..... I found a mexican sleeping under the bushes by my driveway. Welcome back to the new California. No trespasser senior.

What is up with "cat rent"? I saw a sign at an apt building that said Pets Welcome but when I called, out of curiosity, they wanted an extra $30 a month for the pet. I wonder if they charge per kid.

Speaking of kids. I work with a woman who has two, She never has to work the early early hours or weekends because she claims she has no daycare. Why should I (or anyone else) be forced to continually get the unpleasant hours because she has kids? No really. I wanna know. If I'm going to do the heavy lifting, I should get paid more than her, at the very least, which I don't.

I am working Mother's Day. Whoopee, 0300-1200, see what I mean?

I am sewing an Alice in Wonderland quilt for a 40th birthday gift.

I am reading Three Shirt Deal by Stephen J Cannell. I like him.

This week's LW1 gets my . On several levels. I was reading a few of the responses and let's get one thing straight, the LW said her mother would have called the daughter's behavior slutty. She didn't, altho you just know she wanted to also. I know slutty behavior, I have been slutty myself.

Has anyone forgotten this little gem from a few weeks back by One a Cheater, Not Always a Cheater?

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I would like to point out that there are two ways to get drunk. One with your buddies, harmlessly, where the wine catches up with you and you have a designated driver or two, where blotto and Into Her Cups isn't the only Cups we mean.

The daughter and her friend clearly took advantage of her mom's babysitting/house/distance from hubby perks. Respectable mommies don't go trolling at the first chance they get to dump their kids on grandma. It is carefully planned in advance with the kids saefly tucked further away.

Even if the daughter came back to her mom's house drunk and was hungover the next day, she couldn't have been too plowed if she went out and did it again. Maybe they were just yucking it up after a few drinks and just sounded drunk.

Kids are very perceptive tho. They know when something isn't right with their parent. When my dad was drinking heavily and hungover so bad he'd lay there with his head held down by his arms, he'd play one song over and over to help dispel the rats that ate at the inside of his brain.

I knew the words to Pretty Woman before I knew the words to Itsy Bitsy Spider.

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My heartfelt advice is to LW1 is to tell her daughter that she needs to separate her bar hopping from her kids.

Happy Mother's Day folks, from a real life grown up six year old.