Evie Update Monday

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“What color is Evie’s hair?”
“Blonde”
“What color is mommy’s hair?”
“Grey!”*

*Disclaimer, Sara is forcing me to write in here that she does not actually have any grey hair.

And P.S., it’s my blog and I can write grey with an ‘e’ on it like a filthy redcoat if I want to! Take that world!

Over the weekend we got our garden all set up. We bought our plants from the gardens of Gethsemane – no joke, that was the name. It’s not as good as the garden of eat’n’, but I was still chuckling over it for a long time. It took Sara and I about 3 hours in the garden and another hour or so on the back porch, but everything looks beautiful. Looks like we’re going to have even more stuff than last year, as every square inch of our garden is accounted for, including plans for what goes in when certain things are done.

Evie went on the potty for what I think can be counted as the first time. She has gone a few times before, when she was younger, but I think this was the first time where she did it consciously, knowing what she was doing and why. That’s a big step. We’re not really potty training her per say, but we do let her sit on it whenever she wants to. Usually she will sit forever, but never go. So hopefully she will start to do this more and more and then we can try to potty train her for real. It certainly would be nice to be able to leave the house without all the diapers, etc.!

Sara found an article that says morning sickness increases the chance your child will have a high IQ. She thinks that people are just saying that as a consolation prize for the people who have a rough time with morning sickness, but anecdotally I will say that Sara had really, really bad morning sickness and Evie is really, really smart. You be the judge.

Since I began with a funny story about Sara, I feel I should end the same way; bookend-like. The other night I was sleeping blissfully when Sara forcefully pressed her arm against mine and yelled triumphantly, “They’re finally together!” I woke up rather confused and looked at her, but she wasn’t awake. I guess I’ll always wonder what the heck she was dreaming about.

Worst. Fight Scene. Ever.

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This came up at work the other day. Can you imagine a cheesier or less realistic fight scene? I’m sure it is supposed to be dramatic or something, but you can’t help but laugh. It’s like watching two out of shape old men fight in slow motion. Can you believe this was actually on t.v.? It was a different era, that’s for sure. In this day and age, any teenage could do better with a camcorder in his backyard.

Epic Prank

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Wow.  Just…wow. This is super-nerdy and everything, but the amount of energy expended on it was just staggering.

Basically, a couple of guys found someone at random on the Internet and then found out everything about him they could, including photos, cell phone number, information from instant messages, etc. Then they put together a scrapbook and showed up at his house, telling him they were from the future and he was going to save the world from robots ala Terminator, and giving him the scrapbook.

Now if they had ended it right there, it would have been an awesome prank. But it goes on and on from there, from sending him a plane ticket to another city and sending him on a scavenger hunt, to an art gallery exhibition all about him, and finally, after several years, culminating in an elaborate stage show in front of 300 people in which this random guy is the star.

As you can imagine, the whole thing is quite a long read, but it is amazing the meticulous attention to detail that went into planning the whole thing. In some cases, they set clues in place months before they knew if the guy was even going to show up, like the message written in black light sensitive ink on the picture in the art gallery. The storyline is kind of cheesy and everything, especially during the stage show, but the whole project was amazing in scope.

Link via UrbanPrankster.

Another Day, Another Rejection

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My story came back today. I’m sure the rejection was a form letter, but it contained the words “The writing is well done” so that was sort of exciting. They can’t say that if it’s not true, can they? 🙂

So it’s off to a new market, and hopefully my other will be in the mail tomorrow.

Pirate Defense

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If you would have asked me, I would have said, “Nothing makes me happier than a good tower defense flash game.” Well, now I have to amend that statement to, “Nothing makes me happier than a good PIRATE RELATED tower defense flash game!” 

The game actually has nothing to do with pirates. I mean, the bad guys are pirates, but they could easily have been anything, even little green dots. But this is still a different take on the tower defense idea because instead of just towers, you have traps. So you have to build triggers for the traps so that they go off whenever a pirate steps on a trigger. You get bonus points for combos, for example, the pirate might step on a trigger next to a catapult, launching him through a bees nest and finally landing him next to some good old fashioned dynamite which would then blow up. Combo!

For the record though, I do not condone the killing of pirates in such a sneaky fashion; they should be killed in honest swashbuckling combat or by walking the plank, as god intended.