I'm beginning to think that maybe Anthony's wife has a good reason for her attitude...

I sure wouldn't want my husband hanging out with somebody who thinks the only way he can be part of her life is if they have an affair.

I mean, why can't they just go out for coffee? Surely it's still legal to have married friends?

But no, Elizabeth's first assumption is "OMG SEX!"

She's clearly insane, and I want her away from any guy I might possibly be interested in ever.

So, yesterday I'm recounting the "Conniemilk" story to my mom...

And I should've known it was a bad idea. Ana comes right up and pretends to nurse, giggling all the way. (Now, that would be embarassing if she did it to a random stranger.)

What's interesting is that I completely accept and tolerate this sort of thing from wayward cats. I assume they were never weaned properly, and promptly ignore it. I used to get damp spots and holes in my clothes from my cat Skinnybones when I was a kid, because nobody else would let him sit on their laps.

But Ana? That's embarassing. And not nearly as funny as she thinks.

Today was boring. She did nothing interesting. I washed her clothes. (She was in a cheerleader outfit, and you can bet I wouldn't've put her in that if I'd had a choice, so I took it upon myself to clear out her hamper.) I left a bowl of oatmeal on Jenn's table. Jenn is going to kill me.

And I'm lending her my cabbage patch doll, Emma Charlotte, on a provisionary basis. It's not hers, she just gets to play with it, and not if she treats it badly. Because it's my doll, minemineMINE.

I hope she doesn't destroy my doll.

Man, people on LJ sure are whiny.

First it's IWANNAPERMANENTACCOUNT!

Then it's "Um, yeah, but it's not speshul enuff!"

Then it's "WAIT! I WANT MORE ICONS TOOOOOOO!"

Now it's "But my account isn't speshul anymore!" and "OMG! We who don't do anything to support the site, not even paying for an account are the ones keeping it afloat! We want more icons too!"

Because nobody, I mean nobody has heard that you get what you pay for. You pay for a permanent account with 100 icons? That's what you get. You don't lose anything by having LJ keep the promise they made to those other whiners (I'm happy about the change, but I wasn't whining for it). You don't pay for a paid account? You don't get paid benefits. One would really think that was basic.

And being a free user is not the same as keeping the site up. You're costing tiny amounts of money by your sheer existance, and not throwing any back into the pot. (So says the girl who has yet to pay for anything on LJ, but subsists on the kindness of not-really-strangers, and the PAF, but that's beside the point.)

And, really, whining? I don't know if that's going to help. I mean, it might, but if people whined at me like the whining the poor news comm gets all the time, I'd lower their icon quota just out of plain spite.

Whining is annoying. And it's stupid. And it's counterproductive, because nobody likes a whiner, and there's very little as stubbornness inducing as listening to somebody whine about how they neeeeeeeeeeed something they really don't need. Whining because you're starving to death? Justified. Whining because you neeeeeeeed more icons? Hah.

Of course, I whine all the time. But you'll note that I don't get anything out of it, and I don't expect to.