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Sunday, February 19, 2006
Weird

I'm guessing God or Blogger doesn't like my last entry, because it keeps disappearing of its own volition. Fine. I'll leave it off for a while, then. A bloodless sacrifice. I got the chicken salad recipes I needed. FINE. And thanks, everybody.

In other news: If you've been reading this blog to find out how I'm spending the child support checks that very infrequently come in the mail, let me just give you the answer flat out...

Hookers and blow, baby. Hookers and blow.

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 Nooooooo. Dang it, Gwen - that post was absolutely lovely. Made me cry, it did.

Good for you, remembering your shoe-making joy.


# posted by Blogger Amy : 8:59 AM  

 Hi Gwen,

Hoonkers and blow???

I never thought it was mine nor anyone elses business how you spent your child support checks. Anyway even if you don't spend them directly on the kids your are being reimbursed for the money you spend on them every single day they are with you. . .right!

Janice!


# posted by Blogger Janice : 12:28 AM  

 I suspected as much. Actually, I know that you, like evil bitches everywhere, blow that money on hair dye and manicures.

Although, interestingly, my ex-husband had a new twist on the old child support money hassle. He felt that, in essence, paying child support made him a sort of employer. To me. The de facto employee.

“Yes, I want you to blah, blah, blah, kids, blah, blah, blah [I don’t pay attention to a lot of his crazy, so sorry about the transcription here] that’s what I pay you for.”

It really takes off into the realm of the absurd when we all know that he hasn’t actually been paying any child support.

Working for the man totally sucks. Particularly at zero dollars an hour.


# posted by Blogger queen of the harpies : 10:06 AM  

 Amy: Thanks. I might repost it later.

Janice: Thank you. I was being sarcastic because my kids' dad told them he's been reading my blog, and he can tell that I use all the child support on buying clothes for myself.

(I guess it was the "I'm trying to see how long I can put off buying new work clothes" post that gave me away.)


Queen: That made me laugh so hard. Partially because my BabyDaddy uses the same language. Maybe the child support is just an extension of the business arrangements we never realized our marriages were. My ex certainly acted like the boss of me when we were married... I guess now he still thinks he's my boss, but it's more like freelance/contract labor now.

Thanks for making me laugh about it. Although I sincerely wish neither of us had to go through this aggravation.


# posted by Blogger Gwen : 1:02 PM  

 I wish you would stop referring to me as a "hooker." The proper term is "escort."

As in, "escorting you to cocaine-town, Population: Gwen."

Honestly, the things some people put on the Internet.


# posted by Blogger Mike : 8:14 PM  

 Ha!

(Okay, typing "Ha!" is so lame, but it's not as lame as typing LOL. And yet I literally did Laugh Out Loud. And I think you should know that. So - Ha!)


# posted by Blogger Gwen : 8:24 AM  

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