Lily is just so beautiful.
I think that one of her in the pink hat with her teeny tiny hand by her cheek is my most favoritest right now.
And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men: evil. You know, straight up, black hat, tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis BAD.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 23: We've mastered the power of positive giving up.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
sumi - Apr 21, 2005 4:54:36 am PDT #4782 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
erikaj - Apr 21, 2005 4:57:08 am PDT #4783 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Karl's ogling is very subtle, if slightly indiscriminate(nobody's ever ogled me in my life, I mean, so...I'm sure Kristin is ogle-worthy.) Can't face my e-mail yet...full to the brim with politics and Urgent! things I must do, right now!(And they're not fucking great.) "Every single night/ the same arrangement. I(stay in) and fight the fight/ Still I always feel this strange estrangement./ Nothing here is real. Nothing here is right." So, um, timelies.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 21, 2005 4:59:00 am PDT #4784 of 10001
What is even happening?
Poor pink-eyed Christopher. I hope his doctor's appt. isn't traumatic. Can't really blame him for his reticence, though.
If my prior experience has any bearing in this instance, the appointment isn't going to be nearly as bad as administering the eyedrops for days and days. The last time I can remember him having conjunctivitis was two days after my dad died. He and Julia were both sick the next day. There was a horrific snow storm. Scott stayed home and took them to the doctor's, while I went out with my mother, making all the arrangements.
The next morning--a Saturday--their eyes were all gucky when they woke. Scott had the doctor's service page the doctor, because we had the wake and funeral coming, and wanted the kids on antibiotics before that, because honestly, they looked like they had snot coming out of their eyes, and we needed people to babysit them.
The doctor ripped Scott a new one for having him paged, because conjuntivitis isn't an emergency and doesn't merit paging. Scott ripped the doctor a new one right back, and told him about the wake and funeral. Me? I just got the uncomfortable displeasure of being the next parent to have to face the doctor, and have the uncomfortable conversation needed to mend the fence they'd both trashed.
Anyhow, Chris was a few months shy of three years old, then. Julia had it then too, and wasn't quite four and a half. Putting the drops in Chris's eyes was hell. It wasn't great doing Julia's eyes either, but slightly better. With Chris? It took the two of us. And we could still put him up on the changing table, then. Hopefully he'll be more mature about it now, but I have my doubts.
Gudanov - Apr 21, 2005 5:02:15 am PDT #4785 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
With Leif, I rolled him up in a towel and then put the eye-drops in. All wrapped up like a burrito, he couldn't put up his usual fight.
sj - Apr 21, 2005 5:04:58 am PDT #4786 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
He didn't put up a fight about being rolled up in a towel?
Cashmere - Apr 21, 2005 5:05:52 am PDT #4787 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
sj, it's probably tough for your mom, too. Just try to remember she does it because she loves you. Stand your ground firmly but lovingly. And remind her that you have to be free to make your own mistakes and live with them as an adult. Maybe you haven't been perfectly responsible but heavens knows not every adult is perfect. It's the learning from the mistakes that helps us BE adults.
Cindy, I've covered my eyes and am singing "lalalalalala" at the thought of giving eye drops.
Cashmere - Apr 21, 2005 5:06:31 am PDT #4788 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
With Leif, I rolled him up in a towel and then put the eye-drops in. All wrapped up like a burrito, he couldn't put up his usual fight.
This works well with cats, too.
Gudanov - Apr 21, 2005 5:08:14 am PDT #4789 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
He didn't put up a fight about being rolled up in a towel?
Getting rolled up in a towel is just good fun until someone tries to put drops in your eye.
vw bug - Apr 21, 2005 5:08:47 am PDT #4790 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Oops. I wasn't supposed to wake Emily.
sj - Apr 21, 2005 5:09:41 am PDT #4791 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
sj, it's probably tough for your mom, too. Just try to remember she does it because she loves you. Stand your ground firmly but lovingly. And remind her that you have to be free to make your own mistakes and live with them as an adult. Maybe you haven't been perfectly responsible but heavens knows not every adult is perfect. It's the learning from the mistakes that helps us BE adults.
I know she loves me, but I cannot stand my ground with her at all. If I get angry or upset with her it is because I am depressed or PMSy and "are you still taking your ADs" is the response I get. She won't even consider that there may be something wrong on her end. I don't know what to do. I am going to go take a hot bath now and see if I can stop being pathetic whiny girl before I go see Teacup Guy tonight.