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| Most of this journal is open and I'll add friends as long as I can tell that they're real people and not someone with whom I've previously had some kind of problem. If you add me and I don't add you back, send me a note to let me know who you are.
Please don't friend me and assume I'll immediately have time to read your LJ all the time. I'm horrid at keeping up with flist. I do what I can but I'm very busy.
NOTE: As of August 21 2008, this journal only accepts comments from friends. This is because of some jerks going around posting inappropriate stuff. I apologize for not allowing friends outside of LJ to comment any more, but they can always email me directly, or join and add me as a friend and I'll add them back.
2nd Note: Authors and author-wannabes: stop asking me to do fake interviews of you on my blog. I am not here to promote your book and the very idea of a cut-and-paste fake interview is offensive. | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment   |
| Peo is eating lunch, which includes Goldfish crackers today, so she's making them swim to her mouth which is also the Dark Scary Scary Cave, as previously seen with gummy bears in some of her videos on my YouTube channel.
Right now she's making the fish swim up while saying, "That looks like a nice cave, I'm going to swim into it!" Then they do, and she makes a pop noise, then chomps them. Then more come looking for their missing friends and suffer the same fate. It's important to note that she's never actually seen a horror movie...she just exists as one.
She said, "The pop noise is a warning that they're about to get chomped, but they don't know it."
I asked, "Is it like the pop noises in the Fire Swamp?"
She replied, "Fire Swamp?"
I said, "In The Princess Bride."
She said, "Oh yeah, that noise warns them of when it's going to be on fire, right?"
"Yes. That's part of how they survive the Fire Swamp."
"This isn't like that. The pop noise is the button that controls the crusher in the cave."
She then continued for a bit, then announced, "Now it's in silent mode."
I said, "Oh, I LOVE silent mode."
Peo then yodeled loudly.
I protested, "That doesn't sound like silent mode."
"Silent mode is only for the button. Never for me." Then she yodeled some more, and kept doing it, which is why me and my splitting headache have retreated to the dark and quiet computer room...oiii... | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| You know the bit in LotR about the "what's taters, precious?" We showed that scene to Peo about a year ago. She cites it any time she's served potatoes.
When I picked her up from school just now, I asked her why she's wearing thick sweatpants, since it's so hot.
She said, "So someone will ask me what's in my pocketses, precious."
Me: "Okay, what's in your pocketses, precious?"
Peo: "TATERS PRECIOUS!"
Me: [laughter]
Peo: "From now on, when anybody asks me what's in my pocketses precious, expect me to answer, 'Taters'."
Me: [more laughter] | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Learn The Truth Or They'll Take Your Stuff
Peo and I went to the grocery store and cut down the aisle that has "alternative remedies" on the way to the bulk section.
I showed Peo the word "Homeopathy" and explained that they take a drop of something that's supposed to help you, although sometimes it's a poison, and they put that drop in some water, and then they mix that up with more water, and then they mix that with even more water, and they do that over and over and over again. I asked her what she thought would be left.
"Um, water?" she asked with a furrowed brow.
I said, "Yes. Do you think it will cure anything?"
The furrow deepened. "But it's just water."
I pressed, "Right. Will that cure a disease?"
She took on that look that says she thinks I'm pulling her leg and said, "No."
I said, "Right. It's nonsense." Then I showed her how it costs $6.49 for a little tube of pills of water. I asked her if she thought that was a good deal.
I got the I'm-not-stupid-but-you-might-be glare as she said, "No, I can get some out of the tap for free." Which isn't actually true from my perspective, but it is from hers, for now.
Then I reminded her how important it is to know the real science of things and to question everything, including the science itself, because the world is always out to trick you out of your money and only those who question and read and pay attention and learn can defend against the nonsense.
That's how you raise an independent mind: tell 'em someone's trying to take their stuff. Little kids don't like it when people trick them out of their stuff. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| We showed Peo "Princess Bride" for the first time. Early on, her favourite bits were "Anybody want a peanut?" and when DPR dumps big rocks out of his boot. The former is already an in-joke in this household that she knows well.
She asked before we put it on if this was the "twue wuv" movie and we said it was, so she got excited any time anyone went on about true love, but was very, very happy when we finally got to the "twue wuv" scene.
She's also coming down with a cold from the sounds of it, and not keen on listening to exposition bits, so she got confused a lot. She'll probably require more viewings in the near future to get the gist of it all, which is totally fine by me.
In the end, she declared her favourite part is "As you wiiiiissshhh". That and the the "big rats" but that's partially because every time she mentions them, Corran or I will say, "ROUSes? I don't believe they exist," and the other will reply, "A man in a rat suit jumps on you!"
Because we're rhodites, and that's what rhodites do. :) | | comments: Leave a comment |
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| | Peo: "Sometimes my brain gets too full of stuff, and it's all crammed up in there! And then I can't think of other stuff! Like there's stuff all shoved up in there and now the last zero for googol has DROPPED OFF!" | | comments: Leave a comment |
| It's important to mark the milestones in your child's life. First steps, first words, and of course, first pair of Groucho glasses.
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