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altarflame) wrote2008-08-18 06:02 pm
altarflame) wrote2008-08-18 06:02 pm
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Random Hoohaw
We've shamelessly browsed and bought our way through antique stores; Bed, Bath and Beyond; Publix and Marshall's in the past two days. I am thrilled and probably far too satisfied by both the things we've acquired and the bargains we've found. A lot of it is very practical "we just bought a home" stuff - some is shockingly perfect advance Christmas gifting that will go into a closet for months, and then there is this - CHOCOLATE PASTA. Except we only paid $3.00 for it :D
There's a big ol' tropical storm that might have been more, so we're all in Hurricane Mode - the gas stations and hardware stores have been madhouses, we have far too many non-perishables, the plants from outside are cluttering up the place. Probably my dad will be very disgruntled that all his cab customers were evacuated out of the keys for this lot of nothing. Sitting around the house too much I've found some interesting tidbits on the computer today for the first time in awhile - like, this quote:
"... behind each face there is a hidden world that no one else can see.
Each life is a narrative that remains mostly hidden. This is why it’s
so difficult to be human: you live in two worlds - the outer world of name,
family, address and role; and the inner world which is profoundly
nameless, where no one else can enter, and which remains intimate
though unknown, largely, to you...."
~ Writer, priest and poet John O’Donoghue,
from a sermon given in 2002
And, apparently school teachers in Texas are now allowed to carry guns? Wow, that's all I can think to say. Wow. Texas, I swear.
I thought some of you might be interested in hearing that my neurology feed is reporting a link between a particular gene abnormality, and bipolar disorder. It's also implicating calcium and sodium imbalances as causing manic episodes. Now, everything that pops up on this feed is REALLY new, usually the result of a single study or even theorized, but it's all legitimate - read more here, if you like:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/118525.php
I suppose I'll go back to reading to the kids now. I was afraid of how The Goblet of Fire would be for them, and remember purposely putting it off when they were 5 and 6. But, well, it was great. We just read the graveyard scenes in the middle of the afternoon, and all at once to get them out of the way. When Dumbledore was telling Harry he needed to tell them all what happened even though it was hard, because it would just get worse if he didn't, Aaron was like, "Oh, like the sadness would stay in his body because he didn't get it out. Then he'd probably need counseling." :p Anyway, yeah, I tried to sway them back to Narnia or Rowan of Rin but they were both passionately eager for Order of the Phoenix and it really gets me, how much more they LAUGH at these books then I did/do. Like the second chapter, that we just read awhile ago, it has the Dursley's and Harry arguing in the kitchen and owls keep swooping in and interrupting and everytime they do, Uncle Vernon gets So. MAD. Well, it's amusing, but I couldn't help but laugh til I was crying because my kids were in belly-clutching hysterics everytime it happened again. Aaron was also about to pee himself everytime Vernon called dementors demembers or dementies, and "Lord Voldything" had them both going, too. I even look forward to Quidditch scenes now, which was definitely NOT the case during my own reading.
There's a big ol' tropical storm that might have been more, so we're all in Hurricane Mode - the gas stations and hardware stores have been madhouses, we have far too many non-perishables, the plants from outside are cluttering up the place. Probably my dad will be very disgruntled that all his cab customers were evacuated out of the keys for this lot of nothing. Sitting around the house too much I've found some interesting tidbits on the computer today for the first time in awhile - like, this quote:
"... behind each face there is a hidden world that no one else can see.
Each life is a narrative that remains mostly hidden. This is why it’s
so difficult to be human: you live in two worlds - the outer world of name,
family, address and role; and the inner world which is profoundly
nameless, where no one else can enter, and which remains intimate
though unknown, largely, to you...."
~ Writer, priest and poet John O’Donoghue,
from a sermon given in 2002
And, apparently school teachers in Texas are now allowed to carry guns? Wow, that's all I can think to say. Wow. Texas, I swear.
I thought some of you might be interested in hearing that my neurology feed is reporting a link between a particular gene abnormality, and bipolar disorder. It's also implicating calcium and sodium imbalances as causing manic episodes. Now, everything that pops up on this feed is REALLY new, usually the result of a single study or even theorized, but it's all legitimate - read more here, if you like:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/118525.php
I suppose I'll go back to reading to the kids now. I was afraid of how The Goblet of Fire would be for them, and remember purposely putting it off when they were 5 and 6. But, well, it was great. We just read the graveyard scenes in the middle of the afternoon, and all at once to get them out of the way. When Dumbledore was telling Harry he needed to tell them all what happened even though it was hard, because it would just get worse if he didn't, Aaron was like, "Oh, like the sadness would stay in his body because he didn't get it out. Then he'd probably need counseling." :p Anyway, yeah, I tried to sway them back to Narnia or Rowan of Rin but they were both passionately eager for Order of the Phoenix and it really gets me, how much more they LAUGH at these books then I did/do. Like the second chapter, that we just read awhile ago, it has the Dursley's and Harry arguing in the kitchen and owls keep swooping in and interrupting and everytime they do, Uncle Vernon gets So. MAD. Well, it's amusing, but I couldn't help but laugh til I was crying because my kids were in belly-clutching hysterics everytime it happened again. Aaron was also about to pee himself everytime Vernon called dementors demembers or dementies, and "Lord Voldything" had them both going, too. I even look forward to Quidditch scenes now, which was definitely NOT the case during my own reading.