Posted in 2008, Obama, current events, dreams, gender roles, hostility, politics, president, sexism, tagged 2008, barack, Clinton, discontent, election, George Bush, Hillary, Obama, politics, president, racism on April 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is becoming a familiar feeling.
Where I avoid the news - paper, broadcast, internet - all damned day. I do it purposefully. If I accidentally click on my usual news sites, I quickly steer away. If a blogger I enjoy dares speak of the AVOIDED, I again, click away.
Even when 70% of the stories ask [...]
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still working on the housing quest.
The news from the mortgage broker was 1/2 good and 1/2 bad. I have cleared up my credit mess sufficiently so that I can borrow pretty much as much money as I want ($4800/mo payments, she said), and qualify for the best interest rates.
That, I must say, took a lot [...]
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Football is fun.
But it rarely makes me yell.
Tonight, the Democratic debate made me YELL.
I said:
Woooooo hoooooooo!!!!
Because Obama and his cojones said [rough translation]:
She says she’ll be ready on Day One, and in the Senate, she was ready on Day One - on Day One to Give in To George Bush!!
Yes!! I feel like this [...]
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Posted in *E*, *J*, 2008, Beloved, dreams, family, housing, kids, movies, real estate, weekends on February 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Of course, Beloved and I made up last night, said our sorries and talked about ways to make our arguments a bit less … argue-ey. I suppose we should be grateful that we argue over dusting, and not over the biggies - like money or whether or not to have another kid or stuff like [...]
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Last year, as the girls were out the door to their father’s house, I checked out “Your Ten to Fourteen Year Old” to find out what I was in for this year.
It told me that 11 year olds hate their mothers.
Shit.
Don’t I have enough hardships with E? Do I need her hating me as [...]
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For almost 4 years now, I have been riding a wave of utter spoilation.
I have done what I needed to do in order to make it through school, through the bar exam, and through the early days of full-time lawyerdom while trusting that the rest of life would work out around me.
This was because of [...]
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Posted in 2008, politics on January 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s all I got today. Little whispers of what was going on in New Hampshire and in the Primary World at large. How depressing! I want to hear the shouting and the constant din. I don’t want to miss out!
Beloved told me that Bill made some crack about his wife that made him sound a [...]
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My parents are (of course?) republicans. They are conservatives - socially, fiscally (they are part of the group that says “yeah! The government can’t take all my money!” thinking that they are part of the “rich” that the Republicans work so hard to protect. They’re well off, but they’re middle class well off - not [...]
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Posted in 2008, money, whining, work on January 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I got my January paycheck the other day.
I was quite stunned to see a total that was up to $1100 less than I had anticipated.
It was at least $400 less than I anticipated.
My anticipation was based on last month’s check, paycheck calculators on line, and my knowledge of increased benefit costs.
I seriously brought home less [...]
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Posted in 2008 on January 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Happy New Year. I have read a lot of news - financial, mostly - predicting that 2008 is going to be a very rough year. The credit market crisis is going to deepen, the housing market is going to continue its downward trend, and oil prices are going to continue to rise.And yet - [...]
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