ELECTION WORKER!!!

They called! They want me!! I GET A NEW PIN!!! (Ive done this 4 times before, and have quite a collection going)

Im going to be a Poll Worker for the 2008 Elections

And something for the kids!!

3. BLACK HALLOWEEN PUNCH (Mocktail)
{via All Recipes}

Ingredients:
1 (.13 ounce) envelope unsweetened grape soft drink mix
1 (.13 ounce) envelope unsweetened orange soft drink mix
2 cups white sugar
3 quarts cold water
1 liter ginger ale

Directions:
Stir together grape soft drink mix, orange soft drink mix, sugar and water until solids are dissolved. Combine with chilled ginger ale just before serving. Dip the frozen hand briefly in warm water, then peel off the glove. Float the prepared hand in the punch bowl for a ghastly effect.
To make a frozen hand, wash a disposable glove, fill with water, seal with a rubber band and freeze until hard.

Things you learn on the internet

10. Keep the refrigerator vegetable drawer dry and free of smells. Line the bottom with newspaper.

1. Diffuse the flash on a camera. When you’re taking a close-up, soften the brightness by placing a coffee filter over the flash.

6. Prevent soil from draining out of flowerpots. When repotting, place a filter at the bottom, over the drainage hole, then add the soil.

What we want to get for Kaylee

We will just get her one gift for Xmas... one BIG ONE!

http://www.littletikes.com/toys/deluxe-wooden-kitchen-laundry-center.aspx?N=12

Its soo cute, wooden and perfect for her! The one she has is small and I'm looking to expand because she plays with it every day! We aren't sure if we will be selling this one to help pay for the new one, or using both and making an L shape kitchen for her....

Come Join Us!!

Mickayla and I have joined the No on Prop 8 movement and you can too!!

Statewide Election Visibility Sign Up

Be part of the largest grassroots visibility effort this state has ever seen.

Picture it: 10,000 people from Eureka to San Diego—standing together, waving signs and talking to voters. This is our moment to show California and the nation that we will not tolerate unfairness and inequality.

From Thursday, October 30 through Tuesday, November 4, we need 10,000 volunteers on the ground—5,000 on Election Day alone.

http://www.noonprop8.com/action/gotv

RECALLS, chocolate coins and carters

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/coins.asp


Sherwood brand Pirate's Gold Milk Chocolate coins Recalled

They contain Melamine, the ingredient in milk product that has caused many infant deaths in china. These candies are sold at Costco, as well as many bulk and dollar stores. please make sure to check your children's Halloween candy and DO NOT LET THEM EAT THE PIRATE COINS (you know the ones wrapped in the shiny gold foil) .



News from CPSC
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Office of Information and Public Affairs Washington, DC 20207

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 24, 2008
Release 09-023

Firm's Hotline: (888) 282-4674
CPSC Hotline: (800) 638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908

CPSC and Carter's Advise Parents of Rashes Associated with Heat Transferred, or "Tag-less," Labels



WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Carter's, Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia, are advising parents and caregivers that they have received reports that a small percentage of babies and infants have developed rashes on the upper back after wearing Carter's clothing with heat-transferred, or "tag-less," labels.

This advisory applies to Carter's Fall 2007 product line. The Fall 2007 line utilizes a label on the inside back of the garment that has a raised surface with a solid, rather than a stenciled, background. This advisory does not apply to previous and current product lines, which utilize labels with stenciled backgrounds.

The garments, which were made in various countries, were sold at Carter's own retail stores and at department and national chain stores.

If your child develops a rash on the upper back after wearing garments that have a "tag-less" label with a solid background, you should stop using these garments. If the rash persists or worsens, you should contact your pediatrician. For additional information, visit Carter's website at http://www.carters.com/corporate/tagless_message.aspx, contact Carter's toll free at 1-888-282-4674 or by email at contactus@carters.com

To see this release on CPSC's web site, including pictures of the products involved in this advisory, please go to: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09023.html


The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $800 billion annually. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children. The CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals - contributed significantly to the 30 percent decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 30 years.

To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury, call CPSC's hotline at (800) 638-2772 or CPSC's teletypewriter at (800) 638-8270, or visit CPSC's web site at www.cpsc.gov/talk.html. To join a CPSC email subscription list, please go to www.cpsc.gov/cpsclist.aspx. Consumers can obtain this release and recall information at CPSC's Web site at www.cpsc.gov.

repost: Online Death... ROFLMAO

http://news.aol.com/article/woman-jailed-for-killing-virtual-spouse/223052

TOKYO (Oct. 23) - A 43-year-old player in a virtual game world became so angry about her sudden divorce from her online husband that she logged on with his password and killed his digital persona, police said Thursday.

The woman, who has been jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data, used his ID and password to log onto the popular interactive game "Maple Story" to carry out the virtual murder in May, a police official in the northern city of Sapporo said.


TOO...FUNNY........CANT....STOP....LAUGHING!!!!!!!!!

Using kids to lie...

Using kids to lie...

So I cant even begin to imagine why people would vote yes on prop 8.



"We are not surprised to see the PPIC poll's latest results. This shows that ads full of lies aren't working. You can't just make up whatever you want and think you can trick the people of California. In fact, it's pretty clear that using children to lie about Prop 8 is backfiring. There's still much work to be done and the polls will keep moving, but we have every confidence that the people of California will vote against eliminating the rights of their friends and neighbors."

- Steve Smith, Senior Campaign Advisor, NO on Prop 8

Stealing Tacos

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/fan_forum/tacobell/

For every base stolen in the World Series, Taco Bell will give free tacos.
So far, 1 base has been stolen. So go get your free taco on Tues Oct 28th from 2-6pm.

Prop 8

Prop 8

Seriously, people who vote yes on prop 8 should have some sense and compassion shaken into them. Its un-constitutional to take away peoples rights! The only argument they are playing on TV is that they don't want gay marriage to be taught in school. I really don't see the problem, the psycho-cult-conservatives private school them or home school them, and so the rest of the kids can have a more worldy view of life. GOOD. I mean if you really think your kid will get from K to 12 and never ask what gay is you've got your head so far in the sand there are far more problems for you to deal with.

I am not gay, but I support equality. What do you suppoort?

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

If you give a mouse a cookie....

If you give a mouse a cookie...

Yeah so I have a BRILLIANT idea!! Well.. maybe not so brilliant when I actually have to do it, but for now its awesome!

For Kaylee's birthday we are doing an Eric Carle theme! So for the cakes...


A caterpillar made of cupcakes, one for each kid


And a spider!



or a ladybug

Are you REGISTERED to VOTE??

Are you REGISTERED to VOTE??

Today is the LAST day to register to vote in CA. So get out there and make sure they have your current address and you know where your polling place is!

I want!

I wonder how to find $270 for a new carseat.... her car seat is fine, really, but this one has better side impact and common the patter is too cute!! So I wonder what I could sell hers for (maybe half?) and then Id only need $125sih....

My Xmas list

My xmas list:

And Google agrees with me...

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/our-position-on-californias-no-on-8.html

Our position on California's No on 8 campaign

9/26/2008 03:23:00 PM

As an Internet company, Google is an active participant in policy debates surrounding information access, technology and energy. Because our company has a great diversity of people and opinions -- Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, all religions and no religion, straight and gay -- we do not generally take a position on issues outside of our field, especially not social issues. So when Proposition 8 appeared on the California ballot, it was an unlikely question for Google to take an official company position on.

However, while there are many objections to this proposition -- further government encroachment on personal lives, ambiguously written text -- it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8. While we respect the strongly-held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 -- we should not eliminate anyone's fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love.

Posted by Sergey Brin, Co-founder & President, Technology

On stand-by

On stand-by

Apparently there was a surge in volunteers for the elections this November, so I wont get my usual polling place and am on the stand-by list now. I worked the elections in 2005 and a few times before so they know Ill be one of the first pulled from stand-by since Ive done it before. Oh well, either way, Ill make a trip with Mickayla to vote (her first election!) and make sure we support our propositions!

http://www.noonprop8.com/


Regardless of how you feel about marriage, it's wrong to treat people differently under the law.


http://yesonprop2.com/



We buy cage-free eggs and organic milk for a reason. Locking up animals is wrong and they should be treated as humanely as possible even if they were raised to be eaten. (which is a whole other story...)

School, Financial Aide

So I apply for the FAFSA and they email me saying the school has the info and I called the school and they said give them a week. So a few months has gone by and I go in and Im all WTF and they apparently have the address from like... 6+ years ago (I applied with the right one) and I had to fill out some new address info and I thought we were finished at that point.

Nope. I have to submit info about income and dependent status. So now I had to bring them the info about how Im filing Mickayla on my taxes for '08. That was pretty simple, since Im the only one who legally can (I would have to sign IRS form 8332 and since I havent, he cant file her ever), they took the court docs as proof and that was one less thing to worry about.

Now I have to submit a student plan, and to do that I have to make an appt with the counseling office and BEFORE I can do that I have to take the math placement exam... I dont remember math.. I did pre-calc years ago and have forgotten all of it.

So now, a practice test, then a placement exam, then a st

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My Bench Project

I bought a bench off of Craigs List for $25



And spent $10 on stain/varnish and brushes. I already had the fabric from previous projects.

Heres the result!

So early!

Okay, so Kaylee woke up wicked early, like 645 early. There is no good reason to be awake that early! And shes happily playing her dolls and shopping cart and blissfully unaware mommy is gulping coffee like there is no tomorrow.

I went to look at dressers yesterday, but found an old bench instead. So we stained it and today I will change the fabric and voila! So that will be a fun project for when Kaylee goes down for a nap. Ill post before and after photos soon. I really didn't need a dresser, we have a huge closet and drawers and we mostly hang things in there anyway. I really needed something to take up space in the room, since its so huge. So the bench will work nicely and its much cooler I think.

Okay, Kaylee is on her rocking horse and wearing her Asian patterned robe I got her. The kid is stylin!! We have been putting her hair in pigtails recently, shes getting better at sitting still for it, and Daddy thinks she looks adorable with them, plus it keeps them out of her face while she plays. So its win-win I think.

Plans for the day...

So I guess I have the car today! I figured Matt would be taking it to work, but he carpooled and so its all mine (muahahahah) So now the options of what to do today are wide open!

I think first I will try and get a shower while Kaylee is finding Elmo so interesting, if not she will try and climb in with me. Then we will go to the college and change my major , yay! Ill see if any of the girls I know are there and maybe they will wrangle her for me (Carlie are you there?!?!) while I deal with that.

I MIGHT even do some dishes, if Matt is lucky, before he gets home. I made coffee so the odds are increasing lol. Oh and the laundry.. argh thats no fun.

So yeah, I also need to call the thrift store and have them pick up a huge pile of stuff Matt and I sorted through this weekend. Argh so much stuff! Oh and I have something off freecycle I need to pick up too. lol.

Argh and I have to check this furniture store for a dresser. Its pretty cool, its like an estate sale type place, so hopefully there will be lots of cool vintage things to chose from. Ill need to see if Jon can get it home for us if I find one we will like.

Okay... full day. Somewhere in there Kaylee will need a nap, and maybe hit the park? (I just called the thrift store, they will pick up tomorrow, one less thing for me to worry about)

My checklist

Anyone who has seen my kid play dress up knows she is Punky Brewster at heart... here is my shopping list for Halloween...

Punky Brewster was a loveable, sassy, and spirited young girl with a wardrobe to match. Visions of colorful clothes, bright bandanas and mismatched sneakers come to mind when you hear her name. And don't for get about those pig tails with the sun shaped ponytail holders!

The Punky look is all about layers, mismatched things, and bright colors (sort of like the 80s in general). Find some fun colored clothes and start mixing-and-matching. Try some of these ideas…

- t-shirt over a long sleeved tee with a vest on top (all different
bright colors)
- sweatshirts with bold colors, shapes and squiggle prints
- jeans with on leg rolled up and a bandana tied around the leg
on the other side
- suspenders
- skirt with tights (where each leg is a different color)
- leggings with oversized button shirt with funky prints worn as
a dress; use a big belt to accentuate
- mismatched sneakers or hi-tops with bright colored shoe laces
- Heart shaped button (may be added to vests or suspenders)
- Bandanas rolled up and tied around the leg
- Hair: Brown with bangs and pig tails (with sun-shaped ponytail
holder).

Soo...

I'm pondering. There has been something I have always wanted to do, but never had the chance to before. But I talked to Matt and hes completely supportive and so we will see what can be done....

And no, I'm over the whole jumping out of a plane thing.....

This is much more crazy and far safer, lol!

Have to move the slide...

So her slide was inside in the playroom. And our house is mostly tile, except for the bedrooms and part of the living room, so I took those foam kids squares and covered it with a rug and put that in her playroom (the squares were princess and everyone knows I hate character toys/clothes etc) so there was a cushy area to play. Well I had her slide in there, the landing area over the rug and my mom points out she can fall from higher at the top and that part is over the tile. So I moved it and it almost coveres the whole rug. So I had the back of the steps on the tile but the top part is over the rug. And NOW shes walking up the slide or trying to carry things up the stairs and to have them slide down with her. So if I put the whole slide on the rug, then there is nowhere to PLAY on the rug.

So now where to put the slide? We dont want to have anything in the livingroom, since the playroom is connected to it we thought to keep it toy free. But SOMEONE taught her to take toys down the slide...

Protect marriage my ass

Protect Marriage my ASS

Yeah so a bunch of conservative morons with their heads up their asses are trying to ban gay marriage in CA. Its complete crap and they are saying they are 'protecting marriage'... SERIOUSLY?! Protecting it from WHAT?! I mean are all of the straight marriages in America in jeopardy because of it? Will they become null if gays can marry? Can we worry about some real problems like the WAR and the ECONOMY and leave the gays alone? People are people and they deserve to be treated like everyone else.

....

Melissa Etheridge to marry girlfriend

Oct. 2, 2008, 10:37 AM EST

MSN Entertainment

Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels are looking to renew the vows they exchanged in 2003 now that gay marriage is legal in California.

"We're trying to find the right time now actually to go down and do it," the singer tells "Extra" of making things official. "[That] is where we're at."

Irritated and fed-up

So Mickayla's sperm donor decides to call every month or so, when hes bored and has nothing better to do. He asks how shes doing and the call lasts 2 min tops. Often he calls when I'm busy but I answer anyway because I want it known that its because of HIM that they have no relationship. I have dozens of friends who have seen me answer it and so everyone knows its his lack of interest not me stopping him from contact.

So I have been asking him to get his CRAP out of my garage (it has been there since he left 9 + mo ago) and he always has an excuse. So I sent an email that said according to a civil code (a real one mind you) if its not gone I can toss it. I'm not a storage unit for crying out loud (and I can charge for storage fees but I didn't)! If these things were truly important to him he would have gotten them already. So he calls and yells and cusses at me and hangs up and then calls several more times and I ignore it, I don't have to answer the phone to someone being abusive. I dont need to be blamed for his problems anymore. Hes screwed up his life, he should have to deal with it.

Then he sends me an email saying all he was trying to do was ask about the boxes and talk to Mickayla! And then he accuse me of being in violation of the custody agreement. Well 1- no judge is stupid enough to fall for that crap, he obviously was using Mickayla to get me to answer the phone, it makes me sick he cares so little for her. And 2- we have NO CUSTODY AGREEMENT... we have a court order that says shes MINE and nowhere in there says I have to answer the phone when he cusses at me.

But he doesn't care about her, only when he can get attention or sympathy from someone or hes bored and calls to 'talk to her'. What is Mickayla getting out of this relationship with Joey?.... Nothing. She doesn't know him and thats HIS fault for leaving and never calling or asking to web cam with her. Its pathetic he calls once a month and tries to act like her dad. She is smart and happy and wonderful and it has nothing to do with him, its in spite of him. Every day I wish she was Matt's daughter so I would never have to deal with Joey again, I just hate dealing with this crap. I only deal with this because of his parents because none of this is their fault and they love her so much but its really its just so stressful for me.

I just need to talk to talk to my lawyer about what I can do about all of this and how often I legally have to answer the phone from him. I sent him an email in response to his bullshit about me never answering the phone, so now he has to email me the date and time he plans on calling before he calls. This way I can reply to the email "hey you never called" and have a record of his flakyness and also it will cut out a lot of the 'oh Im bored, Ill call my kid' type calls. I bet he tried a few times, flakes out, and never bothers to. I will not answer the phone from him again unless its at the specific time he emailed about, and then Im handing the phone to Kaylee and if she doesnt want to talk Im not making her. I am done with him, and making things easier on him.