Update ahead of the ACTUAL weekend. With Cake!

[vjs2259]

Today is the birthday  party. Four hours in a crowded room filled with teenagers and near-teenagers blasting each other on large monitors...I'm told they wear headphones. *gulp* Also #2 has to come with us since he can't stay home alone. (Can't he? whispers my dark angel. No, replies the light.)

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Go Wisconsin!

[wendelah1]

Fringe is wonderful. I only have the time and energy to watch one show at a time now, it seems.

I hope the party goes well.

Our society is not set up to allow for care of younger or elder, even when you desperately want to or think it might be better.

Our new socially conservative overlords appear determined to force us back into that box, even though I don't think it's possible. For instance, a county here in Maryland just cancelled Head Start, announcing that 'women need to stay home with their young children.' I'll bet they think single mothers on welfare need to get their ass to work too. Balancing the budgets on the back of the poor, the young, the sick, and the helpless. Jesus wept.

Me, too.

Re: Go Wisconsin!

[vjs2259]

Fringe is liked by many people who like what I like, but I am so far behind at this point it's led to inertia. I hate coming in in the middle, but it's a choice of how to spend my time. I can't mainline things too often. I stayed up till 1:30 last night catching up on Being Human (which was worth it), but I am tired today. And it's errand day. *grump*

There is, I think, a concerted effort to lower participation in the work force at this point, which would 'improve' the overall unemployment rate. A good deal of it is directed at women. Even 'benign' movements like local food, slow food, obesity reduction, and required and greater parental involvement in schools assume a good deal of spare time on the part of parents. The focus on abortion rights and contraception...the assumption that some jobs are Just Too Dangerous for a girl (see Lara Logan, women in the military, etc.) Everything would be so much easier if Mommy was home.

They will end up slicing off our toes and heels to force us back into that old beat-up glass slipper.