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My husband makes more than I do in base salary, but when you add in bonus (ours are large while his company doesn't give them), I make about the same amount he does. Actually I think a little more. When we have child chances are great that we will both work, but we have discussed who would work and who would stay home if those chances changed. Given the essentially equal gross, that my benefits are better & cheaper for him to join than the reverse, and that (saying it frankly) I'm more likely to grow farther and faster in my career than he is in his, it would make a lot of very practical sense for me to continue working while he stayed home. Plus his field is one where even not working as a FTE, he could easily pick up a contracting job that could be done on his own time from home. I could too, and do contract, but my contracts require face to face meetings whereas his do not.

Hi! I'm in Kansas City MO and just today (ok, technically yesterday) had my 1 year band anniversary. Best of luck to you!

If I had waited 6 more minutes, it would be tomorrow. I need not stay up so late (multitasking while I do homework). Eekgad.

I'm borrowing this:

Oy vey, you got me, and I stand corrected! I was kind of having two conversations in one. With myself, of course. Lucifer the light bringer, Day Star, Son of Dawn, shining star of the dawn, helel, etc. and a conversation I had earlier in the day (with a good christian friend) about some OT scholars who really do believe Satan should not be associated with evil: Some say that Satan was originally not considered evil but gradually became identified with his unpleasant functions. According to this approach, Satan is still God's servant. There is much in the Book of Job that tends to support this view. Satan appears only in the first two chapters and then disappears. Some believe the first two chapters were added much later, for in the last chapter we read: ". . . they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him" (42:11).

An epispasm sounds like what I gave myself lastnight. :rolleyes For the body shots we need a volunteer - preferrably a man (or Angelina Jolie) with no chest hair (that applies to Angelina Jolie too).

Once I spent a month in Central America. I was 19 and you could drink... younger than that. I don't remember what the age was. I'm really not a drinker, but I had to order something called a "Bloody Brain" just because the name was so awesome. So it's a shot of rum, add Grenadine which sinks to the bottom, and pour in some Kahlua through one of those little silver spout things. The Khalua "coagulates" in the rum and keeps the "noodle" shape it gets from pouring out of the spout... and piles up, making this thing that looks like a brain. Then when you take the shot the grenadine comes up and kind of punches through the Kahlua, making this exploded bloody brain kind of thing. It was yummy. It was also the only shot I've ever taken. Because it came out of my nose when I choked on it, and that was so unpleasant I've never cared to try again. K-a-h-l-u-a is really hard to get straight.

Pretty much. There is a very predictable pattern here.

Bagpipes are sexy. One of the few instruments that can give me chills. And the word you seek would be epispasm (επισπασμοσ, epispasmos). Umm... ouch.

Will you marry me? Well, except for the whole I'm already married thing. AndI guess it would have to be, "Will you civil union me?"

I'm thinking about changing my signature to, "Born OK the first time!" What do you think?

Thank you! I believe this was the fastest year of my life. Could have been work, school, activity, activity... but I'd like to think some of it was the band.

Is that the difference between being a Jew, and being Jew-ish?

I don't like the taste of alcohol, but I love me a good amaretto sour - Disaronno, of course. I PBed today. Happy anniversary to me. But when I weighed this morning I was down another 4 lbs which makes a year total of just under 130lbs. And I'd drink to that!

I can body shot out of a teacup. I think.

Actually F the miniskirt. It's my one year band anniversary. You should be so lucky as to buy me a beer. (Or at least an amaretto sour, since I really can't stand beer)

Is the Gentile Lager on tap? I'd wear a miniskirt for some of that. And you'd be blind from my "so white they're clear" legs way before you'd have to worry about seeing my toosh drooping out from under the mini.

Is that like "I'm leaving this thread" and "I'm ignoring you"? Paraphrasing, o/c.

Ok, for that matter what qualifies you to CONTINUOUSLY state what I do or do not know? We're back to the "-eD" word mentality, Ron. What's obvious to you is not obvious to everyone. I thought we already covered that. When you say "Apparently you don't know any. Apparently you don't know much about anything" NOTHING about that says, "you know nothing about theology" to me. ANYTHING is not synonymous with THEOLOGY. So NO, Ron, I don't know that. And apparently you don't know girls aren't usually named "Greg".

Well remember - I was one of the worst of them, even though I wasn't active in the thread, and Laurend is a moderator. Green was a he, then a she, and now a he again. And on...

Uh oh, now we're back to the near corner stage, where the attacks start coming. I'm vile, pathetic, disgusting, etc. -- and you're pretty much the same as Ann Coulter. Just take it for the desperation move it is and realize "That's all the better he is." When you see it from that perspective, it's virtually impossible to become upset about it. I'd love to attribute it to thick skin, but it's really just logic.

Ron Cusano - serious question. How can you tell Carlene that (paraphrasing) "the nonsense people say on this thread frustrates you", and then make statements like "Apparenlt you don't know much about anything"? How could you possibly have any knowledge about what he knows outside of what he has stated to you or made publically available? You have no idea what his education is, or his hobbies, or what areas he advises in. Or what books he has read, or what shows he has watched, or what discussions he has had, or any of the other thousands off ways we receive knowledge. How does him disagreeing with you (which we know makes him "wrong") qualify you, in the slightest, to make any kind of judgement about what he does or doesn't know about "anything"? How is that not nonsense?

Now THAT would make for an interesting thread!

Actually, hang on. The color of the sky comes from refraction, not reflection. When color comes from reflection, we see the color that is reflected - hence the color that it is not. In refraction the color that reaches your eyes is what is being refracted - it has nothing to do with absorportion/reflection. You can see true color through refraction. You don't see the sky as blue because blue is being reflected and all other colors absorbed, you see it as blue because the blue color is being refracted down toward the surface (just as a spectrum spreads the colors out). That's (part) of why our sunsets are different colors. A different part of the spectrum is being refracted (think of a prism that reflects blue when the light is at one angle, and red when at another).

I posted this a while ago. You may enjoy.