What a family!

Me ! Me! I'm first!

You favor your mother. She's a pretty lady.

Booger. Nevermind.

she looks alot like you

It's amazing how much you look like her!(As much as Leta looks like Jon)Are you the one of your siblings who looks the most like your mom? She's beautiful.

My mom had that same hair.
She's got that rebel expression in her eyes... or am I just reading into it?

Beautiful! You look so much like her, Heather.

I love seeing old photographs.

What a beauty; you do look like her. The thing that strikes me most is the MISCHIEF in those eyes, in that smile. That girl is trouble. I'd hang out with her.

Oh yeah, I'm seein' that rebel look too. Its like a challenge.

"I dare ya..."

What a purdy little lady.

Is EVERYONE in Utah beautiful?

i just love how i can see your hand in the reflection on the right as you take this photo.

I bet if you put your pic and leta's up next to it, you'd see a lot of similarity in those eyes. awesome pic. old black and whites are like holding hands in the dark.

You definately look a lot like her.

You are going to look like your mom when you get her age.

I agree with Mary Lynn, when I saw the thumbnail I thought it would be a picture of you.

She's beautiful - I have a picture of my Grandma in her early twenties at about the same time your mom's picture was taken, and gosh darnit, weren't people just so PRETTY back then?

Oh my god, I totally thought it was you with a wig on or something. Great picture, she looks beautiful. I'm so jelous of your genetic skinniness though. If I *walked by* a chicken wing I'd gain a couple pounds. As they say, if you can't make me skinny make all the web bloggers I read fat. But I guess you're constipated all the time so that makes up for it a little bit.

Still...unfair.

Eat a donut, for me.

Dead ringer, you are!

Beautiful photograph! I had to compare it to the Armstrong family photo from Nov. 6, and...wow...you are so much like your mom!

Lovely.

you look just like her! Is your next hair change going to be 60's inspired?

Dooce, you do realize that you told the internet EXACTLY how old your mother is, don't you?

Dooce,
you are trying to fool us. But we know that's not your Mum but you at the age of 16. Damn you are really beautiful!

Hey Dooce
You shoulf try working for Avon based on the fact that you look similarly in facial features, to your mom who is a bigtime Avon lady.

Ignore that you hate frilly. Ignore your other vocations like writing this blog, because you obviously have lots of time on your hands to do Avon on the side. I mean heck, you like sales, right - considering they only had to twist your arm a bit to get you to go to that Tupperware party - oh and the fact you spoke so favorably of that smarmy guy that sold you your house. I bet you' be reeeel good at sales and enjoy it too!

Nevermind the fact that you've said you don't want to get involved with Avon.

WHO ARE YOU F-ING WEIRDOS? Do you just type the first thing that pops in your head??

I would TOTALLY buy Avon products from the lady in the picture.

You look just like her. You have her eyes.

What a resemblence, both very pretty.

The Avon lady is Beautiful!!

I love looking at pictures of my mom when she was young.. I am finding now that my 5 and 3 year olds love to look at pictures of me.. :)

i thought of you this morning as I saw a headline - mother cuts off arms of baby. both my mother and aunt have been depressed in the past and it is a horrible thing for anyone to go through. i'm glad u're much better.

Ima Dumbass: What in the hell?

Go Dooce.

The Avon World Sales Leader is beautiful.

Stunning resemblance.

Regarding your post from yesterday: "If you haven’t already, you will, too." I have to say, I read that line about five times... Thanks for the hope.

Regarding the picture: It reminds me of lines from "Dressed in Black" by Depeche Mode...

"As a picture of herself
She's a picture of the world
A reflection of you
A reflection of me
And it's all there to see..."

I heard that story this morning, too...the baby/arms..I can't even type it. The story is totally awful, and they tag it by saying the woman suffered from postpartum depression. This is serious, serious shit.

even there you can see the glint of world cosmetics domination behind her eyes.

just found the article. Goodness gracious, I want to go to the sitter's and hug my son RIGHT NOW!!! I've had issues of losing my temper around the baby, but dear lord, I've never wanted to hurt him. I feel bad on two levels: I feel so sorry for the mom and of course the baby, and then her family who will have to pick up the pieces. I wish she had gotten some help. What a shame.
Oh, before I had a baby, and before becoming a Dooceaholic, I would have probably said, "fry the bitch." How age and perspective changes things.

i'll quit rambling now.

You look somewhat like your mother, I could have picked her out in a line-up.

Can you see the faint dooce hand? Just to the right of the picture...it's a barely there but I can see her holding the camera...

Dooce, don't you have a scanner? Or do you just love your camera that much?

Oh My, Krissy pants .. you are good.. However, taking a picture of the picture makes the picture that much more magical!

You do look like your Mom a lot. And thanks for the words of encouragement in your post today. Everyone hopes to find what you have.

*Dooce* Time to scan and Dooce-Effect that picture.

*Human Writes* Hug for more Snozberries.

You look a lot alike! :)

More photos!

I can see a lot of her in Leta with that picture. Very pretty.

The Future Avon World Sales Leader looks so poised and canny in that pic, it's hard to believe she was only 16. Everyone seemed more elegant back then.

Your post yesterday with Liz Phair made me think of this photo, and then you posted a picture of your mom today. I hope she's happy these days too. Definite rockstar.

http://www.lilithfair.com/lilith98/docs/dates/cities/chicago/fullsized/L...

Yep. Leta will be on the warpath in no time, able to reach all sorts of new things and soon after...walking. You're in deep doodoo.

Speaking of really strange things happening...
http://www.molatar.com/index.htm

P.S. The Avon World Sales Leader is adorable.

Personally I think Heather has a time machine and went back to 1961, got her picture taken, warped back to our time...meaning...Heather's mother is really...*gasp!*

Dooce: that may be your conclusion, but I think aliens came and moved leta in the night.

Heh. Heh heh...heheheheheh....

(I can laugh now. MY youngest is almost 18.)

You look exactly like her, rest assured that you were never adopted! Not that you were worried about that. Sorry if you were.

Um Heather? Do you have any un-beautiful people in your family? What a stunning photo :)

About the post-partum woman. That took place in my hometown. Plano is one of those really nice suburbs where everyone looks perfect and drives cars they can't really afford and has huge homes. It's a tough city to live in if you aren't in that ritzy boat. I wonder if that contributed to anything.

It fascinates me that so many of these stories happen in seemingly "perfect" towns. Or maybe it's just that we only hear about those cases because the towns are supposed to perfect and therefore it seems more out of the norm.

I just can't fathom how you could think to do that, though. EVER.

On a lighter subject,Heather, right before I started walking at full speed, my mother took me shopping. She had one of those sling strollers. She turned around to pull something off a rack, turned back and I was upside down hanging by one foot which was caught in the strap of the stroller! I never had a stroller again after that! And I think I was about 10 or 11 months old!! Oh, and I only crawled for 2 weeks! As my mother said, just long enough to know I was normal!

Here comes Leta "The Lightening" Armstrong!

Amanda B! I checked out that link...creeeeepy. How on earth did you stumble across that one? (assuming, of course, you weren't actually LOOKING for it!)
Here are my favorite parts, from the two minutes I spent reading it:

"This site is dedicated to spreading the Gospel in the werewolf and furry communities. It is my hope that many trans-species people will accept Jesus as their Savior through this ministry."

"You forget that God is generous and kind. He knows our sufferings, and He will satisfy our longings to become *powerful nonhuman beings* if we remain faithful to Him."

"When I go berserk, I pray with more emotion."

"I prefer city parks because there is a chance of seeing criminals and thus I can get more easily frightened."

Oooooh, it just goes on and on!

*Giving into my Texas accent*...That rat thayer? That is sum weeeeeerd shi-ut.

You look like yo mamma! :)

Ty, as a survivor of my mother's severe mental illness, I don't think situations like this only happen in perfect towns - I just think that is one facet that makes the story appealing to the press and to the public. When these things happen in poor areas, I just don't think it is reported as often. And it is not reported at all for transient populations.

Victoria, you're right it is heartbreaking. One thing I can't get over is how some people reporting and talking about these tragic stories say or imply they don't think these women were insane at the time. Because the women call the police, or cooperate. The woman in Texas who drowned her children called the police. And people used that to show that she knew it was wrong to kill her children. A person can believe that they are doing something mandated by "god" or another moral imperative, understanding the laws around them, and still believe they are doing the right thing. In the case of the story today, the press is stressing in so many of the write-ups that she was very calm and not hysterical, that they never saw any evidence of illness. Like calmness and mentall illness don't go together. Like people can look at a person and tell if they are ok or not. Mental illness is so misunderstood.

I am not saying that people who kill their kids shouldn't be in prison - I don't know about that. But I am saying that someone who drowns their kids in the bathtub or cuts off their kid's arms is not mentally sane. Period. Also, the guilt that people carry with them after doing such things when they are mentally ill is torture and it is paralyzing, sometimes for life.

I'm sorry, I just don't got any funny stuff to say today. But I appreciate that others do. :)

LadyBug- I know- it's a hoot right?! I love nutty people- they make life so much more interesting.

My husband sent the link to me...I'm not even going to ask where he found it. There is noooo telling.

Lulu: How many other personalities have you got in there, anyway?

Amanda B: I looked at your wedding photos and didn't see any trans-species born-again furry christians, but maybe they're just all "shifters."

Dooce: I changed my mind. Your mom looks like Donna Reed's daughter.

Lulu: Oooooooookaaaaaaay. Happy, Happy, Ring, Ring? How the Molatar's Castle is THAT not really worth mentioning?

And now, because you've driven me to it, the Little Anna Sunshine theme song (copyright, my dear husband):

Liiiittle, little Anna Sunshine
Sheeeee just
Can't make up herrrrr mind

Liiiittle, little Anna Sunshine
What will she do todaaaaaay?

(sung early in the morning when I'm cranky, in the most annoyingly sweet voice, with an aggravating little jig to accompany it)

Catchy, no?

I have no idea what prompted this song, only that my dear one knows it'll reliably annoy the pants off me *every time*.

I sOOOOOO thought that was YOUR eye, dooce.

Wondering, how many hits does your website get each day?

There's something disturbingly (in the philosophical makes my brain hurt sense) Plato's Cave-esque about a daughter taking a photograph of her mother at a time when she looks so much like the daughter and you can make out the vague resememblance of the daughter in the glass of the photo itself.

A picture in a picture in a picture of two different people who are the same

.....I'm gunna go lie down now

Love old photos like that. I have one of my Grandmothers First Communnion.

WOW.

"Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee/
Calls back the lovely April of her prime"

Re: Dooce's matronly instinct.

My mom used to lick her thumb and wipe smudges off my face with WAY more force than necessary. To this day, I shy away from outstretched thumbs.

Just one step away from the spit bath!

Howdy Fish. Heck no, I'm not shape-shifting if I can't, (according to Ms. wacky christian dragon lady) change from one thing to another. I might want to be a dragon one day and a chinchilla the next. Screw that.

My mother will *still* dip her napkin in her glass of water to get stuff off of my face. And I'm 31. Very scary woman.

Ok, so no one's actually asked this, but...based on the picture of your mother, it must be asked...was your father or any man involved in the conception process, because the resemblance is uncanny.

Ok, Fish & Amanda B - speaking of shapeshifting:
Did you see the CSI episode where there was a suspicious death at a convention of "Furries" and "Plushies"?

Furry Fandom
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Furry%20fandom

Article on the episode on a Furries Board
http://www.furcentral.net/viewarticle.asp?articleid=97/

Oh yeah, since we're posting weird links today, check out this Yahoo classified that came up when I searched for "chinchilla:"

http://classifieds.yahoo.com/display/pets?ct_hft=detailnp&intl=us&cc=pet...

I HAD NO IDEA YOU COULD DO THIS.

Who has the job of collecting this stuff?

mush:
she uses the DOOCE EFFECT on her photos. if you go to her FAQ it tells you how.

Fish, re: that link - I so don't want to think about how they collect product for that. I mean, it's not like you can send a dog into the bathroom with a plastic cup and a copy of "Dog Fancy: Bitches Gone Wild"...

You know what's even better than chinchillas? Chinchilladas.

I had a friend in college who's first summer job was working at a turkey farm in Illinois. His job, no kidding, was to extract turkey baby batter from the male turkeys. Apparently they are way too stupid to mate on farms. (I guess they also trample one another and drown themselves if you give them a big bowl of water)

Anyway, every day as he walked from his car to the barn the turkeys would go wild chasing him and making noise. The male turkeys. They loved him.

My friend used his hands in surgical gloves to extract the sperm. Get this, the 62-year old turkey farmer showed him the technique a few times for him to get it right.

My work is done here.

SHeryl, I *saw* that episode of CSI, here's a blurb:

It all starts when a man called Bob Pitt is found dead at the side of a road dressed in a raccoon costume. Bob's somewhat unusual get-up leads Grissom and Catherine to this year's "Fur Con", an annual convention in which ordinary people put their lives as "skins" on hold to dress up as furry creatures. Having extracted blue fur from the vomit found near Bob's body, the CSIs are on the lookout for any furries who might be sporting a blue costume.

Grissom, in full scientist mode, thinks "Fur Con" is fascinating, but Catherine finds the whole experience too weird for words. It isn't long before they find a potential suspect, Miss Kitty, who is spotted slinking down the catwalk of the furry fashion show in her neon blue costume. Kitty refuses to take off her mask at the convention, so she's hauled back to the police department for questioning.

Fed up with interrogating a pussy cat, Captain Brass orders Miss Kitty — who likes to be known as Sexy — to take off her mask. But when the deputy does so, a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man named Bud Deaver is revealed. Rather embarrassed and withdrawn without the support of his feline alter ego, Bud says he and Bob Pitt (known in the furry world as Rocky Raccoon) were "skritching", or rubbing their faces up and down each other's fur.

But when Grissom finds Bob Pitt's semen on the Miss Kitty costume, Bud has to confess what really happened when the furries got intimate. And what goes on at those conventions has to be seen to be believed...

http://www.har-vet.com/avs.htm

What would this be for if you're trying to get the cow pregnant?

61650 Stallion Condom - durable latex material, 0.10" wall thickness; 12 3/4", 5 3/4 wide at base, 3 1/2" wide at top opening.

A friend was telling me about her and her husband decinding to breed their dog. The people with the female dog moved though and since it was hard to get the dogs together they brought their male to the vet. The vet slapped on the rubber gloves and started in on the dog. Thats right she jacked the dog off right there with my friend watching. She was really glad that one batch worked because she never ever wanted to do that to the dog again. She described how disturbing it was to see her dog get off on the vet stroking him.

You look just like her! I love you Heather (in a friendly i dont know your family but if i did i'd make some excuse to hang out at your house all the time to shake pill bottles at your dog and hold your squaking baby sort of way), you make me laugh!

This thread just proves how seminal Dooce's blog is....

Dear Avon World's Sales Leader,

If you have read the above comments, your mind will now replace the words "whack, stroke and jacking" with "kitten, butterfly, and bunny rabbit". You will not feel alarmed nor be harmed by our silliness. You will only remember how we all think you are lovley, and shall feel appropriatly sassy for at least 3 days.

P.P.S. The above amendment applies hitherto and thusly to SweetGeorge as well.

gotta laugh about the box story. my coworker was decorating a box one day at work and asked "when i get my work done, can i go line my box with fur?" i burst out giggling because i'm 29 and what else would i do?

Nerdy geek goober sailors

Or standing in the yard in your underwear screaming at the neighbors.

"For licking my hand and then using it to pat down the left side of Leta’s hair and then going ahead and using that same hand to wipe the snot from her nose."
-- Well, at least you didn't do it in the reverse order...

I know everybody is saying this, but I definately thought that was your eye in the thumbnail. That is a great photo -- there's so much going on in her face.

OMG, I peed my pants I'm laughing so hard.

Snort.

Someone above asked where the link to the furry Christians came from. I saw it on http://www.boingboing.net the other day.

And there’s this scripture somewhere in Mormonism that warns you to avoid even the “appearance of evil,”

HA! You learned that in a Seminary scripture chase, didn't you?? DIDN'T YOU??

She's very pretty. If you've never covered the topic, her rise to the Avon heights would be interesting to read. I've sold Avon a few times (not successfully) when my kids were very small - the first time, 1991, pregnant me pulling toddler and Avon brochures in a red wagon around the neighborhood in summer. Good times! :(

so, I'm reading along... and get to the part about the chincillas... and bulls and dogs.

and I say to the hubby, "boy, the comments are deteriorating fast"

and proceed to explain (a bit) about the comment topic

his response "guess I need to start reading the comments more often"

HA!

All over da world, izzle bomb diggity products 'n proud record of service depend on da entrepreneurial efforts of izzle independent Sales Representatives, know what I'm sayin'? Our network of mo' than four million Representatives reaches into da heart of every community – selling Avon families 'n friends in neighborhoods, colleges 'n workplaces, know what I'm sayin'? For each of izzle Representatives, Avon is a global name but a local business – they own business."

Could yo' ass be a Konsultantka? a Vendeuse Independante, a Sales Dealer, a Revendedora? Today there are many words in many languages be like “The Avon Lady”, but they izzall mean one thing – a tradition of customer service 'n a way add yo' own name one of da world’s greatest success stories n' shit.

Our Avon Representatives has spread da word of opportunity around da world n' shit. For well over one hundred years, Avon has offered both fools 'n brizzle a unique chance start a crib-based business 'n make that shiznit grow." Today, 4.4 million independent Avon Representatives in over 100 countries are taking advantage of that opportunity n' shit. . And there is always room fo' mo' n' shit.

Do yo' ass enjoy meeting muthas in yo' hood or workplace?
Do yo' ass want be yo' own boss, work in yo' own time, 'n earn what yo' ass deserve?
Would yo' ass like offer friends 'n customers a personal, convenient 'n timesaving way shop?

Spanning da globe, Avon is da world’s number one direct sales beauty company." But yo' ass can offer yo' customers mo' than just da best in affordable beauty care, know what I'm sayin'? Today’s Avon customer can choose from a wide selection of products, including fragrance, jewelry 'n accessories, wellness products, 'n unique gifts 'n crib decor items, know what I'm sayin'?

For Avon, customer satisfaction is a way of life, 'n millions of consumers trust izzle products be da best quality paper can buy, know what I'm sayin'? They know, 'n yo' ass will know, that we stand behind every product we make

Yosemite Sam: holy shit, that's funny.

Someone has gone buh-bye coo-coo.

Step away from the shizalator.

AM I LAST? AM I LAST?

Please tell me I'm last.

*Just wanted to see if this'll catch on. Maybe I can be the LAST post sometimes. NEW COMPETITION!

YaY ME!

Oh, Caroline - it's only midnight in Beantown for chrissakes. You're so last... last paragraph!

Just kidding ;)

Dooce, did you write those CRAZY comments?

Wow, before I clicked on the link to your daily photos, I REALLY thought that this was going to be a picture of you. You totally have her eyes!

Wow... impressive list of strange people your mom's picture inspired... and that is all I am going to say about that.

My son (first born) could not crawl fast enough! Walk dammit walk!! Then I had twins and wised up. Luckily they were on the same page and did not crawl.. did not walk.. till they were 14 months of age. Get down and bless every single second Leta is not mobile will you?

Because the period between crawling and preschool is a damned loooong time ;)

So, I'm not the only one who uses po-mom-ade on my kid's hair?

Sorry this is so after the fact, but I just found it today... cool site for those who are sorry to the rest of the world for the election results.
www.sorryeverybody.com
Check out the gallery. People sure are creative! (And sorry too)

OMG, she's beautiful...and you look just like her...

I think basically what IMAdumbass was saying in a nicer way is that most of the comments on here are retarded and they look like crap that people just type in fast so they can be first.....What ever being first has to do with anything.....Do you win a door prize?
Then there are the tards that want to be last.
Then there are the tards that make stupid songs.
Then there are the tards that think they are funny and make comment after comment.
In other words IMA is saying get a life.
The picture is nice and she does have kind of a smug look like she is ready to take the photographers job.

Just curious if any of you have a favorite Dooce post. My hubby asked me to show him one that would make him belly laugh...he doesn't think it's possible.

My favorite is Intimidation Feb 6 2002. Makes my eyes tear up from laughter every time.