A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.

Anya ,'Dirty Girls'


Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.  

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.


Aims - Jun 02, 2006 9:09:50 am PDT #255 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

ha! In general, I'd say that toddlers tend to bite less and cry more over the potty training. Plus cat pee is a lot more stinky.

makes notes


Steph L. - Jun 02, 2006 9:11:04 am PDT #256 of 10002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

lawn jarts

Love this game! (Not the throwing them at people part...)

This is an actual song, you know. By Ed's Redeeming Qualities:

"She was pegged in the head with a lawn dart (lawn dart!) / Her dad didn't see her, that's the worst part...."


Aims - Jun 02, 2006 9:12:38 am PDT #257 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.

NUMFAR! DO THE DANCE OF NO MANAGERS COMING IN TODAY!


Topic!Cindy - Jun 02, 2006 9:13:04 am PDT #258 of 10002
What is even happening?

Oh, Toddson. You were a horror! Surely, your own poor mother paid enough for the rest of us.

At about two, I got in the habit of going around the house sticking bobby pins in the outlets. Until I got a shock that knocked me flat.

You know...there have been things I've stopped my kids from doing, because they're dangerous, and I've always said to Scott, if only I could know for certain that they'd just a little hurt--nothing serious, just enough to learn THAT'S BAD, I'd probably let them learn a lot more from the school of hard knocks.


Sophia Brooks - Jun 02, 2006 9:14:13 am PDT #259 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

You know, this wasn't that dangerous, but when I was 8 I had a bubble gum eraser. I had it with me at school and I sniffed it a lot. One day I Just. Could.Not.Resist and I Took a Big Bite. Bleeeeacch!

But I remember how hard I tried to control my impulse, and how I just HAD to bite it.

Also, I threw out my papa-san chair pad yesterday because it was so full of pee (cat pee, not mine). I hadn't really realized how much this cat peed "outside the box" until then.


erikaj - Jun 02, 2006 9:14:29 am PDT #260 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

I read words like "lawn dart" and right away am earwormed with Denis Leary's routine about kids being tougher in the '70s(?)


Kalshane - Jun 02, 2006 9:15:58 am PDT #261 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Love this game! (Not the throwing them at people part...)

When you're 6, throwing them at people is the most fun thing that comes to mind.


Frankenbuddha - Jun 02, 2006 9:16:05 am PDT #262 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Up her own nose. Oops!

So her mother stuffed peas up her own nose? Fashion statement then, definitely.


Steph L. - Jun 02, 2006 9:16:18 am PDT #263 of 10002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

I took our lawn darts to college, and we played fierce tournaments on the grass in front of the dorm. We were the honors dorm, so if anyone walked by and mocked us for our geeky ways, we'd whip a lawn dart at them.


Topic!Cindy - Jun 02, 2006 9:17:00 am PDT #264 of 10002
What is even happening?

I had to make my kids keep their scented erasers at school. They trigger my ocular migraines.

I (accidentally) bit a crayon once. Crayola. Midnight Blue. Yeeeech. I was eating a pretzel and my mother told me to put away the crayons, and I took a bite of the wrong thing.