OMG, semi-randomly--salesperson, DO NOT CALL ME YOUR QUEEN. Seriously. You are making no sales that way. You are creeptastic and I'm walking away.

We had sweat bees in Illinois. Tiny bees with sharp stings.

Because of a case on a show I'm watching right now, I googled to see the number of missing children in the US. 2000 children go missing every day. 2000. And multiple news outlets were making a fuss about Celina Cass. That's so disgusting. I mean, I want everything done to find her, but over the week they were yelling about her, 13,999 other kids also went missing, and the national news outlets didn't give a flying fuck. Interestingly, of the 800,000 that go missing every year:

115 children were the victims of “stereotypical” kidnapping. These crimes involve someone the child does not know, or knows only slightly, who holds the child overnight, transports the child 50 miles or more, kills the child, demands ransom, or intends to keep the child permanently.

115.

And an irritating thing on this show, they gave a blanket pass to women involved in couple kidnappings. Only men are that evil. Women are just broken.

I mean, I want everything done to find her

I'm pretty sure she was found dead, sadly.

Was she the body I was seeing stories of? I only followed the story in snippets when I was buying bagels.

I saw something about a body found in a river with her name associated, yeah.

I wonder if only local news carries some of the other missing kid stories *because* they're more often [assumed to be, I should have said] disputes, or are taken by someone they know, that kind of thing.

The way the national news will focus on just one case, every once in a while, and really splash it all over, is infuriating, though.

Twitchy. Abductions freak me the fuck out.

I culled 2 bags of clothes today. Whee

I was actually going to say about your stats, ita, but you said it for me -- 90% of those 2000 cases aren't kidnappings, they're runaways or family abductions, for the most part. There are not that many kids who are not otherwise at-risk who are murdered/kidnapped by strangers. Yeah, it's obnoxious that the news focuses on white kids, but it's a relatively rare thing for crime to happen to someone in a low-risk environment, and that's news. Man bites dog, and all that.

But the press didn't say "Kidnapped child". The press said "missing child". There are tons and tons of those. I can see 115 stereotypical kidnapping making metro news, the odd one going national. But from what I could see, they just plain couldn't find her, and she was one of the 2000.

Hey, it's only 90 degrees here now. I can take out the stank cat box and office trash, water the flowers and take an effing shower. GROSS.

Hi, Becky! Come, be social! You already know Rule # 1: ita's links are as dangerous as she is.

Names -- I like the BabyName Dad's Last Name YourLastname solution.

We've got a mess o' names. M shares D's last name (ex wanted stepdad to adopt M so they could all have the same last name, and D was all "Hell, no!")

Mom reverted to maiden name, ans, AFAIK, kept maiden name. Yeah, @@ on her adoption rationale, there.

I kept my last name, because (a) I would have anyway and (B) Dan's bro is Aaron, and to be Erin LastName and Aaron LastName would have been creepy and confusing.

So it's Erin Gsfkfkkj, Dan Jkjkhjkj + M Jkjkhjkj; E Rhjkkj, K Bjjlkj, M Jkjkhjkj and T Bjjlkj. 4 last names for the kiddo to remember, poor noodle. He sees it all as normal, though, so that's what matters.