The idea of curling up on my cuddle lounge and watching something on TiVo or listening to my iPod while I wirelessly surf the web on my Powerbook while Roomba scoots around and does my vacuuming...hot.
AIFG
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
River ,'Trash'
Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!
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.
amych - Jan 04, 2006 12:40:26 pm PST #7493 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Topic!Cindy - Jan 04, 2006 12:43:13 pm PST #7494 of 10002
What is even happening?
Damn this waiting around until the kids are old enough to be useful as manual domestic labor... I think I have at least 4 years to wait.Casper's two-ish, right?
Ha hah aha ha ha ha ha ha aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Katie M - Jan 04, 2006 12:55:17 pm PST #7495 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
flea, mine are 15 and 12 and they haven't learned to mop. I so fail as a mother.
I'm twenty-nine and the first mother-child spat of my recent visit home (hey, there were only two total) was over floor-mopping, which I did not do adequately.
MOM, LATER: I never taught you to mop a floor, did I?
ME: Not really. I did attend an Ivy League college, though.
MOM, SADLY: Well, there's that.
Daisy Jane - Jan 04, 2006 1:09:40 pm PST #7496 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
My mom and I have had that same discussion- not really a spat, but I was telling her that I bought a book on housekeeping. She was all apologetic that she hadn't taught me that, and I told her that she taught me how to read and look something up when I didn't know it, so it all worked out.
Sheryl - Jan 04, 2006 1:09:48 pm PST #7497 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I don't want to think about how my cat would react to either a Roomba or a Sccoba. Oh, wait. She'd just hide under the bed, since that's her default reaction to new stuff.
Lee - Jan 04, 2006 1:12:10 pm PST #7498 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I really would rather not be doing the barcoding I'm doing.
People should entertain me instead.
Jesse - Jan 04, 2006 1:13:14 pm PST #7499 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
She was all apologetic that she hadn't taught me that, and I told her that she taught me how to read and look something up when I didn't know it, so it all worked out.
That's awesome.
brenda m - Jan 04, 2006 1:27:22 pm PST #7500 of 10002
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'm twenty-nine and the first mother-child spat of my recent visit home (hey, there were only two total) was over floor-mopping, which I did not do adequately.
My dad has to stop us and re-instruct us on how to sweep properly every time he stuck a broom in our hands.
§ ita § - Jan 04, 2006 1:27:33 pm PST #7501 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My mother never tried to teach me that stuff. But the woman we had to do the cooking and the cleaning also had childminding as her responsibility, so you pick stuff up. It's not like we had TV to watch, or anything.
amych - Jan 04, 2006 1:33:37 pm PST #7502 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I spent my formative years with a single dad who's an academic. I didn't ever learn housekeeping, but I had shelving down.