For the fizzy water people, are you using bottled water or tap water? Our tap water is pretty hard, and I'm wondering how that would affect the process.
Big stop just to renew your license to companion. Can I use companion as a verb?
Wash ,'Ariel'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Connie Neil - Jun 12, 2011 2:53:51 am PDT #12453 of 30001
brillig
Liese S. - Jun 12, 2011 4:06:19 am PDT #12454 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I use tap water, but I have a built-in filter.
Sheryl - Jun 12, 2011 4:49:13 am PDT #12455 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Yay Gar!
Went to the Building Museum yesterday. Saw an exhibit of replicas of various buildings done in Legos.(Didn't know they made clear Legos, but there they were.)
Jessica - Jun 12, 2011 5:21:51 am PDT #12456 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
What the hell?
People suck sometimes.
I've decided Dylan is never allowed to have another birthday party because after yesterday, I am DEAD. We wound up having 17 kids there!!! I had no idea I even knew that many people. (There were 11 RSVPs. Grrr.)
So my plan is to simply remove all the calendars from our home and not tell Dylan his birthday is coming next year. (Or, actually, have his party at the zoo or somewhere like that where they limit the number of kids and have staff on hand to wrangle them.)
We also found out yesterday's that he got a public pre-k slot, which was a total shock to us. (It's a lottery, and there are about ten times as many applicants as kids.) Which means we'll be hiring a full time babysitter in the fall, which means a lot of paperwork. Yay and ugh.
Cashmere - Jun 12, 2011 5:28:46 am PDT #12457 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Jessica, we actually got away with doing that with both Owen and Olivia this year--both their birthdays fell close to weekends were were travelling and so we ended up just taking them out for pizza and to Toys R Us and magically, it worked! NO PARTIES this year!
I don't think it'll work a second year in a row but damn, it was nice not going through the nightmare that is planning a child's birthday party.
DavidS - Jun 12, 2011 5:29:11 am PDT #12458 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
We also found out yesterday's that he got a public pre-k slot, which was a total shock to us.
Wow! Yay! Maybe you could hide Aeryn in his backpack?
DavidS - Jun 12, 2011 5:30:09 am PDT #12459 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I only had birthday parties every fourth year. And Emmett's parties declined in size and partyness as he got older.
Cashmere - Jun 12, 2011 5:31:58 am PDT #12460 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
And Emmett's parties declined in size and partyness as he got older.
That is another blessing of aging--they desire less sizable parties. Until they get older still. Why doesn't someone plot a birthday party size versus age graph?
Jesse - Jun 12, 2011 5:35:55 am PDT #12461 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
For avoiding kids' birthday parties, I recommend having them at awkward times. I only had occasional parties, as far as I remember....
Sue - Jun 12, 2011 5:37:31 am PDT #12462 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I think I had a birthday party until I was only 7 or 8, then it was family only birthday parties. But, I don't recall all my friends having birthday parties that much after that date either, so I don't think there was a lot of pressure for reciprocal invites.