Feb 24 2009
Bla Bla and the Blahs - Random Tuesday Thoughts
- She’s cute and all, but I can’t look at Olivia the pig without automatically thinking of Lord of the Flies. PMS occasionally puts me in a dark place.
“There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.”
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies
- Sorry about that, dark moment and all. I’m better now.
- Since having boys, I have always envied them their ability to pee standing up. It just seems like a hassle free way to get in and out of a public restroom. Then I saw a clip for a GoGirl commercial on the Style channel. It’s a female urination device that lets you “go” anywhere and it’s stylishly pink. You can throw it away or rinse and reuse as necessary. Only $4.99 a pop for space age silicone. How’s that for a dream come true? Except for that whole ewww factor. “What’s that in your purse, mom?” “Oh, that’s just my pee funnel.” I think I’ll just stick to my hovering strategy for now…call me old fashioned.
- Some things just shouldn’t be invented.
- Play-doh is in that category.
- If someone ever gives your kid a Play-doh gift set, consider it an act of aggression. They obviously don’t like you or your clean carpets. An appropriate response would be to give their kid permanent markers or possibly a bead set in retaliation.
- At one time or another my children have been gifted either Play-doh, permanent markers or bead sets. Apparently I rub some people the wrong way.
- I won’t even go into details about the stupid toys I’ve bought myself, like the plastic Icee maker, or the plastic McFlurry maker, or the God forsaken Easy Bake Oven. All which were specifically designed to torture parents with their multiple malfunctioning parts and their impossibly difficult breakdowns and all those ridiculous powder packets you have to buy in order to make said product in teeny tiny portions that all the children have to share thus producing a cacophony of screaming, whining voices as you’re trying to hand crank simu-ice-cream for your sanity.
- Didn’t I say I wasn’t going to go into details about that?
“Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies
- Don’t mind me, it’s just the hormones talking. Please don’t send my kids Play-doh. For the love of all that is good, please don’t ship the Play-doh!
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I had noo idea that’s what people meant when they say You “GOGIRL”!
Why is your Web site suddenly making me register. Are you taking your dark mood out on me. I have registered anyway, just for you. I saw that GoGirl on the Today Show this morning. Is it disposable or do you just reuse it (I wasn’t paying attention to the segment)? Seems expensive to use once and toss but ewww for keeping it in your purse if it has been used.
Another bad gift is moon sand. That stuff gets into everything. I have hardwood floors and it gets into the cracks and never comes out. My kids have gotten Moon sand, Play-Doh, permanent markers and tons of beads, but I am sure I have offended a number of people.
My brief apology to those of you who are trying to comment, Today.com is implementing a new policy that requires commenters to create a login. I think it’s ridiculous and another painful step to alienating bloggers. If you don’t comment, I totally understand. Feel free to email me at mrsbear@bellsouth.net. I still hope you enjoyed the post and I hope you’ll come back and read again. I’m pretty upset right now and am working on hosting the blogginess somewhere else. Sorry again.
I hope I don’t forget my username and password I just pulled out of my a–! Anyways, I’m with you with the bad toy gifts! I mean, any mother who buys my kids a bad toy will be rewarded with a worst toy for their child! That’s how it works! Retaliation baby! You know how I feel about moon sand! And the pee thing, wuwt? I put a lot of stuff in my pocketbook, but I’m not putting that in there. “Gee mom, your pocketbook smells like pee” EWWWW!
See? Now I’m going to confuse you with another SassyDesigns I.D. at Today.com…heh, heh! Had I known about Today.com before I got all homey at Blogger, I probably would have my blog over here, too!
Great Randomness! I totally hear you on PlayDoh - can’t stand the stuff…I’m not too upset when the Princess Nagger forgets to put the cap back on and darn! It dries out and has to be tossed…Awwwww…
I promise I won’t send you any PlayDoh rejects…or permanent markers….or moon sand… 
Yes, I always hated it when someone bought the kids playdoh. But then…then someone gave them TAPDPOLES. O.M.G. The giver of that lovely gift now has a child of her own. Guess what she’s getting when she’s about 4?
I loved play-doh as a kid, and as a mother. Kept the little one busy for hours! Good memories there.
Having been a camper, hiker, backpacker when I was younger…I always had a female urinal and it worked great. Still not as fast as a guy peeing cause you had to be pretty careful not to pee on your shoes or something…but a wonderful item. You got me thinking now, wonder if I still have it somewhere down in the basement.
Not feeling much like trying to blog with any of “the outsiders” so visiting just today’ers today.
Sandy