Bird Population Taking Care of Itself

Not sure what's in the water around here, but every day for the past month at least 2 birds have been flying into either my front or back window. Most survive, a few do not. I am sad to report that we have our second official bird death. Not more than five minutes ago I heard a loud "THWUMP"! I got up to walk to the living room where a blob of feathers remain plastered against the window. The body, gone. Dinner for the neighborhood cats I'm sure. *shiver* Ewww.

Grrrrr... Windoze!

I'm trying to install the latest IE (7) without overriding IE (6) so I can test my web sites in both (side note: this has failed miserably many times in the past because IE doesn't deem it necessary to see where you would like to install the latest version and takes it upon itself to update and override your previous applications.. f*k'rs). Before I get ahead of myself, let me explain that I'm running Windows on my Mac using Parallels. After logging in, I stupidly think I can begin work. Instead I have to sit through 10 minutes of "This needs updating" and "That needs updating" and "We've updated A, B, and C. Restart computer." To make matters worse, this seems to happen EVERY TIME I LOG INTO WINDOWS! Why? Why can't I just log in and begin working without having to be blasted with bubbles telling me that applications A through double-Z are in need of updates. Or 'X' update just finished installing in the background, without giving me a heads up, and now I MUST reboot.

Please. PLEASE!!! I'd love to get to work with ease and test for all of my Window < IE users within a normal work period without having to deal with all of the side effects of a sloppy OS (I know. That statement alone sums up why I am constantly dealing with these issues.)

Oh grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

I Was Warned About Dressing "Nice" When Baby is Still Baby

I'm typing an email with baby-girl on my lap. Within 30 seconds I feel something very warm on my thighs. Not feeling anything wet, I assume it was Claire and her overly heated body. Another minute later I brush my hand against something wet. Nuts! And it was day one of wearing my new non-maternity jeans. *sigh*

It's feeding time and Claire is fussing. Hubby has stopped over to say his goodbyes before heading to work. Between the goodbyes and the fussing I pushed the food source a little to hard and ended up getting milk all over the boppy, baby and my shirt. And this was a nice button down that I found in my closet that actually fit over 'my girls'. *double-sigh*

I forgot to put the spittle blanket over my shoulder. A mini lake formed on my shoulder. Delicious.

A Request From A Confused Shopper

Dear Women's Clothing Manufacturers,

The other day I ventured out to purchase a few non-maternity pants. The experience left me confused and quite put out. Why do you insist on distorting a women's perception of reality by using arbitrary numbers as the actual pant/dress size? Especially when we know that these sizes do not represent the same amount of fabric that went into making said size a couple of years ago. In case you haven't caught my drift, more material is being used for the same number size. And why would I think this? Two words: double-zero (00). That's right, a size 00. I always wondered how a size 0 could exist when 0 means nothing and those wearing a size 0 probably aren't real. Now we're manufacturing clothes for a double-non-real person. What gives?

I'm suggesting that you start converting these 00, 2, 4, 8, etc., into waist, hip and inseam measurements. This would not only make all of our lives easier, but would also allow us to shop at all stores. As it stands now, most of us usually get bitch-slapped by various clothes stores because Store A's size 'X' is actually smaller than Store B's size 'X', which shouldn't be since they are both size 'X'. Currently, men shop by their measurements, so it shouldn't be too hard to manufacture and label women's clothes by measurements too.

Thank you.