Today the kids at the BG's daycare were supposed to come dressed as what they want to be when they grow up ( Read more... )

I ditched work a little early today so RM & I could go to the movies. We saw Hanna, which was good, and not easily comparable to anything else. I wasn't expecting as much of a fairy tale as I got, but the contemporary and fairy tale elements really came together. (Though there was a scene that screamed Galaxyquest at me, and I am VERY dubious about ( Read more... )

Driving home this evening, RM started singing Rebecca Black's Friday; I groaned, and the BG said, in an exasperated tone, "Shut up, Baba!" Any other day we'd call her on that, but under the circumstances, we both cracked up laughing.

Researching ABCs videos for the BG, I came across this gem: The Jackson 5 appearing on the Carol Burnett show in ( Read more... )

We were rear-ended this morning on the way to work/school. The car appears to be undamaged, but the BG started crying and said her head hurt, so we called it in just in case, and they wound up putting a collar on her and improvising a back board with her car seat, and then she had Baby's First Ambulance Ride, followed a couple hours later by Baby's ( Read more... )

Blue's Clues, and Dora, and all those other shows for young kids regularly offer pauses in which the kids watching the show are invited to speak up -- "Say, 'backpack'!" or "You saw a clue? Where ( Read more... )

-- Disconcerting: I've been mainlining Fast & the Furious fic for a few weeks now, so it was a little weird to see a friend on Saturday who is a dead ringer for Vin Diesel (he even has the voice ( Read more... )

( Before I begin my story, let me just assure you the BG is *fine*. )

Thing About Celebrities #1: More than a week later, I still have not figured out why the news that Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz are splitting up strikes me as particularly sad ( Read more... )

So I've signed on to a bunch of Sherlock BBC comms, but I'm still signed on to a bunch of SGA comms as well. And inevitably, as I'm skimming down my f'list, I'll start reading a fic summary about "John," and halfway through (typically when it refers Rodney or Sherlock) I'll realize I was thinking it was the other fandom, and it's always a bit ( Read more... )

Thing the first: Today is the first day of the year of the rabbit. (Happy year of the rabbit!) This year we kept our observance small, but I still wanted to do something festive. Usually I steam a whole fish, but neither RM nor the BG likes fish, so I went with a whole chicken instead -- and since we were eating on a weeknight, I cooked it in the ( Read more... )