I <3 Tony Stark so much. I once read a slash fic that was Tony and Michael Weston, and even though I generally do not enjoy slash, the characterization and dialogue were so perfect that enjoyed it immensely. I am not clear on how you could have watched it in two sittings, though.
\0/ jeans! I love boot-leg jeans, except that they're a pain to tuck into actual boots, (because they're supposed to go on the outside, duh.) so straight-leg or leggings are better for that. But skinny jeans tend to make me look like a cake pop, so, not very flattering. I really need to do more planks.
God, SRSLY, HoGo, why would anyone even care if Chloe is the only one coming back? I mean, I'd at least want to see Jack. ;) Having systematically eliminated anyone that we care about, he now expects us to care? Yeah, notsomuch.
This Americans show in the comments upthread looks intriguing. I might have to see if I can find that.
Just, no to the Fruit Loop square things. I accidentally bought the sucralose yoghurt again and gag, gag, gag, the strawberry tastes exactly like dental flouride (although I don't think you're supposed to eat it, S) and so much yuckiness.
LOL, omg Tony and Michael. Slash is just a thing I will never understand, but I'm super glad so many people enjoy it. I saw a hilarious breakdown about the fics on AO3, and legit pushing 2/3 of them are slash. I am an outlier like woah. Do you read lots of BN fic?
Skinny jeans look terrifying on me, oy. I guess I never had to worry about the boots thing, because my calves are honestly so gross and huge that I can't really wear boots that are above ankle height. Sadness, because I like boots a lot.
I keep hearing so much about The Americans, too! And about House of Cards. Man, I wish the motivation to watch something would just appear out of nowhere. I'd love to actually be INTO a show, but alas.
Oh noez, sucraclose yogurt. That is doubly terrifying to me, because I barely like regular yogurt. Also bwah, I know that eating the fluoride isn't recommended. I was more referring to the fact that no matter what you do, some of it leaks out the sides of that stupid tray thing and it always tastes SO GROSS to me, regardless of what flavor it's in theory supposed to be. However, now that I have discovered marshmallow, visits to the dentists are slightly less horrifying.
Slightly.
When do your kids go back to school? I just read some paragraph about Waldorf in a larger article re: kids and technology, and it said that kids aren't even supposed to have radios. How do you navigate this with J, in terms of balancing what the school theoretically expects and what you're willing to deal with at home? I'm just curious, because no screens ever sounds almost impossible to me, but that could just be because I lack imagination.
I have no calves to speak of, so I have the opposite problem, that there isn't usually enough to fill out the calve part. Lame.
School starts the first week of September, which seems really soon. I could stand a few more weeks. It's starting to get dark noticeably earlier, and that makes me sad.
Yeah, they tend not to listen to recorded music much, at least not in the younger grades, so that they can sing and make music themselves. I have completely caved on the media and J has played hours of video games this summer. (As well as going to horse camp and spending two weeks kayaking on the ocean with his cousins every day.) I figure it doesn't matter as much now that he's older? Or that as long as he doesn't talk about it at school, we're okay? IDK. We are holding firm on Screenless Sundays, and that is a really good thing. In fact, one of A's friend's dads (the Michael Weston one!) came out to the cabin with everyone for dinner during A's birthday weekend extravaganza, and was asking me about how much A got to play, because his son would play every minute. So now they're gonna do Screenless Sundays, too.
When I saw the kid, I said I'd heard I'd ruined his life, and he said that no, it was good for him. I really like A's friends.
So I figure one day a week without screens is far more doable for us than trying to limit it during the week, because that's really hard. And what with activities and homework and all, there isn't really that much time to be on them, anyway. Plus, it keeps them off the streets. LOL.
I do enjoy the later summer nights, mainly because in summer that is often for me the only part of the day when it doesn't pain me to be outside. I'm so lame.
Well that's what I was wondering -- how you handle it in relationship to the actual expectations of the school. The thing I was reading made it sound as if it's kind of this doctrinal thing, and I was trying to wrap my brain around the idea of media-free kids. Probably I just lack imagination, but in the current world it would seem to me that not keeping up with how all the things work would just make you a freak. My kids have spent way too much time on the computer this summer, in addition to reading, playing games, doing puzzles, going to the beach, teaching/playing tennis and taking swimming lessons, and running -- N on his own and S with me. So I try for balance even though it doesn't always work at all. I freely confess to being glad when school starts just because it automatically cuts their screen time down to a very reasonable amount. For N it cuts it down to nothing while he's doing cross country in the fall.
\0/ jeans! I love boot-leg jeans, except that they're a pain to tuck into actual boots, (because they're supposed to go on the outside, duh.) so straight-leg or leggings are better for that. But skinny jeans tend to make me look like a cake pop, so, not very flattering. I really need to do more planks.
God, SRSLY, HoGo, why would anyone even care if Chloe is the only one coming back? I mean, I'd at least want to see Jack. ;) Having systematically eliminated anyone that we care about, he now expects us to care? Yeah, notsomuch.
This Americans show in the comments upthread looks intriguing. I might have to see if I can find that.
Just, no to the Fruit Loop square things. I accidentally bought the sucralose yoghurt again and gag, gag, gag, the strawberry tastes exactly like dental flouride (although I don't think you're supposed to eat it, S) and so much yuckiness.
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Skinny jeans look terrifying on me, oy. I guess I never had to worry about the boots thing, because my calves are honestly so gross and huge that I can't really wear boots that are above ankle height. Sadness, because I like boots a lot.
I keep hearing so much about The Americans, too! And about House of Cards. Man, I wish the motivation to watch something would just appear out of nowhere. I'd love to actually be INTO a show, but alas.
Oh noez, sucraclose yogurt. That is doubly terrifying to me, because I barely like regular yogurt. Also bwah, I know that eating the fluoride isn't recommended. I was more referring to the fact that no matter what you do, some of it leaks out the sides of that stupid tray thing and it always tastes SO GROSS to me, regardless of what flavor it's in theory supposed to be. However, now that I have discovered marshmallow, visits to the dentists are slightly less horrifying.
Slightly.
When do your kids go back to school? I just read some paragraph about Waldorf in a larger article re: kids and technology, and it said that kids aren't even supposed to have radios. How do you navigate this with J, in terms of balancing what the school theoretically expects and what you're willing to deal with at home? I'm just curious, because no screens ever sounds almost impossible to me, but that could just be because I lack imagination.
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School starts the first week of September, which seems really soon. I could stand a few more weeks. It's starting to get dark noticeably earlier, and that makes me sad.
Yeah, they tend not to listen to recorded music much, at least not in the younger grades, so that they can sing and make music themselves. I have completely caved on the media and J has played hours of video games this summer. (As well as going to horse camp and spending two weeks kayaking on the ocean with his cousins every day.) I figure it doesn't matter as much now that he's older? Or that as long as he doesn't talk about it at school, we're okay? IDK. We are holding firm on Screenless Sundays, and that is a really good thing. In fact, one of A's friend's dads (the Michael Weston one!) came out to the cabin with everyone for dinner during A's birthday weekend extravaganza, and was asking me about how much A got to play, because his son would play every minute. So now they're gonna do Screenless Sundays, too.
When I saw the kid, I said I'd heard I'd ruined his life, and he said that no, it was good for him. I really like A's friends.
So I figure one day a week without screens is far more doable for us than trying to limit it during the week, because that's really hard. And what with activities and homework and all, there isn't really that much time to be on them, anyway. Plus, it keeps them off the streets. LOL.
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Well that's what I was wondering -- how you handle it in relationship to the actual expectations of the school. The thing I was reading made it sound as if it's kind of this doctrinal thing, and I was trying to wrap my brain around the idea of media-free kids. Probably I just lack imagination, but in the current world it would seem to me that not keeping up with how all the things work would just make you a freak. My kids have spent way too much time on the computer this summer, in addition to reading, playing games, doing puzzles, going to the beach, teaching/playing tennis and taking swimming lessons, and running -- N on his own and S with me. So I try for balance even though it doesn't always work at all. I freely confess to being glad when school starts just because it automatically cuts their screen time down to a very reasonable amount. For N it cuts it down to nothing while he's doing cross country in the fall.
Always a work in progress though, you know?
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