65 posts tagged “lol cats”
I was browsing the I Can Has Cheezeburger site yesterday, looking for more lol cats, and decided to try some of it's affiliate sites. I stumbled on the Roflrazzi. It's shots of celebreties with funny captions. Holy crap. I laughed pretty hard at some of them. I wound up reading 189 pages of photos (6 per page) and downloaded the best.
There were many themes: Star Trek, Star Wars, Jonas Brothers, Twilight.
I can't remember if I mentioned my hatred for Twilight yet. I went with a bunch of female relatives on Lee's side. I figured it couldn't be that bad. I was wrong. The pre-teen angsty dialog was making my skin crawl. The plot line wanted to make me smash my forehead into the chair in front of me in an attempt to knock myself out so I didn't have to watch more of it.
I think teens have moved on from a White Knight, or Dashing Prince from swooping in and rescuing them from their mundane life and whisking them away to their fantasy... to a vampire who look like he lost a fight with a container of glitter, and hasn't bathed in so long his hair sticks straight up on it's own.
Sigh. <-- over emphasized sigh
For anyone who might not have enjoyed it all that much. Some lol-Twilights for your amusement:
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I've developed a new fondness for naan. Well it's not completely new. We found a naan bread recipe last year, that calls for garlic of course, and used it to make pizza doughs. We would make up the dough, and roll them into balls that would wind up making a pizza about 8inches or so across, and froze them. When we wanted pizza I just had to remember to take them out in the afternoon and let them thaw. Then roll them out. This way Lee and I could make our own customized pizza, and I can make a simple one for the kids.
We were at friends a while back and we had some hamburgers. She had run out of buns accidentally but found some flatbread style buns she had bought at the store in her freezer. They made the best hamburger buns ever! They are much stronger than regular buns, as they don't fall apart after soaking in the condiments. You don't really need to toast them. And they're quite tasty!
The whole thing tasted new and different.
So now I'm using that naan recipe above to make flat bread once a week or so. Turns out my oldest loves it.
She doesn't like sandwiches really, as she prefers her ingredients to be separate and not touch each other. (She will eat peanut butter and grill cheese - but you can't take peanuts to school anymore). So I usually slice up a half of a wrap and put that, ham slices, and cheese slices into a container for her lunch. She can then roll up little sandwiches on her own.
But she likes the naan bread, so now I can cut them into little wedges and put them in too, then she makes her own little sandwiches. (I actually don't add garlic for her - will have to make 2 batches next week, one for us, one for them)
So this works out great. I can use them for hamburgers, or my own breakfast sandwiches, mini pizzas and kids lunches! Woooo
My youngest has turned a corner. She still argues and says No a lot, but for whatever reason (maybe shes no longer constipated?) she has been in a much better mood the past 2 days.
I took her to preschool and she didn't really argue, took her jacket off and ran in to play with toys yelling "Come on Mommy". I talked to the ladies there a minute, and she was still playing with the toy cars, not even looking for me, so I snuck out.
It's put me in a MUCH better mood today.
I feel energized, proactive, and I might even clean and do laundry today.
I turned on the furnace for the first time this morning. It's getting cold overnight, but still very warm during the day.
I turned it on so I could clean out the system. You know that burnt dusty smell every fall when you first turn it on. All the windows are open and the fans are on, and I'm shivering away in the office.
But at least it'll be ready for when we do want to use it and wont stink up the house.
I'm debating between canning some of the garden veggies, and blending them up with garlic and spices and freezing them in ice cube trays.
I do that with chicken broth. Cause then you can retrieve a single cube (or two) and toss them into recipes or just sit them in a metal bowl and put them in a little hot water in the sink to melt them. It helps them to keep longer too.
I have a baggie of frozen beet mush cubes in the freezer. I toss a couple cubes into spaghetti sauce and soups. Lots of vitamins that way. You can also toss them into mashed potatoes and make them a bright pink!! heh.
Anyway, off to attempt to be domestic today.
No matter what kind of day I am having, there is an LOL cat to describe it perfectly!!!
Which may be why I love them so much. I know it's silly, maybe childish. But the little goofy photos with bad spelling make my day sometimes!
Today it's 'Meh' cat.
The youngest is still in her NO phase. She handled preschool much better today. She still cried when I tried to go but the teachers said that she was fine after a few minutes then did great the rest of the time. She didn't want to leave when I went to get her, and even behaved when we took coffee to Lee's office, and hit the dollar store for ice cube trays.
When we got home... well, nothing was going to make her happy. She wanted to play this game on the Treehouse TV Web site. (Lots of great games for young kids) So i put it on, then she didn't want to play it, but wanted to watch the cartoon that it's based on, which I don't have... and well, it went downhill from there.
She finally passed out on the couch.
I think I know why this one is having issues with preschool. It's because I didn't take her out as much, to a play group or other activities as I did my oldest. Oh well.
I do remember my oldest going through a phase where nothing was how she wanted. She refused to eat dinner for weeks and I finally have to give her something afraid she will get sick from not eating (usually fruit to make sure she got vitamins). Most of the time, spending 3 days in her room was enough to get her on track again. She still has bouts of craziness.
For instance, if she gets some sort of special treat, not necessarily food, but some fun event that maybe she never did before, then she refuses to listen to me for days. If I decide that the kids have been good, and decide to get some fast food for lunch (which we dont do often), then she thinks she can have ANY food she wants any time she wants, and I don't get to refuse her.
Which usually makes me regret doing anything nice for her some days, because she turns into Super-Brat afterwards.
Once I got her a couple timbits in the morning, then we went grocery shopping, and she couldn't understand why she couldn't have EVERY junk item she saw. Usually she asks, then when I say 'No', she is fine and moves on. But because she got her timbit, then anything goes.
"This is why Mommy drinks."
Such is the life of a parent however.
The oldest is MUCH better. She is loving grade 1, and listens much more now.
1 Down, 1 To go.
:)
Vent day is over.
Having one child in school for 6 hours has been rather surreal. When she was in kindergarden we walked her up to school, came home, I got 2 hours to do stuff, before heading back out to pick her up... Now I have several hours of time.
My youngest is going through the terrible 3's. There is no such thing as terrible 2s. Both ours were much better behaved through the 2s than the 3s. Then when they hit 4s they try to reason their way out of things more, but usually easier to handle.
She was ok the first few days that her sister was at school. I tried to take her out for short grocery shopping trips but even that didn't seem to entertain her. I also think she wasn't feeling well so she laid on the couch a lot, and her temperature was up a little. Now she is saying NO to everything and freaking out every morning over nothing, to the point I swear she's gonna burst a blood vessel in her brain.
This morning, we got 50 feet from the house and she wouldn't stop blubbering so I told my oldest to go ahead and walk to school by herself. That was hard for me to do. However, the back way involves no street crossing and is very fast. Just down a half block, through an empty lot, and in the back gate of the school yard. She looked uncertain at first, but then seemed rather excited that I would let her do that.
The school really is VERY close to us. And I thought next year I would let her walk, but I just didn't feel like dragging, then carrying a simpering mess with me the whole way.
Tomorrow the youngest starts preschool, which she seemed to enjoy at the open house, where we got to visit with the teachers. I am hoping that after a few times at preschool she will settle and be more excited to go out in the mornings. I think she might be bored with me at home, even though I am trying to give her some activities to do. Painting, etc. Might have to take her to a park if I have the car (There is a nice one downtown) more often.
Sigh...
I need to spike my coffee today I think. ;)
It's been too long, in my opinion, since the last cats. :)
What do you collect?
First a little history.
My oldest is in Kindergarten, in an English class. Since I live in Canada, a lot of the schools offer French Immersion starting in Kindergarten or Grade 1. Both my brother, MJ, and I were in French Immersion since Kindergarten through to Grade 12 (Actually, I think MJ switched out in Jr High).
We registered my oldest a little too late last year, and the 2 French Kindergarten classes were full up. So she is in an English class. No big deal. One of the mom's told me about an informational meeting for parents to sign their kids up for French. And that she had her son on the wait list to get into the grade 1 french class. Apparently those who start in grade 1 develop at roughly the same rate.
So I went to this meeting last night, at 7pm. Lee suggested I take my youngest, since I was going to run to the grocery store after. I didn't think the meeting would be too long... but it went almost an hour and 20 minutes. The representatives from CPF (Canadian Parents for French) talked, the principal talked, a few of the teachers talked, and a couple parents talked, all bestowing the wonderful virtues of having a child in french. For those english parents who were on the fence, I'm sure it was all helpful. But since I already pretty much knew it all, I was just waiting to know where to sign. My youngest didn't do too bad, she wandered around, read some books (since we were in the library).
Well. The representative from the School Board talked last. And I found out that I basically have to camp out for 24 f*cking hours in front of the School District office in order to have a snowball chance in hell of getting my child into french. This goes for the parents of children who will be starting Kindergarten too.
The office starts taking registrations starting at 7am on April 1st. But it's a first come first serve, and they start handing out numbers, like in a bakery, the day before at 8am!!! Previous years, parents literally camped outside to get a spot. And this lady tells us that the parent who got the last Kindergarten space, got her number at 3pm the day before registration. Apparently we can't get our number and leave either. We HAVE to stay there.
Those parents who couldn't get their child into french went on the waiting list for Grade 1, I mentioned. And because the grade 1 classes are allowed to be a little larger than kindergarten, there are several open spaces for children. But when I asked the lady after the meeting about it, to see if I actually have to stand in line, she said that there were a lot of children on that wait list and all the open spaces are gone.
So ... since Im not a caring enough parent to forsee this and camp in line to get my child into french... she has to wait till Grade 6 when she can enter a new program called "Late French Immersion". That class, after a few years, merges with the "Early French Immersion" kids, and most do very well.
Regardless of all the crap I just mentioned... Me... standing in line from 8am March 31st to 7am or later April 1st is not possible. First I have to take my child to school on the 31st and pick her up. So I wouldn't be able to line up till after 11am. Then I have to sit there all day with 2 small kids??? Lee could take them home when he gets off work at 5. But he has to be at work at 7am, so I'd have to either leave, or he'd have to bring the kids to me when the Reigstration Office opens... and still get my oldest back to school at 8:40 am.
Oh, they do have this sibling registration thing too, which is new. Once you get your first child into french, then any siblings can automatically go into it. So I guess my youngest is shit out of luck too.
How the F*CK are parents suppose to DO this????
I remember our dad saying that when they went to sign me up for Kindergarten, the French Immersion program was just being introduced, and they needed to fill spots, so they asked if he wanted to put me in French instead of English. So he figured why not!
Nowadays, its the cool thing to do I guess, and only parents who really love their children would go this far.
In my opinion, that is no more pathetic than rich parents registering their child at conception for kindergarten because if they do not get into the right private, prestigeous, school right off the bat then they wont be able to go to the right schools later on, then university, then have a future.
I saw that on Law & Order and other New York based shows.
Or, how about no more pathetic than trampling another parent to get the last Tickle Me Elmo, or Cabbage Patch Doll.
So now I'm livid... This was just last night and I'm still pissed. I went to the grocery store after and it was the shortest shop I ever did. I didn't waste time browsing, just grabbed everything I needed (milk, bread, fruit... basics)
Not so much that my oldest can't get into french... but the whole evening of waiting and hoping to find out at the end that it's a f*cking 3 ring circus so your child can learn french. The french program is only 6 years old here too... as opposed to 28 years old where MJ and I grew up. And the district can barely pay the teachers they have, so there's no chance of having another french class added on to accomodate the demand.
So I guess It's up to me to teach her. I took french immersion for 13 years. I can still speak it and understand it, although I am rusty. But she does know a bunch of Spanish, thanks to Dora the Explorer. So I might get some spanish books and teach her more of that. If she wants to do french later on, then hopefully she'll already know 2 languages, because after that its suppose to be easier to learn more.
Phew...
That was my day.
Where's the beer.
It's finally melting. It was up to at least 6 degrees above zero yesterday and it was melting real fast. There are rivers running down every road, and by late afternoon the dirt of our driveway was finally showing through!!!
8 Degrees is a big deal. I might even break out the shorts! lol
Also, I mentioned trying out MJs diet... and I dont know if Im bloated or it's that time of the month, or the dinner I had on the weekend, but I'm up a few pounds...
I can continue to bitch about the office that I still work for (That I quit, but got sucked back in) but... I'm just not in the mood at the moment.
Later!
So I woke up this morning to the weather feed on my FireFox saying it was -20 degrees celcius. As I was drinking my coffee, it went down to -21 degrees.
WTF is going on here. Srsly. We had one wonderful warm day where everything melted tons. Then a cold snap... a big dump of snow... and another cold snap.
It is also perfectly clear out there. It was so cold that as I stood at my daughters school, waiting for the bell, you could see thousands and thousands of minuscule ice crystals floating in the air. As if the air itself was freezing. It was very pretty in the sun shine however.
Every single leafless tree I saw on the way down to the grocery store afterward looked as though it was frosted completely from head to toe... if trees had toes. Like it was blasted with a can of whip cream.... or that fake snow you spray on fake christmas trees.
Now for some cats to attemp to brighten my day.
