| Features: Savage Love:November 18, 2009 |
[Nov. 18th, 2009|12:00 am] |
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http://www.avclub.com/articles/november-18-2009,35435/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds&utm_source=type_savage-love I am a happily married, happily non-monogamous male. We are not wild swinger types. For us, it’s more about the fact that monogamy does not work than about nailing everything that walks by. Anyway, I have encountered an odd situation a few times now, and again last night, where I’ll be flirting with a potential fling and she knows I’m married, and she’s very interested. But when she finds out my marriage is non-monogamous, she suddenly backs out. Case in point, a coworker: We have been flirting since I started my new job a few months ... |
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| Yay Wonder Pets! [disability win] |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|10:12 am] |
Wonder Pets has become a staple TV show in our home, because Charlie looooooves it. And we find it weird and entertaining enough to be able to tolerate watching it with him and singing along. Also, episodes are 15 minutes long, which is about as much TV as we like him to see daily.
The shows involve a team of 3 classroom pets rescuing (usually) baby animals after the class has gone home for the day. They sing a little song about saving the animal. However, the ep we saw yesterday, called "Save the Bullfrog," was about helping an elderly bullfrog who couldn't hop to the water. He wanted to swim with his "grand-poles" but couldn't because his legs wouldn't get him to the water. They modified their little song to say "let's help the bullfrog" instead of "let's save..." and then they went and built him an awesome little wheelchair out of a cut-up log, and then helped him get into it and he wheeled himself to the water and got in to swim, keeping his new wheelchair nearby. THE END. Mobility problem, solved with a mobility device, YAY.
They normally have to solve a problem in the classroom before they fly off in their flyboat (don't ask) to help whoever, and the problem in the classroom has the same solution as the problem of the animal who needs helping. This episode's "classroom problem" was about finding wheels for the flyboat because it needs wheels to go (I said, don't ask!). Also during the credits they show a dog with one of those wheel-carts for his back legs, trotting by the door of the school. Basically the whole episode is "wheels are good!" and the bullfrog's problem isn't presented so much as "his legs don't work" but as "his grandpoles miss him" and "he needs to get to the water." Wheels are the solution.
We did notice that they don't cover how he's going to get out of the water and back into the wheelchair after they leave, but I guess there's only so much they can cover in 15 minutes. :) Anyway it made us happy to see a positive showcase for a mobility device, that treats it as a fun solution to a straightforward problem instead of a very, very sad encumbrance.
For contrast, in the Halloween episode of Ni Hao Kai Lan, Rintoo sprains his ankle and so can't go trick-or-treating (in their apparently crutch-free world) until the kids figure out that they can put wheels on the bed and all go trick-or-treating together on wheels. First they spend 15 minutes going "oh no! you can't go trick-or-treating because you CAN'T WALK! Oh No!" while I yell at the screen. |
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| Sweet Potato Cubes |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|11:04 am] |
After experimenting with a few things, I have come up with a way to make sweet potatoes in a form that Charlie likes and can feed to himself. (We are working on getting him to eat finger foods, but his allergies make most of the common ones verboten) These are pretty tasty so I'm sharing the recipe (don't laugh! This is serious cookery, for me, despite it being totally simple for people who actually cook).
Preheat oven to 425 f.
Peel two sweet potatoes and chop into little cubes. (The chopping is the most time-consuming part of all this) How little depends on how good your toddler is at chewing & not choking. I make them about...maybe 1/4 inch across? Maybe a little bigger.
Mix together:
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp salt
I am lazy and kind of stir these together in the olive oil's measuring cup, which means I don't really put a full 1/4 cup in because of the room taken up by the other stuff, but it seems to work fine.
Dump the sweet potato cubes into a big ziploc bag and then dump in the olive oil & spices. Seal up the bag and smoosh everything around until the cubes are evenly coated.
Dump the cubes out onto a nonstick cookie sheet.
Cook in oven for 20-30 minutes, depending on how browned/mushy you want them. 20 minutes in my oven (which is the tiny, cupboard-mount variety so may not work like your oven) makes cubes that are solid enough to pick up and hold but mushy enough to eat without proper chewing. If you care about even cooking you might want to try flipping them with a spatula halfway through--I don't bother with that since I'm not browning them, but I do sometimes stir them up a bit while they cook.
I let them sit on the hot cookie sheet for another 10 minutes or so after I take them out, which probably doesn't really make any difference.
These keep perfectly well for several days in a ziploc in the fridge. I zap them in the microwave for about 10 seconds before I give them to him, but I think at daycare he eats them cold and he seems to like them fine either way.
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| Eeek. |
[Nov. 12th, 2009|01:04 am] |
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http://american-family.org/2009/11/12/eeek/ http://american-family.org/?p=2457 I was intending to write my most recent MIL story tonight, even though I have not yet found a way to make it funny.
Unfortunately for you, my darling readers, a mouse just ran across my living room floor while I was sitting there. Instead of writing, I need to go buy more and more sophisticated [...] |
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| Features: Savage Love:November 11, 2009 |
[Nov. 11th, 2009|12:00 am] |
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http://www.avclub.com/articles/november-11-2009,35160/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds&utm_source=type_savage-love I am a 30-year-old woman, married for five years to a man eight years my senior. Lately I have become more aware that I am turned on by the idea of bondage, specifically men locked up in chastity devices. I am ashamed of myself, because it seems, well, pretty perverse and disturbed.
My husband is a pretty dominant alpha-male type. I am a relatively dominant personality, but I’m a bit submissive around him in order to keep the peace, as he will not tolerate any disagreement in certain situations. So I am wondering: Is this new fetish springing from ... |
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[Nov. 9th, 2009|12:57 pm] |
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http://american-family.org/2009/11/09/2447/ http://american-family.org/?p=2447 There is an article in the NY Times today about the new Donaldson Adoption Institute study of the 1st generation of Korean adoptees today. Obviously, things have changed somewhat in recent years but it is still interesting reading. Hmm. It appears the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute has let it’s website registration lapse so I [...] |
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| Resistance is Futile... |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|04:03 pm] |
Meme time! These questions are from the lovely, talented, and now pickle-free ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bammba_m
• Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
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