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guess. no, really. guess.
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[May. 25th, 2012|11:15 am] |
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I've discovered the root of our financial problems! CNBC has explained it all to me!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/47525588/
My mistakes, or at least the ones applicable to us:
* Duane mows the lawn (sometimes) instead of spending his Saturdays in the office and paying someone to mow it. He's salaried, as I'm sure are most CNBC readers, but I'm sure that doesn't matter.
* We don't eat out enough.
* At our wedding we had a friend of my sister's do our "bartending" and got the cheapest photographer we could find.
* We don't get the expensive seats when we go to the minor league ball park.
Who knew? Well, now I do! |
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[May. 24th, 2012|02:04 pm] |
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I went to the school to visit Ben and Ruth for lunch today. They've been wanting me to come in for months now, no kidding, but with school for me and for Jonah and all the driving around for Ben's various appointments, getting away in the middle of the day has been a challenge.
But time is growing short. They only have 7 more full school days left, so I figured the time to strike was now while the iron was hot, so to speak. I like the school, although the careful reader of this blog would be forgiven for assuming otherwise. It's a happy place, bright and sunny and cheerful. The kids are sweet and cute (mostly) and so goodnatured. I've spent lots of time in that building and I've never seen a child upset or picked on. That's not to say that it doesn't occur- I'm not stupid, of course all schools involve some bullying to some extent, but being in the lunchroom or on the playground as often as I've been, I swear I've never seen any evidence of it. It's a nice, happy school.
So I had lunch with Ben first (who was very disappointed that I wasn't going to go out to play at recess with him) and then with Ruth. It was a nice time, right up until the end. Ever get a bag of cherries and they're all wonderful until the last one turns out to be rotten? It was like that, such a nice day until the end. At the end of Ruth's lunch the aide told the kids in that sing-song voice that adults use when they're saying the same thing they say every single day that the floor had just been swept before they arrived so they should carefully pick up all the pieces of food and trash bits and throw them away. A girl hustled to get a broom and dustpan and it was all a regular routine which was fine and good except that it was a lie. I'd been there all morning and I knew that not only had the floor not been swept all morning but that the class right before Ruth's group was the kindergarteners who, as you can imagine, aren't the tidiest eaters.
I have no objection to the kids sweeping the lunch room. I think it's great- they should alternate and sweep it every day. Wash down the tables, too. But I hate it, hate it, hate it when adults lie to children. It makes my skin crawl and my face flush. Just tell the kids to sweep. There's no need to elaborate with some false obligation/guilt thing about how they messed up your work. Just say the floor needs to be swept. They'll sweep it either way. Why not respect them as people in the process? |
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| Nostalgia, ahoy! |
[May. 22nd, 2012|08:31 am] |
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So today Jonah has his second of 3 highly anticipated autism evals. This is what we were put on the list for waaaay back the March before last when he was in the hospital. The wheels of mental health grind slowly? Or something.
Anyway I got heaps of praise for Jonah's "excellent socialization" during the first eval. But because he's capable of looking so functional when he's really not, the evaluation they're doing today isn't typical. It's basically a two hour interview with me about what he was like when he was 4 and 5 years old.
Yikes!
My memory is very bad for that sort of thing under the best of circumstances and he was 4 and 5 when Ben was an infant and 1, which was not exactly the best time of my entire life, if you remember all that misery. So last night I thanked God for Livejournal and read back every single post I made between Jonah's 4th and 6th birthdays. When I was writing them I tried hard not to be too miserable about everything so things seemed rosier than they actually were but it did refresh my memory a bit about Jonah.
And also about our lives at that time in general. I'd forgotten so much and it was only 5-6 years ago. It was a wonderful evening, just sitting and reading the regular doings of my life with kids. It was a good life, and we had a lot of fun.
I still have a good life and it's a lot of fun now, too. But less fun than it was. We had so much more freedom then.
I'd like to get back in the habit of posting, even if only for my own memory. I also have plans to increase our fun and freedom. Can't say now, though. You'll just have to tune in later. |
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| Somebody help me out here |
[May. 20th, 2012|10:29 pm] |
There's a relatively recent anthropological/sociological theory that groups various itinerant mountain peoples--mostly, I think, central Asian--together as a result of a perceived common survival strategy: resistance to literacy, census, taxation, all the attributes of nearby "civilized" central governments. It uses a particular name to describe this trans-ethnological construct. I think it starts with an "N." What is it?
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| By the way |
[May. 14th, 2012|05:53 am] |
I know a lot of people are now looking for a place to post Sherlock fic that doesn't...um...forbid you to follow up on whether your story post has been approved for a full week. I'm in favor of other LJ/DW comms, of course, but everyone should also be posting to/reading at the AO3, which has a humungous Sherlock collection already. I tend to assume that everyone already knows about it, but then I'm reminded that fandom is, as someone once said, "a large nation." Put your fic there! Please!
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