Daily Archives: May 9, 2007

Julie- Next time, don’t use my real email account

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Julie V-

When you wrote this to me earlier…

You’re not only a hypocrite, but an arrogant hypocrite.  You go on endlessly
aboout how awful your kids are, how you can’t make them behave.  You’ve stated
that you don’t like the people they are becoming.  What on God’s earth would
make you think that YOU could handle a Down’s child?  You need medication to get
through your day and half the time that doesn’t even work.

You live in a BIG GLASS HOUSE, so put down your stones…

You forgot to send it to thespacemom. You sent it to my real account. It was all nice that you were kind enough to use an anonymous account, but Dude, I know it is you….Why are you still reading? If you hate me, then just stop reading! I am getting tired of the bullshit.




					

		
		
	


				
					
	

		

						
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The New York Time has a very interesting article up today. Read and discuss!






 My take:


I am pro-choice. I believe women should have the choice over what to do to their bodies. When pregnant with Soleil, we discussed the AFP test and quad screen. I decided against both. If there was something genetically wrong, we would see at the 18 week ultrasound. Jay and I discussed the possibility of Down’s Syndrome (Trisomy 21). I told him that we have the love and financial resources to raise a T-21 child. And I would.


We discussed other genetic issues and decided which ones we would consider terminating the pregnancy. But Down’s was not one of them.


I hope that people don’t start using the early tests as a form of eugenics.


Our society functions well with the inclusion of those who are different. That is the important thing to remember.

					

		
		
	


				
					
	

		

						
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Okay, This is it. I am completely confused with clothing sizes.


I have been wearing Levi’s forever. I love the quality. Well, my favs just developed a hole in the knee. So I decided to go to Zafu.com and find what jeans would fit my figure best. You see, I have always loved 550 jeans. Mostly because I was overweight at a point and I felt that it was comfy and the legs were tapered so I thought (HA!) it showed off my nicely developed calves. Then, Chicagomama came along and pointed out that these are MomJeans. And I saw it. I really did! By going with a tapered leg, I was really showing the world I had a huge hip base! Oy! And I could never get the right length.


I found 2 different jeans that would "fit" my body. I then checked out the sizing. In the past, I have fit into Levi’s  4 & 6. This time, I decided to measure myself and go with the true numbers.
This is where I gets screwed up.


A Misses 6 and a Petite 8 have the EXACT SAME WAIST MEASUREMENT. I kid you not! The Petites run smaller than the misses size. So I decided to get myself one in petites (because it was on a $10 sale!) and one in Misses. The Misses I ordered at 6 Short (with a 30" inseam), The petites I ordered 8 medium (a 29.5" inseam). So I have a "larger" size in petites, but the Petite medium is SHORTER than the Misses.


You following all of this? Because I was so annoyed after 30 minutes of measuring, (having to drop my pants every time and getting lewd comments from Jay, who didn’t get that the "evil eye" was to get him to SHUT UP) that I finally said, Okay, I hate to see these numbers, but I know in my heart that these are the right ones for me.


I asked Jay if he wanted a pair. He said "Sure, get me 36×34 of the 501s" Sure… for men it is easy. But for women? UGH! I had his ordered in 2 minutes. 


In addition to all of this, I discovered that Sears and Jc Penney’s offer Levi’s also, BUT (and here is the fun part) the SIZING IS DIFFERENT! One woman actually wrote in on the Sears site that she had a pair from Levis.com and she ordered two more, same size and color from Sears.com The Sears ones were of thinner material and LARGER than the ones from Levi’s. I believe it. I know that Home Depot and Lowe’s do this, they sell a cheaper quality item from a major manufacturer…. Now I know Levi’s does it too….
Just another annoyance in the world of being female….


I will get the jeans in a day or two. I’ll see how they fit!