool. Nothing like a couple of hours of silence to recharge the old batteries!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2083,484,'Kristen','kmei26@yahoo.com','','72.78.35.69','2006-10-10 18:04:11','2006-10-10 18:04:11','Many congrats to you... And we have the same bike. WE LOVE IT.\n\nGlad to hear all the news :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2084,484,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','72.66.14.96','2006-10-10 19:19:32','2006-10-10 19:19:32','Welcome back, and congratulations on the big news!\n\nBeautiful pictures, too.  Though I feel your pain at being on such a trip without being able to sample some of the tastier European fare.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2085,484,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','69.19.14.20','2006-10-11 08:19:57','2006-10-11 08:19:57','FANTASTIC NEWS! I\'m so excited for you.\n\n...and 30 was my favourite year so far, so I hope the same can be said for you.:)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2086,484,'Kris','KrisUnderwood@gmail.com','','64.222.125.157','2006-10-11 09:54:49','2006-10-11 09:54:49','gorgeous Pictures! How I would love to go Europe! Someday...Someday. I can\'t believe that is a supermarket...but yes I can.\n\nCongrats on the news as well. Exciting!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2087,484,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','151.200.110.3','2006-10-11 15:43:39','2006-10-11 15:43:39','Yay for babies and birthdays and, of course, WINE!  We welcome you back with open arms.  :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2088,484,'Mrs. Flinger','frisbeeflingers@gmail.com','','71.111.151.169','2006-10-11 16:25:35','2006-10-11 16:25:35','YEY! Congrats!! I saw your FLICKR pictures and had to see what all was up. Glad I did. Thirty has been pretty good to me. \'Course I turn 31 here soon so I\'ll let you know how that goes. :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2089,484,'Tracy','tracyf@fastmail.us','','68.252.255.150','2006-10-11 19:36:54','2006-10-11 19:36:54','Welcome home, and Congratulations!  Have a happy and healthy 9 months!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2090,484,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-10-11 20:50:47','2006-10-11 20:50:47','Congratulations!  On the pregnancy, surviving going to wine country and not drinking and your 30th birthday.\n\nAnd Sebastian is the cutest thing on three wheels.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2091,484,'lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-10-11 23:11:25','2006-10-11 23:11:25','Congratulations! How exciting although i\'m sorry you have been sick that is not fun! Your pictures are oh so pretty by the way.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2092,484,'Megan','mlcassid@yahoo.com','','66.30.4.88','2006-10-13 08:59:45','2006-10-13 08:59:45','Congratulations!!! How exciting! Life must seem so crazy right now! Your trip looks amazing. We\'re headed to Austria in August next year; so I can take a few hints from you! Best wishes.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2093,484,'the weirdgirl','weirdgirl@mindspring.com','','75.41.122.49','2006-10-15 22:30:16','2006-10-15 22:30:16','Congratulations! How exciting! Wow, it seems everyone is on their seconds right now. I hope you feel better; I had a rotten pregnancy so I know how that feels. It would be SO much better with a little wine. sigh\n\n(Your son is adorable!)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2094,484,'Amy','sbmoms@gmail.com','','68.65.177.116','2006-10-16 17:13:18','2006-10-16 17:13:18','Wow! Awesome! Wicked!\n\nWorking backwards - Happy birthday! A warning - once you hit 30, you can\'t remember your true age from then on. I THINK I\'m 32, but who really knows.\n\nI love your son\'s name. Totally cool!\n\nWelcome home! Austria! Wine country! I\'m so jealous. I have ALWAYS wanted to go to Austria (no, I don\'t really have a good reason for that. But it\'s true nonetheless). And wine country in Austria! Too bad you couldn\'t fully appreciate that. But I know it must have been breathtakingly gorgeous.\n\nCongrats on baby #2! That\'s the best news ever! I know, I know. The sickness. The tiredness. The crankiness. But, you know, it\'s so worth it. How wonderful for you and your husband. Yay! Congrats!\n\nTake care of yourself.\n\nAmy :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2095,484,'scarbiedoll','scarbiedoll@sympatico.ca','','65.95.111.151','2006-11-07 21:55:31','2006-11-07 21:55:31','Hey! Congrats! It\'s been a while since I dropped by here. Now I know why.\n\nTotally get the European hell of first trimester. I spent 3 weeks in Scandinavia during my first trimester. Smoked salmon? Can\'t have it? Pickled herring? Nope (and um, barf). Smorgasborg open-faced sandwiches? Sorry can\'t have cold cuts. Absolut vodka ice bar? We\'d better skip it. And so on and so on. I SO GET IT!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2096,485,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.13','2006-10-05 10:47:00','2006-10-05 10:47:00','Yay! Hi!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2097,485,'lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-10-05 23:19:14','2006-10-05 23:19:14','I\'m so glad that you are back!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2098,485,'lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-10-05 23:19:30','2006-10-05 23:19:30','I\'m so glad that you are back!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2099,485,'Lynn','lmh6914@comcast.net','','66.30.160.47','2006-10-06 17:50:46','2006-10-06 17:50:46','I\'m so happy you\'re back! (funny only my second comment EVER and the first was \"where were you\" on 9/30) Glad to know you are ok and it was just a post vacation \"taking a break\" absence from your blog.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2100,485,'island jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.56.195','2006-10-07 03:03:14','2006-10-07 03:03:14','Can\'t wait to read some more from you!  I\'ve been missing this place...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2101,485,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','66.82.9.53','2006-10-09 09:18:33','2006-10-09 09:18:33','I am THRILLED you\'re back. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2102,485,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-10-10 08:36:10','2006-10-10 08:36:10','Glad you\'re writing again ... though I understand very well the Busy that keeps one away, and the inertia that makes it hard to ease back. Hope your time away was restorative!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2103,486,'Mona','mona@kirida.com','','24.17.19.200','2006-08-31 14:21:32','2006-08-31 14:21:32','I, too, airbrushed a booger from my son\'s nose.  And some eye gunk.  I love photoshop for that reason.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2104,487,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-08-26 13:47:28','2006-08-26 13:47:28','I can\'t stop laughing.  I could actually visualize this entire episode.  I know this is nutty, but it reminds me of the episoded of \"Hope & Faith\" with \'The Gouch\' (Mark Consuelos).\n\nWhat a great story.  You\'re husband really didn\'t know who he was?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2105,488,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-08-23 10:47:38','2006-08-23 10:47:38','It is so sad, seeing just how desperately pathetic celebrities can be. Did you see those photos of Mel Gibson circulating last month, so wasted that his eyes were rolling around in his head? He looked like a caricature of a drunk.\n\nYour story reminded me that once in L.A., while I was shopping at Fred Segal, a musician dude (Charlie Sexton -- that probably didn\'t illuminate you much more than \"musician dude\", huh?) randomly grabbed me and started making out with me. It surprised (scared, disgusted) the hell out of me. I was NOT jumping on him, or pawing him, or even staring. But what the hell! Famous people can do whatever they want! (eyeroll)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2106,488,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','72.66.14.21','2006-08-23 20:05:35','2006-08-23 20:05:35','Wow.  That is bizarre.  And pretty gross.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2107,490,'mamatulip','mamatulip@gmail.com','','24.150.190.10','2006-08-15 18:51:18','2006-08-15 18:51:18','I don\'t understand the DD obsession either. I\'ve never gotten desperate enough to try their coffee, but their donuts? *shudder*\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2108,490,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.111.31.116','2006-08-16 07:23:48','2006-08-16 07:23:48','We are DD people here.  I don\'t drink coffee, but my husband loves it.  Although, he is a fan of Starbucks, too.  DD is so convenient for us and it usually is our first stop on a long car ride.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2109,490,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','72.66.14.21','2006-08-23 20:07:13','2006-08-23 20:07:13','We have both, but I admit I prefer the regular Dunkin Donuts coffee.  Cream and sugar.  Now if I want a specialty coffee, Starbucks is the place, but there\'s no contest on who has the better donuts.  ;-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2110,491,'Mary Tsao','mary.tsao@gmail.com','','209.204.188.168','2006-08-13 20:21:25','2006-08-13 20:21:25','Good luck with the flight! Hope you\'ve arrived safely by this time.\n\nAnd if you\'re inclined to blog, please do! I think the tourist-y stuff is pretty darn interesting to those who aren\'t there. Like me. :(\n\nHave fun!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2111,491,'pamela hornik','pamelahornik@yahoo.com','','71.198.188.153','2006-08-14 22:42:58','2006-08-14 22:42:58','Have a safe trip. I just flew cross country with my kids, sans Purell.  We made it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2112,492,'Mother','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.176.159','2006-08-11 23:31:52','2006-08-11 23:31:52','Being the current events maven that I am (NOT), I missed all this stuff and just watched it today -- and then said \"HOLY SH&T\" - no liquids, nothing?\n\nI did hear they were switching people, etc. which is good.\n\nHope all of you are better for your trip!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2113,492,'nonlineargirl','norarachel@gmail.com','','24.21.141.182','2006-08-12 01:40:55','2006-08-12 01:40:55','Glad to hear you are avoiding flying through Britain.  The idea of flying overseas with a young child with toys, books, snacks... I can barely think about it without shuddering.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2114,492,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.111.31.116','2006-08-13 11:25:56','2006-08-13 11:25:56','Good luck with your trip.  When I heard about the foiled plots, I was both happy and sad.  It\'s a terrible world we now live in that we have trouble flying with our little ones because we can\'t bring snacks and supplies with us.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2115,492,'medicare','nikki@nova.com','','24.94.237.231','2007-09-01 18:30:07','2007-09-01 18:30:07','College education is a basic need today\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2116,493,'DAD','roque_sarmiento@yahoo.com','','12.150.211.2','2006-08-08 13:25:24','2006-08-08 13:25:24','YOU GOT FREE BABY SITTING CLOSER AT HOME...BEAUTIFUL SUNNY.. FLORIDA...AND WE TAKE CARE OF EAR INFECTIONS TOO.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2117,493,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-08-08 13:31:19','2006-08-08 13:31:19','I know!  And you\'re coming to Boston in September! We\'re counting on it!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2118,493,'Wendy','wcboyles@yahoo.com','','24.22.83.234','2006-08-08 17:28:13','2006-08-08 17:28:13','Ah, yes...been there, done that! When my son was 15-months old he started running an unexplained, high fever two nights before we were leaving to do the Disney Cruise. My husband was meeting us in Florida from Europe, family was coming in from all over the country. It was just not a trip we could miss, but I was concerned about 7 hours on a plane and then 7-days on a boat in the middle of the ocean and not knowing if the fever was just a cold or something more serious. I took him to the ER the day before we were to leave. I thought they would think I was a total whack-job bringing my kid in so I could go on VACATION, but I have to say that they were so understanding. The doc told me that if we weren\'t going on vacation he would probably send me home to watch and wait. However, they did give him a shot of antibiotics and a three-day dose to bring with us. And they didn\'t make me feel at all guilty. I was so surprised. The shot worked wonders and he was back to his usual self the next morning. We had a wonderful trip. So, hopefully you won\'t need to cancel your trip...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2119,493,'Mother','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.176.159','2006-08-08 17:30:07','2006-08-08 17:30:07','Oh you lucky dog. I hope he gets better soon.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2120,493,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','69.19.60.92','2006-08-09 08:43:05','2006-08-09 08:43:05','We almost had to cancel a FL trip when our oldest daughter was young due to one of her many ear infections. The doc bypassed amoxil and went for Zithromax since it works faster and you take it for less time, but the doses are time released over the same period as amoxil.\n\nHow long has he been on it now?  He might still have some residual pain from fluid even after the infection is gone, but some decongestant beforehand would help with that.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2121,493,'Tracy','tracyf@fastmail.us','','68.252.242.147','2006-08-09 12:01:58','2006-08-09 12:01:58','Oh no!  I hope he\'s feeling MUCH better very soon, and that you get to go on your trip!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2122,493,'Tracy','tracyf@fastmail.us','','68.252.242.147','2006-08-09 12:03:58','2006-08-09 12:03:58','P.S. I can also vouch for the Zithromax.  Henry only had ONE ear infection in his entire life but it was an ornery one and Ammox. just didn\'t cut it.  Apparently it only covers 3 of the 5 or 6 different bacteria that cause ear infections.  They gave him Zithromax and it cleared it up.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2123,493,'Andrea','littlebalddoctors@charter.net','','71.10.209.252','2006-08-09 12:43:30','2006-08-09 12:43:30','Chanting \"out damn ear infection\" over and over here.  That sounds like an awesome vacation.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2124,493,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-08-09 14:24:45','2006-08-09 14:24:45','Okay.  I can tell you I\'ve been in your shoes.  My son is nearly 2 years old.  He\'s had every cold/flu virus imagineable and I\'ve gotten every single one of them.  He will either have an immune system of steel in kindergarten or I will have died of all the viruses.\n\nWhy do they get this stuff?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2125,493,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-08-09 19:01:03','2006-08-09 19:01:03','Oh, oh, OH! I am sending many waves of health your way ... you can\'t miss that vacation!\n\nGood luck *hug*\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2126,493,'Her Bad Mother','caconnors@rogers.com','','72.137.39.107','2006-08-09 20:25:15','2006-08-09 20:25:15','I am so chanting to the wellness gods for you....\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2127,493,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','151.200.110.3','2006-08-10 12:07:20','2006-08-10 12:07:20','My cats could stay stateside with the little one.  Other than that, I have nothing to offer, except for wine for the trip . . . good luck.\n\nAnd no fluids on the plane!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2128,493,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-08-10 12:25:22','2006-08-10 12:25:22','I know.  It\'s just what we need.  Geez.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2129,493,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','71.194.92.93','2006-08-10 16:17:30','2006-08-10 16:17:30','Oh, you poor, poor thing. Lucky for you children\'s medicine is not one of the things being banned from within 6 miles of all airplanes now because of all the London craziness. I hope he gets better and you all enjoy your trip. Have some weinershnitzel for me, please. Love that stuff.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2130,493,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-08-10 19:56:25','2006-08-10 19:56:25','Repeat after me:  He WILL get better.  He WILL get better.  He WILL GET BETTER!\n\nSending my best to you guys.  That vacation sounds wonderful.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2131,493,'mrs mogul','mrsmogul@homechoice.co.uk','','81.170.64.74','2006-08-11 06:50:45','2006-08-11 06:50:45','Can you take my kid along to Austria? We need babysitting too!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2132,493,'tori','torisabaj@comcast.net','','67.184.109.155','2006-08-11 16:46:57','2006-08-11 16:46:57','My daughter got an ear infection two days before we were supposed to leave for Disney World.  Luckily, they gave her the shot and some drops and she was fine to go on the plane.  Good luck!  Have a safe trip!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2133,494,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','151.203.50.121','2006-08-02 08:26:45','2006-08-02 08:26:45','Ohhh...same here.  Same here.  I am probably going to cart Charlotte around to do a bunch of errands today, just to get someplace cooler.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2134,494,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.13','2006-08-02 09:48:24','2006-08-02 09:48:24','I feel for you guys up there. It gets that temp quite often here (Oklahoma) but you people just aren\'t used to that!  Even WE hate it (though, not quite as much as we hate the occasional snow!).\n\n*sending cool thoughts your way*\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2135,494,'Dad','roque_sarmiento@yahoo.com','','12.150.211.2','2006-08-02 13:00:44','2006-08-02 13:00:44','Like You said you did growp up in the Caribean  and Florida but there was a difference you always had Air Condition...Your Welcome.... We miss something when we do not have it...Love\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2136,494,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-08-02 15:11:38','2006-08-02 15:11:38','You poor, poor, thing. I\'m serious. We\'re in TEXAS and it\'s not that hot. And we have A/C, oh yes. Is it at least cooling down at night?\n\nYou\'ve now totally confused my deliberations (see my post about moving to the east coast).\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2137,494,'Kirsty','kirsty@rogers.com','','74.120.145.207','2006-08-02 23:27:03','2006-08-02 23:27:03','We\'re cooking up here in Toronto too -- same temp -- too hot for me!!  Snow seems nice right now.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2138,494,'Kristine','krissy.munroe@rcn.com','','70.91.133.109','2006-08-03 09:59:13','2006-08-03 09:59:13','Whenever I hear people say \"at least it\'s not snowing\" right now, I keep thinking how much I\'d prefer a blizzard over this weather.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2139,494,'Kris','KrisUnderwood@gmail.com','','64.222.105.25','2006-08-03 10:29:59','2006-08-03 10:29:59','Great pictures of Boston...\n\nYeah, I get like this in the summer, wishing it were winter and cold; then when winter hits, i wish it were summer and heat, heat, heat.\n\nBut then, I come to my senses. No-I dont want it to be winter yet..all that winter and cold?!!\n\nJust found your site via Moonstruck Mama.\nLoving it!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2140,494,'Tuesdayef','tuesdayef@aol.com','','64.12.116.11','2006-08-03 16:42:29','2006-08-03 16:42:29','Today it is 110 here and yesterday it was 115.\n\nI am officially never complaining about being cold again.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2141,494,'Ficklechick','fickle@ficklechick.net','','70.181.90.68','2006-08-03 17:01:44','2006-08-03 17:01:44','Good luck finding some air conditioning, sounds like you really need it!\n\nThe pictures are beautiful.  ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2142,494,'Her Bad Mother','none@unknown.com','','72.137.39.107','2006-08-03 18:26:16','2006-08-03 18:26:16','Thank you. THANK YOU.\n\n(Am fanning self and looking at your photos and channelling polar bear. Aaaah.)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2143,494,'ObliviousMaven','obliviousmaven@hotmail.com','','71.145.198.169','2006-08-03 20:50:14','2006-08-03 20:50:14','Aaaaah, that felt good just looking at it.  And I usually hate the cold stuff too, because I can\'t drive with my knees knocking together and my hands gripped so tight on the wheel that it doesn\'t turn.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2144,494,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.com','','71.232.106.87','2006-08-04 16:23:08','2006-08-04 16:23:08','If one more person said \"You\'ll be complaining about the snow come January,\" I\'m going to kill them with my Glare Of Death (patent pending).  Difference is, when it\'s snowing, I can go inside and turn on the heat and not deal with the snow.  This crap?  Is bullshit.  Bullshit that you can\'t get away from, no matter how hard you try.\n\nI\'m loving that picture of Newbury St.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2145,494,'Mommy off the Record','mommy605@hotmail.com','','71.142.63.177','2006-08-04 20:44:06','2006-08-04 20:44:06','I think we\'ve finally gotten over the hottest part of the summer here in Northern CA--at least I hope so. But just in case it creeps back over 100, I\'ll be back to check out these pics and \"cool off\"!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2146,494,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','64.145.134.66','2006-08-04 22:11:29','2006-08-04 22:11:29','Drink gatorade, visualize igloos, and see many movies. I\'m worried about you!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2147,494,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-08-07 12:41:57','2006-08-07 12:41:57','As a Wisconsinite, I know what you mean about snow.  But that picture of the Christmas Shopping is just beautiful.  That makes me want Christmas Right now!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2148,495,'nonlineargirl','norarachel@gmail.com','','24.21.141.182','2006-07-29 13:59:22','2006-07-29 13:59:22','We got a load of 18-24 month hand-me-downs from a friend (yup, lots of Old Navy), and my 1 year old fits them now.  The weight thing is a good idea, except that my gal is also tall, so sometimes the clothes are the right fit around the belly, but don\'t cover the whole belly.  Plus, we mostly use cloth diapers (read: kid\'s butt looks huge) and we have some pants she can only wear with a disposable now.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2149,495,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-07-29 22:11:43','2006-07-29 22:11:43','It IS annoying. Max (who is 32 mo.) just last month started to be able to wear size 24 months in most brands, and half the time they\'re too short, already. I\'m too doped up on cold meds to ennumerate how it varies by maker, but leave it to say it\'s a total crapshoot what will fit, at any given time.\n\nSizing by weight would be GREAT. So would having short, medium & tall lengths.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2150,495,'kate','needlesonfire@kategilbert.com','','24.203.41.51','2006-07-30 00:28:07','2006-07-30 00:28:07','My 8 month old wears some 3-6 months, some 6-12 months. Who knows what she\'ll fit into. Things that are long enough are way too wide. What\'s up with all the clothes shaped for Sponge Bob? I know my baby isn\'t one of those roly poly chubbos, but really! In the smaller stuff, I\'ve always found Gymboree to run smaller than Gap. We always put away the Gymboree pjs before the Gap ones.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2151,495,'Jenny','daisymaeperez73@hotmail.com','','72.181.187.209','2006-07-30 09:48:13','2006-07-30 09:48:13','Amen!  When Hailey turned 3 months old I had 10 outfits with the tags still attached that she never wore.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2152,495,'Kelly','khunsicker68@comcast.net','','68.58.127.91','2006-07-30 11:19:49','2006-07-30 11:19:49','Yes I remember that frustration well when my kids were babies. I think sizing by weight is a good idea!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2153,495,'Megan Carty','mlcassid@yahoo.com','','66.30.4.88','2006-07-31 09:32:34','2006-07-31 09:32:34','It\'s so true! I don\'t have kids, but this all makes for impossible gift-giving. *sigh*\nby the way, I loved your article on Nantucket. I\'ve never been there, believe it or not, (Being from Maine I kind of figured it\'s all the same), but now I\'m interested in checking it out!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2154,495,'Buffy','b@buffyholt.com','','81.154.80.225','2006-07-31 15:33:12','2006-07-31 15:33:12','I\'ve never successfully bought clothes for children.  I try to guesstimate, because labels never work, but I still get it wrong. I\'m going for gift certificates from here on.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2155,495,'Mama of 2','lmk@microconnect.net','','71.236.95.162','2006-07-31 21:00:17','2006-07-31 21:00:17','Well I have to say that my little one is actually in the same size as her age as was my older son during those times as well.\n\nI think most places that I shop do list the weight and length that each size fits.  I find that\'s the best way for me to fit Girlie Girlie.\n\nSorry you are having such a tough time of it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2156,495,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.195.249','2006-07-31 23:29:42','2006-07-31 23:29:42','Mine does - but she\'s like in the negative 16th percentile for weight and 60th for height so that should tell you something.\n\nEuropean sizes (like Oilily and Hannah Anderson) go by length in cms. That seems to be the most accurate.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2157,495,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','69.217.55.118','2006-08-01 18:46:40','2006-08-01 18:46:40','I agree with this sizing bit.  My toddler is 22 months old and he barely fits in the 24 month pants.  They are too big.  But the shirts fit him fine.  It\'s a crock to go shopping for him.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2158,495,'Jen','tomama@tomama.com','','70.25.19.21','2006-08-01 20:45:39','2006-08-01 20:45:39','Yes, weight makes sense. The size thing is frustrating.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2159,495,'Brenda','mystic_eye_cda@yahoo.com','','70.48.4.35','2006-08-02 21:49:04','2006-08-02 21:49:04','Or how about having sizes for pudgy, normal, and skinny babies.  \'K I don\'t want to \"label\" anyone or whatever, but babies are different shapes.\n\nHOWEVER, and maybe you all will think I am wrong.  The skinny baby at the park, the one who at 2 months still has loose skin around his wrists, the other day he was out from under his blankie and his shirt rode up and even he has the round belly.  So I don\'t know who the pants I have that are like 18\" long and 4\" wide are supposed to fit.\n\n(FYI I heard a rumour that some children\'s clothes have started using maternity style waistbands, you know the elastic with the button holes in it?  If you see these, please, please buy them so they continue to make them)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2160,495,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','65.24.159.22','2006-08-04 12:08:53','2006-08-04 12:08:53','Yes! Cordelia has always been one to two sizes ahead of where she \"should\" be. Of course, she\'s always been at the top of or off the charts, but two sizes ahead?\n\nShe turns 2 in two months, and is just now transitioning into 3T clothing.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2161,495,'Monogram Momma','monogrammomma@charter.net','','66.191.240.202','2006-08-04 14:19:40','2006-08-04 14:19:40','AMEN. I have a 4 yr old and 2-1/2 yr old. Seriuosly, they really need to be sizing them based on weight AND height b/c the age thing is ridiculous and helps no one. So I try to stick with the brands that are generously cut and pretty tru to size if not slightly larger such as Gymboree, Ralph Lauren, Mini Boden. yes, I realize $$$, however, it\'s worth it if I don\'t have to keep re-buying clothes for my kids every 3 weeks. same thing wit shoes.. Always buy stride Rite.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2162,495,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','71.194.92.93','2006-08-06 15:03:22','2006-08-06 15:03:22','Couldn\'t agree more. There is sooooooooo much variation by brand, designer, etc. So frustrating because what are you going to do, TRY the stuff ON the baby in the store? Nope, didn\'t think so. Gah! And I feel really bad for the parents of preemies. There are literally like 3 outfits they can wear. And nobody can do laundry that quickly.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2163,496,'Jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','24.60.246.143','2006-07-28 19:29:49','2006-07-28 19:29:49','I love Fluff. Adore it. Think it\'s delicious. Of course, I\'m a New Englander born and bred. My midwestern husband gags when I eat it. I don\'t get it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2164,496,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-07-28 21:39:54','2006-07-28 21:39:54','Even though I never understood the draw of Fluff - except in hot chocolate - I whole-heartedly support the Fluff movement.  I wouldn\'t be a Mass. girl if I didn\'t.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2165,496,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-07-28 21:45:47','2006-07-28 21:45:47','Hot chocolate?  How come I didn\'t think of that?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2166,496,'Kelly','khunsicker68@comcast.net','','68.58.127.91','2006-07-30 11:18:20','2006-07-30 11:18:20','I looooooove fluffernutters and I was born and raised in PA so they aren\'t a strictly New England thing. :) But all that sugar? I can see why they want them banned from school lunches. Makes me wonder though if they consider ketchup a vegetable? lol\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2167,496,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.com','','71.192.210.76','2006-08-01 13:18:20','2006-08-01 13:18:20','Sure, don\'t serve it in school, but Fluff is fanTABulous stuff.  So what if it\'s nasty.  It\'s good.  And a little nasty goodness once in a while is just fine.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2168,496,'Janet','Janet.Gordon-Thatcher@Swedish.org','','207.225.232.131','2006-10-06 16:12:22','2006-10-06 16:12:22','I grew up in Philly,PA, and it was HUGE in my school!!! I moved to Seattle in high school, and no one had heard of fluffanutter sandwiches here. I made them for my kids when they were little - although they preferred peanut butter and honey.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2169,497,'julia','email@email.com','','71.192.210.76','2006-07-25 18:14:48','2006-07-25 18:14:48','That was great!  Now I want to go.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2170,497,'Meena','girlenroute@gmail.com','','209.202.73.146','2006-07-28 10:51:06','2006-07-28 10:51:06','Hey! I just came accross your site, and love every bit of your writing! Hope you don\'t mind me linking to you. Drop by my place sometime for a chat! :o)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2171,498,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.13','2006-07-21 08:59:24','2006-07-21 08:59:24','#1 is great!!\n\nAnd I think a lot of people have been in a funk lately. I\'ve been reading a lot of \"ugh\" posts lately. Either that or \"I have writer\'s block and I suck\" type of things.\n\nMyself included.\n\nI think it\'s the heat. Yuuuuuck. Yuck. Yucccckkkk.  I\'m ready for a nice, breezy fall.  Mmmm.\n\nSmile. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2172,498,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-07-21 14:39:48','2006-07-21 14:39:48','Great link. And this list is wonderful. I love to see how little has changed in the spirit of \"self-help\" adjurations in the last couple hundred years. It makes me realize that each of these things (on the list) is just part of the struggle in being human ...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2173,498,'Sunshine Scribe','sunshinescribeblog@yahoo.ca','','67.71.91.50','2006-07-21 22:31:25','2006-07-21 22:31:25','I love #1 too. this is a great list. I am off to read them all.  Thanks for sharing!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2174,498,'Teacher Lady','sexy_teacher_lady@yahoo.com','','24.166.60.241','2006-07-23 20:05:41','2006-07-23 20:05:41','This is great - thanks for the list. I will refer to it often (especially as the whole PMS thing overtakes my life in a day or two and renders my existence meaningless!)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2175,498,'Jenny','daisymaeperez73@hotmail.com','','162.121.252.4','2006-07-24 08:30:01','2006-07-24 08:30:01','What a great post and a fab link! Thanks!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2176,498,'Her Bad Mother','caconnors@rogers.com','','72.137.39.107','2006-07-24 09:10:47','2006-07-24 09:10:47','What a wonderful link! You deserve a public service award (blog service award) for sharing it.\n\nAt my high school graduation, the invited speaker, some politician, said something that (surprisingly) I\'ve never forgotten:\n\nYou need just three things to be happy in life - someone to love, something to do, and something to look forward to, always.\n\nIt struck me as being a pretty good summary.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2177,498,'francesca','francesca_castagnoli@condenast.com','','69.2.120.11','2006-07-24 11:28:10','2006-07-24 11:28:10','What could be better than stumbling upon this list at my desk on a gorgeous summer morning when I\'m wishing I could be home  getting ready to take my kids to the beach. I\'m inspired and taking a few moments to make my office more pleasant to work in.\nThank you!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2178,498,'sarcastic journalist','sj@shenuts.com','','24.238.235.114','2006-07-24 15:47:49','2006-07-24 15:47:49','The problem, to me, is that they sound so open ended. I want a list that says \"Eat cupcake. Drink glass of milk.\"\n\nLot less thought put into that one.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2179,498,'Stacy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-07-25 22:23:33','2006-07-25 22:23:33','wow, what a great list and I love the one you added too!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2180,498,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-07-26 12:10:52','2006-07-26 12:10:52','Wow! You\'re new blog template is fantastic.  I really like it.  It\'s simple, but classic looking.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2181,498,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','72.66.14.21','2006-08-04 21:07:11','2006-08-04 21:07:11','Ooh, what an awesome list.  I will have to click over and check the whole thing.  Thanks for the link!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2182,499,'tori','torisabaj@comcast.net','','67.184.109.155','2006-07-18 13:49:59','2006-07-18 13:49:59','I am so glad everything turned out ok.  The ER isn\'t fun at all!  I agree, not anything like it is on tv, although sometimes there are cute doctors.  Our pediatrician told us once that that diet is what they tell you to do, but in his own experience it doesn\'t do anything.  Another doctor in the same practice swears by it.  I am guessing since two doctors in the same practice can\'t agree, there must be many different opinions.  I think a lot of times with kids, you need to just do what you think is right for them even though it might go against what the doctor told you to do.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2183,499,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','72.66.14.175','2006-07-18 20:51:21','2006-07-18 20:51:21','Ohhhhh, how maddening.  Are you going to talk to your pediatrician\'s office to let them know what the ER was advising?  It\'s frustrating when you have two different sets of medical professionals giving you completely opposite advice.\n\nGlad he\'s feeling better.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2184,499,'nonlineargirl','norarachel@gmail.com','','24.21.141.182','2006-07-18 22:30:00','2006-07-18 22:30:00','I am glad your boy is on the mend.  It sounds like the nurse had bad advice. I have never heard the \"no milk\" thing and have always figured that the plug-up tendency of banana would counteract the milk.  Plus, when I am sick I always want milky things and eat/drink them even though I know they are contraindicated for head-colds.  I\'m all for the soothing foods and drinks.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2185,499,'lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.114.57','2006-07-18 22:48:27','2006-07-18 22:48:27','I am so sorry that you had to go to the ER. It is not a fun place at all. I am so glad that everyone is feeling better.\n\nI am also glad to see that you have returned and I love this new look!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2186,499,'stacy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-07-19 10:50:07','2006-07-19 10:50:07','Glad to hear things are getting better. I love the new look!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2187,499,'Brenda','mystic_eye_cda@yahoo.com','','65.92.96.198','2006-07-24 17:19:17','2006-07-24 17:19:17','Next time follow your heart.  I hate to hear people feeling unempowered like this.\n\nYou knew that your child wasn\'t drinking enough and you knew the only thing he would was milk, give him milk.  Maybe try to water it down, but milk is mainly water anyway.\n\nEverytime a doctor/nurse is insistant you should do something you do not think is right think of all the things the medical profession has gotten wrong in the past.  Episiotemies for example.  What about knocking women out during labour and then having to strap them down so they wouldn\'t hurt themselves or their babies.  Child-bed fever caused by med-students/doctors going directly from autopsy to attending births.  I could go on and on and on.\n\nAlso, any doctor who reccomendes pedialyte has been listening to the drug company too much.  You can make rehydration liquids at home, you can make them cheaper and healthier.  In fact many studies have found there is no difference between giving your child pedialyte or gatorade.\n\nAlso, where I live the doctors tell you not to give any refined sugar and as few carbohydrates as possible to any child with the stomach flu.  I have never heard of this whole BRAT diet.\n\nAnyway I just wanted to say follow your heart, you know what is best.  If you think something is wrong with your child you probably have a reason to be concerned, and if you think the advice you have been given isn\'t working, try something else.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2188,500,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','72.66.14.175','2006-07-15 10:58:42','2006-07-15 10:58:42','Looking good so far!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2189,500,'Alicat','somethingsoclever@hotmail.com','','69.144.86.66','2006-07-15 11:17:13','2006-07-15 11:17:13','aww so cute! :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2190,500,'jennster','jenn@jennster.com','','67.188.184.49','2006-07-15 15:49:54','2006-07-15 15:49:54','yay!  have fun!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2191,500,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-07-16 16:41:18','2006-07-16 16:41:18','Yeah, I love the header!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2192,500,'Amy','sbmoms@gmail.com','','68.65.177.116','2006-07-16 20:33:49','2006-07-16 20:33:49','Wow! So pretty! Can\'t wait to see the finished product!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2193,500,'Manic Mom','henhowz@comcast.net','','24.14.134.11','2006-07-17 16:57:44','2006-07-17 16:57:44','Yah hurry up because I wanna know what a reluctant housewife is all about!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2194,500,'Janet','sliceofpink@gmail.com','','71.108.95.30','2006-07-19 14:56:26','2006-07-19 14:56:26','It\'s lookin\' good! Very cute!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2195,500,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','66.82.9.59','2006-07-27 13:31:33','2006-07-27 13:31:33','I love it! Nice job.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2196,501,'Erin','ekf73@Yahoo.com','','141.154.126.209','2006-06-13 11:21:56','2006-06-13 11:21:56','Sooo...are you making an offer?  The house sounds absolutely perfect!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2197,501,'Sunshine Scribe','sunshinescribeblog@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.15','2006-06-13 11:26:05','2006-06-13 11:26:05','We live near a cemetary - quite neighbours for sure and so far no ghostly visitors. The house sounds spectacular.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2198,501,'Kelly','khunsicker68@comcast.net','','68.58.127.91','2006-06-13 11:34:43','2006-06-13 11:34:43','The house sounds fabulous! If I were in the market for a home I\'d jump all over that, cemetary neighbors and all!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2199,501,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.13','2006-06-13 11:44:23','2006-06-13 11:44:23','Oooh, I\'m quite jealous - it sounds lovely!!  I would love living next to a cemetary (especially one that old)...imagine all the cool pictures you can take.\n\nI\'m keeping my fingers crossed for you!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2200,501,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-06-13 12:04:33','2006-06-13 12:04:33','*Crying*\n\nWe probably won\'t put an offer in.  Yet.\n\nDo you guys not realize that we are masochists?\n\nMy husband has a couple of things he needs to take care of at work...then we will know how long we will be in Boston.  I have come to love this town, so I\'m hoping it will all work out.  A house like that is hard to resell (it\'s been on the market since Feb. but it was overpriced - they\'ve lowered the asking price by $60 so far) and it\'s hard to justify if we end up moving in a couple of years.\n\nThat\'s what the realtor says anyways.\n\nAlso, my husband can\'t get over the fact that there is a farm (with horses!) a couple of miles away.  I can\'t get over the fact that they\'re building a Neiman Marcus.\n\nIf it was up to me alone, I\'d be throwing the money at the owners faster than you can say \"boo!\"\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2201,501,'island Jen','island_artist@telus.net','','206.116.128.58','2006-06-13 13:13:26','2006-06-13 13:13:26','Best of luck, I hope it all works out in the end! Keep us all posted!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2202,501,'Motherhood Uncensored','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.176.159','2006-06-13 13:43:34','2006-06-13 13:43:34','Quiet neighbors... HAHAHAHAHA.\n\nThat is freaking hilarious.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2203,501,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','205.133.198.252','2006-06-13 13:58:41','2006-06-13 13:58:41','Oh, it sounds perfect! I personally love the idea of living next to a cemetary. It would be interesting to look at all those old stones and wonder who those people were.\n\nI hope you\'re able to put an offer on it!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2204,501,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-06-13 14:43:53','2006-06-13 14:43:53','I love the part about the quiet neighbor\'s!  You rock!  I\'m not sure I could live by a cemetary.  I mean, maybe, but I\'m kind of keen on ghosts and things.  I\'m too creeped out by them.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2205,501,'nonlineargirl','norarachel@gmail.com','','24.21.141.182','2006-06-13 15:15:01','2006-06-13 15:15:01','Resale is important if you do not think you\'ll be there a long time.  (in our case, our resale \"problem\" is that we have no garage, only a driveway.  It was not enough to make me give up my 1908 craftsman.)\n\nYour description of the kitchen alone had me drooling.  Good luck working things out.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2206,501,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-06-13 19:15:49','2006-06-13 19:15:49','I promise not to show this post to my husband, the foodie and wanna be chef, in case you decide to put an offer on the house.  It does sound perfect, though.  Sigh.\n\nI am curious as to what town its in?  Farm animals?  Hmmm...\n\nDoes it end in \"_ton\"?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2207,501,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.com','','71.192.210.76','2006-06-13 21:22:57','2006-06-13 21:22:57','Oh wow, that sounds great.  I lived next door to a cemetary for a while.  No boogie men at all.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2208,501,'K.','khatina1@gmail.com','','66.56.232.56','2006-06-14 09:47:35','2006-06-14 09:47:35','The house really does sound nice, but I also understand the reasons why you all are not making your move just yet. Buying a house is such a frustrating experience, not to mention when you have to really think about resale. Either way, I hope you get what you want and that your family is happy with the decision.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2209,501,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','72.66.14.175','2006-06-14 10:01:08','2006-06-14 10:01:08','Sounds lovely.  I hope it all works out -- if you can\'t put an offer on this one right now, hopefully you\'ll still end up with a wonderful house that you love.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2210,501,'Jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','65.213.77.129','2006-06-14 10:05:27','2006-06-14 10:05:27','To me? That house sounds like perfection. I want a sub zero fridge. I would just stand in the kitchen and make out with, I mean, stare at it, all day.\n\nAnd I like cemetaries.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2211,501,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-06-14 12:47:46','2006-06-14 12:47:46','It. Sounds. Fabulous.\n\nI was raised in a turn of the century craftsman style home. I now live in a particle board house of cards. I would JUMP at the chance to buy a house like that. There is nothing of the kind to be found around here.\n\nCemetary Schemetary. (says she who is phobic of all things death related) :?)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2212,501,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','151.200.110.3','2006-06-14 13:46:28','2006-06-14 13:46:28','More of us could use such a positive outlook on life - that\'s exactly right . . .  What\'s a little cemetery?  :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2213,501,'trisha','trisha4005@yahoo.com','','24.240.213.101','2006-06-14 14:28:19','2006-06-14 14:28:19','It sounds beautiful.  I love this type of home.\nI love your blog, btw.\nGreat writing!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2214,501,'jen','jenrundall@yahoo.com','','86.134.73.238','2006-06-14 16:37:48','2006-06-14 16:37:48','Go for it- sounds like a great house. My best friend lives right in the middle of a cemetery - they have had the BEST parties I\'ve ever been to, fireworks and loud music all night as the neighbours were in no position to complain ;) It\'s always quiet at night, and you can always get a parking spot. What more can I say?!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2215,501,'Stacy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-06-14 21:36:23','2006-06-14 21:36:23','But what if you get a really rainy couple of days and then suddenly you\'re caught in a scene like the one in \"Poltergeist.\"\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2216,501,'sugarmama','wantsugar@gmail.com','','75.3.11.26','2006-06-14 22:51:08','2006-06-14 22:51:08','Sounds beautiful!\n\nAs a city girl myself I can\'t imagine having to like seeing the animals from my backyard, but it would definitely awesome for your son.\n\nGood Luck!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2217,501,'alyssa','alyssajboehm@yahoo.com','','66.30.201.11','2006-06-15 07:13:26','2006-06-15 07:13:26','Don\'t freak too much - if you\'re not going to stay, this probably isn\'t the best time to buy. You know what is right for you. Sometimes you pull the trigger, sometimes you wait it out.\n\nAt least you\'re not buying at the peak like some people I know (me) and be forced to live in that place \'til you die. On the bright side, if you did - the cemetary is just next door. You could probably get a discount rate.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2218,501,'Stephanie A.','stepha1202@yahoo.com','','24.171.22.11','2006-06-15 13:53:07','2006-06-15 13:53:07','It sounds like a truly fantastic house.  I hope that everything works out well with your husband\'s job and you get to stay in Boston!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2219,501,'Suburban Turmoil','lucindathemom@yahoo.com','','68.52.179.208','2006-06-15 15:06:21','2006-06-15 15:06:21','It sounds amazing.  The cemetary would not deter me at all.  At least you know they won\'t build something atrocious there...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2220,501,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.195.249','2006-06-15 16:31:10','2006-06-15 16:31:10','Oh it sounds just magical. Having lived in an apt next to the mass pike for a year I can assure you a civil war-era cemetary would indeed be preferable. Unless you like soot all over everything you own...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2221,501,'Antique Mommy','antiquemommy@comcast.net','','24.0.46.193','2006-06-16 08:09:40','2006-06-16 08:09:40','I hope you\'ve made an offer something beyond the asking price!  It sounds fabulous.  I live next door to a nutty lady who blesses each door of her house by drawing a cross above it in chalk, yet chased my precious dog with a broom when she\'s not riding on it).  The guy on the other side, we\'ve seen twice in six years.  He mows his lawn twice a year whether it needs it or not.  Post mortem neighbors sound great!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2222,501,'Brenda','mystic_eye_cda@yahoo.com','','65.92.99.233','2006-06-17 23:04:46','2006-06-17 23:04:46','OMG! That is the perfect house, I wish I lived there..... seriously though....\n\nI know you will do what is best for your family (grrrr reponsibility getting in the way of dreams bites)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2223,501,'mrsmogul','mrsmogul@homechoice.co.uk','','81.1.102.187','2006-06-18 16:59:28','2006-06-18 16:59:28','Selling a home is stressful..i am sure buying one won\'t be as much..it sounds great!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2224,501,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.111.12.177','2006-06-19 06:59:02','2006-06-19 06:59:02','Wow, the house sounds great (even with the cemetary).  I hope it all works out!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2225,502,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-06-20 11:54:49','2006-06-20 11:54:49','Is the weather beautiful there?  I\'d love to go to Miami.  I\'ve never even been to Florida. :)  Have a good time!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2226,503,'Motherhood Uncensored','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.176.159','2006-06-20 13:58:18','2006-06-20 13:58:18','I have similar feelings going home - I think much of it has to do with the fact that I can\'t just go HOME - I have to visit and visit and visit and I don\'t get time to enjoy what I remember as being great.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2227,503,'Antique Mommy','antiquemommy@comcast.net','','24.0.46.193','2006-06-20 18:04:50','2006-06-20 18:04:50','A very interesting study in the concept of \"home.\"  I moved away from where I was raised 25 years ago and although I say \"I\'m going home to see my parents\" - I\'m really not.  A very thoughtful post.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2228,503,'jennster','jenn@jennster.com','','63.82.98.50','2006-06-20 18:59:39','2006-06-20 18:59:39','awwwww- even though i can totally relate, it\'s still kind of sad\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2229,503,'island Jen','island_artist@telus.net','','206.116.128.58','2006-06-20 19:08:58','2006-06-20 19:08:58','The last time I went \'back home\' I had similar disenchanted feelings (even though I grew up on the prairies of Canada).  You put it into words so beautifully.\nThanks.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2230,503,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-06-20 22:11:30','2006-06-20 22:11:30','At first I was thinking that your disenchantment with Miami stemmed from living in Mass. for too long.  I don\'t think that\'s the case, though.  Well, maybe a little bit, but not entirely.  I\'ve only moved as far as an hour from my childhood home.  When I lived there I didn\'t see the poverty, I saw instead the community bonded in their trials.  But when I go back I see the empty mills and factories, the roads in disrepair.  Its hard to go back and see \"home\" through a new pair of eyes.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2231,503,'Kelly','khunsicker68@comcast.net','','68.58.127.91','2006-06-21 12:55:57','2006-06-21 12:55:57','It\'s kind of like that old saying, \"You can never go home again.\" Sometimes that rings true when we go back to PA to visit family.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2232,503,'Stacy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-06-21 22:35:26','2006-06-21 22:35:26','It\'s kind of like when you find a great little restaurant and nobody knows about it. You like the food and the quiet atomosphere but then all of a sudden people start discovering your secret and then it\'s not so special anymore. You can\'t get a reservation and the prices go up.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2233,503,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-06-22 10:30:53','2006-06-22 10:30:53','Don\'t I know about change....Ugh.  It surprises you.  When you least expect it.  Things just don\'t feel the same sometimes.  I wonder if that goes away...who knows...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2234,503,'petitegourmand','studio9@sympatico.ca','','64.229.199.112','2006-06-24 11:43:17','2006-06-24 11:43:17','I wish I had the opportunity to know Miami \"then\" and not now.\nI have to agree with you, it does have a pretty \"cheap\" and \"cheesy\" feel to it. (at least downtown and especially south beach)\nsuch a shame because it could be so beautiful, I love the art deco architecture and some of the homes are truly gorgeous.\nAt least you lived there during it\'s hay-day...lucky you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2235,504,'Motherhood Uncensored','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.176.159','2006-06-22 17:18:29','2006-06-22 17:18:29','ahaha. I\'d be laughing. My husband? I\'d have to revive him off the floor if Q did that.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2236,504,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','70.34.53.210','2006-06-22 19:33:45','2006-06-22 19:33:45','I just got that catalog in the mail yesterday!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2237,504,'Sunshine Scribe','sunshinescribeblog@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.15','2006-06-22 19:37:13','2006-06-22 19:37:13','Nooooo! I feel like I need to go disinfect something just reading that.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2238,504,'Reluctant Housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-06-22 20:06:51','2006-06-22 20:06:51','How DO they know?  I guess our OBGYNs are making some extra money selling our addresses!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2239,504,'Lala','wardellchambers@gmal.com','','70.48.3.159','2006-06-22 20:26:38','2006-06-22 20:26:38','Did you see the thing they seel to discourage thumb sucking? It looks like a torture device.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2240,504,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-06-22 21:19:04','2006-06-22 21:19:04','Oh, Lord, that bumper helmet is just cruel. Can you imagine baby photos with that thing?\n\nI\'m surprised I don\'t have a toilet lock. You know how every parent has their Special Fear for their child? My friend M is sure her daughter will choke and still won\'t give her (3-year-old) raisins (wtf?) ... well, mine is accidental drowning. And do you know how many kids drown each year in a toilet? Well, okay, but at least one or two. Poor toddlers with their heavy heads. Watching \"Ray\" scared the bejeezus out of me (bucket scene).\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2241,504,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.195.249','2006-06-22 22:30:30','2006-06-22 22:30:30','What? That water is good! Why, when I was drinking it just last week...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2242,504,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','151.198.18.39','2006-06-22 23:01:35','2006-06-22 23:01:35','I have some narrow misses myself with the toilet water.  What is the fascination?  At least now both of my little ones are obsessed with shutting the lid of the toilets and flushing instead of sticking something in there.\n\nAlthough, they seem to like to drink bath water.  Does One Step Ahead have a product to prevent that!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2243,504,'Mrs. Davis','thelovelymrsdavis@hotmail.com','','65.189.251.6','2006-06-23 10:55:44','2006-06-23 10:55:44','OMG!  Airport toilet water!  So is it possible to get your child to gargle with Clorox?\n\nI\'ve been overheard in public toilet stalls screaming (in that very quiet scream-voice) at my toddler to NOT TOUCH THAT, DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING, like the feminine hygiene dropbox or the flusher handle.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2244,504,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.13','2006-06-23 11:25:25','2006-06-23 11:25:25','Aaaaaaaaahahahahahhahaha!!!\n\nThat cracked me up!!  YUUUCK!!   LOL\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2245,504,'GIRLS GONE CHILD','rebeccawoolf@hotmail.com','','71.133.138.230','2006-06-23 12:40:25','2006-06-23 12:40:25','Hmmmm. Maybe he knows something we don\'t?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2246,504,'Andrea','littlebalddoctors@charter.net','','71.10.209.252','2006-06-23 12:58:23','2006-06-23 12:58:23','Okay, I\'ll give you the toilet lid locks.  Those might actually be usefully smart.  Although we just shut the bathroom doors to keep our little guy out.  Of course I know when I\'m in there, I wasn\'t ever alone (no mother of a child between the ages of 0 and 7 is ever really alone in the bathroom) and I would turn my back for a second to wash my hands.  I guess should Gabe have decided to drink a handful of toilet water, he could\'ve.  Now he\'s tall enough to open the doors, but I think he knows when I mean ick not to eat the thing from the floor/ground/toilet/dog bowl.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2247,504,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-06-23 13:35:33','2006-06-23 13:35:33','I\'ve been getting that catalog for ages, but I\'ve never ordered anything either!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2248,504,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','71.201.200.52','2006-06-23 13:55:39','2006-06-23 13:55:39','Ewwwww. Was there poo in the toilet at the time? Now THAT would have been sick.\n\nI like that product in that catalog that is a penis helmet for little baby boys when you change them. It\'s called the whizzinator or something, hilarious.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2249,504,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-06-23 14:14:12','2006-06-23 14:14:12','Eeew.  Eeeeewww. EEEEEEWWWWWWW.\n\nshudder\n\nDo they have a home and travel disinfecting kit in the One Step Ahead catalogue?  One where you can just dunk your kid in once and they come out sparkling clean?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2250,504,'julia','email@email.com','','71.192.210.76','2006-06-23 15:51:47','2006-06-23 15:51:47','Ewwwwwwww.  My daughter does that, too, although never at a public toilet.  Yet.  It\'s disgusting.\n\nThere are One Step Ahead stores.  It\'s a great place to go point and laugh.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2251,504,'mrsmogul','mrsmogul@homechoice.co.uk','','81.1.102.187','2006-06-24 03:40:26','2006-06-24 03:40:26','okay that\'s really really gross..but at the same time cute. He\'ll laugh about it when he\'s old enough. Hey, it\'ll make a great Christmas dinner table story!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2252,504,'Jennifer','jennifer@mamasmoon.com','','66.234.207.70','2006-06-24 04:06:52','2006-06-24 04:06:52','Ohhhh good grief!! I hate when they do that crap! (no pun intended)  What is it about toilet bowls that\'re so fascinating?!?!?  It\'s bad enough to hog the handicapped stall with two kids, trying to keep the bottom of my pants legs from touching the floor WHILE keeping an eye on my toddler wandering around and touching everything, AND having to change my newborn - all while balancing my purse and bags!  Sometimes I just want to dress him in a rubber glove!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2253,504,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','65.24.159.22','2006-06-24 10:34:51','2006-06-24 10:34:51','Oh yuck.\n\nAnd I confess that I secretly love getting that catalog, and I have ordered some stuff from it, although none of the crazy items. I did order the mesh bumpers, and they were awesome for us.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2254,504,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-06-24 12:01:46','2006-06-24 12:01:46','So Christina\'s the one!\n\nWell, it looks like I\'ll be joining you soon.  Maybe I\'ll also buy the inflatable tub.\n\nAnd to all concerned about the toilet water - it was \"post-flush\", but STILL.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2255,504,'Pendullum','Pendullum@aol.com','','67.71.54.56','2006-06-24 22:51:14','2006-06-24 22:51:14','Yummmmmm....\nThe only thing that could top it off is your son finding a maxi pad and his attempt to fluch it down the toilet...\nBut then again the night is young....\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2256,505,'Kristen','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.176.159','2006-06-25 14:39:25','2006-06-25 14:39:25','I have no idea. But that is hilarious.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2257,505,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.195.249','2006-06-25 17:52:08','2006-06-25 17:52:08','Hilarious to Kristen maybe, but if they want Thalia to be the firefox mascot, I expect a seven-figure contract.\n\nYikes, let me know where you get with this.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2258,505,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','72.66.14.175','2006-06-25 20:15:17','2006-06-25 20:15:17','My husband (who is good with tech stuff) and I could not figure out why your browser would have shown Thalia in that place.  But I went and cleared out my home page in Firefox so I\'d get the Firefox Start Page, and the picture I get where you see Thalia is the Firefox fox.  You might try going into Preferences/Privacy in the Firefox menu on your browser, and clear the cache.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2259,505,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-06-25 20:20:38','2006-06-25 20:20:38','THANKS NANCY!!!!\n\nIt worked!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2260,505,'Stacy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-06-25 20:42:26','2006-06-25 20:42:26','I guess it could be worse. She is adorable!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2261,505,'jennster','jenn@jennster.com','','63.82.98.50','2006-06-27 17:11:05','2006-06-27 17:11:05','LMFAO!  all i know is that is fucking hilarious!!!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2262,505,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-06-28 16:15:15','2006-06-28 16:15:15','Golly -- I\'m not so bright with stuff like this.  Is the picture still stuck up there?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2263,506,'tori','torisabaj@comcast.net','','67.184.109.155','2006-06-29 15:36:09','2006-06-29 15:36:09','I totally saw him say that last night!  My daughter looked at me after he said that and asked me what he thought he said.  Very funny stuff! Thankfully she was in bed by the time the snow white stripper girl was on.  That is talent?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2264,507,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','70.34.53.210','2006-06-29 16:12:15','2006-06-29 16:12:15','he emails me ALL THE TIME.\n\nleave me alone, dude!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2265,507,'jennster','jenn@jennster.com','','63.82.98.50','2006-06-29 16:55:23','2006-06-29 16:55:23','yes.. i got 3 emails from him and read somewhere he was full of shit, or whatever.. so i blew him off.  he\'s a persistant little fucker\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2266,507,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-06-29 19:21:45','2006-06-29 19:21:45','LOL! You are absolutely right. You have to be a special kind of stupid to target people who are known for sharing the minutaie of their life with the entire internet and who will let everybody know that you are a CROOK.\n\nBloggers unite!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2267,507,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-06-29 22:34:58','2006-06-29 22:34:58','Yes, I\'ve been getting those annoying frigging emails for a week or so. HATE it!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2268,507,'roo','rootheday@hotmail.com','','24.199.119.106','2006-07-03 23:40:16','2006-07-03 23:40:16','Thanks for the tip. He\'s certainly persistent.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2269,508,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.13','2006-07-12 10:26:01','2006-07-12 10:26:01','Waiting patiently. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2270,509,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','70.34.53.210','2006-06-30 00:23:06','2006-06-30 00:23:06','I\'ll miss you while on break, but I\'ll be here when you get back! :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2271,509,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','70.34.53.210','2006-06-30 00:24:42','2006-06-30 00:24:42','I\'ll miss you while on break, but I\'ll be here when you get back! :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2272,509,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','151.198.251.221','2006-06-30 07:22:51','2006-06-30 07:22:51','Enjoy your break and I\'ll be looking for the return.  Great picture! (And, very braved with the white couch).\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2273,509,'Motherhood Uncensored','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.176.159','2006-06-30 07:29:59','2006-06-30 07:29:59','I\'m impressed with the white couch. Ours is SOOO trashed (not white, however).\n\nAnd you (and your son) are GORGEOUS.\n\nCongrats on the domain name!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2274,509,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','162.138.184.71','2006-06-30 09:27:03','2006-06-30 09:27:03','Wow!  Hot mama alert!  And your son\'s a looker too.  It\'s nice to finally see you.\n\nI completely understand needing a blog break -- I\'ve been there a couple of times, and as you know I\'ve thought about giving it up.  I do enjoy the connections I\'ve made, though, so when I need revitalization I\'ll just take some time away.\n\nLove the new site -- looks amazing and the everyday treats you\'ve featured so far are very fun!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2275,509,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','69.19.14.28','2006-06-30 09:46:05','2006-06-30 09:46:05','Sharing/not sharing was a big deal for me too.  I blogged for a year before I let anyone in my family or close circle know about it.  In that time I blogged knowing that one day they might read, so I left them out.\n\nCongrats on the new domain name!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2276,509,'Andrea','littlebalddoctors@charter.net','','71.10.209.252','2006-06-30 10:22:58','2006-06-30 10:22:58','I\'ll keep checking back to catch you when you return.\n\nAnd *wolf whistle*!  You are smokin\', and the little one is so cute I just want to take a bite.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2277,509,'Rae','raegiff@yahoo.com','','207.152.147.10','2006-06-30 11:23:39','2006-06-30 11:23:39','What a milestone. Enjoy the break. I\'ll look for your return!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2278,509,'lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-06-30 11:48:05','2006-06-30 11:48:05','I enjoy your writing and I\'m glad you are going to continue with it! Also congrats for coming out of the closet... well not THAT closet! Ha. Can\'t wait for your return.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2279,509,'jennster','jenn@jennster.com','','63.82.98.50','2006-06-30 12:45:35','2006-06-30 12:45:35','awesome and we\'ll all be here when you get back!  you rock and we all go through blog transformations and stuff.. ROCK ON!  LOVE THE PIC!  you are gorgeous!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2280,509,'nonlineargirl','norarachel@gmail.com','','24.21.141.182','2006-06-30 14:01:20','2006-06-30 14:01:20','I enjoy checking in here and love your photography.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2281,509,'julia','book_ish@yahoo.vom','','71.192.210.76','2006-06-30 16:03:21','2006-06-30 16:03:21','But...I just found you!\n\nOk, I\'ll wait til you get back.  I don\'t think you\'re boring at all, but I can understand the need for a break.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2282,509,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.13','2006-06-30 18:39:01','2006-06-30 18:39:01','What is it with all the blog ladies coming out of hiding lately and EVERY. SINGLE. ONE of them are drop dead gorgeous?!\n\nWOW!\n\nI\'ll wait patiently for your return. :)  And, for the record, not once have I been bored.  That\'s why I keep reading. ;)\n\nCome back soon.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2283,509,'Amy','sbmoms@gmail.com','','68.65.177.116','2006-06-30 21:41:23','2006-06-30 21:41:23','Your so pretty! It\'s nice to put a face to the blog. :) And your little boy is adorable. Thanks for sharing. :)\n\nI can\'t wait to see your new blog digs. I\'ll be checking back often (as I always do) to see when you finally get everything up and running. Have fun and relax during your break and enjoy yourself in setting up the new blog. I know it\'ll be fabulous!\n\nAmy :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2284,509,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.195.249','2006-07-01 09:42:58','2006-07-01 09:42:58','Look at you you hot mama!\n\nCongrats on taking a new path. Sometimes a clean slate is just what we need to renew the inspiration. Wherever it leads, we\'ll be on the sidelines cheering and holding out dixie cups of water.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2285,509,'Undercover Angel','angel.kidzoo@gmail.com','','216.208.194.180','2006-07-01 10:34:23','2006-07-01 10:34:23','I\'m so happy that you will be continuing with your writing, and look forward to your return with your own domain!  We\'ll miss you!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2286,509,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-07-01 20:45:57','2006-07-01 20:45:57','I\'m so glad you\'ve decided not to go away forever...  Because, do you know how difficult it is to find other women bloggers from Mass?!  Yeah, you probably do.  Wonder why that is?\n\nAnyhoo, I\'ll be here waiting when you clean the slate and start again.  And I love that you finally decided to share your picture.  I completely understand the need for anonymity (oh, do I) but I never fully understood why you wanted to hide that beauty.  Your kid is quite a looker too.  :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2287,509,'tori','torisabaj@comcast.net','','67.184.109.155','2006-07-02 10:10:32','2006-07-02 10:10:32','You are totally cute!  I completely understand the whole not telling anyone you know but still being worried they are reading!  I haven\'t told my \"real life\" friends or family but I think one friend may have secretly found it anyway.  It doesn\'t matter really, because anything I have said should be stuff they already know, but it still weirds me out to think of them reading it.  Good luck!  I will be waiting for you to post some more!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2288,509,'jozet','jozet@earthlink.net','','71.240.129.64','2006-07-02 22:21:17','2006-07-02 22:21:17','Yay for the new .com!\n\nAnd yay for not taking a permanent break!\n\nI\'ll keep checking back for the new blog.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2289,509,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','205.133.198.252','2006-07-03 13:04:58','2006-07-03 13:04:58','We all have the right to be boring now and then. It\'s hard to be brilliant all the time. ;)\n\nAdorable picture, by the way. And you have my admiration for keeping a white couch. Nothing in my house is white.\n\nSee you when you get back from break!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2290,509,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-07-04 00:59:29','2006-07-04 00:59:29','Not boring ... Funny. Smart. Real. Don\'t sell yourself short!\n\nI understand the need to break, as I\'ve just gotten back from a long one. Have a wonderful time, and I look foward to reading you later.\n\nAnd OH MY GOD you and your son are gorgeous!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2291,509,'Mommy off the Record','mommy605@hotmail.com','','70.133.6.64','2006-07-06 02:26:41','2006-07-06 02:26:41','I happened to check in on your blog today and glad I did. I get to see a picture of you!\n\nI\'ve mostly lurked here, but yours is actually one of the first mommy blogs I read. A few months back I tried to blogline you but for some reason it never took. Do others have that problem?\n\nAnyhow, congrats on the new domain name. I\'ll be back!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2292,509,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-07-08 12:03:31','2006-07-08 12:03:31','Everyone is buying domains! I just bought mine and I\'m painfully learning how to get my site up and running.  Good luck with your venture.  And I don\'t think you are boring! Not at all!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2293,510,'Motherhood Uncensored','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.176.159','2006-06-11 13:21:33','2006-06-11 13:21:33','It still does not feel right for me to write that. And I\'m very ambivalent about that role - mainly since I hate everything that I have to do as housewife except be with my daughter. Cleaning? Cooking? GAH.\n\nI feel like I\'m an \"and\" person like writer and mom. It\'s weird when you leave a job to stay home - I was so tied to my \"title\" that now I guess I don\'t really have one.\n\nI can really relate to this post. Thanks for this.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2294,510,'Stacy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-06-11 13:45:19','2006-06-11 13:45:19','I HATE being a housewife. I hate laundry, I hate dishes, I hate cleaning, I don\'t iron, and I don\'t cook. How lucky is my husband?!?!?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2295,510,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.111.51.188','2006-06-11 16:25:32','2006-06-11 16:25:32','I usually write stay-at-home-mom, but I do miss having a \"real\" job to put down.  Sometimes I still put down my old job title -- school psychologist.  After going to school for 8 years, I sort of define myself that way whether I\'m working or not.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2296,510,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','71.246.238.99','2006-06-11 21:06:55','2006-06-11 21:06:55','I honestly like the term \"Domestic Goddess\" as Nigella Lawson uses it.  Just the right amount of tongue-in-cheek.\n\nI don\'t really like any of the labels associated with working, unless it\'s profession-specific.  Even then, I don\'t like the term I would probably be called (\"policy manager\" -- ugh.)  Don\'t like WOHM.  But maybe it\'s because I feel there\'s so many more dimensions to my life than just the job.\n\nGood food for thought, thanks.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2297,510,'Kelly','khunsicker68@comcast.net','','68.58.127.91','2006-06-12 11:35:01','2006-06-12 11:35:01','Roles and titles are what you make of them. Being a housewife is not the most glamorous of titles or jobs for sure but ya know there are a lot of people who envy us. The people who wish they could be home instead of at the office, people who wish they could come and go pretty much as they please and spend their doing whatever they like. When you look at it from that point of view it\'s not so bad. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2298,510,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','69.19.29.219','2006-06-12 18:26:38','2006-06-12 18:26:38','I agree with Kelly.  Despite some stigma that being a SAHM is boring or not challenging, I\'ve always that to be other people\'s issue.  I have plenty of ways to challenge myself and I am most definitely not bored these days!   I do get down about the actual \"work\" that I do to keep this place going, but if I don\'t feel like it that day,I just don\'t do it. Thank God my husband could give a rat\'s ass if the house is clean!\n\nI found another blog with basically the same name as mine the same way you did. I was freaked!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2299,510,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-06-12 21:36:24','2006-06-12 21:36:24','I\'ve been doing this for 11 years now, and I\'m still ambivlanet about it. There are days I am convinced it has been the right choice for all of us. Other days, I think I could be doing more with my life. Other days, I resent the hell out of having to clean up everybody else\'s bodily issue because I have a brain and god did not give it to me just to scrub toilets.\n\nI guess a better title for me would be \"ambivalent housewife\".\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2300,510,'Becky..Absent Minded Housewife','none@unknown.com','','207.171.203.254','2006-06-13 00:01:37','2006-06-13 00:01:37','When my husband told me I should be writing a blog I went to google to see what other housewife blogs there were out there.  I found desperate housewives and not desperate housewives, bored housewives, fat/ugly/tired housewives, housewives of the obsessive christian persuasion....\n\nI saw that not one housewife claimed to be as sharp as a marble...\n\n\nSo here I am.  Nice to meet you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2301,510,'Jennifer','jennifer@mamasmoon.com','','66.234.207.70','2006-06-13 01:20:50','2006-06-13 01:20:50','Ugh!  I feel like I\'m forever trying to define myself (for my sake and others as well).  Why?  I haven\'t the slightest clue.  There are days when I\'m perfectly happy with myself and could give a rat\'s ass about what others think about my choice as a stay at home mother.  And then there are those days when I feel completely insecure about not having any particular place to go or do on any given day of the week, save doc\'s appointments and grocery/errand running. (sigh)  Motherhood.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2302,510,'Vickee','vickee@vickee.com','','24.8.86.33','2006-06-15 02:57:20','2006-06-15 02:57:20','I found you via Major Bedhead, a/k/a Julia.\nAbout filling in a job title; I continue to put \'Self-employed\' without a second thought.  We are saving at least $80k annually by not hiring out all the stuff I do, so I consider that my salary.\n\nFor me, the most difficult part of the job is there is seldom a \"Well Done!\" vocalized, and a Victory Lap might just be a quick dance down the hall while the children are napping. Every job has drudgery, so I quit looking at the household chores that way as I was driving myself and my family batshit with the whining.\n\nAnd I \'work\' the same way too; dream and think about something, and then \'Make It So\'. Somebody has to, that\'s for sure.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2303,510,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.195.249','2006-06-15 16:28:42','2006-06-15 16:28:42','Stay at home mom?\nHomemaker?\nSuzy homemaker?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2304,512,'tori','torisabaj@cocmast.net','','67.184.109.155','2006-06-07 15:39:32','2006-06-07 15:39:32','Congratulations!  I checked out your reviews, and now I wish I lived near you so I could check out the places!  You sold them well!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2305,512,'lildb','debbie@garrisonpdx.com','','24.21.87.235','2006-06-07 16:55:31','2006-06-07 16:55:31','That\'s awesome.  :)\n\nNothing as delicious as validation, especially in a field like writing - where you can get so trapped in your head, and it\'s difficult to perceive that you\'re accomplishing anything.\n\nI\'ll toast you with a glass of wine tonight -- awww, who\'m I kidding?, in a few minutes.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2306,512,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.13','2006-06-07 17:03:43','2006-06-07 17:03:43','Oooooh, I am SOO excited for you!!  If I could, I\'d squeal and jump up and down and hug you.  Since I can\'t reach you from here, I\'ll just do the first two.\n\nEEeeeeeee!!!  Yay!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2307,512,'Kelly','khunsicker68@omcast.net','','68.58.127.91','2006-06-07 18:54:01','2006-06-07 18:54:01','Congratulations!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2308,512,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','24.26.136.35','2006-06-07 19:58:18','2006-06-07 19:58:18','Woo-hoo! Congrats!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2309,512,'lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','72.254.172.53','2006-06-07 21:39:27','2006-06-07 21:39:27','That is so exciting! I\'m so happy for you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2310,512,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-06-07 21:42:33','2006-06-07 21:42:33','Yippee!  That rocks.\n\nAnd now I am off to read your reviews.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2311,512,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-06-07 23:46:40','2006-06-07 23:46:40','That. Is. So. Friggen. Cool!!!\n\nCongratulations!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2312,512,'Kari Rowles','nospam@kari.rowles','','66.41.104.204','2006-06-08 09:19:29','2006-06-08 09:19:29','That\'s super fabulous!  Congrats!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2313,512,'Andrea','littlebalddoctors@charter.net','','71.10.209.252','2006-06-08 12:34:38','2006-06-08 12:34:38','Congratulations!  And the timing is excellent.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2314,512,'Y','mamarosa@gmail.com','','70.32.71.103','2006-06-08 16:25:39','2006-06-08 16:25:39','Holy crap, woman!  That\'s so awesome.  I\'m proud of you!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2315,512,'Jennifer','jennifer@mamasmoon.com','','66.234.207.70','2006-06-08 21:10:07','2006-06-08 21:10:07','Wow, that\'s awesome!  Huge congrats!  Hopefully someday soon my hubby and I will be able to visit and make use of your reviews!  Enjoy!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2316,512,'Mommy off the Record','mommy605@hotmail.com','','70.133.3.142','2006-06-09 00:52:50','2006-06-09 00:52:50','That is wonderful! Congratulations! I just read your reviews and now I, too, wish I lived in Boston so I could check them out.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2317,512,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','64.134.180.181','2006-06-09 08:25:58','2006-06-09 08:25:58','Congrats! I just clicked over and its a fantastic web site. They\'re lucky to have ya.\n\nCan Vanity Fair be far behind?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2318,512,'Sunshine Scribe','sunshinescribeblog@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.15','2006-06-09 10:06:20','2006-06-09 10:06:20','Wow! Congratulations. This is so very well deserved!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2319,512,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-06-09 12:56:52','2006-06-09 12:56:52','Congratulations!  I\'ll definitely check this out! :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2320,512,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','71.201.200.52','2006-06-09 14:25:28','2006-06-09 14:25:28','How unbelievably excellent!!! I wanna know about the best breakfast place in Boston, ASAP. :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2321,512,'Antique Mommy','antiquemommy@comcast.net','','24.0.46.193','2006-06-09 17:56:40','2006-06-09 17:56:40','What a great gig!  Congrats!  I may have to put Boston on my summer travel itenerary just to check it out.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2322,512,'Motherhood Uncensored','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.176.159','2006-06-09 18:22:47','2006-06-09 18:22:47','Seriously. What a totally awesome gig! Great site and I can\'t wait to read them. Plus, I need to check out that book... -->>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2323,512,'Undercover Angel','angel.kidzoo@gmail.com','','216.209.98.111','2006-06-10 17:26:32','2006-06-10 17:26:32','Congratulations!  That\'s awesome!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2324,512,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','71.246.238.99','2006-06-11 21:08:15','2006-06-11 21:08:15','Congratulations -- that\'s exciting!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2325,512,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','71.245.225.143','2006-06-16 03:12:43','2006-06-16 03:12:43','I saw this site a week or so ago but didn\'t realize that it was YOU writing the reviews. What a cool gig! Just be careful not to review anything too close to \'home\' so people will avoid us and the crowds will stay away.\n\nExcept you can review that new place Treo on Centre when it opens. It looks very chic.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2326,513,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','141.154.126.209','2006-06-05 11:00:02','2006-06-05 11:00:02','I love my salon - but it\'s up here in Lowell so probably not so convenient for you.  But, they do fantastic work, everyone speaks spanish, and I\'ve never been unhappy with my cuts - and I do have challenging hair!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2327,513,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','205.133.198.252','2006-06-05 13:07:53','2006-06-05 13:07:53','Ugh, you just wrote out every one of my fears of the beauty salon! I currently don\'t have a stylist because I simply don\'t know how to handle myself in a fancy salon. My haircuts, few and far between, are done at the Regis Salon in the mall, usually as a walk-in.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2328,513,'maryann','missjames@gmail.com','','141.157.32.145','2006-06-05 13:14:23','2006-06-05 13:14:23','honey, i feel your pain. it\'s hard to find a nice fabulous hairdresser that doesn\'t make you look like you cut your hair with a flowbee.\n\nthat\'s why i\'m in an unhealthy relationship with my current hairdresser, who lives in another STATE. she knows it\'s not healthy, i know it\'s not healthy, but she keeps me coming.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2329,513,'Laura','laura@kovax.org','','24.34.112.28','2006-06-05 14:24:28','2006-06-05 14:24:28','This post sounds like my life, except I\'m too nervous to go to a super nice place in Boston.  My old hairdresser out of state stopped seeing me, tried forcing me to try Newbury St, but I am too lazy/scared to try a city place.  I went to a nice one in Lexington the last time, very pregnant, and I ended up with mom hair.  It\'s going to take at least 6 more months to grow out.  I have a friend that swears by a place in Arlington Center that I\'m going to try next.  But it\'s good to hear I\'m not alone.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2330,513,'tori','torisabaj@comcast.net','','67.184.109.155','2006-06-05 16:09:10','2006-06-05 16:09:10','I actually love my hair girl, who I discovered when she was brand new.  Now that she has been doing this for a while, her prices are going up and up and up.  My whole family uses her (well not my sons...how hard is it to cut a little boy\'s hair especially wehn their hair grows so fast!)  I\'m not sure how much longer we will be able to afford her, but yet I am not willing to go to anyone else!  I feel your pain with trying to find someone good!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2331,513,'lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-06-05 18:48:57','2006-06-05 18:48:57','It has taken me YEARS to find my stylist but I found her and I love the work she does on my mop that they tell me is my hair. And the salon she works at has a no tipping policy could it get any better?!?!? BUT I am moving cities in two weeks and after reading this I am now oh so frightened!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2332,513,'Sara','none@unknown.com','','75.0.185.199','2006-06-05 22:44:52','2006-06-05 22:44:52','If you still lived in Virginia!! Well near Virginia beach at least. That is where my former stylist moved to. She was the most down to earth stylist ever! never got mad if I went to soemone else, because my school schedule adn her schedule didn\'t work. She\'d talk normal things with me and never complained about the infrequency in my visits, sometimes 2 months sometimes 6. She worked ina pretty swanky place and the owners were awesome guys but the two other girls were just like your Tony Soprano...they were flabbergasted that I had virgin hair! I sat there thinking I\'m a red head! Women pay thousands to achieve sometihng similar to my hair color why would I change that just to get some \"highlights\".\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2333,513,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','65.205.180.118','2006-06-05 23:07:51','2006-06-05 23:07:51','I understand! I just got a cut from someone new for the first time in 15 years (!) and I feel like I cheated on my guy. But sometimes, you have to move on...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2334,513,'nonlineargirl','norarachel@gmail.com','','24.21.141.182','2006-06-05 23:43:23','2006-06-05 23:43:23','Delurking to say - Every time I\'ve moved this has been a big issue.  It always takes a long time to find someone good, and the haircuts during that process - oy.\n\nI love my current stylist.  She owns the (small) salon, feeds me cookies and always makes me feel more beautiful and hip than I feel.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2335,513,'Laura','lauradrover@rogers.com','','69.196.170.165','2006-06-06 08:51:07','2006-06-06 08:51:07','I have salon phobia too. I had found one girl I liked but eventually her prices got too high & it also felt like she was concentrating more on our conversation than my hair. Then I started going to my hubby\'s guy which was great for a while & the prices decent but all of a sudden I was getting mom hair. Plus all stylists seem to want to do with my naturally curly/ frizzy hair is straighten it or give me styles that only work if I am going to spend hours working on it at home. I always tell them I am lazy but they just don\'t get it.\n\nDon\'t get me started on tipping. Usually I try & get away with having my husband pay for the bill as I run to the bathroom thereby totally avoiding the entire situation.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2336,513,'Sunshine Scribe','sunshinescribeblog@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.15','2006-06-06 12:04:36','2006-06-06 12:04:36','I am a generally really confident woman.  But I am an insecure school girl in a salon.  And I lost my stylist a while ago and have suffered through one bad hair cut and embarassing salon experience after another. I hate it!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2337,513,'Kelly','khunsicker68@comcast.net','','68.58.127.91','2006-06-06 13:47:06','2006-06-06 13:47:06','First time here and enjoyed the visit! We moved to Indy almost a year ago now and I still have not found a decent stylist. Believe me my hair has suffered for it too. Everyone here either leaves it too long on one side or I leave there with poofy helmet looking hair. I feel your pain!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2338,513,'Andrea','littlebalddoctors@charter.net','','71.10.209.252','2006-06-06 14:20:16','2006-06-06 14:20:16','You\'re so totally in luck.  I read the blog of a girl who moved to New York from Boston, a very stylish girl who works for a magazine in New York and recently posted about how she wants to donate her hair to Locks of Love, but that until she grew out the required ten inches of hair, she felt frumpy and didn\'t have a New York stylist because she missed her BOSTON stylist so much.  And she just happened to post today about having her readers ask her questions.  I swear, it couldn\'t be more perfect (unless you\'ve already tried her stylist).  Her blog is <a href=\"http://kellismusings.blogspot.com/.\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://kellismusings.blogspot.com/.</a>  In case you wanted to ask her where she\'s had good luck with stylists.  She has long, straight, and pretty hair, too.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2339,513,'Kelli','gnd6@hotmail.com','','69.2.124.11','2006-06-06 15:31:42','2006-06-06 15:31:42','Hello there!  Andrea, of Little Bald Doctors, pointed me to your blog today.  Girl, I am so homesick for Boston it\'s not even funny!  I will have to read some of your other posts to find out your whole story & what you think of Boston.  BUT!  In the meantime - I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my stylist in Boston.  In fact, I love her so much I don\'t want to go to anyone else while I\'m living in New York (& it\'s NYC!  I\'m sure there are amazing stylists here!)\nAnyway.  Her name is Alicia and she works for Dellaria Salons in Kenmore Square.  I don\'t know where you\'ve been going in Boston but I\'m sure you\'ve probably heard or seen Dellaria salons in the city - they seem to be everywhere.  But Alicia only works at the branch in Kenmore Square & is there Thursdays, Fridays, & Saturdays.  She\'s been cutting my hair since I was nineteen & I\'ve never gotten a cut I didn\'t like.  She\'s super friendly & nice & not at all snobby like some of the stylists it sounds like you\'ve encountered.  (In fact, when she was out on maternity leave she gave me the names of two other people she thought I\'d like to get my hair cut from.)  Even though she\'s been cutting my hair for a little under ten years she still listens to what I want everytime I visit her and follows through with it (i.e. I am big on low-matience hair and it must always be able to all go back into a ponytail.  She always remembers this!)  I honestly cannot say enough nice things about her.\nI hope you get in to see her & like her as much as I do!  (The number for her salon is 617-262-8750)\nGood luck and keep me posted if you do see her!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2340,513,'Colleen','scanloncolleen@yahoo.com','','141.133.129.35','2006-06-06 16:24:00','2006-06-06 16:24:00','Oh dear!  Salons are so intimidating and I can\'t stand the idea of paying huge sums of money for someone to cut my hair.  I moved to Boston 9 years ago, but it wasn\'t until my wedding 2 years ago that I stopped seeing someone in PA and started getting cuts up here.  My secret place: Salon Excellence.  River Street in Waltham.  My hairdresser: Marissa.  I couldn\'t be happier!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2341,513,'Jennifer','jennifer@mamasmoon.com','','66.234.207.70','2006-06-06 18:16:38','2006-06-06 18:16:38','Ugh!  How I hate dealing with salons and their stylists...it\'s so nerve-wracking!  Ever since my son was born my hair has been in perpetual \'bad-hair mode\' and I can\'t find ANYBODY ANYWHERE who can give me a stylish, easy to manage cut that won\'t take me an hour to create.  Seriously.  My hair is dark and asian straight, so really, it shouldn\'t take much; just a few long layers for movement and body.  But everybody wants this fringy layers around my face (hello?  I have kids, the hair is usually pulled AWAY from my face); now why would I want to make my life more difficult?  And then the bangs - to do it or not.  (sigh)I\'m due for another cut, or something, since having it cut way short and colored back in December.  I\'m scared shitless!  Do I remain frumpy-looking and unkempt (at least I\'m in my comfort zone) or do I venture forth and take the chance on a choppy style?  Hope you find an awesome stylist soon!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2342,513,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-06-06 21:09:53','2006-06-06 21:09:53','Unfortunately, I can\'t justify the time or money it would take me to drive out to Newbury Street and get my hair done.  But its just as well because those places scare the bejeezus out of me.  My hair\'s not trendy, but at least I don\'t have to take anti-anxiety meds to go to the stylist.\n\nbtw, damn you and your cute hair!  I\'ve seen the pictures.  You could cut it with a Flo-bee and it would still look great.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2343,513,'Reluctant Housewife','reluctant.housewie@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-06-06 21:53:55','2006-06-06 21:53:55','You guys...you bring tears to my eyes!\n\nSeriously...thank you for sharing your secret places - with names and numbers to boot!\n\nThe internet is a beautiful thing.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2344,513,'margalt','margalitc@yahoo.com','','70.20.17.103','2006-06-07 01:58:39','2006-06-07 01:58:39','I used to have a good person in Belmont but she moved south years ago, and I\'m back to letting my hair grow down my back until I can\'t stand it anymore, and then hopping to Supercuts for a trim. A friend of mine in Needham goes to a GREAT stylist in Wellesley at Gretta Cole. I could find her name for you if you want. She cut my hair once and it was the best cut I\'ve ever gotten, and I have HORRIBLE hair.\n\nI\'m waiting till the end of summer to get my hair cut, as I\'m letting the color grow out. It\'s almost long enough to cut all the color off, but I\'d like another couple of inches to ensure that it fits into a pony tail. When I do get it cut, I\'m going back to that woman at Gretta Cole, no matter what the cost.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2345,513,'lildb','debbiesnack@yahoo.com','','24.21.87.235','2006-06-07 14:10:31','2006-06-07 14:10:31','Oh.  God.\n\n*This* is why my hair looks like someone stepped on it with a boot the size of the moon.  I, too, am in stylist-drama hell.\n\nI won\'t barf about it on your blog, but it\'s at the root of my posting all those damn hair shame photos on *my* blog, and btw, thanks for the visit and the compliments.  You\'re a dear.  And I look fugly so you were waaay too kind.  But seriously, back to topic; is stylist drama not the most ridiculous thing ever?\n\nAnd I say that, having worked as an esthetician/nail tech in various salons for a coupla years.  It\'s madness.  Sheer madness, the way those stylists behave.\n\nSigh.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2346,513,'Jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','65.213.77.129','2006-06-08 10:40:15','2006-06-08 10:40:15','I couldn\'t agree more.\n\nE-mail me if you want the name of my awesome stylist here in Boston. Pricey, but worth it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2347,513,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.111.51.188','2006-06-08 11:44:17','2006-06-08 11:44:17','I can\'t stand going to the salon that I don\'t even do it for a year at a time.  Therefore, I have no allegiance to anyone (or a nice hairdo).  I\'m actually going today for the first time since last summer.  Wish me luck!~\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2348,513,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','71.246.238.99','2006-06-11 21:11:38','2006-06-11 21:11:38','I desperately need a haircut, but I am trying to decide if I want to go back to my old stylist or cheat on her with a new one.  In the meantime my hair looks terrible.  I need to just make the break and see someone else (preferably before BlogHer!)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2349,514,'Shannon','taintedfriskies@yahoo.com','','70.17.131.90','2006-06-02 13:04:32','2006-06-02 13:04:32','I just found your blog in the past couple of days, but have enjoyed reading it so much already. Best of luck with your procedure. It sounds like you have a great doctor, which is key in making sure you get the best health care. Lucky you, you have a supportive husband. I hope everything goes well for you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2350,514,'ivy','ivoryfreeman@hotmail.com','','71.203.96.185','2006-06-02 13:08:33','2006-06-02 13:08:33','Dito, on all accounts. I will never never get used to that moment during the colpo that they say \"hmm\" and reach for the biopsy tool. My grandmother died of cervical cancer, so I am so very thankful that they are watching my abnormal paps so closely, but still... but still.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2351,514,'tori','torisabaj@comcast.net','','67.184.109.155','2006-06-02 13:14:59','2006-06-02 13:14:59','I am so sorry you have to go through all of this.  Believe me when I say I know what you are going through!  I just had a hysterectomy last week and thankfully it turned out to not be cancer, but I am only 31!  Also thankfully I was pretty sure I was done having kids, but to lose the choice really stinks!  Good luck (which I know means nothing, but I can\'t really think of anything to say that would actually be helpful)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2352,514,'Sunshine Scribe','sunshinescribeblog@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.15','2006-06-02 13:45:32','2006-06-02 13:45:32','I am not good at finding the words to say.  Good luck seems like I am hoping you\'ll win a baseball game. But I do want to wish you well and send lots of good vibes that this too will show you are fine.\n\nI understand what this feels like. I have had two false positive biopsies one for ovarian cancer and one for a cyst on my eye (10 years apart) for more than a week in both cases I thought I had cancer. It rocks you to your core and makes you see the world with new eyes. Fortunately they were wrong and I had doctors that retested.  But those were two of the longest weeks of my life.\n\nYou have such a strong attitude and I am so glad your husband brought you flowers and you know how lucky and loved you are.\n\nWe are all routing for you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2353,514,'Andrea','littlebalddoctors@charter.net','','71.10.209.252','2006-06-02 15:20:55','2006-06-02 15:20:55','I\'ll be rooting for you during the next several days as you endure these tests and this uncertainty.  I hope everything comes out gleamingly perfect.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2354,514,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','70.34.53.210','2006-06-02 15:34:06','2006-06-02 15:34:06','As a fellow abnormal \"papper\" with several colposcopies under my belt, I really feel for you.\n\nBut don\'t fret- I\'m sure everything will turn out just fine. I\'ll be thinking of you! :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2355,514,'oshee','oshee@oshee.com','','68.98.17.54','2006-06-02 15:41:26','2006-06-02 15:41:26','I want to wish all the best during the nerve racking procedure.  Regular paps are awkward enough.  You should have the comfort of knowing in the past everything has always been okay.  Gives good reasoning it will again.\n\nPlease, let us know how it goes.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2356,514,'oshee','oshee@oshee.com','','68.98.17.54','2006-06-02 15:42:47','2006-06-02 15:42:47','I wish you all the best in dealing with the uncomfortable procedure.  Regular paps are awkward enough.\n\nPlease let us know how it turns out.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2357,514,'violeta','viole_ramirez@yahoo.com.mx','','201.110.38.27','2006-06-02 15:43:25','2006-06-02 15:43:25','Hola, te acuerdas de mí? Qué pena que te haya sucedido ésto, pero ánimo amiga. Yo pasé por lo mismo que tu (colposcopías, etc) y finalmente por una congelación hace 3 años y medio, dale gracias a Dios que vives en un país con esa cantidad de adelantos médicos y todo lo que encuentran en esta etapa es curable. Disfruta de tu bebé de tu esposo y de la vida.\nSuerte,\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2358,514,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-06-02 16:10:01','2006-06-02 16:10:01','I\'m crying because I realized that I could be in your situation.  As much as I hate pap smears and I cry when I have to have one, I do realize the importance of this test.  Thank you for sharing it with me and all of us. -hugs-  I think you will be fine.  You have great doctors, a loving family and friends who care for you deeply!  Chin up! :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2359,514,'erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','141.154.126.209','2006-06-02 16:17:35','2006-06-02 16:17:35','In the same boat as you.  Literally.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2360,514,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-06-02 18:18:56','2006-06-02 18:18:56','I\'ve been in that same boat.  I had the colposcomy, the biopsy and the LEEP procedure.    I\'ve never been so scared in my life.  I\'m thinking about you.\n\nKeep repeating that sentence \"Because I\'m not sick.  Because I\'m not sick.\"\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2361,514,'mama_tulip','mamatulip@gmail.com','','24.150.190.10','2006-06-02 18:34:39','2006-06-02 18:34:39','I\'m sorry for all you\'ve been through and I wish you all the best.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2362,514,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','24.26.136.35','2006-06-02 22:18:52','2006-06-02 22:18:52','I so know how you feel. I went through the same thing back in 1999. It scared the hell out of me, too. I had a year and a half of abnormal paps and then it suddenly cleared up. It\'s been clear lately, but I always worry about the abnormal cells coming back.\n\nI hope everything goes well. I\'ll be there with you, in spirit.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2363,514,'KRISTINA','kristina@kristinabrooke.org','','69.118.119.191','2006-06-03 00:46:32','2006-06-03 00:46:32','I\'m a regular reader and a not-so-regular commentator. However, this post touched me because I too have had very many abnormal paps (HPV) and had to have coloscopies done.  I know what it is like to live with the fear that the worse will happen and I wanted to let you know that you will be in my prayers.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2364,514,'Lala','wardellchambers@gmail.com','','70.48.3.159','2006-06-03 10:52:13','2006-06-03 10:52:13','I\'ve suffered the same story as you, constantly worrying and waiting for the next pap to live for another three to four months without abnormal cells. I just had a baby but no one mentioned that might clean off my cervix, I have to go back soon.....anyway, a friend of mine posted about a friend who had died and, offline, I asked her what had taken her friends life. Cervical cancer she said. I said no, that doesn\'t kill. She said it does if they don\'t catch it. She wanted me to kick her in the ass to get a pap so, after I came across your story a couple of days later, I sent her the link and kicked her in the ass. Thanks.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2365,514,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','70.20.17.103','2006-06-03 14:30:52','2006-06-03 14:30:52','Hi neighbor,\n\nI\'m so sorry you have to do this again and again. I\'ve been there twice, on the table having a colposcopy when you\'re pregnant with twins was nothing short of devistating for me. But like you, I was an active participant in my health care and I did everything I was supposed to do, and my outcome was favorable. But I still do those pap smears every year with my breath held in fear. I hope you have a positive outcome on this test, and that this will eventually stop. Let me know if there is anything I can do.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2366,514,'thordora','thordora@yahoo.ca','','66.46.87.180','2006-06-03 16:57:18','2006-06-03 16:57:18','My adoptive mother died of cancer, and my biological great grandmother and grandmother died of cancer, so the time that my results came back abnormal, I lost it. Not because I wanted kids, but because I wanted to live, I didn\'t want any of it.\n\nThankfully, it was just a crap sample, and all was well, like it is for most people. hang in there. More good stuff happens than bad.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2367,514,'something blue','cmcreate@gmail.com','','72.137.49.224','2006-06-03 19:32:03','2006-06-03 19:32:03','I had my pap come back abnormal but didn\'t find out about it until I went back to my doctor an ENTIRE year later. They yelled at me for not returning sooner and that\'s when I told them that I was never notified of the abnormal results. Thank goodness everything worked out with my next test and I switched doctors.\n\nI hope everything goes smoothly. Staying on top of it and thinking positively will go a long way.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2368,514,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-06-03 22:16:03','2006-06-03 22:16:03','Please, please keep us posted. I want to hug you so much! I want you to feel safe, and okay. I hope it goes well, and that all your fears are abated.\n\nI am scheduling my pap first thing in the morning.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2369,514,'Dorothy','thewriterslife@yahoo.com','','65.216.214.73','2006-06-04 01:11:14','2006-06-04 01:11:14','My daughter is going through this.  Abnormal is getting to be pretty darn normal around here, but everything checks out fine.  So far.  Best of luck to you, sweetie, and just think positive...you\'ll be amazed at how you can self-heal your own body by staying on the positive side. ;o)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2370,514,'gorillabuns','slmyers@cox.net','','70.189.81.190','2006-06-04 14:26:50','2006-06-04 14:26:50','same story different years.  i\'m praying for positive results!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2371,514,'Laura','lauradrover@rogers.com','','69.196.170.165','2006-06-04 19:40:11','2006-06-04 19:40:11','Sorry you are going through this right now. I too (it seems like many others here) have gone through this with the colposcopy, cone biopsy & cryosurgery. It sucks. I really hope everything turns out ok for you & I am going to schedule my pap tomorrow - thanks for getting me off my ass.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2372,514,'Gina','ihartpartly@hotmail.com','','71.213.86.21','2006-06-05 01:14:14','2006-06-05 01:14:14','Thanks for sharing your experiences.  This is a great post and I do hope people find it when they google.  This is also a good reminder for me to get my pap this summer.  I had forgotten all about it because I only did it previously to get my BC for another year and with an IUD I am covered for 5 years.  I will make an appt tomorrow.  Thanks again.  Best wishes to you.  Emotions run high when you get iffy test results.  It\'s happened to me a few times, but not to the degree you\'ve explained.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2373,514,'wendy boucher','wendy@wendyboucher.com','','24.144.65.81','2006-06-05 10:37:31','2006-06-05 10:37:31','Excellent attitude.  I\'m in a different waiting game but it has its similarities and it\'s amazing how you can change your whole outlook just by telling yourself to.  No sense in worrying yourselft sick about something that probably isn\'t an issue.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2374,514,'Patricia Pickett (Greeneyedrican)','ppickett@thelightingstudio.com','','64.207.55.35','2006-06-05 10:44:44','2006-06-05 10:44:44','Cancer almost took my life in 2000, alot of poor women who have no money or insurance don\'t get to the doctor so they don\'t get the proper screenings that they need. I was one of them women. By the time I found out I had Cancer it was too late.. I had to endure a six hour surgery..Anyway it\'s been six years and I have no Cancer, thank God and I just wanted you to know that their is life after Cancer eventhough, I do understand your feelings, its scary. Keep promoting the vaccine, it\'s important. Here\'s a poem from my book.\n\nCracks in my walls\n\nI asked Jenny to watch my kids\nthat day.\nI didn\'t want them to know that\nTheir Mother\nTheir strength,\nwas falling apart quickly\nlike pieces of the Berlin Wall.\n\nAfter all,\n\nI didn\'t want them to see\nmy sadness\nmy pain,\nthe worry lines in my face.\nCancer had moved into\nmy life\nmy house,\n\nmy space.\n\nI left the hospital\nwith the news\nand the blues,\nsinging my own\nsorry ass song...\nall along\nColfax Avenue\nOn bus #15,\nI had to ride\nand I cried\nand I cried,\nthen denied\n\nthe sickness,\ntill I\nfelt sicker.\n\nIt was raining,\nraining hard\nI thought my God had shed a tear\nfor all my fear\n\n\"Lord! I\'m not ready to go yet!\"\nI said\n\nThat day\nI cried so many tears\nmy body,\nmy heart,\nmy spirit\nnearly broke.\n\nAnd if you spoke or came\ntoo close\nyou could see the cracks in my walls.\n\nI\'m still working on repairs..\n\n© 2005 Green Eyes Open\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2375,514,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','69.19.24.214','2006-06-05 22:11:04','2006-06-05 22:11:04','I thinking of you! I\'m sorry I\'m on reading and wish you the best.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2376,514,'jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','65.213.77.129','2006-06-08 10:35:33','2006-06-08 10:35:33','This sucks. I\'ve had a number of abnormal paps myself (and a colcoscopy). The procedure itself really isn\'t bad at all.\n\nIt\'s still a scary thing.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2377,514,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','71.246.238.99','2006-06-11 21:14:08','2006-06-11 21:14:08','I just read the post saying everything turned out OK.  I am so glad.  I\'ve had several abnormal paps, too, and those procedures are no fun.  I hope this is the last one for you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2378,515,'tori','torisabaj@comcast.net','','67.184.109.155','2006-05-31 17:22:34','2006-05-31 17:22:34','Wet food in general makes me gag!  Good choice with the nap!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2379,515,'lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-05-31 22:33:06','2006-05-31 22:33:06','You needed the nap and don\'t tell yourself otherwise!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2380,515,'suzanne','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.100.140','2006-05-31 23:19:29','2006-05-31 23:19:29','It must be the month. I hope June is better than May! I feel better when I have a clean house too, but I feel even better after I nap - doesn\'t happen often enough :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2381,515,'Gina','ihartpartly@hotmail.com','','71.36.81.134','2006-06-01 03:08:59','2006-06-01 03:08:59','Sorry you are feeling this way.  I totally understand.  I wish I had the time to get on my hands and knees and do the same thing and then take a nap.  My floor pisses me off daily.  I can handle the dishes for some reason.  As for therapy, yes cleaning is a good source, but I will NEVER tell my husband that.  I do WAY too much for him to think it\'s good for me.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2382,515,'Sunshine Scribe','sunshinescribeblog@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.15','2006-06-01 05:40:58','2006-06-01 05:40:58','Days like that suck. A nap is so what you deserve. Cleaning can be therapeutic but a nap is better :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2383,515,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','24.26.136.35','2006-06-01 08:42:52','2006-06-01 08:42:52','I recommend naps above anything else for bad moods.\n\nI only wish my bad moods would spur me into a cleaning frenzy. Then the house might actually look decent. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2384,515,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.111.12.39','2006-06-01 10:40:53','2006-06-01 10:40:53','Cleaning usually sours my mood further because after all that work it\'s clean for maybe 10 seconds.  Now a nap, that\'s the way to go!  I think they should be mandatory for everyone. Now, could someone tell that to my kids.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2385,515,'stacy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','71.250.83.203','2006-06-01 10:54:44','2006-06-01 10:54:44','I hate feeling sad! It just ruins everything. Yesterday was one of my worst days as a mom. I just couldn\'t stand my daughter and I lost it in front of my husband. I\'m actually glad he saw me cry though because maybe now he\'ll understand why I am forever in a bad mood.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2386,515,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','71.201.200.52','2006-06-01 11:05:47','2006-06-01 11:05:47','I always hold out for that ... that I\'ll become obsessive and finally have a clean house. So far it hasn\'t worked. :(\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2387,515,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','69.19.27.14','2006-06-01 16:20:33','2006-06-01 16:20:33','I have days where I\'m generally pissed off at the world for no reason. I call them Monday, Tuesday and most Thursdays and Sundays.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2388,515,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-06-01 17:04:12','2006-06-01 17:04:12','I save my cleaning fits for when I\'m really pissed off at my husband.\n\nAnd why is it that bad moods come around right when the weather starts getting really good?  Those are the days that you pray for rain so you have an excuse to stay indoors in your sweats all day.\n\nHope you\'re feeling better.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2389,515,'Jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','24.60.246.143','2006-06-01 20:09:25','2006-06-01 20:09:25','There\'s nothing as satisfying as a clean bathroom. I\'m not even kidding. As long as the bathroom is clean, I know that things just can\'t be that bad.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2390,515,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','68.48.231.139','2006-06-01 21:43:55','2006-06-01 21:43:55','Sweet Lord, no matter who we are, we really are all in the same boat, aren\'t we?\n\nThey need to do an Animal Planet on this phenomenon.  This would bring me much more comfort than those Funniest Animal Videos spots.\n\nHope this funk lifts for good.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2391,515,'jozet','jozet@verizon.net','','71.240.141.160','2006-06-01 22:50:45','2006-06-01 22:50:45','Cranky? Did you say cranky? I hear you loud and clear.\n\nAnd yes, I usually find that the safest thing to attack is the kitchen.\n\nI hope you\'re feeling better. Would it make you feel better to hear that I envy you your scrubbed floor?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2392,516,'Alyssa','alyssajboehm@yahoo.com','','66.30.201.11','2006-05-29 20:43:00','2006-05-29 20:43:00','As a non-parent, I feel extra qualified to answer your question - ha!\n\nBut I do have 7.5 nephews and nieces, so I can tell you what I\'ve observed: things get better when they get a little older. And then you\'re lucky because you have a boychild who probably won\'t hate and detest you when he turns 10 like the girl children in my family do. They are evil until they are about 20 then they mellow again. That\'s a long, freaking phase my friend.\n\nBut then again, it may be unique to us. Good luck and for what it is worth - all my friends (and sisters) with kids have struggled through the same time. I know my turn will come soon enough.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2393,516,'Lala','wardellchambers@gmail.com','','70.48.3.36','2006-05-29 21:31:43','2006-05-29 21:31:43','I am the mother who lobbed a half full jar of babyfood across my kitchen and into a wall due to the frustration you describe. I think it broke into a bunch of pieces and there was no one but me to clean it up. It doesn\'t get better, it just changes. My son is 13 now and I just had a baby two months ago, that\'s how traumatised I was, well, not really but it makes for a good excuse.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2394,516,'Karen','kahatch@charter.net','','66.188.199.116','2006-05-29 22:10:19','2006-05-29 22:10:19','It gets better. And then it gets worse again. And then it gets better.\n\nWash. Rinse. Repeat. That\'s about what it amounts to.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2395,516,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-05-29 22:26:28','2006-05-29 22:26:28','What Karen said. Right now I would trade my mouthy eye-rolling almost adolescent for your willful toddler. Wanna trade? Please? At least toddlers still have moments of extreme cuteness...right?\n\nI don\'t mean to sound unsympathetic. I do remember the frustration of toddlerhood and it\'s tough. But hey...kindergarten is just around the corner. ;?)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2396,516,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','71.103.240.114','2006-05-30 01:05:30','2006-05-30 01:05:30','Ha, I am writing about this very thing as I read this! God help us both.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2397,516,'tori','torisabaj@comcast.net','','67.184.109.155','2006-05-30 11:57:31','2006-05-30 11:57:31','I remember that phase with my son.  He is now almost 2.5 years old, and is so much fun again!  I have to say my favorite ages of my kids so far have been babyhood until about 16 months, age 2-age 5, and then age 8 seems ok so far again.  Unfortunately I have two 6 year olds that are not in my favorite age bracket at the moment.  I love them dearly, but not my favorite age!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2398,516,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','205.133.198.252','2006-05-30 11:58:23','2006-05-30 11:58:23','It doesn\'t really get better, although it will get different. It\'s gotta be tough to be that young and have all those emotions inside that you don\'t know what to do with. And yes, it\'s a nightmare for us moms, too.\n\nToddlerhood for us has been lots of ups and downs. You\'ll get the power struggles, but you\'ll also get to experience him having moments of pure joy and wanting to share it with you. My best advice is, if he still naps, take a nap when he does. On the days I\'m home with Cordy, my short afternoon nap is the only thing that helps me get through the day.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2399,516,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','69.19.31.241','2006-05-30 12:21:23','2006-05-30 12:21:23','Sure. The shrieking and screaming stops. Then they start to talk. And they don\'t stop!\n\nIt just gets louder, IMO.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2400,516,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-05-30 12:29:56','2006-05-30 12:29:56','Teenagers!  Someday he\'ll be a teenager?  I keep forgetting.  I guess I should appreciate the cute moments of toddlerdom, while they last.\n\nThanks for the words, ladies.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2401,516,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.111.12.39','2006-05-30 14:20:29','2006-05-30 14:20:29','My angel son morphed around 15 months also.  My daughter has her ups and downs -- good for a couple of weeks, then devil girl for a couple (she\'s 3.5).  I keep hoping it will get better, too.  But, maybe the problems are just different.  Although, right now, I\'m looking for different.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2402,516,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-05-30 14:33:03','2006-05-30 14:33:03','We\'re going through that as well.  The other day, during a dinnertime screaming fit I told my husband \"you deal with her.\"  And I left the house.  I didn\'t say anything other than that, just jumped in my car and left for a half an hour.  I highly recommend it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2403,516,'mama_tulip','mamatulip@gmail.com','','24.150.190.10','2006-05-30 20:05:46','2006-05-30 20:05:46','Right. Soon he will want to move out of the home. ;)\n\nKidding, sort of. If it makes you feel any better, I\'m going through it too with my daughter, who will be three really soon...and what I\'m finding the most difficult with her right now is the bossiness. So, so bossy.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2404,516,'GIRLS GONE CHILD','rebeccawoolf@hotmail.com','','71.133.7.144','2006-05-30 20:43:13','2006-05-30 20:43:13','Same shit happening here too. I\'m about to cry.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2405,516,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','71.246.238.99','2006-05-30 21:34:58','2006-05-30 21:34:58','I don\'t know if it\'s the 20 month itch at our house, but I\'m feeling it bigtime.  I bemoaned the same kind of thing in my post last night.  It will pass.  It will pass.  It will pass??? Yes, it will pass.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2406,516,'Antique Mommy','antiquemommy@comcast.net','','24.0.46.193','2006-05-31 00:51:28','2006-05-31 00:51:28','If I\'ve learned anything in my vast mother experience (2.5 years - ha) it is one thing and only one this and it is this:  Everything good or bad is a phase, and? As soon as you figure out and get used to one phase, they are on to the next.  Plan to be on the trailing edge for awhile.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2407,516,'Sunshine Scribe','sunshinescribeblog@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.15','2006-05-31 06:11:18','2006-05-31 06:11:18','It will pass for sure. But then to be replaced by the next challenge .. um I mean adorable phase.  My son is 5 and I still remember those toddler battle of wills. We have new battle of wills these days but I am told all this truly is adorable compared to the teenage years.\n\nTry to sneak in some time for yourself to recharge your battery every now and then. That is the best medicine :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2408,516,'sugarmama','wantsugar@gmail.com','','75.3.11.26','2006-05-31 10:43:49','2006-05-31 10:43:49','I know it\'s tough but this is the time that they test us if we will give in if they keep on crying or keep on shouting...etc.\n\nAs tiring as it is...keep strong on your word, because eventually he will get it.\n\nI have 2 boys that both went thru the same thing like your son, and I thought I was going to just lose it, but when my older son started reprimanding my toddler the same way I did to him when he was a toddler then I knew that he was listening :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2409,516,'Mama of 2','lmtm@comcast.net','','24.3.147.138','2006-05-31 13:51:46','2006-05-31 13:51:46','Okay you have me scared now.  Girlie Girlie is just 2 days shy of being a year and I get those comments about what a good baby she is and oh what an angel or better yet my son/daughter would have never sat like that.\n\nSo are you telling me in 3 short months I will have a willful little girl who I am fearful of taking out in public?\n\nUGH!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2410,516,'Stacy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-05-31 15:24:05','2006-05-31 15:24:05','It will definitely pass ~ it just takes a little time. Or is it a lot? I don\'t remember. I\'ve been knee deep in toddler stink for months now.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2411,516,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-05-31 16:02:41','2006-05-31 16:02:41','Mama of 2:  You shouldn\'t be afraid - the rest of humanity should.  Hahahaha!\n\nThanks to all of you.  I guess this is pretty common.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2412,516,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-05-31 16:14:27','2006-05-31 16:14:27','I swear you are writing about my son and not your own.  This is so ironic!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2413,516,'tanyetta','dayslikethese2@gmail.com','','70.37.14.206','2006-06-03 04:56:36','2006-06-03 04:56:36','Toddlers are winning and we are losing.  It\'s a sad sad truth.  *sigh*\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2414,517,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','205.133.198.252','2006-05-24 16:08:49','2006-05-24 16:08:49','Katie and Tom are just weird. Where is that baby, anyway? They sure are spending a lot of time out and about without the child.\n\nGood to know that Olay Regenerist works on stretch marks. I didn\'t care much about mine because I already had stretch marks before I was pregnant. (Eating too much in college will do that to you.) But now I may have to try your suggestion on my own!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2415,517,'kate5kiwis','thegrahams@family.net.nz','','219.88.252.38','2006-05-24 17:01:15','2006-05-24 17:01:15','(out blogsurfin and found ya, couldn\'t resist commenting, lol)\ni found that my worst stretch marks came with baby #1.. by the time i carried baby #5 i got used to the next one or two that appeared purple, and then faded to silver. what is it about this male dominated world that makes us wanna have skin that looks like a sixteen year old\'s for our entire life?? yes, i have a slightly scrunchy belly, and i\'m never gonna look like the air-brushed hollywood set !!!! i finally decided two years ago that i *am* gonna wear my bikini on the beach and celebrate motherhood lol\n\ni love the idea about loving our belly.. read this:\n<a href=\"http://writingasjoe.blogspot.com/2006/05/love-your-belly.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://writingasjoe.blogspot.com/2006/05/love-your-belly.html</a>\nit\'s been my mantra this week lol\nlove love\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2416,517,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-05-24 17:20:32','2006-05-24 17:20:32','5 babies! I think I need to sit down...\n\nSlowly but surely I\'m learning to accept my new belly.  My husband tells me that he still loves it - but still all I think is LIAR!  LIAR!\n\nGimme some time and maybe I\'ll wear a bikini again.  Maybe not.\n\nMaybe I should take belly dancing lessons - lol!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2417,517,'K.','khatina1@gmail.com','','66.56.232.56','2006-05-24 22:51:45','2006-05-24 22:51:45','You think YOU were disappointed? I made it to week 38 with a perfectly smooth tummy. I went into the hospital to give birth without stretch marks and came out with them all over my belly. How the hell THAT happened, I will never understand.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2418,517,'ivy','ivoryfreeman@hotmail.com','','71.203.96.185','2006-05-24 22:51:50','2006-05-24 22:51:50','I am indifferent towards my belly - it\'s only been 5 months, and when I have time to do things like shower or put on new pants (without pee or spitup on them! yayayay!) I just ignore the strange deflated beach ball that resides somewhere between my breasts and my knees. Really, compared to friends, my stretch marks arn\'t horrible, but still. But still.\n\nOh, and I went all the way to 39 weeks without seeing one, but really I think I had them on the underside for quite a while and Tom was just to scared to tell me so.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2419,517,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-05-25 07:13:01','2006-05-25 07:13:01','My first baby was born 6 weeks premature and weighed only 6lbs at birth. I got stretchmarks. I am only 5\' 4\", and very short waisted. There isn\'t much room for a baby to go, except out. It bothered me a lot, at first. Then I had a 9lb. 5 oz. baby, and I didn\'t care about stretchmarks, I just wanted him *out*.\n\nEight years later, they are still there. But, they are much more faint than I could have ever hoped they would be. I really don\'t think about them much any more. Unfortunately, despite thousands of hours of Pilates for Abs (teasers are from the devil) my stomach still sags and droops. I think only a tummy tuck is gonna get rid of that.\n\nSo if you escaped that, you\'re good. I don\'t recommend having 9lb babies if you can help it. ;?)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2420,517,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','151.200.110.3','2006-05-25 10:15:46','2006-05-25 10:15:46','Stupid TomKat.\n\nStretch marks should be recategorized as Success Marks.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2421,517,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-05-25 10:25:39','2006-05-25 10:25:39','Kris!\n\nThat is perfect:  Success Marks\n\nI\'m stealing it and running with it!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2422,517,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','70.34.53.210','2006-05-25 10:51:23','2006-05-25 10:51:23','You\'re scaring me!! :O\n\nI currently smell just like a Hershey bar. The saddest part is that I use the Palmer\'s Fragrance Free version, and let me just say it is sooooo NOT fragrance free. I can\'t believe some people actually enjoy this smell.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2423,517,'sugarmama','wantsugar@gmail.com','','75.3.11.26','2006-05-25 12:43:22','2006-05-25 12:43:22','Olay Regenerist that\'s new to me! So, do you think that they recommend this only after pregnancy and not during?\n\nAnyway-- I too used the Palmer for both babies, I was absolved from stretch marks and proudly walked out with just the baby.  However my 2nd pregnancy did the most damage!  Needless to say that I need to buy a tubful of Olay Regenerist - does it even come in that size? hehe\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2424,517,'Tere','none@unknown.com','','168.221.143.100','2006-05-25 13:46:09','2006-05-25 13:46:09','Dude, I have them on my boobs. And thighs.\n\nI tell myself they\'re not that visible. And then go eat a bowl of vanilla-fudge twirl ice cream.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2425,517,'Andrea','littlebalddoctors@charter.net','','71.10.209.252','2006-05-25 14:08:13','2006-05-25 14:08:13','I\'ll have to get me some Regenerist.  Also, Avon has this lotion that is supposed to tighten skin called Anew Lift and Tuck.  It\'s supposed to help shrink stretched out skin which I used after giving birth.  It\'s not perfect (but what ever is?) but it helps minimize my surface area so the skin isn\'t as stretched out and puckered by my stretch marks.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2426,517,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','216.158.206.170','2006-05-25 19:17:30','2006-05-25 19:17:30','I used this stuff called Great Mother\'s Belly Balm and got no marks - but who knows if that\'s  just because I\'d had a good couple years of practice stretching out the belly before I got pregnant.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2427,517,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','24.177.132.67','2006-05-26 10:21:19','2006-05-26 10:21:19','I hate my stretchmarks, too!  I hate them even more now in the summer, because they don\'t tan and I look like I have a road map on my belly!  Ugh!  I\'ll have try that regenerist stuff!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2428,517,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','151.203.125.132','2006-05-26 21:46:43','2006-05-26 21:46:43','I, too, went into the hospital with nary a stretch mark, and brought home not only an 8lb baby, but stretch marks ALL OVER my abdomen.\n\nI\'m running out to get that Regenerist this weekend.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2429,517,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-05-27 01:38:41','2006-05-27 01:38:41','I didn\'t get stretch marks with either pregnancy but they\'re less common in very fair-skinned people.\n\nFear not...I didn\'t get away unscathed. My nose and feet are MUCH wider and after 11 months, show no sign of ever returning to normal.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2430,517,'scarbie doll','scarbiedoll@sympatico.ca','','65.95.108.12','2006-05-27 19:58:50','2006-05-27 19:58:50','That is the BEST tip I have EVER been given on a blog! EVER! Can I slather it all over my scaley body now that my tits are my own again?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2431,517,'Mommy off the Record','mommy605@hotmail.com','','71.142.49.2','2006-05-28 02:06:58','2006-05-28 02:06:58','I didn\'t get stretch marks with my pregnancy but then again I didn\'t get bigger boobs either, and I thought EVERYONE got bigger boobs when they got pregnant.\n\nBut anyways, that is a good tip and I will file it away in case I should need it one day, which is quite possible.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2432,517,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','71.246.238.99','2006-05-28 11:52:55','2006-05-28 11:52:55','OK, I am running out to get Regenerist today.  Thank you thank you!  Think it will work for cellulite too?  ;-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2433,517,'jozet','jozet@verizon.net','','209.158.251.197','2006-05-28 22:31:28','2006-05-28 22:31:28','Well, I\'ve yet to see what skinful damage this pregancy will do. I use Regenerist on my face and it\'s a marvel!\n\nFor now, I\'ll keep slathering on the cocoa butter. My husband can\'t stay away from me all smelling like chocolate.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2434,517,'Stacy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-05-28 22:31:49','2006-05-28 22:31:49','Great, great info. I\'ve got stretch marks from hell and I\'m always looking for new products to take them away! Yuck!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2435,517,'Sunshine Scribe','sunshinscribeblog@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.15','2006-05-29 14:10:04','2006-05-29 14:10:04','P&G should hire you for their next ad :)\n\nOh and Tom and Katie are just plain weird...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2436,517,'Suz','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.100.140','2006-05-29 19:14:38','2006-05-29 19:14:38','I got stretch marks with my first at around 38 weeks. they went away when I lost all the weight, but now that I am prego again, I can see them aready! ugh, depressing but i guess there is hope for them to go away after this one is born :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2437,517,'petitegourmand','studio9@sympatico.ca','','65.93.69.178','2006-05-30 22:20:11','2006-05-30 22:20:11','thanks for sharing.\nI feel like I am the only one with these damn stretch marks.\nglad to see I\'m not alone.\nI am going to shoppers tomorrow to buy some of this stuff.\ngreat tip. thanks again!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2438,519,'Y','mamarosa@gmail.com','','70.32.71.103','2006-05-23 01:33:34','2006-05-23 01:33:34','HA!  We have an In and Out right down the street from our house and I can\'t imagine not having it 2 minutes away.\n\nmmmmmmmm their burger sauce.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2439,519,'Stacy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-05-23 08:06:45','2006-05-23 08:06:45','What a gorgeous view!! Oh and In-N-Out - can\'t wait. I am going to Cali in Sept. and it\'ll be my first time!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2440,519,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','162.138.184.71','2006-05-23 10:13:02','2006-05-23 10:13:02','I\'ve never been to an In-N-Out, but I\'m determined to do so on my trip to CA in July.  I\'ve heard wonderful things about the food.\n\nAnd I think I\'m gonna have to go see the ocean now, too...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2441,519,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-05-23 11:17:02','2006-05-23 11:17:02','Okay, I am officially drooling.  I lurve In and Out Burger with a red hot fiery passion of ten thousand suns.\n\nThank GOD its 3000 miles away or I\'d be HUGE.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2442,519,'Andrea','littlebalddoctors@charter.net','','71.10.209.252','2006-05-23 13:24:56','2006-05-23 13:24:56','Thanks a lot.  Now I\'m having a craving I can\'t give in to.  We visited my sister in SF last May and I was christened on In-N-Out burgers then.  I still crave them. They is GOOD!\n\nI\'m going to go eat my crappy microwave lunch and dream of having my own jet to fly me to In-N-Out Burger heaven.\n\nWhy oh why won\'t they expand to the Midwest?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2443,519,'Karen','kahatch@charter.net','','66.188.199.116','2006-05-23 23:26:24','2006-05-23 23:26:24','Double double, anyone? Wild?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2444,519,'H.A. Page','hapage@motherpie.com','','71.249.14.76','2006-05-23 23:35:50','2006-05-23 23:35:50','Don\'t know the restaurant nor California, really, but love your photo of the ocean view.  Gorgeous...\nCheers\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2445,519,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','71.103.240.114','2006-05-24 01:22:00','2006-05-24 01:22:00','I\'m sitting in an LA hotel room right now, just minutes from an In n Out burger and DAMN YOU for making me want to run out and get one.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2446,519,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.111.12.39','2006-05-24 07:05:19','2006-05-24 07:05:19','Who needs a beautiful view when you can have great burgers?  Hope you got your fill before you left.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2447,520,'Kristine','krissy.munroe@rcn.com','','70.91.133.109','2006-05-19 12:38:46','2006-05-19 12:38:46','I am so jealous!  I love Maria.  She was my favorite human on Sesame St.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2448,520,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-05-19 15:09:54','2006-05-19 15:09:54','Maria was so nice!  I can\'t believe you talked to her.\n\nDo you think she realizes how important she is to so many people?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2449,520,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','24.26.136.35','2006-05-19 16:48:51','2006-05-19 16:48:51','How awesome! I\'m so jealous of you, getting to talk to THE Maria and all.\n\nShe was always my favorite on Sesame Street as well.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2450,520,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.49.0.134','2006-05-19 20:11:18','2006-05-19 20:11:18','Oh how I loved Maria. I\'m jealous too. What did Kristen say?? C\'mon, you can tell us...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2451,520,'mama_tulip','mamatulip@gmail.com','','24.150.190.10','2006-05-19 21:54:27','2006-05-19 21:54:27','That\'s very cool.\n\n(And I did it. I clicked the link and clicked the red button.)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2452,520,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-05-19 23:32:58','2006-05-19 23:32:58','Oh how cool! Yay you!\n\n(I clicked it)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2453,520,'Lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-05-22 23:24:53','2006-05-22 23:24:53','I envy you. I also clicked away!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2454,520,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','162.138.184.71','2006-05-23 10:15:36','2006-05-23 10:15:36','That\'s so awesome that you got to talk to Maria.  I wanted to do that call but my 9 to 5 job interfered.  I think Maria\'s amazing, and I love her dedication to literacy.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2455,521,'superfantastic','lorig@gbpackersfan.com','','69.153.66.250','2006-05-17 01:13:48','2006-05-17 01:13:48','I KNOW!  I couldn\'t believe that!  Just to spite him, I, a pasty blonde girl, will NOT be getting pregnant this year.  Ha!  That\'ll show him!  (The fact that there is nary a man in sight having nothing to do with my baby abstention.  It\'s a statement, dammit!)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2456,521,'Sunshine Scribe','sunshinescribeblog@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.15','2006-05-17 06:52:13','2006-05-17 06:52:13','Whoa!  Hadn\'t heard this up hear north of your border. I had to re-read it twice!  I know Hispanic is not a race but this man is racist, opressive and should not be on the air.  Wow.  I am speechless ... clearly naive that this isn\'t surprising ... and speechless.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2457,521,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-05-17 08:06:51','2006-05-17 08:06:51','You know what the best part is?  I\'m of European ancestry - my ancestors went to Latin America instead of North America.  I don\'t know (or care) what this fool would make of that.\n\nIt\'s just plain offensive.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2458,521,'Andrea','littlebalddoctors@charter.net','','71.10.209.252','2006-05-17 10:37:35','2006-05-17 10:37:35','That\'s just wrong.  Hopefully Fox (which I can hardly stand anyway) will get their heads out of their asses and fire him for such inflamatory remarks.  Guess he was sick the day they taught the Constitution in school and about equality.  Bastard.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2459,521,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-05-17 10:41:50','2006-05-17 10:41:50','Just another reason why I don\'t watch Fox News.  I think Olbermann should have given him a special award of merit just for being the biggest ass of them all.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2460,521,'Kristina','kristina@kristinabrooke.org','','69.118.119.191','2006-05-17 11:33:18','2006-05-17 11:33:18','Stupidity is the norm nowadays. Unfortunately.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2461,521,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.191','2006-05-17 11:48:35','2006-05-17 11:48:35','What?!?\n\nArrrrrrrrgh...people are SO stupid. It\'s people like THAT who should stop having children. GRRR.\n\nGo, girl. Have an extra baby just for spite! And send him pictures! ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2462,521,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','205.133.198.252','2006-05-17 12:39:58','2006-05-17 12:39:58','I\'m stunned by the stupidity. The man is clearly a moron bordering on crazy-man of the Nazi variety. I suppose next he\'s going to say that he only meant blonde-haired pale white Europeans? Because my father-in-law is from Belgium, but he\'s Eastern European Jew, which means he\'s got dark hair and darker skin.\n\nWhy in the hell should it matter what color we are and what our ancestry is? And it amazes me that this guy still has a job. Damn you, FOX news.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2463,521,'Meg','threesunsets@gmail.com','','209.60.37.35','2006-05-17 12:41:30','2006-05-17 12:41:30','I personally think that Fox should have to take their news channel down or change it\'s name.  I thought news was supposed to be factual, not their opinions on things.\n\nUgh.  (((hugs)))\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2464,521,'Karla','jkdrogers@earthlink.net','','69.68.253.130','2006-05-17 15:59:03','2006-05-17 15:59:03','I don\'t care how many times I see it. It doesn\'t make it any less ignorant.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2465,521,'Heather','lifeintheshwa@hotmail.com','','74.12.51.107','2006-05-17 16:53:18','2006-05-17 16:53:18','I\'m with Sunshine Scribe, a Canuck who hadn\'t heard this story.  I\'m as shocked as everyone else.\n\nI guess if you\'re sending him birth announcements I should spite him by sending him all the empty packages of birth control I\'ve used with a note that says \"I\'m white and was thinking about having kids but decided after hearing your comments that I\'m not reproducing.  I don\'t want to have any kids in a world that gives microphones and air time to people as dumb as you.\"\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2466,521,'mrsmogul','mrsmogul@homechoice.co.uk','','81.170.17.236','2006-05-17 18:11:58','2006-05-17 18:11:58','I used to work for FOX NEWS!! That\'s moronic you are right!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2467,521,'GIRLS GONE CHILD','rebeccawoolf@hotmail.com','','71.129.235.2','2006-05-17 18:58:14','2006-05-17 18:58:14','Fox News is so fucked-up its comedic. There is no shame with those peeps. Ugh.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2468,521,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','69.19.31.16','2006-05-17 20:04:59','2006-05-17 20:04:59','I don\'t think anyone really takes what anyone at Fox News at face value do they?  We KNOW it\'s not news, right? Just a lot of conjecture and opinion. I\'m Canadian and I know that.\n\nWhat a moron.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2469,521,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-05-17 23:18:02','2006-05-17 23:18:02','For shame Mrsmogul!  For shame!  But at least you were not an anchorman (were you?) :)\n\nThanks to all of you for your comments.  I needed the support (and laughter).  I of course would never make a baby out of spite, but this jerk just really got to me last night.  It\'s comforting to know that I\'m not the only one.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2470,521,'K.','khatina1@gmail.com','','66.56.232.56','2006-05-17 23:34:46','2006-05-17 23:34:46','It really annoys me when fools like this actually have a platform from which to spew their venom.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2471,521,'sweatpantsmom','marsha_tm@yahoo.com','','70.231.48.21','2006-05-18 04:31:02','2006-05-18 04:31:02','This is really unbelievable.  Yet another reason to burn down the FOX News building.\n\nAnd I\'m still laughing at your \'birth announcement\' idea.  Great post.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2472,521,'mary','novaks8@cox.net','','68.226.9.161','2006-05-18 13:10:19','2006-05-18 13:10:19','I agree that he is an idiot but you have to realize that a LOT of people feel this way.\n\nYou can pretend that he is just a jerk and not speaking for anyone else but that just isn\'t true.\n\nPeople are angry. Most of the time they are misinformed (thanks to \"news\" like this)but they are angry all the same.\n\nRacism is alive and well in America.\n\nPeople see Spanish on everything and in some cases larger than English and it makes them angry.\nThey see people who can\'t even speak English carrying Medicaid cards while they have to pay for their medical care, it makes them angry.\nThey hear a Spanish version of the American National Anthem and it REALLY makes them angry. There was an outdoor concert the other night here and they made some pointed references to the REAL National Anthem and there were cheers before it was sung.\n\nThere are a lot of people who feel very very threatened by immigrants and the news stories are adding fuel to the fire.\n\nIt is like an \"accepted\" form of racism these days.\n\nThere is a lot of work to be done to make things right but I don\'t see anyone in power who has the balls to step up to the plate.\nThe rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The line between the two is growing larger every day.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2473,521,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','205.147.10.2','2006-05-18 20:13:37','2006-05-18 20:13:37','The only words in my head right now are holy fucking shit. I\'m with Christina, this is Nazi-speak. It\'s racist code, only not so coded.\n\nThis is the White House\'s news channel of choice, folks. Let\'s just remember that come November.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2474,521,'Dana','thedanafiles@hotmail.com','','4.158.201.103','2006-05-18 20:28:15','2006-05-18 20:28:15','I have to confess I love Fox News because I get to hear a lot of news stories that CNN and MSNBC won\'t air because they are \"too conservative\".  But John Gibson infuriates me with talks about \"white people\" having babies.  I know several \"white people\" who have many babies and can\'t take care of them.  It\'s a game to them because they get lots of \"free aid, food stamps, and tuition reimbursement\"...crap like that pisses me off.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2475,521,'scarbie doll','scarbiedoll@sympatico.ca','','67.70.88.66','2006-05-18 22:04:31','2006-05-18 22:04:31','Um hullo, isn\'t your whole economy built on the sweat of minorities? Wasn\'t your idiot of a president on TV the other night praising the melting pot? So this guy\'s problem is that the country will be melting into caramel instead of vanilla? What idiot gave this guy a job?\n\nCanadians are far from perfect, but if anyone said that on our TV, all hell would break loose. Yay for the Canadian cultural mosaic! You don\'t have to melt nothing up here, we all just get plastered in next to each other as we are. So everyone gets scared to say shit about any other group because we all live so close to one another. It\'s not acceptance unfortunately, but tolerance will do.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2476,521,'lissa','flowers259@hotmail.com','','24.174.129.78','2006-05-18 23:26:47','2006-05-18 23:26:47','What a moron! I\'m Hispanic and that just makes me want to have babies left in right... except I\'m not married or seeing anyone! I shall get on that right away!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2477,521,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-05-19 01:03:50','2006-05-19 01:03:50','If I\'m thinking of the same story (I didn\'t see it on Fox News, but I read it on MSNBC)wasn\'t the point of the story that Europeans are not having enough babies to replace themselves? They are almost at zero population growth, while we are exploding because comparitively speaking, we have a larger minority population and minorities do tend to have larger families. That\'s not racism, that\'s a proven statistic.\n\nHe\'s a bumbling idiot who obviously needs someone to edit his copy before he goes on the air to check the diplomacy and cultural sensitivity quotient. But I don\'t think he is Hitler reincarnated. He\'s just your average run of the mill moron.\n\nI completely understand why his report pissed you off, and you\'re outrage is justified. I\'m just trying to add a little perspective.\n\nHope I didn\'t offend you, cause, you know I think you\'re the cat\'s meow. :?)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2478,521,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-05-19 10:44:31','2006-05-19 10:44:31','BA:  You didn\'t offend me, and I thank you for your perspective, but  that was only part of the report.  (I have a link in the post to the video so you can watch it again or read the transcript.)\n\nWhile there are many things that are offensive, what kills me and the reason I posted it is that it continues the ridiculous \"us\" vs. \"them\" mentality.  As if people of Hispanic descent are not, and will never be American.  Need further proof that that was his thinly veiled intent?  Here it is, in his own words:\n\n\"Hispanics are having more kids than others. Notably, the ones Hispanics call \"gabachos\" -- white people -- are having fewer.\"\n\nI didn\'t know what the hell a \"gabacho\" is, so I had to look it up.  (Me!  One of the people who apparently use this word all the time!)  Of course, it\'s a perjorative term used by people from Mexico to describe non-Mexican whites.  Why do you think he chose an offensive term, and then said that not only all Mexicans, but all Hispanics use that term to describe non-Hispanic whites?  Maybe, just maybe, he is trying to enrage the bigots out there who need another excuse to hate.\n\nImagine if an anchor had said, \"Notably, the ones whites call \"n*ggers\" -- black people -- are having fewer.\"  It\'s ugly.  False.  And meant to incite rage.\n\nWhile he does talk about Europeans not having enough children - he does it as a sort of anti-immigrant cautionary tale (\"Consequently, they are inviting in more and more immigrants every year to take care of things and those immigrants are having way more babies than the native population, hence Eurabia.\")\n\nBy the way, further proof that the guy is a moron is that he says \"Why aren\'t they having babies? Because babies get in the way of a prosperous and comfortable modern life. Peanut butter fingerprints on the leather seats in the BMW. The Euros are particular -- in particular can\'t be bothered with kids.\"\n\nHaving actually lived in Europe and as the wife of an European I can tell you that Europeans don\'t eat peanut butter.  Pfft!  Shows how much he knows.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2479,522,'Lisa B','www.motherofbun@yahoo.com','','70.242.159.108','2006-05-16 23:25:59','2006-05-16 23:25:59','Izzy said wonderful things about you. (Actually I\'ve heard great things about your blog from a few people) so I had to check it out. And I\'m so glad I did.\n\nI\'m loving it.\n\nAnd why DO babies prefer one boob over the other? I wish I knew as thanks to my child, one of my boobs is a half cup smaller than the other. (Sigh.)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2480,523,'oshee','oshee@oshee.com','','68.98.17.54','2006-05-16 01:08:58','2006-05-16 01:08:58','I watched all three hours.  I can\'t believe he couldn\'t just let her be.  I don\'t care how good looking he is.  She deserves someone who has a bit more selfcontrol! He he ..\nWasn\'t it great how Alex picked up Izzy and held her and let her cry?  He is redeemed for a moment for me.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2481,523,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-05-16 08:46:44','2006-05-16 08:46:44','My husband and I were watching GA and screaming at the television \"No Meredith!  Don\'t do it!  Don\'t fall for him again!\"  But, alas, he is too too McDreamy to resist.\n\nBut my heart belongs to Denny.  Sniff.  I can\'t believe they killed him off.\n\n(oops, I hope I didn\'t spoil anything for those who Tivo\'d it.)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2482,523,'Wander','wanhollow@aol.com','','172.165.73.116','2006-05-16 10:15:45','2006-05-16 10:15:45','Alex definitely redeemed himself! I loved how George explained to Callie why he didn\'t tell her that he loved her right then.  A lot of men would have just echoed it back whether they meant it or not.\n\nCan\'t wait until next season to see who Meredith chooses to leave with.  With this show though she might not choose either of them and leave by herself.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2483,523,'Andrea','littlebalddoctors@charter.net','','71.10.209.252','2006-05-16 11:49:59','2006-05-16 11:49:59','This just makes me that much more excited to get home and fire up the TiVo.  Can\'t wait.  Already breathless.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2484,523,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-05-16 14:51:02','2006-05-16 14:51:02','LOVED IT!  I just finished my GA post...lol\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2485,523,'Jessica','none@unknown.com','','71.137.202.57','2006-05-18 01:35:45','2006-05-18 01:35:45','My mother called me the minute that show ended, and I don\'t watch it so I don\'t know who anyone is, and she gave me a 45 minute blow by blow of what happened. Then the next day, she was complaining about a lack of sleep because the show disturbed her so much, and she indicated to me that every single one of the show\'s writers should be tortured in a way that they would never do this to their viewing audience again! She was fired up, I tell ya!\n\nP.S. I\'m a regular Susie Sunshine reader -- that\'s how I found ya.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2486,524,'Kvetch Blogger','asng3017@aol.com','','205.188.117.11','2006-05-13 21:47:23','2006-05-13 21:47:23','Why do babies like to suck on lemons?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2487,524,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-05-13 22:15:15','2006-05-13 22:15:15','Why are babies always swatting at their ears, even when they don\'t have an ear infection?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2488,524,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','24.26.136.35','2006-05-13 22:40:54','2006-05-13 22:40:54','OK, why do babies spit up hours after eating, when you have just changed into a new shirt?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2489,524,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-05-14 21:29:32','2006-05-14 21:29:32','Why do babies insist on slapping their loving mamas in the face when all the mamas are trying to do is put them to bed because the babies are overtired?\nDo you think she could answer that?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2490,524,'K.','khatina1@gmail.com','','66.56.232.56','2006-05-14 22:43:24','2006-05-14 22:43:24','Why do babies scream at the top of their lungs for no apparent reason? (not crying, but actually screaming. Happy.)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2491,524,'Mommy off the Record','mommy605@hotmail.com','','70.133.3.177','2006-05-15 02:03:30','2006-05-15 02:03:30','Why do babies like to play with electrical cords?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2492,524,'jen','jlinthal@hotmail.com','','206.252.74.29','2006-05-15 11:51:34','2006-05-15 11:51:34','I don\'t really have a question but I was chagnign my nephew\'s diaper yesterday (he\'s 1 this month) and noticed that he was casually, um, touching his stuff, like it was just something to do to pass the time as I put on his new diaper.  So when you said, \"Why are babies fascinated by balls?\" that is how I read that question.  Is does offer some insight to the mens. Apparently this is behavior they learned from very early on.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2493,524,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','71.201.200.52','2006-05-15 12:05:12','2006-05-15 12:05:12','Why do babies prefer one boob over another?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2494,524,'Elissa','elissalerma@gmail.cpm','','71.110.228.175','2006-05-15 12:40:57','2006-05-15 12:40:57','\"Why do babies prefer to play with the box that the expensive educational toy came in rather than the actual toy?\"\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2495,524,'Emily','emily@peanutwagon.net','','67.166.251.235','2006-05-15 12:57:37','2006-05-15 12:57:37','Why do babies stare at nothing and talk and coo like someone is there?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2496,524,'Tater and Tot','dtkacey@hotmail.com','','66.191.237.49','2006-05-15 13:38:24','2006-05-15 13:38:24','Why do babies\' little fingers (without your knowledge) always end up around the chain of your necklace so that when you go to lay their sleeping selves in the bed, and you have to pry their fingers from it for fear that it will break, they wake up and cry and they won\'t, for the life of you, go back to sleep?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2497,524,'Stacy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-05-15 15:04:42','2006-05-15 15:04:42','Why do babies develop sensory issues?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2498,524,'Kristina','kristina@kristinabrooke.org','','69.118.119.191','2006-05-15 20:05:56','2006-05-15 20:05:56','Why do babies grab and scratch at their eyes even when it\'s apparent that they are hurting themselves?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2499,525,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','151.200.110.3','2006-05-09 13:20:58','2006-05-09 13:20:58','No tips for trips with the toddler but a few words: I\'m SO ENVIOUS!  Enjoy the trip.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2500,525,'Lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-05-09 15:44:40','2006-05-09 15:44:40','the only thing i know of for kids is the exploatorium... but he might have to be a little bit older. Good luck. Also I\'m jealous.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2501,525,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-05-09 18:44:41','2006-05-09 18:44:41','Three words: Cost. Of. Living.\n\nA house there costs like 17 times what it does here. Friends of ours who moved there briefly several years ago said that a home the size of ours would cost over $500K. It cost us just a little over $100K.\n\nPlus, you know, there\'s the earthquake thing. The fall into the ocean someday thing. Those tend to put me off a little.\n\nGreat place to visit though!! Have a good time! I\'ve always wanted to see San Francisco, but airfare from coast to coast is god-awful expensive.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2502,525,'Emily','emily@peanutwagon.net','','67.166.251.235','2006-05-09 19:08:33','2006-05-09 19:08:33','My eyes are totally green over here..\n\nWooooooah! ITs so freaking pretty!\n\nCan\'t help with activities though...haven\'t been to California yet(not until July)\n\nHave fun!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2503,525,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-05-09 20:10:57','2006-05-09 20:10:57','I\'m with ya, lady.  I often wonder why I\'m still wallowing here in Mass.  You\'re missing some crap-tacular weather here, btw.\n\nI almost fell off my couch when I saw where you were staying.  ENVY!  Enjoy those $8 bottles of water... And the rest of your trip.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2504,525,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','71.248.162.131','2006-05-09 22:06:09','2006-05-09 22:06:09','I\'m more than happy to tell you why where you live is SO much better than in NoCa. Did you notice the road you had to take to get to Half Moon Bay from 280? Imagine that road in pouring rain with tons of traffic going over the hill. Impossible. HMB is NoCal\'s Newburyport with better surf. And much more expensive stores. And housing that is so outrageously priced it\'s ridiculous. Makes our fair city look cheap.\n\nThe schools in most of NoCal suck lemons. Notall, but most. They don\'t have a decent bagel in the entire northern part of the state. Most of the non-asian restaurants stink. All pizza sucks. There is no greek food. Donuts...BLECH.\n\nPeople are beyond shallow. And they ain\'t that bright. There isn\'t much of a middle class, only the SV millionaires and the rest of the drones. People are HORRIBLY unfriendly. You can live next door to people for years and not even know their names. They always scream about diversity, but it\'s one of the least diverse places I\'ve lived. There\'s asians, plenty of asians, and a few black folks in Oakland, and that\'s pretty much it. No Italians, No Greeks, No Jews, No Irish. Pretty much nobody. But they think they\'re diverse.\n\nThey\'re unbelievably anti-religion and very bigotes against anyone who has any religion in their lives.\n\nAs a native californian who is thrilled to be long gone, really, where you live is SO much better. The weather sucks, but 80 and sunny gets really old after a while.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2505,525,'Dorothy','thewriterslife@yahoo.com','','65.216.214.79','2006-05-09 23:48:40','2006-05-09 23:48:40','Omg...I\'m going to be going to California, too!  But, not until September.  I absolutely can\'t wait as I lived there years ago...going to be fun!  Have fun on your trip...I\'m going to put you in my blogroll if that\'s okay and keep track of how you maneuver that stroller!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2506,525,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','12.162.2.231','2006-05-10 13:45:59','2006-05-10 13:45:59','There will not be an earthquake this week.\nThere will not be an earthquake this week.\nThere will not be an earthquake this week.\nThere will not be an earthquake this week.\nThere will not be an earthquake this week.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2507,525,'Antique Mommy','antiquemommy@comcast.net','','24.0.46.193','2006-05-10 14:34:41','2006-05-10 14:34:41','The SF MOMA is fairly child friendly. Golden Gate park makes for a lovely outing, strolling and picture taking and that kind of thing.  I love Half Moon Bay and that area.  Have a great time in SF.  Wish I were there.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2508,525,'Stacy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-05-10 15:44:38','2006-05-10 15:44:38','Ooooo, I can\'t wait. I am going to Cali in September and it\'ll be my first time.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2509,525,'Sara','none@unknown.com','','75.0.185.199','2006-05-10 19:45:46','2006-05-10 19:45:46','Horribly unfriendly? I\'m sorry margalit, maybe you lived in L.A.???And California is not anti-religion, where the hell did you get that idea? Maybe you missed it but about 40 churches from the Bay Area went to the Gulf Coast and rebuiilt homes for hurricane Katrina victims...that sounds totally anti religion to me. Shallow? Maybe if you live in Orange County. And Blog, I have experienced in my twenty years only one major earthquake, maybe one small one. I don\'t worry about earthquakes at all. Come visit!\n\nI really recommend the Exploratorium and Golden Gate Park. Also while a bit of a tourist trap the Area around Ghiradhelli Square can be fun. You run into the Marina there which is a really great view.\nI\'m still learning about San Francisco,even though I was born and raised an hour north of the city.  Have a good time!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2510,525,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','141.154.19.33','2006-05-10 23:23:07','2006-05-10 23:23:07','Wow, I can only speak for myself but I absolutely loved the Bay area - especially Half Moon Bay and Pacifica.  I spent lots and lots of time in San Fran/Oakland over a 4 year stretch a few years back (vague, I know) and I found it to be wonderfully friendly and diverse. I hope you are having a blast.\n\nBut, R, you sure are missing out on some horrible weather here right now.  I am certainly jealous of you!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2511,525,'jozet','jozet@verizon.net','','209.158.254.14','2006-05-11 07:52:47','2006-05-11 07:52:47','Envy, envy, evny.\n\nMy husband and I went to CA for the first time about 6 years ago, and like good Easterners, we were determined to hate it.\n\nWe did not.\n\nAnd there was a sort of stand-off as to who would say, \"It\'s GREAT here!\" first. I think we said it in unison on seeing the Pacific Ocean from Santa Monica. We even loved LA!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2512,525,'RSM','rockstarmommy@gmail.com','','70.18.178.244','2006-05-12 16:05:30','2006-05-12 16:05:30','Thing to do with a toddler in SF: Kill yourself.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2513,525,'jennster','jenn@jennster.com','','63.82.98.50','2006-05-15 16:30:56','2006-05-15 16:30:56','come over my house immediately!!!!! i LOVE LOVE LOVE half moon bay and the ritz is GORGEOUS!  tell everyone it\'s the hotel in american wedding and they might recognize it!  how long are you here?  omg, are you gone?  WHY DO YOU HATE ME?  we could have caused chaos together!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2514,525,'jennster','jenn@jennster.com','','63.82.98.50','2006-05-15 16:33:49','2006-05-15 16:33:49','ps- LA is way more better than SF in my opinion.. but then again i\'m a so cal native.  the weather in southern cali is consistantly better than the weather in northern cali- it kills me almost daily (except lately).\n\npss- margolit- you\'re on crack.  it\'s the only explanation for your fucked up comment.  i\'m glad you left my state.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2515,526,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-05-06 13:40:45','2006-05-06 13:40:45','Heh. My oldster epiphany came at an Aerosmith concert (I\'m way older than you, that should make you feel better) when I realized that even if I wanted to, I couldn\'t flash my rack because I would lose my nursing pads. Then I would leak through the rest of the concert, making it appear as if Joe Perry was weeping copiously; probably because most of the audience had their tweenaged kids in tow, thus drastically reducing the number of breasts being seen.\n\nThat was 11 years ago. I went to a Duran Duran concert last November and that really drove home the fact that I am really. ancient. now. ;?)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2516,526,'Karen','kahatch@charter.net','','66.188.199.116','2006-05-06 15:56:45','2006-05-06 15:56:45','Ok, the thought of a leaking rack nearly made me spit out my coffee.\n\nRH, you and I must have been in college at the same time, because when I get sad I\'m all Lisa Loeb:\n\n\"You say....\"\n\nYeah, old. So old, and so out of touch with the \"yute,\" that while I\'ve been displaced in the Heartland, I have NO IDEA what this movie is all about or how it became the new Rocky Horror. Must go google.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2517,526,'Something blue','cmcreate@gmail.com','','72.137.49.224','2006-05-07 02:55:54','2006-05-07 02:55:54','You\'re still hanging with the homies so dude, you are totally cool. Oh God. How old am I?\n\nSounds like a brilliantly fun night out!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2518,526,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.195.249','2006-05-07 17:57:31','2006-05-07 17:57:31','Oh man I love your title!\n\nHaving spent my college years in Boston, I can totally relate--except that I was already on my second post-grad career move in 94. Still, Nate has a friend now in a band and even though I still ocassionally get carded, the reality of my pushing 40 situation is very apparent at his shows. I\'m like the old lady at the bar screaming over the music, \"OKAY BUT WHAT KIIIIIND OF RED WINE IS IT? CAN I SEE THE LABEL?\"\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2519,526,'jen','jlinthal@hotmail.com','','206.252.74.47','2006-05-08 09:54:50','2006-05-08 09:54:50','This was great...So they were doing R kelly thing? (I know he has an 127-part video drama/opera thing)\n\"Pardon me, but can I offer you some...Toberlone?\"  hee.\n\nByw, $60 bucks?? hell, *I\'LL* babysit for the kid next time. I mean, based on my old rates you would have had to been gone for 30 hours for that  kind of moolah.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2520,526,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','12.162.2.231','2006-05-08 12:53:03','2006-05-08 12:53:03','Yes!  $60 bucks!  That\'s the real reason we rarely go to the movies - it has to be a damn good movie to make it worthwhile.  Thankfully, R Kelly was so bad that it was good.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2521,526,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-05-08 15:28:27','2006-05-08 15:28:27','You guys are going to be known as \"That old couple with the chocolate.\"  Sucks, don\'t it?  What really sucks is that you were probably entering college the year I graduated which makes me feel even older than I already did.  Thanks a lot.\n\n:)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2522,526,'Emily','emily@peanutwagon.net','','67.166.251.235','2006-05-08 16:34:38','2006-05-08 16:34:38','Just reading this made me feel old...\n\nI know Bud goes with pizza...but does it go with chocolate?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2523,526,'Suz','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.100.140','2006-05-08 19:26:25','2006-05-08 19:26:25','umm, beer - so good when your not supposed to have it :) I\'d have chocolate with beer anyday - 2 of my most favourite things!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2524,526,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-05-08 21:23:00','2006-05-08 21:23:00','I totally wish I was there. That whole Trapped in the Closet thing is HILARIOUS! I went to a party once where the host played it and we laughed hysterically at the whole thing.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2525,526,'Andrea','littlebalddoctors@charter.net','','71.10.209.252','2006-05-09 10:25:08','2006-05-09 10:25:08','That\'s a new one, the kid giving the adults beer.  Usually it\'s the other way around, but then again, a college kid sneaking beer somewhere forbidden is like a rite of passage.  If (s)he can get in, (s)he\'s passed the test.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2526,526,'Jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','24.60.246.143','2006-05-14 11:33:07','2006-05-14 11:33:07','Toblerone . . .classic.\n\nIt\'s interesting that emo kids are the new slackers. I would have been soooo emo in college.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2527,527,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','151.203.106.103','2006-05-03 22:33:43','2006-05-03 22:33:43','Ok, totally off topic, but I must know, HOW was the Coolidge last weekend?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2528,527,'margalit','margalitc@yahoo.com','','71.245.227.179','2006-05-04 03:59:46','2006-05-04 03:59:46','Thank you so much for keeping me up to date on King Tut\'s teeny peeny. I\'m sorry, it\'s teeny. But you\'re right, the story is hilarious.\n\nHey, they finally approved the new NNHS plans. Only took what, 3 years? OY!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2529,527,'Sunshine Scribe','sunshinescribeblog@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.15','2006-05-04 06:29:35','2006-05-04 06:29:35','That is the last thing I expected to read today. Ha ha ha. Such a great public service you\'ve just provided. You do learn something new everyday I gues. ha ha haha\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2530,527,'mama_tulip','mamatulip@gmail.com','','24.150.190.10','2006-05-04 08:09:19','2006-05-04 08:09:19','*wipes coffee off of screen*\n\nYeah. That\'s no Joan Rivers.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2531,527,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','151.198.7.189','2006-05-04 08:16:44','2006-05-04 08:16:44','Good tidbit for the next cocktail party I attend.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2532,527,'krista','krista@thesilentk.com','','72.59.19.36','2006-05-04 09:21:36','2006-05-04 09:21:36','So very bizarre.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2533,527,'Emily','emily@peanutwagon.net','','67.166.251.235','2006-05-04 13:26:46','2006-05-04 13:26:46','\"Speculation abounded that the penis had been stolen and sold.\"\n\nNow I am picturing some freak in a trenchcoat coming up to people on the street, \"Pssst....buddy......wanna buy a penis?..\"\n\nKnowing it has been found will help me sleep better tonight. LOL\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2534,527,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-05-04 14:36:59','2006-05-04 14:36:59','Where in the heck do you find this stuff?!?!?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2535,527,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-05-04 15:26:12','2006-05-04 15:26:12','heh, heh, Royal Penis, heh, heh.\n\nThat picture made my whole day.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2536,527,'jen','jlinthal@hotmail.com','','206.252.74.49','2006-05-04 17:14:50','2006-05-04 17:14:50','this is the stuff (heh) they feel the need to determine. The researchers of the latest men by chance?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2537,527,'Mommy off the Record','mommy605@hotmail.com','','158.96.4.13','2006-05-04 20:24:20','2006-05-04 20:24:20','Oh, I\'m so bummed. I clicked on the \'pictures\' link and the page said \"error\". Maybe the site is being overwhelmed by visitors seeking a look at a mumified penis. Hmmm. I\'ll have to check back again. Lol\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2538,527,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-05-04 21:28:55','2006-05-04 21:28:55','J\'s Mommy:  This was all over my the newsfeed on my Gmail.  I had to click on it.\n\nI hope that google doesn\'t target news based on the content of your email like they do ads.  Because then my friends and I need new things to email about.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2539,527,'jozet','jozet@verizon.net','','151.205.216.215','2006-05-05 00:38:38','2006-05-05 00:38:38','Drat! Photo not up!\n\n*sigh*\n\nI guess I\'ll just have to imagine it. Something like Rasputin\'s but more guaze?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2540,527,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-05-06 00:34:44','2006-05-06 00:34:44','lololol...of all the things I never expected to find at RH\'s place!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2541,527,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-05-06 11:08:39','2006-05-06 11:08:39','Oh No!\n\nI think they took down the article.  You snooze, you lose!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2542,527,'Janet','sliceofpink@gmail.com','','4.38.35.1','2006-05-08 16:53:53','2006-05-08 16:53:53','Wow. The most bizarre thing I\'ve heard all week! Thanks for the laugh. :o)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2543,528,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-05-01 15:00:58','2006-05-01 15:00:58','Of course, having a toddler doesn\'t allow me to watch television as much as I\'d like, but I did catch some of this on the news. I\'m with you on illegal immigration and it\'s shame people feel the need to point a finger at one group.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2544,528,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','205.133.198.252','2006-05-01 15:56:22','2006-05-01 15:56:22','Right on. Seems like there always has to be a scapegoat in this country.\n\nIf I were to ever feel that a certain group of people don\'t belong in this country (and I doubt I will EVER feel that way), I need only look to the sign I have that reads \"Irish need not apply\" to remind me that in another time I could easily be that scapegoat.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2545,528,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-05-01 16:34:46','2006-05-01 16:34:46','I\'m glad you tackled this topic.  I wanted to, but I\'m not the right person and you are.  My sister married a Brazilian man (who is here legally) and together they opened a restaurant that is thriving.  Today they are closed.  I\'m not sure how I feel about that, but its not my war to wage.  But I do need to support their decision and the reasons behind it.\n\nThis is a very touchy subject and you handled it eloquently.  Thank you for your perspective.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2546,528,'Mommy off the Record','mommy605@hotmail.com','','71.142.55.210','2006-05-01 19:37:18','2006-05-01 19:37:18','Thanks for posting on this sensitive topic. As a daughter of an immigrant and the wife of a Latino, I\'m all for being respectful of these groups.\n\nI completely agree that people have lost sight of the fact that everyone was an immigrant at some point, AND, these \"illegals\" that they want to criminalize are providing the services that Americans are demanding (at oftentimes criminally low-wages as you pointed out). I think that the government can find a better solution to the immigration \"problem\" than making them felons.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2547,528,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-05-01 19:38:07','2006-05-01 19:38:07','Thanks guys!\n\nI strongly feel that people are entitled to their opinions, even if I don\'t agree with them.  I\'ve just had this pain in my gut the past few weeks hearing people on the news saying things that are just not true.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2548,528,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-05-01 19:52:28','2006-05-01 19:52:28','WOW, great post. I feel the same as you. We have many Mexican American, Latino and Hispanic people in our large metropolitan area. I find them to be honest hard working people with a strong sense of family. That\'s a drain on our society? And yes, it\'s the pinnacle of hypocrisy that we use them for cheap labor, but don\'t want to afford them the rights and privileges of citizenship. This isn\'t going to go away until we rethink our immigration laws.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2549,528,'Anon','anon@anon.com','','66.30.201.11','2006-05-01 20:20:59','2006-05-01 20:20:59','I\'m confused about your mother. Presumably she was able to come to the US because she was married to your father -- while there can be a great deal of paperwork and wait with this process, it is not a matter of \"waiting your turn.\" To my knowledge if you are poor, without family connections or a job already set up, you can only get into the US via the diversity lottery, which is what, 50K green cards a year? The fact is, if illegal immigrants -- poor, hard working immigrants, willing to work one of our many labor intensive low wage jobs in order to support their families -- \"got in line,\" they would never get to come to the US. There is no immigration fast track for day laborers, unlike the one for doctors and engineers. Heck, there isn\'t any track at all.\n\nSo while I appreciate your sentiment, and I agree that there is an underlying ugliness to the commentary, I don\'t really disagree that the vast majority of illegal immigrants are Mexican, and because they are unskilled of course they are poor -- if they were rich they would surely remain in Mexico. But they are willing to come here and work, and companies are willing to hire them. While the immigrants are out on the cold companies can keep their wages down and attempt to pit them against native workers who should be their natural supporters. The conundrum is how to sanction companies without penalizing illegals.\n\nAnon\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2550,528,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-05-01 20:39:37','2006-05-01 20:39:37','Anon,\n\nYou make excellent points - when I said that I don\'t have all my feelings on this issue sorted out, I was thinking of many of the things you said (esp. that there is discrimination against poor people that are willing to work hard.)  How do we sanction companies?  How do we make the system fair so hardworking people from all countries (not just Mexico) get a fair shot?\n\nI don\'t have the answers.  But something needs to be done, because the current system (where people enter the country illegaly only to be exploited and the rest of us pretend they don\'t exist) doesn\'t work.\n\nThanks for stopping by.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2551,528,'sugarmama','wantsugar@gmail.com','','75.3.11.26','2006-05-01 21:43:53','2006-05-01 21:43:53','It is sadly true how a large majority perceive Hispanics as Immigrants, and Immigrants as Illegals.  This country is a melting pot made out of Immigrants such as Asians, Europeans, etc... so why is this country zeroing in on one group?\n\nI don\'t have an answer either, and like you my feelings with the whole thing is so mixed.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2552,528,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','64.134.204.201','2006-05-01 23:38:17','2006-05-01 23:38:17','Thanks for speaking up on this topic. Just tonight I was engaged in a fascinating dinner discussion with a coworker whose father is still not a citizen to this day. He\'s a cuban immigrant, here for 35 years, with a career and a family and pretty much the American dream. But not the American passport.\n\nI think it\'s such a complicated issue though. We can\'t reward illegals, and yet without illegals--most of them decent, hard-working, good men and women--our economy would crumble. The only way to enforce immigration policy is to punish corporate offenders. Which Bush will never do because that\'s like telling his CEO buddies that they have to fork over more money for higher wages, benefits, and healthcare for actual citizens. And I mean if the exxon CEO took home less than the 450 mil platinum parachute he just received because he was paying the people pumping his gas a decent wage...well, the horror of it all.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2553,528,'jozet','jozet@verizon.net','','151.205.216.197','2006-05-02 00:16:44','2006-05-02 00:16:44','I don\'t have my facts or feelings sorted out on this. But, you have made an eloquent, heartfelt, and well-supported opening statement.\n\nAt the very least, the language involved in this debate is nothing less than infuriating.\n\nAnd\n\n\"Funny, you don\'t look or sound smart.\"\n\nLOL!\n\nWhat circle of hell will you be in? I want to go there, too. ;-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2554,528,'politically incorrect mom','sls27@aol.com','','207.200.116.11','2006-05-02 02:01:38','2006-05-02 02:01:38','Great post.  I don\'t know the answer either, unfortunately, so I\'ll just leave it at that.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2555,528,'Sunshine Scribe','sunshinescribeblog@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.15','2006-05-02 07:02:59','2006-05-02 07:02:59','Thank you for raising this issue. I live in Canada where we are more of a mosaic than a melting pot.  We also have our fair share of racist immigration crap though which boils my blood. My husband and his family are immigrants.  Many of my friends are immigrants.  There are so many stories of strength and courage that come with many immigrant people.\n\nWorse still though is the racist misunderstandings you raised.  Hispanic is not a race.  Latino is not a race.  Jumping to quick, ugly conclusions about people is at the core of why racisim is still so prevelant in the Western world.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2556,528,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','69.19.26.144','2006-05-02 08:14:35','2006-05-02 08:14:35','This was on the CBC news last nigth (in Canada) and I\'ve read quite a bit about it this morning.  I read one quote where someone summed it up \"If you love Mexico so much, go back.\"  I shook my head and moved on.  Saddened, and pissed by the fact that this man clearly had no clue.  He was the best person they could find to represent the \"average\" American?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2557,528,'Mrs. Davis','thelovelymrsdavis@hotmail.com','','65.189.255.10','2006-05-02 11:16:09','2006-05-02 11:16:09','So glad to see a post on this topic, and especially from such a unique perspective as yours.  Yes, it is very complicated, and I have been frustrated too by the attempts of so many to make it a very black-and-white issue.  There is a lot of gray area here.  And I don\'t have the answers either.  But it is sad to see so much ignorance and intolerance.\n\nI was glad to see some of the media coverage last night talking about Irish and Polish immigrants who took part in the demonstrations.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2558,528,'Mrs. Davis','thelovelymrsdavis@hotmail.com','','65.189.255.10','2006-05-02 11:20:00','2006-05-02 11:20:00','Okay, just after saying you were the only one posting about this, I went on to another blog that I read, and I found another good post:\n<a href=\"http://nealpollack.com/archives/2006/05/#000416#more\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://nealpollack.com/archives/2006/05/#000416#more</a>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2559,528,'Anna','mombzbe@aol.com','','207.200.116.11','2006-05-02 11:43:46','2006-05-02 11:43:46','\"*I hope I don\'t have to explain that \"Hispanic\" or \"Latino\" is not a race** - or a country - right...RIGHT?  God, I hope so.\"\n\nUnfortunately, I find this is to often the case.  People just don\'t get it.  It\'s like saying, \"I don\'t speak Mexican\" when they mean to say \"I don\'t speak Spanish\".  It really gets my panties in a wad when someone does that!!!\n\n\"**(And to the people who upon meeting me say \"you don\'t look or sound Hispanic\" - what do I say? \"Funny, you don\'t look or sound smart\" - Grrr!)\"\n\nIf I had a dollar for everytime I heard this, I\'d be set.  I hate that.  One of my kids was potentially in need of speech therapy at the school.  I had to attend a couple of meetings, and in the process of signing paperwork, I noticed they did not have him listed as \"Hispanic.\"  Granted, I am married to an white guy so obviously my kids\' last name is not Rodriguez, but when I pointed out to the counselor that I needed it changed to \"Hispanic\" I felt all eyes on me.  Say it, just say it, I thought...but all I got were quizzical looks, so much so that I heard myself start defending myself right away.  \"I\'m of Mexican descent.  Really.\"\n\nMy personal favorite in regards to this, when someone realizes my heritage, is: \"But you don\'t speak with an accent.\"  DUH.  I think I may have to use your snappy retort, it\'s perfect. lol\n\nI live in Arizona, and the immigration issue is just a boiling issue right now.  It\'s threatening to boil right out of the pot...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2560,528,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-05-03 00:33:44','2006-05-03 00:33:44','I totally agree with everything you said.\n\nAnd what an accomplished woman you are!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2561,528,'maria','mmcphail1@yahoo.com','','71.146.44.12','2006-05-03 02:11:53','2006-05-03 02:11:53','Thanks for the post, I\'m reading a lot of very nasty stuff on the blogs about this whole situation. I do not type anything because it is their right to do so, however it is a damn shame.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2562,528,'Something blue','cmcreate@gmail.com','','72.137.49.224','2006-05-03 02:54:29','2006-05-03 02:54:29','I wish people would remember that a majority of the population in North America are immigrants if you take into consideration we are in the New World. I often hear people say they are fourth generation Canadians and the like. Don\'t get me wrong; I do understand that there are hardships for recent immigrants. My point is that people should try to stop looking for differences in each other.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2563,528,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','71.127.44.127','2006-05-03 06:13:58','2006-05-03 06:13:58','It is a complicated issue, because there are so many perspectives to consider -- the economic impacts, the people who have struggled to make a living in this country, and those that continue to enter the country illegally.  I don\'t think there is one right or wrong course of action.\n\nHowever, I completely agree that some of the terminology used in this discussion (as well as people\'s perceptions) is very narrow-minded.  There is a difference between immigrants who have come over legally and illegal immigrants.  There certainly are people of all nationalities and races in both camps.  The issue should not be looked at as an effort to keep people from one particular country or set of countries out of the U.S. -- the people who think and speak this way are very ill-informed, and it unfortunately leads to deep misunderstandings and tensions.\n\nThanks for sharing your story -- I love to hear about my blog friends\' backgrounds.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2564,528,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','71.127.44.127','2006-05-03 06:14:59','2006-05-03 06:14:59','Oops -- by \"this discussion\" (in my previous comment) I meant the immigration reform discussion in general, not this post or the comments.  :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2565,528,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-05-03 11:52:36','2006-05-03 11:52:36','I thought about blogging about this as well but I thought it was too complicated and it was making me too angry.  I\'m 1/2 hispanic (my father was latino) and my mother is white.  I wouldn\'t be here if it weren\'t for immigration.  All the hoopla about singing the national anthem in Spanish really bothers me because I don\'t like the idea that white America thinks they own the country and it\'s patriotic symbols.  I was proud to hear it sang in Spanish. I don\'t care what the reasons behind it are.  I am proud to hear both of my cultures come together in that way.  I agree there are many stereotypes right now about latinos, immigrants, and deportation.  It\'s a shame that people subscribe to such huge generalizations.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2566,528,'scarbie doll','scarbiedoll@sympatico.ca','','65.92.97.150','2006-05-03 22:31:46','2006-05-03 22:31:46','We\'re kinda going through a similar disaster in Canada, \"sending back\" many Portuguese who had come here claiming refugee status under a different political situation than the current one in Portugal. These people were not sucking off the system, they were hard-working, family-loving people. Many of our cities were built, literally, with the sweat off their backs. Many of them bore children in Canada while waiting for refugee claims to go through. Those children were also forced to leave with their parents. Leave the only world they knew.\n\nOur countries were built by immigrants. So few of us are the native peoples off this land we inhabit. It is strange how quick we are to turn on the people, who struggled to get here, much like our ancestors.\n\nI think Chris Rock says it best. [paraphrasing] \"If you struggled to get here... if you floated in on a raft from some place, you\'re American. You deserve to be American. If you come out your mother\'s p*ssy in Detroit? You\'re just lucky.\"\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2567,529,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-04-28 01:19:09','2006-04-28 01:19:09','Awww...that\'s really very cute :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2568,529,'Something blue','cmcreate@gmail.com','','72.137.49.224','2006-04-28 08:41:17','2006-04-28 08:41:17','Your husband rocks!\n\nI\'m sure the cake was delicious.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2569,529,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','71.228.40.102','2006-04-28 11:58:00','2006-04-28 11:58:00','I always use at least one ovulation predictor kit when baking a cake. That\'s because it takes me a really long time to do it and I will probably ovulate somewhere in that window.\n\nGum traganth? WTH?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2570,529,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-04-28 13:04:08','2006-04-28 13:04:08','Well I suppose if it\'s REALLY good cake it just might put you in the mood for...you know, ovulating.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2571,529,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-04-28 13:32:26','2006-04-28 13:32:26','Aww, he sounds like a fun guy!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2572,529,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','162.138.176.51','2006-04-28 16:31:37','2006-04-28 16:31:37','I find one of the old-fashioned kitchen timers works well when making a fondant cake.  The window of opportunity on the ovulation predictor kit is a little too great for me.  ;-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2573,529,'Sunshine Scribe','sandradiaz2@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.15','2006-04-28 17:19:22','2006-04-28 17:19:22','Your husband sounds hilarious. I am still laughing from that great story.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2574,529,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-04-28 18:05:10','2006-04-28 18:05:10','I like your husband\'s humor!  But I laughed even harder at the idea of someone making one of those cakes on their first attempt.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2575,529,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-04-28 18:15:15','2006-04-28 18:15:15','Can it be done?  I guess the world will never know!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2576,529,'GIRLS GONE CHILD','rebeccawoolf@hotmail.com','','24.130.192.223','2006-04-28 18:20:37','2006-04-28 18:20:37','I have a small crush on your husband now. Charming dude you got there:)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2577,529,'jennster','jenn@jennster.com','','63.82.98.50','2006-04-28 19:27:43','2006-04-28 19:27:43','LMFAO- that is fucking hilarious.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2578,529,'Mommy off the Record','mommy605@hotmail.com','','71.142.55.210','2006-04-28 20:44:12','2006-04-28 20:44:12','That is so totally cute of your husband. Humor in marriage is a good thing!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2579,529,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','151.198.7.189','2006-04-29 13:12:15','2006-04-29 13:12:15','I definitely like a man who can surprise me with some laughs.  And, good idea not trying that icing job.  It looks much too difficult.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2580,529,'Redneck mommy','talesfromt@yahoo.ca','','161.184.180.143','2006-04-29 19:40:36','2006-04-29 19:40:36','LOL!  While the ovulation kit is funny, just think of the blogging fodder you could have had if you tried to do the icing.\n\nKudos for attempting.  Me, I generally pick up an icecream cake from the nearest D.Q when the need arises!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2581,529,'Sara','sara_wisking@hotmail.com','','70.50.36.34','2006-04-30 11:55:53','2006-04-30 11:55:53','Good message.  Life definitely is too short.  Way to realise that. :)\n\nAnd I read your comments on Shenuts (that\'s what brought me here) and I was thinking the same way... sometimes people are so totally gung ho to \"not discriminate\" that they end up discriminating through their attempts at showing how tolerant they are. If that makes ANY sense whatsoever...\n\nPoor doesn\'t mean hispanic, rich doesn\'t necessarily mean snobby, different isn\'t always indicated by being of a different race..  diverse is something more than outside appearances.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2582,529,'Tori','tori_stalker@hotmail.com','','68.5.6.131','2006-05-01 00:31:27','2006-05-01 00:31:27','That is funny.  Even more so because I do that to my husband.  He makes anal notes in specific pens and I always add inane shit on the end... like... remember how lucky you are to have such a fabulous wife etc...\nHe gets very annoyed...\nhee hee\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2583,530,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','151.203.106.103','2006-04-25 22:02:42','2006-04-25 22:02:42','You have NO IDEA how badly I want to go to this.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2584,530,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','72.245.248.210','2006-04-26 01:39:25','2006-04-26 01:39:25','Okay, I started going to Rocky Horror in fifth grade (when it was peaking) and I think went 25 times before I got to jr high. I\'m so about the crazy-ass midnight cult movie screening. Sign me up!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2585,530,'mama_tulip','mamatulip@gmail.com','','24.150.190.10','2006-04-26 08:49:04','2006-04-26 08:49:04','A hip-hopera. LMAO. I wanna go.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2586,530,'Sunshine Scribe','sandradiaz2@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.15','2006-04-26 09:50:29','2006-04-26 09:50:29','I am all over this.  If I lived in driving distance I would be SO there.  Fun...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2587,530,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-04-26 17:42:03','2006-04-26 17:42:03','Damn!  I can\'t find a babysitter that quickly!!  I wonder if I can get the in-laws to come over and watch Chicky Baby.\n\nThe Hubby seems skeptical, though.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2588,530,'Lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-04-26 19:25:19','2006-04-26 19:25:19','Are you kidding me? That is awesome. You must take pictures and report back.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2589,530,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','71.228.40.102','2006-04-26 19:37:37','2006-04-26 19:37:37','HARDY FRICKIN HAR ... I couldn\'t think of any other way to describe my reaction to this. the first time I heard that song I sat there in the car with my mouth hanging open, wondering if it was some kind of joke. oh no. Sadly, it was not.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2590,530,'Mrs. Davis','thelovelymrsdavis@hotmail.com','','65.189.255.10','2006-04-27 09:12:31','2006-04-27 09:12:31','It\'s amazing the kind of entertainment you can get in a college town.  I would go just to see who else is going, not so much for the show itself.  Kind of like when I went to opening night of a Star Trek movie once, just to see all the people dressed as Data.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2591,530,'maria','mmcphail1@yahoo.com','','71.146.6.238','2006-04-27 17:54:35','2006-04-27 17:54:35','okay, am I a total nerd if I said I went to a \'Wizard of Oz\' sing a long in San Francisco in the Castro district? Me, the only heterosexual stay@home in the bunch!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2592,530,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-04-27 18:05:26','2006-04-27 18:05:26','No, you are not a total nerd.  Remember, I\'m going to this.  And my group consists of  a lawyer and a bunch of bankers with a couple of stay at home moms thrown in.\n\nWill we stick out like sore thumbs?  Undoubtedly.  Do I care?  Not at all.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2593,530,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','69.19.26.65','2006-04-27 20:49:34','2006-04-27 20:49:34','Cool! Have fun.\n\nI will never forget the night a friend and I saw Rocky the first time.  Telling others we were virgins was NOT the smartest idea we had that night.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2594,530,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-04-28 01:17:43','2006-04-28 01:17:43','Dude...I\'m way jealous. \"Trapped in the Closet\" is SO bad it\'s good! I want a full report :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2595,531,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.191','2006-04-24 12:52:53','2006-04-24 12:52:53','Yay!  Happy 100th post!!\n\nIn skimming over the posts you listed, I see that I have a LOT of new blogs to discover.  Aaaaack!  My bloglines list grows to over 100 now.\n\n:)  Congrats on the postings, lady! I love your blog.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2596,531,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-04-24 13:00:08','2006-04-24 13:00:08','ACK! You are evil! Now I will be forced to sit at the computer and read each and every entry! Well hell, laundry can wait, right?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2597,531,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','69.19.24.64','2006-04-24 13:21:57','2006-04-24 13:21:57','Congrats on 100 posts!\n\nNow I know what to do while my son watches Chicken Little for the bazillionth time.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2598,531,'sugarmama','wantsugar@gmail.com','','75.3.11.26','2006-04-24 13:57:03','2006-04-24 13:57:03','As much as I do not want to take time in clicking thru all the 100 blogs you have posted, my very curious nosy self will of course do so anyway!  And please don\'t have us go through this on your 200th post.  Hehe kidding.\n\nCongrats and hope to read many many more from you!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2599,531,'lizriz','dragonflygrrrl@earthlink.net','','66.77.102.10','2006-04-24 14:24:47','2006-04-24 14:24:47','I love this idea.  It\'s like, pick your favorite number and see what you get!  And I love surprises!!!\n\nThanks for the link,\n\nLiz  (#54)  :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2600,531,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','67.83.98.9','2006-04-24 14:29:45','2006-04-24 14:29:45','yay! I made it on the list. Happy 100! Mine is coming up this week and I may just have to steal your idea!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2601,531,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','71.228.40.102','2006-04-24 14:44:29','2006-04-24 14:44:29','Okay so now I have to click through ALL of those to see if I made the list. :-) I mean to see what I\'ve been missing.\n\nCongrats on 100 and yay for the lack of cohesiveness. It\'s so overrated.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2602,531,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-04-24 15:17:23','2006-04-24 15:17:23','Leave it to you to come up with a unique and very clickable way to celebrate your 100th post!  Unfortunately I won\'t be able to read any new entries today from anyone on my blogroll because I will be busy reading all of these links.  I also won\'t be able to get anything else done.  Oh well, the baby will have to feed herself.\n\nCongrats on 100!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2603,531,'jozet','jozet@verizon.net','','71.240.131.103','2006-04-24 15:52:05','2006-04-24 15:52:05','Awwwwwww, now! Go on with your bad self! Thanks for including me in there. You have some of my absolute faves listed.\n\nAnd yes, dooce is and continues to be a bloggity mentor. And Eyes Wide Apart! I\'d comletely forgotten about that blog! I\'ll have to go add her to my speed rack again.\n\nSeriously, big congrats on number 100. And yes, here\'s to the next 100!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2604,531,'Nothing But Bonfires','holly@hollyburns.com','','70.154.73.77','2006-04-24 16:58:39','2006-04-24 16:58:39','Ooh, I\'m number 14! How exciting. And I\'m glad you didn\'t choose a representative post, because that one talks about me being in Wal-Mart, which was the ONE TIME I went to Wal-Mart! So thank goodness for that.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2605,531,'jennster','jenn@jennster.com','','63.82.98.50','2006-04-24 17:22:57','2006-04-24 17:22:57','that is really fucking cool that you did that!  REALLY.  you rock!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2606,531,'jennster','jenn@jennster.com','','63.82.98.50','2006-04-24 17:25:11','2006-04-24 17:25:11','omg- and i didn\'t even know you linked to me until now!  so now i super duper love you and think you\'re even cooler than i did before!  thank you! :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2607,531,'Amy','sbmoms@gmail.com','','68.65.177.116','2006-04-24 17:40:37','2006-04-24 17:40:37','Wow! So many great new reads, so little time. What a good way to get your readers to come back for more and more and more. It must have taken you forever to organize this entry!\n\nWhat a great, nice surprise to see me listed as one of your faves. I\'m honored. You\'re one of mine too. Congrats on your 100th entry. Good for you. I\'m not far ahead at 120.\n\nTake care. I can\'t wait to check out all your links.\n\nAmy :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2608,531,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-04-24 18:11:31','2006-04-24 18:11:31','Thanks!\n\nI\'m glad you\'re all enjoying my link-work because really, it was much easier than coming up with \"100 things\" to post.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2609,531,'Mommy off the Record','mommy605@hotmail.com','','71.142.55.210','2006-04-24 19:02:04','2006-04-24 19:02:04','Congrats on getting to 100 posts! I\'m sweatin\' just thinking about all that writing you did. :)\n\nP.S. Thanks for including me in your line up. I am honored!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2610,531,'Lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-04-24 19:15:09','2006-04-24 19:15:09','Wow! 100 posts that is a milestone! Thanks for mentioning me I really am flattered. You are truly one of my favorite people to read.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2611,531,'Lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-04-24 19:17:53','2006-04-24 19:17:53','Wow! 100 posts that is a milestone! Thanks for mentioning me I really am flattered. You are truly one of my favorite people to read.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2612,531,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','71.126.156.127','2006-04-24 20:43:01','2006-04-24 20:43:01','Oh, this is such a cool idea.  I can\'t wait to flip through the list and read your faves.\n\nCongratulations on reaching 100 -- here\'s to hundreds more!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2613,531,'Jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','24.60.246.143','2006-04-24 21:51:45','2006-04-24 21:51:45','Hello there! Thanks for the link--#29. I win at life! Congrats on 100 posts . . .\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2614,531,'Jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','24.60.246.143','2006-04-24 21:53:50','2006-04-24 21:53:50','I swear I just commented and it vanished into the ether . . .\n\nThanks for linking to me . . .I win at life! Congrats on 100 posts!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2615,531,'Jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','24.60.246.143','2006-04-24 21:55:32','2006-04-24 21:55:32','Oh. I see. Your comments run most recent top to bottom. Heh. *slinks away with a red face*\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2616,531,'Alicat','somethingsoclever@hotmail.com','','69.144.82.179','2006-04-24 22:57:36','2006-04-24 22:57:36','Congratulations!\n\nThank you for including me in this fab roundup! In the presence of Mil Millington, Sarcomical and Whoorl is always flattering. :o)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2617,531,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','72.245.248.210','2006-04-25 01:18:43','2006-04-25 01:18:43','Wow, this is such a fantastic idea and I\'m sure it took a ton of effort.  I\'m thrilled to be #81 - wouldn\'t have traded it for either 80 or 82.\n\nI\'m really looking forward to going through each and every one of these over the course of the week.\n\nHappy hundred mama!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2618,531,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-04-25 01:33:46','2006-04-25 01:33:46','First of all, Happy 100th!\n\nSecond, thanks for so kindly including me at #82. I did not at all expect to be included here so I\'m ultra flattered!\n\nThird, this must have taken you a LONG time which makes it a really generous gift to the blogosphere on YOUR anniversary. Sweet!\n\n:)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2619,531,'Something blue','cmcreate@gmail.com','','72.137.49.224','2006-04-25 02:41:20','2006-04-25 02:41:20','Congratulations on your milestone!\n\nI never would have dreamt to find myself on your list. What an honour! It totally explains why I\'ve seen so many visitors.\n\nTo think I went out and bought a new book today. Forget that! I have so much reading to do... I should have bought coffee.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2620,531,'Sunshine Scribe','sandradiaz2@yahoo.ca','','70.48.45.15','2006-04-25 07:09:26','2006-04-25 07:09:26','Happy 100th!!!\n\nGreat idea to post that list - I can see I\'ll get no work done today reading them all.\n\nCongratulations!  Great blog\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2621,531,'krista','krista@thesilentk.com','','72.59.19.36','2006-04-25 09:30:28','2006-04-25 09:30:28','The skunk in the coffee shop! oh my. That was hilarious.\n\nHappy blogiversary! Thanks for the link (number 86 Ya Hoo!)\n\nIt\'s fun clicking through the numbers- I like that I don\'t where I\'ll be sent. Like a surprise bag. Thanks.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2622,531,'krista','krista@thesilentk.com','','72.59.19.36','2006-04-25 09:38:22','2006-04-25 09:38:22','Number 100 is hilarious. Spiderman reviews crayons. Ahh, that made my day.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2623,531,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-04-25 10:11:06','2006-04-25 10:11:06','Glad you liked #100!  It\'s not really a blog, but it makes me laugh everytime!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2624,531,'Kris','clouth@gmail.com','','151.203.78.6','2006-04-25 12:27:12','2006-04-25 12:27:12','Congrats on the 100 posts! I\'m so glad I found your blog. And I\'m honored to be in your list. Thanks!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2625,531,'TB','tammie_s_booth@yahoo.com','','67.111.99.2','2006-04-25 13:00:52','2006-04-25 13:00:52','Happy 100 and here\'s to many more! Thank you for including me in your list of links.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2626,531,'Y','mamarosa@gmail.com','','70.32.71.103','2006-04-25 13:34:33','2006-04-25 13:34:33','I\'m #25!  And you have no idea how happy that makes me!\n\nHappy 100!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2627,531,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-04-25 14:02:49','2006-04-25 14:02:49','BEEES!!!  BEES!!!\n\nHow could I not include the Y!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2628,531,'Genuine','jturner@mesanetworks.net','','205.242.229.37','2006-04-25 17:38:58','2006-04-25 17:38:58','I think I need to cut back on my blogging.  I\'m just about at 1900 posts....\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2629,531,'nabbalicious','nabbalicious@hotmail.com','','24.125.110.43','2006-04-25 18:05:38','2006-04-25 18:05:38','Congratulations! And thank you so much for putting me on your list! I\'m honored!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2630,531,'GIRLS GONE CHILD','rebeccawoolf@hotmail.com','','71.129.235.2','2006-04-25 20:46:23','2006-04-25 20:46:23','Happy 100! Great idea with the 100 posts! Wow, Hooraaaaaaayyyy!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2631,531,'mama_tulip','mamatulip@gmail.com','','24.150.190.10','2006-04-26 08:47:28','2006-04-26 08:47:28','Congrats on 100 posts...and thanks for including me in your links. I\'m totally flattered.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2632,531,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','69.19.26.65','2006-04-27 20:45:28','2006-04-27 20:45:28','I was reading through and found myself at 36. That\'s so cool (I almost wrote \"radical\"!).\n\nThanks!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2633,531,'Tina','antiquemommy@comcast.net','','24.0.46.193','2006-04-27 23:19:08','2006-04-27 23:19:08','I always wanted to be a 10 and now I am one!  Thanks for including me on your list.  I\'m not worthy (bowing and fanning ala Garth)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2634,531,'Boogie\'s Mom','peanutmahoney@earthlink.net','','68.164.54.117','2006-04-29 18:57:26','2006-04-29 18:57:26','Hey, thanks for putting me on your list! :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2635,531,'Charlie Wrigley','kileysteve@hotmail.com','','24.34.120.236','2006-04-29 19:11:30','2006-04-29 19:11:30','Wow! I\'m on here.  21.  I\'m honored.  Thanks!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2636,531,'scarbie doll','scarbiedoll@sympatico.ca','','67.70.120.152','2006-04-30 20:06:13','2006-04-30 20:06:13','So super flattered that I made it on your list. Congrats on your 100th post! You rock. Here\'s to the next hundred.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2637,532,'K.','khatina1@gmail.com','','24.25.58.5','2006-04-18 16:11:02','2006-04-18 16:11:02','I can relate to this post in more ways than you could possibly imagine.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2638,532,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-04-18 17:22:55','2006-04-18 17:22:55','Cool!   I sincerely hope you stop beating yourself up and write something because you\'d be great.  And I\'m sure you don\'t have ginormous hands.  Do you?\n\nFrom Reluctant Housewife:  I don\'t know, but it sure looks like it here:  <a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/diary/130385308/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.flickr.com/photos/diary/130385308/</a>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2639,532,'Chantal','chantal.hubert@gmail.com','','69.19.26.171','2006-04-18 19:08:34','2006-04-18 19:08:34','\"I need to get some writing done\" is the ultimate catch all and argument free excuse.  I use it all the time, even if I\'m writing a grocery list. That\'s writing, isn\'t it?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2640,532,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','151.203.106.103','2006-04-18 19:12:12','2006-04-18 19:12:12','I can relate on the not showering by 2:30pm thing, that\'s for sure.  Also?  I love, love, love Beacon Hill Bistro.  I haven\'t been in such a long time...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2641,532,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-04-18 20:46:16','2006-04-18 20:46:16','lololol...funny post. Good luck with the review thing.\n\nPS: It\'s not that your hands are too big. It\'s that your camera is too small :)\n\nSeriously...I have big hands (to match my big feet, of course) and those teeny little cameras were just too damn little for me.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2642,532,'Callisto','blissed_callisto@yahoo.com.au','','220.233.77.243','2006-04-18 22:58:54','2006-04-18 22:58:54','You have my life, (except you are much funnier) did you know that?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2643,532,'Lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-04-19 11:47:07','2006-04-19 11:47:07','Oh my goodness you make me laugh! I have never been to Boston but I promise when I do go I will check that place out.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2644,532,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-04-19 12:12:17','2006-04-19 12:12:17','Why do you think I\'m not published more? There is WAY to much procrastinating and self-doubting to accomplish in its stead!\n\nI think you should just send this blog post to them. If they don\'t like it, they\'re too stuffy for you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2645,532,'Tracy','tracyf@fastmail.us','','69.214.72.2','2006-04-19 17:31:36','2006-04-19 17:31:36','You are hilarious!  Hey, at least you have four pages.  I just have lots and lots of concepts for my novel - and every single one of them requires my mother to be dead before it could be published.  Try working around THAT excuse!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2646,532,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','67.176.222.94','2006-04-19 21:50:24','2006-04-19 21:50:24','There are procrastination awards, they just haven\'t gotten around to giving them out yet. hahaha!!!\n\nAnd yeah, that did sound pretentious ... but next time I go to Boston I\'ll have the best brunch in the universe.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2647,532,'GIRLS GONE CHILD','rebeccawoolf@hotmail.com','','71.129.235.2','2006-04-19 22:50:29','2006-04-19 22:50:29','I must ditto K. Procrastination? My entire blog is procrastination. HEEEEEEEELLLLLPPPPP ME! And P.S. Having ginormous hands isn\'t a bad thing.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2648,532,'Sarcomical','sarcomical@gmail.com','','12.205.94.112','2006-04-20 15:22:34','2006-04-20 15:22:34','ha!  i love that you think like us \"normal\" people.  ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2649,532,'jennster','jenn@jennster.com','','63.82.98.50','2006-04-20 20:21:30','2006-04-20 20:21:30','LMFAO- stop making me spit water at my computer monitor. it\'s not nice!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2650,532,'Wendy','wendyodonnell@adelphia.net','','69.164.33.253','2006-04-20 21:25:06','2006-04-20 21:25:06','HIL.A.RIOUS.  Reading this was like a peek into the last 15 seconds of my thought process.... great post!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2651,532,'Her Bad Mother','caconnors@rogers.com','','72.137.39.107','2006-04-22 19:11:24','2006-04-22 19:11:24','I second Mom-101\'s suggestion.\n\nAnd? If you\'re sitting, stinky and unwashed, at your computer at 2:30 in the afternoon, you\'re clearly a writer, published or not. And, obviously, a mom. \'Cause if you were a childless writer, you\'d be drunk, too.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2652,532,'Kris','clouth@gmail.com','','151.203.78.6','2006-04-23 20:27:14','2006-04-23 20:27:14','I can so relate to this. I call myself a writer, therefore I am. What\'s that you say, WHAT do I write? Stuff. I write stuff. Now leave me alone.\n\nGood luck getting the review job! I plan to check out that bistro!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2653,533,'Aphra 05','cvazq@comcast.net','','66.229.32.79','2006-04-14 19:10:18','2006-04-14 19:10:18','I am so jealous! Your day out sounded lovely, but here in L.A. it\'s dark, gloomy, and raining buckets. Hopefully, it\'ll clear up for Easter.\n\nBTW, I came across your blog by way of La Queen Sucia\'s blog. You have a great writing style - warm and personal - and your site is very chic. I don\'t have kids, but I loved it here so much that I linked it in an email to one of my friends who\'s a mommy. Now you have 2 more fans!\n<a href=\"http://www.eclecticcafeforwomen.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.eclecticcafeforwomen.blogspot.com/</a>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2654,533,'Denise','denise@moodswingcreations.com','','65.6.43.190','2006-04-14 19:40:17','2006-04-14 19:40:17','Such beautiful flowers! They make me want to take a walk.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2655,533,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','24.26.136.35','2006-04-14 19:57:04','2006-04-14 19:57:04','I have to agree - life is so much better with sandals. Once warm weather hits, I\'m in sandals until Fall. Beautiful pictures!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2656,533,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-04-14 23:01:19','2006-04-14 23:01:19','These are gorgeous photos! And so are your private ones. What the hell was that were you saying about people laughing at you? No way!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2657,533,'island Jen','island_artist@telus.net','','142.179.60.175','2006-04-15 03:22:09','2006-04-15 03:22:09','Those magnolias are so beautiful!!  Nice photos.  Those statues aren\'t Gnomes, they are gargoyles... ::::Shiver::::  kinda like the Dali pot- in the right setting of course. not that one.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2658,533,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-04-15 10:30:31','2006-04-15 10:30:31','Island Jen:\n\nYou are so right.  I think the sunshine is frying my brain.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2659,533,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-04-15 11:21:11','2006-04-15 11:21:11','Yay spring!  I get so excited when I see the dafodils come out.  Yeah, my life is pretty dull these days. lol\n\nI need to get a pedicure myself but I\'m embarrassed to let anyone see my gnarly feet just yet.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2660,533,'j\'s mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','71.250.178.89','2006-04-15 11:59:17','2006-04-15 11:59:17','love love love the pictures! they put me in such a good mood. especially since i\'m writing from work!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2661,533,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-04-15 19:47:24','2006-04-15 19:47:24','Beautiful pictures! Ummm, I kinda like that mouth planter. The garden sculpture are undeniably hideous though. My husband has a couple in his home office. That\'s where I stash all the Early American Bachelor stuff.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2662,533,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','67.176.222.94','2006-04-16 15:08:56','2006-04-16 15:08:56','Wow, those gargoyles are scary. At least you don\'t have to worry about evil spirits lurking around your home (because I know you WERE worried about it before). And I too, had a pedicure, and my feet felt ... like ... singing!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2663,533,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.191','2006-04-16 21:22:39','2006-04-16 21:22:39','I love the pics! While this time of year is gorgeous and I wish I could be out, I\'d do nothing but sneeze and...well...stop breathing. Love my Tylenol Allergy! And my safely INDOORS computer. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2664,533,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-04-16 23:57:40','2006-04-16 23:57:40','Oh these make me happy. Truly. Thank you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2665,533,'Her Bad Mother','caconnors@rogers.com','','72.137.39.107','2006-04-17 13:27:39','2006-04-17 13:27:39','I kinda like the gargoyles. But the daffodils... aaah, those are spring...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2666,533,'Jess R','junebugleroy@yahoo.com','','69.128.242.158','2006-04-17 16:24:12','2006-04-17 16:24:12','Beautiful pictures! I stumbled over here after reading your insightful comment at Kristen\'s. Glad I did! I\'ll definitely be back. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2667,533,'GIRLS GONE CHILD','rebeccawoolf@hotmail.com','','71.130.106.116','2006-04-17 22:24:35','2006-04-17 22:24:35','No way! You live next door to Sal Dal! How surreal! Nyuck. Great photos, really beautiful!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2668,533,'Tracey','tracey@warmtone.com','','72.130.117.40','2006-04-17 23:51:39','2006-04-17 23:51:39','YOur images are lovely.\nAnd you crack me up.\nAnd if you\'re reading bird by bird you must be cool.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2669,533,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-04-18 07:54:27','2006-04-18 07:54:27','Thanks for the compliments, y\'all!\n\nI finished Bird By Bird already...I just loved it!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2670,533,'Jennifer','sobah.my.soul@gmail.com','','172.191.149.57','2006-04-20 20:51:31','2006-04-20 20:51:31','Hey, I\'m bored today and surfing \"random sites\" on the crazy hip mamas ring, and I found you. :)\n\nGorgeous pictures!  I\'m a sucker for flower pictures.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2671,534,'Mrs. Davis','thelovelymrsdavis@hotmail.com','','65.189.255.10','2006-04-12 16:06:50','2006-04-12 16:06:50','It\'s on!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2672,534,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.21.243.33','2006-04-12 16:51:18','2006-04-12 16:51:18','Thanks for the tag.  I did it!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2673,534,'Sarah','Sarah606@cox.net','','68.100.17.165','2006-04-12 17:29:45','2006-04-12 17:29:45','I am totally impressed that you just admitted eating ants to the interweb.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2674,534,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-04-12 20:25:51','2006-04-12 20:25:51','Okay, mine\'s up.  And I do that eyebrow thing too!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2675,534,'Mama Mia','mommy605@hotmail.com','','158.96.4.13','2006-04-12 20:38:55','2006-04-12 20:38:55','My first tag--I\'m so excited! Thanks. I\'m on it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2676,534,'Kristen','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.176.159','2006-04-13 00:13:04','2006-04-13 00:13:04','Ants. WOW? I\'m totally impressed and not one ounce grossed out. How messed up am I? :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2677,534,'sweatpantsmom','marsha_tm@yahoo.com','','70.231.48.21','2006-04-13 05:38:03','2006-04-13 05:38:03','I am hereby dutifully tagged.  I am behind on two other taggings, so it looks like it\'s gonna be a meme week.\n\nAnd, ANTS?  Did you eat them raw, or dipped into a delicate dijon wine sauce?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2678,534,'The Pajama Mama','thepajamamama@gmail.com','','65.132.74.157','2006-04-13 09:01:52','2006-04-13 09:01:52','Oh, I saw that cat movie and there are no cats allowed in the bedrooms at night.  Childish, I know, but hey, you\'ve SEEN what they can do!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2679,534,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-04-13 10:01:28','2006-04-13 10:01:28','Well, ants are probably low in fat and high in protein, so at least they were healthy, right?  Right?\n\nAnd no I just ate them straight off the line.  I\'ve always been a purist.\n\nAnd here\'s a recipe for chocolate covered ants.  I\'ve outgrown my taste for ants, but you never know, I may have piqued someone\'s curiosity:\n<a href=\"http://www.chefdepot.net/chocolateants.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.chefdepot.net/chocolateants.htm</a>\n\nHahahahaha!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2680,534,'bridgermama','bridgermama@hotmail.com','','24.21.194.19','2006-04-13 14:04:29','2006-04-13 14:04:29','I have never eaten ants, however I have eaten a grasshopper leg (due to a dare at age 8).  Great tag.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2681,534,'Sunshine Scribe','sandradiaz2@yahoo.ca','','67.70.191.26','2006-04-13 15:27:30','2006-04-13 15:27:30','Ants huh?  You were clearly ahead of your time - that could win you a million bucks on a reailty TV show now.\n\nGreat list and great blog. Glad to have stumbled on it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2682,534,'K.','khatina1@gmail.com','','66.56.225.156','2006-04-13 15:39:56','2006-04-13 15:39:56','I used to eat some pretty weird stuff when I was a kid too. So I will refrain from expressing any surprise at all that you admitted to eating Zwieback toast on your blog.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2683,534,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','67.176.222.94','2006-04-13 18:00:41','2006-04-13 18:00:41','Hmm, maybe my son will have a guacamole shaped birthmark? I sure am craving some guacamole ... :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2684,534,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-04-13 23:07:24','2006-04-13 23:07:24','Okay, so scared of cats, but not of eating ants. I think I like you more now!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2685,534,'something blue','cmcreate@gmail.com','','72.137.49.224','2006-04-14 03:58:56','2006-04-14 03:58:56','Thanks for leaving such a sweet comment over at my place.\n\nI enjoyed your weirdness and now I get to go through your back catalogue and catch up on all things of your world.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2686,534,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','151.200.110.3','2006-04-14 09:01:21','2006-04-14 09:01:21','Man I love plucking my brows.  I\'ve ended up with a hole in one more than once.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2687,534,'Her Bad Mother','caconnors@rogers.com','','72.137.39.107','2006-04-14 11:02:35','2006-04-14 11:02:35','I do the eyebrow thing. But? I am waaaay more fun when I\'m drunk. For a while. Until I turn into Melancholy Drunk slumped in front of the stereo pluggng in 80\'s track after 80\'s track before finally passing out to the Smiths\' \'How Soon Is Now?\'\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2688,534,'Suz','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.71.58','2006-04-14 14:32:50','2006-04-14 14:32:50','Too funny!\nI am afraid of cats too. not to mention very allergic. I have been attacked too many times to like those crazy pets.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2689,535,'Mama Mia','mommy605@hotmail.com','','4.246.117.211','2006-04-12 00:57:10','2006-04-12 00:57:10','I too have struggled with posting photos of my family, but it was just too tempting so I have a few on my blog. But I vow to delete them all if I have even an inkling that some freaky-deek is checking out my site.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2690,535,'Emily','emily@peanutwagon.net','','67.166.251.235','2006-04-12 11:33:27','2006-04-12 11:33:27','Hmm...GOOD IDEA!...at some point I might have to consider making my photos private...judging by my sitemeter I get my fair share of weirdos looking for search phrases like \"taste of granny\'s crotch\"....\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2691,535,'mjtam','mjtam@intimatepursuits.com','','75.3.11.26','2006-04-12 13:51:52','2006-04-12 13:51:52','Again, loved your pic!\n\nBut sorry because I have to tell you that You\'ve been Punk\'d...I mean tagged!  Come to my blog and read from there.  PajamaMama started it, so don\'t blame the innocent me. hehe.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2692,535,'Mrs. Davis','thelovelymrsdavis@hotmail.com','','65.189.255.10','2006-04-12 15:31:23','2006-04-12 15:31:23','This is a great idea.  I may try the same thing, as I often wish I could post pics of my beautiful kids on my blog.  I\'m just too paranoid to do it.  I will contact you via Flickr.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2693,535,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-04-12 16:36:39','2006-04-12 16:36:39','Yay!  I\'ll wait for your info!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2694,535,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-04-13 01:21:35','2006-04-13 01:21:35','Now you\'re freaking me out! Should I make my Flickr non-public? Are there creeps out there masturbating to my kids photos? Ewwwwww!!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2695,535,'Sarcomical','sarcomical@gmail.com','','12.205.94.112','2006-04-13 04:25:28','2006-04-13 04:25:28','hey!  do i have you on my flickr people yet?  because i am all about the nosy.  ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2696,535,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-04-13 10:04:34','2006-04-13 10:04:34','Izzy!\n\nPlease don\'t add more fuel to my internet paranoia....Ack!\n\nI just worry that people will be passing my photos around and laughing at me.  I just prefer knowing who is doing it, you know?\n\n(by the way, I\'ve added you and Sarcomical)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2697,535,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-04-14 22:41:39','2006-04-14 22:41:39','Sorry! I was just thinking out loud :)\n\nThanks for the add!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2698,536,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-04-10 07:40:19','2006-04-10 07:40:19','Thanks for the info. I\'m going to check out the site now!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2699,536,'Emily','emily@peanutwagon.net','','67.166.251.235','2006-04-10 15:29:45','2006-04-10 15:29:45','Wow, I might have to chck that site out too!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2700,536,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.21.243.33','2006-04-10 16:14:17','2006-04-10 16:14:17','My friend in Boston has used this site and has been very happy.  I would love to find a sitter so I can go out at night with my husband.  My mom loves to babysit (during the day)!  Maybe I\'ll check it out, too.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2701,536,'Mrs. Davis','thelovelymrsdavis@hotmail.com','','65.189.255.10','2006-04-10 16:33:03','2006-04-10 16:33:03','I\'ll have to check that out.  We also get college students, since we\'re in a university town and my husband teaches there.  I have three this semester - one of which is the fave, and the other two are back-ups.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2702,536,'sweatpantsmom','marsha_tm@yahoo.com','','70.231.48.21','2006-04-11 04:39:03','2006-04-11 04:39:03','Thanks for the link!  I will have to check this site out.\n\nWe have a short list of babysitters, but there is the rare occasion when they are all busy, every last one of \'em.  What is it, a conspiracy?\n\n(Thanks for visiting my site!)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2703,536,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-04-11 20:08:11','2006-04-11 20:08:11','I meant to thank you for this link earlier - Thank You!  I\'ve checked it out and it might be just what I was looking for.\nThankyouthankyouthankyou.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2704,536,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-04-11 21:37:59','2006-04-11 21:37:59','You\'re welcome!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2705,537,'R*belle','r.belle@gmail.com','','24.31.207.127','2006-04-07 13:21:07','2006-04-07 13:21:07','No need to justify!  I totally agree and if I lived where you do I would be handing you names as fast as I could.  Moms need sanity, and both moms and kids need a break from each other.  Children also need to learn that there are other people that they have to answer to so that they can adjust to kindergarten and the like.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2706,537,'mjtam','mjtam@intimatepursuits.com','','75.3.11.26','2006-04-07 15:33:10','2006-04-07 15:33:10','I know how you feel...just last fall my live-in Nanny decided to go back to her country.  I had her for 3 years and all of the sudden I don\'t know what to do. I work from home, and I would\'ve been miserable if I didn\'t have her then.  The good part is that she left when my kids are not so needy anymore like they were as small infants.\n\nIt\'s a change of lifestyle, but just hang in there...and keep looking, you may find someone as wonderful.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2707,537,'Karen','kahatch@charter.net','','66.188.199.116','2006-04-07 16:46:51','2006-04-07 16:46:51','I hear you. I work at home. Last Spring I found a great young woman to come for 3 hours once a week so I could really get work done. We went on a week\'s vacation and when I returned, she had changed her phone number with no forwarding. (Um. Yeah. I don\'t know what we did, either.)\n\nAnd I am an expert at \"warming dinner,\" I\'m surfing instead of working RIGHT NOW, and my kids don\'t go to bed until 8:30 and 9. I am not sane.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2708,537,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-04-07 17:01:22','2006-04-07 17:01:22','When you figure out the secret to finding an excellent babysitter, please TELL ME!\n\nI\'m sorry for your loss :-(\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2709,537,'Redneckmommy','talesfromt@yahoo.ca','','161.184.196.184','2006-04-07 17:40:31','2006-04-07 17:40:31','You have my condolences.  There are not many things that are mandatory for mommy happiness, but reliable childcare is one of them.  I wish I have suggestions for you, but instead I will offer my sympathy.  Hope you find someone soon!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2710,537,'kvetch blogger','asng3017@aol.com','','152.163.100.204','2006-04-07 18:11:18','2006-04-07 18:11:18','Absolutely no need to justify - but sometimes I feel as if everyone (myself included) just needs to remember that it could be worse.  What if you couldn\'t afford a sitter? Many can\'t. What if you were a single mom like your sister (and me) and had no back-up. Be patient and you will find another sitter - even if its just someone for the summer home from college.  GOOD LUCK and SMILE!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2711,537,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','71.228.40.185','2006-04-07 18:25:29','2006-04-07 18:25:29','You\'ll find someone! Call ... um ... schools? Or maybe go by some schools, there might be a bulletin board or something you can check. Was she a student? Students are usually good for this stuff, right? Tell her she has to find you someone else before she leaves!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2712,537,'Tater and Tot','dtkacey@hotmail.com','','66.191.237.49','2006-04-08 00:44:01','2006-04-08 00:44:01','Hilarious!!!  It seems as though your blog Friday ended with the exact same phrase that mine on Friday started with.  \"I need a break.\"  Why is it that no one other than a fellow mom knows what that really means.  Mmmm...perhaps we could film a public service announcement on NBC.  You know, \"The More You Know.\"  The more you know to give your wife/daughter/sister/aunt/best friend/neighbor/etc. a break occasionaly, the better off everyone would be.  But then again, all we do is watch soap operas and eat Little Debbie cakes, right?  Who needs a break from that? I wish.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2713,537,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-04-08 09:29:22','2006-04-08 09:29:22','I\'m on the hunt now for reliable childcare for the very same reasons (a one year old at the gynecologist\'s?  Uh, don\'t think so.).  Its impossible!  So I wept a bit for your loss.  Your fruit basket is in the mail.\n\nAs for your babysitter, unfortunately I can see her point.  You rarely have to wipe a dog\'s butt.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2714,537,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-04-08 21:59:47','2006-04-08 21:59:47','I wish I had a babysitter. I soooo need a break and can\'t depend on my dumbass husband to give me an hour to do anything. Sorry having a bad day!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2715,537,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','209.218.163.2','2006-04-09 02:13:57','2006-04-09 02:13:57','Supermom is a fairy tale. Ain\'t no such thing, at least not without some serious pharmaceutical help. Don\'t try to live up to a myth; we could all sooner be Persephone than Supermom.\n\nI wish you (a very heartfelt) lots of luck with your search...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2716,537,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','71.246.201.130','2006-04-09 09:59:54','2006-04-09 09:59:54','Don\'t worry, none of us here are supermoms.  They may exist somewhere, but I expect Mom101 is correct about supermom being a fairy tale.  So we can absolutely relate.\n\nDid you ask the babysitter if she knows anyone?    We\'ve had luck with that approach in the past.  Wish I could provide more advice, but we\'re all here to listen if you need to vent.  Good luck!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2717,537,'Rachel','rachel307@hotmail.com','','66.188.150.41','2006-04-09 13:04:12','2006-04-09 13:04:12','A solution?  I go to a Technical School in MN which offers some child care and adult care classes.  We have a huge job posting board in which the administrators post job opportunities.  Do you have any colleges near you (especially Tech Colleges?)  There is usually quite a few child care job listings.  You could contact the school and post your offer on the board.  I always see people checking it out.  Just an idea for you!  Good luck!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2718,537,'Kristen','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.176.159','2006-04-09 13:10:00','2006-04-09 13:10:00','A dog sitter? We too are far from family. I use a trusty college student... I have a couple others that I use here and there when the other one can\'t make it.\n\nAny schools nearby?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2719,537,'Her Bad Mother','caconnors@rogers.com','','72.137.39.107','2006-04-09 14:07:36','2006-04-09 14:07:36','Currently struggling with this one myself. The gynecologist dilemma is pending (gah), but currently need to see dentist that is only open during business hours. Must fnd babysitter, or switch dentists. But the latter doesn\'t help me with gynecologist visits, hairdresser visits, name-your-baby-burden-errand.\n\nKristen\'s on to something, tho\' - college student! Off to look into that myself...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2720,537,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','24.26.136.35','2006-04-09 19:42:40','2006-04-09 19:42:40','I would also love to know the secret of finding a reliable babysitter. I work part time, and the days I work we have family to care for our daughter. But if I need a doctor\'s appt. or just some time to myself, I generally have no one to ask, since I use all my favors with my family.\n\nI\'m so sorry you lost your sitter. I wish you luck in finding another!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2721,538,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-04-05 17:59:41','2006-04-05 17:59:41','I run a daycare and so there are poopy diapers a plenty at my house.  I put them in the grocery bag and then throw them away. Sadly, your Mom was right. I hate admitting it when my Mom is right, too.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2722,538,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-04-05 19:56:41','2006-04-05 19:56:41','I had the Diaper Genie, at least I think that\'s what it was called. Anyway, it lasted about a day because I couldn\'t figure out how to use it. I\'ve been using plastic bags for almost 3 years now and it\'s much easier ... although it doesn\'t really disguise the smell. I guess nothing really does!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2723,538,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','71.228.40.185','2006-04-05 22:30:58','2006-04-05 22:30:58','We bought a \"diaper champ.\" It comes with an instruction manual. Whatever! We needed it, because I didn\'t know how to use the plastic bags. Although my biggest concern is keeping my dog from eating the diapers. No can do with the baggies.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2724,538,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.21.243.33','2006-04-06 08:21:58','2006-04-06 08:21:58','The Diaper Genie did us in.  It stunk so bad!  We now use the who grocery bag idea and then place that in a pail in the garage.  Now, only the garage smells!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2725,538,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-04-06 16:13:53','2006-04-06 16:13:53','We were just considering getting rid of our Diaper Genie because it can\'t keep up with the smell... but I can\'t do it because that would mean admiting defeat before the people who told me it was a waste of money.  I will not go out like that!  My house will stink, but I will not admit I was wrong.\nI will, instead, invest in a very expensive air filter system!  LOL\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2726,538,'sugarmama','mjtam@intimatepursuits.com','','75.3.11.26','2006-04-06 16:46:29','2006-04-06 16:46:29','I received 4 (yes 4) Diaper Genie when I was pregnant with my first born, and I was so excited!  My husabnd and I said...wow...one for the nursery, one for the basement, one for the kitchen, and maybe one for our bedroom.  So my hubby kept it at check everyday.  We even ordered a box of refill on ebay! Until one day he was so tired checking the next day the house smelled like a dead rat lives there...ewww ...haha...We resorted to plastic shopping bags now too because someone suggested it, and I thought it was an awesome idea...lol duh\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2727,538,'Mrs. Davis','thelovelymrsdavis@hotmail.com','','65.189.255.10','2006-04-06 19:25:27','2006-04-06 19:25:27','Never tried Diaper Dekor or Diaper Genie....just have always used a diaper pail with a lid that locks, along with baking soda scented bags, a Yankee Candle on the baby\'s dresser, and sometimes a Stick-Up inside the diaper pail lid.  With the occaisional \"who died in here\" kind of poop, we would take the diaper directly out to the garbage can.\n\nDo breast-fed babies have not-so-stinky poop?  Or do I just not realize that my house smells?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2728,538,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-04-06 20:46:53','2006-04-06 20:46:53','It looks like you are going above and beyond the call of duty!  I\'m sure your house is fresh as a day in spring.\n\nI do miss the relatively stink-free breastfed days.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2729,538,'GIRLS GONE CHILD','rebeccawoolf@hotmail.com','','71.130.106.116','2006-04-07 01:47:24','2006-04-07 01:47:24','I am about to toss the Diaper Dekor myself. Sooooo annoying. I\'M SO GLAD you posted about this. I thought I was alone on the subject and DUDE, i have to order all the refills online. THey don\'t even sell them in the store around here. AHHHHH!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2730,538,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-04-07 02:08:24','2006-04-07 02:08:24','I about peed myself reading this. I know exactly the aroma you speak of. We had a diaper genie and it was all fun and good times until you had to take the poop sausages out of it. Oh. My. God. Nasty! Now we just do what your very wise mother suggested :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2731,538,'Tater and Tot','dtkacey@hotmail.com','','66.191.237.49','2006-04-08 00:36:03','2006-04-08 00:36:03','I have 2 girls (3 in May and 2 in July) who must have the most horrific smelling poop in the world.  We put all of our garbage in the kitchen can, which has a domed, swinging lid.  So imagine this: two girls with two awful poopy diapers before bed, and one lazy mommy who doesn\'t want to take the garbage to the outside can.  Then comes morning - of course one lazy (not to mention half asleep) mommy has forgotten about the two awful poopy diapers before bed, and swings that lid open for a banana peel or a yogurt container and...BAM!, lazy, sleepy, and now concussion laden mommy falls in the floor coughing and gagging and covering her eyes because of the incredible stinging sensation.  Well, not quite that dramatic, but, I bet you all have been there!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2732,538,'Denise','meatloafsucks@hotmail.com','','65.6.61.233','2006-04-09 08:11:27','2006-04-09 08:11:27','I\'ve always used the (as my husband calls it: \"White Trash Diaper Genie\") cheapskate version of the Diaper Genie. Plastic grocery bags are great!\n\nSee? Sometimes Mom DOES know best....did I just say that? ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2733,538,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','71.246.201.130','2006-04-09 10:03:21','2006-04-09 10:03:21','We still use the Diaper Genie in the nursery -- as Izzy said, it\'s not bad at containing odors until we have to remove the \"sausage links\" which stink to high heaven.  But our system for the living room changes involves those skinny plastic bags that newspapers come in.  Works like a charm, and it\'s FREE!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2734,538,'Christina','cmcmenemy@gmail.com','','24.26.136.35','2006-04-09 19:38:05','2006-04-09 19:38:05','I had friends who had a Diaper Genie, and it always smelled awful.\n\nWe bought the Neat system and it\'s been awesome. It\'s in our living room and it never smells. Had it not worked, we also would have resorted to grocery bags (which we also use when the Neat pail runs empty).\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2735,539,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-04-04 16:48:50','2006-04-04 16:48:50','At that time of the day I\'m sure there were no kids on the bus.  I\'m keeping my fingers crossed just to be safe, though.\n\nI blame this crummy weather on my friend who came over on Sunday wearing flip flops and capri pants.  That\'s just tempting Mother Nature to slap us around.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2736,539,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','24.14.46.204','2006-04-04 20:07:16','2006-04-04 20:07:16','Oh phew. I\'m glad there were no kids on it! Sorry you had a shitty one, hopefully those stupid weather men were wrong about the snow.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2737,539,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-04-04 22:41:06','2006-04-04 22:41:06','Sorry to had a crappy day. There\'s always tomorrow .... HUGZ!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2738,539,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','209.218.163.40','2006-04-05 01:03:40','2006-04-05 01:03:40','Something\'s in the air. Flares and blocked roads and dozens of police and fire vehicles peppered my entire drive home (to the hotel) from work yesterday. Yikes.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2739,539,'Undercover Angel','traceyrosenblath@hotmail.com','','206.172.251.97','2006-04-05 01:54:58','2006-04-05 01:54:58','Sorry you had a crappy day.  I\'m glad there were no kids on the bus.  I always worry that something will bad will happen while my kids are on the bus.  Hopefully tomorrow will be a new day.\n\nMy kids watched Chicken Little this week, and at the end Chicken Little says that even when things are so bad that it feels like the sky is falling on you, remember that everyday is a new day...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2740,540,'Lisa','lmk@kiski.net','','24.3.147.138','2006-04-03 12:22:00','2006-04-03 12:22:00','I can\'t thank you enough for this post.  I have an 8yr old son who I wonder and worry about as he grows into young adulthood.  Am I giving him a good foundation, am I teaching him it\'s okay to be different and to like himself?\n\nDuring my younger years I have run across many people who made me hurt and made me cry and I know those experiences shaped me into the person that I am today -- and sometimes I have to wonder if I am a good person.  It\'s hard not to harbor resentment and be unable to forgive let alone forget and I worry that somehow my childhood short comings will negatively impact my son\'s.\n\nThank for your blog.\nLisa\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2741,540,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-04-03 12:47:36','2006-04-03 12:47:36','Yes. Some things really are just too painful. As for my children, my daughter is in preschool and last year, in pre-k 4, I had to step in because of what I call \"girl meanness\" and social bullying. Some people, friends of mine, have been very laissez-faire about the whole thing, intimating that perhaps my own experiences are making me too sensitive to my daughter \"taking her knocks\". A part of me wonders if that\'s true but the other part is incensed that anyone would minimize the pain of children just because they are little and the bullies don\'t know any better. Hello? Teaching moment, assholes! This is a topic very close to my heart. Thank you for bringing it up.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2742,540,'island Jen','island_artist@telus.net','','142.179.60.175','2006-04-03 14:08:18','2006-04-03 14:08:18','As a 9 year old (hitting puberty early) I changed schools and the girls at the new school were heartless.  I nearly failed the grade by trying not to tick any of them off by being better at school than they.  Thank goodness it happened at a time before thoughts of suicide even entered my little mind.  The funny part is that because of the treatment I recieved for that year I became such a better person and friend to all the future people I met in my life.\nI\'ve broken up some \'girl meanness\' at the park.  The older girls were saying mean things to my daughter (not knowing I was watching and listening) and it broke my heart into a million pieces.\nI called the girls out and explained to them that my daughter thought they were SO COOL that she wanted to hang out with them.  It was okay if they didn\'t want her there but they didn\'t have to be mean to her.  I hope this changed their perceptions for the future... I can only hope.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2743,540,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-04-03 15:09:50','2006-04-03 15:09:50','oh sweetie, i know exactly what you are talking about. it is one of my biggest fears as well. i can\'t bear the thought of my daughter being rejected or feeling lonely. it\'s just not fair. that books sounds like a good read but I would be scared too. I had a friend in high school committ suicide and it rocked my world. Changed everything! His letter was heartbreaking. I can\'t stop thinking, \"it\'s just not fair!\"\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2744,540,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-04-03 15:11:08','2006-04-03 15:11:08','The Mama Beat in me comes out whenever I think about someone possibly harming my child, emotionally or otherwise.  When the time comes for her to go to school I\'ll have to resist the strong urge to park myself in one of those little seats beside her.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2745,540,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-04-03 15:13:37','2006-04-03 15:13:37','Yeah, I need to spell check my comments... I meant to say Mama Bear, not Beat!  Maybe I was thinking too hard about taking on the 8 year old boy who pulls my daughter\'s hair!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2746,540,'scarbiedoll','scarbiedoll@sympatico.ca','','170.171.252.130','2006-04-03 15:48:30','2006-04-03 15:48:30','I changed schools in the 7th grade and was bullied relentlessly for two years until I went to high school. I had gone to uniform school for years and never thought about dressing to get attention. Suddenly I had to look cool on a KMart wardrobe. Those were some hard years. We had to force my low-income parents to buy us a polo shirt so my sister and I could take turns with it and gain favour with those assholes.\n\nLuckily, I managed to channel the trauma of being the underdog into resolve. I studied pop culture and fashion obsessively in high school in order to stay on top of the cool kids. I swore I would not be ordinary and that someday I would be on top of the world doing cool and exciting things that would make my former tormenters see that they had me wrong.\n\nFor the most part I have achieved those goals. But now, as Nate grows up, I am fully aware of what may lie ahead. There is no way of knowing if your child will sink or swim in the school system. You think your kid is cool, but will other kids? And how do you step in without making matters worse? These are scary times for a parent.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2747,540,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','24.14.46.204','2006-04-03 19:12:54','2006-04-03 19:12:54','I\'m afraid of some books, too, but it\'s more like Finnegan\'s Wake or The DaVinci code ...\n\nYup, I get ya on this one. Would it be too embarassing to follow them to school and form a protective barrier around them whenever you sensed some meanness going on?\n\nThis is one of the biggest reasons why I became a teacher. To stop this sort of thing from happening. And a lot of times I do stop it, and then I feel that I\'ve done something, no matter how small, for that kid. And there are lots of teachers like me.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2748,540,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','71.246.201.130','2006-04-03 20:42:24','2006-04-03 20:42:24','I am scared of the same thing with my girls -- having them experience the same rejections and pain that I did as a pre-teen and teenager.  I have been shocked to see that the peer pressure begins even as early as 3, that there\'s this whole \"I\'m not your friend\" vibe going on.  I hope I can brace myself and prepare my girls for the time that\'s coming up.  In hindsight, I know it made me a stronger person, but it was sooooo hard while I was living through it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2749,540,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','205.147.10.2','2006-04-04 00:03:59','2006-04-04 00:03:59','Oh I\'m so with you about the heightened sensitivity to cruelty. Although I\'ve thought about it a lot, and given the (sucky) choice, I\'d rather my daughter be teased and learn coping mechanism, than the be the mean girl teaser. Oh please please please, don\'t let her be either!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2750,540,'Stacie','staciemincher@hotmail.com','','71.241.128.50','2006-04-04 00:26:37','2006-04-04 00:26:37','My sister is a sixth grade teacher at a small rural school and they just suffered a major tragedy a month or so ago.  A boy that had been in class with her students all along and had just moved and transfered to a different school in the district this past fall hung himself in his family\'s garage.  They still don\'t know exactally what happened and they are not allowed to discuss the details at the school.  Some kids in her class had been very close to the boy and it brought up a lot of emotions in the kids and adults.  They had counselers at the school for a few days to talk to everyone.  What an awful thing to have happen.  I\'m not sure if I even understood the concept of suicide when I was that age.  Things are different today and kids are exposed to so much more.  They see so many things in this world that as adults we are so numb to now.  I just read a shocking book, The Kindness of Strangers by Katrina Kittle.  It\'s about a child who was sexually molested by his parents and is taken in by a friend of the family.  Although it was fiction, it was a  pretty frightning and thought provoking book.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2751,540,'TB','tammie_s_booth@yahoo.com','','206.131.208.24','2006-04-04 09:21:24','2006-04-04 09:21:24','You\'re right. There will be times that your child will be hurt and you won\'t be able to protect them or make it better. I\'m not a parent yet, but I imagine this is one of the most difficult things about having a child.\n\nBut you are doing all the right things to make sure that he can learn to deal with the inevitable things that happen and letting him know that you will always be there for him when he needs you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2752,540,'Kim','kimschoffel@gmail.com','','68.46.232.172','2006-04-04 09:25:35','2006-04-04 09:25:35','This comes at a really interesting time for me. My 5 year old is a Kindergartner, currently going through a phase with one of her \"friends\" who likes to bully her. The girl threatens my daughter with not being her friend anymore if she doesn\'t share her lunches, and refuses to let anyone else on the playground play with my daughter. It\'s heartbreaking to watch, and we\'re doing the best we can to give my daughter the will to stand up for herself, even while trying to keep her as sweet as she\'s always been. We also tend to be the parents that hang on just a little too long. Like not letting her watch certain shows, play with certain toys, and go to sleepovers. Other parents scoff, but I want her to keep her innocence as long as she can. Just 5 years old and it\'s already a tough life.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2753,540,'Redneckmommy','talesfromt@yahoo.ca','','161.184.204.225','2006-04-04 10:43:18','2006-04-04 10:43:18','As the recipient of a lot of junior high teasing I sooo understand.  My son is 8 and very sensitive.  There is not a day that goes by that I don\'t worry about his heart- which he wears on his sleeve.  Kids are cruel and I have no advice.  I only hope that my parenting will give him (and his sis) the tools they need so they don\'t succumb to bad feelings.  But I\'d be lying if I said I didn\'t tear my hair out with worry.  All the time.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2754,540,'Emily','emily@peanutwagon.net','','67.166.251.235','2006-04-04 12:08:00','2006-04-04 12:08:00','My 2nd daughter(she\'s 8) has been the subject of so much ridicule already(toss up of reasons between her selective mutism, glasses, dyslexia, etc) and I always think the same things....\n\nIf I can\'t protect her, how can I make her stronger?\n\nIts a scary world to raise kids in. Kids killing, being killed, doing drugs, I guess our job as mothers is just to lead them down the right road, show them how to use a compass and pray they find their way once we let go if their hands and send them off.\n\nThis is a great post...thanks for touching me.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2755,540,'Mrs. Davis','thelovelymrsdavis@hotmail.com','','65.189.255.10','2006-04-04 17:29:25','2006-04-04 17:29:25','With my oldest in kindergarten this year, I\'m just starting to see the kind of teasing, etc that goes on with kids now.  And how young it can start.  Like Mom101 said, I would rather my kid be teased than be the one teasing.  And most of the time I\'m glad I have two sons (rather than two daughters ), especially when I remember how mean girls could be when i was young.  But this book would remind me how bad it can be for boys too.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2756,540,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-04-04 19:33:05','2006-04-04 19:33:05','Thanks for the comments guys.  It\'s so good to know that we are not alone.  I wish our kids could go to school together!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2757,540,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.21.243.33','2006-04-05 10:29:05','2006-04-05 10:29:05','I feel so much for my kids when it comes to them navigating the social world.  It\'s very painful, almost like reliving HS again.  I worry all the time that they will feel the panic and worry I felt trying to fit in.  While I wasn\'t actively picked on, I wasn\'t part of any one group of friends.  It was very isolating.  I just hope I can help protect my kids from that feeling of isolation and prevent them from making others feel that way, too.\n\nYour post was very touching and thought-provoking.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2758,541,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','24.14.46.204','2006-03-30 11:59:03','2006-03-30 11:59:03','That would have creeped me out. Fuller Brush? Really? Is that company still in existence? And if he was trying to ... do something untoward, wouldn\'t he have come up with something better? Bizarre-o.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2759,541,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-30 12:52:06','2006-03-30 12:52:06','I agree.  I guess he could have come up with something better.\n\nThe only door-to-door salesman I\'d open the door for would be a Girl Scout selling Thin Mints.  But a man with a toilet brush? It\'s just too weird.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2760,541,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-03-30 13:51:13','2006-03-30 13:51:13','I don\'t think I would even trust the Girl Scouts at this point.  Too scary.  Glad to hear that you slammed the door in his face.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2761,541,'Kristine Munroe','kristinemunroe@yahoo.com','','70.91.133.109','2006-03-30 14:16:16','2006-03-30 14:16:16','That would have freaked me out too!   That\'s a little unsettling.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2762,541,'Kari Rowles','kari@periferal.net','','66.41.104.204','2006-03-30 14:46:07','2006-03-30 14:46:07','Scary!  You did the right thing.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2763,541,'Marek','mhickernell@masslaborlawyers.com','','216.204.93.146','2006-03-30 14:57:08','2006-03-30 14:57:08','Guess the company still exists, anyway:\n\n<a href=\"http://www.fuller.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.fuller.com/</a>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2764,541,'Mimi','junk@thedempseys.org','','68.100.11.56','2006-03-30 15:29:20','2006-03-30 15:29:20','I would have called the police too. If he was legit it wouldn\'t have been a problem.\n\nMimi\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2765,541,'Sandy','sdunavan@verizon.net','','70.105.82.70','2006-03-30 17:18:47','2006-03-30 17:18:47','The Mormon boys haven\'t visited you yet?  No high school student fundraisers?\n\nI actually remember some very nice Fuller Brushes that my mom bought about 30 years ago.  But don\'t they have a website or something?  Wierd.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2766,541,'Stacy Quarty','stacy@franklypregnant.com','','24.188.91.215','2006-03-30 17:54:42','2006-03-30 17:54:42','That reminds me of when the supposed \"born agains\" came to my door. They were beyond creepy and pushy. I couldn\'t tell if they were for real. Anyway, I told them that I was a devil worshiper, so don\'t waste your time... and then slammed the door.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2767,541,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','71.246.201.130','2006-03-30 18:00:20','2006-03-30 18:00:20','That\'s weird.  I am glad you didn\'t open the door.  I am getting so I tell people that I will only contribute/make purchases etc. online or if they send info via the U.S. Mail.  Phone and door-to-door stuff is too annoying.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2768,541,'Diane','DV4242@aol.com','','64.12.116.11','2006-03-30 18:12:02','2006-03-30 18:12:02','When will they learn!  Fuller Brush men and telemarketers!  I have a friend who, when a telemarketer calls asking for her husband, goes into a weeping (made-up) tyraid of how she was just getting over his leaving.....how he left her and their three children for a younger, carefree, beautiful woman....weep...weep.....she loves him still...and has been trying desperately to get over him......(blowing nose) and NOW YOU reminded me of him by saying his name.....sniff...snifff....\n\nWell...let\'s just say--THEY hang up on her!\n\n:)  Diane\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2769,541,'petitegourmand','studio9@sympatico.ca','','65.95.114.71','2006-03-30 19:02:20','2006-03-30 19:02:20','I get freaked out by the gas man coming to read the meter (which is inside the basement) most of the time they are wearing uniforms etc. but occasionally they don\'t, all that in consistency makes you wonder.\nbut a toilet brush selling dude?\nwierd.\nI actually hate when people knock on the door period.\neveryone I know calls before dropping by.\nand it always seems to happen JUST as I get the wee one down for a nap.\nvery annoying.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2770,541,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-30 19:41:03','2006-03-30 19:41:03','weepy tirades..devil worshipping...He He..\n\nI\'m glad I\'m not alone in my hatred of door-to-door salespeople.  They\'re almost as bad as telemarketers.  Almost.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2771,541,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-03-30 21:05:33','2006-03-30 21:05:33','that\'s scary but good for you for slamming the door in his face. you never know these days!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2772,541,'Mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','209.218.163.40','2006-03-30 21:15:01','2006-03-30 21:15:01','I\'d be a little weirded out too, and the more time that went on, the more I\'d be freaked out until I was like OH MY GOD HE WAS DEFINITELY A SERIAL KILLER! But the truth was, he was probably selling brushes.\n\nScore one for apartment living.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2773,541,'Chase','chase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.191','2006-03-30 21:33:16','2006-03-30 21:33:16','What the? I don\'t even know what a Fuller Brush Man is!  Toilet brushes? Really?? Is there that big a need for those that they have to come to your door?\n\nI\'m glad you\'re not dead by the brush man. Freaky, man.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2774,541,'Emily','emily@peanutwagon.net','','67.166.251.235','2006-03-31 10:42:50','2006-03-31 10:42:50','I recently had a man come to my door selling fruits and veggies. Fruits and veggies? I convinced myself they were all date-rape-grapefruits so I turned him down, claimig my family are meat-etarians because we think its cruel to kill plants for food.\n(ok, not really, but I did turn him down)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2775,541,'Redneckmommy','talesfromt@yahoo.ca','','161.184.196.105','2006-03-31 11:08:45','2006-03-31 11:08:45','Scary.  Makes me glad I live out in the sticks and my driveway is half a mile long.  I have plenty of time to make sure the doors are locked before they even step out of their vehicles.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2776,541,'Buffy Holt','none@unknown.com','','81.156.143.139','2006-03-31 13:25:29','2006-03-31 13:25:29','That\'s so freakin funny.\n\nBut at the same time.  I don\'t even open my door for the landlord.\n\nIn fact, I don\'t open it at all when I\'m home alone.\n\nI\'m antisocial and paranoid that way.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2777,541,'HDW','hotdoctorwife@yahoo.com','','67.41.137.139','2006-03-31 14:45:53','2006-03-31 14:45:53','After we had a break-in two years ago (the guy rang the doorbell to \'see\' if we were home, and I was, just 6-weeks post-partum and didn\'t feel like getting it), I always go to the door. Don\'t always answer it, but just to let them know I\'m here now.\n\nBut really - I\'m so careful anymore. If they think I\'m a bitch, well then - I\'d rather be a bitch than have another intruder bust through my basement window.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2778,541,'suz','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.71.58','2006-03-31 23:45:53','2006-03-31 23:45:53','did you call the cops?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2779,541,'kvetch blogger','asng3017@aol.com','','64.12.116.11','2006-04-01 08:32:28','2006-04-01 08:32:28','Please don\'t answer the door next time. Peek out, shake your head, and shut it. If you have no window or way to look out, put a sign on your door advising solicitors to go away.  I just let my dogs bark and bark...and if I do look out, I shake my head NO and walk away.  And then I call the local police. Be careful.  And I live in a safe, friendly small town.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2780,541,'jozet','jozet@verizon.net','','71.240.131.103','2006-04-02 04:10:29','2006-04-02 04:10:29','This is why I *always* wear a fedora when out selling Girl Scout cookies.\n\nOr ax-murdering.\n\n\n\nJust kidding about the ax-murdering. I prefer to kill people slowly with trefoil-shaped, fattening bakery items.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2781,541,'reluctant housewife','none@unknown.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-04-02 07:55:57','2006-04-02 07:55:57','Jozet:  That\'s why I only eat Thin Mints.  Or Caramel Delites.  I fear the Trefoils.\n\nAnd Kvetch, don\'t worry, there was always a heavy locked door (with a window) between me and the non-fedora wearing brush psycho/salesman.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2782,541,'girlgoyle','xxx@hotmail.com','','66.153.89.194','2006-04-03 09:53:37','2006-04-03 09:53:37','And the ever present Jehova\'s witness calling at 8AM on a Sunday inquiring weather we know what the meaning of life is. At 8AM on a sunday there is only one thing I can assure you...you probably won\'t live to see noon if you are knocking on my door!! LOL\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2783,542,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','151.198.46.11','2006-03-27 07:05:35','2006-03-27 07:05:35','Congratulations on the quote in the paper!\n\nGood luck w/your guests.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2784,542,'K.','khatina1@gmail.com','','66.56.225.156','2006-03-27 07:12:39','2006-03-27 07:12:39','How very, very cool to be quoted.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2785,542,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','162.138.176.51','2006-03-27 08:38:24','2006-03-27 08:38:24','Enjoy your guests as much as possible.  hope you feel better soon.  And congrats on the quote -- that was a funny little bit you wrote.  :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2786,542,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-03-27 10:55:49','2006-03-27 10:55:49','Wow!  Quoted in the Globe.  Does this make you famous?  Can we say we (sort of) knew you when?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2787,542,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','151.200.110.3','2006-03-27 11:27:42','2006-03-27 11:27:42','YOU ARE A BOSTON SUPERSTAH!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2788,542,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','24.14.46.204','2006-03-27 13:01:27','2006-03-27 13:01:27','Wow! did you know that was going to be printed before it was? Interesting.\n\nHey cold you start sending me the globe crossword every weekend? Just kidding... but when we moved away from Detroit I had to get used to it not being published in our local paper. I love that x-word.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2789,542,'chichimama','momtocanda@gmail.com','','69.142.198.141','2006-03-27 15:04:56','2006-03-27 15:04:56','Tres cool about the quote!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2790,542,'cmhl','cmhlgirl@gmail.com','','68.53.43.130','2006-03-27 20:09:29','2006-03-27 20:09:29','I know how you feel!!  I am apparently in that new blog book, which I found......... thrilling.  but whom can I tell?  nobody.  except \"the internet\"...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2791,542,'reluctant housewife','none@unknown.com','','65.96.17.54','2006-03-28 10:12:21','2006-03-28 10:12:21','Crouching Mommy:  Congratulations on the well deserved blurb!  You know, in a way it\'s better that real life friends don\'t know about the blog because they\'d be like \"you have a blog?  Has a doctor seen it?\"\n\nThanks guys!  I knew you\'d understand.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2792,542,'Kristen','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.176.159','2006-03-28 19:16:23','2006-03-28 19:16:23','Damnit, I knew you were famous. That\'s awesome!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2793,542,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-03-29 05:40:11','2006-03-29 05:40:11','The post about nothing... wasn\'t that a Seinfeld epdisode? har har\n\nCongratulations, dahling! You\'ve arrived :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2794,542,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-03-29 11:24:55','2006-03-29 11:24:55','That\'s wicked cool about being quoted in the Globe.  I agree that Chrysler sucks.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2795,542,'GIRLS GONE CHILD','rebeccawoolf@hotmail.com','','71.130.106.116','2006-03-29 17:25:17','2006-03-29 17:25:17','this is great news! now by proximity (reprezenting your banner) I am famous as well. Thank God. I mean, it\'s about time.\n\nIn all seriousness, congratulations. xx\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2796,542,'mistry','shenazz@gmail.com','','69.105.116.210','2006-03-29 19:34:58','2006-03-29 19:34:58','congrats RH on the boston globe quote and all the luck entertaining guests... ah one of my pet peeves as i suck at it :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2797,542,'mjtam','mjtam@intimatepursuits.com','','75.3.11.26','2006-03-30 09:52:34','2006-03-30 09:52:34','Wow!  How awesome is that! You are a celebrity in my book. hehe\n\nGood luck at being a tour guide/cook/driver/hostess-in-chief, atI\'m sure you are great at it.  Besides more blog material for you. :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2798,543,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-03-23 11:15:20','2006-03-23 11:15:20','Oooh, its probably a good thing you aren\'t into sports.  If you were a fanatical Red Sox fan (like me... and my friends... and my family) that encounter could have gone muuuuch worse.\n\nBut, seriously, were his eyes really that green?  They are quite dreamy to look at!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2799,543,'Lisa B','www.motherofbun@yahoo.com','','69.151.8.10','2006-03-23 11:41:41','2006-03-23 11:41:41','What a great story. I have only seen one famous person \"out\". We were in New York. I kept looking at this incredibly well groomed, high maintenance woman. I kept thinking, I bet she\'s famous. Later our waiter told us we were sitting next to some chic who\'s an anchor on CNN or something. I don\'t remember her name. And I wouldn\'t have recognized her because we don\'t even have cable.\n\nNow... Don\'t you feel awhole lot cooler about YOUR story upon hearing my LAME, LAME, LAME one? heehee.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2800,543,'Lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-03-23 13:10:49','2006-03-23 13:10:49','When I used to live in NYC I saw famous people everywhere and the Texas girl inside of me was freaking out, but I somehow managed to control myself. Now if I would have seen Christian Bale I don\'t think I would even have been able to control my bladder.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2801,543,'MetroDad','metrodad1@aol.com','','160.79.12.226','2006-03-23 13:59:15','2006-03-23 13:59:15','My favorite celebrity encounter occured about 12-15 years ago.  My buddy and I walked into a 24-hour diner in NYC after a long evening out.  As we walked in, we say Willem Dafoe sitting by himself in a booth.  My friend (who was a little buzzed) walked straight up to him and started babbling, \"Willem Dafoe!  Holy cow!  It\'s William Dafoe!  No way, man!\"\n\nJust when it looked like Willem Dafoe was going to kill both of us, my friend deadpans, \"Dude.  I have ALL your albums!\"\n\nWillem Dafoe started cracking up hysterically and ended up paying for our burgers.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2802,543,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-03-23 22:10:09','2006-03-23 22:10:09','great one! Just a couple weeks ago I saw Liv Tyler with the same green bugaboo. I guess green is the new red?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2803,543,'redneckmommy','talesfromt@yahoo.ca','','161.184.196.214','2006-03-23 22:45:53','2006-03-23 22:45:53','I was in a mall when Brad and Angelina were visiting with their kiddies.  I saw, I stared.  I was decidedly uncool.  I debated squealing like a school girl and asking for their autographs but I figured I had too much pride for that.  While in reality, I was too damn chicken!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2804,543,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-03-24 07:38:52','2006-03-24 07:38:52','Ugh. A-Rod.  I\'m a Red Sox fan.\n\nI agree with Lissa. I would die if I saw Christian Bale.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2805,543,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-24 09:48:03','2006-03-24 09:48:03','OH. MY. GOD.\n\nI would have gone all psycho-fanatic if I had seen Brad and Angelina!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2806,543,'island Jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-03-24 10:17:14','2006-03-24 10:17:14','I live in Paradise (Vancouver Island) LOL so celebrities tend to congregate around here.  Somehow I\'ve manage to keep my sh*t together when I come into contact with one, or two together.\nI know, it\'s a gift.\nI did however, get caught snapping photos of the Nickleback guitarist (the good looking one) through a plate glass window on a ferry- but we won\'t go into that.\n\nToo bad the \"Baby A-rod fixing up\" didn\'t work out.  So sad!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2807,543,'Fitzgerald','Parisele8@yahoo.com','','24.172.184.246','2006-03-24 15:21:30','2006-03-24 15:21:30','\"When I was working as a waitress at a cocktail bar\"......haha...no really, when I was the Yankees came up for drinks and I had no clue who they were. I just thought they were a random accumulation of unordinarily good-looking men. I served them their rounds of drinks and chatted it up with them. The nicest was A-Rod. Jeeter was not so nice. Only later when the 6\"7 300lb security guard started jumping up and down like a thirteen year old girl at a Backstreet Boy concert did I realize who they were. I went home to tell my husband and mentioned that the nice one, Alex, had asked me to come back to the hotel to hang out with them, he almost fell over in disbelief and said \"Alex!!?? You mean....A-Rod!!\" Who was I to know he was the highest played baseball player? :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2808,543,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','24.14.46.204','2006-03-24 17:15:44','2006-03-24 17:15:44','You shoulda asked about the Bugaboo! Is it really worth the 9 trillion dollars it costs?\n\nLast time I was in NYC I ate dinner next to Chelsea Clinton, and stared at her the entire time because I was thinking \"I know her, I know her, where do I know her from?\" I almost asked her. haha.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2809,544,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','68.164.203.218','2006-03-21 18:55:14','2006-03-21 18:55:14','After four years in Boston and two in Providence, I can relate. Providence, the only city where evidently left on red from the right lane is just hunky-dory.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2810,544,'jess','jess.fancypants@gmail.com','','65.213.77.129','2006-03-22 08:34:08','2006-03-22 08:34:08','It\'s warmer today, so things are looking up!\n\nAnd I HATE driving around here.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2811,544,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','162.138.176.51','2006-03-22 11:14:42','2006-03-22 11:14:42','I\'ve got the bad cough too.  Thank goodness I went to the doctor yesterday morning and got me that good cough medicine with super drugs (codeine) so I can actually get some sleep now.  (well, except for the puking daughter last night... ugh.)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2812,544,'Frances','coffeebarchick@msn.com','','138.89.47.4','2006-03-22 11:47:55','2006-03-22 11:47:55','Feel better.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2813,544,'Lisa B','www.motherofbun@yahoo.com','','70.248.135.113','2006-03-22 14:56:48','2006-03-22 14:56:48','Eeek. I hope you feel better soon. Missouri drivers don\'t use a turn signal at all. And they don\'t care whether there\'s someone in the lane they want to get into or not. So I  know what you mean!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2814,544,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-22 15:02:43','2006-03-22 15:02:43','Thanks ladies.\n\nNancy, you\'re right, what I need is the REAL stuff.  Forget NyQuil!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2815,544,'bridgermama','bridgermama@hotmail.com','','24.21.194.19','2006-03-22 16:16:51','2006-03-22 16:16:51','Sometimes Tuesdays can feel like Mondays.  I just had one of those!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2816,544,'petite gourmand','studio9@sympatico.ca','','65.95.114.71','2006-03-22 22:16:02','2006-03-22 22:16:02','sounds like my day, except I ditched my pilates class tonight.\nhope you feel better and the weather gets warmer soon...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2817,544,'Rachel','grl4dsl@gmail.com','','206.116.75.21','2006-03-23 09:53:55','2006-03-23 09:53:55','Yes, isn\'t that amazing?  When they actually figure out how to use a turn signal, they use the wrong freaking one.\n\nYesterdays driving gem was a vehicle who moved over slightly but didn\'t decelerate or stop as an ambulance with flashing lights passed them going the opposite way.  People.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2818,545,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','71.228.41.148','2006-03-20 17:25:50','2006-03-20 17:25:50','Oh darling, you are an inspiration! I am going into my basement right now to look for those journals. I\'ll post when I\'ve found something. I\'m sorry but I totally laughed out loud at yours.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2819,545,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','71.228.41.148','2006-03-20 18:00:39','2006-03-20 18:00:39','<a href=\"http://mrsfortune.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-triple-dog-dare-you.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mrsfortune.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-triple-dog-dare-you.html</a>\n\nSorry to take up 2 comments.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2820,545,'Blog Antagonist','blog_antagonist@yahoo.com','','68.209.113.160','2006-03-20 18:59:47','2006-03-20 18:59:47','Awww...I thought it was sweet. You were clearly going through something. Adolescence is so flippin hard. Writing goofy (but sweet) poetry is a *healthy* way to deal with all that coming of age crap.\n\nI don\'t live in the same state as my parents, and all of my embarassing stuff still resides in their basement. Thank God. But its a great idea for blogging!\n\nBA\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2821,545,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-20 19:06:23','2006-03-20 19:06:23','Mrs. Fortune:  Bad teen writing of any kind is too good to keep to yourself.  Thanks for linking!\n\nBlog Antagonist:  I actually burned all my journals when I left for college.  This little ditty I know by heart, which is the truly pathetic part.\n\n(My apologies for that last sentence)\n\nEverybody else...c\'mon!  You know you want to...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2822,545,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','141.154.116.30','2006-03-20 19:24:17','2006-03-20 19:24:17','I cannot wait until that comes back to Boston.  I am totally going (just to watch!)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2823,545,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-03-20 20:41:05','2006-03-20 20:41:05','I haven\'t gone back quite so far as highschool (or beyond) but I did post a horrible bit of writing from my early twenties recently. (<a href=\"http://mom-101.blogspot.com/2006/03/creative-skeletons-in-my-closet.html)\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mom-101.blogspot.com/2006/03/creative-skeletons-in-my-closet.html)</a> I may just have to go back and dig deeper. This show sounds awesome!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2824,545,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-03-20 20:47:33','2006-03-20 20:47:33','I am so doing this. I have notebooks and notebooks of lame, whiny teenage journal entries. hahahaha!! I will check back in the morning because right now I\'m too sleepy!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2825,545,'Kristen','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.176.159','2006-03-20 21:04:21','2006-03-20 21:04:21','I\'m putting mine up in a few.\n\nIt\'s not from as far back as I would like (those are all tucked away in Jersey) but it\'s from college...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2826,545,'Stacy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-03-21 07:40:08','2006-03-21 07:40:08','here you go - complete and utter insanity!!\n\n<a href=\"http://anothermommymoment.blogspot.com/2006/03/dora-sign-language-and-teenage.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://anothermommymoment.blogspot.com/2006/03/dora-sign-language-and-teenage.html</a>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2827,545,'GIRLS GONE CHILD','rebeccawoolf@hotmail.com','','71.130.106.116','2006-03-21 13:39:30','2006-03-21 13:39:30','Posted :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2828,545,'Nancy','mommaamme@gmail.com','','71.246.224.79','2006-03-21 18:46:16','2006-03-21 18:46:16','Hi, came over from Another Mommy Moment -- I did this a while ago but it\'s fun to share!\n\n<a href=\"http://mommaamme.typepad.com/mommaamme/2006/01/not_a_poet_and_.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mommaamme.typepad.com/mommaamme/2006/01/not_a_poet_and_.html</a>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2829,545,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-03-21 23:51:11','2006-03-21 23:51:11','<a href=\"http://mom-101.blogspot.com/2006/03/poetic-suckitude.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://mom-101.blogspot.com/2006/03/poetic-suckitude.html</a>\n\nNo more cop-out with an old post; this is a shiny new one, just for you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2830,545,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-22 06:53:53','2006-03-22 06:53:53','Nancy and Mom-101 get the overachiever awards...Thanks for playing along!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2831,545,'robin','robin.morgan@gmail.com','','24.34.32.139','2006-03-22 13:45:26','2006-03-22 13:45:26','oooo, I hope you don\'t mind if I steal this...I\'ll come back and post a link, even!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2832,545,'Lisa B','www.motherofbun@yahoo.com','','70.248.135.113','2006-03-22 15:00:23','2006-03-22 15:00:23','I did that sort of stuff too. I remember a few lines from one of my poems....\n\nVivid thoughts of imagery\nCan you picture this?\nA river of roses in bloom\nA violet covered kiss.\n\nSun and stars together\nLike the mountains in season\nA clustered mind divided\nwhatever for the reason.\n\nI look back on that so embarassed. And what the hell? It SO doesn\'t make any sense! But apparently I loved to string a bunch of words together and make things SOUND (what I thought was) cool. Ha!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2833,545,'dave','dave@getmortified.com','','216.244.11.89','2006-03-22 15:13:02','2006-03-22 15:13:02','Hi.  I actually run Mortified (LA, SF, NYC, Bos, Chi) and started noticing we got a whole bunch of web traffic from your blog. Thanks!  You guys rock. Anyway, we will be up in Boston again within the next 2 months.  But we are ALWAYS looking to add new faces to our stage shows so feel free to your friends to attend or even better, audition. In angst we trust.\nDave\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2834,545,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','68.164.203.218','2006-03-22 18:13:39','2006-03-22 18:13:39','Ha, I just went to the mortified website (thanks, dave) and found three different friends who have performed. Maybe this is my true calling...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2835,545,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-22 18:18:56','2006-03-22 18:18:56','You\'re welcome Dave!\n\nAnd Mom-101 you\'d better tell me if you do audition (I know you\'ll make it).  I may have to drive down to NYC to see that!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2836,545,'scarbie doll','scarbiedoll@sympatico.ca','','67.70.91.66','2006-03-22 21:01:35','2006-03-22 21:01:35','Ok, I SO did a post like this a while back. Let me hunt for it for you. Good laughs. If I re-read it and it\'s not funny, I promise to return with an actual excerpt.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2837,545,'scarbie doll','scarbiedoll@sympatico.ca','','67.70.91.66','2006-03-22 21:09:26','2006-03-22 21:09:26','OK, Here\'s the link to the original post.\n\n<a href=\"http://scarbiedoll.blogspot.com/2005/03/ghost-in-machine.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://scarbiedoll.blogspot.com/2005/03/ghost-in-machine.html</a>\n\nNot that funny. Kinda scary and depressing actually. Posting a good excerpt for you on the site now.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2838,545,'christine','christine@yourmercy.org','','65.73.86.54','2006-03-22 23:15:09','2006-03-22 23:15:09','Okay.  Here\'s my dumb poem.  I was probably drunk when I wrote this.  God help me.  I\'ve got more.  Actually, posting that on my blog felt okay.  Whew.\n<a href=\"http://www.lastnail.org/2006/03/ode-to-i-suck.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.lastnail.org/2006/03/ode-to-i-suck.html</a>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2839,545,'Robin','robin.morgan@gmail.com','','24.34.32.139','2006-03-23 22:22:55','2006-03-23 22:22:55','Here is my post...I wish I could have found those journals from 13..that would have been a hoot!\n\n<a href=\"http://rnmorgan1.blogspot.com/2006/03/angst-its-not-just-for-breakfast.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://rnmorgan1.blogspot.com/2006/03/angst-its-not-just-for-breakfast.html</a>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2840,545,'ktjrdn','ktjrdn@yahoo.com','','12.221.148.89','2006-03-25 22:07:02','2006-03-25 22:07:02','OK, I did it too. I found so many, I couldn\'t decide which to post.\n\n<a href=\"http://ktjrdn.tripod.com/whats_new/index.blog?entry_id=1444239\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://ktjrdn.tripod.com/whats_new/index.blog?entry_id=1444239</a>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2841,546,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','70.34.41.196','2006-03-17 10:20:22','2006-03-17 10:20:22','I\'m sending immunity vibes your way. SICKY GERMS, DISPERSE!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2842,546,'Frances','coffeebarchick@msn.com','','138.89.47.4','2006-03-17 12:15:38','2006-03-17 12:15:38','When my sinuses start up I start drinking lots of fresh oj and I cut out all wheat products.  You\'s be surprised how much it helps.\nSending good vibes your way.\nTake care\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2843,546,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.21.236.120','2006-03-17 12:54:02','2006-03-17 12:54:02','Start taking megadoses of Vitamin C.  That\'s what my mom always made me do when I was younger.\n\nBut, don\'t underestimate the positives of getting sick with the in-laws in town.  Their expectations will be lowered because of you being sick, less pressure.  Plus, you have more hands around to help, aka more time to rest!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2844,546,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-03-17 15:26:22','2006-03-17 15:26:22','Ick...we\'re in the sick zone right now. I totally know what you mean about how you CAN\'T get sick. Stay well :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2845,546,'K.','khatina1@gmail.com','','66.56.225.156','2006-03-17 15:34:52','2006-03-17 15:34:52','I too, used to think that mommyhood would make me immune. Um, no. Didn\'t work for me. Good luck to you though!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2846,546,'mrsfortune','mrsfortunecookie@gmail.com','','172.16.38.71','2006-03-17 16:04:05','2006-03-17 16:04:05','Remicaid? I think that\'s what it\'s called... take it muchly, now. It works. Bonne chance, liebchen.\n\nI\'ve been meaning to ask you... are you actually reading \"I am Charlotte Simmons\" right now and if so are you enjoying it?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2847,546,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-03-17 17:03:33','2006-03-17 17:03:33','I find the Zicam swabs work great for stopping a cold.  And then drown yourself in vitamin C, orange juice, and zinc.\n\nAnd, oooh, pulled pork.  yum.  It wasn\'t from Blue Ribbon, was it?  I miss going to that place.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2848,546,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-17 17:19:00','2006-03-17 17:19:00','Thanks for the tips!\n\nMrs. Chicky:  Why yes, indeed, it was from Blue Ribbon...so goood..\n\nMrs. Fortune:  Too funny!  I saw the book on your sidebar a few days ago and couldn\'t find your email to see why you didn\'t like it.  I just finished it last Wed. and I have mixed feelings about it.  I hated the ending, and the fact that it was 700+ pgs for no reason.  But a lot of it did bring me back to my undergrad days, so I think he was pretty acurate for an octogenarian.  But I seriously think the book could use being 300-400 pages shorter.\n\nI\'m off to freebase some Zicam/Remicaid/VitaminC and Whoorl vibes.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2849,546,'Redneckmommy','talesfromt@yahoo.ca','','161.184.196.86','2006-03-17 20:00:49','2006-03-17 20:00:49','I am feeling for you.  Nothing sucks worse than being rundown and ill with a gaggle of people to take care of and no one to take care of you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2850,546,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-03-17 20:19:14','2006-03-17 20:19:14','Being sick and being a mom are two things that just don\'t go together. You don\'t have to worry though because YOU ARE NOT GOING TO GET SICK!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2851,546,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','209.218.163.2','2006-03-17 23:57:19','2006-03-17 23:57:19','Feel better (or never feel bad...even better idea). Meanwhile, an ambassador in the family is supercool. We have a tile salesman and a professional gambler-cum-veterinarian. Not even close.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2852,546,'Suz','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.71.58','2006-03-18 15:07:05','2006-03-18 15:07:05','Mind over matter, Mind over Matter - that\'s what I think to myself. Hope your little man gets better soon!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2853,546,'Marcie','mjlaff@aol.com','','152.163.100.204','2006-03-19 12:42:20','2006-03-19 12:42:20','I know the \"Can\'t get Sick\" mantra too well.  The sad thing is last time I was sick I kinda enjoyed it.  Even though I felt horrible I got to lay on the couch and watch tv all day while the hubby took care of the kids!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2854,546,'Andrea','momcolumn@yahoo.com','','24.106.149.68','2006-03-20 15:10:06','2006-03-20 15:10:06','Ugh...this is me today. I was just going through the resentment thoughts -- why is it that dh can get sick and life stops, but if I get sick I\'m still taking care of the children or the whole world comes to a crash? Moms don\'t get a break, do we?\n\nJust found your blog and enjoying it,\nAndrea\n<a href=\"http://www.notesfromahousewife.blogspot.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.notesfromahousewife.blogspot.com</a>\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2855,547,'mjtam','mjtam@intimatepursuits.com','','75.3.17.218','2006-03-17 08:32:46','2006-03-17 08:32:46','Wow is this for real?  I\'m gonna haul my own lady lump over there to see. hehe. BTW- thanks for the comment in my blog and I am definitely loving yours :-)!  I will be visiting often!\n\nYour musical sister - hehe\nMJ\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2856,547,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-03-17 15:09:52','2006-03-17 15:09:52','Those very thoughts have definitely crossed my mind but you\'re right. Those who are interested should give it a shot. You never know what they\'re looking for. Maybe someone just like one of YOU!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2857,547,'vera','veryvera@gmail.com','','24.193.227.92','2006-03-20 22:31:46','2006-03-20 22:31:46','I applied\nThanks for the tip\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2858,547,'DKSmith','debdsmith@peoplepc.com','','216.99.228.107','2006-04-23 03:40:11','2006-04-23 03:40:11','I\'m a writer and published author and would love to apply for this position.  I have an 8 year old son that was born when I was 41 yrs. old.  This is my first and only child.  I believe I can give a different outlook on everything.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2859,548,'island jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-03-15 15:38:14','2006-03-15 15:38:14','There is nothing like the diareah during the diaper stage.  Lordy, I remember having to do \'stand up\' changes to avoid spillage.  ugh.\nGood luck with the cough... hopefully it doesn\'t start sounding like a dog bark (???!!!) LOL only frog croaks.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2860,548,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.21.236.120','2006-03-15 17:38:33','2006-03-15 17:38:33','Diarhhea is the worst.  My daughter had a terrible case in Italy last summer.  Although, it bothered me more than her.  Coughs last forever, too.  Again, it\'s probaby worse for you than the little one.  Hang in there.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2861,548,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','141.154.116.30','2006-03-15 19:57:17','2006-03-15 19:57:17','If you don\'t mind my asking, how did you find your moms group?  I, too, have trouble staying in the house without going absolutely stir crazy, and the prospect of being confined here with a newborn is starting to scare the crap out of me!\n\nHope the cough gets better soon.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2862,548,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-16 13:10:46','2006-03-16 13:10:46','Erin:\n\nI went to my first new mom\'s group when The Boy was 4 weeks old.  I went to many of them those first few months, and picked out other moms that seemed like people I could be friends with.\n\nYou have to be aggressive, but most people are there because they want and need to meet new moms.\n\nEmail me if you want info on the particular groups and classes I took.\n\nAnd don\'t worry, you\'ll be fine!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2863,548,'Callisto','blissed_callisto@yahoo.com.au','','220.233.77.243','2006-03-16 15:07:51','2006-03-16 15:07:51','Cough sounds yuk, hope he is well soon.\n\nAs far as being couped up in the house goes, this week I thought twice about going to playgroup with the kids, as my daughter had a slight temperature. But the thought of the two of them couped up inside all the rainy day caused me to ignore the temp and take them along anyway, feeling slightly guilty \'cause she might be contagious. I arrived at playgroup only to be greeted by a cacophony of coughs and  sniffles, obviously I\'m not the only one who wanted out of the house!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2864,549,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.111.10.184','2006-03-14 15:14:37','2006-03-14 15:14:37','It sounds like you\'ve come to have a healthy respect, as you should for all they have done!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2865,549,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','67.165.162.57','2006-03-14 17:58:50','2006-03-14 17:58:50','Oh my. Sounds as if you have made peace with your humps, your humps, your lovely lady lumps. Hats off to you ... I\'m not sure I ever will! You should start an \"I hate my breasts\" anonymous ... and you could help me, that\'s for sure.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2866,549,'jozet','jozet@verizon.net','','71.240.131.103','2006-03-14 22:31:01','2006-03-14 22:31:01','I\'ve always like pears more than apricots. They look so content to be pears. Apricots get so snooty over pronunciation.\n\nBut it sounds as if your lady lumps by any name would be just as lovely.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2867,549,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-03-15 07:43:42','2006-03-15 07:43:42','Oh, apricots sounds lovely. I went from cantaloupes to watermelons to empty socks with marbles inside.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2868,549,'GIRLS GONE CHILD','rebeccawoolf@hotmail.com','','71.129.178.190','2006-03-15 12:46:09','2006-03-15 12:46:09','Good for you! Embrace the chi-chi\'s. They were built to endure the many changes of motherhood. Good stuff, and I agree with Jozet, I prefer pears over apricots.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2869,549,'island jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-03-15 15:36:34','2006-03-15 15:36:34','I came to peace with my boobage by having them reduced.  Even after two babies, I love my lumps.\nGreat post.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2870,550,'GIRLS GONE CHILD','rebeccawoolf@hotmail.com','','69.237.156.207','2006-03-12 20:32:51','2006-03-12 20:32:51','Oh, Reluctant Housewife... the LEAST i could do after you pimped my website with some oh-so-vintage-chic banner love. Thank you.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2871,550,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-03-13 16:59:55','2006-03-13 16:59:55','Oh my God it\'s AMAZING - and it\'s all about you you you. You\'re like Angie! Or Sharona!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2872,550,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-13 17:23:53','2006-03-13 17:23:53','Me, me, me?   LOL, let\'s not get carried away here!  It\'s obviously about the universal experience of being a wife.  A dedication is more than enough for a thank you.  The woman has talent.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2873,550,'mrsfortune','coril@hotmail.com','','67.165.162.57','2006-03-13 17:30:05','2006-03-13 17:30:05','Wait, I can\'t blame  you? Why? It\'s been in my head all day and I\'m most definitely blaming  you, as GGC composed it for you! :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2874,550,'Kristen','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.176.159','2006-03-14 06:42:21','2006-03-14 06:42:21','You are a muse... how fantastic. And nice work on the header!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2875,550,'Buffy','buffy@buffyholt.com','','81.156.138.209','2006-03-14 12:23:23','2006-03-14 12:23:23','My theme song is \"I want to break Free\" (or whatever its called) by Queen.\n\nI don\'t know why.  Except that it feels SOOO right.\n\nI\'m one with Freddie.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2876,552,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','68.160.146.206','2006-03-10 13:10:55','2006-03-10 13:10:55','I remember using some CD\'s by \"Etienne\" when I was teaching ESL/ESOL.  I wish I still had some of that stuff, but I didn\'t keep it (stupid).\n\nI think Dora the Explorer is dumb.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2877,552,'stefanierj','stefanierj@yahoo.com','','69.162.62.158','2006-03-10 14:44:30','2006-03-10 14:44:30','Check out the public library--they have some excellent lang programs on tape. Also, when your fella is at the age where he likes stories, he can watch Destinos, which is apparently an awesome soap opera-type thing for language learners.\n\nThere was also a good editorial about this very issue on NPR last night...it was excellent.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2878,552,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-03-10 17:19:46','2006-03-10 17:19:46','Ooh, wish I could help. I\'m afraid my Spanish is limited to dos margaritas por favor.\n\nHave you considered checking out Scholastic\'s website and seeing what they\'ve got going?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2879,552,'Tracy','tracyf@fastmail.us','','69.219.128.242','2006-03-10 18:08:55','2006-03-10 18:08:55','Dora is great if you want your child to repeat everything twice - first in English and then in Spanish.  It irks me that they think that kids learn anything from hearing, \"This is my grandma - mi abuela!\"\n\nMy experience is that it works best when each parent speaks to the child solely in their own native language.  I can imagine that would be really difficult, though!  I don\'t have specific books or CD\'s to recommend but I think you are definitely on the right track  in looking for those sorts of things to help you get started.  Barnes and Noble has a whole segment of their site devoted to spanish-language books - I\'ve purchased copies of \"Buenos Noches, Luna\" (Goodnight Moon) and other translations of classics, but I\'m not sure about their selection of stories that actually derive from Hispanic countries.\n\nAnother thing to be aware of, going forward - toddlers who are raised in bilingual homes can sometimes speak a bit later than other children - when you think about it, they have twice the vocabulary to sort through - but this should not alarm you.  It doesn\'t reflect any developmental issue and it certainly doesn\'t mean that speaking two languages is \"confusing\" or harmful in any way.  It\'s a really great thing to do and very intellectually stimulating.  You\'re actually giving him so many MORE ways to express himself!  But be aware that when comparing him to his mono-lingual counterparts you may see some differences.\n\nAlso...it\'s totally common for bilingual children to express a preference for one language at around the time that they are becoming more social and spending time around other children.  They may even completely resist speaking the other language altogether .  Just persevere and keep speaking Spanish to him throughout that time and it will pass.\n\nNot that you asked for my advice, LOL - but it is something I deal with a lot as a Montessori teacher and hopefully some of this will come in handy. At our school, we hire native Spanish-speaking assistants for every classroom and they speak only Spanish with the children all day.  We find that after being in this environment for three years, the kindergarteners are able to really understand everything said to them in Spanish even though some will be able to speak it well and others might not.  Still, they all integrate it and can understand it.\n\n\nBuena suerte!\n\nTracy\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2880,552,'Boogie\'s Mom','peanutmahoney@earthlink.net','','68.164.63.10','2006-03-10 18:30:44','2006-03-10 18:30:44','My husband is Hispanic, and speaks Spanish pretty well (although, he never feels comfortable enough to speak to those who only speak Spanish). He\'ll use Spanish words every once in a while. He bought our daughter the book, \"My First 100 Spanish Words,\" which is kind of neat, because it teaches me Spanish too.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2881,552,'redneckmommy','talesfromt@yahoo.ca','','161.184.204.231','2006-03-10 20:12:07','2006-03-10 20:12:07','I can\'t help you.  I\'m an english/francais type of lady.  However, there is a great post on this very topic at <a href=\"http://www.theblogfathers.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.theblogfathers.com/</a> as of today.  Maybe he can help you.\n\nGood luck!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2882,552,'Island jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-03-10 21:24:31','2006-03-10 21:24:31','My neighbors are bilingual (german/english) they spoke exclusively german to their daughter until she was nearly 2, she didn\'t speak a word of english to any of us until just after two.  Now she is fully bilingual (she\'s 3 years old now) but the english definitely took awhile.\nGood luck with it!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2883,552,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-11 08:37:47','2006-03-11 08:37:47','Wow!\n\nThanks (or I should say, gracias) for all your comments and emails.  Tracy, I\'m so thankful for your advice and RedneckMommy thanks for the link!  Violeta...I\'ll reply to your email later today!\n\nThe consensus seems to be that I have to persevere and use Spanish with him all the time.  So you will understand if some of my posts are a little random as I try to reprogram my brain.  It\'s a lot of work, but I asked for it!\n\nI\'m off to check Barnes and Noble and Scholastic...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2884,552,'tanyetta','dayslikethese2@gmail.com','','70.37.57.232','2006-03-12 18:32:51','2006-03-12 18:32:51','your son is a genius.  he emails me all the time.  we chat about new ways to drive his momma up the wall so i responded and told him some cool slang words so be on the look out for them,\n\nhee hee...just kidding.  good luck sounds like he has the coolest mom on the planet.  love the banners by the way!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2885,552,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-13 12:56:16','2006-03-13 12:56:16','Tanyetta:  Thanks for mentoring him.  I\'ll let you know when he starts with the slang.  At least maybe then he\'ll stop blowing raspberries while he has food in his mouth :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2886,552,'natalie','myself@betterthanmyself.com','','24.230.57.243','2006-03-13 14:50:52','2006-03-13 14:50:52','Dora drives me up the wall too. So does practically every other pre-school geared show which teaches some amount of Spanish. (They all do now... Jay Jay the Jet Plane, Sesame Street, etc...) I think your local librarian could probably help you a lot. I know that when I was a beginner French student, I found lots of neat bilingual materials for kids at the library. Good luck!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2887,553,'chichimama','momtocanda@gmail.com','','69.142.198.141','2006-03-07 12:27:37','2006-03-07 12:27:37','I grew up in MA and know exactally which grocery store!  I always wondered who the idiot who designed it was.  When you have teens you can make THEM shlep the groceries.  Trust me :-).\n\nOur next door neighbor has the Pacifica, and I oogle it too.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2888,553,'Boogie\'s Mom','peanutmahoney@earthlink.net','','206.13.84.201','2006-03-07 12:45:12','2006-03-07 12:45:12','That\'s funny because when I was still driving my tiny Jetta, when my daughter was 2 years old, my husband and I took a trip up to Oregon, and I saw one of those Pacifica\'s parked next to us. I thought, hmmm, that\'s kind of cute. But we thought the same as you ... it\'s too mini-vanish. Although, I have to say that the Honda Oddysey\'s are pretty damn cool ... for a mini-van ... never mind, forget I said it. I drive a Honda Pilot, by the way.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2889,553,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','68.160.146.206','2006-03-07 16:32:27','2006-03-07 16:32:27','Oh, I am going through this right now. I love, love, love my car - but I know I need something a little bigger for when the baby arrives.  I won\'t do a mini-van (just can\'t do it).  We argue every night over cars.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2890,553,'Kristen','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.235.159','2006-03-07 19:01:38','2006-03-07 19:01:38','First, I TOTALLY LOVE click and clack *sigh* and the pacifica - we rented one - tooohaatttally a minivan.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2891,553,'Summer','crystaldreams@gmail.com','','65.92.122.136','2006-03-07 20:29:33','2006-03-07 20:29:33','We have a Honda CR-V. For a big car, it\'s actually pretty hot. Although, once you actually get into it, it\'s not as big as you might think.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2892,553,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-03-07 21:36:21','2006-03-07 21:36:21','At this point in my life I find that Volvo SUV veeeerrryyy sexy.  My, how priorities have changed.  But, as a fellow New Englander, our perception of sexy is a bit skewed by the need to leave our homes more than once a month and damn the snow.\nSo, on that note - Damn the Snow and love the Volvo!\nThe Pacifica, though, not so much.  It really is a mini-van.  I cannot be convinced otherwise.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2893,553,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-03-08 00:13:41','2006-03-08 00:13:41','I dissed minivans from their first appearance in my teens but when you have 2 kids and all their crap and their friends to schlep around, the dreaded minivan wins hands-down. Is it cool? No way! Am I cool? Hell yeah!!!! Would I drive a Volvo anything if I could afford it? Shit yeah!!! A Chrysler anything??? Not on a bet :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2894,553,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','151.200.110.3','2006-03-08 07:31:36','2006-03-08 07:31:36','You are lucky that I already like you.  ;)  A MINIVAN?!?!?  Nooooooooo!  ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2895,553,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-08 08:39:51','2006-03-08 08:39:51','Rest assured people...I\'m not buying the minivan.\n\nYou can all breathe now.\n\nBut as Ms Chicky said, the sexiest feature in a car for me is All Wheel Drive.  So very sexy!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2896,553,'C.M.Chase','cmchase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.191','2006-03-08 09:43:45','2006-03-08 09:43:45','Girl, my favorite car right now is a Chrysler.  The Cryster 300.  *swoon*\n\nAnd a reference to Click and Clack?  That\'s AWESOME!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2897,553,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.111.10.184','2006-03-08 11:09:36','2006-03-08 11:09:36','We bought an SUV when we purchased new several years ago in anticipation of new ones arriving.  We swore against the mini-van.  I made of my friend when she bought the Toyotoa mini-van, until, that is, I drove it.  While they don\'t look cool, the mini-van isn\'t so bad.  I can\'t believe I\'m say this, but I wish I had one.  Yes, I\'m definitely no longer hip.\n\nPS. I love the Pacifica, too.  Someone at my daughter\'s preschool drives one and I check it out all the time.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2898,553,'Alison Rose','prairiedogal@gmail.com','','10.0.20.19','2006-03-08 11:09:50','2006-03-08 11:09:50','Please, stop with the ogling the Chrysler. It has nothing to do with mini-van or looks or whatever--it has everything to do with Chrysler. I\'ve owned a Dodge sedan and a Dodge van (not mini) and they both sucked when it came to reliability. More time in the shop than I care to recall.\n\nMy family owns a Subaru Outback (no, we\'re not lesbians, but LOL!) for the urban-assault vehicle features, including AWD. When it came time to replace our sturdy but aged Chevy pickup truck for towing (full-size trailer, not a little Jet-Ski) we went with a Chevy Astro, the only minivan (that I know of) built on a truck body. It tows, it\'s roomy, and it\'s--AWD! I can\'t imagine buying another vehicle in New England without AWD. Call me practical, rather than romantic, but I love it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2899,553,'Island Jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-03-08 13:16:01','2006-03-08 13:16:01','I swore UP and DOWN that I would drive a horse and buggy before I ever rested my deriere in a mini van.\nWhat do i drive my two children and dog around in?  A Toyota Previa.  (mini van)and I LOVE it.\nExcuse me while I go and hang my head in shame.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2900,553,'jennster','jenn@jennster.com','','63.82.98.50','2006-03-08 15:26:44','2006-03-08 15:26:44','this chrysler madness must stop! lol\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2901,553,'Kristi','KfKirsch@gmail.com','','67.170.8.207','2006-03-08 15:27:10','2006-03-08 15:27:10','I\'ll now have to inform my husband that he is the proud driver of the number one ultimate lesbian car, the Subaru Outback.\nThere is nothing wrong with a minivan, by the way.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2902,553,'Jess','junebugleroy@yahoo.com','','69.128.242.158','2006-03-08 23:07:10','2006-03-08 23:07:10','Click and Clack rule! But now I\'m worrying that my new Honda Civic is too small for when we expand our family...\n\nAlso, I really liked the banner you did for GGC. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2903,553,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.96.17.54','2006-03-08 23:32:07','2006-03-08 23:32:07','Kristi:\n\nTell your husband he should drive his Lesbaru with pride.  I do.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2904,553,'Tracy','tracyf@fastmail.us','','69.219.128.242','2006-03-10 18:15:40','2006-03-10 18:15:40','I drool over the XC90 every damn day of my life.  I drive a VW Passat Wagon which was my compromise between being cool and being practical.  Only now that my ds is 5 I\'ve reached the stage of having to drive other kids around and now it\'s not big enough.  Does the Pacifica have a 3rd row seat?  I may have to check into that...I do think they are kinda cute and not totally \"minivan-ish\".\n\nROTFLMAO at the \"Lesbaru\".\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2905,554,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-03-04 21:42:31','2006-03-04 21:42:31','Where in the world did you find that video. It\'s about the cutest damn thing I\'ve ever seen!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2906,554,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','68.160.146.206','2006-03-04 21:53:22','2006-03-04 21:53:22','Wow. Ditto.  As my husband and I drove home from dinner tonight (at SIX THIRTY, yes, we were done eating dinner on a Saturday night at SIX THIRTY), I couldn\'t help but remember the days not too long ago that I was just getting ready to go out at midnight.\n\nI think what we have now is so much better.  But I\'d still keep a cocktail or two.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2907,554,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-04 21:57:36','2006-03-04 21:57:36','Izzy:  www.youtube.com - I\'m afraid you\'ll never leave that site now!\n\nErin:  Never fear.  We always have the ingredients for a Tanqueray 10 Martini on hand.  It\'s the velvet rope part that I don\'t miss.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2908,554,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-03-05 06:32:07','2006-03-05 06:32:07','I LOVE that clip. it was on America\'s Funniest Home Videos!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2909,554,'Tina','antiquemommy@comcast.net','','24.0.46.193','2006-03-05 06:41:50','2006-03-05 06:41:50','\"So I tried all sorts of things, as a young woman should\" -- yeah, me too and I also tried a whole lot of things a young woman shouldn\'t, but most of them I don\'t remember (and not because I so old either).  ITA, being a mom suits me. It was worth the wait.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2910,554,'knq','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.116.235.159','2006-03-05 08:26:15','2006-03-05 08:26:15','Hehehe - that was great. and peer pressure ain\'t so bad girlie! (well, when it comes to this stuff, anyway).\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2911,554,'C.M.Chase','cmchase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.191','2006-03-05 11:31:49','2006-03-05 11:31:49','Awwww!  That is SO cute!\n\nGreat post, too. I\'m right there with ya. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2912,554,'Skittles','tiggermom45324@yahoo.com','','69.223.37.76','2006-03-05 11:42:59','2006-03-05 11:42:59','Great video! I needed that laugh. TY\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2913,554,'Mrs. Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-03-05 16:15:27','2006-03-05 16:15:27','This made me laugh so hard!  I got my husband to watch it, and he laughed hard, too.  Then I had my 10-month old daughter to watch it - and she wasn\'t impressed.\nOh well, comedy is subjective.\nLoved your post!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2914,554,'island Jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-03-05 18:55:59','2006-03-05 18:55:59','Thanks for that video, even though I have seen it on AFHV, I still had to wipe my heart off the floor with a squeegie.  So Sweet!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2915,554,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-03-05 22:49:47','2006-03-05 22:49:47','Hey, thanks for checking out my Flickr box and leaving that sweet comment. I love people that say nice things about my kids ;-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2916,554,'Karin','themarkerts@comcast.net','','69.242.31.164','2006-03-06 06:26:32','2006-03-06 06:26:32','I pledged, joined, roomed with the sorority pres, then quit not too long after. Because I DID find myself and wasn\'t in the right place at the time. I\'m not much of a group person, either. ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2917,554,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-03-07 08:05:28','2006-03-07 08:05:28','Oh my God, Uncle Fester had IDENTICAL BROTHERS! Who knew???\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2918,554,'kvetch blogger','asng3017@aol.com','','152.163.100.204','2006-03-07 20:57:03','2006-03-07 20:57:03','I love that video. I believe I saw it years ago on America\'s Funniest Home Videos. I bet those boys are in high school by now. It is still the best --- thanks for the laugh --- it\'s always needed!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2919,554,'vasilisa','whereisprometheus@yahoo.ca','','70.27.147.93','2006-04-03 02:16:06','2006-04-03 02:16:06','This is my all time favorite video.  Whenever I feel like my kid is driving me crazy, I watch it.  As a reality check.  As in, \"See?  People can laugh with FOUR!\"\n\n\nI think she needs a statue in her honor.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2920,555,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.111.10.184','2006-03-03 12:53:30','2006-03-03 12:53:30','Thanks for the tip.  I checked it out and WOW!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2921,555,'Stacy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-03-03 14:17:34','2006-03-03 14:17:34','thanks for the link ~ great writing!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2922,555,'redneckmommy','talesfromt@yahoo.ca','','161.184.193.251','2006-03-03 21:23:39','2006-03-03 21:23:39','Thanks for the link.  It was a much needed slap upside the head.  Love your blog.  I lurk here as often as possible.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2923,555,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-03 22:19:04','2006-03-03 22:19:04','Glad you guys liked the link.\n\nI read that post after watching The Magdalene Sisters, which is a very scary movie by the way.  The evil nuns were taking baby boys away left and right, and then and I read BA and I lost it.\n\nThanks for delurking, redneckmommy!  It\'s good to know who those people that show up on my statcounter are!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2924,555,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-03-03 22:38:53','2006-03-03 22:38:53','Thanks for pointing that out. It was great!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2925,555,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-03-04 15:19:25','2006-03-04 15:19:25','loved it - i can\'t comment there so i\'ll do so here. lovely and not even a little cloying.thanks for sharing.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2926,555,'bureX','bureX@burexblog.com','','82.131.178.250','2006-03-04 20:18:59','2006-03-04 20:18:59','I agree, a very beautiful (and sincere) post indeed! Love it!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2927,555,'momofboys','momofboys@comcast.net','','24.21.115.251','2006-03-07 21:22:00','2006-03-07 21:22:00','Blog Antagonist is a friend of mine - for real. I adore her in real life, and her blogs are great!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2928,555,'mary','littlelamb@comcast.com','','66.32.92.158','2006-03-11 08:42:45','2006-03-11 08:42:45','beware of the blog antagonist.  she is dangerous.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2929,555,'momofboys','momofboys@comcast.net','','24.21.115.251','2006-03-11 17:40:14','2006-03-11 17:40:14','Can I ask how Blog Antagonist is dangerous? Seriously? And you know her......how?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2930,555,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-11 18:06:59','2006-03-11 18:06:59','Beware of the Reluctant Housewife.  She is also dangerous.\n\nAnd she has your IP address.\n\nBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2931,555,'momofboys','momofboys@comcast.net','','24.21.115.251','2006-04-05 17:26:41','2006-04-05 17:26:41','\"And she has your IP address.\"\n\nHmmm..........Or DOES she???\n\n\nBWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!\n\nBlog Anatagonist is cool. Not dangerous. No more details, but she is my friend.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2932,556,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','68.160.146.206','2006-03-01 15:28:38','2006-03-01 15:28:38','Mama, I did not even KNOW that Jimmy Choo flats are out there in existence!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2933,556,'Boogie\'s Mom','peanutmahoney@earthlink.net','','206.13.84.201','2006-03-01 16:00:00','2006-03-01 16:00:00','As the queen of thriftiness, I admire your splurge. I wish I could go out and buy something fabulous for myself. I don\'t think I\'d ever get a note from the cashier at Target.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2934,556,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','68.160.146.206','2006-03-01 16:26:17','2006-03-01 16:26:17','My comment got cut off somehow - but I was also saying that I absolutely love them, and may perhaps visit them myself sometime soon!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2935,556,'C.M.Chase','cmchase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.191','2006-03-01 18:14:44','2006-03-01 18:14:44','Oh my LORD that was funny!! hahahaha!\n\nLove the \'content\' of the note. ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2936,556,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-03-01 20:28:29','2006-03-01 20:28:29','LOL.\n\nI\'ve had a crazy trip to Saks before, too. The year before Max was born I bought a VERY expensive handbag there, and it is so beautiful that it (seriously) sits in a special, protective, cotton bag (that it came with) in my closet. I\'ve carried it twice.\n\nAt least you\'ll get good use from your indulgence! There\'s nothing as great as a fantastic pair of shoes on your feet.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2937,556,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-03-01 20:36:27','2006-03-01 20:36:27','Oooh!  Will I get to meet pinkandgreen girl?  Yay!\n\nI promise to wear my glass slippers if I get to  meet the ladybug!\n\nAnd Boogie\'s Mom:  He he.  The best I\'ve gotten from Target is an email when I place an online order.  Oh well.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2938,556,'Nicole','nlb1102@yahoo.com','','70.111.10.184','2006-03-01 20:37:12','2006-03-01 20:37:12','Good for you.  Think of them as a down payment for all you do as a stay-at-home.  That way, you\'ll be able to convince yourself you also should get a matching purse!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2939,556,'Poppy','poppy@ix.netcom.com','','69.3.16.159','2006-03-01 20:56:02','2006-03-01 20:56:02','Don\'t wear them! Please.\n\nLast spring I bought a pair of leopard-print Casadei pony-hair shoes even though standing up in them at the store gave me a pain across the metatarsals unlike anything I had ever felt before.\n\nNot surprisingly, they have never come out of the box, except to be gloated over.\n\nI\'m figuring my daughter will eBay them in about 40 years and it will pay for a few years of my stay at the Bide-a-Wee retirement community.\n\nKeep that in mind; those silver shoes could be the difference between a nice place that takes you on outings and uses fresh fruit in the fruit salads--and someplace truly dreary.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2940,556,'Red','talesfromt@yahoo.ca','','161.184.192.31','2006-03-02 09:49:26','2006-03-02 09:49:26','Shoes are the window to a woman (or this woman\'s) soul.  Just yesterday I told my girlfriend NOT to feel guilty on spending disturbing amounts of cash on shoes.  We deserve it.  Appreciate your Choos.  Where I come from there are no Choos.  Gotta love Canada. (However, I am not in the poorhouse yet, which would surely happen if Jimmy sold his shoes here.)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2941,556,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','68.160.146.206','2006-03-02 11:30:43','2006-03-02 11:30:43','I absolutely promise to visit you once Ladybug   arrives!  I am far too fat now to leave the house (exaggerating, but still, I\'m huge).\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2942,556,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-03-02 12:54:15','2006-03-02 12:54:15','what\'s it all about if you can\'t go out and splurge every now and then! i say bravo to you for giving yourself a gift you most certainly deserve!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2943,556,'Janet','sliceofpink@gmail.com','','172.20.5.117','2006-03-02 17:35:03','2006-03-02 17:35:03','They are fabulous! Very fabulous.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2944,556,'Ben','bendummett@gmail.com','','220.233.29.169','2006-03-02 21:52:31','2006-03-02 21:52:31','Did it have a wax seal? Wax seals are the cool.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2945,556,'Ed Bacchus','ebacchus@parentingtoys.com','','24.1.27.207','2006-03-06 23:55:40','2006-03-06 23:55:40','You had me on this one. Very cute and great punch line.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2946,556,'Maliavale','maliavale@hotmail.com','','68.33.197.218','2006-03-07 09:15:07','2006-03-07 09:15:07','Ohhh. Those shoes are hawt. *Drool*\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2947,557,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.111.10.184','2006-02-28 11:05:46','2006-02-28 11:05:46','I really like that Boston has its own personality.  You\'re right, why should it just be another NY?  Then there would be no reason for the NYers to visit.  Except when then go to watch the Yankees beat the Red Sox.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2948,557,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-28 13:12:14','2006-02-28 13:12:14','No comment.\n\nThis blog is a sports-free zone.  I\'m just not  interested.  Sorry.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2949,557,'Poppy','poppy@ix.netcom.com','','69.3.16.159','2006-02-28 20:20:52','2006-02-28 20:20:52','Reluctant Housewife might say this is a sports-free zone, but I\'m her landlady, and I get to say whatever I want.\n\nYankees suck!\n\nThe end.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2950,557,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-02-28 21:55:28','2006-02-28 21:55:28','Having lived in New England for six years, may I make a recommendation for the sidewalks? I offer you an icon that truly represents the  unique culture, traditions, and ethos of the greater Boston area: A Dunkin\' Donuts.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2951,557,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-28 22:14:26','2006-02-28 22:14:26','Mom-101:\n\nI hate Dunkin\' Donuts:\n\n<a href=\"http://diary.blogs.com/the_diary_of_a_reluctant_/2005/12/im_an_orange_lo.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://diary.blogs.com/the_diary_of_a_reluctant_/2005/12/im_an_orange_lo.html</a>\n\nThey\'re freaking everywhere already.  I\'ve lived here for 3 years now and I still don\'t get it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2952,557,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-03-01 08:39:05','2006-03-01 08:39:05','Doesn\'t Boston have enough tourist attractions anyways? The historical sites, the North End with the great food, the museums, etc. etc.  No need for a walk of fame.\n\nBTW, I agree. Yankees suck!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2953,558,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','68.164.203.218','2006-02-27 09:57:52','2006-02-27 09:57:52','\"It seems that lately I haven\'t been able to string together a coherent sentence to save my life.\"\n\nThat is totally a coherent sentence! And you strung it together in a way that I understood exactly what you meant. Which is just what sentence structure is all about. Yay for you!\n(This post brought to you by Say Something Nice  Day at Mom101)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2954,558,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-27 10:02:09','2006-02-27 10:02:09','That\'s so nice!\n\nI like Say Something Nice Day.  Especially when I personally benefit from it!\n\nI still want to be like you when I grow up.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2955,558,'amanda','agberlin@gmail.com','','64.81.194.30','2006-02-27 11:37:30','2006-02-27 11:37:30','i completely understand.  and i LOVE the grey\'s anatomy reference from last night.  love that show.  even though i am starting to really dislike meredith.  not that i ever believed she should have slept with george, he\'s really \"magoo\" - goofy...unsavory.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2956,558,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-27 14:35:33','2006-02-27 14:35:33','Amanda:\n\nI love Grey\'s Anatomy so much - I love that they have been pre-empting Desperate Housewives but they dare not touch GA!\n\nAnd I\'m with you on Meredith, not only is she obviously going to hook up McDreamy again, she had to hurt little Georgie-poo.  Or Magoo, as you call him.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2957,558,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-02-27 17:39:53','2006-02-27 17:39:53','I have off-days (and weeks) like that, too. And it seems that the more I think about how I can\'t focus or collect my thoughts, the harder it is. So I go and paste links to other things like you did...lololol...and hope that my inspiration returns in a reasonable amount of time. Now I\'m off to follow those links :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2958,558,'Janet','sliceofpink@gmail.com','','172.20.5.117','2006-03-02 17:36:38','2006-03-02 17:36:38','I have been in a funk lately, too.  I think it\'s because I have not had much time to read other\'s blogs for good inspiration.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2959,559,'Ed Bacchus','ebacchus@parentingtoys.com','','24.1.27.207','2006-03-07 00:00:39','2006-03-07 00:00:39','You are not alone, the African American woman is not the most pleasing to look at, although I am convinced she is not acting.  No one can act that type of attitude.  You just gotta know she is just being herself.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2960,560,'Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-02-25 08:56:27','2006-02-25 08:56:27','Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  I just signed up for one of the Book Clubs and I\'m really looking forward to it!\nCan\'t beat free.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2961,560,'C.M.Chase','cmchase@tastetheworld.org','','68.0.124.191','2006-02-25 10:24:19','2006-02-25 10:24:19','Holy cow, I had no idea.  Thanks for pointing that out!  I\'m browsing classes right now!\n\nGreat linkage! ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2962,560,'Nicole','nbbaker1102@verizon.net','','70.21.245.62','2006-02-25 11:56:53','2006-02-25 11:56:53','Thanks for the info.  I\'m going to check it out!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2963,560,'Amy','sbmoms@gmail.com','','68.65.177.116','2006-02-25 20:35:46','2006-02-25 20:35:46','Wow! This is absolutely wonderful! I just signed up for \"The Best Year of Your Life\" course. There are so many others that look great too, but I\'ll see how this one goes first. Love it! I\'m adding the info on my own sidebar tonight. Thanks for sharing!\n\nAmy :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2964,560,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-02-26 12:19:11','2006-02-26 12:19:11','That\'s cool! I didn\'t know about that.\n\nI\'m taking an online course for my degree and I find it quite challenging.  It\'s very time consuming with all the required reading but I have learned a lot from it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2965,560,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-02-26 21:21:46','2006-02-26 21:21:46','Thanks for the shout out sista!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2966,560,'emma','emmakcontact@yahoo.com','','68.33.228.226','2006-02-27 05:08:46','2006-02-27 05:08:46','Wow, the courses look cool. I will definately do smoe of these.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2967,560,'emma','emmakcontact@yahoo.com','','68.33.228.226','2006-02-27 05:09:18','2006-02-27 05:09:18','Wow, the courses look cool. I will definately do some of these.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2968,561,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-02-23 20:36:20','2006-02-23 20:36:20','Wow we have very different mothers. Mine not only was okay with the Brokeback kissing, she would have been the first to invite me to see Gay Sex in the 70s.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2969,561,'Izzy','none@unknown.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-02-23 21:00:28','2006-02-23 21:00:28','\"mumble mumble\" This made me laugh because I just posted on another blog that Heath Ledger sounded like Buffalo Bill in \"Silence of the Lambs.\" You know, like he had marbles in his mouth...lol\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2970,561,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-23 21:26:59','2006-02-23 21:26:59','I still don\'t understand if she missed the sex scene...but I couldn\'t bring myself to ask her.\n\nAnyways, my mom\'s cool, she loves my gay posse from Miami - she just likes to pretend everybody\'s celibate.  Including me.\n\nHa!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2971,561,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-02-24 08:35:28','2006-02-24 08:35:28','I haven\'t seen this movie yet.  My husband is (not surprisingly) against seeing it.  My best friend wants to go terribly but we haven\'t got there yet and she only wants to go because of the hype.  Whenever I see a movie that was raved about, it usually doesn\'t live up to the hype so I\'m not really interested in this movie.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2972,561,'Shalebug','Skjel@telus.net','','161.184.196.219','2006-02-24 11:22:29','2006-02-24 11:22:29','My best friend and I went to see B.Mountain this weekend.  I am sorry to say that we were the two girls giggling like school girls throughout.  We had to, we couldn\'t understand a damn word with all that mumbling.\nJust a note, the movie was filmed in Calgary, Alberta, up here in Canada.  Wyoming is stealing our thunder.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2973,561,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-24 12:23:18','2006-02-24 12:23:18','Shalegirl,\n\nI can\'t believe I fell for it!  British Columbia and western Canada are some of the most beautiful places I\'ve seen - in fact, western Canada was the first trip The Husband and I took together.  We started in Vancouver and went east to Calgary.  Emerald Lake and it\'s environs are just heaven.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2974,561,'Jon','redmosqui@carolina.rr.com','','24.172.95.156','2006-02-24 12:54:48','2006-02-24 12:54:48','Sorry but I have NO INTEREST in EVER seeing that movie...sadly out fo the movies on the list i\'d have probably opted for \"Pride\" as well...and that\'s just scary!\n\n- Jon\n- Daddy Detective\n- www.daddydetective.com\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2975,561,'Callisto','blissed_callisto@yahoo.com.au','','220.233.77.243','2006-02-26 04:57:43','2006-02-26 04:57:43','I read the Annie Proulx short story Brokeback Mtn in 2001 and I was very moved by it. I haven\'t yet seen the movie and had hoped that it would live up to the story, which I found intense and compelling. Sounds pretty though...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2976,561,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-26 22:15:25','2006-02-26 22:15:25','I\'m going to read the story.  Maybe the movie will be a different experience for you since you read the story first?  Let me know.\n\nAnd let me know if you could understand what they were saying, because I really couldn\'t.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2977,562,'Amy','sbmoms@gmail.com','','68.65.177.116','2006-02-21 18:21:50','2006-02-21 18:21:50','What do you mean he was kicked off the air?! I guess I missed that. Too bad - he\'ll be missed. I guess. Actually - whatever - I\'ll just listened to whomever else wants to tell me is absolutely (not) going to happen in the wacky world of New England weather.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2978,562,'chatty','chatty@whatchutawkinbout.com','','67.189.220.213','2006-02-22 15:53:07','2006-02-22 15:53:07','I had wondered what happened to him.  Too bad.  Not many weathermen can say they were represented in a movie.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2979,562,'Chicky','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-02-22 18:24:35','2006-02-22 18:24:35','I was shocked when he was kicked off the air.  I kinda liked him and he was anything but boring - like his replacement, whatshisname.  But I do not miss his weird hair!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2980,562,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-22 21:26:39','2006-02-22 21:26:39','He was in a movie!?  Do tell!\n\nAnd yes, his hair - heck his overall \"look\" if you can call it that is disturbing...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2981,562,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','151.200.110.3','2006-02-23 08:09:10','2006-02-23 08:09:10','I don’t live in Boston, but tend to develop real attachments to my broadcasters.  There is one who I used to watch in grad school (eight years ago, mind you) who I still Google every once in a while.  Just checking up to make sure he’s doing well at an NBC station somewhere else.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2982,563,'knq','kmei26@yahoo.com','','69.92.8.210','2006-02-20 22:34:12','2006-02-20 22:34:12','I\'ll try this again. You rock. The picture rocks. And I LOVE IT.\n\nPass on the love!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2983,563,'mom101','Mom101@NOSPAMmac.com','','24.193.198.8','2006-02-21 08:42:47','2006-02-21 08:42:47','Not only could I have posted the same, but I lived it. When that show came out I was (dating myself here) a freshman in HS and the entire senior class dubbed my best friend and me \"Square Pegs.\" Good times!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2984,563,'C.M.Chase','zennymountain@cox.net','','68.0.124.191','2006-02-21 15:34:31','2006-02-21 15:34:31','Haha!  Fantastic!\n\nI think (all because of knq!) that it\'s become painfully obvious we were ALL big nerds in the 80s.  I don\'t think it was possible to be COOL in that era, no matter how old we were.\n\nLook at the good side, at least YOUR 80s alterego was female.  ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2985,563,'chatty','chatty@whatchutawkinbout.com','','67.189.220.213','2006-02-22 15:54:12','2006-02-22 15:54:12','Square Pegs Square Pegs Spuare Square Pegs!\n\nI loved that show!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2986,563,'Boogie\'s Mom','peanutmahoney@earthlink.net','','68.164.52.128','2006-02-24 23:03:26','2006-02-24 23:03:26','My sister had those very same glasses. They never seemed to get clear again once she came inside.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2987,564,'Island Jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-02-20 21:05:58','2006-02-20 21:05:58','You go with the writing course!\n\nMy little guy turns one on Friday- We are also going \'retro\', little did i realize.  Can\'t wait to see/hear about the events (so i can copy your ideas).\n\nTake care and hug your Baby/toddler.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2988,564,'knq','kmei26@yahoo.com','','69.92.8.210','2006-02-20 22:35:13','2006-02-20 22:35:13','All these 1 year olds all over the blogosphere. Congrats.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2989,564,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-21 10:48:12','2006-02-21 10:48:12','Island,\n\nThere\'s not much to copy - other than making bibs for the little guests as party favors.  I made them at CafePress and they were awesome!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2990,564,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-21 10:49:02','2006-02-21 10:49:02','Oh, and we had booze for the parents.  That helps.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2991,564,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-02-24 13:11:48','2006-02-24 13:11:48','Good luck with the writing. I was thinking about doing the very same thing. Barnes and Noble online offers a bunch of free courses.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2992,565,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','151.200.110.3','2006-02-17 15:36:42','2006-02-17 15:36:42','You had me at wine . . . ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2993,565,'~jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-02-17 16:13:37','2006-02-17 16:13:37','wow, that sounds like my wedding night LOL!!\n\nWe\'ve spent the last 5 years making up for that one...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2994,565,'knq','kmei26@yahoo.com','','69.92.8.210','2006-02-18 12:08:42','2006-02-18 12:08:42','I love how breastfeeding moms become such lightweights. All I need is a wine-spritzer and I\'m loopy. LOL.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2995,565,'Callisto','blissed_callisto@yahoo.com.au','','220.233.77.243','2006-02-18 15:19:14','2006-02-18 15:19:14','It is a bruise to my former \"I can handle a lot of drink\" self\'s ego that I can now barely drink 2 small glasses of wine. Ah breastfeeding, so kind to one\'s liver (but not  husband\'s as he always finishes the bottle on his own!)\nGlad to hear you made up for it!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2996,565,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-02-20 20:30:42','2006-02-20 20:30:42','I went out with a few girlfriends this past Sat. and had 3 drinks. Needless to say, it was way too much for this mommy. You woke up feeling refreshed, and I woke up feeling hung over!!!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2997,565,'Rachel','grl4dsl@gmail.com','','206.116.75.21','2006-02-21 21:21:35','2006-02-21 21:21:35','Romance is what we make it - and it doesn\'t need to happen on V-Day to be romantic...\n\nits the little things (like that yummy looking cake...) that make life worth living.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2998,566,'Meg','megw2@yahoo.com','','67.10.171.56','2006-02-14 10:38:41','2006-02-14 10:38:41','drool...\nLooks yummy.  Happy Valentine\'s Day!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(2999,566,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','68.160.146.206','2006-02-14 11:11:44','2006-02-14 11:11:44','I made red velvet cupcakes with whipped cream frosting and pink sprinkles!  Pictures to follow...and I, too, saved a bit of whipped cream for later!\n\nOf course, being that I\'m 33 weeks pregnant, I just might eat it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3000,566,'knq','kmei26@yahoo.com','','69.92.8.210','2006-02-14 11:53:13','2006-02-14 11:53:13','No matter how much I try to avoid doing anything on this day, I always get sucked in. And that cake just made me want to do something nice for the hubby. I wonder, will the Fender lunchbox cut it? Hell, I only got a massage... professional, that is - he\'s not that cheap :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3001,566,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-14 12:50:15','2006-02-14 12:50:15','Ooooh, I love cupcakes!\n\nAnd \"only\" a massage? That man is smart!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3002,566,'Boogie\'s Mom','peanutmahoney@earthlink.net','','206.13.84.201','2006-02-14 13:08:58','2006-02-14 13:08:58','Wow! That is beautiful. Too pretty to eat if you ask me.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3003,566,'suz','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.36.234','2006-02-14 15:16:48','2006-02-14 15:16:48','You go girl!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3004,566,'knq','kmei26@yahoo.com','','69.92.8.210','2006-02-14 16:39:30','2006-02-14 16:39:30','Actually (I\'ll brag about him here - then come read his list of gripes about me that he wrote and I found ON MY COMPUTER)... he also got me a steam aroma thingy - but with me now early preggo - it\'s not so great for that. SO, I took a rain check... SWEET though, huh?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3005,566,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-02-14 22:05:09','2006-02-14 22:05:09','Gorgeous! I made strawberry cupcakes with sour cream frosting, topped with conversation hearts. They\'re the first cupcakes I\'ve ever made, and the whole combo is too sweet for me ... but I\'m sure my son and his little friends will love them.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3006,566,'Buffy','buffy@buffyholt.com','','81.159.39.222','2006-02-15 09:30:13','2006-02-15 09:30:13','I.  WANT.  COOL.  WHIP.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3007,566,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-02-15 20:56:24','2006-02-15 20:56:24','God, that looks good!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3008,566,'Island jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-02-16 08:04:54','2006-02-16 08:04:54','Oh lordy, that cake looks DEEEELISH.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3009,566,'Miss Jay','theamazingwillywanker@gmail.com','','70.29.19.160','2006-02-16 13:44:44','2006-02-16 13:44:44','Oh boy!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3010,566,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','151.200.110.3','2006-02-17 07:52:25','2006-02-17 07:52:25','That looks AMAZING.  Judging by the fact that we haven’t heard from you since Valentine’s Day, I’m guessing it must have been a REALLY good one.  ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3011,566,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-02-20 19:29:13','2006-02-20 19:29:13','That cake almost makes me want to go bake something.  It looks great!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3012,567,'island jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-02-13 04:20:45','2006-02-13 04:20:45','You should wait until you are having troubles remembering parts of the book. THEN see the movie... the movies always pale in comparison (unless they are 3 hour epics, and even then...)  because no movie producer can compete with the movie studio in our heads.\n\nthat\'s my theory anyway...\n:0) if you do see the show I\'d be interested to know how it compares to the book. No pressure!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3013,567,'Benhamtroll','chris@benhamtroll.com','','71.193.139.146','2006-02-13 13:16:43','2006-02-13 13:16:43','I\'ve been interested in reading this book, mainy due to my intense love of Steve Martin as a writer.  He\'s awesome.\n\nAnd, although I haven\'t read the book or seen the movie, as an actor it is my duty to tell you to see the movie.  That is how we survive!  ;-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3014,567,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-02-13 23:12:06','2006-02-13 23:12:06','I\'ve been having the same debate except I haven\'t read the book (but have almost gotten it at the library a few times). Book or movie? Book or movie? I\'ll probably end up doing both but since I know who\'s in the movie, that\'s who I\'ll picture when I read the book, which sucks a little because I like conjuring up my own visons of the characters.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3015,567,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-02-14 08:29:28','2006-02-14 08:29:28','I had no idea he wrote that book. I know he was in the movie and I thought it was quite an odd pairing of him and Claire Danes.  I\'ll check out the book since you liked it so much:)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3016,567,'Tracy','tracyf@fastmail.us','','69.214.74.92','2006-02-14 18:53:53','2006-02-14 18:53:53','I read Shopgirl recently and feel the same way about it.  Who knew there was so much depth to the man I loved in \"Parenthood?\"  It also elevated my little innocent crush on Steve Martin to something that I can\'t quite define but makes me blush whenever I see him on TV now.\n\nI will see the movie whenever it shows up on my Netflix queue...I\'ll let you know whether it enhances or ruins the experience of the book!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3017,567,'julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-02-14 22:01:02','2006-02-14 22:01:02','I have been wanting to read that book for ages ... I\'m glad to know it\'s as good as I imagine it to be.\n\nAs for the movie ... how do you feel about the actors that are starring? Do they jibe with your vision of the characters? That\'s usually the thing that gets me, because ever after I have a hard time conjuring my own image again.\n\nIf you see it, let us know your verdict!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3018,568,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','68.160.146.206','2006-02-11 10:57:50','2006-02-11 10:57:50','Oh my goodness.  The salad nicoise there is soooo good.\n\nAlso, I am pretty sure that I will never, ever take scissors myself to my daughter\'s hair!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3019,568,'Boogie\'s Mom','peanutmahoney@earthlink.net','','68.164.59.30','2006-02-11 16:10:55','2006-02-11 16:10:55','That is so sweet, him holding back those tears. I remember my daughter\'s first hair cut (although she was almost two) trying to hold back tears as the woman blow-dried her hair. I think it was a bit scary for her.\n\nMy son had his first haircut at a year, and when he was done, he looked like a totally different person. We\'ve since let his hair grow back out a bit so he looks like the same ragamuffin kid we know and love.\n\nBy the way, the picture of the haircutting place almost made me jump out of my chair. Too many colors!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3020,568,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','68.49.212.44','2006-02-12 15:38:38','2006-02-12 15:38:38','Good for you!  You are right.  The first birthday is just as much a celebration for you.  You kept him alive for his first year!  How many of us can say that about plants?  ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3021,568,'suz','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.120.80','2006-02-12 20:50:44','2006-02-12 20:50:44','Wow! I wish we had a salon that looked like that! I want see photos of your little man getting his do done :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3022,568,'Bridgermama','bridgermama@hotmail.com','','24.21.194.19','2006-02-13 11:52:45','2006-02-13 11:52:45','You little guy\'s ability to remain brave made me tear up.  B is 6 months and I can\'t imagine a haircut, especially since he still doesn\'t have a full head of hair.  K can\'t wait to give him a mohawk (over my dead body!).  I am sure the video camera will be near by for the event!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3023,570,'Bridgermama','bridgermama@hotmail.com','','24.21.194.19','2006-02-08 22:26:10','2006-02-08 22:26:10','This is completely presumptuous of me but could it be that you are not ready to put down roots and because of this you and your husband may be trying to sabotage the house hunting expedition by coming up with an elaborate list of expectations or \"needs?\"  This is something my passive agressive ass would do.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3024,570,'alyssa','alyssa@alyssaboehm.com','','198.4.159.6','2006-02-09 08:10:27','2006-02-09 08:10:27','I cried at least two times during the house hunt. The best advice I got was this - the more dead inside you are, the easier it is to buy a house. Good luck and be tough. We\'ve got a place now and we love it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3025,570,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-09 09:20:24','2006-02-09 09:20:24','Bridgermama:  I don\'t think that it is that we are not ready - it\'s more that one of us is extremely fiscally conservative (for example, we pay cash for our cars) and thankfully that discipline has brought us a lot of freedom and the ability to purchase many luxuries.  It\'s just that a mortgage is such a big loan.  We\'re scared.\n\nAlyssa:  Funny you should say that.  Last night, the husband and I shared a bottle of wine and laughed over our search so far.  I think I\'m developing the necessary blisters (like a ballerina\'s feet) but as you well know there has to be some pain.  Anyways, thanks for the encouragement!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3026,570,'Izzy','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-02-09 20:07:18','2006-02-09 20:07:18','Househunting is hard and emotionally draining for many reasons. I\'ve been there and I sympathize. We need a bigger house so bad but I dread househunting and moving so much I refuse to do a single thing about it. Noticed you listen to NPR. Very cool. I turn it on when I\'m getting dinner ready. I tried to go to Zillow but it must be popular because they\'re saying to come back later so I guess I\'ll have to wait to see the magic  :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3027,570,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','68.160.146.206','2006-02-09 21:45:41','2006-02-09 21:45:41','We ultimately just leapt.  My husband, I think, is a lot like yours - extremely fiscally conservative, we pay cash for our cars, too, etc (I think he caught it in b-school!) but for some reason, after all the fights and everything, we just went for it, and have been pretty happy thus far.  There were trade-offs, to be sure, but I think we did okay.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3028,570,'J\'s Girlfriend','heldigvis@gmail.com','','10.182.68.215','2006-02-10 05:36:37','2006-02-10 05:36:37','Go to Paris/London/Moscow now...  You\'ll love it.  And you\'re in!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3029,570,'Meg','megw2@yahoo.com','','67.10.171.56','2006-02-10 11:52:43','2006-02-10 11:52:43','House hunting in the Boston area was depressing for us as well.  That\'s one of the big reasons why we ended up in Houston.\n\nThere\'s no easy way to deal with the arguments that come up during the home buying process.  It will only get better when he realizes that he\'s wrong and comes \'round to your way of thinking.  It\'s just a matter of time my dear.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3030,570,'chichimama','momtocanda@gmail.com','','69.142.198.141','2006-02-13 18:41:10','2006-02-13 18:41:10','Ulgh.  We\'ve been hunting forever and it is soooo draining.  Good luck.  YOu will eventually find the right place, I have faith!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3031,571,'lissa','flowers295@hotmail.com','','24.167.113.224','2006-02-07 14:00:13','2006-02-07 14:00:13','Hooray! We finally got something!And as for locking yourself outside of the house? Have no fear as my aunt accidentally locked her grandson in the car in 108 degree heat! The fire department was called and they had to break the window and there was lots of panicking... quite a sight to be seen!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3032,571,'Lisa B','www.motherofbun@yahoo.com','','70.243.159.53','2006-02-07 18:15:25','2006-02-07 18:15:25','I found your blog the other day. LOVE the entry about airbrushing. Very cool and very informative.\n\nI can so relate to locking yourselves out of the house. Didn\'t see even the Super Bowl commercials. Sounds like I didn\'t miss much. :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3033,572,'Bridgermama','bridgermama@hotmail.com','','24.21.194.19','2006-02-03 12:11:29','2006-02-03 12:11:29','If anyone can pull off Manolos and a diaper bag I am sure it is you.  Anyway, congrats on the H&M store, I am sooo jealous!  I don\'t really think Portland is on the \"New Locations\" list, or will be anytime soon.  Shop tons for me!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3034,572,'~jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-02-03 15:44:17','2006-02-03 15:44:17','since we\'re relatively broke, I\'ll also shop vicariously (and in the best of style) through you!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3035,572,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','68.160.146.206','2006-02-03 15:57:16','2006-02-03 15:57:16','They\'ve been working on that Barney\'s in Copley for YEARS now, or at least that\'s what it seems like.  Have you checked out the H & M in Downtown Crossing? It\'s not bad.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3036,572,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-03 16:16:36','2006-02-03 16:16:36','Oh no!  There\'s NO WAY I could ever shop at Barney\'s.  I actually went to the store in Chestnut Hill after I saw the article and the most sensible item I could find was a boring polo shirt - for $200!  (Did you know that it is possible to spend $475 for a belt?    That\'s why I don\'t wear belts)\n\nNope.  J Crew will have to do.\n\nAnd Erin, I never seem to find myself in Downtown Crossing.  But now we can get cheap clothes more conveniently!  I love their children\'s stuff.  And the stuff for me isn\'t too bad either.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3037,572,'Amy','sbmoms@gmail.com','','68.65.177.116','2006-02-03 20:15:53','2006-02-03 20:15:53','You live in Boston?! How cool - I\'m not all that far from you. I live in NH, probably about 1 1/2 hours from Boston. My aunt lives in Jamaica Plain.\nWow - I somehow find it so wonderful that not only are you a great blogger, but you also are nearby-ish.\nYah - I guess I don\'t have that many thrills in my life, huh?\nTake care.\n\nAmy :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3038,572,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','68.49.212.44','2006-02-04 09:01:48','2006-02-04 09:01:48','The cycle will only be complete when they put a shoe store in my back yard.  ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3039,572,'knq','kmei26@yahoo.com','','69.92.8.210','2006-02-04 11:57:23','2006-02-04 11:57:23','At least hnm has great prices. I hate spending tons of cash on stuff that goes out in one season. Wait, who am I kidding? Like I even catch the trends anymore. Damnit.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3040,572,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','68.160.146.206','2006-02-04 13:35:33','2006-02-04 13:35:33','I, too, checked out the Barney\'s in Chestnut Hill recently and was nonplussed!  And I, too -  again - am a JCrew gal (but will still maintain my undying love for designer handbags even when baby girl arrives).\n\nI have never seen the H&M children\'s stuff but will be very sure to check it out!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3041,572,'tanya','admin@stylepages.net','','68.190.27.53','2006-02-04 19:59:22','2006-02-04 19:59:22','I would settle for an H&M in Alabama - We don\'t have H&M, Trader Joes - what\'s a girl to do! Cngratulations on the Barneys too - if you can\'t tell, I\'m thoroughly jealous :0)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3042,572,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-07 13:08:46','2006-02-07 13:08:46','Amy,\n\nThere are plenty of fantastic Boston bloggers - Erin (pink and green girl), T. and Alyssa of Big Red Blog, for starters.  You should check out www.universalhub.com.  So we are in great company.\n\nAnd Erin, maybe we have run into each other at Chestnut Hill...I\'m the one struggling to maneuver a HUGE Urban Buggy through Stil.  Sorry everyone!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3043,572,'Meg','megw2@yahoo.com','','67.10.171.56','2006-02-07 13:38:27','2006-02-07 13:38:27','You didn\'t know tht Bostonians dressed like Pilgrims?  Yes, it was very depressing.  Thank goodnes Barney\'s is moving in to enlighten us.  The trend went out right before you moved there...it\'s why I had to flee to a warmer climate.  :o)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3044,572,'Jennie Smash','iscribblez@yahoo.com','','209.66.78.195','2006-02-08 15:11:19','2006-02-08 15:11:19','I was at Fashion Week in NYC this week, and I kept waiting for someone to ask me who I was wearing, so that I could say, \"H&M!\"\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3045,573,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-02-02 11:37:35','2006-02-02 11:37:35','I agree with you about the beauty stuff. Those ads don\'t bother me either. I think if they do bother people, it\'s because they got self esteem issues.  You have to be realistic. It\'s not realistic to think that you\'re going to look like a computer enhanced image no matter how hard you try.\n\nBTW, congrats on your review at IT2M!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3046,573,'Benhamtroll','chris@benhamtroll.com','','71.193.139.146','2006-02-02 11:42:25','2006-02-02 11:42:25','Great article!  I think the ads are great.  it\'s the other articles in women\'s mags that drive me crazy with their unattainable standards and goals, or disgusting pretense and shallowness.\n\nAlso, seeing as I\'m going to be heading out for headshots in the next few days, I TOTALLY agree with the Photoshop concept.  My photographer will be using photoshop on oe of my shots, and seeing as that\'s what gets me in the door, THANK GOD!  :-)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3047,573,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-02-02 19:40:21','2006-02-02 19:40:21','Hey T, thanks for the heads up on the IT2M review.  It\'s funny, when I was a girl I used to keep my journals under lock and key, and now not only am I posting them on the internet - I\'m asking for people to critique them.\n\nCrazy.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3048,573,'Suzanne','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.36.234','2006-02-02 19:46:31','2006-02-02 19:46:31','Magazine ads don\'t phase me at all. I like looking at the clothing and such but i\'d rather read about real people instead of looking at them all done up with photoshop. Natural people natural! I love Jamie Lee Curtis :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3049,573,'Boogie\'s Mom','peanutmahoney@earthlink.net','','68.164.55.82','2006-02-04 00:29:05','2006-02-04 00:29:05','Oh, my god. That link is incredible! Thanks for sharing that even supermodels look as normal as we all do.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3050,573,'I Miss My Mind the Most','','http://islandtime.blogs.com/thoughts/2006/02/the_truth_is_ou.html','204.9.178.8','2006-02-02 17:00:16','2006-02-02 17:00:16','<strong>the truth is out there- but who cares when you have Photshop.</strong>\n\nI was enjoying one of my favorite blogs this morning and it made me think of a great business idea. This morning The Reluctant Housewife talks about her carreer in the beauty industry and her view of the advertising. It\'s\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3051,573,'I Miss My Mind the Most','','http://islandtime.blogs.com/thoughts/2006/02/the_truth_is_ou.html','204.9.178.8','2006-02-02 16:52:45','2006-02-02 16:52:45','<strong>the truth is out there- but who cares when you have Photshop.</strong>\n\nI was enjoying one of my favorite blogs this morning and it made me think of a great business idea. This morning The Reluctant Housewife talks about her carreer in the beauty industry and her view of the advertising. It\'s\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3052,574,'Traci','bridgermama@hotmail.com','','24.21.194.19','2006-01-31 12:07:03','2006-01-31 12:07:03','Ick!  Wow, the Hugh Grant fantasy has been completely squashed!  You know you really should put some type of disclaimer at the top of your post.  Something like \"People who want to continue with their unrealistic crush on Hugh Grant should not read beyond this point.\"  I totally would have quit reading. ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3053,574,'Boogie\'s Mom','peanutmahoney@earthlink.net','','206.13.84.201','2006-01-31 12:50:41','2006-01-31 12:50:41','While that was an interesting story, you made me laugh out loud with the term Ciara. I haven\'t heard that word since ... well, I can\'t remember when.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3054,574,'Meg','megw2@yahoo.com','','67.10.171.56','2006-01-31 13:46:36','2006-01-31 13:46:36','Okay...Hugh Gant was my favorite British hunk until I found Colin Firth too!  I just blogged about him the other day.  I know Hugh is skanky, but I still think he has an adorable smile and Aaahhhhh...that accent!\n\nI Fell in love with him all over again in Love Actually.  \"The SAS are absolutely charming. Ruthless trained killers are just a phone call away.\"\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3055,574,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-01-31 18:10:44','2006-01-31 18:10:44','Meg:  Love Actually was a tough one wasn\'t it?  Seeing both Colin and Hugh in the same movie almost made my head explode.\n\nBoogie:  Are you calling me old? :)\n\nTraci:  Sorry.  Maybe you want to jump on the Colin bandwagon with Meg and me?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3056,574,'The other jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-01-31 21:26:27','2006-01-31 21:26:27','I agree with you wholeheartedly on the \'lessons learned\'.  I\'ve been up close to Barry Pepper, and Ryan Peak (google them)and they were both TERRIBLY shorter than I expected.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3057,575,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','66.30.78.135','2006-01-27 10:22:30','2006-01-27 10:22:30','Ooh.  Thanks for the heads up. I am planning on nursing and I\'ve read that it does fantastic things for the metabolism.  I have not yet read about what happens when you stop!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3058,575,'Traci','bridgermama@hotmail.com','','24.21.194.19','2006-01-27 12:26:23','2006-01-27 12:26:23','Is it creepy to nurse until B graduates from high school?  Seriously, I bought all these over-priced jeans before I was pregnant and man did I love them.  Well I am still not back to my size (Bridge is 6 months), so I have all these awesome jeans sitting on my shelf taunting me.  So here I sit in my sweats, too stubborn to buy new jeans waiting for the weight to magically melt away...I may be waiting a long time.  Who knows, maybe I will join a gym and get all sexy and stuff?  Probably not. ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3059,575,'K.','khatina1@gmail.com','','66.56.225.156','2006-01-27 12:40:02','2006-01-27 12:40:02','Yes, Yes, Yes. I am nursing my 6-month old and I am BELOW my pre-pregnancy weight at the moment, although I eat whatever my heart desires. Which is exactly why I plan to nurse him forever.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3060,575,'Boogie\'s Mom','peanutmahoney@earthlink.net','','206.13.84.201','2006-01-27 12:55:33','2006-01-27 12:55:33','It\'s amazing what kids do to you. But I must say that I had my first shock with my metabolism taking a vacation when I turned 30. All of a sudden I looked down on what was my previously flat stomach and said, \"What is this bit of flesh below my belly button.\" After two kids and two c-sections, I\'ve gotten pretty used to it now. :(\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3061,575,'Tania','chickychickybaby@hotmail.com','','24.181.226.153','2006-01-27 14:25:11','2006-01-27 14:25:11','I too am one of those women who can (could?) eat whatever she wants and hardly ever gain weight.  And I\'d like to stay that way, thank you very much.  I planned on starting to ween my 9 month old daughter and now I\'ve decided to nurse her until she has children of her own! Being able to eat all the cookies and ice cream I want is well worth having to wear nursing bras forever.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3062,575,'Island jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-01-27 18:00:21','2006-01-27 18:00:21','I didn\'t nurse but I still managed to lose all my pregnancy weight.  Partly because i only gained 5 lbs (gestational diabetic = strict diet) and Partly because i finally went to the bathroom a week after my son was born.\nthat\'s all it took.\n\nLOL!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3063,575,'dawn','d.ged@cox.net','','68.228.153.234','2006-01-27 19:52:23','2006-01-27 19:52:23','yup, nursing is great for weightloss. but you have to doet the minute you stop. It has happened to me with both of my children.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3064,575,'alyssa','alyssa@alyssaboehm.com','','66.30.201.11','2006-01-27 20:44:54','2006-01-27 20:44:54','Fun - boob stuff.\n\nMy sister, with the twins, lost a ton of weight after the pregnancy as well. Her doc told her that she was burning close to 1000 calories a day breastfeeding just one kid. Now multiply that by 2.\n\nIs he really weaned? Maybe you can get him back on the boob.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3065,575,'Isbael (Izzy)','izzy76@nerdshack.com','','71.101.75.113','2006-01-27 21:50:53','2006-01-27 21:50:53','I think I\'m the opposite. I\'ve not been able to lose a single pound since 4 weeks postpartum. I have worked out like I was freaking possessed by Kathy Smith and nothing. Nada. Zilch. I\'ve had a few people, including my doctor, confirm for me that I am one of the freakish few that can not and will not lose weight until I wean. If I want to keep breastfeeding, I have to be okay with carrying a spare 15. Mother Nature can be SUCH a b!tch.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3066,575,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-01-28 22:01:28','2006-01-28 22:01:28','Glad to see I\'m not alone!  (And I\'m sorry for you Izzy...that sucks!)\n\nThis breastfeeding-metabolism thing is one of the things I wish people had told me about before I weaned The Boy.  Then I would have weaned myself from my diet-for-two.  Oh well.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3067,575,'Julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-01-28 22:14:23','2006-01-28 22:14:23','Yep, age does it to you. I too, lost all my baby weight within a few weeks, but I didn\'t start at my ideal weight. And since then, I\'ve gained 10 more lbs.\n\nI started a new blog called Re-Vamp to document my attempt to get back to where I need to be. I figure if I do it publicly, I\'ll be forced to keep at it. In my own private world it\'d be too easy to fall off the wagon!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3068,575,'Jamie','blondemomblog@yahoo.com','','68.53.61.161','2006-01-29 14:47:58','2006-01-29 14:47:58','I stupidly weaned my daughter at 8 months during the holidays. Luckily I lost my baby weight by about 8 weeks with both pregnancies (first one I gained about 36 pounds). I swear I gained 6 pounds in about two weeks after fully weaning her. I refuse to buy new pants/skirts for work so I am just trying to suck it in and suck it up.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3069,575,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','68.49.212.44','2006-01-29 14:55:25','2006-01-29 14:55:25','I have no baby to even attribute my weight gain!  I\'m going to start telling people my extra 30 is due to these damn cats . . . :)\n\nGood luck to us in our weight loss adventures!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3070,575,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-01-31 09:00:35','2006-01-31 09:00:35','Nursing burns a ton of calories.  I never had to watch my weight either.  Now I\'m at a point where I stay the same as long as I\'m not eating pints of Ben & Jerry\'s and going to KFC everyday which I will do if I don\'t have a reason not to.  I\'m just like you.  No exercise or healthy diet unless it\'s necessary.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3071,575,'Stephanie','schmoo@toast.net','','71.111.120.215','2006-02-10 23:10:17','2006-02-10 23:10:17','I am one of those unfortunate people whose baby fat is stubbornly refusing to let go despite nursing like a madwoman. (my son is 7 months) It doesn\'t help that I\'m hungry ALL THE TIME!  I can eat a huge meal, and an hour later I\'m peeking in the snack bin.  A friend of mine said that I\'ll probably lose the weight after I wean, but I\'m not convinced.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3072,575,'J\'s Mommy','stacymae76@hotmail.com','','68.196.124.121','2006-02-15 14:47:29','2006-02-15 14:47:29','So true and sooooo depressing. What\'s the deal with stretch marks anyway? If I sweat my ass off and exercise 5 days a week will they ever really go away? So then what\'s the point right. I\'d much rather sit on the couch and eat a bowl of chocolate ice cream!! Anyway, just wanted to say I hear ya sister!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3073,576,'Christie','chlnature@hotmail.com','','208.50.97.79','2006-01-27 08:45:03','2006-01-27 08:45:03','hehe\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3074,576,'R*belle','rbelle@gmail.com','','24.31.207.127','2006-01-27 22:31:02','2006-01-27 22:31:02','So funny!  Love your blog!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3075,577,'The \'other\' Jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-01-24 18:27:03','2006-01-24 18:27:03','wow, i\'ll have to google the occupations of my other fisher price characters.  i wanted to mention the backward hat, but after seeing my husband under the hood several times know that it has to be that way...\nDamn, those FP people are authentic, aren\'t they???\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3076,577,'Suzanne','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.120.80','2006-01-24 23:33:55','2006-01-24 23:33:55','THAT is scary! Wow, the makers are definitely into detail and research!\nHope The Boy starts feeling 100% very soon.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3077,577,'Julia','tickytacky@gmail.com','','70.112.78.166','2006-01-28 22:08:36','2006-01-28 22:08:36','LOL! That is so funny.\n\nHi, I just found your blog! You left a comment for me a while ago, but I hadn\'t been reading my comments updates for a long while, so had been missing those left on older posts. Thanks for coming by!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3078,577,'Pookie','pookieboy1965@yahoo.com','','70.171.9.137','2006-01-29 05:28:56','2006-01-29 05:28:56','Thanks for the post about the Little People. I am flooded with memories now of my own collection. I\'m telling my age now but the ones I had were made of wood.  The airplane and bus were loads of fun!\n\nFound your blog through Bloggy Award.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3079,578,'newlywifed','newlywifed@hotmail.com','','63.209.178.11','2006-01-24 09:13:16','2006-01-24 09:13:16','I can totally relate to having advance warning but still being surprised because you never thought the day would actually come!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3080,578,'The \'other\' Jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-01-24 18:29:45','2006-01-24 18:29:45','I though I can barely remember a time without children, I DO remember time crawling along before I had any.\nDid that make sense??\nIt\'s got something to do with kids, I\'m sure of it.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3081,579,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-01-21 10:14:46','2006-01-21 10:14:46','Oh, I feel for you. I\'ve been there.  My two year old had that a few weeks ago.  It\'s horrible.  Make sure he gets plenty of fluids.  I hope it doesn\'t last long!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3082,579,'island jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-01-21 11:40:20','2006-01-21 11:40:20','Lordy, have i been there...\ntry the BRAT diet.\nBananas\nRice\nApples\nToast\nit works everytime.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3083,579,'Traci','bridgermama@hotmail.com','','24.21.194.19','2006-01-21 12:32:56','2006-01-21 12:32:56','Did ya ever picture yourself in this situation 5 years ago.  Life changes, but the silly thing is that amongst all the poop, spit up, and drool I have never been happier.  You will have a clearer view of this when the poop subsides. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3084,579,'hotdrwife','hotdoctorwife@yahoo.com','','67.41.158.240','2006-01-21 14:19:50','2006-01-21 14:19:50','Oh man! I\'m sorry ...\n\nLast year about this time, my son was battling ear infections (our 10th one in months) and we were waiting for tubes. In the meantime, he was on a mess of antibiotics and the last round just wrecked his tummy.\n\nI remember seeing my son, standing in a diaper on our rug by the tv, with diarrhea coming down both sides of his legs. He then ripped off the diaper and it went everywhere. I thought for sure I was headed for the rubber room.\n\n(and the BRAT diet is a great thing! Worked for me ... a LOT in \'03!)\n\nHang in there!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3085,579,'Amy','sbmoms@gmail.com','','68.65.177.116','2006-01-21 18:23:10','2006-01-21 18:23:10','Oh man! I hope your little guy starts to feel better real soon.\n\nAnyway, I just found your blog through The Mom Salon and I love it! Your writing is wonderful and your stories are engaging. I\'m adding you to my blogroll and I\'ll definitely be a frequent reader!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3086,579,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-01-21 18:48:23','2006-01-21 18:48:23','It\'s good to know I\'m not alone.  The doctor also recommended the BRAT diet - hopefully it will start working soon.\n\nThanks for your comments - they\'re so helpful!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3087,579,'hotdrwife','hotdoctorwife@Yahoo.com','','67.41.158.240','2006-01-22 18:16:07','2006-01-22 18:16:07','Just checking in to see how your little one is doing?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3088,579,'Callisto','blissed_callisto@yahoo.com.au','','220.233.77.243','2006-01-22 20:34:41','2006-01-22 20:34:41','No diarrhea in this household of late, however we did have some projectile vomiting a while back.\n\nIt\'s times like these that I remember how much I should (and do) love MY mum.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3089,579,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-01-22 22:10:26','2006-01-22 22:10:26','Thanks for checking in!\n\nAfter buyin our local supermarket\'s entire stock of pureed bananas and Zwieback toast, we have not see any signs of poop since this morning.  More importantly, The Boy is mostly back to his playful self.\n\nWe are tentatively celebrating victory!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3090,579,'Suzanne','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.120.80','2006-01-23 00:39:51','2006-01-23 00:39:51','Man I\'m happy Elizabeth is finally out of diapers. I cringe just thinking about having to wipe another diarhea-burnt baby bum. Hope it disapears very soon!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3091,579,'Sean','sblog.sean@googlemail.com','','86.15.218.169','2006-01-23 09:03:30','2006-01-23 09:03:30','Hang in there, Reluctant Mum. I remember only too well my poop-filled moments all those years ago with a friend\'s baby that I played a surrogate father to but after all the pooping, comes cute stuff. Mind you, I don\'t know if you use pampers or some such, but I used to use towelling nappies - BOY! are those hard to get to grips with at first, what with Little One\'s little feets kicking about and you\'re there poised with one hand clutching a safety pin - waiting for the right moment to pounch and insert - and the other holding them down. My view of \"motherhood\" changed within a year and I just can\'t take my hat enough off to you guys!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3092,579,'hotrwife','hotdoctorwife@yahoo.com','','67.41.158.240','2006-01-23 11:09:57','2006-01-23 11:09:57','RH -- I\'m glad to hear things are approaching normal at your house! I remember, too, when my guy was so sick ... I had to rinse his bottom off in the bathtub/shower because the diaper rash (from the diarrhea) was so bad. It\'s amazing how quickly a mom becomes an Armchair Nurse, right? Glad to hear things are better ... HDW\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3093,580,'newlywifed','newlywifed@hotmail.com','','63.209.178.11','2006-01-18 09:47:46','2006-01-18 09:47:46','I love your blog.  I got here from the link on Whoorl, and have been reading it instead of doing work for a while now...\n\nI\'m from Boston, but live in New Jersey now (I prefer to say the greater Philadelphia area, but I digress) so I know about the housing market...Good Luck!  I\'m sure you will find the home of your dreams!\n\nGreat blog!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3094,580,'Callisto','blissed_callisto@yahoo.com.au','','220.233.77.243','2006-01-19 19:03:28','2006-01-19 19:03:28','Realestate is the preoccupation of the majority of the populous of Sydney. People either talk about not being able to get into the market or talk about how much their property value has increased. Expensive, you bet.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3095,580,'Meg','megw2@yahoo.com','','24.128.125.139','2006-01-20 07:36:41','2006-01-20 07:36:41','Ha!  Sounds familiar.  We\'re relocating from Boston to Houston right now and we\'re having the same types of discussions.\n\nWe let them pick out all of the electronics, why can\'t they just let us pick the house?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3096,580,'nosouthernbelle','rebeccawinks@gawab.com','','12.34.246.38','2006-01-20 10:21:36','2006-01-20 10:21:36','Absolutely hilarious.  Just linked to your site from Tales of the Newly Wedded, and love yours!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3097,580,'The other jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-01-20 11:16:25','2006-01-20 11:16:25','thanks for reminding me just how difficult house shopping is.  With a spouse, i mean.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3098,580,'Bridgermama','Bridgermama@hotmail.com','','24.21.194.19','2006-01-21 01:04:59','2006-01-21 01:04:59','Wait a minute, how did you have the exact same conversation with your realtor that we had with ours (replace Boston with Portland)?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3099,580,'mrsmogul','mrsmogul@homechoice.co.uk','','81.1.104.49','2006-01-21 18:33:10','2006-01-21 18:33:10','Is that really true that the realtor said that? Because that is funny..\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3100,580,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-01-21 18:37:45','2006-01-21 18:37:45','Oh yes, it is true.  I wouldn\'t be surprised if it\'s an old realtors\' joke, but as first time homebuyers we thought it was funny.  And appropriate.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3101,580,'The Happy Housewife','thehappyhousewife@tiscali.co.uk','','88.106.148.227','2006-01-22 05:53:22','2006-01-22 05:53:22','That very same conversation was had on the other side of the world in our house just the other day...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3102,580,'Lisa B','www.motherofbun@yahoo.com','','70.243.159.53','2006-02-07 18:18:31','2006-02-07 18:18:31','We just moved into our current house in November. SO we had alot of those hunting and price conversations too. Oy. SO glad that whole process is over with. Can wait to hear how yours goes though.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3103,581,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','70.34.50.180','2006-01-17 17:48:33','2006-01-17 17:48:33','Oooh, I love your new masthead!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3104,581,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-01-17 18:21:06','2006-01-17 18:21:06','Thanks!\n\nI thought she seemed more \"reluctant\".\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3105,581,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','68.49.212.44','2006-01-17 19:54:14','2006-01-17 19:54:14','Holla to the new stylish lady you\'ve brought into the house!\n\nStupid Starbucks.  Taking over the universe, venti style.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3106,581,'allan','student_sage@yahoo.com','','69.234.181.6','2006-01-18 17:06:28','2006-01-18 17:06:28','Airlines and airports are not free markets, they are highly regulated.\n\nFree markets say go to another store down the street for a better cappuccino for less; unless your ego feels that it needs the Starbuck\'s name.\n\nIf there is no other store, open one.  If the markets were truly free you would not have to worry about huge regulations and repressive taxes.\n\nStupid consumers maybe, not stupid free markets.  Free markets allow you to make stupid choices.\n\nControlled markets give you one poor choice selected by someone that gets better stuff, like at airports.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3107,581,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-01-19 10:03:19','2006-01-19 10:03:19','Allan, I know you are just trying to be helpful - but your comment freaks me out.  My economics professor\'s name was Alan as well.  Coincidence?\n\nMaybe I should have dusted off the ol\' Dornbusch, but I\'m too lazy.\n\nI may continue to blame random things on \"stupid free market economics\" just because I can.\n\nYesterday\'s crazy weather?  Blame it on  Stupid free market economics.\n\nWorks for me.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3108,582,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','68.49.212.44','2006-01-16 08:53:42','2006-01-16 08:53:42','Per usual, I love it!  I\'m adding you to my blogroll today.  HOLLA!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3109,582,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-01-16 10:38:33','2006-01-16 10:38:33','Just keep trying to get out of the house. You\'ll drive yourself crazy if you don\'t get out enough.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3110,582,'Tilda','blog@jadedfashionista.co.uk','','86.134.35.144','2006-01-16 13:53:44','2006-01-16 13:53:44','... She sounds really cool, but please tell her to take a bath before she touches ur child! lol... love ur blog!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3111,582,'gorillabuns','slmyers@cox.net','','70.189.82.164','2006-01-16 15:26:03','2006-01-16 15:26:03','isn\'t it sad that when we have kids we feel like we are cool anymore?  i know a thing about somethin\' or other.....i would\'ve told her the madonna story anyway.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3112,582,'Dana','bamaalum91@wideopenwest.com','','64.53.204.21','2006-01-17 01:23:55','2006-01-17 01:23:55','Now that I have kids, I am starting to feel like such a dork when it comes to today\'s music. I love 80\'s rock, 80\'s pop, alternative, you name it! I would have told the Madonna story too \'cause I think it\'s awesome!\n\nShe sounds like a gem. Rock on!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3113,582,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-01-17 07:05:51','2006-01-17 07:05:51','Maybe you guys are right and I should have told her the story...but since I\'ve told the internet it\'s out of my system for now!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3114,582,'knq','kmei26@yahoo.com','','24.117.160.218','2006-01-17 21:57:21','2006-01-17 21:57:21','Don\'t you love having to pay to run errands and go to the gym? I feel as though someone should be paying me...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3115,583,'Dawn Marie','dawndschaak@gmail.com','','216.228.46.7','2006-01-12 00:10:38','2006-01-12 00:10:38','He he, that\'s cute. I want one!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3116,583,'Kris','clouth@gmail.com','','68.160.175.38','2006-01-12 20:40:27','2006-01-12 20:40:27','Lazy, or efficient? It\'s a fine line.\n\n:)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3117,583,'Meg','megw2@yahoo.com','','24.128.125.139','2006-01-17 20:11:32','2006-01-17 20:11:32','Is it wrong that I\'m jealous?  :o)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3118,584,'mrsmogul','mrsmogul@homechoice.co.uk','','81.1.104.49','2006-01-09 15:55:04','2006-01-09 15:55:04','I am totally into baby signing! I probably will do the same thing!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3119,584,'suz','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.120.80','2006-01-09 17:43:34','2006-01-09 17:43:34','Wow, that\'s really cool! I will have to try it with my second if I get pregnant again :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3120,584,'ladyBug Crossing','ladybugxing@gmail.com','','67.142.130.17','2006-01-09 18:04:15','2006-01-09 18:04:15','The boy knows what he wants!!\nIt only gets worse from this point on...  They know what they want and they want it now...\nEnjoy him while he\'s little - they get too big too fast\nLadyBug\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3121,584,'reluctant housewife','none@unknown.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-01-09 18:13:55','2006-01-09 18:13:55','Yes, it\'s bittersweet to be able to communicate with him this way as well.  But it is pretty cool.  We\'ll keep working at it!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3122,584,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','68.49.212.44','2006-01-09 19:28:41','2006-01-09 19:28:41','I wish all the 30-year-old men could communicate so well.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3123,584,'Island jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-01-10 10:58:54','2006-01-10 10:58:54','My neighbor taught her daughter sign and she didn\'t speak until she was nearly 2 and a half!\nKids are sooo dang smart I think we underestimate their genious most of the time.\nCome on, with our genes how can they go wrong???\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3124,584,'Bambi','bambih@gmail.com','','63.19.115.169','2006-01-10 12:57:58','2006-01-10 12:57:58','I had to make a comment, to your common courtesy comment. lol!  Two of my childrens first words were thank you.  I used to sit with them, and pass things back and forth, saying please and thank you.\n\nOne time, my oldest and I were waiting for clothes to finish, in a laundrymat, and he caught someones attention.  I was handing him cheese curls, as he said thank you, the lady turned and asked his age.  He was less than 18 months old.  That I remember, because there are 18 months between him and my second child, and, he hadn\'t been born yet.\n\nSo, yes, it is possible. :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3125,584,'hotdrwife','hotdoctorwife@yahoo.com','','67.41.158.240','2006-01-10 14:42:17','2006-01-10 14:42:17','I have a twenty-two-month-old son. We started teaching him sign around 6-7 months, and he caught on really fast. He\'s starting to use the \'real\' words associated with the signs, and it\'s fantastic.\n\nAlthough, he gets pretty upset at times (if I change a diaper, what not), and he\'ll go through every last sign he knows to get me to stop.\n\nFunny!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3126,584,'Reluctant Housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-01-10 19:36:23','2006-01-10 19:36:23','I can totally see The Boy flailing his arms wildly trying to get me to stop changing his diaper.  WHY DO THEY HATE HAVING THEIR DIAPER CHANGED?  WHY?\n\nAnd I guess I should have payed attention when they taught us to sign \"please\" and \"thank you\"!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3127,584,'island jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-01-11 12:55:24','2006-01-11 12:55:24','I\'d love to know what\'s up with the \'i hate fresh diapers\' pheonmenon.  My little guy hates it too and shoots lazers from every appendage when i attempt a change.\n\nthe thank you sign is holding your thumb to your face and pulling it away... I\'m not exactly sure on the details but Steve used to do it at the end of every episode of Blue\'s clues...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3128,584,'K.','khatina1@gmail.com','','66.56.225.156','2006-01-12 14:57:06','2006-01-12 14:57:06','This gives me hope. I have been signing to my 5-month old for weeks now. I know that it will be some time still before I can expect him to sign back, but this story is truly inspiring. Although my sweetie claims that he is doing it already - I think they are just random motions of his hand.....\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3129,584,'Lisa','lisadiane@yahoo.com','','67.161.88.203','2006-01-13 21:24:23','2006-01-13 21:24:23','De-lurking week! Hi, just found you via TheMomSalon.\n\nI taught my older daughter sign and she first signed \"more\" when she was 8 or 9 months old.  We eventually had her signing just about anything she would need.  It was great.  She\'s 31 months now and has obviously phased out of her signs but will still sign a few words, which is pretty cute.  Now my younger daughter is 7 months and I have started using signs with her.  I hope she picks up on them soon!\n\nAnd it\'s never too early to teach or demonstrate manners! You never know!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3130,584,'Cat','cat@catcancook.com','','70.50.51.251','2006-01-20 11:57:07','2006-01-20 11:57:07','Baby signing is an amazing thing!  My 14 month old signs to us now all the time.  It took him a while to catch on, but now look out! His favorite signs include bird, drink and cat!\n\nApparently, signing also aids in early speech, and he\'s talking up a storm, with about 25 words in his vocabulary, and adding to that daily!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3131,584,'reluctant housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-01-20 12:28:34','2006-01-20 12:28:34','Thanks for the pep talk.  He now signs milk and all done, but he does it for everything.  We\'re still working on it...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3132,585,'Island jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-01-07 10:14:26','2006-01-07 10:14:26','i bundle the cards together, sans pictures, and throw them in with the tree decorations.  next year when I get the tree out and see the bundle I go through it and see who I have to send my cards to.  i keep all the photos in a different envelope and stash it in my heaps of scrapbook supplies.  If you\'ve managed to make a book, you are one step ahead of me.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3133,585,'suz','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.120.80','2006-01-07 12:17:13','2006-01-07 12:17:13','I gave mine to my daughter to add to her craft box.  She loves cutting out the different shapes and characters.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3134,585,'RagDoll','ragdollcustoms@comcast.net','','24.6.239.231','2006-01-07 22:21:26','2006-01-07 22:21:26','Yesterday was Kings Day? Eeep! I\'m behind. Oh well. I blame it on the flu.\n\nAs for Christmas Cards. I never know what to do with them, and they end up getting stashed in the decoration box until the next year!\n\nHappy New Year!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3135,585,'K.','khatina1@gmail.com','','66.56.225.156','2006-01-09 08:59:05','2006-01-09 08:59:05','Creative! I have this book for my son. He does love it tho. He stares at the faces on every page.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3136,585,'amamgets','mamasteg@sbcglobal.net','','71.145.207.159','2006-01-11 23:20:28','2006-01-11 23:20:28','Okay I know it sounds like WAY too much work, but I take the pictures, slap/glue them on paper, slide them into the plastic hoochies, then binders.\n\nEach binder holds one or two years, and they are great to look at across the years-- to see all the babies get big.\n\nNow here\'s the thing:  none of this ever happened until two years ago.  For twelve years (since our eldest was a baby), I had put all the card pics into ziplocs, marked the year, and thrown them in a box.\n\nI\'m a hugely delinquent and deficient Martha, but a Martha nonetheless.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3137,586,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-01-05 10:15:25','2006-01-05 10:15:25','Whoa! The Boston real estate market. I would be afraid too.  My husband works in Boston a lot.  We know that eventually we\'ll have to move down that way.  I find a lot of people are buying in Fitchburg/Leominster area and driving the hour commute to Boston daily or taking the train in.  Houses there average about $230K which is better than the $350k in Boston.\n\nWe just bought our house last year in Western Mass where houses are drammatically cheaper.\n\nGood luck.  I know one day I\'ll be in your shoes and I\'ll be looking for a Boston area home.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3138,586,'Benhamtroll','chris@benhamtroll.com','','71.193.139.146','2006-01-05 11:05:39','2006-01-05 11:05:39','My wife and I looked at RENTING in the Boston area a year or so ago, and were flabbergasted at the prices.  Buying seems like a whole new world.  Good luck!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3139,586,'Erin','ekf73@yahoo.com','','141.154.121.199','2006-01-05 13:22:39','2006-01-05 13:22:39','We were renting in Cambridge when we started house hunting last year. We found the house of our dreams about 1/2 hour north of Boston for literally 1/3 of the price we would have paid had we stayed in the city.\n\nIt is so nice to have your own house.  Good luck and happy hunting!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3140,586,'Cate','supervelma@gmail.com','','69.38.17.74','2006-01-05 14:43:42','2006-01-05 14:43:42','Congrats - buying a house is the scariest, most grown up, coolest thing ever!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3141,586,'Alyssa','alyssa@alyssaboehm.com','','198.4.159.6','2006-01-06 07:59:50','2006-01-06 07:59:50','Since we JUST did this like 8 months ago - I\'m happy to give you the name of our real estate agent, our lawyer and of course our house checklist. If you show up with a tape measure and a clipboard, people know you\'re serious.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3142,586,'Reluctant Housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-01-06 08:39:19','2006-01-06 08:39:19','Wow!  Thanks you guys - you gotta love the internet!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3143,586,'Janet','sliceofpink@gmail.com','','71.108.95.30','2006-01-06 13:24:39','2006-01-06 13:24:39','My husband and I are in the same boat. We are seriously looking to buy in 2006, but it is kinda scary. Eek.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3144,586,'suz','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.36.234','2006-01-06 17:59:02','2006-01-06 17:59:02','Good Luck! And I mean that in a nice way :) I love being a home owner, it\'s scary at first but once you sign that dotted line the pressure is gone :) ENJOY!!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3145,586,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','70.34.50.180','2006-01-07 11:33:44','2006-01-07 11:33:44','I understand your pain...we live in \"the O.C.\", where prices are similar to Boston. We have been renting forever and waiting for the right time. Who knows when that \"time\" will come.\n\nWishing you much luck!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3146,586,'Rick','rick.bettencourt@verizon.net','','70.22.147.60','2006-01-08 08:54:40','2006-01-08 08:54:40','Congratulations...you got to love Beantown.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3147,587,'K.','khatina1@gmail.com','','66.56.225.156','2006-01-03 21:59:59','2006-01-03 21:59:59','I still go back and forth about my decision to stay home. Some days I am convinced that I am the luckiest woman alive... and other days I just know that I have completely given up who I am to raise my child.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3148,587,'Orikinla Osinachi','orikinla@yahoo.co.uk','','193.133.99.236','2006-01-05 13:32:03','2006-01-05 13:32:03','What does Hugh Heffner know about feminism?\n\nHugh Heffner is no feminist.\n\nWhosoever makes a girl or a woman a sex object is not a feminist. But a moron.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3149,588,'Lorraine','site@ilorraine.com','','58.69.85.158','2005-12-31 13:25:48','2005-12-31 13:25:48','I love that mantra- can I steal it? Pleasure, not perfection... pleasure, not perfection...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3150,588,'Reluctant Housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2005-12-31 14:31:49','2005-12-31 14:31:49','Please go ahead.  I stole it from the Yoga lady myself.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3151,588,'mrsmogul','mrsmogul@homechoice.co.uk','','81.1.100.99','2006-01-01 14:50:14','2006-01-01 14:50:14','I know what you mean about yoga class. It\'s like, okay okay enough of the ohms...let\'s get down to stretching and toning.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3152,588,'stella','stellanole@hotmail.com','','64.236.221.6','2006-01-03 10:20:31','2006-01-03 10:20:31','I must say that is pretty brilliant!  \'go for pleasure not for perfection\'...\n\na twist on...\'if you aren\'t having fun, than whats the point?\'.  eh?  finance just said this to me the other day when we were out climbing.  i love it.\n\nyoure blog is good.  ill be back.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3153,588,'Tracy','tracyf@fastmail.us','','68.255.46.4','2006-01-05 10:03:41','2006-01-05 10:03:41','I just found you on the Typepad home page and decided that you are a kindred spirit.  I, too, am baffled by everyone\'s obsession with Dunkin Donuts coffee.  It\'s Starbucks all the way!  And I am definitely grooving on your \"pleasure, not perfection\" mantra.  I think we might share a brain.  I\'ll be back!\n\nOh, and if you haven\'t already read it, I think you might enjoy \"Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life\" by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.  And, if I might dare to say it, you might also enjoy my blog, LOL!  (Since we share a brain and all)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3154,588,'suz','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.36.234','2006-01-06 18:04:56','2006-01-06 18:04:56','You\'re right! It does work with everythig :) My resolution or goal for 2006 is to become debt free - Do it with pleasure not perfection! I guess that means I can live a little while I am doing it ?!?!\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3155,589,'Monika','watkinslady3@iwon.com','','71.141.4.23','2006-01-01 13:23:28','2006-01-01 13:23:28','Hard to imagine a town without a Starbucks.  We have four in my town.  Two of them are in the same shopping center.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3156,589,'Guusje','guusje@mindspring.com','','67.101.68.188','2006-01-01 15:36:53','2006-01-01 15:36:53','The only coffee worse than Dunkin Donuts is Stop n\' Go or Diamond Shmarock.  I don\'t care if they are changing the name to Valero, the patrons all look like they have been lightly sprayed with axle grease and used motor oil, some of which has also gotten into the coffee.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3157,589,'Lyss','alyssasusan@gmail.com','','4.17.135.202','2006-01-01 18:08:03','2006-01-01 18:08:03','When I lived in RI you could swing a dead cat and hit one (or a CVS). Even their large auditorium is the DUnkin\' Donuts Ctr.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3158,589,'Meg','megw2@yahoo.com','','24.128.125.139','2006-01-03 07:54:17','2006-01-03 07:54:17','I just blogged about this last week!\n\nI\'m a native New Englander (originally from RI now living in Boston) so I have a fondness for D&D that goes all the way back to elementary school (we like to start them young on the caffeine here).  That being said, even this life-long D&D fan has been turned off lately.  The coffee is just not what it used to be.  I think they\'re using a different blend of beans.  Something just isn\'t right.  The end of an era.  :o(\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3159,589,'Reluctant Housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2006-01-03 08:03:53','2006-01-03 08:03:53','Hi Meg!\n\nI actually left a comment on your post back when you posted...it partly triggered my ramblings on the D&D phenomenom!  You guys should check out Meg\'s blog:  <a href=\"http://www.newlywedded.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.newlywedded.blogspot.com/</a>\n\nAnd Guujse, Diamond Shamrock sounds too scary for words.  Maybe I\'ll check out the local color one of these days.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3160,589,'T.','mytstop@gmail.com','','71.123.72.93','2006-01-04 20:09:14','2006-01-04 20:09:14','I live in Massachusetts, too.  Dunkin Donuts coffee sucks. I don\'t like any coffee but DD coffee especially sucks.  There\'s a Starbucks in Boston I used to go to when I was there and buy $5.00 hot chocolates.\n\nMust be hard getting used to the weather here. It is awful.  Right now I want to move to Florida.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3161,589,'suz','kseoates@shaw.ca','','70.66.36.234','2006-01-06 18:08:32','2006-01-06 18:08:32','I am soooo with you on this one!  I can\'t stand that crap.  It makes you wonder how they can still be in business.  I actually resorted to making my own coffee because of the crap out there.  BUT, I do also drive the 10 minutes to get my Grande Mocha from Starbucks :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3162,589,'Island Jen','island_artist@telus.net','','207.216.52.49','2006-01-06 22:37:01','2006-01-06 22:37:01','I have been to DD years ago while visiting the US and couldn\'t bring myself to order ANYTHING due to the state of the shop.  THe joint was rockin too (just like you said).\n\nThat latte trick is just plain nasty.  cruel and nasty.  Like Suz (the PP) said, perhaps it\'s time to invest in an esspresso machine with a good steamer??\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3163,590,'whoorl','sarah@whoorl.com','','70.233.142.233','2005-12-29 10:11:39','2005-12-29 10:11:39','I hear ya regarding the lazy days and lazy writing. I am hoping to create some sort of coherent babble by the end of this weekend. We\'ll see. ;)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3164,591,'alyssa','alyssa@alyssaboehm.com','','66.30.201.11','2005-12-27 17:59:37','2005-12-27 17:59:37','I made like three today - including one for my grocery list and one for books I\'d like to buy....\n\nMmmm... pockety goodness.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3165,591,'Xian','gxianfu@gmail.com','','202.190.136.139','2005-12-28 08:01:53','2005-12-28 08:01:53','Hmm.. Me too..lol.. PDA sounds nice.. \"p I did watch some episodes of Betty The Ugly.or lo so betty la fea..I think..lol Very popular in my country, Malaysia few years back \"p.. Merry Xmas and Happy New Year \"p tata...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3166,591,'hterry','hterrygeo@gmail.com','','128.23.156.36','2005-12-29 08:19:34','2005-12-29 08:19:34','I actually just use my phone...I can do notes and use my calendar on it as well that has a nice little alarm I can set a couple days or even a day in advance to remind myself I have something coming up.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3167,594,'liuhua','maraxus.lonewolf@hotmail.com','','60.50.244.24','2005-12-23 08:03:02','2005-12-23 08:03:02','ooh i know that series! it was aired here two years ago! Armando Mendoza and Beatrice Pinzon or something.\n\nvery nice series, though i\'m a little disappointed at the episodes towards the ending.\n\nlemme see who else i remember....there\'s a Patricia, a Marcela and her brother Daniel (forgot their last names though...ooh and the eccentric guy, Nicolas I think. Terra Moda co-owner. =)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3168,594,'empress maruja','maruja16@yahoo.com','','203.167.67.12','2005-12-23 11:08:26','2005-12-23 11:08:26','passing through BE, i browsed this post.\n\nbetty la fea was also shown in the philippines.  it became more popular during the episode when betty actually became beautiful.  it\'s ratings were so high, the competing network broadcast the sequel (ecomoda) at the same timeslot (11:30AM, the time when most housewives are preparing lunches)even thought BLF isn\'t ending yet.  call it a case of bad sabotage...\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3169,594,'Reluctant Housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2005-12-23 18:27:49','2005-12-23 18:27:49','Wow, now I really can\'t wait for the American version to air!  I wonder if they will make it better?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3170,599,'amamgets','stegs@casabonita.us','','71.145.190.174','2005-12-17 15:59:35','2005-12-17 15:59:35','Its hard, negotiating the family.  Like my mom said one time, \'there\'s just so much of us\'.  Sometimes even when only three are together-- yikes!\n\nHold on tight, Mama.  Baby boys are awesome.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3171,599,'Jorge','gente-boa@rogers.com','','10.18.29.221','2005-12-29 11:14:58','2005-12-29 11:14:58','It\'s amazing how people can slip away from us.  Relationships can only hold for so long.\n\nYou\'ll be fine.\n:)\n\nYou will have happy days with your little one.\n\nJ\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3172,599,'Reluctant Housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.18.34','2005-12-29 13:49:38','2005-12-29 13:49:38','Yeah, that was a weird day but it always feels better to write about it.  Thanks for reading my blog.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3173,603,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','68.49.212.44','2005-12-12 09:19:50','2005-12-12 09:19:50','You are not alone!  I saw an entire segment devoted to this on the Today Show - I think many, many people think the PC pendulum may have swung too far the other way.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3174,603,'Mandy','algoebel514@yahoo.com','','82.114.185.245','2005-12-13 01:21:11','2005-12-13 01:21:11','I TOTALLY agree!  I think the \"War on Christmas\" is kind of a BS concept (as are most things that Bill O\'Riley comes up with), but I also don\'t see anything wrong with calling a Christmas tree a Christmas tree, or wishing someone a merry Christmas if you know they celebrate it!  How sanitized do we really need to be??\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3175,604,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','68.49.212.44','2005-12-09 21:12:00','2005-12-09 21:12:00','Ignore the shoveling.  I love that you enjoy the beauty of all of this.  :)\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3176,608,'kris','mamalikey@hotmail.com','','68.49.212.44','2005-12-07 18:39:33','2005-12-07 18:39:33','I spit on my screen a little at the part about Netflix thinking you were a gay man.  Hilarious.\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3897,1361,'Roxanna','editor@everydaytreats.com','','98.110.194.250','2011-05-20 10:46:05','2011-05-20 14:46:05','We\'ll figure it out together, Raquel. Don\'t worry!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.68 Safari/534.24','',3895,1),(3895,1361,'Raquel','degrootrv@gmail.com','','71.208.124.201','2011-05-20 10:26:02','2011-05-20 14:26:02','This personal style issue has become very real to me as I approach the half-century mark. I\'m not sure I\'ve got it--and now that I\'ve re-entered the workplace, it\'s even harder to determine \"who I am\". Help!',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.21.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.5 Safari/533.21.1','',0,0),(3894,1361,'Janet','thisconfettilife@gmail.com','http://www.thisconfettilife.com','24.205.234.132','2011-05-19 22:24:40','2011-05-20 02:24:40','Somebody at my work mentioned this today (I wonder if she reads your blog!), and I just love the idea! \r\n\r\n(p.s. also love \"let\'s try harder than t-shirts.\" Cute.)',0,'1','Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.21.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.5 Safari/533.21.1','',0,0),(3180,617,'TulipGirl','tulipgrrl@gmail.com','','71.100.37.114','2005-11-18 21:36:24','2005-11-18 21:36:24','You\'re not serious about Babywise are you?   The buying and using BW is satire like the rest of the post, right?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),(3181,617,'Reluctant Housewife','reluctant.housewife@gmail.com','','65.78.20.191','2005-11-19 11:32:36','2005-11-19 11:32:36','This is a new blog, and I want to make something clear:  every entry on this blog is exported directly from my personal journal.  These are my real thoughts and experiences.  So no, I\'m afraid this post is not satire.\n\nAnd yes, I did buy Babywise.  No, I have not used it.  Yet.  I have to read it first before I can decide if I agree with it or not.  I have read other parenting books (Dr. Sears, Dr. Weissbluth, Baby Whisperer), attended La Leche meetings (not my cup of tea, personally), spoken to my pediatrician, other moms, my mother, etc... all in the name of research.  I try very hard to understand something before I judge it.\n\nI\'ve only been a mother for 9 months, and I don\'t follow any approach to the letter.  I do take what I can from other people as I develop my own parenting philosophy.  It\'s admittedly a work in progress.  Isn\'t everybody\'s?\n',0,'1','','',0,0),