Does anyone know if there is any truth to the idea that having sex just before you ovulate will more likely produce a girl and that having sex during ovulation will give you a boy? Sounded like a crock to me at first until I read up a little on it. I'd be happy with any gender, obviously, but I stumbled across this site
http://www.babyhopes.com/pages.php?pageid=23

It gave me more than what I asked for. I just wanted to know when the best time to have sex was. Also, is there anything wrong with just, you know, having sex everyday? We have to practice, right? Right? Practice?

Doesn't it seem weird to just keep making more people? I mean, that's what we're doing by having kids, right? Making more people. It seems sort of irresponsible when you think of all the pollution and waste that human beings make, and all of the food needed to feed these people we make. So why is it that I want to have another baby so badly? It's hilarious how badly I want another one, really!

But here are my concerns:-- read more >>

1. I am so damn depressed. I went back to a job I thought I loved only to find out I hate it, I had two miscarriages this semester that resulted in two failed classes, and I'm sick and tired of our joint custody turning me into a part time parent.

2. So, I lost a couple friends this week. But after giving it some thought, I realized they never really were my friends to begin with, so it's all good. They can be petty if they want.

3. I miss my best friend and I know she's hibernating but I wish she would call me because I could really use her kick-you-in-the-ass advice right now.-- read more >>

... not that I can find. So I'm starting one, because I'm sick of sitting on my couch doing nothing about something. Here's some names. Vote!

1. Kansas City People's Rights Initiative
2. People's Rights Collective
3. Equal Rights Initiative-Kansas City (or without the Kansas City)
4. I dunno. You guys think of somethin'

We can all meet at my house for coffee and talk about how awesome we are. Okay, I really do have a plan! But any ideas for a good name? I'm stumped!

My son came home from school the other day with a paper "Indian hat" with a feather (which is offensive because that is a sacred act of placing the feather on the head) and his very own Indian name, Sawr (he spelled "sour" phonetically!) Marc, and explained to me about the "First Thanksgiving".-- read more >>

And we're gonna celebrate it by drinking a lot tonight! Yay for 31! That is all, you can go back to what you were doing...

Yeah? So? It's how I deal...

So, to my two babies I lost over the semester, I want to say (this is not an a apology, it's empathy):

I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry.-- read more >>

For some reason, I've always advertised my emotions, good or bad. I think it gets on people's nerves. I'm not trying to create drama. It just makes me feel better sometimes when I put my sadness out there. I don't want anyone to feel sorry for me, but the more I talk about it the better I feel.-- read more >>

This is two weeks in. But be advised that I was set back a couple days by making the dumb mistake of using shampoo on them rather than bar soap, so imagine a week and a half instead.

I tried to get a close up of what they look like. They just don't seem to be locking up. I pushed the rubber bands closer to my scalp, and I think I will leave them in a few more weeks. I JUST re back-combed them JUST before I took this picture. They just aren't locking, but am I being too impatient? Is this what they are supposed to look like? I have naturally frizzy hair, so I thought it'd be faster.-- read more >>

From my little prodigy, Marc:

(His words almost exactly)
"Okay, you just take three worms, and one ant. Then, you mix up the worms and the ant until it makes juice. Then, you put water into the juice. And you mix it up. Then, you add some milk to the juice and mix that up. Then you drink it! And there's your cure for cancer!"

My boy's gonna be a doctor one day and cure cancer with worms! I love it!

Blood tests are in. I'm no longer pregnant. I can't even stand myself right now. The first one was easier to deal with, I didn't even know I was pregnant. But this one... I was looking forward to the squishy little thing. Ladies who've been through it, when will I stop feeling so pissed off?

Why is it that someone can smoke crack and have a bunch of crack babies but I take good care of myself and I have two miscarriages? How is that even fucking fair? Someone tell me! I don't smoke, I don't drink too much, I eat super fucking healthy!! Goddammit.

So, I was spotty at 6:30am. At around 9:00 I was bleeding, like a very light period. It's 10:56 and I am cramping and having a somewhat light-to-moderate bleeding spell. The doc says I could be having a miscarriage. I'm totally freaking out. Is there a chance at all that the baby's okay and I could be freaking for no reason?

So, it's been a week and a half. I know I need patience, but some of my dreads are coming unraveled. I have re-backcombed them. I constantly rub them and palm roll them. We put little rubber bands in them when we were creating them, but I do not feel ready to cut them out yet. They were waxed once, and I have not re-waxed them since.-- read more >>

So here's what happened. My boobs have really been hurting. Like, mad hurting! Then, I was late a day on my period, and that same day I woke up with diarrhea, and everything smelled like breast milk. So I bought one of those two-pack preggo tests, right?

The first one gave a super-faint line. But both my mom and my doc said a line is a line. So I've spent the last few days crying because I don't want to be pregnant! I love my only child! I love being a mom to my one boy! We're best friends! And I love beer! And coffee! Oh.. how I'm going to miss coffee...-- read more >>

Okay, I posted this on another site, but then realized it would be more appreciated here. Hope you enjoy it!

Powdered laundry detergent:
2 cups grated Fels Naptha (or Ivory) soap, finely grated.
1 cup washing soda (I use Arm & Hammer, you can find it in the laundry aisle.
1 cup Borax

Mix well. Use 2 tbs of the mixture per full load of laundry.

Powdered dishwasher detergent:
1 cup Borax
1 cup washing soda

Mix well. Fill the detergent cup of your dishwasher for sparkling clean dishes!

Window cleaner:
1 part water
1 part white vinegar
a drop of dish detergent-- read more >>

Any good remedies mamas? I know you've got some!

Here it is, 24 hours after the birth of my new baby dreads! They kind of look like shit now, but they will tighten up soon.

Dear Professor,
I've gotten so swamped with work and other classes that I was unable to properly prepare my speech for class today, but will be 100% prepared to give both speeches tomorrow.

Dear Student,
I'm sorry, but unless you have a doctor's note for missing class you will have to drop.

Dear Professor,
What doctor in the world will give me a note when I'm not sick?

Dear Student,
That's the policy for a weekend class.

Dear Professor,
You are a douche.-- read more >>

So I had arrangements for my son to be picked up at school on Thursdays by a friend of ours. He was supposed to pick him up and then bring him to me at my job. I waited and waited and my son never came. Nervously, I called my son's school and asked if he had been picked up yet. "Oh no," said the lady that answered the phone. "He's sitting right here crying. You know he cries when his mama is late to pick him up." What? Why would you say that to a person?-- read more >>

I found what I was looking for!
http://windswhisperonline.com/sample.html

From the site:...

For Example: The Brown Recluse Spider:

A very common spider that lives in houses on the floor and behind furniture it hides in clothing and it is from there that most bites occur - its bite is toxic - the area of the bite itself may not even be noticed but the poison is inside and causing an internal wound that grows inward and may not heal for months-- read more >>

Okay, ever since I saw that brown recluse I don't even want to go over to the new house. I'm so paranoid about it. But it's not arachnophobia, I love spiders! So I thought maybe this spider was a sign or a symbol for something else. I mean, what does it mean when you see a spider? And not just any spider. This is the most poisonous spider in the Midwest.-- read more >>

...and I need a little Marlo Thomas to make me feel better.

Okay, I know you're not supposed to do readings on yourself, but I do, so get over it . I also tend to invent my own spreads as needed, on the spot sort of. So, in this case, I was just looking towards the future at my newfound job, continuing my schooling, and my family. While I was shuffling the deck I was thinking "work, school, family. work, school, family." But when I was thinking of work, I pictured the university. When I was thinking of school, I was picturing the Montessori school I'll be working in. Then, as I laid out the cards, the same thing happened.-- read more >>