Currents:
::Reading:: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff (which has led to a whole obsessive fascination w/ Brigham Young, Ann Eliza Young,Lost Boys,beehive stained glass windows and haunted houses of Utah.)
*edited to add* Once upon a time (before my computer bit the dust) , I had the info for an organization that collected quilts for pediatric AIDS patients. If anyone has that info, could you pass it on to me?
Listen:What was the first format you listened to music on—records, a-tracks, tapes, CDs? A phonograph?
I remember very little from my childhood (yes, yes…repressed memories. I need therapy.Blah blah) BUT I do remember my very first record player. I was maybe 4 and it was a little red Fisher Price record player. It was like this one but I clearly remember it being red. I used to have a ton of those little records with the books…the Disney Read Along records. I also remember listening to the Saturday night Fever soundtrack a lot (it was 1977 and I was 4 .Cut me some slack) and my uncle would bring all his dumb teenage friends over and laugh at me while I did the pre-school version of “Disco Inferno”.
Watch:What was the very first TV show you considered a favorite?
Little House on the Prairie!
Read:Can you think of a book you find to be completely overrated?
EAT PRAY LOVE. Gah…hate that book.It’s funny,though….. I had left a comment on a blog review of the book ages ago & from time to time, a new comment with show up in my subscribed list. People have some very strong feelings about this book.
I can think of many “beloved” books that hit the best-sellers list that are pretty overrated too. As far as classics go, I don’t know. Even if I don’t personally like the book, I usually get the reasoning behind why it’s considered a classic and I come to respect the reasoning.
Borrowed from the library this weekend : The Muppets,Season 1.
“Oh, THE MUPPET SHOW!! The kids have to watch The Muppet Show.”
When I was a little kid,I missed all the racist,sexist & culturally insensitive jokes,jingoism, the blatant sexual innuendos and the puppet strings. Luckily, everything but the puppet strings go over my little one’s heads…and it takes a lot to offend me.
Heard many times this weekend:
“I wanna watch ‘Manamana’!”
Even when not watching “manamana”, you can hear “doo doo dododo dooo…Mah-Na Mah-Na” being sung all over the house.
♥ making up after having our worst fight in 9 years together. We hadn’t really spoken in nearly a week…nor said “I love you”, which is typically said often and always.
♥ library book sales – 30 books for $5. Today….a bag of books for $2. Please help me find the willpower to not go.
♥ seeing my chiropractor. I love the sound of my spine being alined .That’s a noise even more satisfying than the clink-tinging of stuff being sucked into the vacuum cleaner
♥ sweet potato fries dipped in creamy curry dressing. Since eating them this way last July, I actually have cravings for them this way.
♥ Ruth & Arthur on Six Feet Under. (If you have watched beyond episode ,episode 34,season 3, for the love of all that is good and unholy, DO NOT tell me what happens!) . They are the sweetest couple ever.
♥ my cat earning her keep with her mad mouse-catching skills
♥ snuggling under blankets with a boy in bug pajamas on a chilly autumn morning
♥ how excited that boy is just because he has bug pajamas
We are not cable or satellite subscribers but we are geeks. We have a nice super long cord that runs from the computer to the TV, so any videos watched online , can be enjoyed in full capacity from the couch.
Thank you TV Gods for granting divine wisdom to networks ,giving them the genius idea of offering full episodes online. What would I have done without being able to hear those priceless words,”Sylar,I AM your mother” (or whatever the hell her exact words were). I really think she should have used a Darth Vader voice for that part ,though.
Nickjr.com has full episodes. I am not the type who uses an electronic babysitter but I’m not gonna lie. Segments of my day are easier thanks to NickJr.com.
One evening,
(apparently,September 27,2008,to be exact. But it was not 10:47 P.M. when we watched it. That was just when i Tweeted.Or Twittered. My kids are in bed at that time of night. )
Peppa the Pig was on. I had never seen Peppa and all her lopsided,snorting glory. The first 5 minutes,I did nothing but obsess about the placement of The Pig Family’s eyes. Note to animators: animals don’t usually have their eyes on one side of their face!
The first time I heard the *SNORT* as a conversational punctuation, I sort of lost it and started laughing hysterical. This set off a chain reaction of laughter among the 4 children watching Peppa and every single *snort* out of a pig resulted in nearly-pants peeing laughter in my living room.
Then..THEN…they inexplicably just fall over and wibble-wobble like Weebles! Oh,god…cue the die-laughing fits.
It probably isn’t supposed to be this funny and it probably isn’t even that funny to anyone else but me but that’s how it is.
I couldn’t help but think that Peppa the Pig is one of those shows that would be awesome to watch while stoned. Not that I really,truly know what constitiutes a good show to watch while stoned…it’s just something I’ve deduced from hanging out with people who like to do that sort of thing. As for myself, my one and only time being stones was pretty terrible. I quickly concluded that I am entirely too much of a control freak to surrender inhibitions and am already delusional and paranoid enough without adding drugs to the mix.
While traipsing around the blogosphere yesterday, I read that you were seeking stories from homebirthers.I clicked on the link provided by the blogger and was a little confused to find a form that asks only questions related to regretting a homebirth.
Now,I don’t like to jump to conclusions,Dr. Phil …but it appears to me that you’re planning a show focusing on the negative aspects of homebirthng. As a woman who has had a wonderful homebirthing experience (I will spare you the details since you seem uninterested in hearing about it), it concerns me that a mainstream television show with a wide viewing audience comprised primarily of women would choose to show only the ‘cons’ of such a demographically relevant issue.
It would be a huge disservice to women to present a partial sampling of information regarding homebirthing. Sharing stories that focus only on bad experiences perpetuate fear and ignorance about birthing options. As I am confident the Fact Checkers in your employ can confirm, homebirthing is a viably safe birthing option with many more pros than cons. I implore you to aim for at the very least a healthy balance of representation and allow the powerful voices of women who will never regret their homebirthing decision to be heard loud and clear.
