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- The people who say "Woohooo, an extra hour of sleep" for the night the clocks turn back clearly don't have children. To parents, DST is the work of the debbil, Bobby Boucher. My kids will sleep the same amount, less since it will be brighter earlier (not that I'm complaining at that point because it was still dark here this morning at SEVEN THIRTY). So, while some of you will sleep an extra hour, I will be up at 5:30 am with two kids asking for pancakes, MOMMA NOW!
- As much as I like it getting lighter earlier for the purposes of the days I need to be up and coherent before 7 am, the whole getting-dark-at-5-pm thing kinda sucks.
- I'm still a little bitter over the whole Disney debacle. I went back to the office yesterday and everyone was asking how it was, did we have fun, and wow! you look tan! (Yeah, thanks Jergen's daily gradual bronzing moisturizer since I put SPF 948593408 on while in Florida).
- Also, back at the office, I had this psychotic gem waiting for me on my chair.
- Yes, that's a thermometer (with the company logo emblazoned on it), with a memo indicating we should not come to the office with a fever and here are a list of symptoms of H1N1, why by the way, has no cases at our company. OMG, really?!!? You need to tell people to stay home if they a fever? COME ON. Way to fuel the flames of paranoia. Not to mention, this is the SECOND memo we've gotten on the flu, washing our hands, using the 7847594837 Purell hand sanitizing stations they've set up around the buildings. Redonkulous, right?
- I denied the MMR vaccine for Sawyer at his pedi appointment on Tuesday, despite there being an actual outbreak of the EFFING MUMPS in the town next to ours. MUMPS. Like, REALLY. When I asked the pedi about it, she said that some of the kids that were getting it WERE vaccinated and it doesn't always prevent it. It's spread through saliva and close contact (sneezing, laughing, etc) with an infected child. Since my kids are only interacting with the other (so far) healthy kids at their dayhome, I'm not that concerned. Not to mention, mumps - although I cam imagine it would suck greatly - won't kill him. The risk of catching a random virus is not enough for me to risk a vaccine I don't trust with a 89-foot pole.
- I'm not getting into a vaccine debate here. You do what you think is best for your child and I'll do what I think what's best for mine. We're all trying here and I don't think anyone (short of the people holding SWINE FLU PARTIES) is in the wrong.
- We refinanced our mortgage for an entire percent lower rate, which doesn't sound like a lot, like ONE PERCENT is NOTHING, right? Saves us over 160$ a month AND almost 40K in the life of the loan. Crazy.
- Charlotte told me the other day that my mouth smells like the dog's butt in the morning.
- Sawyer is getting increasingly more verbal, stringing two words together now. Like "UH-OH, FOOR!" which means "Hey mom, I'm about to drop this thing on the floor and pretend like it was an accident so you can pick it up for me for the 6th time" or when he says hi to our dog, Phoebe, he'll say "Hiiiii PEEBEE!"
- I'm hoping to be in Boston in the second week in December WITH NO KIDS. Just girlfriends. AND BOOZE! Wanna come?
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Eh, I agree with you about mumps. It would suck, but it wouldn't do any long-term damage. (And I'm a vaccinator.)
Wait, so you're saying I should cancel the swine flu party I had scheduled for this weekend?
As for your company, I think the thermometer is NUTS. HOWEVER, I like that they're encouraging people to stay home if they're sick. I think since there IS no vaccine available for most normal people that programs like that (and taking the stigma away from people if they choose to stay home) are the only way to prevent this thing from getting worse. I guess. Oh hell, I don't know.
I agree with you on that - it gives people an out to stay home if they ARE sick, rather than fearing their bosses for calling out. Yesterday, I sat in a cubicle basically coating myself in Purell because so many people were hacking and sneezing. STAY HOME CESSPOT.
1st, I thought that was a pregnancy test before I read what it was. LOL!!
I am surprised my son's school hasn't sent them home too.
I just sent him in with the sniffles, I know I will be in trouble later. But tough sh*t. If I keep my son home fore every cold he will never go to school. No fever, going to school.
Wanna get the kids together in the cesspool play place?? Just kidding!! :)
I thought it was a pregnancy test too. I was really grossed out for a minute, thinking that a coworker ANNOUNCED that way or something. Ick.
I like the concept, though, that they're supporting health. At my office you better be damn near dead to stay home, and even then I usually get calls. But we're a small company, so that's to be expected I guess.
Also - you had me at Boston. And booze. SO wish I could be there!
That thermometer is crazy.
Want to see pandemonium? Try living here, where a 13 year old kid died of H1N1. ONE person died, people. Sure, it was a kid and that's horrible, but that doesn't mean he would have survived the shot.
First I have to ask the obvious question - how does your daughter know what the dog's butt smells like? Wait, I don't want to know.
Second, your company is awesome for making it a corporate policy to stay when home when sick. Every year there is a whole problem called Presenteeism because workers are afraid to call in sick. Then they get sicker, they get other people sick blah blah blah. Although the thermometer is a bit of a silly thing - they chose to spend how much money on those??
And YEA!!!! for your mortgage refi. Congratulations!
I usually avoid internet conflict like the plague. In 99% of cases, I agree that you make your parenting decisions, I make mine, and nobody gets judged. Unfortunately, when it comes to vaccines, your parenting choices affect my kids. This article in Wired makes a lot of good points: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_waronscience
The part that most struck me was about a study in the Netherlands.
"...the study found that the risk of contracting the disease was lower if you were completely unvaccinated and living in a highly vaccinated community than if you were completely vaccinated and living in a relatively unvaccinated community. Why? Because vaccines don’t always take. What does that mean? You can’t minimize your individual risk unless your herd, your friends and neighbors, also buy in."
Well, like I said, I DO vaccinate but on an altered schedule and on my own terms.
I believe vaccination is important to help keep deadly illnesses at bay, but until they offer me a SAFE way to get the vaccination into my child, there's no way in hell I'm goving them certain vaccines at such a tender age while they're still developing their own immune systems. WHICH THEY NEED TO FIGHT DISEASE.
For every video/article someone sends me regarding vaccinating, I have 11 more for not. And I imagine it's the same the other way around.
That's what I left it at what it was: You do for yours and I'll do for mine.
To me, it's not a debatable topic.
Boston and Booze sounds like a great time. Also, DST sucks with children. It totally messes with their sleeping schedule. And yes, we'll be up way too early with eager, hungry children too. As for vaccines, I'm usually one of those people that are all for vaccines, and luckily have had children that haven't had any adverse reactions to any vaccine. We even got the H1N1 for our oldest, although not our toddler. However, I did skip the Hep A vaccine since we don't do foreign travel.
Funny, I've got all of those symptoms, save the forcible evacuations, and my doc said that I don't have the pig flu just a virus.
You are one of few bloggers who can make me go "ARGH" and "Aww" and "ROFLCOPTERS" all in one bullet-pointed post. I love you. And yes, I'd like to come to Boston and booze it up with fun women and NO KIDS. Wanna buy me a plane ticket?
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