I have finally talked my best friend Nadine into writing in a blog. She is, hands down, the funniest person I know, besides myself. Of course, she curses technology, so I had to set it up for her!

Please take the time and go see her, add her to your blogroll, I am sure, she will prove to be funny reading!

Nadine, Is That Your Name?

The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with 160,140.00 for a middle income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn’t even touch college tuition.

But $160,140 isn’t so bad if you break it down. It translates into $8,896 a year, $741.38 a month, or $171.08 a week. That’s a mere $24.24 a day! Just over a dollar an hour.

The best financial advice says don’t have children if you want to be “rich.” It is just the opposite. What do your get for your $160,140?

Got these in an e-mail today and thought I would share…

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Above is a screenshot of my life, literally. Since I have become a grown-up, my life has become nothing more than a series of tasks. Big tasks, small tasks, personal tasks, work tasks. The problem with this? I suck at completing tasks! The sad thing is that I have all the necessities to remind me to complete my tasks. When I am at home, I list them in my outlook on my laptop, I sync my outlook with my pda, I get to work and sync my pda with my computer at work, where I add more tasks to my outlook at work, still syncing with my pda. I set reminders for everything and my pda chimes at me for at least 4 hours a day. The problem with this is that you are given that option to “dismiss” and I choose this option every time. Usually to shut my pda up, but mostly because I am to busy to choose “snooze” and reassign it with a later time to bug me.

I feel like I can never get anything done. I am consistently late on the bills, I forget to do things all the time, I am always rushed - and I actually made conscience decisions that made my life like this??? I love my kids, but man do I miss things like sleep, peeing by myself and going out without a diaper bag, bottles and three My Little Ponies. Oh well, my life must go on…maybe I just need two of these…

About every two years, I trade my vehicle in for a newer one. My vehicle of choice…a Ford Expedition. With my last trade in, I really lucked out - a new DVD player to keep the kids quiet, and XM Radio for Mom. I am addicted to XM Radio like a bad drug habit. But I am addicted to one station in particular…..Channel 150   I listen to this station from the time I leave for work till the time I get home. It has single handedly resolved my road rage issues, while it simultaneously started my obsession with listening to stand-up comedy. I guess there are worse things you could enjoy, again, a bad drug habit. I thought I would use tonight’s post to share a few of my favorite comedians from the comedy station with you…

1. Dane Cook
2. David Cross
3. Dave Attell
4. Lewis Black
5. Brian Regan
6. Jim Gaffigan

...and the list goes on and on. Take some time and visit their sites, it is definitely worth the laugh.