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"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We're afraid."
"Come to the edge."
"We can't. We will fall!"
"Come to the edge."
And they came.
And he pushed them.
And they flew.
written by Christopher Logue, a British poet, about Guillaume Apollinaire.
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i'm not going to talk bad about you on the internet - because MY momma taught me better than that ***********
You're so vain, you probably think this blog is about you You're so vain, Ill bet you think this blog is about you - Don't you? Don't you? ***********
that actress from Get Smart and the Devil Wears Prada - Anne Hathaway - her ex rich boyfriend is on bail for over $21M they think his stuff is so serious - YET he is on "house arrest" in his luxurious surroundings until trial.
your average joe would be sitting his happy ass in jail - but this schmuck - whose crime is so severe you put the bail at $21M gets "house arrest" 
what is wrong with this picture!!! today i was checking out mansions of the stars and wow - maybe i'd do it too if i was that rich, but good god - even if you "entertain" a lot - who the hell needs so much square footage - these are hotels/resorts for a family of 1, 3 or 5 maybe.
insane what happens to you - what you think you really need or want even it seems once you get crazy money. truly curious and strange to me 
today i had a mommy meltdown. basically last friday i forgot that it was "wear this camp shirt everybody" day for alex and when i picked him up he said "you forgot to put me in my orange shirt and all my friends had theirs on" gees - the guilt!!! i begged forgiveness and said i'd remember next time. then today it's "sports" day and i put him in basketball shorts and a tank but then wuzza calls and says alex wanted a sports ball of some kind on his shirt and how he had to tell him his sport could be surfing b/c he had surfboard on his shirt today
it hit me hard - which is insane i realize - but i am super sensitive about my kid ever feeling left out b/c of how i grew up feeling very left out due to my circumstances - and i become unreasonable. so i had a meltdown. 
then i got it together, shared with another mom in the office and 
at how dumb it was. the guilt we mothers put on ourselves to be perfect is insane!we're taking alex on his first plane ride this weekend!! then on a ferry boat and to a beach! galveston beach, texas. (yeah yeah - not a pretty beach but he won't know what to compare it to since it's his first one) i'm so excited for him and man is he excited about the airplane trip!
we live by the airport so he is very famliar with them. 
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JOURNAL QUESTION:
If you don't live in America have you heard about our "housing crisis"? What is your perception of it?
If you do live here, what is your perception? How much is big bad evil mortgage brokers and loan officers and how much is it ignorance of the people or trying to keep up with the jones' and reality setting in?
mary
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for 11 hours straight and then 9.5 the next night and had done a few 8 plus and even 10 before that - so its OFFICIAL - he's sleeping THROUGH the night at 3 months for us. 
He plays with his voice using different inflections, volumes and expressions. 
He carries on long purposeful communications with us too and its just awesome! 
Of course it was in his new high chair 
and he opened his mouth for the spoon no problem - but was not impressed with the pastey rice cereal 
He also is THIS close to crawling and holding his bottle. 
Alex was diagnosed with his first real "sickness" today. "croupe" aka baby bronchitis. 
He acts as if he feels fine but is coughing a lot. So he had some medicine from the pediatrician and they say 3-5 days. 
Alex officially and often says "da da" now to his Daddy and in general. Needless to say, Wuzza is quite impressed 
ALEX BRINGS HIMSELF TO STANDING ALL BY HIMSELF with the help of a ledge to pull up on. 
my baby is growing up!! 
He wants big people finger foods now! 
*gets out air-fresheners* 
WASSUP!! 
.... darn it ! 
Devious Comments
Today money is a piece of paper. No gold, no silver, only the value we put in beautifully designed and printed papers by giving our energy out to some people.
I'm not against the money
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Happy first plane ride to Alex
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We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
So,
godisnowhere
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Sorry to hear about your mommy meltdown
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-MT.
Most of the challenges we create.
Every little things are gone be OK, Alex will not feel left out!
S
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Magical Conciousness is the state in which tea leaves are read, curses are cast, goals are scores, poems are written...
About the housing crisis... well we were affected before anybody else because my husband was a real estate appraiser and lost his job. We live in a 1950's house that we paid too much for. Right now you can buy an acre lot with a brand new house for the price we paid for our little falling apart, no dining room, one bathroom house.
And we are about to lose it because our Mortgage servicer is taking their dear sweet time (over 6 months now) to review our paperwork to help us out. I've called them every other day, sometimes every day for 6 months crying out for help and all I get is answering machines and nobody ever returns phone calls. It makes me wish I could sue them for not doing their job. I want the bank that holds my loan to know that the servicer is the one who dropped the ball.... big time
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"There is room for different point of view, different style, no matter how good of a photographer you are" 'gilad
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**art requires an open mind**
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"There is room for different point of view, different style, no matter how good of a photographer you are" 'gilad
I was freaking out, and just when I finally calmed down she decided to say "I hope we don't crash"
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Anything not nailed down is mine.
Anything I can pry loose is not nailed down.
try to keep those alex experiences in perspective....you sound like an excellent mom to me who gives alex a lot of great life experiences and memories.
i think the mortgage crisis is real! however, i just sold a house that i could no longer afford due to divorce. about 4 years ago i applied for a home equity loan from one of the "baddie" lenders. we were turned down when my exhusb los hi job in the middle of the process. i am sooo thankful now....because i would have been upside down when i sold if we got that loan. sooo....even though they are in trouble for bad lending practices,.....they were ethical in not approving my loan.
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smoochies
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**art requires an open mind**
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