Flu shots for infants (yea or Nea)
 

I would love for us to get flu shots this year. I may qualify, since I'm currently doing everything in the power of modern medicine to get pregnant, but Magnus, 4 and healthy, does not. We did get the flu last year, and lost half of December (I had fever for 4 days, Magnus for 7; he ended up with a double ear infection and was lucky to avoid pneumonia), meaning no Christmas tree, several missed parties, no homemade candies to deliver to friends and neighbors, two weeks missed school, etc. etc. If it becomes available for him at some point this season, hell yes I am getting it.

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Flu shots for infants (yea or Nea)
 

We're already on that bandwagon and I've been trying to figure out where to get a shot. We didn't do Xmas last year due to the new Lexling, but that was much more fun than what you just described. Eww.

Flu shots for infants (yea or Nea)
 

Heh. I caused such a stink last year trying to find a place to get a flu shot for the Vietbabe (and her then Nanny and me too) my town ended up rounding up extra flu shots and giving them to those who requested (demanded) it. Although I didn't get the flu last year, I got Pneumonia almost exactly a year ago and it knocked me on my butt so bad I ended up hospitalized and then recovering at my parents, with my Nanny driving to their house everyday. What a nightmare.

If I can swing it, I'm going to get them again this year though I heard it is impossible because of....well, whatever it was that happened: 50% of some company's batch being bad or something. It would be so disastrous to be the sole wage earner and unable to work for 2 weeks, and also the sole parent if the Babe and I both get it. So is it even harder to get them this year?

TOTALLY unrelated topic but a very brave (crazy?) young man just approached me this evening at the pizza parlor when I was with Vietbabe, introduced himself, said he didn't see a ring on my finger, confirmed I was single and then asked me for dinner.*** He just called to firm up a day (and tell me more about himself). Yikes. I was wondering how I should handle the logistics. I am usually very traditional and the men would pick me up at my house. The problem is, whenever the date is, both my parents will be babysitting for me so he'd be coming over, meeting my mother and father (!!) and kid (well, he met her already) and that would seem a bit much for a first date. Thoughts?

***ETA: Oops. That would be "asked me TO dinner", as opposed to "asked me FOR dinner" ("Hi, I'm Chris; are you single? Good, bring me dinner, bitch!")

Flu shots for infants (yea or Nea)
 

I'm sending you some diagrams . . . .

Flu shots for infants (yea or Nea)
 

Meet him there. Not to be cynical, and I'm all in favor of sex for the sake of sex, but you know that guys tend to think single moms are easy b/c they are hard up for sex, right?

Not that single moms have a monopoly on being easy and hard up for sex, but it's like one of those probability things, apparently. Big plus if you seem to have enough money to support yourself.

On the other hand, sex is fun. Fun fun fun. It's great. Best invention ever. So go fuck this guy's brains out, if that's what you want to do. But it's good to have your own transportation.

Flu shots for infants (yea or Nea)
 

I guess this explains why you're always offering to babysit. You little minx.

Flu shots for infants (yea or Nea)
 

It's a first date, she says she's traditional, and you have her and they guy making the beast with two heads before they've said more than a couple sentences. And I'm not sure going to a complete stranger's place on a first date is the safest thing in the world.

At the same time, I think meeting him somewhere makes sense. Meeting Mom and Dad on date one just doesn't have a lot to recommend it.

Flu shots for infants (yea or Nea)
 

You are totally not disagreeing with me. I said she should meet him someplace. If she wants to have sex on the first date, and her parents and kid are at her house, she either has to go to his house or they have to go to a neutral place, like a hotel. Otherwise, she will run into the disapproved by you meeting mom and dad on date one thing.

And there should be three heads involved in fucking.

I'm not saying that she WILL have sex, just that it's fun. On a separate note, I said that guys sometimes think single moms are easy pickings -- that was just a caution, since it does not sound like she has dated much since she got the kid and it may not be something she has been exposed to.

Sheesh.

Flu shots for infants (yea or Nea)
 

I just think it's unbecoming to go on at great fucking length about sex when I'm sure she has enough on her mind. Sex, sex, sex. Is there anything else you think about? MAYBE, just maybe, it's not all about fucking sex.

Didn't they just make you rewrite all your defered comp arrangements or something.

(Oh, but if he does come by, have him fix the doorknob.)

Flu shots for infants (yea or Nea)
 

Why do you keep using "fucking" as an adjective when you are ostensibly discouraging talk about sex? Perhaps you aren't getting any?

I bumped the nqdc rewrites to someone else.

What's so funny about Peace, Love and Understanding?
 

Forget it.

What's so funny about Peace, Love and Understanding?
 

JHC. The answer to her question was to meet him at the place.

Then, as a sort of side note or bonus, I was saying, hey, in case you have been out of the dating pool for awhile, be aware that guys sometimes target single moms as more sexually frustrated (and therefore available/easy) than other women. And as having less time to sort through guys or whatever. Not that that is necessarily going on here, but it's a safety/annoyance issue.

I was also saying that she may be aware of the sex thing and fine with it, and expressing my view that sex for the sake of sex is fun and if that's what she wants, go for it.

Then you were all stupid about how she shouldn't go to his place to have sex, as if there's really any other choice on a first date when M&D are taking care of the baby.

WTF, do you think it's FRIDAY? I was being nice.

What's so funny about Peace, Love and Understanding?
 

You were being perfectly nice. I was simply making the point it isn't all about sex in a post that included the same overblown sexual language you were using (Sex is fun, fun, fun!). It was a rhetorical device.

Vietmom, I hope this has been helpful. Fringey and I will be here swearing about sex most evenings this week. Friday we mud wrestle. Please, come by anytime.

What's so funny about Peace, Love and Understanding?
 

Are you condemning Vietmom if all she wants is some hot sweaty exhausting mind-blowing earth-shaking sex? Prude.

What's so funny about Peace, Love and Understanding?
 

She described herself as fairly traditional.

The only "tradition" I am aware of that embraces exhausting mind-blowing earth-shaking sex is in the Kama Sutra, and that may be described as hot but certainly not as sweaty.

And if Vietmom comes from a tradition of hot sweaty exhausting mind-blowing earth-shaking sex, I take back my recommendation that she not introduce him to her parents.