Are You a True Friend/Decent Person?

Are you ever on social media sites, and do you ever get those "pictures" that "ask" you to forward them on by shaming you if you don't? A friend of mine answered the challenge:


LOTS of thingies on here demanding, I mean asking, me to say in one word how we met. (And challenging me to scroll down to read the entire post.) Then I'm supposed to copy said thingy onto my wall. This, apparently, proves that I read your wall.

Ok--firstly, you know how we met. If you don't know how we met, you should probably stop drinking. Because chances are pretty good that if you are one of my FB friends, we have actually met. And I'm pretty sure I remember how we met.

Secondly, I'm not reading anyone's wall. It's called a news feed, or something. You know, that long page that you can scroll down to see what all your FB friends are doing/posting. (I barely have time for that--I'd never have time to open everyone's wall individually).

Thirdly, I don't do those "you must copy/share/repost this picture to prove that you are a decent person/true friend" thingies. (I never did chain letters when they were done by email/snail mail, either.)

Fourthly, as my friend, you know that I write all of this with humour in my heart, and a wink in my eye 

Lastly, and most importantly, I love you all 

Random Thoughts March 24 2014

Traffic Circle Etiquette: signal if you're leaving the circle -- I'm not going to assume that it's okay for me to enter, and I'm going to be very annoyed with you if I had to wait for no reason. And, feel free to signal left when you're staying in. That's a nice clear level of communication right there.

It's almost daylight and it's not even seven!

Wouldn't you make sure that you hand in your time sheets so that your company's bookkeeper could write your paycheck? Cutoff dates are clearly listed, people.

Random Thoughts March 20, 2014

Did you really think that I was filling the water reservoir in the lunchroom Keurig so that you could make a cup of coffee? Really? Wait your turn.

Vincent does not get enough exercise time on Beauty and the Beast. And if someone could hide his exercise shirts, that would be great.

Does the "Terrible Twos" ever end? Because I think that there's some kind of Richter scale thing going on with the age, here. Maybe it's easier to be sassy when your vocabulary is bigger. . .

Wake up early for exercise, or for sexercise? Yeah, I picked that one, too.

Only three hundred more pages to go, and I can read other books!

Make "special surprise inside" cupcakes with your three-year-old, don't get upset about any mess that ensues, enjoy your time together, and then watch said child pick apart the cupcake to get at the chocolate egg inside. Throw out the actual cupcake.

"Steve Martin Is a Jerk."

Completely random quote from our 3.5 year-old while driving in the car.

Well, maybe not completely random.

I once called a fellow driver a jerk (for driving too slowly. Ahem), and of course that became the word of the day. So we calmly explained that the only person that K1 can call a jerk is Steve Martin. It of course took days to explain why because we also had to explain "actors", "pretend", "movies", "characters", and "jerk." Thankfully we didn't have to explain the late seventies/eighties.

Still, that was a couple of months ago, so it's still pretty random.

Sorry, Steve Martin.

101 Things to do for Children: # 57 - Learn to say, "No..."

Number 57 of the 101 Things Parents Can Do For Children is  Learn to say, "No," without anger, and with firmness and conviction. Not everything children want is appropriate.

Sometimes, it's hard to leave, maybe not so much the anger part out of it, but to leave the frustration part out of the word "No."

But I whole-heartedly agree that children do need to be told "No" when they are asking for things that are inappropriate, for things that are inappropriate in that moment (IE no juice/sugar before bed, thank you very much), or when instead of asking, they're whining and/or demanding for things, and are essentially being very rude.

A common utterance in our house is "What does whining (or crying) get you? Nothing."

And the word "Please" better be tacked on to that sentence somewhere (yes, we model this--even when I'm frustrated and super irritated I try to always say "Please", as in, "NO! I said please come brush your teeth, or I will take all of your trains away").

And, it's not, "Whine whine whine." "What's the magic word?" "Please." It's, "Whine whine whine." "What's the magic word?" "Please." "In a whole sentence. And without the whining. Please."

"Could I have some milk, Mommy. Please?"

That may have been a bit whiny, but it will do.

Busy Mom Book Review (BMBR): Last Hit by Jessica Clare and Jen Frederick

(Okay, firstly, I've realized that since I'm not doing much for synopses in these BR's, I should at the very least give you a genre. So far they've all been some form of romance (smut, actually - for the most part they have had lots of sex in them). Bottom line: my husband was really happy with my level of amourousness that reading these books produced. And, I didn't lose any brain cells.)

All right, let's get to the BR, shall we?

Last Hit, which I came across via Frederick (see last review), is by far one of the most erotic books that I have ever read.

;)

That's right. This post is labelled "Sex after kids".

Busy Mom Book Review: Jen Frederick

I've read Unspoken and Undeclared. For " new adult" they're pretty good. They might not be high literature, but the writing is very readable (IE I didn't feel like I was losing brain cells while reading them). They have subject matter - underground fighting etc. - that, while I've heard of said subject matter, is not part of my life, and it's a nice escape from the snot and poop and Cheerios that is my life.

 And at fiveish bucks an eBook, they're totally worth it. I see she's got a new one or two available. Bottom line - I'll buy more Jen Frederick.