R and I call each other about once a day, just to check in, unless we are radically busy. On workdays, we have lunch together, so we don't usually talk on the phone, unless something crucial comes up...like if R gets a new idea for a game that he needs to bounce off me, or if I get an email that says "Athen's embassy" and I have to bitch about it.
Willow: You know what they say. The bigger they are... Anya: The faster they stomp you into nothin'.
'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 29: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[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.
Volans - Apr 11, 2006 8:07:46 am PDT #8661 of 10001
move out and draw fire
SuziQ - Apr 11, 2006 8:08:20 am PDT #8662 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Aimee - my DH could use one. Pretty please.
Nora Deirdre - Apr 11, 2006 8:08:44 am PDT #8663 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
This is when you just want to open the top of their heads and spoon in the common sense.
This visual is making me smile.
juliana - Apr 11, 2006 8:08:57 am PDT #8664 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
But I hate to see good dads feel bad about themselves. Cause I didn't get one...not really, so I want to treat the ones I know like...condors or something.
Yes. This.
Betsy HP - Apr 11, 2006 8:09:14 am PDT #8665 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
His progress reports are all 100's and 0's and you know how that averages out. If he chooses to do the work he does a great job. Or he doesn't bother at all. See me hitting my head against desk again. Sob.
Are you sure your son isn't my son?
My son often does the homework AND THEN FORGETS TO TURN IT IN. A book report he worked on for a month? Gone. And that teacher has a strict on-time or no credit policy.
Katerina Bee - Apr 11, 2006 8:09:27 am PDT #8666 of 10001
Herding cats for fun
To aid the Empress in writing a memo for that nothing-better-to-do VP:
Passive-aggressive punctuation skills
And Happy Birthday Owen!
Trudy Booth - Apr 11, 2006 8:09:52 am PDT #8667 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Oh Laura, that silly boy.
Of course, now we can all play "when I was a kid" and talk about when half the people we knew carried Swiss Army Knives.
Gudanov - Apr 11, 2006 8:10:03 am PDT #8668 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
I did home school him for a while and it was pretty easy since he does get stuff so quickly. The main reason he is in the public school system now is their gifted program. The gifted teachers are wonderful. Also, he does love his sports and could end up with a scholarship in basketball like his dad, which would rock.
The education stuff doesn't worry me about home schooling. I just worry that my daughter is six getting close to seven and has only one other kid that she plays with and that's pretty infrequent. I keep trying to talk her into soccer team, but she doesn't want to join a team even she talks about liking soccer. Parenting hard.
Amy - Apr 11, 2006 8:10:29 am PDT #8669 of 10001
Because books.
Are you sure your son isn't my son?
My son often does the homework AND THEN FORGETS TO TURN IT IN.
We must all have the same kid. Although in the case of mine you can substitute "forgets" for "doesn't bother" as often as not. Where he thinks that will get him, I have no idea.
DCJensen - Apr 11, 2006 8:10:44 am PDT #8670 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
This is when you just want to open the top of their heads and spoon in the common sense.
At least it's a spoon with some. Others, you need a ladle.