Ugh. Parenting is hard. Thanks Hec, I find your post very reassuring.
We just watched The Simpsons Movie. Made me laugh.
Dawn: I feel safe with you. Spike: Take that back!
'First Date'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
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.
Burrell - Jan 24, 2008 9:06:27 pm PST #5311 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Hil R. - Jan 24, 2008 9:29:29 pm PST #5312 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I found an article today that mentions that my great-grandfather's first cousin was marginally involved in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case. (After Bruno Hauptman had been sentenced to death, this other guy, Paul Wendel, confessed to having been the real kidnapper. He then denied it and said that he'd been kidnapped and beaten up until he confessed. Anyway, it seems that nobody ever really believed that this guy had done it. My relative testified at the trial that he had seen Wendel with a crying baby the night of the kidnapping.)
Anyway. I googled for a bit more information about the Wendel case. I discovered that the internet is just full of conspiracy theories about the Lindbergh case. (Very few of the internet people seem to believe that Wendel did it, either. But they don't think that Hauptmann did.)
Liese S. - Jan 24, 2008 10:32:28 pm PST #5313 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I can't sleep. Do any of you know where I put my copy of Terry Pratchett's "Making Money?" I can't find it because I took the dust cover off and now it's a very unassuming reassuringly thick black book. Of which I have more than one.
Strega - Jan 24, 2008 11:17:58 pm PST #5314 of 10001
It's in that pile by the bookcase.
...Or not.
I read something recently that said children's brains can't really grasp the concept of "the future" until around 3 years old. And even then, their ability to predict the results of their actions is pretty shaky. (Hell, it's shaky for adults.)
JenP - Jan 25, 2008 1:40:58 am PST #5315 of 10001
I'm having a little trouble grasping my immediate future at the moment, because it involves going out there in the cold while it's still dark. This is not my normal morning. Hence the grasping issues.
OK, here I go...
Sue - Jan 25, 2008 2:42:21 am PST #5316 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Hey Good Luck and Congratulations Liese!!
Theodosia - Jan 25, 2008 2:47:32 am PST #5317 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Thanks for the link to the Chasez interview snippet. He really does come off as a class act, no doubt in part to the great parenting he got.
It's 16F this morning, so the getting dressed and leaving part of the morning must commence post-haste, but still I linger....
Jesse - Jan 25, 2008 2:59:00 am PST #5318 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Go, Liese!! So exciting.
Theodosia - Jan 25, 2008 3:03:32 am PST #5319 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm ready to vote that we hold the next F2F at Liese's. :-)
Sue - Jan 25, 2008 3:11:03 am PST #5320 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I'm ready to vote that we hold the next F2F at Liese's. :-)
Pre-party at Liese's. Then we move onto Tim's new house!