They should film that story and show it every Christmas.

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


Spike's Bitches 32: I think I'm sobering up.  

[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.


erikaj - Oct 27, 2006 12:22:13 pm PDT #8988 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!

Orally's on Oprah? Eww. She talks to everybody, now. But I could get the love back if she asks him about "Falafel"(/Countdown partisan) (Hee...I just attacked someone with hummus.) ETA: Least favorite parent book thing "Don't touch that. It's bad; it's dirty."


beth b - Oct 27, 2006 12:23:12 pm PDT #8989 of 10000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

The only thing that was bad about always reading in the car - after I got my driver's license I kept getting lost in my home town, that I had lived in for 15 years.


SuziQ - Oct 27, 2006 12:23:49 pm PDT #8990 of 10000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Well, call me a mean mom, but I try not to buy CJ or K-Bug too many books any more.

CJ has such a huge collection that he has not read, but is working his way through.

K-Bug is too voracious of a reader (for me to afford to keep up with book purchases). I keep reminding them both about this fantastic place called the LIBRARY. They actually let you read for FREE. Shocking. Utterly shocking, I tell you.


Aims - Oct 27, 2006 12:25:50 pm PDT #8991 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

I can understand with older kids like yours Suzi. They can and should use the library.


Sparky1 - Oct 27, 2006 12:33:41 pm PDT #8992 of 10000
Librarian Warlord

I can understand with older kids like yours Suzi. They can and should use the library.

Choose library! But why not with toddlers, too?


Aims - Oct 27, 2006 12:34:39 pm PDT #8993 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Ok, I'm a little annoyed at this part of a craigslist ad for an apartment: Dogs only allowed if somebody is home all day to take them out. Please don't ask if you are a working dog parent, doggies just can't be expected to hold it that long.

Um, excuse me? But yeah - they can. And my dog? Has been left at home for 6+ hours everyday with no accidents for about 5 years now.

Not sure why it irritates me so much, but it does.


SuziQ - Oct 27, 2006 12:35:18 pm PDT #8994 of 10000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Well, with K-Bug, I can toss the car keys at her and tell her to haul her own tush to the library. More difficult to do that with a toddler.


erikaj - Oct 27, 2006 12:35:40 pm PDT #8995 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!

I think she was talking about instilling reading habits? Shit... we lost the library card. Should replace.


Sparky1 - Oct 27, 2006 12:39:04 pm PDT #8996 of 10000
Librarian Warlord

I think she was talking about instilling reading habits?

More this. I went with my parents just about every week to the library. They're both readers so they needed books to keep themselves happy, and I think it was grand that they could tell us we could take home as many library books as we wanted.


Amy - Oct 27, 2006 12:39:43 pm PDT #8997 of 10000
Because books.

But why not with toddlers, too?

I took the boys to the library, too -- and I do it especially right now with Sara. She's got a million "new" books of her brothers' still to grow into, so we go to the library every week and pick out books there.

It's also a fabulous way to test drive books. There are some I thought she'd love that she hated, and then there are others that I couldn't bear to read more than once.