Atlanta, Georgia

Stolen tonight at little 5 points in the vortex parkinglot along with my student ID and keys my birth control pills.

Typical black cat purse from hot topics, but a friend of mine made a pink and purple chainmail collar that it's wearing so it makes it kinda one of a kind.

Can my week get any worse?
My computer has a virus and I can't do my school work and shit - and now this....

In case anyone else in the Atlanta area is interested, I still have two babies available. The pics have notes as to whether the baby is sold or available. If you're not interested in buying, enjoy the pics!

Usually they're sold by now, but between the holidays and getting sick, I haven't been trying very hard!

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Anybody know anything about LaGrange college? And of any comm colleges in Atlanta or nearby? =)

Der Spiegel reports that, in many German cities, IKEA is giving "corporate welfare" a whole new definition. The Swedish furniture retailer's cheap cafeteria food and complimentary child-care services, intended to be perks for shoppers, have caught on with a much wider audience:

From Munich in the south to Kiel in the north, Ikea is increasingly turning into a welfare center for pensioners, young moms, low-earners and the unemployed.

Many low-earners prefer eating in the familiar atmosphere of this temple to consumption to standing in line at the soup kitchen. Indeed, the stigma of poverty is hidden behind the company's cheap and cheerful designs. What started out as an extra service to improve customer loyalty, has developed a life of its own, separate from the shaky wooden furniture and fold-out sofas. Many people feel that they belong when they mingle among well-off customers -- even if all they can afford is a hot dog. ...

More than food-scroungers, though, IKEA workers fear lazy parents. Around 150 three- to 10-year-olds are deposited daily at the Hamburg-Schnelsen store's play area -- a complimentary offer to allow mom and dad to wander in peace through the showrooms. But many people misuse the service as a free babysitting service. Sometimes moms just set their loved ones down among the colorful balls, with the nursery girl watching -- and hurry to the hairstylist or the tennis court. The desperate store announcements asking the mother to please pick up her screeching child then go unheeded.

I was wondering how long it would take for people to misuse the babysitting service. I don't know the laws in Germany but I'd think in the US that would be some sort of abandonment issue. Sure they were left in the care of a licensed child care facility but with the understanding that if something goes wrong, the parent is in the store where they can be reached.