. . . I took K- for an appointment on Friday and Dr. P- asked what she was going to dress as for Halloween.
"Darth Vader," answers my Star Wars loving child.
She looked at me completely shocked and with a weird, wrinkled face asked, "Really?"
"Uh, yes."
"You mean that you don't want to dress as a princess?" asked Dr. P- of K-.
"No. I want to dress as Darth Vader."
"Oh!"
"She's quite a fan. Her 6th birthday was Star Wars themed."
The doctor kind of chuckled and we all went our separate ways. What surprised me was her attempt at getting K- to change her mind to something more girlie.
Now to give K- credit, she did want to be Padme. I purchased the Darth Vader mask last year after Halloween and she has been jazzed about it up until just recently. She went through a very short Padme phase, but is now happily back to Darth Vader.
A side note: Padme is some chick from Star Wars that ends up being Queen Amidala. (Known in our home as Queen Amadolly because of the Barbie doll we have of her.) The Star Wars bit is K- and Hubs' thing. T'ain't mine.
I admit that the princess thing has never been something that I've encouraged. People I've known have done the princess thing to the hilt, almost to the point to make me want to be ill.
I would not and will not wear things on K- that says, "I'm a princess." Frankly, I think that's a bunch of garbage that we didn't want to feed to our kid and as much as our kid means the world to us, we didn't want her going out into public on her high and mighty thrown thinking that she needs to be treated any better than anyone else. (No, K- does not live on a high and mighty thrown.) Okay, it's a fun dress-up thing but a regular thing just doesn't do good things for either one of us.
I shall step off that soap box now.
We've brought K- up to play with boy or girl toys. She enjoys boy and girl movies. She has no problem running with the boys or playing house with the girls. (Or vice versa with the kindergarten housekeeping area.) She's happy with a pile of dirt or a pile of rhinestones. She's thrilled to roll in the dirt or wear a pretty dress. She reads books that would specifically appeal to boys or to girls. She doesn't care. She doesn't see gender in anything like that. Her world to her is still gender neutral. We're cool with that.
So, what are your thoughts? I should clarify that I wasn't offended by the doctor's question, just surprised. Apparently she was surprised by K-'s answer. Maybe I've lived with her Star Wars obsession for so long that it no longer phases me as odd.
Smiles in my day:
- Got another tree basically down. Now if my co-worker hadn't found those extra ornaments that match the tree, it would be done.
- My mother-in-law had a lovely ham dinner waiting for me.
- Hubs stayed home today and slept most of the day. He's "trying to feel better." I'm still on the couch.
- The winds and nastiness that we were supposed to have apparently fizzled because we got some wind and some rain, but nothing tornadic like what they were saying. "Isobars close, barometric pressure drop and we've seen nothing like this since the Fitzgerald went down in the lake . . . " The time that the old RAV got hammered by hail and the roof and gutters on the house were trashed was far worse. Glad that we didn't get it, but geeze o' Pete, it was prediction of Armageddon again. I wanted to know the CAPE, but they never tell you that. (My co-worker couldn't find it either.) Thanks to Storm Chasers, I know what people are looking at in regard to CAPE values, but have no idea about the full science behind them. Numerically, I know when to duck and run. Still, we are glad that this side of Ohio didn't blow into the Atlantic.
Have a great day!
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
You know you have a reputation when . . .
. . . Your friend e-mails you the following:
Yes, I have issues that even my good friends that have never personally met me know. :)
Thanks for the giggle, Rachael!
On an aside, I had e-mailed Rachael a bit more in detail the bit about the boxes o' yuck at the super secret movie location the other day. They were the most disgusting public toilets that I have ever seen. Consider yourself lucky to have been spared the details.
Smiles in my day:
- Celebrating my in-law's 44th anniversary with them today. We were slightly belated due to Hubs' schedule and their weekend day trip, but it was all good.
- K- absolutely LOVING! arts camp. They've even been teaching the kids yoga! She loves it and I'll be checking into some kids yoga videos from the library.
- Being moved up the Toyota corporate line. The dealership? Oh, after the message that they left for us today, we have and will continue to be sharing our experiences with corporate (I actually played them the message) and I will be mailing a letter to the owner of the dealership. He's busy running for some type of high political office. Has he forgotten that he has a dealership group with his name stamped to the outside? I may need to remind him. In the meantime, the corporate level of Toyota seems to be taking our concerns very seriously. We are Toyota owners for life. We just need to find a new dealership. Thankfully, there is a dealership about 20 minutes down the road that we plan on checking out. After the tire cover deal is dealt with, we will no longer walk into the dealership that we purchased the RAV from ever again. Too bad. It is 5 minutes away.
Have a great port-o free day!
Claustrophobia combined with germophobia=O*MG it's a port-a-potty!!!
Yes, I have issues that even my good friends that have never personally met me know. :)
Thanks for the giggle, Rachael!
On an aside, I had e-mailed Rachael a bit more in detail the bit about the boxes o' yuck at the super secret movie location the other day. They were the most disgusting public toilets that I have ever seen. Consider yourself lucky to have been spared the details.
Smiles in my day:
- Celebrating my in-law's 44th anniversary with them today. We were slightly belated due to Hubs' schedule and their weekend day trip, but it was all good.
- K- absolutely LOVING! arts camp. They've even been teaching the kids yoga! She loves it and I'll be checking into some kids yoga videos from the library.
- Being moved up the Toyota corporate line. The dealership? Oh, after the message that they left for us today, we have and will continue to be sharing our experiences with corporate (I actually played them the message) and I will be mailing a letter to the owner of the dealership. He's busy running for some type of high political office. Has he forgotten that he has a dealership group with his name stamped to the outside? I may need to remind him. In the meantime, the corporate level of Toyota seems to be taking our concerns very seriously. We are Toyota owners for life. We just need to find a new dealership. Thankfully, there is a dealership about 20 minutes down the road that we plan on checking out. After the tire cover deal is dealt with, we will no longer walk into the dealership that we purchased the RAV from ever again. Too bad. It is 5 minutes away.
Have a great port-o free day!
Friday, April 30, 2010
I have this issue.
The season is here. What season is that? Sandal season. I pull out the pumice stone and polish to get my feet a little less wintry looking and more sandal friendly.
I've come to realize that not all folks take to my seasonal foot maintenance.
On Wednesday we had some customers in wearing sandals on a brisk 54 degree day. The two sandal wearers were offenders. First was a young man being taken around by some young girl, no doubtedly the friend of his girlfriend, showing him all sorts of things that he could buy. He was physically incapable of walking without dragging his feet everywhere. [slide, slide, slide] I looked down, and realized that his sandals were 1. too small since his toes were curling over the front, 2. his toe nails were excessively long and 3. his toe nails were chipped, funky and very visibly dirty. [scrunched up face yelling EWWWW! inside.] The second offender was a woman in her 50's, incapable to make a decision to save her life and she was walking around in similar fashion to the young man, 30 years her junior.
Y'all, I have some serious foot issues when it comes to people wearing sandals.
Men, I don't care how much you try, as a population, you generally only have utilitarian type feet. Those are best strapped inside of something that will kind of mask those things. The airy sandals? Your better bet. If you insist on wearing flip flops, please consider taking care of not only nail length and cleanliness, but ridding your feet of the tufts of hair growing on tops of all of your toes.
Ladies, there are pumice stones. They are our friends. Munchy, crunchy heels are not good. Even my 6 year old will notice that she needs to use it and the little elephant nail brush that I have at the tub for her. Please also consider wearing the correct size of footwear. I know that sandals let us cheat with sizes, but if you wear a size 8 1/2, it doesn't mean that you should be wearing a size 7 sandal just because it is open or too darned cute and on sale to pass it by. If your heel is lopping over the end or your toes are curling over the front, you need to bump up a size or two. It's okay. We don't care what number you have on your feet. Toe paint is certainly not required. A little trimming and some lotion may be all you need to get your feet rolling for the season. Remember, the same rule applies for toe hair. Thy razor is thy friend.
A note about sandal styles. A friend at work calls flip flops shower shoes. She's right, you know. But, for those of us (even late bloomers like me) that like flip flops (though I'm a snob and won't wear cheapies or any without the fabric thingy between my toes), can be cute. Just make certain to follow the size suggestion in the paragraph above. Ooo, and remember not to run in flip flops. That's just plain dangerous. God never intended us to run with a sole slightly strapped to our foot.
There are sandal styles that fully expose the full front of the foot. I don't get it. I'm usually a let-a-little-toe peek out kind of girl. These sandals expose the entire full set of pigs and an inch or two of the top of the foot. I've never found these to look attractive on anyone. That much foot exposure cannot be that good for walking either. All I can figure is that the front would tend to want to flap in the wind. Argh.
Now, I don't know who decided that toes need to have acrylic extensions. Really? All I can think of is all the grossedies that might gather up under those things. Y'all really can't be wearing full shoes with those. The shoes have to press down on those and cause pain. Are acrylic toe nails really worth it? Will I find them swimming in the public pool this year? EWWWWW!
And since we're on the foot subject, plenty of people wear toe rings. Though I find them uncomfortable, folks like them enough. Just remember, a little goes a long way. You don't need to have four per foot.
This concludes my foot maintenance clinic. If you have any more suggestions regarding sandal season starting, please feel free to include them in the comments.
Smiles in my day:
- The hawk doing his morning fly-by as I was hanging laundry.
- The woodpecker hard at work tap-tap-tapping on a tree when I was readying to leave.
- The chickadee couple that appears to have decided to use our back birdhouse box that I! built as a home for their soon-to-be chickadeedeedees. :) (Mama duck appears to have vacated the premises, though.)
- Listening to all of the migratory birds as they are on their way north. We've enjoyed the Tufted Titmouse and his peter-peter-peter-peter call this spring. It makes us happy!
- The 100 book challenge board is fully updated.
- I was able to track down the last set of Bob Books that I need for K- for summer. I needed Bob Pals and found it on Half.com.
- My husband bought me a new mop and left it downstairs as a surprise! I know that this seems like a very 1950's statement to say, but I have a love for the Vileda mops with the flippy handle. I've been looking for an additional mop for the upstairs (we share between the basement and upstairs and we wanted a upstairs exclusive mop) and I couldn't find one.
Have a great day!
I've come to realize that not all folks take to my seasonal foot maintenance.
On Wednesday we had some customers in wearing sandals on a brisk 54 degree day. The two sandal wearers were offenders. First was a young man being taken around by some young girl, no doubtedly the friend of his girlfriend, showing him all sorts of things that he could buy. He was physically incapable of walking without dragging his feet everywhere. [slide, slide, slide] I looked down, and realized that his sandals were 1. too small since his toes were curling over the front, 2. his toe nails were excessively long and 3. his toe nails were chipped, funky and very visibly dirty. [scrunched up face yelling EWWWW! inside.] The second offender was a woman in her 50's, incapable to make a decision to save her life and she was walking around in similar fashion to the young man, 30 years her junior.
Y'all, I have some serious foot issues when it comes to people wearing sandals.
Men, I don't care how much you try, as a population, you generally only have utilitarian type feet. Those are best strapped inside of something that will kind of mask those things. The airy sandals? Your better bet. If you insist on wearing flip flops, please consider taking care of not only nail length and cleanliness, but ridding your feet of the tufts of hair growing on tops of all of your toes.
Ladies, there are pumice stones. They are our friends. Munchy, crunchy heels are not good. Even my 6 year old will notice that she needs to use it and the little elephant nail brush that I have at the tub for her. Please also consider wearing the correct size of footwear. I know that sandals let us cheat with sizes, but if you wear a size 8 1/2, it doesn't mean that you should be wearing a size 7 sandal just because it is open or too darned cute and on sale to pass it by. If your heel is lopping over the end or your toes are curling over the front, you need to bump up a size or two. It's okay. We don't care what number you have on your feet. Toe paint is certainly not required. A little trimming and some lotion may be all you need to get your feet rolling for the season. Remember, the same rule applies for toe hair. Thy razor is thy friend.
A note about sandal styles. A friend at work calls flip flops shower shoes. She's right, you know. But, for those of us (even late bloomers like me) that like flip flops (though I'm a snob and won't wear cheapies or any without the fabric thingy between my toes), can be cute. Just make certain to follow the size suggestion in the paragraph above. Ooo, and remember not to run in flip flops. That's just plain dangerous. God never intended us to run with a sole slightly strapped to our foot.
There are sandal styles that fully expose the full front of the foot. I don't get it. I'm usually a let-a-little-toe peek out kind of girl. These sandals expose the entire full set of pigs and an inch or two of the top of the foot. I've never found these to look attractive on anyone. That much foot exposure cannot be that good for walking either. All I can figure is that the front would tend to want to flap in the wind. Argh.
Now, I don't know who decided that toes need to have acrylic extensions. Really? All I can think of is all the grossedies that might gather up under those things. Y'all really can't be wearing full shoes with those. The shoes have to press down on those and cause pain. Are acrylic toe nails really worth it? Will I find them swimming in the public pool this year? EWWWWW!
And since we're on the foot subject, plenty of people wear toe rings. Though I find them uncomfortable, folks like them enough. Just remember, a little goes a long way. You don't need to have four per foot.
This concludes my foot maintenance clinic. If you have any more suggestions regarding sandal season starting, please feel free to include them in the comments.
Smiles in my day:
- The hawk doing his morning fly-by as I was hanging laundry.
- The woodpecker hard at work tap-tap-tapping on a tree when I was readying to leave.
- The chickadee couple that appears to have decided to use our back birdhouse box that I! built as a home for their soon-to-be chickadeedeedees. :) (Mama duck appears to have vacated the premises, though.)
- Listening to all of the migratory birds as they are on their way north. We've enjoyed the Tufted Titmouse and his peter-peter-peter-peter call this spring. It makes us happy!
- The 100 book challenge board is fully updated.
- I was able to track down the last set of Bob Books that I need for K- for summer. I needed Bob Pals and found it on Half.com.
- My husband bought me a new mop and left it downstairs as a surprise! I know that this seems like a very 1950's statement to say, but I have a love for the Vileda mops with the flippy handle. I've been looking for an additional mop for the upstairs (we share between the basement and upstairs and we wanted a upstairs exclusive mop) and I couldn't find one.
Have a great day!
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