Mrs. BB

We have a pre nup as well as a post nup. This is due to the fact that I have children from a previous marriage and it was more for their financial protection than mine when it came down to it. I didn't marry my first husband because I thought it was going to fail. I was in love with him too and I never thought he would do the things he did and things would end the way they did.

I'm a realist about things. My husband understood this. There were no arguments or hard feelings about it either.

The fact is as much as you can love someone it doesn't change the fact that things happen. Unforeseen things happen. You go into a marriage hoping that you will both be able to overcome whatever life throws at you. But the reality of it ....and with the statistical evidence to support this....there is a high chance that no matter how hard you work at it and want it to last forever, there is a real chance it won't.

We looked at it like any other legal precaution you take. You buy house insurance in case your home burns down. You don't plan on it burning down, you hope it never will. But you protect yourself 'just in case' because you know the reality is that unforeseen things can happen. An electrical problem, a grease fire when cooking....etc.

You prepare for the worst and hope for the best. In this day and age I think it's a smart thing to do. But that's just my opinion.

Thank you everybody!!

It's such a huge relief.

We went for our combo I-130 and I-485 interview and it went real smoothly. Almost rushed actually. He flipped through our file and asked to see wedding pictures, any documents supporting joint accounts, etc. Then a little bit on when we met, where we got married and that was pretty much it. He stamped his passport and told us that he was ordering card production that day and we should get it within the next 30 days. He sent us off with a paper explaining when we needed to remove conditions, wished us luck and shooed us out the door.

That's it! We're done for a few years. Yay!!

Congrats to all of you!

Our interview is scheduled for Oct. 27th!

What a mess!! That sucks!

Haven't played the Guitar Hero yet but I have played Rock Band.

LOVE Rock Band!!!

It is such an awesome party game. Last time we played Rock Band at a party we were up til 3 am. So much fun.

that was freaking scary!

Noob - don't you know they are 'fun'? (read above)

PS: I completely agree but according to many 'experts', they disagree.

Earthquakes can be scary.

We had a 3.0 here awhile back and my house was practically sitting on top of the epicenter. That's a heck of a jolt when you're sitting on top of it.

But I think if you've grown up in California and its something your used to it's not so scary.

I've talked to people who live along the Gulf Coast that have rode out hurricanes but say they won't live in California because of the earthquakes. We may have earthquakes, but real bad ones are few and far between. Hurricanes have a season! And look how destructive those are.

So, I suppose its all a matter individual perspective and what you're used to.

Just had a 3.6 by Chino Hills again.....they need to be decreasing, not increasing!!!

That's not quite how it works....

Oh do tell, earthquake expert....

Never claimed to be an expert, though I have been through a number of quakes. The aftershocks do diminish in frequency and, generally, in magnitude, over a few days after the initial shock, but the magnitude of each successive aftershock isn't necessarily smaller than the previous one. There can be significant fluctuations in magnitude.

Yup....I concur.

A mathmatical expression for the rate of aftershocks as a function of time (t) and magnitude (M):

rate(t,M) = 10(a + b(Mm - M)) * (t+c)-p

where and a, b, c, and p are constants and Mm is the magnitude of the mainshock. Once these parameters are determined for a sequence, the probability of an aftershock of magnitude M1 or greatercan be determined.

(^ this is true but I'm funnin with ya.)

It boils down to this. One quake can rupture another fault, and so on, causing a bit of a domino effect. Those being the aftershocks. Depending on the subsequent fault that gets jarred 'loose' (for lack of a better way to phrase it), the intensity can be close to that of the initial quake. That's why some aftershocks can be rather strong.

Someone on the news just said that for CA newcomers, "this was the scariest things since sliced bread." Um...can we say "mixed metaphor"?

I dunno....pumpernickle can be rather intimidating.

Santa Monica in '99 was bad too...

The one in Paso Robles in 2003 was pretty nasty. That killed 3 people I believe.

Think it was a 6.5...

Here in San Diego we felt it.

The building I work in is in the 92123 zip code. We had blinds swaying on the windows and felt the building roll a bit.

We were all at our desks when we looked at eachother and paused for a moment and someone said, "Yup...its a quake." We paused a moment more and then it subsided. Then it was back to work as usual.

Being a Native Californian and through several quakes you just kinda wait to see if they intensify.

Most of the time you won't feel them or you will sleep right through them.

The view from Coronado.

San Diego is our hometown too! Lots to see and do here.

Glad you seem to be enjoying it so far.

Have you gotten to do much in the way of sightseeing yet?

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Poor little thing.

He may not have heard the baby cry if the baby inhaled the hot soot and air in, and it rendered him unable to cry. If the father was drunk and passed out that would have contributed to him being unable to hear the baby.

no one here is immune from tragedy,....it is the worst thing that could happen, but not much different than all the stories you hear about a babysitter or grandma watching a child only to find it drown in a pool. or a parent running over their child in their own driveway. nowhere in the thread did it say the fathers intent was to cause harm to the child. if anything, just the opposite, he was holding the baby close to him. if he had worked a long hard day.. he would easily fall asleep after 2 or 3 beers.be careful how \you judge, coz one day you may be judged..

I wasn't judging and I'm very surprised you could have interpreted my comment as such. There wasn't enough evidence in the article to make any kind of judgment, only speculation.

Beautiful photographs! Africa is on my list of places to go.

I always tell people that if you want to know what a place is really like. Go there! See it for yourself. Meet the people and eat the food!

The questions we get about Australia! I can relate with the ones you get about Africa. My husband gets asked if he's ever wrestled a crocodile all the time.

Every country, state, city, its going to have its good points and it's bad points and there will be all kinds of misconceptions in between. I live in California. When traveling within the US I get asked all the time if I go to the beach everyday and how often I see a movie star....etc. People also think if you live in California you're automatically rich. That couldn't be further from the truth in my case.

Yay!! Things are coming together!

What a huge loss!!

Gee....I wonder if she called him back?

Poor little thing.

He may not have heard the baby cry if the baby inhaled the hot soot and air in, and it rendered him unable to cry. If the father was drunk and passed out that would have contributed to him being unable to hear the baby.

Hooray!! Great to see it all worked out.

I wonder....if I have a flat tire on the freeway.....will waving my bra around get someone to change it for me?

Some great Carlin Quotes

When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Women like silent men, they think they're listening.

"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

Religion convinced the world that there's an invisible man in the sky who watches everything you do. And there's 10 things he doesn't want you to do or else you'll go to a burning place with a lake of fire until the end of eternity. But he loves you! ...And he needs money! He's all powerful, but he can't handle money!

This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen.

He was the last of the trifecta...one of the Godfather's of modern comedy....Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, now George Carlin.

R.I.P. George.