Well, I've been feeling bad all week, hard to say if that's why, though, because I was feeling bad last week, too. But could be contributing.
Murk: But you're a God! The Sacred Glorificus! Glory: I'm a God in exile. Far from the Hellfires of Home and sharing my body with an enemy that stabs my boys in their fleshy little stomachs!
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Jul 25, 2014 4:38:59 am PDT #2804 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Kat - Jul 25, 2014 4:43:30 am PDT #2805 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
-t, I'd avoid the pecans if possible. Or at least not so frequently.
I told Noah he hurt my feelings pretty badly and it might take me a while to get over it. I also asked him why he said it, but he had no explanation. Blargh.
My swim today was slow, but still good. Hot in the pool.
brenda m - Jul 25, 2014 5:26:14 am PDT #2806 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Aw Kat. That's brutal.
Rick - Jul 25, 2014 5:43:51 am PDT #2807 of 30000
I think that there is a danger with kids of assuming that the things they say when they are calm have a greater depth or fidelity or persistence than the things they say when they are upset.
We may like to think that our dispassionate self is more "true" of ourselves, but that doesn't mean it is true of kids. They are always trying ideas on for size, and calm or not, they just don't have the stable view of self and others that adults do.
For instance, one problem that crops up frequently in family therapy is that a skilled therapist can structure the situation so that the dialog between parents and kids will seem more mature and forthright than has ever been true before. It's a breakthrough! The parents are thrilled. For the parents it seems that everything discussed is now solved or dealt with, but for kids, no matter the degree to which they throw themselves into it at the time, it doesn't necessarily stay with them. They are highly responsive to the collaborative environment that was created, but it doesn't mean that they have the self-consistency and self-regulation to make it stick.
Parents find this very frustrating and interpret it as a betrayal. But it's really just that we overgeneralize from the more mature seeming behavior in the session to the assumption that the words have the same meaning that they would in a more mature human. Nah. Still a kid in there.
meara - Jul 25, 2014 6:42:46 am PDT #2808 of 30000
That's really interesting Rick!
How old are your twins now, by the way?
Jesse - Jul 25, 2014 6:43:27 am PDT #2809 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Aw, kids! They look like people, but are actually mostly animals.
Theodosia - Jul 25, 2014 7:03:40 am PDT #2810 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"
What Rick Said x10.
Rick - Jul 25, 2014 7:09:54 am PDT #2811 of 30000
The twins are four now, meara. Kindergarten starts in one year and one week! Amazing.
Kat - Jul 25, 2014 7:21:54 am PDT #2812 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Aw, kids! They look like people, but are actually mostly animals.
This made me laugh like crazy.
Jesse - Jul 25, 2014 7:38:53 am PDT #2813 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's true, though. They don't know how to act or what is actually going on a lot of the time. Up until like 8 years old.(NB: I am not a scientist.)
ION, can I make meringue with just one egg white?