Wonder if Methuselah celebrated his 969th birthday. Probably not. I’m early on the downslope and already entirely over it. But then again my birthday has always sucked. A sign, prr’aps? Most years Half doesn’t even remember the day … although if I were to forget Half’s birthday the heavens would fall, water would cease to …
costs of kids
Cheap Thrills
Reading is excellent, inexpensive fun. Portable, reliable, no need to charge. Can even do it for free, at least used to. Haven’t been to the library in a minute(open on Tuesdays and Fridays, from 10am to 11:15, and hurry up!) This may surprise you (Other Person, You) but I spent the majority of my recesses …
Breeding for Bonzo
When you don’t have kids, you’re incredibly self-centered. And when you do, you become even more so. Methinks: how could you not? There a little half version of you walking about in the world. If anyone has had a child after, say, 2010, methinks the decision stems more from hubris than the notion that the …
Cut ‘Em Off, On Their Knees
Methinks me wonders at times the amount of a child’s potential lost because the adults don’t know how to adult. Mentioned (several times) before that theKid is involved in sports, like heavily, like more than one team/sport/activity. Anyhoo … There are some kids on some of those teams who only play intermittently because – get …
The Great & The Horrible
Know what’s equal parts horrible and great? Not knowing the prices of things, and buying them anyway. Not talking cars, or houses, or dunno, jewelry, nothing like that. Just the everyday stuff that winds up in the cart and then on the card and then on home. Instance: theKid has a thing for naan bread. …
Wife, or BM?
Got to thinking (always dangerous) about the difference in a woman who demands to be a wife before becoming a mother, and a woman who defaults to babymama (aka “BM” coz her life has turned to sh—). A woman’s greatest weakness is her only weapon — the ability, desire/willingness to breed. Unlike the sea louse, …
Baby Blues
Read a funny story the other day. Not funny in the sense of high hilarity, but in the sense of “laugh or scream.” Guy got a vasectomy. Then the wife got pregnant. Suitably outraged at being married to a harlot, the man demanded a paternity test and a divorce. Oops. Turns out, the kid was …
Oops Might Not Ever Happen Again (Good)
There’s stat somewhere that says by 2030, 45 percent of US women will be single and childfree. Historically, across the human populations, approximately 80 percent of women reproduced, whereas only 40 percent of men did. Estimates for 2020 put women at about 3.8B women, and 3.86B men, or roughly 101.7 men for every 100 women. …
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Thankful, Grateful
Didn’t get anything for Christmas. No matter. Not my birthday (heh) theKid and Half were well-provisioned, which is really what/who matters, and JESUS was likely born in the spring anyway, so … For a minute there, decided to dispense with the whole “celebration” of Christmas, felt it a little too pagan for its purposes, but …
It’s Official; I Have No Actual Clue
TheKid had dying rear for three days after consuming some takeout that was, as theKid would say, “sus.” Lost four pounds. As a walking, talking, bouncing string bean, theKid does not have that to lose. Prior to the episodic runny butt had scheduled an appt to take theKid to a dietician, so the timing was, …