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1. What housekeeping chore(s) do you hate doing the most?

Cleaning the bathroom, but I definitely like the results.

2.Are there any that you like or don't mind doing?

I don't mind doing laundry, I kind of like vacuuming, and I really like washing windows/mirrors. I'm not sure what's up with the window thing...I've liked making glass sparkly clean since I was thirteen or so.

3.Do you have a routine throughout the week or just clean as it's needed?

As needed. Or, probably, a bit after it's needed, when it bugs me enough. *grin*

4.Do you have any odd cleaning/housekeeping quirks or rules?

Don't soak the wooden spoons. The outsides of stuff *can't* be greasy, 'cause the feel squicks me. If you just throw your dirty clothes about, don't be surprised if I don't pick them up when I'm gathering washing.

5. What was the last thing you cleaned?

Vacuumed & picked up the living room.

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Paper Cd Case rocks my socks. (Actually, I'm not wearing socks, but "rocks my feet" sounds weird.) It's basically an origami cd case that you printout and fold. *Very* cool.

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Oh no! I may have to lift my McDonald's ban for a while...they've got Kim Possible toys! I completely heart Kim Possible...one *can* just buy the toy without the food, right? *hopeful*

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Oh wow. This stuff is ever so much more than cool. Nightmare Before Christmas Stuff. I want pretty much all of it, but especially the Christmas Tree. :)

And the coloring book.

And the mini bust. (It has the dog!)

And the candle holders.

And, if I'm gonna get the candle holders, I may as well get the wine glasses.

But, that's pretty much it.
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I'm also working hard to deny myself the C'thulu Summer Fun Plush (About halfway down the page. They don't seem to have individual pages for items, which makes linking less happy for me.)

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I found this in my quest to find dotted/dashed letters for Sam to trace (I've been drawing them for her, but I'm in danger of dasher's cramp. *grin*) This is precisely what I was looking for. One note...if you haven't printed out/saved the tracing page you've created, don't make another, 'cause it uses the same window.

I also found this one that has some nifty pre-writing worksheets as well.
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Disney's Sleeping Beauty is coming out on Dvd...Sam wants it, but I'm not getting it for her, because there's such abject *stupidity* in the film.

Okay, this fairy comes to the kid's christening and says that on her sixteenth birthday, she'll prick her finger on a spindle and die, which was later changed to "prick her finger and fall into a deep sleep" by the last fairy to bless the child.

The parents send the baby off with three of the fairies, to protect her from the evil fairy and to prevent the curse from coming true. During this time, the three agree to not use any type of magic, so the evil fairy can't find them.

These are two fairly important points.

So, on the *day* the curse is supposed to come true, the king and queen bring the princess home. They've waited sixteen years to see her, and they can't wait one more day?! I understand the urge to see her again, but if they were going to bring her back just as the curse was going to come to fruition, why send her away at all?

Now, about the three fairies she's living with. They've given up magic to protect her while they live out in the forest with no one but the beasts for companionship. They've decided to make her a dress and a cake for her birthday. The fairy in blue (I think it was her...the tallest one) is supposed to make the cake and obviously knows nothing about cooking. She tries her best, ends up with something dismal and gives up, using magic to make the cake perfect.

Okay...first. The fairy doesn't know how to cook? If she wasn't the one who knew how to cook, why'd they have her make the birthday cake? And if none of them know how to cook, what the hell have they been living on for the last sixteen years? The princess was a baby when they moved there after all...so if they didn't know how to cook, odds are that she didn't either. And even if she was a cooking genius, I don't think she was doing it at four months old.

And second...they don't use magic for sixteen years and she gives into the urge to make a birthday cake?! There's just no comment for that.

Yeah, I know...it's just a movie, and a kid's movie to boot. But it's just stupid and ick.

IIRC, in the original story, her parents have all the spinning wheels in the country burned, but one turns up in the highest room in the castle (probably put there by the evil fairy), 'cause you know...can't really outfox a curse in a fairy tale. And they didn't tell Aurora not to touch a spinning wheel or even just a spindle because they thought the problem was taken care of. Dumb and an oversight on their part, but understandable, imneho. Don't want the kid to know she's supposed to die or go into a deep sleep when she's sixteen, depending on which fairy's spell took.

I like the solution in Robin McKinley's Spindle's End. There's a proclamation that no spindle may be thicker than a baby's forefinger (baby because of the princess' age when she was cursed.) Yeah, other stuff happens, 'cause it'd be a very short story otherwise, but it isn't stupid. :)

In other words, the Disney version doesn't *have* to be stupid. And that's my problem with it. Thank you and goodnight. *Grin*

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I once bought a Sleeping Beauty book from a thrift store just to switch the characters around. I turned Brair Rose into Brian & he twirled around in the woods wishing for his dreamy woman to come save him, which is who I turned the prince into. It was so ridiculous. Freaking sexism is what gets my goat, even though the ludicrous absentmindedness & beyond unrealisticness (is that a word i wonder) IS totally out of control in that story.

I LOVE switching the genders of Disney characters. Makes me giggle.

Also, if you haven't seen it yet, here is my all time favorite site to get little kid's crafts/worksheets/learning activities from: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html I use it constantly for my 5 yr old & for my day care munchkins. The site is neverending!

So what do you do with your origami cd cases? Put cds in them instead of their plastic cases?

Hi love.

I found a couple torrents to download for Sam. One is a jumpstart numbers thing, and the other is like Grovers Alphabet or somesuch. I love you

You can buy just the happy meal toy.. unless they are doing beanie babies.. then you have to buy something

Try Gates Of Sleep by Mercedes Lackey. She's been giving teeth to a bunch of fairy tales, after setting them in Post-Victorian England.

Nez swears by Tanith Lee's Red as Blood, but I wouldn't read that stuff to a child, if you follow my meaning!

If I beg, will you come wash my windows? :)

www.kidsdomain.com
http://interesting.places.to/Browse/forKids/ (BTW Katy is now 18 and is known as Chaoswolf in #callahans undernet. I'm fairly certain she's also got a livejournal but I haven't gone looking for it. I know that Mandelbear has one and so does Flowercat. Kiri should have them friended.)
www.howstuffworks.com rocks my socks.
http://www.educationalfontware.com/EFI_home_page.html (handwriting stuff because Goose's handwriting was atrorious.)
http://www.peterson-handwriting.com/index.htm