Comments on: Swine flu changed everything

By: Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:41:58 +0000

Obviously, whereas the rest of America has pictures of their kids and pets in their cubicles and on the fridge, CDC workers have photos of Goldman Sachs execs in their yachts and aboard their private jets. Awww, wookata cute widdle CFO in his diamond-crusted swimming pool — ADORBS!!!!!

Bleecch, this is why I’ve been on a self-imposed news fast the past week or so. It’s all so miserably depressing or riotously infuriating, it’s all I can do to keep my head out of a bucket of Xanax.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:52:05 +0000

Oh, I don’t etsy, I just like to browse and admire. Then when I’m done, I regretsy and giggle. http://www.regretsy.com

By: Jennifer Nocerino

Jennifer Nocerino — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:34:51 +0000

Hey Trac,

Love the swine flu article. All very true. I just need to ask why the hell did the CDC send H1N1 vaccines to all the Goldman Sachs employees BEFORE they sent them to pediatricians, health care workers, and pregnant women? What the hell is wrong with these people? Let’s say this became an all out epidemic with people dropping like flies (which will never happen), but let’s just say…for arguments sake….THOSE are the folks the CDC feels we need to SAVE? WTF? I am already annoyed with these wall street folks for our economy, and the fact that they all still get “helathy” bonuses while the rest of us struggle, but now they get vaccines before babies and pregnant women? Way to go CDC.

Jen

By: LJ

LJ — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:09:06 +0000

Tracy – in response to you flickr comment – I don’t do Esty. I don’t know much about it really, other than I’ve noticed a number of bloggers sell stuff there. The pressure of the thought of selling my creations is too great. I’m much more of a giver-awayer. The pressure really comes on when I feel I ‘have’ to create, and that loses some of the enjoyment of creating for me. Do you know what I mean? But I’ll look into the Etsy thing, and in particular what your selling there. Thanks for the encouragement though, that means a lot to me.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:17:58 +0000

Oooh, Victoria. We love to take the Clipper up once a year or so, and we always make a special occasion of high tea at the Empress. Makes us feel fancy, and like we taught our 2- and 3-year-old some shockingly fine table manners.

We just turn Thanksgiving into a 4-day holiday, but really, it’s about two things I hate: football and shopping. The Friday after is Black Friday, the day US retailers are officially supposed to come out of the red what with their ridonculous sales, and then some insanity occurs, which my friend James alluded to — invariably, some poor soul gets trampled to death over a $49.99 BluRay player.

(Me, I just stay home with my credit card and my Wifi connection and my intact limbs.)

And you’re right, that’s WAY too much bird in too short a time span. In an effort to avoid a month-long tryptophan nap, Christmas at my place means a prime rib or a ham.

By: LJ

LJ — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:09:18 +0000

Yup – I sure love it over here. Victoria – on Vancouver Island.
We might have Thanksgiving on a Monday, but can’t/don’t make it an entire week holiday like you folks do. What’s with that? Yours is so close to Christmas that I don’t know how you can face turkey so soon.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:59:04 +0000

And I believe you’re in BC, LJ, my very favorite place after my town of Seattle. Mike and I make a habit of Vancouver and Vancouver Island as time and finances allow, and I have Lotto fantasies of having a second home up there, what with y’all always taunting us with your health care and your gorgeous mountains and your Badass Socialist Thanksgiving (on a MONDAY, no less!).

By: LJ

LJ — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:00:29 +0000

After your very kind comment (on Cardiogirl) I felt it only right to pop by for a visit. Love the entry. You have a wonderful way to turn a phrase. And to top it off – you’re from the Pacific Northwest (I think). Gotta love those west coast writers.

To immune or not to immune – that is the question. Whether it be nobler to stand in line to suffer the pricks and arrows of liquid assist …. only time will tell.

By: cardiogirl

cardiogirl — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:30:20 +0000

I have to jump in here. First I thought you wrote “…(will) use his POO FINGER for paint…)” and I was like what the hell? There’s a poo finger? I’ve never heard of a poo finger. My kids don’t have a poo finger.
Is the poo finger exclusive to diapers and disappears when the kid is out of diapers?

(clears throat) And then I re-read the sentence.

Last item — we’re in the trust tree, right? Right. My second kid actually sucked on a dried out piece of cat turd in a playground sandbox. Gah, the memory of it stills make me shudder.

So we left immediately, I washed her down and brushed her teeth and then I called the pediatrician to make sure she wasn’t going to die. I truly thought the SWAT team was going to bust down the door and remove my kid while I was on the phone with her.

She did make me feel much better. She told me shit happens (swear there was no pun intended there) and she’ll be fine.

That was four years ago and we all lived through it.

Damn, maybe my kid did have a poo finger after all.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:09:55 +0000

Oh yeah, don’t even get me started on THOSE PARENTS. . .

It’s like that episode of “Monk” where Monk and Natalie are watching some tiny boys playing football and Monk says, “Aww, that reminds me of the helmet I wore as a kid.” And Natalie says, “What do you mean? Your parents made you wear a HELMET?” And Monk’s all, “Whaddya mean, ‘MADE’?”

Because seriously, if you’re interested in being a hysterical, paranoid parent, there’s a WHOLE INDUSTRY OUT THERE ready to cater to fears you didn’t even know you had!! http://www.thudguard.com/

(By the way, the Clarklet will fall down, bump his head, and wail like a tiny mofo. He will also eat dirt, use his poo for finger paint, and play in a sandbox a cat may have mistaken for a litter box. And whatever avaricious marketers say to the contrary, these are the makings of a completely normal, HEALTHY childhood.)