Can A Mama Get A Superhero?
Jul. 9th, 2012 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ricevermicelliThis morning started daycare's "summer camp" phase, otherwise known as the two months a year during which I fight with Danger Lad! about bathing suits every morning. Daycare would like the kids to come in wearing bathing suits, so they can be taken to play in the water without a lot of tedious getting changed. DL! objects. We have a daily conversation about how wearing a bathing suit does not represent a commitment to get wet. I suspect that I could solve this problem forever by acquiring an array of swim trunks with licensed characters on them. Unfortunately, Target sells out of these items in approximately three minutes every summer, and those three minutes fall neither during my pre-season, "hey, I could get the kids bathing suits!" moment in April, nor during our mad "crap, we don't have enough bathing suits" moment in July. Unless the licensed characters are princesses, in which case they will never be out of stock.
Hotspur's bathing suits this year all have ruffly little skirts on them. She will take them off when she is dead.
On Thursday, I have to go subject myself to more imaging. This is making me horribly nervous. On the one hand, imaging is very seldom painful. Even the discomfort of a mammogram kind of pales in comparison to many of the other things I've been through lately. On the other hand, imaging gives us information, and the last several rounds of information have all been bad news, with the possible exceptions of the rounds that were misleading. I'd like this set of imaging to be both accurate and unexciting. Cross your fingers for me?
Hotspur's bathing suits this year all have ruffly little skirts on them. She will take them off when she is dead.
On Thursday, I have to go subject myself to more imaging. This is making me horribly nervous. On the one hand, imaging is very seldom painful. Even the discomfort of a mammogram kind of pales in comparison to many of the other things I've been through lately. On the other hand, imaging gives us information, and the last several rounds of information have all been bad news, with the possible exceptions of the rounds that were misleading. I'd like this set of imaging to be both accurate and unexciting. Cross your fingers for me?
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Date: 2012-07-09 03:52 pm (UTC)On bathing suits: Amazon Prime? When moving, I found that the sanity saving per unit dollar it provided was significant.
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Date: 2012-07-09 04:17 pm (UTC)http://www.amazon.com/Marvel-Boys-Hero-Swim-Trunk/dp/B004H8F74U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341850543&sr=8-1&keywords=swimming+trunks+for+boys
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:21 pm (UTC)Right now, we're working our way through Doctor Who for zero dollars.
Amazon Prime is like having a Netflix subscription plus free two-day shipping on all kinds of stuff you actually want. For less than Netflix charges.
(Did I mention the free Kindle books, too?)
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:34 pm (UTC)I have Amazon too. I have avoided hooking it to the Roku because of DL!'s fantastic ability to manipulate the remote all by himself and my lack of interest in accidentally buying things. But yes, it's quite nice.
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:39 pm (UTC)Alas, I am still unemployed, and not getting paid for much of anything.
You can put a password on your Roku to keep him from accidentally buying things. And I think you can turn off the ability to buy stuff through the Roku at all.
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:33 pm (UTC)WIll do
Date: 2012-07-09 04:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 04:21 pm (UTC)Completely sympathetic to the seasonal shopping for clothes angst. Similarly, it is nigh-impossible to buy kids gloves in January after they've lost the first pair and there's three more months of cold and ick to go.
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Date: 2012-07-09 04:28 pm (UTC)Off-season swimsuits are ridiculously difficult to find! My latest frustration in shopping was trying to find 13yo-boy-sized black dress pants in the late spring. Took 3 stores before we found THE LAST PAIR IN THE STORE that thankfully fit. Then had to repeat the fun a week later when I discovered he needed a jacket as well. My savior: the nearby children's consignment store.
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 04:51 pm (UTC)Good luck with DL!
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Date: 2012-07-09 04:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 05:11 pm (UTC)K and I will see you at your shindig this weekend, we're both looking forward to it.
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:19 pm (UTC)will send photos soon. and take more soon too.
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 05:57 pm (UTC)Also keeping an eye out for appropriate bathing suits for DL!
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Date: 2012-07-09 08:08 pm (UTC)And as it turns out, I have a custom-made icon just for you today. How awesome is that?!
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Date: 2012-07-10 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-10 04:09 am (UTC)--Beth