throwing myself towards competence
the larger boy is at a Nerd Dinner (no, that's what it's really called - something involving pizza and nerd-socializing, sounds kind of fun) so the little one and i are hanging out tonight, listening to fountains of wayne: he's eating a late-evening snack of dry corn chex and grapes, and i'm pondering reheating sunday night's tacobake and/or salad.
how are you tonight?
i spent part of the afternoon talking myself into actually using some of my hoarded art supplies and sternly informing myself that i am not allowed to buy another sketchbook until i fill the one i have EVEN if i fill the one i have with complete crap. odds are it will be slightly higher quality crap at the far end than at the near end, so. (i did not come up with this idea, it was something anahcrow told her daughter, and i remembered it today.)
i spent part of the afternoon actually playing with paints and charcoal and reading books.
i spent most of the morning sleeping (this was not my idea. it just kind of happened. two days until payday and then hopefully we can investigate getting a new mattress and i might be able to sleep more at night? here's hoping)
and i spent the early afternoon playing sims, of course. (i can stop any time i want. i just don't want to.)
i have this hugely annoying scrape/rug burn on the big toe of my right foot. stupidly annoying. geez.
tomorrow's plans: starting the kanji a day thing i got in new york, getting passport photos taken. i should buy myself a new nose ring. any thoughts on that?
clickies! thanks to mactavish, dolphingirl, epi_lj, anahcrow and datagoddess.
EEEEEEE PILE OF BUNNIES
EEEE PILE OF OTTERS
(okay, these are both SMALL piles. but two is a pile.)
okay, this is just fucking STUPID. PLEASE. obesity threatens mitten industry not the onion. what the FUCK.
ande gave me this lolcat over im because she lurves me
guy wanted for fraud gives himself away by his facebook updates hello, MORON.
dispatches: another recapture and big seas this is particularly worth it for the polar bear family picture at the end; apparently the one cub wanted to check out the icebreaker ship, but mamabear said NO. <3
six year old boy punished for cutlery breach come ON. they ignored the policy in other cases but not this one? and what about intent being 9/10ths of the law? (which does not apply in schools, i know, but it SHOULD. they should at least wave at it on the way by rather than ignoring it completely.)
russian court rejects defamation case filed by stalin's grandson apparently there are people trying to REHABILITATE his reputation now. claim he didn't kill people. despite signed documents to the contrary.
7 sex tips from Cosmo that will put you in the hospital (not worksafe, obvs.) JESUS i can't believe some of these. especially the last one! augh!
woman arrested for facebook 'poke' okay, it was technically for violating an order of protection. but i bet the judge hasn't seen that one before.
astronaut needed for experimental flight to titan. must be under 5' 10" and relatively slim ah, craigslist.
kid stuff:
last time seaners picked up chris's cane (just randomly) he held it properly crossways in front of himself in excellent position. his orientation teacher says he has excellent cane skills when he can be bothered to use them (and that attitude is part and parcel of being almost eight years old).
he's working with beading, snaps, zippers, stacking little cubes together (fine motor skills) and 'literacy' (i suppose that is a fancy term for 'reading'.)
i am pondering the logistics of asking his friend N. and perhaps one or two others over to the park for his birthday (it's on a sunday.) of course this means having to get phone numbers and things, and i'll probably talk myself out of it at least twice from the usual OMFG PARENT ANXIETY. but i'm really going to try. *laugh*
how are you tonight?
i spent part of the afternoon talking myself into actually using some of my hoarded art supplies and sternly informing myself that i am not allowed to buy another sketchbook until i fill the one i have EVEN if i fill the one i have with complete crap. odds are it will be slightly higher quality crap at the far end than at the near end, so. (i did not come up with this idea, it was something anahcrow told her daughter, and i remembered it today.)
i spent part of the afternoon actually playing with paints and charcoal and reading books.
i spent most of the morning sleeping (this was not my idea. it just kind of happened. two days until payday and then hopefully we can investigate getting a new mattress and i might be able to sleep more at night? here's hoping)
and i spent the early afternoon playing sims, of course. (i can stop any time i want. i just don't want to.)
i have this hugely annoying scrape/rug burn on the big toe of my right foot. stupidly annoying. geez.
tomorrow's plans: starting the kanji a day thing i got in new york, getting passport photos taken. i should buy myself a new nose ring. any thoughts on that?
clickies! thanks to mactavish, dolphingirl, epi_lj, anahcrow and datagoddess.
EEEEEEE PILE OF BUNNIES
EEEE PILE OF OTTERS
(okay, these are both SMALL piles. but two is a pile.)
okay, this is just fucking STUPID. PLEASE. obesity threatens mitten industry not the onion. what the FUCK.
ande gave me this lolcat over im because she lurves me
guy wanted for fraud gives himself away by his facebook updates hello, MORON.
dispatches: another recapture and big seas this is particularly worth it for the polar bear family picture at the end; apparently the one cub wanted to check out the icebreaker ship, but mamabear said NO. <3
six year old boy punished for cutlery breach come ON. they ignored the policy in other cases but not this one? and what about intent being 9/10ths of the law? (which does not apply in schools, i know, but it SHOULD. they should at least wave at it on the way by rather than ignoring it completely.)
russian court rejects defamation case filed by stalin's grandson apparently there are people trying to REHABILITATE his reputation now. claim he didn't kill people. despite signed documents to the contrary.
7 sex tips from Cosmo that will put you in the hospital (not worksafe, obvs.) JESUS i can't believe some of these. especially the last one! augh!
woman arrested for facebook 'poke' okay, it was technically for violating an order of protection. but i bet the judge hasn't seen that one before.
astronaut needed for experimental flight to titan. must be under 5' 10" and relatively slim ah, craigslist.
kid stuff:
last time seaners picked up chris's cane (just randomly) he held it properly crossways in front of himself in excellent position. his orientation teacher says he has excellent cane skills when he can be bothered to use them (and that attitude is part and parcel of being almost eight years old).
he's working with beading, snaps, zippers, stacking little cubes together (fine motor skills) and 'literacy' (i suppose that is a fancy term for 'reading'.)
i am pondering the logistics of asking his friend N. and perhaps one or two others over to the park for his birthday (it's on a sunday.) of course this means having to get phone numbers and things, and i'll probably talk myself out of it at least twice from the usual OMFG PARENT ANXIETY. but i'm really going to try. *laugh*