10 reasons not to have a baby

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10 Signs you should not have a baby

1. You like your house immaculate.
Babies by nature are messy, horrible beings. Not only that, they do not clean up after themselves, which makes them horribly selfish housemates.

2. You love cute babies but children and teens? Not so much.

Babies are not babies for that long. Soon, they start walking, talking, grabbing, annoying and demanding. The child/teen years last way long than that cute baby stage….and it comes with louder vocal chords.

3. Your cat/dog wants a child.

Really? Sure, you think it would be good for your pet to get used to other people and be more social. You could just invite people over for a BBQ and force your poor unsuspecting pet to have to deal with them, rather than a screaming infant full time. Remember, your animal was there first. Be considerate.

4. Your spouse/partner has allergies to dogs or cats.

If there is a likelihood that your partner could develop life-threatening allergies to the new baby and you’d have to send it back, don’t risk it. There is no known cure for children, other than prevention. Take care of your partner first. Remember, you chose to live with this person.

5. You’re bored and think a baby could be fun.

Babies are fun, and loving, playful creatures, but they are also living, breathing humans with needs. They get sick, need vaccinations, and need to be exercised, fed and loved daily. Consider their needs first.

6. But you love your neighbour’s new baby.

Yes, she’s cute, but she might also be a yelper and feisty so might not work living in your home with six cats. Picking a baby that suits your particular needs is vital.

7. You travel more than you are at home.

Babies should not be on a plane, ever. Did you not see “Snakes on a Plane”? Same goes for babies. You do not have the right to put 300 people through the torture of listening to your child scream in a pressurised tin can. If you find yourself on an airplane more than in your apartment, get yourself sterilized instead! Also, if you like going to the cinema, rethink your idea to have a baby. They don’t belong there either.

8. You sleep and you like it. Same goes for sex.

Babies = no sleep for at least 18 years. Studies have shown that it is impossible to ‘catch up’ on missed sleep. Can you survive on no sleep? Think about your health before you breed. Also, if you enjoy your sex life and want to keep having glorious sex, don't have kids.

9. Your spouse wants a baby and you don’t want to cause a fight.

First of all, your spouse selection was way off. This might be a good “get out of marriage” free card. If, however, you really like this person, you may want to have a long talk. You can’t undo babies after they come out. Also, a spouse who forces you to do something you do not want to do is not someone you should not devote your life to. No one can force you to do something that eternal to your body. You wouldn’t let someone force you into a tattoo would you?

10. You stopped at an adoption event and this baby was just sooo cute.

Of course, he was cute, but that’s just not enough reason to make a rash decision. Living creatures are not impulse purchases. Don’t think for a second Angelina Jolie doesn’t wish she’d never stepped foot in Cambodia. Before you get a baby, get a plant and see if you can keep it alive for more than 2 years. Also, what if you accidentally go home with more than one? How will you cope then?

Oishii Sushi in Sunnybank Hills

I went here after searching for good sushi places in Brisbane.

I was not disappointed.

AMAZING sushi.

Their tuna sashimi is a generous and gorgeous red serve of very delicious fish.





The Dynamite roll has a great kick to it without being overpowering on the spice. Will definitely have that again.





I also tried the scallops in garlic butter. Had I been sitting inside, they might have stayed hot longer, but the garlic butter sauce was to die for and the scallops were cooked to perfection.





Great experience at Oishii. Highly recommend it and will be going back as soon as I can.

Mr Don Spring Hill

Mr Don is near where I work. I was pretty thrilled when another Japanese place opened in Spring Hill.


Mr Don does good donburi bowls. Tonkatsu, tempura or gyudon. The cost of the average bowl is $8.50 and the serves are of a good size, making it good value for money. I quite like their curry don and the tempura don and/or udon. Tempura takes a little longer, so if you are in a rush, order the curry, gyudon or the many katsu dishes.


Their sushi rolls are a good quick lunch but get in quick because they go quickly.


The staff is lovely and very polite.


Good value for money. Great tasting and quick for those in a hurry

I know it's futile, but I must again point out: there is no dragon.

Futile. Getting my husband to agree with me is futile.

We rent. I'd rather own, but that's a different entry.

We have a yard. It's fucking HUGE. I hate the edging. I hate how weedy and gross it looks. Anna's amazing BF has agreed to fix it. I will pay him.

Part of the reason WHY I want it fixed is that my crazy neighbour leans over my fence and cuts our trees. NOT ALLOWED, DICKFACE!

When I mentioned this to G a while back, his response was "He can cut trees overlapping into his yard and dump the cuttings in ours". Great. HOWEVER, he is not cutting said trees at the fenceline. HE IS LEANING OVER a good foot and cutting. NOT ON, DUDE!

When I mentioned tonight to G that I wanted to sort shit out with the neighbour, he got all high and mighty and "are you sure that is a hill you wanna die on" crap with me. My neighbour is doing the wrong thing and because I want to right it, *I* am in the wrong??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????????

Just once, just once, I want my husband to back me 100% and not question it. I'm tired of his excuses. "We have to live next to these people". "Dana is living here and you're not, so better the devil I know". "What do you expect to accomplish by starting this feud?"

JFC MAN! I AM YOUR WIFE! BACK ME THE FUCK UP!!!!

I am so so so so so so so sick of passive aggressive shit. Two of the teachers at my work double PA teamed me in the last 2 weeks and I really want their balls on a platter. Fucking dicks. SEND ME THE EMAILS. I can fix a problem WITH ME sooner than anyone else can. Fucking. WIMPS.

My neighbour is getting a letter. I'm tired of him cutting MY trees in my yard. I am sick of his perving over my fence. I sick of laying down and taking it because G doesn't want the fight. Fuck you. I'm standing up for what is right. When I said that to G, he ADMITTED I am right but what does that accomplish? FUCK YOU, I AM RIGHT!

Homer, are you okay? I'm fine. It's my feelings that are mad.

In other news, and the reason I have all the mad feels today, is our former neighbours, Tia and Polly. They are the lesbian couple that Phil kicked out IN SEPTEMBER 2012, the week before we had our car accident. Since then, we've had their stuff (some of their stuff) under our house. It's not that we don't have the space, but after almost 9 months, enough is enough is enough. I have SMSd them repeatedly to come get their stuff. They don't reply.

I SMSd this Wednesday night and said please come get your stuff bc we're up for lease renewal and might be moving. LIES. We've already re-signed our lease BUT I WANT THEIR STUFF GONE!!!

No reply. I talked to Tony up the road and he said he has a mate who works for Salvos and he'd come get it on Monday. Awesome.

Saturday, Tony came down just as the fridge guy came. JUST as Tony is coming back for load 2, which was almost the end of the girl's stuff, my phone buzzes. GUESS WHO??? Fucking Polly. ARE. YOU. KIDDING. ME?????? No. Oh fuck no. NO. NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is what she said (this is going to hurt me to type it, you have to try to read it as I did):
hey T,  its polly, sory hav tkn so lng in getn bak 2 u, havn't had fone. We r bak in Melbourne at the mo wld b bak by fri latest. If thats 2 late let me knw & we wil try organis som1 to cum get stuff. Sory to inconvenience u.

MY EYES! BRAIN! BURSTS! OUCH! JFC you can type out Melbourne and inconvenience but not KNOW or TO??? BLARGH! As Anna asked when I sent this to her "What language is that?" She's not wrong.

EVERYONE told me I was being too nice. Their stuff had been there for almost 9 months. Enough time to have a baby, as Steve pointed out. :P Tony said after 3 months, it's mine and I can do with it as I please. The RTA says 30 days (if it's worth less than $1500). A box of their papers was more or less ruined through the rains this year. Some of their stuff, we went through and it was just old pens and crap, so we binned it.

Tia SMSs me yesterday and says PLEASE do not take it to the Salvos. Ok. Fine. She asked if the paper box we chucked had photos in it. HOW THE HELL WOULD I KNOW??

They are apparently in Melbourne. Can't find a place to live in Brisbane but they can fly all over the country? WTF???

People keep telling me I am too nice. I feel like a chump.

I'm giving them til this weekend. Then, I am binning it all. I don't need this shit. I don't need their crap cluttering up my life. UGH. JUST NO. NO. They have MAYBE one car load of stuff to move.

This is all Phil's fault. I blame him 100%. CUNT.

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Had a great time at Clare's yesterday. DID NOT want to come to work today. At all. It should be a long weekend, goddammit!! Met some cool new people, so that's good. Drank great beer, had good food and lots of laughs. I do adore Alan and Clare.

Smithers: Sir, the actors are here to audition for the part of you. Burns: Excellent.

SPOILERS!

I need to get this off my chest about Hannibal.

First episode PISSED ME OFF. Will Graham is NOT 'on the spectrum'. He's just really fucking good at his job. Being good at something =/= autism/idiot savant.
Laurence Fishburne as Crawford? Oh please.
Freddie Loundes as a woman? OH PLEASE X 10.

Mads as Hannibal. GIMME MORE!

My problem lies in that this TV series is all meant to take place BEFORE Hannibal is caught and yet, there are so many references to Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs that I just can't. You can't reference a movie/book where Hannibal is in jail and then use it in a TV series before he is even caught.

Are the directors doing this so we can 'relate'? ANYONE who has seen the movies or read the books knows that a lot of the lines being spoken were shared between Graham and Hannibal while Hannibal was in prison. BLARGH!

Freddie Loundes is really pissing me off. If they are trying to make her a love interest, I will lose my collective shit. She deserves to be set on fire and sent through a parking garage. Just saying.

The more the show goes on, the more Hannibal I see, the more I like it. MORE HANNIBAL, less Graham.

The last episode (#6 for those up to date) felt like the biggest rip off of Silence of the Lambs EVER. While I liked the idea of Eddie Izzard as a baddie, it was not some random who attacked a nurse. Ok, I'll give him creativity points for the way he killed her, unlike the mere eating of her face that Hannibal gave her in the books/movies. The killing of the Junior Clarice pissed me off. If she was as smart as Crawford made her out to be, she's not have been killed. Again, total rip off of the books, only done badly. Hannibal stabbed Graham when he put the pieces together. Graham lived.

Am loving watching Hannibal feed people, especially Crawford and Graham. I don't care what he says, he's feeding them humans. It's awesome.

I can't stop watching but at the same time, I wish they would leave the fucking books/movies alone. This should have all taken place BEFORE Hannibal's capture (AKA: GET YOUR OWN STORY FOR THE TV SHOW). There's not been a book written about that. There are references in the others. I do love the Mason Verger story in the book 'Hannibal'.

Also, for those of you watching The Following, can I just say WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT LAST EPISODE?!?!?!? How do they expect me to wait another 12 months to resolve this one????!!!!!! Love The Following. LOVE IT.

Hannibal...you better pick your socks up before Joe Carroll becomes my new favourite sociopath.

Wagaya Japanese food

This place is AMAZING. I love the ordering system of the ipad at the end of the table. WARNING! You may order more than you can eat.

The tuna sashimi was melt-in-your-mouth delicious.

The grilled eel, which I have never liked anywhere else I have tried it, will make me try it other places. The sauce on the eel is gorgeous and the eel melts in your mouth.

The rolls could do with less mayo, but that might be my dislike of Japanese mayo.

The gyoza is perfect, soft and well pan-fried with awesome flavour.

They seem to love grapfruit juice in their cocktails. I was somewhat disappointed that the cocktail menu was not clearer as to what was in each drink.

The green tea cheesecake is disgusting. DO NOT ORDER IT. It's as if someone just smashed dried green tea into a day-old cheesecake and re-formed it. AVOID!!

Despite a weird cocktail and a bad taste of someone's dessert, I would highly highly recommend Wagaya to anyone who loves Japanese food.