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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.
Matilda has to relay every plot point from every anime she's seen, with emotional commentary and TikTok memes, including many where I don't know the characters at all.
Every conversation I have with Tickybox, ever. But I'm glad she texts me randomly, because I miss the kid.
Neither TCG nor I wake up happy. If ltc wakes up on her own, she’s ready to go and to talk nonstop for the next 12 hours. If we have to wake her up for any reason, she’s absolutely miserable and will snarl and whine.
From Dylan I get a running TED Talk on video game history based on whatever YouTube video he just watched, and from Aeryn it's brick-by-brick descriptions of everything she's found or crafted in Minecraft that day. I really do miss the days when they were in school all day and could have these conversations with their peers.
Has anyone here used the Common app for submitting references?
Oh man, Jake was famous for that around 9 or 10. The entire plot of, like, SpongeBob episodes. Even now (he's 28) if he gets started on computer gaming I just have to nod and smile for a bit.
Sara was like ltc, sj, but always. Just nonstop talk, 24/7. Sometimes, especially in the car when she was 4 or 5, I would announced that it was time for Quiet Time. It only worked for a while. Even now, if she gets going, it's a barrage of details about her teachers, her friends, the dog, her shift at work...
Timelies all!
Gary is less of a morning person than I am. I'm not really a morning person, but years of getting up at 6:30 for work, plus hamster brain, means I'm usually up and out of bed when the alarm goes off.
I've been laughing in sympathy all the while I've been catching up.
I did make it a point from early to listen to hours upon hours of cartoon replays, playground play-by-plays, and Mighty Adventures of Spiff the Spaceman-equivalent when my sons were small to middle-sized. Which paid off when they were larger and had Actual Problems to talk about, or How Should I Feel about this social skill, or that common habit of What I Feel is abuse? The payoff was massive. And also unexpectedly brought with it random friends with their own troubles, dragged home with them because, "You really need to talk to my mom." With my own it was not unheard of to sit and make it safe for them to spill until, oh, 3 or 4 am and then try to grab a few hours' sleep before work. Regrettable in the moment, but overall worth it, I think.
Ok, I shouldn’t just keep checking my phone for Georgia results, right?
Ok, I shouldn’t just keep checking my phone for Georgia results, right?
No, you decidedly shouldn't. I shouldn't either. This is how I went temporarily insane in early November, and I refuse to go through that again. You should too; let's both not!
Deal!