Starbucks just isn't that in to you.

It turns out that after a long relationship with the type of customer that it initially coveted and arguably built its business on, Starbucks is just sort of over it. It's not you, amateur novelist, it's Starbucks. They've just, well they've grown is all.  Matured.  And you haven't, so maybe it's best if everyone just moves on. Of course by 'move on' Starbucks means stop hogging the comfy chair and using the bathroom. Part of it wants you to find a new chair and bathroom. It also wants you to stop hanging around all day - you should make some new friends, pop in real quick to say 'hi', drop some cash and then go outside and experience life on your own.

It's even trying that move where the one who wants to do the dumping doesn't want to take responsibility for ending the relationship so they pull some dick moves to try and get you to break up with them. Like raising prices.

Fine! Because you know what, in my very experienced and honest coffee-drinking opinion Blenz is better than Starbucks anyways. The baristas are nicer, the coffee is better and they have a chair for you. Yeah, if you are Canadian, you could be very happy with Blenz. If you are American then I don't know - date around a bit. Try out Peets or Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf*. Or just settle down and make some coffee at home. Don't fear the commitment of buying your own espresso maker.

I still carry around this pic of me on my balcony
 in Vancouver with my home Blenz on the corner.

Look, you just have to accept that Starbucks has already moved on and if I play devil's advocate - maybe you were crowding it a bit. Just sayin'.**


*I am not recommending either of those on personal experience because I don't go there. 
**That was for Amanda over at Runninghood ;)


Are you a coffee mama?  Do you need that tall latte to get you to the preschool dropoff, school, soccer game etc.? Or do you get enough sleep that you don't need...pffft hahaha I can't even finish that.  Moms getting enough sleep. Too funny.

I search so you don't have to!

I'm so sick that I could literally just crawl under the table and sleep for the day. E started a new preschool a few weeks ago and brought home his first 'new' cold/flu bug. So he's now home sick for the third day in a row since I'm super anal about not sending my kid to school to spread the germs. I don't need those dirty looks!

Unfortunately I think it hit me way harder than it did him - which is just more fodder for my conspiracy theory that toddlers are experimenting on us. I can't string more than one sentence together right now so I decided to do a little bit of link loving this morning.

Enjoy!!

Because your biggest worry when having relations with animals should be the risk of cancer. HuffPo

We totally should have done this to Ender. And my dog. Reddit

If pizza is a vegetable then I quit. I just quit. Boston.com

Ridiculous. Everyone knows that babies can handle a good solid stabbing. MSNBC

Just wait a sec before you cut that cord! BBC

Hey Robert Pattinson! I think someone liiiikes you ;P  Twihard Delight

The Duggars make it an even 20

If you haven't already heard, the Duggars (of 19 Kids and Counting fame) have announced that they are expecting a 20th child.

(PEOPLE.com) "The kids were all asking, 'Are you joking or are you serious?' " says Michelle. "It was a big surprise. The little ones started jumping up and down when they realized he was serious." 

Really kids?  You were surprised? Because your mother hasn't been knocked up 20 of the past 24 years?


Today you can find several news stories on the subject ranging from feel-good articles on People.com to opinion pieces on Technorati. There is heated discussion on the subject of the Duggars' faith based reasons to reject forms of birth control or, more to the point, to use the womb for it's intended purpose which admittedly is to bear children.

I'm in no position to debate the religious aspects at play here and frankly Scribblesaurus Me isn't that type of blog. But what we can do is some damned good advocacy work. That's right. I am tossing my hat in the ring on behalf of Michelle Duggar's uterus.

Photo courtesy of People.com

Pregnancy, childbirth, raising children - all wonderful things. Any parent will (or should!) agree that having a child was one of, if not the, most important and amazing things they've ever done. I'll also accept that it is likely just as great the 20th time around which I'm basing on the fact that I'm pretty sure my parents loved my older brother and I equally and I think they were still stoked when they got pregnant with me. Right Mom? Mommy?  Right?  She'll probably get back to me later...

Where was I? Right - the uterus. Regardless of any medical reasons that might suggest many successive near to full-term pregnancies and deliveries (and a quick google search on '20th pregnancy uterus' didn't produce any readily available research) it's got to get a bit old for a poor uterus to keep doing this! Can it get a frickin' break already? Maybe that 19th baby coming out at just over 1lb at 25 weeks was its way of saying 'eff this, I am so OVER it!'

(TODAY.com) “There’s no information out there about somebody having this many babies. That, I think, makes us nervous,” says Macones, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University in St. Louis, who’d never heard of the Duggars until TODAY.com contacted him.

Anyways - the only thought-provoking part of this whole story for me is to wonder what their reasons for continuing to have children really are. If it's because they love their children all so dearly (and I'm sure they do) that they can't even fathom not having more and they are able to provide for them, then ok. If it's because they like 'doing it' (and who doesn't?) but refuse to use birth control or maybe Michelle has a hankering to figure out a tater tot casserole recipe for 25, then I'm not convinced of the validity of their reasons.

Only time will tell, likely generations down the road, how their children are being affected by their decisions. Just like it will for my family and yours.

I want to hear from you. What do you think? What is your ideal family size? Is your uterus hurting just reading about this?