Betsy, I hold out no hope for you. It just gets worse. Bright kids are hell to raise and just try to motivate them. Hah.
Been there, done that. My kid turned out ok. Will tell you the whole gruesome story sometime.
Allyson, You have trained yourself to be an observer. Don't fret, it is very likely you are seeing and remembering just fine. My husband and I used to play games. We would walk down a street and one of us would say now! The other one would have to describe everything they could remember about the last few feet. This always involved the store front we were passing. We got pretty good at it too.
The other one would have to describe everything they could remember about the last few feet. This always involved the store front we were passing. We got pretty good at it too.
I think I could do this with jewelry or shoe stores.
Others would probably blur.
Daniel -- I'd love to see that book! There was one small cookbook that I would have loved to have but it was listed as a collectible and they wanted $10 for it, so I passed. I love the pamphlet style cookbooks as well, although not the newer ones they aren't as interesting. There was a guy in front of me when I was trying to get to the cookbooks and he pulled a box full to the side to go through, I got some of his castoffs but he got some great ones.
I got two pamphlet style books --
The Italian Cookbook
from 1956, it actually looks like most of the recipes are decent. The other,
Shortcut Cooking
from 1969, looks like it has the more questionable recipes like Surprise Log and Rafted Wieners. The Rafted Wieners are a 2-3 hotdogs split and then grilled, the 2 pieces of bacon on top of that with pickle and cheese in the sliced hotdogs, served over a hotdog bun. That's one serving btw.
Oh! And Nutty Pups, which are hotdogs and peanut butter, I guess it tastes similiar to the Bacon and Peanut butter open face toasts Mom used to make.
think I could do this with jewelry or shoe stores.
Others would probably blur
And I would be the one saying, "There were stores?"
We ALL had to help my brother finish his science projects all the way through high school. It always involved frayed nerves and late nights. He works at an innternational satellite firm now and lives in a cool house in Holland and gets to travel the world, so there you go.
Damn. Now I'm all jealous - not only did I do my school projects myself, but I have a sucky low income job.
I s'pose Betsy's son will end up the world traveller. And he's probably not living in fear of his parents, and threatening to kill them as often as the kids in my family.
As long as you realize it is life sucking and not you, vw.
Just in case the question comes to mind, you do NOT suck.
vw, I do that way too often. It is something I have been working to try to change about myself too.
Here is a candid shot of Gershwin Girl that she has no idea I took. It's low quality due to it being a camera phone, but there's something I like about it. Plus, picture of my pretty GF seems like a fun thing to post.
I'm in the process of updating my LJ for the first time in 2 months. It may be long.
