Bunnies, more spiders, and huge bazongas: Random Tuesday Thoughts
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 2:41AM 
It's Tuesday again! I'm starting to think that all my blogging genius goes into Tuesdays. There's like, this huge spike in my Google Analytics chart once a week. Then the rest of the week people are all, "Oh, well...I guess I could stop by...but she's not as funny on WEDNESDAYS".
That's okay. I'll take that.
So - let's begin! If you're new here (yay!), it's pretty simple - grab the button, write your rather random post, and then leave your link with Mr. Linky so we can all visit.
So after my post yesterday (the one where I basically told the whole interwubs that I was planning to have tons of rabid bunny sex), I immediately felt better. And then you people started commenting, and some people sent me emails, and I felt AWESOME. Seriously, why did I wait so long to start blogging? I could have written many, many more "woe is me" posts.
Also, FoN called me to check that I wasn't wallowing in my sorrows too badly (which I wasn't - it was only about mid-shin deep wallowing), and offered me one of HER kids if things don't work out, because she's pretty much the best friend ever.
Although, she's been trying to pawn one off on me for years now, but still. My statement stands.
I didn't post a HASAY update yesterday because I was busy wallowing. But there isn't much to report. I've had a really, really hard time convincing myself to work out, but I've been doing it anyway. Which is good, because "you should probably devour that Lindt chocolate bunny and then have waffles and bacon" has NOT been that hard to sell. The bunny (and possibly a few friends) haven't shown up on the scale yet, but I think they're conspiring with the glazed croissant from today and are going to attack like a fucking ninja.
On a related note, I was working out earlier with Maya the Wii Fitness Trainer, and I really had to pee. There's nothing worse than doing a bunch of jumping jacks when you're threatening to leak all over the basement carpet. So when Maya called a "water break" (which, now that I think about it, I've never seen that pixeled hussy drink any H20 herself. Man, she's a terrible trainer), I dashed to the downstairs toilet.
Now, the downstairs toilet is pretty much just that. A toilet. Downstairs. Oh, sure, it has some walls around it, and at SOME POINT it was probably considered a bathroom, but right now it's a gross, water-stained hole with a concrete floor, containing a rusty-looking porcelain seat. But whatever, I was in a hurry (if there's a way to pause Maya, I haven't figured it out yet). So I was doing my thing, and I reached for the roll of toilet paper.
Turns out, if you leave those unattended, sometimes spiders use them for a lair.
So I shrieked and jumped off my throne. Mid stream.
Good thing that bathroom is already gross hey?
I posted last week about how I was all into the virtual piracy, but I TOTALLY LIED. The very next day my usual gaming addiction, the superhero MMO City of Heroes, went live with its Issue 14. CoH is pretty awesome in that it regularly releases new content for subscribers and doesn't ask anything in return
Are you kidding? I can write goofy awesome comic book stories and publish them for other people? It's kind of like blogging, but with spandex. And punching things.
So I've given up on the pirates. They have a bad rap these days anyway. Plus, in CoH I can make my characters' bazongas even BIGGER.
What directions is YOUR brain going in this week? Let us know - grab zee button, slap it up there, and randomize! Happy Tuesday!The restaurant that Paul manages is closed for two weeks while renovating. He gets one of those weeks off, but the rest of the time his schedule is totally messed up. Normally he works nights, but suddenly he's working days. So we had to call in the troops (his parents), who drove 2-1/2 hours to hang out with their grandson all day today. Turns out, we didn't need them today, but thanks to an informative text message at 8PM TONIGHT we could have used them TOMORROW. Fuuuuucccckkk.
Which brings me to a regular rant of mine, that I have entitled "OMG ya'll am I the first person to notice that juggling child care SUCKS?".
I mean, REALLY. We have it good here in Canada - we get a year for maternity leave, and the government pays us 55% of our previous wage during that time. Except, most daycares don't take children until they're 18 months old. So everybody - EVERYBODY - has to fucking fake it somehow for 6 months. And like 6 years ago, mat leave was only 6 months, which brings your time spent "faking it" up to a year. There are no supports in place to cover this - everybody just has to work part-time, or find a (elusive) sitter, or not go back to work and then find a whole new job in 6 months, or ask their mother, or SOMETHING. It's fucking ridiculous.
And what the hell do you Americans do? What do you get - 12 weeks, if you're super lucky?
Anyway. That has nothing to do with the fact that my husbands employers can't get their poop in a group, but it sent my brain in that direction.
Reader Comments (66)
Seriously! Someone get here before me next week alrighty?
Childcare sucks. Daycare starts at 6 weeks usually but you pay through the freakin' nose for it. $175 a week until they are a year old. I quit my job because it was simply cheaper not to work. After dry cleaning and lunches and daycare I didn't have any money left for, you know, helping with the mortgage and stuff.
I can't imagine not having daycare until 18 months. How the heck do people manage that?
And yes, 12 weeks if we are lucky. And only some of us actually get that as PAID leave (I did not.)
not even 12 weeks. more like 6. and if you're really lucky your doctor will gut you like a fish and you'll get an extra 2! yay!
I wasn't going to say anything but you really aren't as funny on Wednesdays. Can you work on that? :)
I most likely would have shrieked and jumped off the throne mid-stream at the discovery of a spider lair in the toilet paper...ewwwwww! ;)
Juggling child care definitely sucks - particularly when you (and when I say 'you', I mean 'I') have no immediate family in the area to pawn said child off on...and babysitters really are elusive creatures to say the least. Yes, we get a whole whopping 12 weeks if we're lucky - paid at 100% though IF we have enough vacation and sick time saved up. Otherwise you get nada. Just the 12 weeks. Less if you've used up vacation and sick time prior.
Some daycare places around here will take a newborn, but they charge mega extra - which never made sense to me since they're way less work than a toddler running around demanding attention. :)
If I had seen a spider hiding out in the roll of toilet paper, I would have jumped in mid pee stream too!
Actually in the USA most people don't get any paid maternity leave and if you get paid it's probably only 6 weeks. I think it's part of why there are so many women who just stay to hell with it and stay home.
Good luck while you're faking it and good luck having crazy monkey sex.
Yes, childcare does suck. I didn't get ANY maternity leave--I only had my accrued vacation and sick time (which is why my water broke at work--I was going to accrue every damn day I could). Luckily I was able to take 6 months FMLA (unpaid) leave, but if you work for a co. with less than 50 employees they won't let you do that.
Looks like it's time to get hubs to clean the bathroom!
Day care does really suck here, which is why we've spent a lot of years working opposite schedules so it wasn't such a hassle. If you don't count the exhaustion and lack of time together a hassle.
I freakin' hate spiders. I've seen "Arachnophobia"!
If that had been me on the toilet, my carpet would be streaked with brown spots!!!! I would have ran like the dickens while shittin' a brick!
LOL, "it's kind of like blogging but with spandex"
is there any other type of blogging???
:giggle: you said bunny sex.
You need to exact revenge on that damn TP spider.
oooh the COH mission architect looks fun!
I haven't read your last post, due to that whole holiday we had going on...and I'm so excited that you want another baby! You are going to HAVE to inform us about your test results. Geesh, it's like I feel I know you or something. ;)
First off, I'm moving to Canada for the super cool health and maternity benefits, even if I have to fake a third kid to get the paid time off.
Wow, spiders. I had an idea that the story was headed in that direction and I'm so sorry. I caught a medium-huge spider in my bathroom the other day and had to throw away a perfectly good magazine after squashing the shit out of it and smearing guts everywhere.
I'm glad you've got FoN there to pawn one of her kids off on you but either way, get to the sex. And post a pic of this new character's huge boobs, I need to feel like I'm not the only one out there with an oversized rack.
Wow, yeah.. I'm with Casey. A year for maternity leave is fabulous.. almost as good as Germany (one year with FULL salary!) I'm pretty sure my old banking buddies that had babies were given 6 wks paid/6 wks unpaid.
I wish you had a video of the spider incident. Or sound byte?
If you were closer, I'd do the child care! I'm getting close to my "well he's in school in 2010, are you going to work"? uh it's hard to justify staying home once they are in school!!! :)
I am so glad that I don't have to deal with child care, it seems to be the bane of so many parents' existence. Luckily, I work from home so aside from the fact that I go absolutely insane trying to take care of two children and work 30 hours a week, it's pretty cool.
Nice randomness my love, as usual!
thank you thank you for RTT! I love it..love reading everyones and I enjoy writing them...sometimes I think of instead of the title Random Tuesday Thoughts..Rambling Tuesday Thoughts would fit my ramblings.
Happy RTT. Our daycares will take kids at like 3 or 4 months old...money is money down here ;)
Is he on the list at the university daycare yet? He needs to get on the list.
You also forgot that Americans have to pay a bazillion dollars to deliver a baby too, so we could have it worse. It is a giant pain in the ass 'tho. I still don't have anyone for Jake for crying out loud.
This was so fun to read for so many reasons. Attacked by spiders while peeing (that will make a good comic book!)...what could be better. And I don't know how anyone who has a kid and works manages it -- no matter what you get in benefits, it still isn't easy.
And, just for the record, my first time doing RTT was last week and I visited you a few times before today's RTT. So I think you are funny even on your "off" days.
I like the term poop in a group!
This is the first time I have come here. I have seen this on different blog and I came by today. It was great to get some things out. Hope you have a wonderful Tuesday.
You wanna get the shit scared out of you (er, pun intended) google a wolf spider. Yeah. That's what I see in my house & bathroom from about May-October. Do you know what that does to a woman who regularly gets up to pee at 2am?
When I had Bear, I was back at work part-time 2 weeks later. I didn't have enough vacay/sick time to stay out more than 2 weeks without working at all. When we had Roo, the evil box corporation that The Doctor works for offers FMLA & since he's management, he even got it paid. He can take up to 2 weeks every year of paid FMLA (for valid reasons, of course).