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| Since we let Peo see Shrek about a month ago, she's been obsessed, turning all of her toys into the characters and acting out scenes and her own scenes as well. Through this I've noticed that she calls the dragon Slay, because she thinks that's the dragon's name. After all, people in the show are constantly saying, "Slay the dragon!" But as of this morning I realized I had it slightly wrong when she started incorporating the dragon into Christmas carols. She thinks it's "Sleigh the dragon." I am amused and letting her go with it. (PS I'm such a nerd that I keep wondering what Buffy is doing in so many Christmas carols.) eta She's also into calling people a two-faced son of a jackal since I let her see Aladdin. She's calling herself that in the bathroom mirror right now while washing her hands. | ||||||
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December 17th, 2009
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Gacked from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} noiseinmyhead:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlM | ||||||
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December 12th, 2009
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| Mmmkay, that's the THIRD G-rated Christmas special so far with an ad for the Sherlock Holmes movie. SO. NOT. COOL. When I put on a show for my child that is G rated, I expect the ads to be G rated, and not full of sex and violence. And the networks wonder why we hardly watch anymore...sheesh. eta Actually, all three are on ABC or ABC Family. I guess I know to whom I should complain... | ||||||
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November 26th, 2009
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| Hey Wolverine/Jackman fans, lookie what I found: http://xmenfilms.net/blog1/wp-content/u And more at: http://xmenfilms.net/blog1/?page_id=8 Happy Drooling. I still need a good Wolverine icon. | ||||||
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November 25th, 2009
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| A holiday present from Muppet Studios: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7 Good thing it's kid-safe because Peo walked in just as I was starting it. Don't worry, the violent lyrics have been altered in amusing ways... | ||||||
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November 19th, 2009
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Hahahaha...we caught an ad for Planet 51 while watching The Daily Show, and while we don't watch many ads, we had to go back and watch the full ad after we saw this guy: It's an adorable puppy dog modelled after Alien. I TOTALLY WANT ONE. You have to understand, I rewatched Aliens a couple of weeks ago and Alien vs Predator just yesterday for the first time, so it's particularly funny for me to go from thinking of hissing and drooling to, well, yapping and drooling. If any of you see the movie and think it's Peo-appropriate, come back and let me know and I'll consider taking her to her first in-theatre movie because I'm keen for the excuse to see that alien dog some more. We have decided she's old enough to see Shrek and have put it on hold at the library. Star Wars is still a bit violent for her, though. Mind you she's been having sword fights with invisible dragons in the backyard lately and likes to growl, "I'm a dinosaur-pirate who eats dragons FOR BREAKFAST." I have video of that and will catch up with photos and video one of these years... | ||||||
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November 16th, 2009
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| I just watched all three parts of the CSI Vegas/Miami/NY crossover and the suckage was so great that I think I sustained permanent brain damage. ( spoilers behind cut ) | ||||||
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November 10th, 2009
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| noiseinmyhead Saw this and had to make sure I saw it... ( Read more... ) After I stopped laughing, I told her that these are two I've been keeping open in my browser lately for general happiness and easing of all stress: ( Read more... ) I do think that Australia clearly grows very hot men. I know 'cos I married one. :D | ||||||
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November 6th, 2009
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| So lame...I can't remember the last episode of CSI that didn't end up with all the cases connected. That used to be an occasional and interesting twist, and now it's every friggin' episode. And now I have to record the other two CSI shows, which I never watch, if I want to know what the hell is going on in regular Vegas CSI later in the week because of a weeklong crossover. Gah. At least it's still somewhat decent to knit to. But if that dick from the Miami one takes off his glasses dramatically, I'm going to want to punch him in the face. | ||||||
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November 3rd, 2009
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| As Corran progresses through The Hobbit with Peo (as he is doing now), Peo has decided that she is quite offended that Gandalf lies so much in order to trick Bilbo into going on the adventure. It's even become something we hear over the monitor occasionally...random mutterings followed by exclamations of, "Gandalf is a LIAR! Lying is BAD!" Good. Everyone should learn early that even good guys that you otherwise like are capable of manipulation and lies, especially those in positions of power. eta Although now she's trying to figure out ways to un-stone the trolls. She says if they learn to control their temper (a la Beauty and the Beast) they'll stop being stone. | ||||||
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October 30th, 2009
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| Halloween pumpkin and costume under the cut: ( Read more... ) | ||||||
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| Hey Biscuit Brothers fans...Tiny Scarecrow has started his own blog: http://tinyscarecrow.com/ | ||||||
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October 27th, 2009
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| Hrm...after combing through a book of concept art done for the LotR movies, and then copious Google searching on top of that, I have come to the conclusion that there doesn't appear to be much, if any, stained glass in any of the three movies. Or if there is, it's offscreen and just used for lighting. Corran's theory is that WETA didn't have any stained glass folks on the team. Have any of you noticed any stained glass art in the movies? Because you'd think at least Rivendell would have some... | ||||||
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September 13th, 2009
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| Just watched the new They Might Be Giants Here Comes Science DVD today with Peo, and she LOVED it. We did too, although Peo's kind of bummed that the John and John puppets aren't there. They’re animated this time. The first song, "Science is Real", is pretty much a hardcore slam against the anti-science movements like "intelligent design" and that sort of crap. There's a great line about how it's fun to imagine things like angels, unicorns, and elves but when you want knowledge you have to look at the facts. Awesome. It will give Peo good ammo to fight off religious incursions she'll inevitably face as she gets older. It's also really funny how they revisit the sun stuff, first by doing mass of incandescent gas but then followed by miasma of plasma. It skews for older kids more than ABCs and 123s, but in our household, it's never too soon to learn about DNA. And yes, Peo shouted out that it was DNA before they said what it was. We were very proud! | ||||||
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September 11th, 2009
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| I am behind on several topics. Here is a quick-as-possible update: 1) On the Tidy-vs-TV battle, we won, but needed reinforcements in the form of grandparental units. They were under strict instructions not to actually pick stuff up for Peo (and oh, did she try to ply them every way possible!) but were available to keep her company and help count items. The room got clean. Unfortunately, one of the motivators was to be able to go to my cake meeting that night...and I screwed up because the meeting was the following week. Oops. But I admitted my error and we made good by Peo by going out for Chinese food instead, where she happily chattered the words/phrases she knows in Mandarin. 2) Coolest/funniest/deepest thing Peo has said recently: she wants desperately to visit Kai-Lan and has been convinced that she has to go to CartoonLand to do so, and declared to Corran that if she goes to CartoonLand and meets Kai-Lan and Kai-Lan draws a picture of her, then it will be a picture of Reality. 3) With tons and tons of the right stretching in advance, I can now take short, stompy, unassisted steps. As in, not safe to be carrying a pot of boiling water or anything, but could probably escape a fire in the house. And the podiatrist told me to get a cane to try to get off the crutches. So I did (for $25 all they had were patterned ones and I didn't feel like spending extra for wood so I have an old-lady pattern but the least old-ladyish they had), and I've been using it when the ankle is nice and warmed up from stretching. However, I have to be careful to not leave myself abandoned with crutches out of reach, because after about 10 minutes of not-stretching, the whole thing locks up again and the cane is insufficient. Podiatrist says it's acute tendinitis and not the bones/hardware/surgery. So I've got more appointments with physical therapy now, and they can now do other stuff since they know it's not hardware in the way, so we'll see how it goes. 4) Taught the two cake classes last week. The Mensa one ended up with only two adults and two kids...and the kids were periodically unsupervised and made a mess of my gel colours. They grabbed them and were jamming my brushes into them before I even noticed (one of the brushes is still soaking to get the colour out from under the metal bit, grrr), since I was trying to teach the adults. Plus, I couldn't easily cross the room to get them back. So I asked very seriously for them to go easy and not mix the colours, but they did. Gahhhhh. The adults were very pleasant and the organizer very gracious and all of that, but I think I have a new rule that under no circumstances will I ever teach a class again that uses MY equipment unless there's a nobody-under-18 rule. Unfair, because I know of kids in their early teens who are highly responsible and quite talented cake decorators, but that's the last time I'm risking my stuff on someone else's kids. Plus I'm not sure how valuable my time was teaching two adults who thanked me but admitted they'd probably never try any of it themselves. I'd only do a class like that again if it had pre-enrollment, as opposed to this, which was part of a convention with a show-up-if-you-wanna style. Four other women came in near the end but really, I'm not sure how much they could have learned doing that. The cake club class went much better and I've received lovely positive feedback, so I'd happily do that again any time they want me. But no more casual volunteering for non-cakies, I think. 5) Corran's parents were here and are now on their way home (may have landed by now, not sure, US to Sydney flights are scary-long), and were very nice Cinderellas for us the whole time, helping cut into the backlog of cleaning that had piled up since my surgery. On the day they arrived, Peo suggested they go back home immediately, but then of course when they left she was upset. Today she roleplayed it out with toys, which seemed to help. 6) Been watching the Canadian show "Intelligence" on DVD via the library and it's very interesting...but I wish Matt Frewer would stop muttering all the damned time, especially since there's no closed captioning or subtitles. Grrrr. All the US DVDs I get have at least the closed captions...which may even be a requirement these days? Pain in the ass how many UK/Canadian ones don't. I have a hearing problem and men's voices turn to mud when there's low-note background music, which this show has in spades. So I have to listen to it LOUD or I miss half of what's being said, and then inevitably the next scene has loud music so it's a huge noise. Pain in the ass. We also finally got Watchmen from the library queue and Frewer was in that too, as was another guy from Intelligence. And two weeks ago I ended up seeing Felicia Day in a ridiculous amount of things all within a few days...rewatched Dr. Horrible, there was the video about dating the avatar, and there was an episode of Monk (which I'm also doing by library DVD) as well. And something else, but I forget. Am I being celebrity-stalked through my TV or am I just a pattern-finding ape? Hmmmm... Anyway, off to finish Intelligence so it can go back to the library today before it's overdue, and to work on the last bits of the Kai-Lan dolls (one for Peo, one for nightxade's daughter) and then finish up the Biscuit Brothers stuff that has been taking for-bloody-ever. | ||||||
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August 31st, 2009
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| *pant*pant*droooool* X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Two-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy) In 15 days! Mind you, I'm worried about sequel chances what with the Mouse snapping up my precious Wolverine today, *grumble*grumble* (omg $4 BILLION)...if I had more time I'd whip up an angsty graphic of Wolvie with mouse ears on but I'm too busy/lazy and I'm sure it's being done elsewhere anyway... I really do need a Wolverine icon. Without mouse ears. Gah. | ||||||
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August 27th, 2009
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| OMG, it's just the week for all things Dr. Horrible, including cakes: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/0 | ||||||
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| We watched Fellowship of the Ring again last night. But we've been watching too much children's programming, and our brains have been ruined. This is a quick mock-up of our conversation from one point in the movie... ( nightxade in particular will appreciate this, I hope)( Read more... ) | ||||||
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August 19th, 2009
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| There's a second installation in the United Breaks Guitars saga: Here's the first song, which I like best: Also...Dave Carroll Says No To Guitar Hush Money From United (includes link to video and a transcript) Looking forward to the promised third song! | ||||||
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| Hrm, I wonder what can be gleaned about me with the CDs I just ordered... Carpenters Gold: 35th Anniversary Edition Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Daughtry See, Vista did an update that means I can't connect to our MP3 box anymore so I only have music that's resident on my computer (yes I could put our DVDs on here but the hard copies are still in boxes and we haven't had time to arrange a file transfer), which is mostly Lifehouse with one Annie Lennox album, with the occasional 80s single and The Calling's "Wherever You Will Go" (which I am totally obsessed with). Plus a handful of free Amazon downloads (most of which are no longer free so I only linked two that are). Which no doubt complicates my musical profiling even further... (And yes, the song depicted in the icon is one of the ones I can't get to...*sigh*) | ||||||
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