Okay so dmitchell1985 wrote an eazy to follow guide for lj coding and she kindly allowed me to post a copy of it here. Link to her post ---> Here! I have changed the wording a bit and added my own links for pictures.
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sort of. IDK if anyone is still around. I haven't been on in a long while. I have 2 jobs and now have 2 teenaged girls at home. Life is crazy, I am tired. I miss everyone so bad.

The Italian Down syndrome advocacy group Coor Down received a touching letter last month from an expecting mother who found herself with the news that her child would have Down syndrome.
These kids tell her what to expect. Keep a tissue close, this is pretty wonderful. March 21st is World Down syndrome day.

Wacoal is a lingerie company and there is a trio of little films celebrating the beauty of women. They are all in Thai but the subtitles tell the story wonderfully. I teared up.

http://www.mybeautifulwoman.org/

Check them all out.

this was just too perfect not to share... NSFW (seriously NSFW) it's about cunnilingus.

My sister in law (my brother's wife), her dad, John died early this morning. I have this second hand but I guess he went in his sleep. He had some ill health lately, my niece moved in with him and his wife, Anita recently to help out.

When I was first divorced and living back here, Jonh and Anita opened their house to me and my children. I was a bit of a train wreck then and they were very supportive. I had some of the best meals I have ever eaten out at their place. They were always welcoming and warm and even if I just showed up on a random day I always felt like they liked having me there. (I had to have gotten on their nerves some time)

Nancy my sister in law was always very kind and helpful, her and my brother would take me out for coffee if I needed to talk or just to veg. My kids and me were invited out for more than one Christmas (Roast Beef - always) and we went more than once.

John was always happy and larger than life. When I think back to the time when I spent a lot of time with them he looms large in my memory. One year they took Chris, Janet, and Me with their family going sledding and Christmas tree hunting and while I was cold, it was a blast! John was a generous man; generous with his time, generous with his money, and generous with his love.

Peace and love to you John, wind to your wings.

wendy challenged me to post something. So this is me posting. My girls have been sick. Poor Kat had a migraine so bad the other day she lost half her vision for a while.

It has been cold here. So f-ing cold. Wylie broke his hand so the swamp cooler is still in the window. I've got the front of it covered with a blanket but it's been below zero so my bedroom is freezing.

I have failed at every writing thing that I've tried this year. I tried to do the reversebb and I couldn't find the time for writing (I got the plotting down at least) because of the illnesses that have ran through our friends and family (just get over one and here comes another one)

Janet is getting close to moving in with her girlfriend. Chris is doing well, he's still with his girlfriend (and no grandbabies yet). My older brother is a grandpa twice over now.

My mom is going strong, I need to take her to workout more. Christmas stresses me out, spending money stresses me out. I enjoy seeing family but the whole gift thing makes me want to pull my hair out. I enjoy giving (I always have) by Wylie's family have much higher expectations than my family's laid back ways (anyone who's met my mom can vouch that she's not high stress) and I always end up frantically wrapping on the 24th. *sighs*

Other than that everyone here is okay, life is going on.

Anyway, I'm posting on behalf of a friend of mine. I know my flist has resources and experiences that I don't. This is from a friend of my on facebook.

I am in desperate need of help.

I have an autistic child that has been talking about suicide at school. After the first time we took him to have a threat analysis done. They determined that it was a med issue. We scheduled him an appt with his medicine doctor. The day before we went to the appt, he again talked about suicide. We went to the medicine appt, they felt that it was not a medicine issue and needed to be addressed with either a day treatment program or in patient program. We were referred for another analysis this time in Denton. They determined that they could not help him because of his Autism. We have calls into a few other places, waiting for them to call us back.

Does anyone have any other ideas on what we can do?

Anyone?

We had a big storm move through sunday night and there were many trees toppled and fences blown over.


this is a tree that fell on my mom's house


picture that someone else took of the same tree.


Mom has to come up with 2000$ to cover the deductible. If dad were still here he would work with the contractor to make sure that he only had to pay part of the deductible but mom is just doing what the insurance company is saying. *sighs*

It might be a little tight but we will make Wincon because mom wants to see her sister (she need a recharge as much as I do)

The contractor will come in after they get the tree off and check out the roof and the struts.

A dog dies in the video - do not watch if that is too much. It made me want to cry. I have a rottie and she would die for any of us here. This could have been handled better, obviously the man was not the only one videotaping what was going on, yet the cops approached the man when it looked like he was going to leave. I emailed the person listed in the contacts (as for who was in charge of these officers) under the vid and let them know how upset it made me to watch.

I'm so upset i can't even be bothered to look up the linky thing. ----> http://mortua.tumblr.com/post/54398726186

It doesn't automatically start so you can go look at the contact info if you wanted to say some words to the Lieutenant.