Economic Situation & Jobs

I am enjoying being a stay at home Mom to a certain point. I have had the opportunity to do things with my children over summer vacation that I normally haven't been able to do with them when I was working.  But, I did my time and I would love to enter the work force again but jobs are so scarce here in Michigan.  I would leave here in a heartbeat if my husband could transfer to another state without taking a pay cut.  What has this economy come to?  Not too many years ago you could apply for a job and find a decent job within a few weeks. Now it literally takes months, no matter how much education you have.  Jobs that used to pay around $50,000 year are now starting people off at $9.00 or $10.00 an hour. The competition for those lousy paying jobs are fierce. When I was reading online last week about the current economic situation, some employers are reporting they are receiving over a 1,000 online resumes for one job posting.  It seems that the men are having an easier time finding jobs.  There are more manual labor jobs than there is jobs woman typically perform. Employers are taking advantage of the millions of people being out of work and offering less money because they know there are a lot of people who are desperate for jobs and will take it.  What they fail to realize that the economy isn't going to improve much if people have less money to spend to boost the economy. If people make less than they spend less. Economics 101.

Miley Cyrus

The whole world needs to come to the realization that Miley Cyrus is going to grow up and want to advance her career beyond young girls and move on to a larger audience.  Miley is being criticized for her skimpy body suit and her tight leather pants she wore at the MTV music concert. It's up to her parents to decide what she should or shouldn't wear. If Miley Cyrus is going to go anywhere with her career she is going to have to change her image to fit in the with the adult world.  Changing the way she dresses goes along with it.  That's when parents have to step in and say Miley Cyrus is longer appropriate for their young daughter. Honestly, I don't see how her outfits are too much different than most 17 year old girls.  Miley is trying dress her age, she's not 14 anymore. Even if she was 18, people would still be complaining about how she is dressing and trying to change her image to begin to fit into the adult world of the entertainment business.

A Real Life Hannibal Lecter

Nicolas Cocaign, a prisoner in Rouen France says a sexual urge drove him to kill and eat his cellmate. Cocaign took a pair of scissors and stabbed his cellmate several times in the chest and neck after he made him angry for asking him to wash his hand after using the toilet in their small cell.  Once he finished stabbing him, he placed a plastic bag over his head to make sure he was dead and then cut open his chest with a razor and cut out a piece of his lung that he thought was his heart and placed it in a Tupperware container for his evening meal.  Cocaign fried and ate the lung and told the court room while he was in court that he enjoyed eating human flesh and claims it tastes like venison.  Cocaign says, he warned them he wanted to kill someone and eat them to know what human flesh tasted like and no one believed him until he did it.  Maybe the next time an inmate says he wants to eat a human they will believe him.

Politicians & Facebook

When are the politicians going to learn not to post comments on Facebook that will get them in trouble later? Politicians like to Facebook too, but their only problem is what they say on Facebook seems to come back and bite them in the ass later. They might as well call the paper up or the news and say what it is they want to say. It ends up in the news anyway. For the average person on Facebook, no one really cares what we say on their as long as we aren't bragging about breaking some law and getting away with it. Granted you can say whatever you want as long as it is in the guidelines. Keep in mind your in the public eye and everyone especially the media is waiting for you to screw up and post something controversial on Facebook so they can jump on it. So if you are in the public eye, be careful what you post on Twitter or Facebook if you don't want it to come back and bite you in the ass later.

Breast Milk Groups

One of the new fads is for mothers to share breast milk.  They join breast milk clubs on social networking sites and share breast milk.  The groups are for mothers who produce too much breast milk and for mothers who can not breast feed their own child, either because they are not producing enough milk or because they have adopted a child.  Breast feeding a child can bring great health benefits for the infant.  However, I'm not sure getting breast milk from someone you don't know is worth the risk it may bring to your infant. Many diseases and illnesses can be passed through breast milk.  Things such as drugs or alcohol can also be passed through breast milk. How do you know the mother is being 100% honest about being disease and drug free? You don't know 100% unless the mother is tested. Then there is also the possibility she had too much to drink the night before and fails to disclose that information.  Simply either because she forgot or she doesn't feel it is relevant.  Situations like this can bring serious health risks to your infant.

There a breast milk banks where breast milk can be purchased for about $3.00 an ounce.  I realize that is a little pricey but, if feeding your child breast milk is that important to you than it's worth the cost.  The breast milk is tested before it is sold. So, it is a much safer option for your infant.  Taking a chance on feeding your infant breast milk from someone you don't know is too much of a risk and out weighs the benefits of feeding your infant breast milk.  You wouldn't go buy your infants medication off the street to save money. Then, why would you get your child's breast milk from a complete stranger off the Internet? 

Irresponsible Parents

Irresponsible parents drive me nuts! Yesterday, my daughter's friend came over to play. We have had a lot of children over lately so I told her  "If she comes over her parents have to pick her up by dinner." At about an hour before dinner I told her to call her parents and have come and pick her up.  Well, they didn't pick up the phone or even call her back until 7:40.  Almost two hours later! It was different when the child lived just around the corner and you could send her home, but now her family moved and she has to be driven here & home. Now, the thing that makes me crazy about this is, the child has a heart condition! What if something went wrong and the child started having problems or there was some sort of emergency. Her parents are notorious for not picking up the phone when she calls, returning her call hours later and not picking her up when they are supposed to pick her up.  The child is only 9 years old.  If my child calls I always pick up the phone and if I miss their call I call them back immediately. You never know when something can happen.  I pay for my 9 & 10 year old to have cell phones so they can call me no matter where they are and I can always reach them. That seems to be one the problems with summer vacation, you are dealing with kids and their parents more during the summer than during the school year. I am ready for summer vacation to be over all ready.

Prepubescent Boys

Prepubescent boys are a hand full.  I went downstairs to run a virus scan on the computer the kids use and it was running slow and had a lot of viruses. So, I checked the computer's history.  Someone had gone to porn sites on the computer. My son and his friends were downstairs on the computer Saturday. I am guessing it would have been him and his friends. Of course everyone denies any wrong doing. But, the kids are the only ones who use that computer. They were searching for 11 year olds having sex and busty women, among many other things.  Wow, I didn't even know that kids at the ages of 10 & 11 even knew what porn was or how to look for it.  I am cautious about what I let my children watch.  But, not all parents do.  The Internet can be a blessing, but it can also be a real headache with monitoring what your children are doing on the Internet.  You can't possibly go through and block all the porn sites because in parental controls you have to input each site one by one. If you check under 18 content, it blocks all sites with pictures.  There has got to be a better way to limit what your children are doing on the computer.  Any additional software you purchase, you have to block the sites as they are viewed or block each domain.  I did the only thing I could think of, forbid anyone from using the computer when friends are here. Put a password on the computer and their history will be checked whenever they get off the computer. I hate to do it like that, but they have left me with no choice.  God help me, I am not ready to be dealing with these sorts of issue.