How vain are you?

I see your point Caryn, absolutely!

Your position working with the very young, would give you a different reality, perspective and responsibility.  I admire anyone who has the job of teaching our children and preparing them for life in the world today.  

Talking to DP about the fun stuff in my past, was flippant, but it doesn't mean I don't live in the moment now and still look forward to a positive future, especially for my adult daughter. I  want everything good for her! I really don't live in the past, but I do draw from it. M x

No, I didn't experience that one, Barbe, but I had a Mother who taught me to hover over a toilet and not sit down unless it was ours at home! I had killer strong thighs and butt from doing that! LOL

Oh my Leah! That would be an amateur hover, I would never splatter! LOL

My Mother's worry was germs too, she'd never have discussed STDs

They weren't called STDs in those days!! At least not commonly.... Weird that you never hear the actual words of the diseases anymore, just the acronym STD. I found out later about the pregnancy thing as some women were still sure you could get pregnant off a toilet seat! doi! At at school??????

I've been to a restaurant that had that auto toilet seat cover. It's kind of creepy as it seems thicker than I'd expect and it moves around the toilet seat and back into itself, so it really looks like it's just rotating the cover, but the restaurant assured me it was a new cover each time. I had to ask, it was just too weird. The cover it had was like saran wrap - a clear plastic. Not sure on the benefit as the "old" piece just wrapped into where it looked like the "new" piece was coming out of (a box at the furthest edge of the toilet). Weird to sit on, too. Have only seen it once. In fact, the house that my DH lived in and got married in was turned into a restaurant and it was there. (We had been renting the 125 year old property before it got converted.)

robotoilets, that's great!

Yes Caryn, with your work, you likely get to see the rays of hope in the new generations.  That is awesome and the way it should be. In my work, I get to see all of the worst qualities in people which tends to perpetuate my glass being half empty most of the time. Then turn on the tv and bam! Run for the hills. I've known for a long time now that I need a new line of work - I started saying this year that I want to live in a world where I don't know certain things exist. I know so many people live in this world and I want to draw the curtain back and live there too!  

DP,

I expect that I'm a good deal older than you and my POV has been honed not only by my personality but by the experience of age ( cannot believe I'm saying that!). Even though my school is in a higher income area and is very well regarded, there are still some very sad/bad things that happen to families and children. Although I can't "fix" everything in a child's life, knowing what is happening outside of school can help me try to see that their time in school is a safe, positive experience. Every now and then, I have a  student whose life is so challenging, that no matter what I do, the odds are stacked against them. It's a very depressing thought to have about a 6/7 year old.

Caryn

Selena, that picture of you gives me a totally different "picture" of you in my head (bangs/no bangs)! Your hair is more strawberry-blonde there, right? I like that cut on you, and yet I like the short one, too. I'm pretty adaptable into any hair cut as I really don't care as long as I can handle it. You look radiant!!! How about a recent picture now....

Selena, you are too gorgeous!

Yorkie, I am looking forward to your pics and tales.

Get another kitty!   I fully support this idea!  LOL...  I am such a cat person.  I love them.  I have 2 but would adopt 10 more if I could 

The thread is Warm and Fuzzy .....

Always good for a laugh or smile. 

Selena, you are so pretty, and  so youthful looking...what a nice smile you have, too. we are catless right now, for seven years cause our fella died, my man don't have the nerve for another broken heart ever, but i do want one, so badly.

barbe, i am betting that they will! what you said about your DH, the only other time besides that that i saw him cry, was when his father passed, at his funeral, and it was awful, because he stepped away from putting the earth on the casket, and walked up the hill rapidly away from me and everybody else. i had started to follow him, and then when i saw his fist flinging tears from his eyes, i stopped, and my heart just when out to him. but when we lost , get this, his name was 'lumpy', we out and out fully cried unashamedly with each other, many times. now we remember him more with out all the sad feelings, but our little lump was an inside outside cat, and that is part of the problem. we can't have an indoor one, with the way the house is constructed, it would be impossible without $$$ to build a huge cat porch onto the house. our windows swivel from the middle, no screens, and lump actually got out that way several times! from the second story! so until we move, no cat... but i like your idea of adopting "used" cats, that's what lump was, too.

Preowned, diamond certified? I am deathly allergic to cats but as the owner of two dogs, definitely a pet person.

If she isn't claimed by tomorrow, my daughter will be adopting this precious baby, only 2 months old.