Anker on amazon. Their stuff is awesome. Phone is dying but they have a 5-port USB hub I've used to charge 3 iPads and 2 iPhones at the same time.

I've had 3 miscarriages. It doesn't always mean a miscarriage. I bled lightly with my youngest and at about 11 weeks had horrible bleeding I was sure was a miscarriage. She's 9 now.

For some reason I read this thread as "peeing brats" and thought for a second someone's day was worse than mine. Carry on.

My husband is home 156 days of the year. The rest of the year he's either in Africa or traveling. They are good with actual illness, injury, or uncontrollable travel delays, but you'd better be there when scheduled or they will find someone else.

Here in Mississippi we have been warned not to use them. I'd love to have one for my girl. She's got some anxiety issues. Since Florida offers protection, yes I would do it.

Drop the beware sign. In some cases the signs have been used as "proof" the owner knows the dog has serious issues. You don't want to label him yet if training and vet intervention can help him.

I think once or twice a year is no big deal for say a sibling's weekend at a campground or something, but this seems like systematic exclusion to use it so much. I'm not a fan.

I asked the board to quote a different post. Computer glitch I suppose. I don't see where that merits some sort of run down of your posts? It weakens your argument considerably to watch you sidestep with things not germane to the conversation every reply instead of responding directly to it. That it is listed conveniently all in one post now does not help the perception. Same old, same old. Can't argue with the content of the post, distract distract distract.

To certain faiths, it just is. I don't go around being mean to gay people and frankly having identified as bi for most of my life I have a bunch of friends in the LGBT community. It was awkward at first when I converted. There was a lot of hand wringing and hashing things out. So yes, while my faith says it is sinful and my Lord hates it I don't hate gay people any more than I hate liars, adulterers, and gamblers. I figure if the LGBT people who actually know me don't think I'm a bigot I'm in pretty good shape...as opposed to taking seriously people who spend all their time on the internet condemning everyone who hasn't yet turned away from God and embraced relativistic apathy. In short, hate is a specific thing, and not celebrating every choice a person makes is not hate. If it were, mothers who partake in debates about parenting choices are hate groups. Please stop watering down the word.

It all makes sense now. Office Depot is a major corporate contributor to Planned Parenthood. They did post an apology on FB to stem the uproar but in the process called the prayer hate speech and pretty much made things even worse.

Calling out evil is not always sunshine and rainbows. That was reasoned. The entire left hand side was FACTS. The right side was a prayer acknowledging the deaths of innocent babies and the trafficking of their parts, both of which are morally repugnant to Christians and asking God to move in their hearts and show them the error of what they are involved in. No one is, for example, sanctioning burning down a PP clinic (like the pizzaria owners were threatened with). Are liberals really that afraid of prayer from a God they like to call imaginary? It doesn't matter. The state has a law on the books against refusing a service based on religious beliefs. Religious beliefs are the core of that flyer, and you've just admitted it is the prayer part that bugs you. I mean, facts can't be unreasoned. They are just numbers...

Which disproven ones? The ones from the videos? The ones from the PP doctors' own mouths? You know, the unedited tediously long ones I watched because I was just sure it was an editing job and this sort of evil isn't being allowed legally in a "civilized" country? Those? Are you saying an undercover camera made PP docs say they were doing things and taking money that they weren't? Where is this mind control camera? There's nothing libelous in that flyer. Without a thorough top to bottom investigation of PP's practices and records by the FBI nothing has been disproven. NOTHING.

It's not inflammatory. Those are statistics from PP's own information. The rest are facts from videos in PP doctors' own words. I watched both versions of all of the videos. Innocent babies are being killed, and their parts are being trafficked in an immoral and more than likely illegal way. A pamphlet advocating prayer as the means to change this evil isn't inflammatory or persecutory. If there was an attempt to incite violence I would agree with the decision not to print, but this is a peaceful pamphlet for a week of prayer. This is discrimination against religious beliefs not allowed by the state in which this happened. Basically, if you think the baker should have to bake the cake in order to not be a hypocrite it also follows that Office Depot has to print the flyers. The laws are the same for everyone.

If you go to the DMV first, you don't get to pick. It's first, maiden, husband's last. I don't remember what the license had to say about it.

In Mississippi when I got married the DMV refused to let me drop my maiden name. I have KKK leaders from the 60s in my family. I wanted the association gone. Luckily, my husband took me from the DMV without getting a new license and took me to the Social Security office, where they changed my name to exactly what I wanted. First Middle HisLast. I took the paperwork back to the DMV, and they were unbelievably angry that they had to do my license up this way. They had no choice because the driver's license has to match the SS card. It was this way as of 7 or 8 years ago that I know of. I helped a friend get her name the way she wanted, too.

Why else would you think I bought it? *head tilt*

No, at least for me. If I were a businesswoman it would bother me if I were addressed that way in a professional arena, but personally I am quite enamored of Mrs. His Name Our Last Name. I'm quite pleased to be his wife and happy to be associated with him in that way. :D Having worked in male dominated industries in my 20s, it strikes me as protesting too much.

I think in this case it was the evil exposed collarbone that did her in. Spaghetti straps are tempting.

Here is my major issue. She's refusing to perform her duties to license a secular legal construct based on her definition of a sacred religious ritual. The two are very, very separate things. She has no power to do anything in the realm of sacramental marriages. That is for the priest/pastor to accomplish.

Nope, it doesn't bother me. Asian methods don't make sense to every kid. One of my kids flourishes with Singapore, and the other needs a more traditional math program. What I think frustrates a lot of parents is that they didn't learn math with these techniques, so they have no idea how to help their child when they are struggling.

So if a gay person fears coming out because of the backlash, are they not unequivocally gay? I do have beliefs and reasons behind those beliefs, but as others have stated with the ferocity with which some posters attack anything differing from their own view I'm hesitant to hang myself out there. I don't owe anyone an explanation that will only lead to abuse. Basically, if you want to know my reasons, do some studies about Catholic ideas on gender, family, relationships, and why God set things up that way. Things that have strayed from that plan have brought about evil. Contraception didn't seem so horrible of an idea but the hormones are now in the groundwater and causing the extinction of endangered species because they are being dosed with the hormones not to mention the side effects on women. We now know it greatly increases the rate of women's cancers and that it alters a woman's choice of mate while she is taking them, and some doctors think this is part of the puzzle of unexplained infertility. For goodness sake many people won't eat beef dosed with hormones but we shove women full of them on a daily basis and that's okay! Abortion led to the existence of a market for butchered baby parts and a society that values animals' lives over that of humans. The narrative became that some lives are more important than others and it spread like a virus...which feeds into the current climate of #BlackLivesMatter versus #PoliceLivesMatter when they are both wrong and right at the same time. ALL life is precious. Gun violence and shootings have little to do with the mechanical devices in use and more to do with the climate of disrespect for the sanctity of life. We thought women's equality was a good thing, but it became an erasure of the differences in gender that make us complementary partners for each other. Now society says there are no differences, you can be a man or woman simply by changing your mind despite what the facts of DNA say. We are living in the times Orwell warned us of. Yes, I have concerns as to where this deviation will lead us. No, I don't hate gay people. And BTW, that woman in KY is insane. Her job is issuing licenses for a secular legal construct. She has nothing to do with sacramental marriage. I think the religious people need to divorce the secular from the sacramental. It's just not the same thing. (I'm bowing out here. You wanted it, you have it. I'm not sticking around for the feeding frenzy.)

As a Catholic, I cannot support gay marriage. However, it is the law of the land and she ran for an office serving people who qualify under the law for marriage licenses. She should do her job or go away. FTR, I'm against the HHS mandate being applied to religious organizations that have clear teachings against contraception...but this is stupid. If they were forcing a priest to perform the marriage I would be outraged, but this is not that. Given the judicial climate in this country, I'm not in favor of letting judges remove elected officials. We have measures in place for removal. No, they aren't efficient, but they really aren't supposed to be. They are supposed to be thorough and fair.

Save the scotch for moderating the forums. You'll need it. :leaving: I usually read something very dry and factual. You know how when you have littles and they wake in the middle of the night you make it as boring as possible to be awake at 3 am? You have to do the same with your mind. When all else fails I generally take some Valerian. This works most of the time. I have a very messed up sleep schedule, though. I was raised by a single mom who supported us by throwing a paper route, and she'd load us in the car every morning at 2-3 am and we'd sleep in the back seat while she delivered papers. My brain 30 years later still partially wakes up and gets ready to roll papers and take a nap before school. My neurologist would love to give her a talking to about what she did to our brain's sleep rhythms doing that, but we had to eat. *shrugs*

My husband and I had an agreement that when he went international and was gone for a month at a time that I could get a weekly cleaning service. When the time came, he wanted to hire his parents (who hate me) and I declined. Now that we are moving to Austin, I included a weekly service in the budget. I'm teaching 3 kids and am a single mother half the year; he wants an immaculate house. I cannot wait. :) I do need help. I am stretched too thin and stressed too much.

We are closing on a house in Austin the middle of next month. I plan to Konmari everything I pack. I am secretly giddy about this chance to go through every single thing we own and discard the crap. My husband is on board because he has to load and unload our stuff. 😈