* Laura has a post on them taking away the battle of schoolwork. Just ... removing it. Poof! Gone. Beautiful.
* THIS is friggin hilarious, and painfully accurate:
It's also something which I'm finding everyone is agreeing on ... like everyone ... red, yellow, black, white, Democrat, Republican, Wiccan, Baptist, rich, poor, decaf, regular ...
* Our family is considering taking the plunge (NOT literally) into at least one compost/sawdust toilet. We did the math. At 3-4 gallons per flush, and each person averaging about five flushes daily ... our family of seven uses over 100 gallons of perfectly drinkable water to send our pee and poo out to who really knows? There are many solutions, and we are totally willing to try this. No, it's not gross, and yes, you can actually compost your poo. If you think I have some sort of fecal fetish, you are painfully mistaken. Learn about it. You'll be surprised. Not to mention, my attaching kids CANNOT CLOG A COMPOST TOILET! BRILLIANT!
* Sitting at the public library while typing this, and there is a guy totally trying to hit on me. Then one kid comes up to ask a question ... and another ... and another ... "Mom ... Mom ... Mom!" He is soooooo out of here! ha! High tailed it back to the genealogy room. Done, and DONE!
* And last ... my only really big announcement for the month (NOT an April Fool's joke). I finally got a tattoo. Now, the best part is we can make it a drinking game. Come back here later tonight, and have your beverage of choice in hand. Take a swig every time someone responds to/comments on said tattoo with anything sounding remotely like:
"Wow, you're officially low class ..."
"Personally, I’m against tattoos, but ..."
"I’m not really into tattoos, but ..."
"I am not really a tattoo fan, but ..."
"I think you're going to hell, but ..."
Because, seriously, I do not go to other people's blogs and say, "I would NEVER wear that, but it looks great on you," or "You have SUCH old lady hair, but I think you're a great person," or "It goes against my personal convictions to own and wear a Snuggie, but I'm glad it works for you." (Okay, I've totally said that last one to Cammie, but it's cause we're good friends like that - and she is about to TOTALLY go OFF on the whole compost toilet thing ... in 3, 2, 1 ...).
So, go ahead. Take your pot shot on the ink. Bring it. Everyone else is gonna' get snockered. It's the therapeutic mom in me. I found a way to be insulted and still win! Whoop!
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Srsly? I want a tat. Gonna get it one day. Maybe I'll sneak over to your house and you can hold my hand--I mean, my other hand, since I want a ring tat.
Oh man...don't get me started!!! I have a tattoo...and I'm absolutely craving a couple more! People are so weird about it...mostly stemming from the belief that the Bible says it's a sin. It doesn't...it's actually referring to people who used to cut themselves and whack their own backs with leather straps as a form of worship....it has n-o-t-h-i-n-g to do with tatts. But, the Bible really DOES preach about sins of the heart...you know, such as looking down on someone else for not fitting a mold;) Tatt it up, girl! You're doing more for the glory of God than most!
I wasn't going to comment. But, seeing as I'm learning to be ODD from my kids, I have to. Plus, I want to help those of you who want to drink. ;-) So here goes, (just for you, Christine!)
I would never personally get a tattoo, but on you it (fill in the blank).
Angela :-)
I want a tat really bad. I'm just kinda chicken.
So, when my littlest one got a booklet of temporary tattoos as a get well gift - I promptly took the really awesome lizard and put it on my ankle.
Someday I might be as cool as you. :)
Oooh, how awesome!
I'm totally, utterly and completely chicken. I cannot get past the whole 'forever' thing. My little brain goes 'but but.. what if I change my mind!' and then it goes into overdrive and the hamsters fall over from exhaustion and it's just all bad.
Jealous!
you got a tattoo???? i honestly don't know that we can be friends anymore. doesn't the Bible say something about not tattooing your body?! do you even read the Bible????? :)
love it. you should come back to wacko when i finally decide to get my 2nd one.
I can't resist. It's just too darn easy....
"Wow, you're officially low class.
Personally, I’m against tattoos and I'm not really into tattoos. Nor am I really a tattoo fan. But someday, I still might just meet you in hell."
Oh, and did I mention that I don't drink anything stronger than Kool Aid, either? :-)
But seriously, it's in heaven that I hope we someday meet (and would be excstatic if that meeting happened on this side of it!) If composting toilets and tatoos float your boat, then you keep right on rowing, sister! I'd still love for you to be my neighbor.
I like the composting poo idea.
Congrats on your 1st tattoo! I have a bracelet one too, that I love!
Can we add "I would, but I'm too chicken!" To this game? Cause I'm not even feeling tipsy yet!
I love my tattoo and believe it honors God b/c it has religious meaning and gives me the chance to witness everytime someone sees it!
well, everyone covered all the bases. Tats aren't my thing but I can't see it as a sin either.
The snuggie thing - I'm with Cammie.
I did take one of my son's temp tattoos of a dinosaur & put it on my hip. Trying to entice hubby with your Feb. challenge & livening things ups a little! :)
I love it!
I would say I can't handle the pain involved in getting a tat, but after my painful dreadlock experience I guess I could handle it. Only problem? Between my seven kids they have stolen all the cool ideas
Check out PeePoople.com! I was just there yesterday.(and in Africa last spring) We seriously looked into a Incinolet(sp) electric composting toilet but our city would rather dump the poo in Puget Sound. go figure.
As to the tats...I'll tell you what I tell my 21 yr old "whatever turns your crank ! but don't whine to me when you are 90 and it is sagging allover!" :0)
Thanks for the help dealing with the insanity of living with our RADish nephew. We were totally unprepared for our "new reality" You have alternately made me laugh, cry, gnash my teeth, wail, mourn and renew my resolve to love this kid. And, you have given us resources,encouragement and practical ideas. THANK YOU for sharing. Know that you have helped this family. God Bless!
I'll do the condescending Southern veiled insult...
Oh, Christine, bless your sweet heart.
i love tattoos. i have 2 =)
Okay, I tried to get a tattoo but they wouldn't let me because I didn't have my driver's license with me...ummm,hello, this was about eight years ago when I was in my early FORTIES!!! And no, it's not like I looked too young...just followin' the letter of the law. So, I will be gettin the peace frog at some point but I want it on my lower abdomen and right now my damn stomach would hide it! Oy!
Now, onto composting toilets...I can show you two of those suckers like for real..at my mom's house. She had a double wide moved next to my sister and they moved the aerobic system too....but couldn't get county approval to install it or something like that and she ordered these puppies. They cost a lot! There is daily and weekly maintenance...daily, you're supposed to put a tablespoon of peat moss down each toilet to add to the "mix"...weekly, you're supposed to mix the mix....you have a tall pipe with a turbine on the top that helps it to dry out. Just thought you'd like to know the poop on the well, poop.
Jeri, those are the toilets that actually do the composting, and YES - VERY expensive. We're not doing that.
We'll be dumping our buckets out back into a compost pile. You do your business, sprinkle some sawdust, and move on your merry way. Every 4-5 days we'll take the poopy bucket out back, dump it, rinse it out. We're already composters, so managing that is nothing new to us.
Ba-bing-bang-boom. And it only costs about $25 to build. SWEET!
I love Jesus, I love your blog, and I have 9 tatoos. My question is what took you so long?
It's pretty - and it totally suits you!
I seriously want a pirate style heart shape with "Mum" across the middle (was going to incorporate the kids names, but as I'm pregnant with #5 with no sign of stopping, I'm worried I'll run out of arm). My quandary is that I really wanted an intricate celtic style design on my lower back, in the days BEFORE such a tattoo earned such lovely nicknames as "slag tag". In ten years time, will the pirate tattoo be latched onto every wannabe "cool Mum" and become cliche? If so,do I go ahead and do exactly what I want the way I want to and ignore the stigma applied by others safe in the knowledge that I am so cool I did it BEFORE it was cliche - or do I completely cave to the fact that other people's opinions and comments do infact guide and control such personal, intimate aspects of my life as my INK - in spite of the fact that I try and raise my children to be free thinking individuals. And would people get the irony if I did a poll to that effect??
My grandparents had a composting toilet and before that they had a Destroylet (it burns your waste and uhm other things, lol, if you get on it too soon after the last person, lol.) The only other option was the outhouse. So we got used to the other two. :>) It wasn't so bad. Of course, I grew up in Maine and they lived on a island and some people think that is back woods. LOL.
I'm totally against people only having one tattoo. It seems unbalanced. I think you should get another. Maybe some smoochy lips on your butt cheeks.
I get enough needles on a daily basis to not want a tat-Eeyoww!! You really should have put the wimp comment on your list. I WAS eating ice cream earlier as if it was a game where someone was saying all the right lines.
But Christine, I thought you LIKED people talking about how different you are. Different is good...and extremely interesting. I would much rather read about your outhousery than about a bunch of normal flushing toilets. Where's the fun in that?
I lift my cup (and you know what cup I refer to)to you young ink braceleted pioneer!!
p.s. And I LOVE CHIA! It's really fabu in my oatmeal-Thanks!
ok I"m awful but I saw Jon Lajoi and I was super excited! He is hilarious, have you seen rapist glasses? Or the one about him and God being friends it's soooooooooo funny! I love your tattoo. I have two, one is on my lower back and it's the words, beautifully chaotic, which I feel completely explain me, and below is a patchwork quilt butterfly (out of ugliness, and brokeness, come beauty). Then I have a fairy with butterfly wings around my ankle, significant because I used to be a serious cutter, and that was my place of choice. But now, it's beautiful. And I haven't done it.
Ooooh, I luuurve the tat!!! I keep trying to convince my hubby that we should get some together. I've got one and they're truly addictive!
I love tattoos. Love them! I have begged Sim for years to get arm sleeves. I think they're incredibly sexy... but he says pale British men look silly in tats. What a wuss!
I love your tat! I've wanted one for years, but am a weeny. I'm just now getting up the nerve to get my nose repierced (for the 4th time! Noah pulled it out once and the memory of that still makes me shudder). For the 4th time... really..... I can't get a tat until I come to grips with my committment issues. ;-)
Anyway, I love it, you low-class-going to hell-chickadee. Now, drink!
i am so happy you did this. i have been fascinated and in love with tattoos since college, but always too chickens--- to do anything about it. i am totally not afraid of needles, i have just always been a little afraid of the permanence of a tattoo. that and my family and at the time boyfriend always thought i was some crazy naive little college girl when i thought about it. they all made fun of me for considering it.
ah, what a difference a decade makes. i am still totally infatuated with tattoos, and that boyfriend, who is now my husband, now thinks that tattoos are completely hot and would love nothing more than for me to get one. we are both seriously considering it, for me that is. michael is terrified of needles LOL!
i have still been hesitant for a while because i thought it would look ridiculous as a 30 something wife and mom coming in for her first tattoo. an idiotic fear, i know, but still one that i had. you have given me confidence in going forward with it. my only problem now is that i have NO CLUE what to get! i want to get something meaningful, yet still sexy to my husband! anyway, i think you are awesome and i hope i can come up with something to get because i really want one.
props to you christine!!
Did you seriously just call me out on your blog???
I'm not that into tree-hugging friends, but...if I have to have one I am glad it's you!
*Puke in mouth as I think about your own crap in your backyard*
I am TOTALLY dissapointed in your readers! I haven't drank in almost three years, and not even I would be drunk by now! Sigh....let me help ya'll out...
You are sooooo low class now
WELCOME TO THE CLUB!!!! HUGS!!!!
If ur low class, wonder what I am with my "tramp stamp"...?????
I love it, and no risk of stretch or sag, no wonder you were so into James' tribal!
Oh yeah, I MIGHT have a nose stud by the next time you see me since you convinced me that
I won't die from the pain. No one would ever guess I had FIVE natural child births....I hate pain!
I can't believe you beat me to this one too. Darnit. I'll look like such a follower.
Actually I just can't quite get my design idea perfected. And I can't do it until it's perfect.
After watching the Good Friday services at both Gateway and then Mars Hill last night, at 11 when the MH one was over, I asked Jeff to take me to get a little cross inked onto my shoulder. But he was already down to his boxers and didn't want to get back dressed again. Besides, he'd had a little too much Titos.
BTW speaking of drink of choice, I wanted to let someone out there know that today, every time I thought "I really want a beer" and actually opened the fridge, I stopped and drank a glass of water. Once I even ate an apple.
Of course it helped a lot that someone drank the last Shiner and hasn't remembered to buy a new case. Darn.
I LOVE YOUR TATTOO! Congrats!
1. loved that video.
2. will totally hook you up with a composting toilet...and being a loo convert, use it myself. ahem.
3. and i love tattoos but... ;)
LOL, congrats. I am not into tats, but only because I can't change them and I LIKE change!!!
Composting toilets are the bomb. don't have one but a good friend does and it always feels so useful to poo in his toilet!
Ok, I love two things about this post. The youtube video is hilarious and I love our new tattoo!!!
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