I had the most amazing time last night sitting in the car, listening to music, and shooting the shit about the old days with you. I haven't felt/done that since high school. My confession: I'll never feel that way with my husband again. I've known this for a long time. He's just hurt me too much to ever feel that intensely about him again.

Ex husband hasn't paid his half of the kids' school tuition all school year. This means the kids can't return there in the fall. I have no idea where the kids will go to school in the fall. He couldn't care less. Despicable.

I love reading and books. I remember my mom reading to me from an early age. My biggest thrill was reading a Halloween story (back in 1992 we were allowed to celebrate it in public school!) in our school library to 50 Kindergarten and 1st grade students when I was a 3rd grader. I felt so grown up and the kids loved it! I still remember what that library looks like too. One of my sweetest memories. I don't share it often since many people I know are saying libraries are a tax payer drain and just give kids Kindles.

When I was in high school, my brother walked in on me having doggystyle sex. Now I am very paranoid about always locking the door before starting foreplay!

Can't say this any other way than...I went to a high school for proper young ladies from proper families. That being said, one of my closest friends just moved to HI, and her mother is visiting. She just sent me a picture of her 70something mother on the beach - in a bikini, with *quite* a bit of cleavage. Oh my!

Every 2 or 3 years, there's always a news story about a local public school getting 20-30 million dollars for rebuilding it doesn't need. It's sad how much money they waste.

My 84 year old, old school Mexican mom loves the Beatles and Busta Rhymes.

My family had a cookout on Mother's Day. I skipped it. DH and I are CF and get really tired of being told that we just don't understand how hard life is for a SAHM. My sister and SIL do nothing but drink all day, smoke pot, and work on their hobbies (making jewelry, doing crafts, etc). DH and I both have demanding full time jobs and go to school. I never even gave a crap about what they chose to do with their lives until they started judging me up one side and down the other just because I chose to not have kids. The older I get, the nastier they treat me.

A little more on the white girl indian hobbiest going to college on the minority scholarship: I was 19, stupid, broke, a mediocre student. The financial aide people said it was OK, done all the time! The only 'other' native american at the school was a kid who was adopted as a baby by rich white folks, and he got a full ride, too. I was too dumb to know it was wrong. I spent two years working in a free clinic on a rez for almost nothing after I got my RN. I figure that was pay back.

I have a defaulted student loan. My parents did all my financial stuff when I went to college, and my mother said since that loan was so small ($1500) they'd pay it off. They didn't. Now it's up to $2500. It is such a small amount, in the grand scheme of things, but when you don't even have FOOD in your house, it's astronomical. I can't get financial aid because of this, and because of the type of loan it is the Department of Education won't work with me. All I want is to go to school. I'm wasting my life away desperately trying to pay it off. At this rate, I won't bother with school.