Shine

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080331/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_women;_ylt=AqS9aMZEGPVVXOEyIZxM7sus0NUE

I'm not really sure how I feel about this. It's kind of neat that Yahoo is launching something for the same demographic that iVillage covers (yeah, iVillage kind of lost its shine when I discovered other sites where you actually could tell trolls to go to hell) but I wonder if I'll have any more in common with its users than I do with those of other sites. I don't exactly need parenting tips, shall we say.

That reminds me, I don't know if I've ever blogged that Mr. Samoa and I are childfree. For the record, that means that we do not have, never have had, nor do we ever wish to have children. (If you have them, you were not childfree before. You were childless. Childfree means you don't want or have them. Sorry, that drives me nuts when people try to argue that. ) Our reasons for this are multiple:

*We like our lifestyle the way it is.

*I run screaming at the sight of any child between approximately the ages of 5-18. (Actually, that's the big reason.)

* I take about 765875965 maintenance meds, most of which if taken during pregnancy would cause a child to be born with green skin and a four-point rack of antlers. And no, I can't do without them, not unless I want to spend 9 months being carried about on a board. (Well, I suppose I theoretically could do 9 months on a board, but I'd have to think long and hard about that even to get something I LIKED.)

*If any little shit pulls my little Mintimint's tail, they will get knocked into the next county. I have heard that Children's Services frowns on this, so preventative measures are preferable.

So that's my random ramble for the night. Now to prevent myself from buying more shoes. After the bright yellow Crocs, there's no telling what I'm capable of.