Overheards and random thoughts

[resonant]

Today I left work a little late. On the way out, I was waylaid by the Head Monkey (who wanted to tell me stuff I didn't care about regarding the air conditioner) and the Hilarious Bastard (who wanted to tell me stuff I didn't care about regarding Sunday's music).

When I finally got free of them and headed for my car, I saw a bill lying in the parking lot. I picked it up. It was a twenty.

I thought: Hm. Probably this belongs to one of those two, but if I take it back and ask them, I'll get waylaid for another long conversation. But I really couldn't bring myself to put it in my pocket and go. So -- I dropped it back where I found it.

Guess time really is money.

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Overheards, mostly kidlet-related this time:

Me: Oh, listen, it's Madonna. The Lady Gaga of my generation.
Kidlet: That's Madonna?
Long pause to listen.
Me: Her voice was never the main thing about her.
Kidlet: I guess not.



elderly father, middle-aged son. Father is eating a gigantic chocolate cupcake. Son, at his request, is reading out to him from a big book called "The World's Healthiest Foods." He says, slowly, "Eat ... omega-3 fatty acids ... brown rice ... chocolate cupcakes ..."

Kidlet: Can I have some computer time? The cosmos is giving me a headache.

Kidlet: The ideal companions to bookworms: cats and cacti.

Kidlet: The questions asked by philosophers are the same as the ones asked by really confused people. You know: What's my purpose in being here? How did I get here? Who am I?

Family at the park:
"Eargh."
"What's that?"
"I'm sad."
"Strange sound to make when you're sad."
"Well, I'm making it, so deal with it."

Small child at Barnes & Noble Cafe: [gasp] "They got foooood!"

Kidlet, introduced to the concept of Spiderman: Wait, why was the spider radioactive? ... hm. I think it would be interesting to look at the spider's story.

Me: Well, if I'm going to make bread, I should start now. [sigh]
Spouse: If you don't feel like it, don't make bread. We don't have to have bread.
Me: But I like having homemade bread.
Spouse: So you're going to participate in your own oppression, eh?
Me: I'm going to be creative.
Spouse: That's the patriarchal lie.
Me: OK, if it makes you happy, kidlet and I will have bread, and you can't have any. The oppressor will be denied bread
Spouse, thoughtfully: That makes me feel better.

Comments

[linaerys]

Wow, your kid is hilarious. I especially like the philosopher one.

[resonant]

Thanks! When she was about five, I said, "You've got an interesting brain, kidlet," and she said, "I know. It's in my skull."

[jesse_the_k]

I so love that response! I see a future where she may revive TV comedy.

[beachlass]

Patriarchal bread oppression Ftw!

[resonant]

Yeast of the world, rise up!

[fox]

Wow, I totally love your family. To hell with the thousand miles between here and there - some time can we hang out? :-)

[resonant]

I know it! The country is too damned big. I really think some of these states that begin with I could be combined with one another to bring everything closer together.

[myalexandria]

In my head, you look like John Watson, and in any case you're clearly just as awesome.

[resonant]

If I looked like John Watson, it would only be because I was surrounded by a visible mist of sexual fantasy about him ...

[ecaterin]

Long pause to listen.
Me: Her voice was never the main thing about her.
Kidlet: I guess not.

rofl!!! I've been a singer all my life, and when Madonna first became popular I was appalled as only a pre-teen can be. Her voice is totally uninspired! How can she be a star? Everyone I know sings better than she can!



Kidlet: The questions asked by philosophers are the same as the ones asked by really confused people. You know: What's my purpose in being here? How did I get here? Who am I?

SO TOTALLY TRUE. KIDLET COMMON SENSE FTW!



Kidlet, introduced to the concept of Spiderman: Wait, why was the spider radioactive? ... hm. I think it would be interesting to look at the spider's story.

The brain in her skull is *most* awesome :D Of course the spider's story would be fascinating!



Me: Well, if I'm going to make bread, I should start now. [sigh]
Spouse: If you don't feel like it, don't make bread. We don't have to have bread.
Me: But I like having homemade bread.
Spouse: So you're going to participate in your own oppression, eh?
Me: I'm going to be creative.
Spouse: That's the patriarchal lie.
Me: OK, if it makes you happy, kidlet and I will have bread, and you can't have any. The oppressor will be denied bread.
Spouse, thoughtfully: That makes me feel better.

Spouse always cracks me up, every time you post a quote of his :D One of the earliest posts of yours I read IIRC was one in which Spouse was plunging forth into the icy weather, scarf around his neck, in imitation of some Russian personage of note :D

[ecaterin]

The kidlet's brain reminds me so much of my oldest's brain. My favorite quote from him in many moons was:

me: [trying to wake him up in the morning, lightly tossing clothes, school books, pencils, toothbrush onto him]

him: Haaaaalp! It's raining things I don't want to doooooo!

[emeraldsword]

LMAO, I love this post because it brings comments of joy!

[ecaterin]

Awesome begets awesome! Res is just spreading the awesomeness all around :D

[emeraldsword.livejournal.com]

eeep, rereading my comment makes it sound as though I didn't think the original post was awesome - I definitely did, I'm just faintly incoherent. Sorry. Indeed, awesome begets awesome.

(sorry, to emphasise my idiocy I've managed to log myself out of DW, forget my password and exceed the log-in fail rate attempting to remember it so I now can't even reset it. Hence the OpenID)

[resonant]

Oh, I laughed so hard at this!

[ecaterin]

:D

When the kids were smaller, we worked hard at diffusing high-tension situations with really elaborate hyperbole, puns, word play - anything to help them get out of that "it's the end of the wooorld!" mind set. And you know, when you're at the end of your reserves of energy, patience and creativity, that's not at all easy!

......we are now reaping the benefits of all that hard work, cause damn the kids are funny!

[resonant]

Hee! I remember that. He, too, has an interesting brain in his skull.

Her voice is totally uninspired! How can she be a star? Everyone I know sings better than she can!

But did you writhe about on stage with a rosary around your neck, hmm?

[ecaterin]

No! Cause, see, as a pre-teen I had unlimited quantities of DIGNITY and SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS! :D

Yay for awesome kids you look at and go....where did you come from you awesome awesome human being!

*mom of awesome kid high five!*

[cesperanza]

Your family is awesome.

[resonant]

Come and live with us! You can have a really filthy house in a place nobody wants to live, but with a live-in babysitter! Plus I seem to remember that you don't hate dusting as much as I do.

[perfica]

Your 'overheards' are one of my favourite things to read.

[resonant]

I'm so glad! I eavesdrop all over the place.

[blushingflower]

Now I want to read the fanfic of the spider's story.

[resonant]

She did say she was going to bed early tonight so she could think about story ideas. But they're probably from one of her (not joking) fourteen unfinished novels.

[kumquatweekend]

Your kid is totally the best. Insallah my future offspring will have a similarly awesome worldview.

[resonant]

I'm afraid that oddness is really rewarded in this house. Fortunately she's in a school where the culture is very similar.

[sinensis]

I love the overheards. Spouse's conclusion in the last sentence made me laugh out loud.

[resonant]

And he really did look like it made him feel better! Of course I gave him bread anyway, but only after he did the dishes.

[toft]

These always make me laugh.

[resonant]

Good!

[lobelia321]

Laughs. A lot.

Also, Madonna's voice? It's a great voice!!! *has moment of 1980s loyalty*