On yesterday...

( Two toddlers? No problem... Really.... )

( After Meghan left )

Would I do this again? Sure. It was easy until the end, and if this happened more often, I suspect the nap part would get easier too. Twins do take naps, after all, don't they?

Would I want to do this again? Sure. IF the other kid gets taken away by lunchtime or so. And especially if transportation to one place or another is provided, or if I know the other kid can go on the bus with me. If I did this more with Meghan, for example, we'd have to be able to take her on the bus with me and the baby and Ana. We can't just stay in the house.

All in all, the day wasn't too bad. Just... a bit long.

Bush is, literally, an incredible speaker.

It is incredible how incredible he is!

*laughs at bad joke*

All joking aside, I have a question. Most people (and this includes me) dislike the more figurative use of the word "literal" as an intensifier. If you're standing here talking to me, you didn't literally die of shock.

And no, I don't especially care in an emotional way that it's been used that way for a few hundred years. I care in a less-deep-seated way - keeps me from complaining about it out loud - but really, it's one of those facts nobody really believes.

But nobody minds the use of incredible as a similar intensifier, or unbelievable. "That jump was unbelievable!" "That movie is just incredible!" Really? The movie is completely false but purporting to be true? You don't believe the jump was made?

Why is this?

(Incidentally, I read a comment lately complaining about how some people use y'all in the singular, and "all y'all" in the plural. "That's just not right!" While I agree it grates on my ears, it's no more "not right" than using you in the singular. And if y'all is acceptable, youse and you'uns and yinz ought to be as well. Less hypocrisy, more thought, mmmmkay?)

lizziey made me a new icon!

If you don't like it, don't like it *constructively* because she's my foster sister and I love her. And also because she's a beginner and restricted to Paint, though I believe that need not kill her icon ambitions...?

On the subject of icons, I've recently noticed that my sister gingembre has only one icon!

This is simply unacceptable.

At the very least, she needs an icon of her two kids. I'll post pictures soon as I can get them scanned in. Then I want icons. Scroll her interests list. If you can find some icons that match up with her interests, feel free to post 'em here, yours or not (so long as they're free to use!). She also likes the same books I like - Diane Duane, Donna Andrews, Hilari Bell (duh), Diana Wynne Jones, Tamora Pierce, Terry Pratchett, you know the sort. Right now we've been reading the Foundation books. *thinks* And she likes Mrs. Pollifax and Aunt Dimity books. And... um... *ponders*

Oh, yes, and she's a Scooby and PowerPuff Girls afficionado. And she presumably will still take anything that's Miss Piggy or Miss Piggy & Kermit related.

Or random stuff, any icons you really like. I am *determined* to get that girl using more than just the one, even if she never actually uses them.