freeflygoddess

"There are no stupid questions; only stupid people", Mr. Garrison..... No really that is a funny question but I could see where you get it from, beside the fact that you are moving, you really are only on your head for 50 seconds or so....

I definitely disagree with that generalization of not being allowed to even discuss it. If one considers the conceived organism a human being, it makes it more than just the mother's issue to deal with. Even though it's connected and living inside her body, it is still a separate being. If that is the case, abortion, generally speaking, would be considered the killing of an innocent life. Yes men have a right to disscus this issue, when the were the "sperm donor" Never in my life could I agree with a woman getting an abortion without speaking to the father first. Unless there was a rape involved or a life threating issue, but sometimes those life threating issues should be disscussed with the father as well. I made sure that when I found out I was pregnant Todd and I disscussed everything that could go wrong, since I have low iron and blood sugar as well has four holes in my heart which causes my heart murmer. In the last trimesters of all of my past pregnancy I had to stay in the hospital, and I am sure it will be the same this time, esp. since the doctor thinks we are having twins, wont know for sure until the sonogram, but it seems to be true. Any ways, all I am saying is the father has right to discuss the issue. Guys who have no clue what it will be like to be pregnant EVER should decide for a women that was raped weather or not she should keep the baby. Just think if you had an 11 year old daughter who was raped and became pregnant, what whould you want for her to do really?

I did have a place to vote for kids without children...it said My kids are 18 or over or I have no kids.... {rest just a general response} Any ways, kids are kids, no matter how much you parent them, they still do things to test you. You can tell them a hundred million times that going into the packing area is not safe and why and they still will do it, because they see some wuffo's kid in there playing on the creepers. You can even punish them for doing it and the next time it will happen again...Kids are kids, they have short term memory, and when they are older they do what they want to, just to test you. I have never blamed my parents for anything I did in high school and never will, I made my choices not them. At some point you have to blame yourself and not others..... Any ways, people without children or refuse to take blame for their own childhood, tends to think that everything is the parent's fault, like when I took my son who was three at the time to a train park, to let him ride the mini train they had there, he had a blast and when we went to leave he through the biggest bloody murder fit in front of everyone. Why? because he was frustrated that he couldn't get his way, and was seeing if embarrassing mommy would help him get his way. Every single kid at that age is like that. No matter what you do. I hated getting looks from those people there without children, and I hate it when those without kids seem to forget what it was like when they were kids. Yes, some things are on the parents but in the end you make your own choices. Now as far as kids at the DZ goes, I just don't think it is a place for them, too many things to get them into trouble, too much adult things that I wouldn't dare ask someone to stop, because my kids were there. Some DZs are a better environment for kids, and have things there for kids to do, like Perris, I take them there to play on the swings, but I wont take them there while I am jumping nor do I let them run around, let alone let them be unsupervised. Maybe when they are older and can understand things better I might take them there while I am jumping, but I doubt it. Jumping is a vaction for me and my alone time, not that I don't love my kids, I do I really do, but everyone needs a break and to just be alone and to be with other adults...and that is what I do, go and jump, and I don't ever want to have to deal with someone else's kid while I am there, because they left them on the ground alone.

yep I agree on that too! Riding in a raft makes all your alti do silly things....and never rely on your alti to land, learn how to land without one, you never know what an emergancy will do to you and your time....like a cutaway or an emergancy exit out of the plane

I stated this somewhere else but I'll say again. I can't imagine the horror of having to face something like that. I wouldn't presume to know what it's like or say that I did. That said, I can't help but feel that the child conceived didn't have anything at all to do with the crime. The baby is a complete innocent. The rape victim may be also but I can't see "killing" (and that's what you're doing IMO) the baby because, however tragic it may be, the woman was raped. Listen... I understand where you are coming from and I see that you have a huge heart and good intentions... but you will NEVER know what a woman in that situation is going through. Sometimes life just sucks. Sometimes there is no happy solution. I sure as hell do not think that a very early abortion is murder. And I will always be pro-choice. I think it's horrible and a last resort, and should not be common practice... but EVERY situation is different. Exactlly, you can't please everyone. Not to sound mean or anything but pajarito, have you ever carried a baby for nine months and given birth naturally? No I doubt it, if you had you would be super rich or had sex change that no one knows about. You can not say what you would do in that situation if you have never been in it nor would you ever be put in that situation. Pregnancy effects women completly, they gain weight...no getting around that, it hurts, it makes them hormonal, they have to give up things they love to do for their baby, like skydiving not only that but they have to take off of work or school, lots of things other than just turning around and puttin it up for adoption.

I say go for it! What ever happend to patient doctor privlages? Those women could be going in there for many reasons. Who are they to judge and point fingers? Not only that it could scare the hell out of someone who really needs help and they run off and not get it in fear of being seen and such, only to die from their problem. Like what if they were HIV positive and yes condoms break and birth control pills do not work 100% of the time, and they got pregnant...should they really bring that baby into the world without speaking to a doctor? Not only can that doctor provide drugs to prevent the baby from getting HIV, but if it is too late, they should be allowed to abort the baby, why bring into life to be put through a living hell?

Just a question that I was wondering, from a thread in the women's forum. I don't take my kids to the DZ for many reasons. One is so they don't have to see anyone get hurt and then being kids, they worry about you and it tears you up to tell them you are going to jump, when they beg you not to...like I use to do to my dad about smoking...I also think that there are things that go on at the DZ that they should not see, like drinking and such. I know that drinking and injuries are apart of life and leasons that they need to learn, but I think my children are too little to see those things, maybe when they are older. I was also curious to see if it bothered those with out kids, or older kids, that others bring their kids to the DZ, because it takes away from their training or whatever...or those that do have kids that stay with a sitter and they use the DZ as a vacation from the kids, if it bothers them when others bring their kids...I left for multiple answers. I also left an option for those without kids that feel that they shouldn't form an opinion on parents when they have no idea what raising kids is like...I hate it when people with out kids look at you funny in the store when you kids throughs a tantrum when you tell them that you wont buy them that toy for whatever reason...like they have a clue that kids do that on purpose to embarrase you to see if will get you to cave in...

I am pro-choice, but on differnt levels...if a women knows that she doesn't want to have kids and uses abortion for birth control, I don't agree with, but a mother useing abortion to save her life, and the babies..i.e. A-topic pregnancy (tubuler) or a rape victim, that is a totally differnt sitution. After I was raped when I was only 11 years old, if I had been pregnant there would have been no way I would have kept the baby.

I voted for Die Hard, but I think that any single parent out there is way tougher than any tv character...

I have learned that when you are unable to jump and you know you can't for a really long time, makes you really angry to see and hear about others jumping... Not everyone at the dz is going to be your friend. Every night jump entails lots of catching up afterwards....and all that catching up feels worse the next day, than if you just started with everyone else. The DZ is not a place for children...and just reading the posts here proves it. When there are three planes flying, you better not ask for a hop n pop...

buy the alti III and two audibles...why two, incase one battery goes you have another...why audibles? because with FFing it is very easy to not look at your altimeter. However, you should always check it, even with two audibles....you may have forgot to turn them on....been there done that....not fun, and lots of yelling afterwards....

yep, all apartments love to pull this...They know that they can get away with it, because it costs more to fight it then to actually just pay it. There should be probono lawyers willing to fight landlords, esp those that put light blue carpeting in a house that they rent out to families...like it will stay clean with a two year old and a ix year old in house for a year....and not to mention twins on the way...

Ok trying this again... This is what my dad sent to me for my birthday present... Makes you feel all warm and tingly inside

post a video of you doing the badger dance.... my retirement is only until October, maybe November....avoiding dust devils this year....lol...and gaining wing loading every week is a good reason to retire for a bit too....I love how much you gain week by week and then after about 12 hours of pure hell it all goes away, very painfully, but most of i goes and then there is this cute tiny little future badger jumper.

My luck it will happen when I am going into labor...

hehehehehe....wait no killing badgers!!!

No way it is my birthday...it should all be about Badgers today... No really I am upset because no jumping for me on my birthday. However I do get to pop my reserve to allow the spring to rest while I am on my "vacation"

awesome....

yep I am going straight to Hell...

Nah more like a mmmmmmmmmmm.....can we have some too? Well...can you atleast save me some until after I pop?

Ok I use to waitress and bartend....tip 35% they only make $2.30 an hour and regaurdless of what you are eating or not eating, you are still taking up one of their tables, where they could potent. earn a larger tip off a bigger party, or heavier drinkers.... edited to add...oh and I don't eat sushi after getting really sick from eating fresh water eel...and today I ate at On The Border (I actually worked for one in AZ) in Temecula and my total was $18.65 and I tipped $10. I remember when I was a waitress I hated Sundays, because everyone getting out of church were the worst tippers ever! I would get like $2 on a $45 bill even though I kissed their butss and their kid's butts the whole time...I was super happy when I switched to bartending, because I was getting at the very least $8 a table and plus the waitress had to tip me out at the end of the night. When I bartended at a strip club I would make $500 in tips on a slow night, just because the dancers had to tip me out as well....

Oh my gosh! Tomorrow is my birthday, and my parents asked me what I wanted and all I could think of was for them to come for my son's birthday which is this Saturday. They can not afford to so I told them to save their money and come for Megan's birthday in June. My boyfriend asked what I wanted and I told him that I just want to be able for us to take Zain to Legoland or SeaWorld this weekend. Maybe that is the mom in me, or just the fact that I don't really want anything but memories of times shared with my family. Although I could use a new canopy for when I come out of my being "grounded"

oh and by the way, don't wait until you get hurt for him to find out....that would be bad...just do it and have him come out if he is willing and see how safe it is. My dad unfortunatly will never come out again, but my mom wants to lose weight so she can do a tandem. She is light enough to do one now, but she doesn't want to, until she has lost 20 lbs....moms...

My parnets knew from day one. I made my little brother go with me for my two tandems, he still lived with my parents at that time and they wached my two kids while we went....We went on the first sat after new years and then the next saturday....I was hooked so I went back for AFF on Monday and my parents realized that no matter how much they tried to talk me out of it...."Think of your kids" the more they realised how much I loved it and how it became a huge part of my life. The only time I agreed with them about not jumping was just last week. I made my last jump until November. I am prgnant and I am not doing well at all...no more jumping for me, but believe me I will be back... edited to add: that the only time my father came out to watch me jump, my friend had gone in on a couble mal, so that also brought a lot of tension, not just that but also some injuries I have accurried jumping.....well I should say landing...I know those aren't over with by a long shot...

I made it with 30% and got 138 points... That was a long freefall...and how come his arch and track look the same? edited to add: Oh and why can't I transition? It would be lots easier to fly around those bombs HD