Shake that thing!

[cyrano]

I now have all six episodes of 'Thirty Days'. I was just struck by the factoid that families that make under $25K a year are twice as likely to divorce. So... sanctity of marriage people, how about a raise in the minimum wage law to preserve marriage? Or a more healthy and robust public welfare system? Think of the children!

Watched 'Last Boy Scout' and 'Presumed Innocent' this weekend. Netflix Noir Film Festival. (: I really enjoyed both of them--very different but at the same time very similar. Each gets four wags.

I got to see my friend Anne (who is now a teacher in Bakersfield) and help her with her lesson plan yesterday, even if I was sad and lame lying on my back guy.

Sitting on the couch very quietly, currently on the 'heat' of the 'heat and cold' programme. The heat is a sticky pad so it's going to hurt to remove it. Plus I'll have to get off the couch to get the freezy thing. I'm not in a big rush. (:

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[your-liquid-sky.livejournal.com]

The way the numbers work in my neck of the woods is that parent number two (usually Mommy) needs to make three times minimum wage to make it worth her while to keep working. Making twice minimum wage doesn't quite cut it; it will pay for daycare for one child, and bring you home $300 extra a month, which, you know, that's almost a car payment, but it also bumps you into the next tax bracket, and you end up working 40 hours a week plus commute time and having strangers raise your kid so you can pay higher taxes and net about $210 a month. I am at that age where all my friends are having kids and I have to ask them... would you work for $210 a month? Most of them say "hell no!"