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When thinking about my dad's birthday this year, I was trying to figure out an awesome present. My parents are fairly pragmatic and dad's been scaling back his library. They really want a simple kind of lifestyle. Plus, being adults they can buy pretty much anything they want/need for themselves. So I remembered that Marian Call loved writing songs ( Read more... )

Back in December, we visited friends of ours who have 5 awesome kids. We've known the kids since birth, and have been pretty big in their lives most of their lives. So it was fun to see them all again. The youngest, Benjamin (whose 6), is very much a drama king. I think it's because of his personality and the fact that he's last in a family of 1 ( Read more... )

[Opening sequence, Trinity kicking butt]
Mom: Is she a robot? She looks like a robot...

[Neo is hanging outside the building, holding a cellphone]
Dad: put it in your pocket....

[Neo drops the cellphone]
Mom: He told you to put it in your pocket....

[Trinity removes the bug from Neo's stomach]
Dad: That's why I have heartburn...
Mom: And why you can't ( Read more... )

Tabz: Apple's announcing something today
Dad: I hope it's not that they have worms

TV: BSG music (bag pipes)
Mom: These guys must have come from Ireland

Tabz: I go to eat and I have five emails....
Mom: Maybe you shouldn't eat.

Dad: I wanted to use an illustration today from Stargate with the pastors, but none of them would have got it.

[Watching Stargate, there's a frozen/sleeping body]

Mom: Don't touch it.... don't bring it back... don't do anything.

(PAUSE)

Mom: Don't. There's no Dwarfs.

Tabz: Dwarfs?

Mom: Yeah, Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs were really aliens.

(Watching Battlestar - the new series, in the little preview thingy before each episode that explains about the Cylons)

Mom: yeah yeah.. we know. We made hot toasters...
Tabz: you think the Cylons are hot?
Mom: For toasters.

Tabz: I blogged about what you said about Indian Jones yesterday...
Mom: Did you tell them I thought they'd be sent to aliens?