Help. Kind neighbor lady with 7 year old too big for baby toys has just brought over approximately every Fisher Price Little People item EVER MADE. My living room is awash (well, MORE awash) in bright plastic. Farm and Circus and Fire Station and Train and... And they TALK. And mr. flea is playing with them too. I'm never getting Eve to bed tonight. I ought to just flee now and let him deal with bedtime.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Jul 05, 2005 3:14:53 pm PDT #7225 of 10001
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Scrappy - Jul 05, 2005 3:15:17 pm PDT #7226 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Had friends over on Friday for barbeque, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Watched six episodes of The Sopranos, thanks to the fabulousness of Netflix. I also got awesome new shoes.
Those are some of the happy highlights of my weekend.
Best thing about today? We finally had the carpet shampoo people come, and the stained and depressing rug is now its normal beige self. As a renter, I'm stuck with the tediously dull carpet, but at least it doesn't look embarassingly horrible anymore. Plus we had a coupon, so it was only $100 for the two rooms!
Jesse - Jul 05, 2005 3:18:16 pm PDT #7227 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hide the toys, flea!!
flea - Jul 05, 2005 3:20:16 pm PDT #7228 of 10001
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Oh, just wait until after bedtime. At least half of them will magically disappear (into the basement) overnight.
Unfortunately, she seems to like the really noisy one best. Though that could be mr. flea. The Little People talk on the phone to each other. Whatever happened to the goddamned imagination?
Kathy A - Jul 05, 2005 3:23:06 pm PDT #7229 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My mom likes to tell about the time when my brother, then kindergarten-aged, got a little cannon from my uncle (dad's brother). Dad and said uncle then proceeded to take it outside in the December cold and play with it while my brother (afraid of loud noises) just watched from the window. So much for the cannon being for the kid!
Noumenon - Jul 05, 2005 3:26:06 pm PDT #7230 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
If there are any bitter, snarky liberals out there, you ought to like BEAST's 50 Most Loathsome People of 2004. I love stuff like describing Jenna Jameson as "The first best-selling author who could be sodomized with a well-thrown baseball since Truman Capote." So I passed it on.
DXMachina - Jul 05, 2005 3:28:10 pm PDT #7231 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Oh, just wait until after bedtime. At least half of them will magically disappear (into the basement) overnight.
Wow! Casper's mom is the meanest mom in Meanopolis.
Consuela - Jul 05, 2005 3:32:38 pm PDT #7232 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I like fireworks. And this year, my dog is deaf enough not to get upset about them. yay!
DXMachina - Jul 05, 2005 3:34:44 pm PDT #7233 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yay for deaf dogs???
brenda m - Jul 05, 2005 3:39:37 pm PDT #7234 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I could've used one of those about midnight last night. Overall she was pretty mellow this year, though.