Lydia Jenkins Netzer aka glamatron (DailyKos)
You’re not a human - you’re a little girl?
That speaks volumes, doesn’t it?
The child’s mother...
Lydia Jenkins Netzer aka glamatron (DailyKos)
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I’m Lostcheerio
From VA
My name is Lydia. I’m a homeschooling, minivan-driving, milk-pouring, child-wrangling, husband-pestering, dog-remonstrating mother of two. This blog will show you what homeschoolers are really like.
I’m the mother of two interesting redheads and the wife of an options-trading cyclist. I live in Virginia in a blue house. I write fiction, compose songs, drive my children around, ride my bike, and read books. I fix other people’s novels as a book doctor. I also knit and sew but I draw the line at baking. Our children are homeschooled.
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The Tea Party Would Have Been Awesome! (With the Proper Permit)
By Lostcheerio on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM.
Here’s one sure sign this is not the revolution: Somewhere near Washington DC there’s a truck driving around full of tea bags.
Yes, the plan today was to dump 1,000,000 tea bags into the Potomac River as a protest of — uh — the government. Unfortunately, the proper permit for dumping a truckload of Lipton into the Potomac could not be obtained! WHAT? NOT OBTAIN THE PROPER PERMIT!? Well, FINE, then they were going to dump the 1,000,000 tea bags on the ground! ON THE GROUND! In the *park.* NO! THEY DID NOT HAVE A PERMIT FOR DUMPING TEA IN THE PARK EITHER!! Even after the protesters offered to dump the tea tags onto a tarp for easy clean-up, the authorities weren’t crazy about the idea. So the hundreds of protesters (HUNDREDS! HIDE YOUR CHILDREN!) packed up their tea bags and went home. Because nothing says “HANG ‘EM HIGH!” like a quiet obeisance to the local dumping ordinances.
So much for the event billed as the largest grassroots movement in history. Guess what teabaggers? Fox News got what they wanted out of you — a big fat ratings day. Show hosts coming at you from across the country! Live music! Parades! Tea! All on Fox! Of course, it was fair and balanced reporting, exactly the same coverage they gave to those silly anti-war protests which a few (hundred thousand) people attended in a couple (thousand) cities around the country (world). If you want a hearty chuckle, watch this montage of the slavering, drooling promotion from Fox News.
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http://www.littleblueschool.com/
The child’s mother...
Lydia Jenkins Netzer aka glamatron (DailyKos)
Name Lydia Netzer
Location Virginia
Web http://lostcheeri...
Bio I am a liberal homeschooler, a fiction writer, and a book doctor, but I just want to ride my bike.
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Monday, June 8, 2009
Little Blue School: Lydia Netzer’s Interview
Lydia lives with her husband and two children in Virginia and in some online circles, she’s known as lostcheerio, which I just love, but I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because I’ve always related to the little cheerio that falls out of the box, bounces off the counter and rolls under the refrigerator.
In addition to homeschooling her two children, Lydia is also a book doctor which I guess means she cures sick books so I’m going to keep her in mind because I have a really sick book idea in my head.
She blogs at Little Blue School and you can see some marvelous photos of her kids in action.
In this interview, Lydia just completely smashes the homeschooling socialization myth. It’s now in tiny pieces under the refrigerator. I love her description of how homeschooling familes grow together...
Lydia Jenkins Netzer aka glamatron (DailyKos)
The child’s mother...
Lydia Jenkins Netzer aka glamatron (DailyKos)
Lydia Netzer (Jenkins)
Lutheran North High School
Macomb township, MI
Class of 1989
Biography: I live in Virginia with my husband and two children, and an absurd dog.
The child’s mother... (SURPRISE - SHE WRITES FOR A LOCAL PAPER)
Lydia Jenkins Netzer aka glamatron (DailyKos)
Not everyone was caught by surprise. Lydia Netzer, a.k.a. “lostcheerio,” a photographer, blogger and married mother of two (and definitely one of the people Time was talking about in its “person of the year” issue, given the amount of content she creates on the Internet), went with her husband and children to watch the launch. You can read Lydia’s account, and view her photos, on her Xanga blog. [UPDATE: Actually, the fuller account is on her HamptonRoads.com blog, where she writes: “We and all the other nerdypants people freezing our bottoms off got to hear the roar, see the fireball, and watch it disappear. It was so cool. The exciting part took about a minute and a half, but it was worth it.”] But best of all is her YouTube video:
Lydia Says:
December 18th, 2006 at 7:23:55 am
Hi there! :D
This may or may not surprise you, but the *actual* account of the launch was on the homeschooling blog that I write for the local paper… and it’s here: http://home.hamptonroads.com/blog/index.cfm?uid=65 Yes, another blog. I agree it’s kind of ghastly the amount of content I create for the internet. Hehehe. Maybe someday they’ll create a “birth control” for blogs, eh?
It’s nice to meet you. If my redheaded boychild becomes a stargazing nerd, I’ll burst with pride. And the rocket launch was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. I didn’t expect to be so interested in something I did just for the kids. But it was awesome!
The child’s mother... (SURPRISE - SHE WRITES FOR A LOCAL PAPER)
Lydia Jenkins Netzer aka glamatron (DailyKos)
Lydia Netzer
Norfolk Books Examiner
Lydia Netzer is a writer, reader, bookstore habitué, graduate school survivor, book reviewer, and independent editor. She keeps her finger on the pulse of the book world for Hampton Roads. Email Lydia here.