Oh So Random
ByHere are a few things I’ve been wanting to share. Warning: the first random rambling is a run on sentence but if you can’t have a run on sentence when you’re being random, when can you?
Random Thing #1:
If you’ve emailed me with a question sometime within the last week to 20 months and I wrote you back and said, “What a great question…I’ll definitely write about that on my blog sometime” and I still haven’t written about it on my blog sometime and you feel neglected and annoyed please know that I really will write about it on my blog sometime but I haven’t gotten to it yet because I have lots of excuses. My dad asked me recently if I ever ran out of things to blog about (except that I don’t think he used the word blog because I don’t think my dad has ever said the word blog or really knows what a blog is) and I said, “oh Dad, you should see my inbox”.
Random Thing #2:
A few nights ago, Matt and I had a conversation about whether or not Miley Cyrus was Hannah Montana. What in the world brought that up, you’d like to know? I have no idea. It was quite likely the most useless and bizarre conversation we’ve ever had. We finally did a Swagbuck search to find out that indeed…Miley Cyrus is Hannah Montana. We know who Darth Vader is (“I am your father”). Hannah Montana? Not so much. Well, except now we know. And I know you can not believe that we didn’t know in the first place. Yeah well…we don’t have daughters and we don’t have cable. I’m pretty sure there’s a bunch of other things we don’t know either. (Like what is a Polly Pocket? Can she really fit into a pocket?)
Random Thing #3:
Michelle at Scribbit wrote an ebook about blogging. And it’s really good. And it’s free. I neglected my kids for several hours one morning last week while I read through the entire book. (Just kidding…they were happily playing legos and not feeling the least bit neglected.) (Except that Malachi stayed in his jammies until lunchtime.) (And so did I.) Anyway, if you’re a blogger or want to become a blogger…you’ll want to read Michelle’s ebook.
Random Thing #4:
When my friend Jill guest posted here, I shared her email address so that anyone who wanted to write and ask to receive her awesome daily email devotional could be privileged to do so. A couple of weeks ago, something got messy and she lost her list. If you were on her list and haven’t been receiving her devotionals, please email her again!! Or, if you weren’t on her list but would like to receive her devotionals, email her!! (jill6758 at cablespeed.com) Just so you know…you WANT to be on her list. Her devotionals are a great thing to wake up to in the morning!
Random Thing #5:
You know how we begin our school year the first week of August so that we can finish the last part of April? The last part of April was last week…and we did it! We are done!! We celebrated the end of our school year by beginning to read Island of the Blue Dolphins. I guess we’re never really done…are we?! But, oh did it feel good to hang up our math books for the summer!
Have anything random to share? Or anything along one of these topics to share? Anyone want to tell me more about Polly Pockets? ‘Cause all we’ve got in our pockets are rocks, plastic spiders (at least I think they’re plastic) and little lego storm troopers. Ah-hah! Lego storm troopers. Those must be the male equivalent of Polly Pockets. No?
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As for Polly Pockets, they will most definitely fit in your pocket. They are also easily sucked up by the vacuum and easily lodged in a toddler’s nose. Not that I would know from experience. Ahem.
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The Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus thing confuses me, too. And I have a 9 year old daughter (who isn’t really in to HM/MC but she is still 9 and her friends are in to it). Why is MC pretending to be a rock star, HM, when MC is a rock star in real life?? I still don’t get it.
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well, as the mother of a 15 year old daughter I can tell you that indeed Miley Cyrus is Hannah Montana. However, she is also just Miley…..sometimes. And yes, Polly can fit in your pocket along with all her little friends.
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I don’t know a thing about Polly Pockets either! We just had our fourth boy a few weeks ago. The oldest is 8, so our pockets are full of Bakugan, Pokemon, leaves, acorns, and rocks. :)
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Does anyone else have a hard time finding what they are searching for on Swagbucks? I use it but then end up going to google to get what I really want.
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I enjoyed your randome thoughts!! :)
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oops, random!
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Oh I loved Island of the Blue Dolphin. I read it in my first year of high school and it was wonderful.
Polly Pocket is over rated. My kids would take lego any day (two girls and a boy).
By the way, rant as much as you like. I love reading this and trying to imagine your accent as we are just chatting together over a cup of tea.
Thanks
Julie
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Our family learns about that teenage icon only when my niece mentioned her during a visit when she was wearing some gear. Now my daughter picks HM out in the grocery store on products. Probably because they share a first name. Still it’s irritating. Can’t imagine if ever asked for a HM bedroom, which i saw advertised the other day!
Why is it that we always “feel” like we are neglecting our kids when they don’t feel that way? Personally, I feel that it has to do with modern parenting techniques based upon working moms. And for me also because with my firstborn, I used to have to be the one to get on the floor and play with him all the time and I don’t do that now with them because they have each other.
One more thing,,,My kids are always in their pj’s at lunch time until they can master the fine art of actually getting the food in their mouth. I see no sense in laundering 3 changes of clothes/day. It’s more wear and tear on the clothes, the stains might not come out, and it’s more work for me :D
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Island of the Blue Dolphins is a great book! I can’t wait to read it with my kids!
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With two girls, we have bags of Polly Pockets, mostly given to us or picked up at yard sales. Just like a real girl – lots of clothes, shoes and accessories….
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Legos rock Polly any day of the week. No clothes to change, they can’t fit up a nose. (ok, maybe the little button ones that they use for lights, but that is it) PP are softer to step on in the middle of the night, however. I think the best thing about Legos is having 3 boys and 1 girl, they are genderless. You will never have your husband come home and say, “Why is my daughter playing with Legos?!”
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Yes Polly Pocket really do fit in your pocket, even little girl pockets. So do all the tiny pieces. We loved the book island of the blue dolphins too.
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We’ve had Legos up the nose, but never Polly up the nose. They both make a satisfying sound when the vacuum sucks them up. The old style Polly came in a compact which when opened was a little doll house. The dolls had a hinge at the hip area and were not even an inch tall. The clothes were painted on. They were made of a hard plastic that hurt when stepped on. They were great to take to the Dr.s office, or to relatives houses that didn’t have kids to play with -all the pieces fit in the closed up compact. Wow. that’s bringing up memories. The newer Polly is made of a bendable plastic that’s softer to step on, is bigger – three inches maybe – and has all kinds of clothes you can put on and off. Kind of like Barbie. Therese
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175 pages! I just downloaded the free ebook. Wow, that must have been a serious morning of legos. Even if I read it in snip-its and it takes me a month, I thank you for the suggestion and link. And hey, isn’t part of home schooling wearing jammies for part or all of the day?!
I was born in Montana.
I know nothing of Hannah.
Polly in the pocket?
Maybe rocks or sticks or lint.
Or even the makings of a rocket.
I am the mom of a boy
and we own not a single girl-toy.
Nor do we watch tv,
except for a pre-approved movie.
So we may be outta the loop around here,
But I tightly hold God & my family near!
Blessings on your day.
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I am new to your blog and this is my first comment. I had to chuckle at your HM/MC questions and realized I was a little confused myself. I asked my 18 year old daughter (just home from finishing her first year away at college!) and she informed me that: the singer/actress Miley Cyrus plays the character Miley Stewart who wears a wig to be her alter ego, the singer Hannah Montana.
Clear as mud?
Oh, I loved the random thoughts:)
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I liked the old Polly best. *sniff* A whole doll house that I could take with me anywhere? A little girl’s dream come true! I even had a little cat and dog that fit in Polly Pocket’s house too.
At least now I have my own “doll baby.” She even wets and cries. :) She doesn’t fit in my pocket though. She is sweetly snoring on my lap, and we’re both wearing our pajamas!
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I printed out her e book (4 pages to a side and double sided..yes it is really small and hard to read but I have a better chance of getting through it printed and I REALLY WANT to read it!)
And I don’t like spiders…NOT at all, not even pictures or plastic ones in pockets…I’d rather have polly in my pocket than a plastic spider. I do not know polly or hannah montana either. Are they related? LOL.
Back to spiders: I was looking at a book at costco the other day and there was a big picture of a spider which startled and frightened me. I (without thinking) slammed it shut and threw it back on the table and by way of explanation to all the people looking at me funny simply said” EWW big spider on the page.” Afterwards I realized that normal people would interpret that as there was really one on the page and not just a picture. It’s only in my crazy little world that they are one and the same.
Anyway, it is 12:30am and I am off to bed. Those are my rambling thoughts for the evening. I do apologize for them :)
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hahaha…my husband and I had the SAME conversation about Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus! We don’t have kids, or cable, so I suppose we’re out of the loop too. :)
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Thanks so much for the mention!
And I loved Island of the Blue Dolphins!
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