So, Evangeline has been in cloth diapers for a while now.

I mostly *have* been using the fitteds without a cover, because she mostly doesn't pee in them anyway, and I've found that when she does, while it soaks through, it just makes the pants wet - it doesn't leave a puddle on the floor. Since "puddle on the floor" is really really humiliating, and "wet pants" is just a change of clothing, I've been lazy about diaper covers except for long haul trips, emergencies with no bathroom nearby, and naptime.

Now, apparently, my mom has been bitching and moaning to my brother-in-law about the water bill. Not to me, of course, even though the cloth diapers were my idea, and I am the one who puts them on her. But then, it's better than her bitching and moaning to me about how he's the one wasting water, which is what I normally hear.

Well, guess what? The water bill is going up because we started paying it (which kinda makes a difference) and because the city is raising the rates (which definitely makes a difference), not because of the diapers. Evangeline hardly has an accident, and when she does what I do is I go around, to my mother, and ask her if she needs any clothes washed. She gives me all her dirties and I wash the diaper in that load. I do the same with my pads, though they take up more space, I think, than the diapers do.

Sheesh.



Ana says:wr655yy7y

ozarque has a post about the food thing, both worldwide and over here.

There's links in the entry and links in the comments. People always give her the best links.

What I *want* is to go someplace else, I've said that before. But I'm largely stuck with my family - you can ditch everybody else, but your family has to abandon you* before you can up and leave them. Even the watchword for sibling rivalry around here, two of our cousins, made up (for a brief, very brief) time when one of them had a personal tragedy.

The truth is that the food riots overseas do scare me, even if they're not here and may not be here for a while - if ever. The news that some countries are limiting exports until they can feed their own (while sensible!) scares me - because the people they're not exporting to still need to eat, don't they?

And maybe it'll all die down in a few months or a year. I don't know. I really don't have the knowledge to begin to work this out. What I know is that they may not, and that the news has been increasingly disturbing for the past few years now. First because of what they were never saying, but now (even more disturbingly) because of what they are saying.

So I need to make the best of this all.

*_{In any number of ways, of course.}