This'n'that

[ciroccoj]

• Saw a guy biking down my street with a parrot on his shoulder.
  
  
• Daniel did better than beat up a bully at school: he stood up to him and got the other kids to tell the bully that if he didn't stop bullying, they weren't going to play with him. Said bully apologized to Daniel and all seems well for now. School is a pretty neat place.
  
  
• Daniel also forgot his French homework at school. It was due today. He has too much homework. Nobody can help him with it, as we are both working and bring home work at night. We've also said he needs to do more housework and make his own lunches. He never has time to do anything. And this is his life from now on. School is the worst thing that's ever happened to him.
  
  
• Teenagers: We Know Drama.
  
  
• Not having homework done once won't make him fail at life. I'd be happy to help him, as I don't bring work home; he just has to ask. He needs to unload the dishwasher every day and make his lunch once or twice a week. Chill, dude.
  
  
• "Oh," says Daniel.
  
  
• Though to be honest Daniel's been like this all his life, so we can't really blame this on teenagitis.
  
  
• Justin's doing fine.
  
  
• Would cheerfully kill for a blue suit jacket right now.
  
  
• Mascara makes you look like a raccoon if you rub your eyes.
  
  
• Wrestling a 68-document medical evidence file to the ground and getting it coherent enough to send as disclosure has its own administrivial charm.
  
  
• E-life has taken a beating from double-working parents and loss of the good computer. E-mail reply list is about fifty items long :(

Comments

[navhelowife.livejournal.com]

Sending good thoughts your way. This is the first year the 15 yo has not had me standing over him with a figurative bullwhip saying 'JUST DO THE DAMN WORK ALREADY"
And way to go with the bullying.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Sending good thoughts your way. This is the first year the 15 yo has not had me standing over him with a figurative bullwhip saying 'JUST DO THE DAMN WORK ALREADY"
LOL! Also, my sympathies.

And it's funny but I've done that with Daniel while home schooling, but for regular school he seems a lot more motivated to Get It All Done. Which is funny because one of the reasons we started home schooling him was that he would behave pretty well for us, but seemed incapable of controlling himself for other authority figures.

And way to go with the bullying.
:) :) :)

[leaper182.livejournal.com]

When I read the penultimate bullet point, I had this mental image of you in a professional-looking dress, running across the savannah in high heels, tackling a stapled pile of papers, and bringing it to ground.

I think I might need more sleep. *facepaw*

[daf9.livejournal.com]

LOL! We must watch the same Discovery channel specials - I had a similar image.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Read this during a particularly unhumourous morning, and it had me giggling like an idiot for quite a while - thanks!

[leaper182.livejournal.com]

"And so we watch as the medical evidence file grazes on the dewy grass of the cool, savannah morning. It has reached sixty-eight pages, and seems to have reached full maturity. However--"

The camera pans over to reveal a lawyer, eyes peering out between blades of grass, her professional brown dress blending well with the scrub she has chosen to hide behind.

"There are predators lurking. Waiting. For a chance to strike."

[daf9.livejournal.com]

Good thoughts your way. For you and your family. And YAY! Daniel - standing up to bullies is a life lesson some people never learn.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

I was so proud of him! And so glad he's apparently part of a (mostly) pretty good group of kids.

[snarkhunter.livejournal.com]

We've also said he needs to do more housework and make his own lunches

Oh, NO! The CRUELTY of you! ::eyeroll:: Oh, teenagers, indeed.

May I recommend a smudge-proof mascara? I like Max Factor. They make a smudge-proof kind that isn't waterproof (I hate waterproof mascaras, as I get my makeup off w/ soap & water) that seriously is smudge-proof. I rub my eyes, too, so this is an issue for me.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Oh, NO! The CRUELTY of you!
I know!! It's unconscionable.

May I recommend a smudge-proof mascara? I like Max Factor.
Yay - a tip from an actual girl! I don't know from mascara, and the makeup ladies at Shopper's intimidate me. I'll go check it out.