Birthdah Happies Vortex!!
Lorne: Once the word spreads you beat up an innocent old man, well, the truly terrible will think twice before going toe-to-toe with our Avenging Angel. Spike: Yes. The geriatric community will be soiling their nappies when they hear you're on the case. Bravo.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
tommyrot - May 17, 2009 4:52:41 am PDT #19926 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Sophia Brooks - May 17, 2009 5:30:14 am PDT #19927 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
msbelle- mac is so lucky to have you as a mom.
For those of you playing along at home, my cat just peed on my sofa! Yay? It was a lot of pee, but I am pretty sure this sofa is just completely trashed.
Theodosia - May 17, 2009 6:02:26 am PDT #19928 of 30000
'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"
Sophia, yeah, that's a 'Yay?' indeed.
msbelle, I was thinking about mac and the DS -- I wonder if he uses the game-playing as a self-calming device? FWIW, I have a big tendency to do that myself with computer solitaire games like Cubis and Bejeweled, so I sympathize.
msbelle - May 17, 2009 6:08:29 am PDT #19929 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
some of the games calm, but the two that he is obsessed with actually send him into a fairly highly agitated place. He will get frustrated and cry with these games, will sometimes go a day and only speak about them, he will not hold to the time limits of playing, and will pass on FOOD. ijs.
DavidS - May 17, 2009 6:14:40 am PDT #19930 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
will sometimes go a day and only speak about them, he will not hold to the time limits of playing, and will pass on FOOD. ijs.
The first summer Emmett got his DS I think he played it close to eighty hours. Apparently you can track how much time you're on.
Sorry, I said "Bad Mac!" He's got a lot to work through.
Barb - May 17, 2009 6:17:35 am PDT #19931 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
some of the games calm, but the two that he is obsessed with actually send him into a fairly highly agitated place.
belle, which games are they? Do you want me to see if Lewis has some recs for games that are similar, but perhaps not as frustrating, for when you're ready to give him the DS back?
And I sympathize with the withholding. I've threatened Nate with dropping the sucker under the wheels of my car and running back and forth over it. I have very little patience for the thing which probably makes me a bad mommy-type.
msbelle - May 17, 2009 6:26:05 am PDT #19932 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Mac is really behind in developing imaginary play skills and cooperative play skills, so I limit his screen time to keep them from deteriorating. He would play it all the time if I allowed it.
Barb, the games are a Pokemon one and the Spectrobes.
I do think he has learned some things from the games - perseverance for one, and he got a game guide and had to read it himself (it had charts, step by step instructions, and maps). But the obsession and moodiness is too much given where he is.
-t - May 17, 2009 6:39:44 am PDT #19933 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Poor Mac. That is hard stuff to learn.
And poor Tom. I hope you get comp days, man!
Juliebird - May 17, 2009 7:39:10 am PDT #19934 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
It's cold today and the kitties are tucked under the fleece blanket and happy as clams. I think I'll follow their lead.
erikaj - May 17, 2009 8:58:58 am PDT #19935 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Maybe it's kind of...hard to say. Like, he doesn't have words for it yet. I felt weird about my chair for a long time before I could explain it. Sometimes I said that people picked on me for it, but they left me out more. But I hope he can start to say what's on his mind soon, msbelle.