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Post by Phalon on Dec 1, 2006 7:20:57 GMT -6
Katina, fancy seeing you here, (same time as me). Late night for you? Hoping I catch you to wish you Sweet Dreams.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 7, 2006 1:58:04 GMT -6
Rebuffed by Katina a week ago. Still despondent, I have barely been back since. Sigh.
Pfft. Last time I wish you Sweet Dreams, Katina. No, no - just kidding, of course.
But dang, I did mean to get in here, on this board, and catch up tonight - many posts I wanted to respond to: the Best, the A-Cup Team, Nosy Questions, get back to Maeve in Mything Persons....but again, time slipped away from me and it's too late tonight.
I blame it on the season - cold and wintery, and that means I've pulled out the quilt - the Magic Quilt; so warm and toasty I immediately fall asleep once under it. Usually when I am watching reading or television. I can not be budged when under it's spell. Hubs gives up trying in vain to wake me to go to bed; I have vague recollections of him doing everything but up carrying me up the stairs. Even he has his limitations.
One day....maybe next spring when the weather turns warm and the quilt gets put away, I'll catch up.
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Post by mabd on Dec 7, 2006 11:15:44 GMT -6
I blame it on the season - cold and wintry, and that means I've pulled out the quilt - the Magic Quilt; so warm and toasty I immediately fall asleep once under it. Now you listen to me miss bardly phaloney gams, you need the sleep. Keep up the good work. STP often wakes during the night and I have found the best approach is to tell her she has to sleep for 4 more hours. Oddly, this works. Maeve
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Post by Phalon on Dec 8, 2006 8:29:41 GMT -6
That Four More Hours Rule - does that apply when the alarm rings at six AM? It's still dark; it seems like the middle of the night. No? Pfft. Didn't think so.
Kind of a sad thing yesterday; a bit discouraging anyway. A couple of weeks ago, I worked at BP's school book fair for an hour one evening. I was busy, busy with gobs and gobs of kids with their parents buying gobs and gobs of books; the room was filled to capacity with people and the line to purchase was out the door.
Yesterday, I did the same at LX's school's book fair. This time it was for three hours during school, and the teachers brought their classes in one at a time.
The interesting, and kinda sad thing was, that as the grades progressed - 6th through 8th - the interest in books decreased, until by the time the eighth graders came in, all they did was mill around and talk, not even looking at the books. I sold probably five times as many books in a hour at the grade school than I did in three hours at the middle-school. Very discouraging to learn our young teenagers have very little interest in reading.
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Post by battleon on Dec 9, 2006 9:55:48 GMT -6
K , it saturday and i'm at home will till 1pm when i fo to workand today is my cleaning day but i can't bring myself to do it..I'd rather be posting, especailly since i haven't been here in awhile..Damn!!! who's kidding who i hate cleaning i it's a hgood thing i live by myself and only me can see what a mess the place is..I had aroomate but she was the pits worse than me when it came to cleaning..Besises, she liked to smoke grass and drink too much..An i ain't into drugs of any kind even though i would join her from time to time..
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Post by Phalon on Dec 16, 2006 17:53:42 GMT -6
Joxie, Fairly Bored Mom. I know you've most important things you are taking care of now, but I'll leave a question for you in here for whenever you get a chance to pop in.
As I stare at this page, and think about how similar a visit to the dentist and a visit to the gynecologist are, I also wonder what the heck these "New" surrounded in blue tags are doing up here. Some threads have them that are new, like this thread here. Some newer threads don't. Some threads that are well over a year old have them. Any rhyme or reason? Just wondering.
Rough week; both the gyno and dentist, and I gotta erase one or both from my head - preferably the Dental Dominatrix leaves first; she's the scary one. Gotta gyno, (go now). I feel the need to floss, (it's been drilled into my head).
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Post by katina2nd on Dec 16, 2006 20:02:33 GMT -6
The interesting, and kinda sad thing was, that as the grades progressed - 6th through 8th - the interest in books decreased, until by the time the eighth graders came in, all they did was mill around and talk, not even looking at the books. I sold probably five times as many books in a hour at the grade school than I did in three hours at the middle-school. Very discouraging to learn our young teenagers have very little interest in reading. Very sad I'd say, it appears that in this electronic day and age teens have to many other interests to bother picking up an old fashioned book and reading the thing, surely one of the great joys in life. Remember as a young'un [ yep, can remember back that far ] starting out with comic books, moving on to the Tarzan novels and then the James Bond books by Ian Fleming, all of which created the habit of reading and engendered a desire to read more, a desire I've never lost. Admittedly there weren't as many other distractions back then, but it would be a great pity if todays youth overlooked the pleasure reading can bring. Oh and a [ very ] belated apology for missing you here the other day.
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Post by Siren on Dec 16, 2006 23:17:20 GMT -6
"Dental Dominatrix"?? LOL!!
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Post by Mini Mia on Dec 22, 2006 22:08:36 GMT -6
Joxie, Fairly Bored Mom. I know you've most important things you are taking care of now, but I'll leave a question for you in here for whenever you get a chance to pop in.
As I stare at this page, and think about how similar a visit to the dentist and a visit to the gynecologist are, I also wonder what the heck these "New" surrounded in blue tags are doing up here. Some threads have them that are new, like this thread here. Some newer threads don't. Some threads that are well over a year old have them. Any rhyme or reason? Just wondering.
Rough week; both the gyno and dentist, and I gotta erase one or both from my head - preferably the Dental Dominatrix leaves first; she's the scary one. Gotta gyno, (go now). I feel the need to floss, (it's been drilled into my head).
I get that too sometimes, but I don't know why the old posts have a "new" logo when they haven't been posted too in a long while. It may have to do with cookies (the computer version) . . . or it may be a Proboard thing. It also happens at my Runboard boards from time to time.
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Post by mabd on Dec 24, 2006 7:47:52 GMT -6
That Four More Hours Rule - does that apply when the alarm rings at six AM? It's still dark; it seems like the middle of the night. No? Pfft. Didn't think so. The Four More Hours Rule applies even when the alarm goes off at 4:30 AM. Pfft yourself. It is depressing. But it is also fixable. Kids in middle school are caught up in a bunch of mixed messages we send them. Some stuff is unavoidable: the learn-like-a-sponge years are past; the audience for any book shrinks as the kids' interest diverge; and by now, school must feel like Dante's Inferno, never-ending. And then there is the nonchalance-is-cool code of conduct the kids must follow. I've found making books mysterious or almost beyond the kid tends to get their hackles up and then they read. I have found the kiditude changes when I say something like: you might like... nah, that's probably too hard for you" produces a wonderful show of defiance by the kid who is now going read the book. And for some unknown reason, we stop reading to our kids. We should never stop. STP and I read to each other. When the nest was full, the older one read to the younger one. Not an easy battle but one worth fighting. Maeve
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Post by Phalon on Dec 27, 2006 7:36:31 GMT -6
How cool that you and STP read to each other - something I never thought of doing with Hubs except for little tidbits here and there of things I'm reading that strikes me as as particularly interesting, or something I think he might have an interest in. But we've never sat down and actually read a book together.
And you're right - we stop reading to our kids. BP, of course, still gets read to by all of us; and she "reads" to us - sometimes her version of the story much more interesting than what's written on the page. Beginning to learn words by sight - the, and, with, she, he, etc - I have to bite my tongue and bide my patience when she sits on my lap when I sit down to read whatever I'm reading at the moment, and she points on the page to words she knows.
But LX - I admit, has not been read to since she started reading novels instead of picture books. She and I rectified that last night. She got a lot of books for Christmas - my brother finished off the Series of Unfortunate Events by giving her the last four books in the series, (I love these stories as much as she), a book along the same lines I purchased and read while I was working at her school's book fair, titled The Dead Days, and one I got her titled, The Little Big Book for Girls. I have in my collection of Halloween stuff, The Little Big Book of Chills and Thrills, and she's always enjoyed borrowing it. Cool books these "Little Big Books" are - a collection of literary excerpts, poetry, interesting facts, even recipes. The "Girls" has excerpts from Rebbecca of Sunnybrook Farm, National Velvet, Anne (with an "e") of Green Gables, Little House in the Big Woods, etc.
After reading your post, Maeve, I thought this might be the perfect book to get started reading together again. I read to her the excerpt from "Harriet the Spy", (it teased her enough to want to read the book by leaving her hanging), poetry by Langston Hughes, and we sang together Carole King's "You've Got a Friend", (a sore-on-the-ears rendition). She then took a turn and we figured out which Greek goddess best represents our personalities, learned some new bad jokes, (Why didn't the broken pencil finish writing his biography? There was no point), and again, learned that we should not take our singing duet act on the road after we sang "You are so beautiful to me".
Despite the cringe producing vocals, it was one of those not-often-enough mother/pre-teen daughter moments in which no eye-rolling was involved by either of us.
Thanks for the idea.
Oh, and is this web-site acting strangely for anyone else?
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Post by xenavirgin on Dec 27, 2006 10:46:42 GMT -6
And for some unknown reason, we stop reading to our kids. We should never stop. STP and I read to each other. When the nest was full, the older one read to the younger one. Not an easy battle but one worth fighting. Maeve Oh Maeve I'm so glad that it's not just my Lady Wife Jane and I who read to each other. ;D We started doing that when we first got together and lived in a one room studio flat. Jane was appalled that I had never read the original Winnie the Pooh books when I was a child, so she started to read them to me when we would snuggle up in the evening on the sofa bed. One of my fondest memories is the night I was so tired i fell asleep while she was reading and I missed the end of the story. I woke up the next morning and semi-grumpily demanded she finish it again for me right then. It was a wonderful and supported moment for that inner child in me. One of the things Jane loved was that by reading the stories to me, she discovered that her parents had actually censored some of the tales when they had read them to her when she was a child. Namely the tale where the gang from the hundred acre wood don't like Kanga and Roo because they're new to the wood and decide to kidnap Roo until Kanga agrees to leave...gasp! We still read to each other and funnily it's usually sharing favourite children's books which one or the other never came across. So I read her Cherry Ames, Encyclopedia Brown and the Anne books (all 11 of them not just Green Gables), and she reads me the Moomin Trolls and the Famous Five. ;D It's a great snuggle pastime that I highly recommend. XV
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Post by Phalon on Dec 27, 2006 14:32:51 GMT -6
Another? I'm thinking this way cool.
But this site at the moment is not for me. Finally got back in, edited some of the typos in my above post, cuz I can't stand knowing they were there and not fixing them, and it took me forever to change two commas and an apostrophe.
Or maybe it was two apostrophes and a comma - it was so long ago I did it, I've already forgotten.
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Post by Siren on Dec 27, 2006 17:27:56 GMT -6
I have trouble here sometimes too, Gams, but just figured it was my gummed-up computer. Sometimes I have to refresh several times to get the page to totally load.
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Post by Phalon on Dec 28, 2006 22:21:57 GMT -6
I think it's back to working again for me, Siren. I haven't had this much trouble with the site since Phalon couldn't get in, and I had to bring in Gams. Don't know where she's got to lately; last I heard she'd phalon and couldn't get up.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 6, 2007 9:43:02 GMT -6
Shoot, I need to play catsup in here; I condiment to do that the other day, but couldn't mustard up enough time.
What the heck? I dunno - someone's at my front door, and my mind is french fried.
And I'm hungry.
Later Taters.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 9, 2007 23:35:36 GMT -6
She does. She is much better at spelling by sounding out words, than at looking at word, and reading by sounding them out. She spelled "remember" yesterday; I was impressed.
Yes, BP and her books. This evening she was "reading" at the kitchen table while I cooked dinner. The book was titled, "What Mommies Do Best; What Daddies Do Best". It is one of those books that have two stories: one begins from the front, flip the book over, and the other begins from the back. Both stories are the same, the second just substituting "Mommy" for "Daddy".
She finished the first, flipped the book over to start the second, then flipped it back again. Over and over. Repeating with each flip. "Mommy's on top." "Daddy's on top." "Now Mommy's on top." "Now Daddy's on top." "Mommy's on top...." I couldn't help but think.....what acrobatics all that flipping around must take. What stamina!
Then she asks, "Which do you like better, Mommy on top, or Daddy on top?"
"Uhm....(snicker)." I had to leave the room.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 13, 2007 22:05:15 GMT -6
Oh, Miaaaaaaaaaaaa..........?
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Post by Siren on Jan 14, 2007 14:49:09 GMT -6
"Then she asks, "Which do you like better, Mommy on top, or Daddy on top?" "Uhm....(snicker)." I had to leave the room." Bad, bad girl, Gams!
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 15, 2007 15:45:58 GMT -6
Oh, Miaaaaaaaaaaaa..........?
Yo, Phalonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn...........?
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Post by Phalon on Jan 15, 2007 17:12:21 GMT -6
Just checking. I hadn't seen you about in a while, and just thought I'd give a holler.
So, how're things?
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 15, 2007 18:52:43 GMT -6
Things are fine. I've been lurking here mostly. Spending my time at the writer's workshop blog and cherry forum. Also spending time at Zoe, as well. I'm trying to restart my interent in my horror novel & short story . . . and seeking an agent for my children's books at WritersMarket.com . . . etc.
I flutter from forum to forum.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 15, 2007 22:24:14 GMT -6
Ah, but what's a Fairly Bored Mom's wings for, if not to flutter?
And what's a cherry forum. Sweet, or tart? Pit spitting; that's always fun, and soooo very lady-like.
Good luck on your writing. It was my plan to write more this winter while I'm off work, but Thanksgiving rolled into Christmas - busy time, the girls were off school, and the past two weeks at least one - most often more than one - person in this household has been sick. Every time I sit down at the computer to write, my brain is too tired to think coherent thoughts, so I come here and subject anyone who reads to whatever rambling comes off my fingertips without thinking. Just like tonight: I have three things started, have had started for quite some time, and one day I plan to actually finish them. I stared at each one, even read through bits and pieces of each of them.....and nothing.
I have written though - just not what, or as much as I planned. I've had three small articles published in a gardening newsletter in the past few months, and will have a personal essay published in a women's magazine in February, (keeping fingers crossed; it's been accepted, but there's always the possibility it'll be cut).
Hope your fluttering leads you to good things.
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Post by leafsoup on Jan 15, 2007 23:33:00 GMT -6
For Mini!! Before you do anything.. or maybe you are smarter than me.. check out this webiste.. P&E: Submissions It is Preditors and Editors.. It is the best thing.. A listing of all the literary agents, those that are scams, etc. They have comments beside every publising house, etc Very valuable info. I started to correspond to a publishing house..sent my manuscripts and they wanted to see more..then I found them on Preditors and Editors with a big BEWARE sign. Thanks but no thanks.
Sorry I haven't been around lately, been missing all you crazies and laughing.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 15, 2007 23:34:47 GMT -6
Hiya Leafsoup! Glad to see you pop in.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 16, 2007 1:13:56 GMT -6
Ah, but what's a Fairly Bored Mom's wings for, if not to flutter?
I suppose you're right.
The Cherry Forum is a message board where Jenny Crusie's fans hang out and work on their writing. I've been lurking at the He Said, She Said: 2007 Writer's Workshop Blog, and the blog's workshop board.
The writing workshop is free and will be turned into a book when the year is up.
Thanks. I need all the luck I can get.
Yeah, I've been taking care of mom and haven't done much writing myself. I haven't even read any of my writing books since she went into the hospital the 30th of November. She's getting stronger though, and can get around the house without the walker now. She still doesn't have much strength in her knees and hips, so steps are very hard for her. She's not that strong with her arms and hands yet either. I think she'll be able to go home in about another month, and then I can get back to my old routine.
It'll still take her a year to get back to her full strength though. Thankfully she only has to take cytoxan for 5 more months. (Just once per month.)
Dad's been pretty weak himself. Staying in bed and not eating. Turns out his blood is too thin, so hopefully once that's under control he'll get stronger and he can start his chemo. I don't know how long he has to do that yet. I told my parents I knew they were competitive, but this is ridiculous.
That's great news. I've got my fingers crossed for ya too.
Thanks. So do I.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 16, 2007 1:18:58 GMT -6
For Mini!! Before you do anything.. or maybe you are smarter than me.. check out this webiste.. P&E: Submissions It is Preditors and Editors.. It is the best thing.. A listing of all the literary agents, those that are scams, etc. They have comments beside every publising house, etc Very valuable info. I started to correspond to a publishing house..sent my manuscripts and they wanted to see more..then I found them on Preditors and Editors with a big BEWARE sign. Thanks but no thanks.
Sorry I haven't been around lately, been missing all you crazies and laughing.
Thanks leaf, I know of the site. I have a link to it in a thread at my workshop forum. Plus tons of other info as well.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 16, 2007 22:31:27 GMT -6
Sorry your Dad hasn't got his strength back yet, Joxie. And your Mom too. Things take time; unfortunately sometimes it seems like too much time. I can imagine how much you all are hoping for their recoveries to be quick and easy. Hoping for you it happens soon.
Your Fairly Magic Wand...too bad it only works for cyber fixes.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 16, 2007 22:34:54 GMT -6
Yeah. I wish I had a real wand too.
Thanks for the well wishes, they're much appreciated.
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Post by Phalon on Jan 16, 2007 22:42:58 GMT -6
You're welcome for the wishes; never a problem and most heartfelt.
The wand....I saw a slightly tarnished one on e-bay. It came with a tutu though....lots of tulle, lots of sequins. How do you look in pink, Joxie?
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