Posted on 06/29/2007 7:12:24 PM PDT by kinganil
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Hey! I was JUST now thinking that I hadn’t seen your nic around here in awhile. Hope all’s well.
Thanks, for reminding me that I am overdue for a viewing of LOTR. Got the Platinum Series DVD’s at home, with all the cool bonus material, but haven’t watched them all, in awhile.
You know, some of the dust bunnies have been acting a bit mopey, and there are at least two zombies down in the nether hallways who just haven’t been their ususal jovial, practical-joking, undead selves, lately.
Be sure you poke you head in, down there and say, “Boo!”
Or “Hello”.
Or, even run screaming down the hallway with a flamethrower on full-blast.
Any way you play it, they’ll be happy to see ya.
Oh, yeah, and one more little item:
Go toss some fish to the plesiosaurs; it’ll make their day.
Oooo, lost library book. Bad juju.
Got just one word for you, Ma’am: amazon.
Maybe if you show up with a replacement, they won’t stick you with the fine.
If it doesn’t show up by Friday, I’ll just pay the replacement cost. I tried to renew it, but it’s wait-listed and computer wouldn’t let me.
See, now I’d be morally conflicted, at that point, because I know — since it’s wait-listed — that someone else wants to check it out. I’m NOT being legalistic, here, and saying that YOU must do this, but I’d go get a replacement copy just to grease the skids for the library. Likely, their “fine” for lost books isn’t sufficient to pay for replacement copies, anyway, so the other person who, at present, thinks they’ll be able to get the book out after you return it is going to be disappointed. Call it an overzealous restitution impulse, but just forking over the fine wouldn’t be enough for me to have peace about the whole thing. I’d be squirming in the pew come Sunday.
Yeah, I’d say racing to the bookstore for a copy of “Ruby, the Red Fairy” would be a little overzealous, especially since the system has a dozen copies, so each little girl on the reserve list will only have to wait another day or two for this thrilling tome due to our misplacing one.
And don’t worry, they’ll charge me full replacement cost, plus a markup for their trouble.
They charge you full replacement cost?
They haven’t done that in Kalifornialiscohuahua in...I don’t know how long.
Yes, full cost. This is not our first missing book from Charlotte-Mecklenburg, although the (hardback) book about talking cats turned up on the top shelf of a closet after I paid the replacement fee (so I probably have enough credit to cover “Ruby,” which is a small paperback.)
I annoyed with the girls, though. The books get lost because they hide them in their room to read when they’ve been put to bed, or they hide them from each other because they don’t want to take turns, or they take them out to show their friends. In fact, Sally may have taken this one to a friend’s house.
Speaking of cats, Wednesday has taken an interest in the lizards, who occasionally scuffle about like ... prey.
And the gerbils, who are really stupid, are trying to chew through the bars of their cage.
We wrangled with our kids for awhile about sneaking books and reading after lights-out, but, one evening after a good wrangling, I and my P31W looked at each other and wondered aloud, “What are we thinking? They’re eager to READ; we ought’a just LET ‘em!”
So, we made a complete policy change, on the spot.
We went right back into their bedroom, flipped on the lights, gave them their books and said, “New rules: Read all ya want. Just make sure you’ve got plenty of light while you’re doing it. Good night!”
It was far better than having them lay in the dark and either bicker back and forth or talk fantastic gibberish to each other for an hour or more. Now, they ususally read for about an hour, after which they then turn out their lights and go to sleep WITHOUT any adult intervention required.
They’ve used that time to memorize their lines for a couple of productions, and are simply eating up everything they can get their hands on. They’re mowing through the “Hardy Boys” books like there’s no tomorrow...
And, to top it all off, if we DO come in and say, “Early morning tomorrow, so no reading tonight”, they typically comply without any fuss at all.
What’s not to like about this?
With any luck at all, my 12-y/o will be getting into the LOTR trilogy by year’s end, after which I might be able to begin a transition from complete fiction to some works of historical non-fiction, and, from there, to more substantial, important, non-fiction works including seminal documents like “The Federalist Papers”.
It won’t be an overnight transition, but planned, nonetheless.
Sigh. I must just be doing everything all wrong. Mine won’t shut up no matter what ... and then they mope around all day, yawning like alligators and collapsing every time I turn my back.
I should’a gone with Plan A and been IRS Commissioner, and raised Siamese cats.
We have a 16 year-old calico that was born in a refinery and ‘rescued’ by my wife before we were married. She lives in our Master Bedroom, sleeps on our bed, and pukes if she eats too much at once, which happens almost daily, because her kidneys are getting borderline. She’s choosy about who gets to pet her and for how long, but I get more time than anyone else, because I’m her favorite human of all. At night, she gives me NO peace until I allow her to lay down under the sheet next to me and scratch behind here ears for awhile. When she decides “that’s enough,” she crawls out, curls up at the foot of the bed, and then we can all go to sleep.
That sounds very much like our late Agnes, who was 18, give or take, when kidney failure did her in.
Hmmm. IIRC, part of our “solution” was that they could ONLY stay awake IF htey were reading, otherwise it had to be “lights out, shut up, and go to sleep.” That hasn’t been 100% effective; they still lay awake and chatter sometimes, but it’s not EVERY night like it used to be.
If it wasn’t so hot in the evenings, I’d try running everyone around the block until they dropped!
Elen will be at Girl Scout camp next week, so Sally can stay awake and play or read if she wants to, as long as she doesn’t hang around in the bathroom. (They hide books in the bathroom, too.)
Vlad has a new tooth - this makes 11.
Well, keeping them active is probably the only way to garner some sanity indoors. The P31W takes them to a couple of park days with other friends; usually once a week, but sometimes to both. There’s a swim lagoon out at a local reservoir where they go and spend the day with some other families every Tuesday during the summer. My wife can relax up on the grassy slope under a sunshade and chat with the other ladies while all the kids wear themselves out playing at the man-made beach, splashing around in the water, or playing “Marco Polo” in the deeper part of the pool.
Between that “Math Camp”, VBS, and just plain telling them, “Go out in the backyard and play”, we get them outdoors running around for long enough that we don’t have to mollify them with videos to maintain our sanity when they’re indoors.
Sounds like a good deal.
Priceless.
As the deer is leaving, “And that’s MISTER BAMbi, to you!”
LOL, pretty much!
The fact that it was at Disney makes it even better.
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