Hey everyone. It has been eons since I posted here and I apologise profusely for just jumping right in with a questoins for you all, but I am needing some opinions I know I can count on.
So I am ready for permanent birth control. I am so done having kids that, well, I'm done. That is not the part I am wondering about.
What I am wondering about is this: have any of you had Essure done or know anyone who has had this done?
It sounds ideal, but it is relatively new (less than a decade old) and I woudl hate to have it fail me and get pregnant at 45 or to have it cause some horriffic ailment later on down the road.

At first it is kinda funny, but then it just gets SAD
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Please tell me people are not ALL this stupid.
Please?

* I sent a couple of pics to the artist (Jeff Smith) who created the rat creatures and he wrote me back saying he liked my costume! How cool is he? I think I will print it and put it in the photoalbum next to the halloween pics when we get them...*

I haven't attatched the eyes yet, but this is it. It is a "rat creature" form the Bone comic books (highly recommend them, btw...)
Here is a phot of a "real' rat crature
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Now here is my girl in the costume I just finished...

I keep getting theses weird e-mails trying to convert me to ignorance and right-wing agenda, so I looked up some info on why we should change the pledge to exclude the words "under God".
This is for anyone who believes that the pledge should not be changed beacause "under God" is what the "founders of our nation wanted to have in the Pledge." And the founders were dead by the time the pledge was written, by the way.

In 1892 Francis Bellamy wrote the pledge of allegiance: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and (to*) the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.' He considered placing the word, 'equality,' in his Pledge, but knew that the state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women and African Americans. [ * 'to' added in October, 1892. ]

Another cool site I thoughtyou guys would liek...average of $17 a shirt and cool ones at that...
I got my "Ah munna eat choo!" hungry-cupcake shirt there that i had in ap hoto i posted earlier...
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This is about the third time I have recieved this bulk e-mail. The first time was in the break room at work about 2 years ago...
So I ask you all a favor. If you ever get this in an email, please reply to the sender with my comments attatched. I am just so sick of this sort of arrogance....
>> Story in Tampa Newspaper
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>> Will we still be the Country of choice and still be America if we
>> continue to make the changes forced on us by the people from other
>> countries that came to live in America because it is the Country of
>> Choice??????
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>> Think about it.

For a little background, my son’s school is a charter school. It is also Montessori based as much as the state standards allow for freethinking in teaching. It is small; the entire student body for K-7 is usually about 65-70 kids. It is a co-op in which there is a decent amount of parent participation.
On the night of the first parent meeting at my son’s school, it was brought up that there is a hot lunch program. This program brings lunches to the school from McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Chinese fast food and KFC. This program also provides funding for the school in that we are charged a little over cost for the lunches. I stood up and asked if there was a way to offer healthy alternatives such as burritos or just about anything other than McDonalds. A veteran parent told me that the kids “love it� and that I should not bad mouth what has been going on at that school for several years. No one else said anything. So the message I got was that I ma alone in my dislike of this sort of food and it’s encouragement among children. I should be quiet, if I don’t like the program, do participate.

Those wacky Germans...

So sad...

Keep in mind this qoute when looking at the photos
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"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this [she chuckles slightly] is working very well for them." (former first lady B. Bush)

I love the filthy rich that run our country...