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Posted on 08/24/2005 9:50:25 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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spammich?
Yes, but I wouldn't have as many reservations about pushing the dog out of the bed. Can't quite do that with the 5-year old.
Sam couldn't jump up on the bed if he tried. We'd have to lift his rear end up. And the cat has had nothing to do with me since I was having that bronchial stuff last year.
I'm sure throwing her across the room had nothing to do with that.
Homer just sneaks up.... and he pushes very subtley, so that we just wake up with our legs hangin' off the bed and him there sleeping innocent as can be.
Well I slept in a whole twenty minutes. I really liked that.
Yowsers. That one with the 'hook' on the tip looks downright deadly!
It's bread, Jim.
Sigh. Spent a good 30 minutes on the phone with a certain large computer company only to find that yet again, they won't take your word for it about a problem. All I need is a new battery for one of the department laptops, but no...
The commercial, maybe. But Kate is just plain scary. She'd stab her best friend in the back if she had to. Basically did, in fact. Some remorse afterwards doesn't excuse it.
Heh...we do a lot of bashing her during the shoes. And arguing about the other characters...our favorites are different.
Heh...listened to a clip on Amazon, and it's a song I've heard before. You're right, it'd work...
The cats don't push me off the bed, and Tam isn't a morning person, so he doesn't usually get up until nine or ten.
But Halvah will get on the bed right near my ear and purr at top volume and knead her paws, and if I move so much as an inch, she'll start chatting. Brat.
She never used to do that when the dogs were around. Now I get to know what it's like to have a cat alarm.
During the shoes? Shoes of power?
And yeah, it is weird that we have such different favorites. I don't actually like Locke and Sawyer, they just make more sense and are more interesting than the other guys.
Do not mock the shoooooooes.
~sigh~
Luke's getting glasses. Wife described the condition, but I didn't catch the actual name. He's been seeing double.
Sheesh. Poor kid. Hope he doesn't break them too quickly.
Well, that's helpful at Christmas...
Hope he sees better and doesn't mind wearing the glasses.
Wife got the more 'spensive flexible (non-breakable) frames and he got to pick out the ones he wanted. So, I think he'll be okay.
Wife is feeling guilty because this is one of the things that could happen with prematurity. I told her we are fortunate that this is ~all~ we've had to deal with. The asthma isn't really even an issue anymore.
Yeah, glasses are no biggie. He'll adjust, hopefully quickly. Just convince him to take up engineering or something when he gets that old, everyone else will wear them too.
Not strabismus, is it?
Heh...unfortunately, my family has had experience with just about every eye condition known to man, from simple nearsightedness up through color blindness and a disorder I can't seem to remember the name of...it's like the retina didn't mature. That's what Ben and Bill have, and it means they're basically legally blind.
I guess I'm lucky to just have amblyopia. Means I don't have depth perception, but I guess since I've never known different, it isn't a big deal.
With his fascination with bridges and how things are put together, engineering wouldn't surprise me.
'Course it would really PO his big brother if he got the scholarship to Virginia Tech and big brother didn't...
Oh, and if it is strabismus, they usually grow out of it. My brother did. He doesn't even need glasses now, actually, since it was his ONLY problem - he's not nearsighted or anything.
It's Accommodative Esotropia (I called the wife back) which is apparently a version of or related to strabismus. The glasses should correct it and it's possible he'll grow out of it.
His actually vision is 20/20.
So, there's that. ;-)
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