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Dawn wrote: "My baby boy turned one last week, so we had his cake smash party over the weekend:Needless to say, it was a success! :-D"
No fair!! Wesley was not into his cake. He poked at it but ultimately didn't care. We had his birthday party at his favorite restaurant. He loves their mashed potatoes and creamed corn. We said no to cake and yes to mashed potatoes. So we tried to get him to eat the mashed potatoes and get messy that way but he was not interested. He kept looking at my moms spoon so she just fed it to him normal. Anticlimactic.
Felina wrote: "Dawn wrote: "My baby boy turned one last week, so we had his cake smash party over the weekend:Needless to say, it was a success! :-D"
No fair!! Wesley was not into his cake. He poked at it but ..."
:-)
That's hilarious. He was probably giving all of y'all the side-eye.
He was. If Wesley is anything it is an eater. Don't get between him and his food. Now he'd probably make a huge mess of a cake but then he just wanted his food in the most direct method possible.
I was actually surprised that Rowan didn't eat more of the cake. I thought once he got a taste he'd be shoving it down, but he was more interested in playing with it. It was hilarious though, we was grabbing handfuls and rubbing it on his stomach and sticking it into his diaper... What a gross kid, lol. Eventually, once he got it into a nice mushy paste, he licked it directly off the tray for a while.
lolol
Okay... shipping logic. I'm home "recuperating" and am just getting to feel like doing some crafts (leather work). I ordered a couple of new knives. I want to make a couple of belts with knife and black powder revolver, you know holster and sheath.So...anyway I ordered the knives and they shipped (via Fedex) from Ga. I live in Nashville so the expected arrival date was Sat. the 28th. Today the expected date changed to Mon. the 30th. See it shipped from GA to MS ( Massachusetts)...
Am I the only one who can read a map??? I Mean they could have mailed it for the same shipping (or less) and not given my order a national tour. Possibly they could simply thrown it out of the truck on the way by???
Weird, oh well.
I'm guessing it got sent on the wrong truck. I've had that happen before, and my package has had a mighty trip before finally making it back around my way...
A coworker says that he heard from another coworker that I was a fantasy reader, and he asked if it was true... so I said yes, naturally.He looked like a happy puppy.
Then he said, "Sanderson...?"
And I crushed his poor little puppy heart when I said I wasn't a fan.
And then he died even more when I said I didn't like Name of the Wind.
He decided to take consolation in the fact that at there was another fantasy reader amongst us, even if we didn't like the same things.
(Though he did agree that Tolkien was overrated, so he's not a complete write-off.) ;)
colleen the convivial curmudgeon wrote: "A coworker says that he heard from another coworker that I was a fantasy reader, and he asked if it was true... so I said yes, naturally.He looked like a happy puppy.
Then he said, "Sanderson......"
:-D
Poor guy... You are so cruel, Colleen. :P
You need to be cruel to be kind...
Of course then he asks me what I do like and I totally blank...
Happy Halloween!
From us as well!
Hope everyone came through without candy overload. We only had a few kids...thus a lot of sugar-overload material is left over.Life huh?
We also have lots of candy left. Not as many people as previous years.
OMG. I gorged on white chocolate kitkats last night because very few kids. I'm giving candy to anyone who looks at me now. Also had to work so no costume. ;(
But yall look great!
My costume was Stressed Out Employee. We also got probably 25 kids total... and had 5 bags of candy... so I will either die of diabetes in 3 weeks, or die of diabetes in 2 weeks... depending on willpower.
Becky wrote: "My costume was Stressed Out Employee. We also got probably 25 kids total... and had 5 bags of candy... so I will either die of diabetes in 3 weeks, or die of diabetes in 2 weeks... depending on w..."
Be cool like me! Diabetes in 2 weeks or less FTW! O_O
MrsJoseph wrote: But yall look great!"Thanks!
I'm pleased with how my take on the costume came out. :>
Since I wasn't going to be wearing no bathing suit, I sort of tried to evoke the idea of her look without going whole hog:
colleen the convivial curmudgeon wrote: "MrsJoseph wrote: But yall look great!"Thanks!
I'm pleased with how my take on the costume came out. :>
Since I wasn't going to be wearing no bathing suit, I sort of tried to evoke the idea of h..."
Love the Raven costume, Colleen! I think you captured her aesthetic very well.
Thanks!I'm thinking about maybe trying to get away with it at Wizard World next year. ^_^
I really like it.
Has anyone else ever experienced book-amnesia; as in you know you've read or at least started a book before, but can't remember a thing about it? That's what's happening with me and American Gods. I apparently got to page 129, four years ago, and stopped reading it for reasons I don't remember. So I expected something to feel familiar as I restarted it today, but it was like I had never seen the book before.
The reason I find this surprising is because the first two chapters are pretty vulgar, language-wise, and chapter two is all sorts of NC-17, so you'd expect them to leave an impression.
I've forgotten that I read a book but recalled it when I started the reread. I think after you've read a lot it just has to happen.
I've seen books on my read list that I had no recollection of, but then once I start reading the blurb or review it comes back to me a little.That's actually one reason I started writing reviews - to give myself little memory prompts about why I liked or didn't like a book, since I didn't always remember.
colleen the convivial curmudgeon wrote: "I've seen books on my read list that I had no recollection of, but then once I start reading the blurb or review it comes back to me a little.That's actually one reason I started writing reviews ..."
^ What Colleen said. I have a lot of books like that.
colleen the convivial curmudgeon wrote: "I've seen books on my read list that I had no recollection of, but then once I start reading the blurb or review it comes back to me a little.That's actually one reason I started writing reviews ..."
Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "I've forgotten that I read a book but recalled it when I started the reread. I think after you've read a lot it just has to happen."
See, that all makes sense, and is what I expected. But I'm sitting here like "Wait, I read one-hundred pages of this book before!?!"
Maybe my book memory resets after four years...*shrug*
Nyssa wrote: "Maybe my book memory resets after four years...*shrug* Well all your cells supposedly get replaced every 7 years, so why not? ;)
I've had the experience many times, where I know I've read the book before but can't even remember who done it or the denouement.
Nyssa wrote: "colleen the convivial curmudgeon wrote: "I've seen books on my read list that I had no recollection of, but then once I start reading the blurb or review it comes back to me a little.That's actua..."
Or maybe it was just... not memorable for you. I've re-read whole books where I KNOW I've read the book before but nothing jogs my memory. Or sometimes things are vaguely familiar like déjà vu but I don't really remember.
Yeah. Some books just don't stick because they're just so meh.Movies, too.
Like... we watched the Batman Lego movie and I'd totally forgotten we'd even seen it. I said to my husband one night, while deciding what to watch, "How about Batman Lego. We'd said we'd wanted to watch it."
"Didn't we already watch that?"
"Did we?"
"Yeah..." - and then he goes into some descriptions of what happened, and it took me a good several minutes to even remember stuff enough to recall that, yeah, we had actually watched it.
And it wasn't even long. Like - a couple of weeks. And I'd totally blanked on it.
...do I know you people???? Oh yeah, I remember now. I'm sorry. Never mind...
Hmm.. Not sure if this has ever happened with a movie before...but would I remember if it did!?! ;) You're probably right Mrs. J. I have had a moment or two of deja vu, but chocked it up to wanting to remember something that I couldn't in this case.
I like the way you think Orlok!
Thanks for making me feel less crazy, guys. lol
I only had one update:
April 12, 2013 – page 129
21.79% "I think my suspicions were just confirmed... But my planning period is over, and I have to get back to work, so I won't know until later."
So now I'm curious... What was I suspicious about? Why did I feel said mysterious suspicion was confirmed? Did I ever find out? Was I right?
Anyway, we'll see how I feel when I get to page 129.
Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "...do I know you people???? Oh yeah, I remember now. I'm sorry. Never mind..."LOL!
WTF GOODREADS.Apparently GR decided to change my facebook settings and started posting all of my updates to my facebook feed. NOT COOL. I didn't notice until after someone commented on it on facebook. Pretty mad.
That’s odd. Did you have any recent operating system or browser updates? The only time I can remember my settings suddenly changing was after Chrome had an update. I reset my settings and everything was ok again.
Nyssa wrote: "That’s odd. Did you have any recent operating system or browser updates? The only time I can remember my settings suddenly changing was after Chrome had an update. I reset my settings and everyth..."
I have no idea. I access GR from multiple computers depending on where I am. My browser updating should have nothing to do with my personal GR settings.
It shouldn’t, but sometimes things get tweaked. It was just a thought.
Dawn wrote: "WTF GOODREADS.Apparently GR decided to change my facebook settings and started posting all of my updates to my facebook feed. NOT COOL. I didn't notice until after someone commented on it on face..."
O_O
Goodreads makes opt-out instead of opt-in decisions all the time. It's a constant source of frustration in Feedback.
It's also yet another reason NOT to trust them with linked accounts.
So... my step-mother-in-law is trying to Trademark the word/expression "Primetastic", so that she can turn around and sell it to Amazon...According to Jer, she's now obsessed, and recently responded to a Facebook post of mine with "Prime-arrow-tastic".
All I can think is:
colleen the convivial curmudgeon wrote: "So... my step-mother-in-law is trying to Trademark the word/expression "Primetastic", so that she can turn around and sell it to Amazon...According to Jer, she's now obsessed, and recently respon..."
O_O
wow
Besides, doesn't she know that most people who coin new words never get paid off it? One great example is the chick who created the word/phrase "Fleek/on fleek." The word is everywhere now. They've even named make up and other cosmetics "fleek" and/or "on fleek." The creator isn't even recognized. :(
I think that's why she's preemptively attempting to trademark it... so that if it does take off, she's already got the rights to it.Or something.
I don't freaking know, man.
colleen the convivial curmudgeon wrote: "I think that's why she's preemptively attempting to trademark it... so that if it does take off, she's already got the rights to it.Or something.
I don't freaking know, man."
lol
Can you even trademark words that aren't names of items?
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We put him in the tub and hosed him off good. I think we got it all!