When she was about 5, I asked my step daughter what she wanted for her birthday. She said she wanted an "interesting species".
Now, I completely agree with that desire, but I found it a little elitist for her to imply that the world didn't already have some, so I asked for clarification.
"What do you mean?", I said.
She said, "You know. That thing in the book I have."
I said, "show me."
She goes and gets the book and shows me a picture of a microscope, and says, "There, an interesting species".
Oh, yea. So, she got an interesting species, and I gave it to her. That's just one of my many powers in this universe.
Some of you already read the story that I posted here way back of the dog I rescued that got adopted by the family of one of the producers of American Idol. The kid in the family, made a little book about the dog, and when I saw it, I got all embarrassingly teary and pussified sitting in my doctor's office.
Parents who try to make their kids "act out" annoy the heck out of me. Just thinking about that now, it occurs to me that it might be because I don't have one. I don't have a kid. Knowing that, the parent, makes his kid perform or whatever as a way of rubbing it on my face.
It's tremendously effective. In my case the parent is a woman btw.
Lem, it's probably one of your commenters. They are not your friends, and they are all racists who find you a little too melanin enhanced, and need to keep you down anyway possible. That's how we roll.
My son was linguistically precocious. I video recorded his first "conversation" when he was just several months old -- it was more like a call and response between us -- both making the same noises back and forth.
When he was a bit older and started to string real words together, but still helplessly small, he used to protest when picked up: "Put you down, put you down!" he'd wail. He hadn't yet gotten the grammatical concepts of pronouns down (you vs. me) and assumed that his name was "you" because we called him that as often as by his name. I thought that was cute, but maybe it's more common?
Thanks, chick! I was wondering about K and W. I remembered stations in CA being with a K, but I was wondering if that had to do with AM and FM. Thanks for clearing it up :)
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When my daughter was ten she said "Don't worry, I'll pay my way through college."
Cracked me up, that one. Cute little joker.
When she was about 5, I asked my step daughter what she wanted for her birthday. She said she wanted an "interesting species".
Now, I completely agree with that desire, but I found it a little elitist for her to imply that the world didn't already have some, so I asked for clarification.
"What do you mean?", I said.
She said, "You know. That thing in the book I have."
I said, "show me."
She goes and gets the book and shows me a picture of a microscope, and says, "There, an interesting species".
Oh, yea. So, she got an interesting species, and I gave it to her. That's just one of my many powers in this universe.
Some of you already read the story that I posted here way back of the dog I rescued that got adopted by the family of one of the producers of American Idol. The kid in the family, made a little book about the dog, and when I saw it, I got all embarrassingly teary and pussified sitting in my doctor's office.
Anyway, here it is:
Happy ending
Parents who try to make their kids "act out" annoy the heck out of me.
Just thinking about that now, it occurs to me that it might be because I don't have one. I don't have a kid. Knowing that, the parent, makes his kid perform or whatever as a way of rubbing it on my face.
It's tremendously effective. In my case the parent is a woman btw.
not that there is anything wrong with that ;)
I'm having problems with Google as my home page since yesterday.
I've switch it to blank. and then I click on a Google "favorites" link as a work around.
It's annoying... freaking NSA should be more discrete.
Lem, it's probably one of your commenters. They are not your friends, and they are all racists who find you a little too melanin enhanced, and need to keep you down anyway possible. That's how we roll.
Shall we call Lem Chocolate Bear, like JD calls Turk on Scrubs?
That's awesome, phx. I love these.
My son was linguistically precocious. I video recorded his first "conversation" when he was just several months old -- it was more like a call and response between us -- both making the same noises back and forth.
When he was a bit older and started to string real words together, but still helplessly small, he used to protest when picked up: "Put you down, put you down!" he'd wail. He hadn't yet gotten the grammatical concepts of pronouns down (you vs. me) and assumed that his name was "you" because we called him that as often as by his name. I thought that was cute, but maybe it's more common?
Thanks for the sweet stories :)
If think this series was a great idea, deborah, and I hope you keep it going. I will try to contibute something, even it is beaningless manter.
Eventually, someone will start a night time WLEM-FM music rock station...
BTW, did you know that radio stations east of the 100th meridian begin with "W" and those west begin with "K"?
Thanks, chick! I was wondering about K and W. I remembered stations in CA being with a K, but I was wondering if that had to do with AM and FM. Thanks for clearing it up :)
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