Has anyone written "Everything I Need to Know I Learned from the Sopranos" yet? If not, they probably will. Last night, G and I were watching an episode where Tony is having a talk (and more) with the Russian woman who has lost a leg. He was giving her credit for not giving in to her disability. She said it wasn't usually the first thing she thought of. She went on to say that Americans usually expect that nothing wrong will ever happen, and then are devastated when it does, while people in other parts of the world expect only bad, and then aren't disappointed. I don't know that that's completely true, but it's probably not far off. She also said we have too much time to think about ourselves, whining on couches, etc. I know that's true of me. I think that's one of the reasons (only one, and a small one at that) I want a baby. I'm tired of thinking about myself. I'm much too self-centered. I'm not saying I think I'm a bad person, I don't. In fact, I'm quite OK. I do spend way too much time inside my own head. I know that being a mother would make that impossible. I also know there are self-centered parents out there, ones who still put their own needs first, and are probably not cut out to be parents. I don't think G and I are those people. I've been thinking about this a lot, and coincidentally, Dawn wrote today about how motherhood changed her. That's one of the things I'm truly hoping for.