• I need to be cleaning too - I've got company coming this weekend! I think! D:
  

Originally Posted by siaasgn

I use laundry time as an excuse to be on the computer longer - I take the laptop into the basement with me and sit online while I wait for the laundry. :twisted:

LOL, my office is in the laundry room so I sit in here and look at the laundry all day. No wonder I have no inclination to do it :)

Hope everyone is having a great day! Today we seem to be having server issues at work so we are crazy busy but it's not bad. People don't seem to be too grouchy.

wow - people not being grouchy during server problems - that's a first 8)

Originally Posted by siaasgn

I use laundry time as an excuse to be on the computer longer - I take the laptop into the basement with me and sit online while I wait for the laundry. :twisted:

lucky :p i'm still stuck with a wired desktop connection...my hubby refuses to let me go laptop and wireless cuz he's convinced I'll start surfing when I'm using the toilet or something like that

still doing laundry....just taking a short break. I hate laundry day. at least we have our own washer and dryer instead of the old days when we were living in apts

Originally Posted by amersemt

Well, we could have a daily topic...or something...

Well, if we all want to discuss things in here as a Daily Topic so that we all can earn a little more gold, I believe that is a great idea. We could talk about headlines of the day, fashion, entertainment ... anything. Just so we could voice our opinions (peacefully, of course :) ) and earn some gold for Mene doing so.

Umm, I do not know how anyone would feel about this one, but I think it makes for an interesting topic to talk about. According to Yahoo! News, MSNBC, and CCN (where I looked for something to talk about in the headlines) it has been shown in a Bahamian court that DNA test prove that Larry Birkhead, not Howard K. Stern, is baby Dannielynn's father. This ends the question of who is the baby's father.

Now I know that this whole story has been tragic, sad, humiliating, and just a myriad of other feelings. She, Anna Nicole, was a tragic figure in pop culture. Her death, while early, was not entirely unexpected. But amazingly, I do not feel sorry for her. Not for Anna. She lived a fast life style that led to what happened. Who I do feel sorry for is baby Dannielynn. What is possibly going to happen to this little girl for the rest of her life is kind of unsettling. She will most for sure be a headline for the rest of her life because of who her mother was. Her whole life always in the spotlight. Facts about her mother, both the nice and unkind, will always be thrown in her face by some one wanting to get a scoop about living in her mom's shadow.

And not getting to know her mom. That is just so sad. I mean, she may not have been the most fit parent, but still. She was her mother. I don't know. To me, this whole story stinks. It makes me feel uneasy thinking about that poor baby girls future. She was all ready the center of a big custody dispute, even before her mother dying, and now she is going to be the center of a big inheritance battle. It is just sad to think about.

What do you all think about this? How does it make you feel? Who do you feel for the most?

Originally Posted by magikjaz

lucky :p i'm still stuck with a wired desktop connection...my hubby refuses to let me go laptop and wireless cuz he's convinced I'll start surfing when I'm using the toilet or something like that

Funny things is that your hubby's reasoning is exactly the same as my wife's reasoning for not letting me use our laptop and wireless dsl. She is afraid that I would never come out of the restroom if I was on one of my favorite sites or that I would become an addict to some mmo and never come out. ... ... ... Sad thing is, she thinks that with good reason. :oops:

Originally Posted by The Strange Visitor

Funny things is that your hubby's reasoning is exactly the same as my wife's reasoning for not letting me use our laptop and wireless dsl. She is afraid that I would never come out of the restroom if I was on one of my favorite sites or that I would become an addict to some mmo and never come out. ... ... ... Sad thing is, she thinks that with good reason. :oops:

lol at least he's not alone in his reasoning i guess. i can be relieved he's not completely off his rocker (so to speak)

as for danielynn, I'm just torn up about her. I'm so glad that howard stern is being reasonable about the whole thing tho and offering help to larry birkhead in getting danielynn in his life and helping him however he needs. He has to be crushed tho. He's a weirdo (imho) but I always thought he really cared about anna nicole, and I think he's genuinely shocked that the baby isn't his.

What will be interesting, and even more possibly destructive for this poor baby, is if anna's estate wins the $$ from her 1st hubby. Then that baby will be worth a small fortune.

Originally Posted by magikjaz

What will be interesting, and even more possibly destructive for this poor baby, is if anna's estate wins the $$ from her 1st hubby. Then that baby will be worth a small fortune.

And that is what I think this whole thing boils down to. I have no doubt in my mind that Stern cared for Anna. I have no doubt in my mind that he really thought that Dannielynn was his. At least, I really hope that he did, because if he did this solely for the money, I find that very upsetting that someone would use a child for that purpose. Still, that baby is going to be the center of a very public financial dispute that I see no clear ending for in the next few years. And what that will do to her when she is old enough to understand. I really hope that this child will be loved because that is the only way that I see her having a happy life down the road. What she will be put through, with the way that the media is. She is going to need people who really do love her to help her get through this.

when i first herd that anna died my first thought was wheres the baby who is with her is she all right?

yeah that is sad about her she is so cute too.

i don't thnk she has come in yet but bipper had lumpy! 6lbs 3oz baby boy!

Oh wow, Buffy! That's great news!! Thanks so much for letting us know!! What'd she name him?

Originally Posted by buffyhowe

i don't thnk she has come in yet but bipper had lumpy! 6lbs 3oz baby boy!

OMG ALREADY!!!! YAY BIPPER!!!!

Cool. Another new baby. What is the little boy's name? If you happen to know.

Originally Posted by The Strange Visitor

Cool. Another new baby. What is the little boy's name? If you happen to know.

I just noticed her post on gaia, i don't think they have an official name yet. poor little lumpy

Augh! How can you not name a baby? :?: :?

The baby's name is Lumpy people! What's wrong with that? :P Although, I do understand not having a name right away. I can't name anything until I know a little of it's personality. I'd feel the same way if I had a baby, I bet it would take me a little while to pick a name.

The Anna Nicole stuff...well, none of it really surprised me. She always seemed pretty messed up. It's too bad the baby won't have her mother, but she will have plenty of people who love her very much. I'm glad the paternity results are out and I hope they can decide on custody soon. Truthfully, I get sick of celebrity news being all over the regular news when there is so much real news they should be covering.

Yeah, the bipper family hasn't come up with a name yet. They just can't decide from what I understand.

As for dannielynn, I am actually happy that the results have finally been revealed. I really feel for her in the years to come. I certainly hope that this is all settled soon before she has to deal with it on her own at a young age.

The whole situation is really sad.

One of my faculty members came and told me about the DNA results and asked me if I knew - I explained that my news source (NPR) generally doesn't cover news like that so I went and checked yahoo.

The whole situation is really sad - I wasn't really surprised when Anna dies - she lived life fast and drugged (even if the ones she used were legal - mixing prescriptions is dangerous).

I feel bad for that child - who is now a mini celebrity - all I can hope is that we'll forget about her and she will be able to grow up fairly normal - we're good at forgetting about 'celebrities' once the news moves on to a new target.

http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~inio/dk/

how cool is this!?!

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siaasgni love me some NPR! saturday is my NPR day complete with Wait wait don't tell me, car talk, this american life and of course prairie home companion

Good morning purkles!

Congrats Bippy and welcome to the world Lumpy! :heart:

Hmmm... Anna Nicole... I honestly didn't really follow her story too closely. I never did believe that she got skinny just taking diet pills and honestly never really thought of her as any kind of actress or celebrity with merit. She was simply the woman who married a very old man (to me).

That being said, I can't say I believe her death was completely accidental. I'm not running around screaming conspiracy or anything but in my experience anyone who has taken medication for a length of time knows the risks and side affects and what can and can't be taken with it. It is possible that maybe she forgot she took and took more. I can't say. I wasn't there. I can say though that I never wanted her to pass on. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Now, as far as the baby... I feel so bad for that child. Tell me, the person who is the paternal father of the child... had he been fighting for custody well before her death or did he come out of the woodwork when she died? If he had been fighting for the baby all along that suggests to me that he truly wanted to play a part in her life and I commend him for that. Now, if all of a sudden he came out of the woodwork because of the publicity and the money involved... well... what I would say here wouldn't be PG13 so I'll just leave it at that.

Regardless I think that the baby should stay with Stern. That is her father. That is who she knows and loves and understands that he has been there for her. I do think that once everything is said and done it will all fade away because there will a juicier headline out there.

Oooohhhh yay!!!! Congrats to Bippy!!!!!! :D

Hey Purkles,

I've had a wonderful day today, but it's been so tiring! We got up early and went to Lauren's music class and then playgroup was at the Aquarium, so we went there and met in the food court and let the kids run around and play for about an hour. I don't know if it was from being out in the sun or what, but I am feeling so tired now! We did go through the aquarium after the food court, to see all the fish and turtles and stuff. Luckily, a friend had a free pass so I got to use that because otherwise, it would have been a bit of a waste of money. I know better for next time - tour first, play and eat later, because Lauren was worn out by the time we were going to go through. She fussed a bit, but then I picked her up and just cuddled with her as we walked through and I think she did enjoy it.

So I'm home now, she's refusing to nap, but I'm making her, or at least I'm trying to! Got a lot of house cleaning I need to do and our fridge is broken AGAIN! Argh! Frustrating! So the fridge guy is coming back out tonight to look at it all. I'm just grateful for our neighbors letting us keep our frozen stuff in their deep freeze. And then we put all our fridge stuff in an ice chest again, covered with ice.

Ohh - I love going to the aquarium - the Camden aquarium recently put in a tunnel through the center of the shark tank - so you are surrounded by water and the sharks swim all around you - it's so surreal and super neato!

Catching up for today and yesterday, and I was so shocked reading that Bipper delivered already that I had to read it through 3 times! And I even thought about how she said "anytime after the 10th" because her other child was also 20 days early! Huge congratulations to you and family Bipper when you're able to come through here again! Get rest and recuperate well until then!!

And LOL at Jaz's hubby and Strange's wife both not wanting them to go wireless or on laptops for the same reason. :lol:

I've not been feeling super well today, but good enough to meet up with a childhood friend and her mom as they swung through town today, and then since they came by to visit with my mom, Jade and I stayed over here for the afternoon, and I visited with another childhood friend's mom across the street for a while. So I did a lot of catching up today, plus some more medical calls that were needed, and it looks like I'm going to be getting another MRI of my back before delivery to see what state my discs are in so we know whether I'll need a C-section or not!

*huggles fawN* glad you're feeling a little better. Hope everything goes smoothly for you