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I kind of hate writing here whenever I feel like shit, but it's really the only place I can do it, unfortunately. I'm keeping up appearances on FB, Twitter has limits and Tumblr is oddly.. open.

I enrolled Liam into 3 year old Kindergarten for the coming school year in January/February. It's not compulsory and it's kind of expensive for what it is, but he's going.

Now, I'm kind of an anxious person as it is, and a little competitive, and 3 year old kinder is the first time Liam's going to be thrust into a room full of his peers without me and I don't know, I'm a nervous wreck already.

I was looking at all the other kids that were enrolling and wondering how he's going to cope, and worried that he's behind or going to have a terrible time. Liam is a really quiet, socially anxious kid who wouldn't surprise me if he was somewhere on the spectrum (not in any way that concerns me, not in any way that makes me even want to get him tested) and all these other kids are just going to steamroll him. At playgroup, during storytime, the leader often asks Liam questions about the story, like 'what colour is the flower, Liam?' and Liam will know the answer, but another kid will always yell out first and louder. I don't want him to never get any attention because he's quiet and obedient.

Liam's not very big and he's physically not as strong as other kids, and he's cautious and nervous and I'm wondering how much of this is him and how much of it is a reflection of me, my personality, my parenting?

And his shyness - how far do I push so that he overcomes his shyness, without making him hate me and everything?

Liam's perfectly academic - bet you anything he'll be able to read in a year, I mean, he can do basic addition and can count to a hundred with only a few hiccups. He's just not very social, and he's not particularly verbal and I worry worry worry worry worry worry worry worry.

And I Know there's nothing I should be worrying about. I just want him to be confident. I'm probably projecting, but lack of confidence is THE WORST. Thinking you can't do things is crippling and I think I've failed already and he's not even three :(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

eta: I think part of me feels like someone is going to pop out of the woodwork and point at me and say 'OMG YOU FAILED AT PARENTING LOOK AT YOUR CHILD', whereas right now I can just keep Liam at home and no one will know.

There is No Road Map To Your Life by truelyesoteric

Summary:

Arthur has lived and died twenty-one times. Merlin has been there for all of his lives and deaths, he had been walking the earth since their first one. Arthur only remembers his current life. Merlin remembers everything.

This is the twenty-second life. Things are going a bit differently. Arthur is American for one, but that really is the least of this life's strangeness.

This has been my favourite PL fic so far. I really liked this idea of reincarnation fic where Arthur never remembers their past lives, whereas Merlin is doomed to watch him (and help him) be born, grow up, be great, and die young in front of him, over and over again. I liked how in this life Merlin is Arthur's assistant, because it's kind of hard to write a modern AU where Merlin is believably in any sort of serving role. I liked how all of this tied in with what we know in canon. It was also quite romantic, I thought. Read this one!

Easy As All That (Go Around A Time Or Two) by Sunsetmog

Summary:

Sometimes the hardest part of growing up is figuring out who you are in the first place.

Or: The one where Liam and Louis only kiss when they're on nights out, when it's secret, when there's no one around to see them. If no one knows you're having a sexuality crisis, that means it isn't happening, right?

Or, or: Liam accidentally turns Louis' world upside down.

A high school sixth form AU.

It's basically 85k of boys going through a sexuality crisis. I know some people find that really tiresome in fic, but I really enjoyed it here. Sometimes the boys make really bad decisions that make you want to whack them upside the head, but being afraid to come out or even admit that you might be gay is definitely a thing, so it really was a great read. I liked the world building here, it's so.. high school and so.. English. I had to blink the first time Liam asked Louis, "Can I come around for my tea?" and parse that that meant Liam going around to Louis' and eating his dinner there. Hahaha.
85k of Liam/Louis fic is a GIFT. Enjoy!

A Beacon in the Dark by

zairaalbereo

Summary:

In a society where people with magic are persecuted, Arthur is a lawyer who takes on a prominent murder case. The suspect is a sorcerer: Merlin, Arthur's former childhood friend, who vanished at sixteen when his magic was discovered. Now, ten years later, Merlin is a prostitute, and Arthur has to solve more than Merlin's secrets to save the man he still loves from execution.

A story about two friends, who after losing their hope, their innocence and their way, finally find each other again.

So Merlin was forced into prostitution. Either you know that's your thing or it's not. I will say that Merlin was forced into it prior to the story starting, and the icky sex that ensues happens at the start of this very long fic, so you're not yet attached to his character. I really dislike non-con and this did not bother me at all. There's also a rape scene that happens in a jail, but it's telegraphed and you can skip that whole bit if you like.

I liked this fic, and I read the whole thing in one go, as I'm a sucker for the prostitute trope, as well as 'Arthur and Merlin were childhood friends and they grew up and met each other again' trope. This is also kid fic... I love kid fic.

I have reservations about the characterisation of Gwen, the sticky sweetness of the kid, and the dragged out ending.. as well as the ending in general, but all in all it was enjoyable.

First

paperlegends fic I read and liked was

Bend Before the Sea by

i_canz_dragon.
It's Selkie!Merlin/Arthur fic. Yep, and that's all you need to know. :D

The artwork is also beautiful.

paperlegends has started posting!!!!! If I read any I like, I'll let y'all know.

In other news, I just don't know what to do with this place. I read, and I comment sometimes (not often) but I hardly ever have the urge to post anymore because I leave it too long and who knows what the important stuff is then?

I toyed with just flat out leaving the place, but like everyone else, none of the other social media places really fill the void.

What I require, is that Tumblr start allowing threaded comments, and I'd be all over it.

I've really started being active on Instagram lately, so if you have an account there, let me know, I'm instagram.com/tinadearing

And of course: wickedcherub.tumblr.com, twitter.com/tinadearing, facebook.com/tinadearing, HIT ME UP

Currently blabbing on about my children, Teen Wolf, Pacific Rim, and crying about Merlin. Oh, and One Direction, occasionally.

Yesterday we went to the Moonlight Sanctuary (during the day) to go feed the wallabies, see the koalas etc. It's a sort of a wide open area, not very big at all. The pathway goes around in a large loop, and that morning there were a few families there and a birthday party group.

We went into the section with the wallabies, where there is a lot of scrub, so you can't see across the top of the trees (though the trees are quite short), though there's a very clear pathway and it's not very long and we started to feed some of the animals. I noticed a couple of kids come in behind us, but we had walked around the bend in the path and they were out of sight.

Suddenly we heard a wail, and a little 4 year old girl came up behind us, and then ran back the other way down the path. We could hear her crying and we figured she probably got separated from her family. I didn't really think twice about it, but 5-10-15 seconds later we could still hear her crying, just... further away.

Adam decided to go see if she was okay, make sure she hadn't stumbled into a body of water or something and maybe go find her parents.

We continued to feed some animals while we waited.

Adam took ages. He finally came back and said that the parents were nowhere to be found and he had to take the little girl all the way back to the front office. What. How could your little girl go missing for more than 20 seconds without you noticing? How, after 10 minutes are you not also at the front office trying to get help looking for her? Maybe she was part of the birthday party and someone forgot?

An hour later, we were looking at some owls, and one of the staff members was walking the little girl around, still trying to find these parents. She was not part of the birthday party.

When we were leaving, the little girl was sitting in the front office, doing some colouring. I can't think of any other scenario except that her parents took her to the sanctuary and then dumped her. Adam said that she said she came in with her parents. I'm trying to think of best case scenarios and I can't think of any.

Adam was so upset at this point he went to talk to the office lady and he doesn't talk to anyone if he can help it. The office lady seemed really nonchalant and Adam was all 'are you going to call the police? what's going to happen??' and she just sort of nodded.

It never occurred to me that the little girl would be in need of real help. Little girl lost in a place like that, I assume straight away that the parents are in some sort of 10m radius, there's nowhere else to go! It's not like a playground or a shopping centre.

I was treated to an Adam rant on the way home about shit parents, how they create shit people and the little girl has no chance in life now. I didn't really register much of it.. Adam wondering whether they dumping her permanently or whether they went to play slot machines or something. My SIL thought that the girl seemed used to it. I thought she sounded proper distraught.

Anyway it didn't really hit me until I was in bed last night and I just couldn't stop crying. Like I just don't understand why the little girl was left at the sanctuary of all places?! Did they think she would have fun there? Did they desperately need a drug hit while they were there? Was it a Hansel and Gretel situation? She was the dearest little girl. I wanted to take her home and clear out a room and keep her forever. How can people do this? How can this happen? Where are all our support systems?

I'm still upset about the times when my parents were 10 minutes late picking me up from school and I was the last one waiting. I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS AT ALL.

Not to be an entitled demanding leech or anything, but seriously, GIVE ME ALL THE DEUCALION FIC. GIVE IT TO ME NOW.

He is pretty much all my kinks in one nice package. I don't care who he's paired up with. I'm hoping he gets a scene with Chris Argent this season though because like, umm, UNF?

I finally caught up with Game of Thrones. Am I supposed to find Daario attractive? Because he just gives me the skeevy creeps. Is the *actor* supposed to be attractive? I heard they were looking for a non-caucasian guy for the role, but they failed there. Nevertheless, my skin crawls when I see him.

Also very annoyed that we didn't get to see any Gendry penis. Not because I actually wanted to see his penis, but it was weird how much they were trying to cover it up that it took me out of the scene - no one has sex like that without pulling their pants down at least past their butt, seriously.

Coming out of a hellish week - Toby contracted some virus that gave him tonsillitis, a full body rash and diarrhea. We ended up having to go to hospital because he wouldn't feed. Liam missed me like crazy while I was spending all my time with Toby, and so has turned into some sort of revolutionary - everything I say is met with a 'NO!' and all his attention seeking behaviour is negative. And defiant. Rules that he's always abided by before - like, no shoes on the couch, he now flaunts right in front of me to try and get my attention.

I don't know what to do yet.

And while I'm typing this, Toby's woken up. *fist pump*

I WILL RETURN.

Let's finish this!

Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss

Day 21 - Favorite ship
Ugh, this is hard - I invariably like ships in fanfic much more than onscreen because with the nature of TV, they tend to drag relationships out, give them artificial ups and downs to make things interesting. I like Brian/Justin from QAF because they made it through despite it not making sense from the outside looking in. I liked Agron/Nasir from Spartacus for defying my expectations because I was SURE that Nasir was going to die at any moment, making Agron go beserk with rage and kill a million Romans. Or vice versa, giving Nasir yet another character arc, BUT NO, THEY WERE THE ONLY COUPLE TO SURVIVE AND THEY WERE GAY, YOU GO SPARTACUS, FOUR FOR YOU.
Oh, Lynda/Spike from Press Gang! My first real exposure to a bad ass girl who could have feminine lovey dovey feelings and how her attraction to the 'Bad Boy' did not stop her from being who she was. SEE STEPHEN MOFFAT, YOU CAN WRITE WOMEN. LIKE, TWENTY YEARS AGO.
I like Merlin/Arthur, though I did wish that Arthur would stop calling Merlin an idiot when he clearly did not think so. I've decided that Merlin/Arthur is my favourite slash ship ever though - there's a sweetness and a romance to them that other ships just don't have.

Day 22 - Favorite series finale
It comes down to two. Merlin, for exceeding my very low expectations and just giving me exactly what I needed even though they killed off Arthur (I don't think I'll ever get over that). It was the best it could be, but that final season could have been amazing, and well.. it just wasn't.
The other is Spartacus, and well, that was an exercise in ALL THE FEELINGS and ALL THE SATISFACTION and ALL THE AMAZING ACTION and I've never come away from a series finale more satisfied.

Oh, bonus mention to the series finale of Roseanne, which knocked me off my feet. I was young at the time, I don't know whether the switcheroo would have had the same impact on me, now that I'm older and wiser, or whether I'd just think it was cheap and cheating. Look it up on Wikipedia, I can't possibly explain it.

Day 23 - Most annoying character
I cannot deal with Sue, or half the cast of Glee sometimes.
I could not deal with Morgana in that season where she was still in the castle and just smirking every single shot.
I don't know if T-Bag from Prisonbreak counts as annoying but he made me so uncomfortable watching him on screen, I just didn't watch.

Day 24 - Best quote
Oh, this is too hard. Pick a random one from Boy Meets World. Or the OC. Or Community!

Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Adventure Time! I've also made it 2 episodes into Breaking Bad, so we'll probably give that a go. Same with Boardwalk Empire. Not going to try Hannibal, even though that's all that's on my Tumblr dash lately. I can't do gore. Maybe Homeland, too. I have to watch TV with Adam, so that explains those choices.

Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Sherlock. Surely someone's worked out how he faked his death now. That's the problem with the big gap between seasons, nothing they come up with will be any better than the fan theories. And seriously, the way they got out of the end of Season 1 - what with Moriarty and the pool - EVERY FAN FIC WAS BETTER THAN THE CANON.

Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Glee was pretty damn good.
That first scene where Merlin meets Arthur in the pilot will always make me grin with glee.
I liked the Stargate pilot, bridging the gap between the movie and the show.

Day 28 - First TV show obsession
I liked a LOT of cartoons when I was younger, but my first real obsession where I had to buy merchandise etc was Beverley Hills 90210

Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Elementary! Yes. You should watch it. Also excited for Teen Wolf to return, though I don't actually enjoy the show that much, I just want to see all their faces.

Day 30 - Saddest character death.
I bawled pretty hard at the end of Sherlock's Reichenbach Fall, even though Sherlock wasn't dead. I don't think I bawled that hard for any show ever. I've yet to come to grips with the fact that Arthur Pendragon died.

(saddest character death in the movies for me is Beth from Little Women. I JUST CANNOT DEAL WHEN CLAIRE DANES CRIES)

YES! FINISHED!

Hi
I think I've been avoiding posting because my brain has been not a nice place to be lately. I'm not depressed or anything, just still really struggling with this whole mum thing - like we get through each day and we don't *do* anything or we don't *achieve* anything because I feel like it's just a constant wake up+breakfast+feed toby+get dressed+toby nap+run errand+lunch+do chore+liam nap+toby nap+do chore+make dinner+clean dinner+play with kids+run baths+bedtime routine+try get toby to sleep+pass out

Like, I don't even seem to have time to spend with Liam that much because I'm constantly trying to put Toby to sleep or feeding him, or have that much time to spend with Toby because Liam needs my attention. Liam spends so much time in front of the computer now he's worked out how to use a mouse, open the browser, open a new tab, navigate to youtube and type in 'Cars'. He's not even two and a half yet.

And I can't manage to either get out of the house or get Toby into a nap routine because they are both at cross purposes with one another.

Money is suddenly super tight because Adam's been doing out front yard finally, building a front deck, doing a drive way, building a side fence, and putting in grass and plants. (there was nothing but dirt there before) and it's costing more than I anticipated. Adam has also racked up $1000 in speeding fines this year, because he has to drive for work, and that's pretty much the cap because if he speeds anymore he'll lose his license/job. That's like, $1000 down the drain, for.. nothing.

My saviour of a sister in law, Chloe, has just been told by the health nurse to see a professional about being diagnosed for anxiety/depression, so I feel awful now calling upon her for help. My other sister in law Amy visited on Monday to try and make her feel better and was all, 'your life is fine! Everything is doable, easy even! Look at me, I can do everything, I've got so much more on my plate than you, if I can do it, you can too!!! Cheer up! Look, I'll help!' and Chloe understandably ended up in a crying mess of tears after she left. I think I'm Chloe's favourite sister in law at the moment lol.

I added all these wonderful new fandom people and I haven't been doing anything fannish at the moment at all, except read a million words of fanfic while breastfeeding.

I really enjoyed the ending of Spartacus, it was really kind of perfect. Have you watched it yet? Why not. I'm super excited for the finale of Elementary, and for Teen Wolf to start.

I've got everyone's April Swap parcels at my front door ready to be sent out tomorrow.

I'm a much happier (and a more entertaining) person on Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram, so hit me up :D

eta OH HAY THE ONE TIME I TRY TO USE LJ AND IT WON'T WORK

My life suddenly got hectic what with assignments and the rearranging of my entire house (we moved things around in every room and moved things from room to room. it's great - my house looks twice the size now and is neat!!) and trying to teach Toby to sleep in his own bed so apologies

and big apologies to everyone from the April Swap, I have all the postcards and candy on my table ready to go, I just need to make it to the postoffice this week. I will thank everyone for the nice things in my mailbox when I get more time.

Hi, been caught up in life etc.

We have a little bit of money in our bank account and Adam's feeling a bit better after his back has been sore, so now we're back on Operation Get Our House Into a Livable State.

It includes Adam finishing the rendering of the house, painting the outside, and actually making our front yard not look like a large dirt mound.

I've been visiting a lot of houses with small children lately, and I've noticed that while these houses were messy, if say, an important person were to come visit, they could all be cleaned up fairly easily. There may have been toys everywhere, but you could see where they were supposed to go. Same with the laundry, the dishes etc.

My house suffers from a real lack of storage, but I think I'm really going to start Operation Let's Reorganise This Whole House, starting umm, as soon as I finish typing this. I've kind of given up on the idea of Toby and Liam sharing a room, since Toby still wakes up a millionty five times in the night, so I'm going to reorganise the play room into Toby's room.

Once it's all reorganised, I'm going to put the photos on the wall, etc, since I've decided we're going to stay here at least another year. It's going to be great.

I have never been bullied.

A bunch of girls in 4th grade decided not to be friends with me anymore one day, so I went and hung out with the 'uncool' group, and well, we're all still friends. I don't even think I was sad about it, they weren't even my sort of people, I was just friends with them because they were 'cool'.

I remember three different moments in my life where my physical appearance was commented upon by a peer and found wanting.
1. 6th grade, a friend of mine patted my stomach and said 'ooh, getting a belly'. I didn't realise that I had a bit of a belly (which I did), but since I always had it, it didn't really faze me.
2. 10th grade, a girl sitting behind me at Vietnamese school stared at my legs for absolutely ages, and looked up and asked me if I shaved. When I answered to the contrary, she said, "oh, no wonder." I was always aware of my hairy legs, but I didn't think it was necessary to add to my hygiene routine yet. I thought about it, but didn't do anything about it until 12th grade.
3. 12th grade, a girl in my class wondered why my mouth was always open (my mouth doesn't close properly when resting, I don't know, my teeth or something, it's weird) and commented that I had hair on my upper lip. Again, I was always aware of it, was just too lazy to actually deal with it. I think I started to get rid of it when I started shaving my legs.

Now, my life was probably made easier by the fact that I went to some airy fairy girls school where no makeup was allowed and everyone's hair had to be tied up using a blue ribbon and I remember crowding a 12th grade girl at the back of the school bus when I was in 10th grade because she had her eyebrows done for the first time for the senior formal (and man was she self conscious about it!)

I self identified as a nerd/geek, but I have all but four of my entire senior year at school friended on Facebook. FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE.
I had my fair share of stalkery teenage boys asking me out. I had a boyfriend. I never had an issue with sex/sexual exploration, I knew what I wanted and what I didn't want. I never felt ashamed of what I got up to or felt like I needed to get up to more, and freely discussed things with my friends.

I've never been peer pressured.

I don't really suffer from any real anxiety or depression. I don't have low self esteem.
I went to a 21st party one year and everyone at that party was *beautiful*. They were thin, they were sexy, and I was downright fat and frumpy by comparison. I was even wearing my mother's clothes and this was at a club. I came home in the early hours so upset and drained from it all that I called

silverthoughts in Hong Kong that night (and I never call her), and she didn't answer because she found out that her mum had cancer that night. Yeah, you know, I never had an issue with self esteem after that. Like, my body just went 'Huh. REALLY TRIVIAL ISSUE THERE, TINA' and never cared about it ever again.

I got involved with the manipulative, verbally abusive

flip_doubt when I was 22, but I still think that was necessary in a way, to my life; I learnt so much from it.

I think where I'm going with this is is sometimes I really don't understand all the problems, sadness, mental illnesses that I see on my LJ and especially my Tumblr. I feel like I can't offer any advice to the younger set because, well, what do I know?

I worry that my rainbows and unicorns experience in high school means that I will be a bad teacher when I start working - because I will have no idea what it's like for the average high school student.

Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence

Day 19 - Best TV show cast
I don't know about Best, but my favourite is probably the cast from Boy Meets World. Everything about those characters and actors is lovely, and my heart aches every time I see photos or mentions of them getting together these days. I think I aged exactly the same as Cory Matthews - like, he was 12 when I was 12, and while I didn't get married at 19, they hold a very special place in my heart. From Morgan all the way to Mr Feeny.

Day 20 - Favorite kiss
I'm trying to think of any kisses that I had been waiting a long time for, but I'm drawing up a blank. One kiss that stands out in my mind very clearly though, even though I only watched it the one time, was between Jack McPhee and Ethan (?) on Dawson's Creek. It was sometime in the year 2000, my senior year of highschool, and Jack had joined the cast as Joey Potter's love interest. I liked the character a lot (he was my then boyfriend's favourite character) and it turned out he was gay. So he struggles with this, and he has an interest in Ethan, who doesn't want him until he's ready. One day after much angst, he decides that, no, he's going to do this, and they (Jack and a friend I can't remember who) stop at Ethan's boarding school, and he runs to him, awkwardly tries to explain himself to Ethan, gives up and just kisses him.

omg.

Okay, so it turned out that Ethan had already begun trying to work things out with his ex, so it was all for naught, but I was so amazed by the kiss. I didn't really expect it to happen, though I didn't know it was the first gay kiss on network TV. It was a really hot kiss, to be honest. I was so pleased by it all. I remember discussing it with girls at school the next day. They thought it was gross, but I was so gleeful. IT WAS THE BEST.

HERE. WATCH IT. ABOUT 1:48 IN.

(I also really loved Arthur and Gwen's first kiss. I wasn't expecting it so soon, and even though I thought they were awkward, the backlight and the swelling violins really did it for me. I think I watched it like 5 times.)

( day 21-30 )

Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series

Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Okay, best title sequence goes to Game of Thrones. It has the awesome theme music, it has scale, it has these awesome models of places in Westeros, it's informative, it changes every week depending on what locations will appear in the episode. GoT doesn't often do a cold open, so it very much gets you in the mood for the show. And even though it's very long, I will watch it the whole way through every time.
Second runnerup goes to Dexter. But it's kind of creepy and I don't watch it as a rule.

THEME SONGS THOUGH, OMG. THEME SONGS ARE WAY BETTER THAN TITLE SEQUENCES. I PARTICULARLY LIKE THESE THEME SONGS:
- Rugrats
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Fresh Prince of Bel Air
- Malcolm in the Middle
- 2 and a Half Men (you might hate the show, but the theme song is genius)
- The Smurfs
- Animaniacs
- The X-Files
- Downton Abbey
- Pink Panther
- The Addams Family
- M*A*S*H (I've never seen an episode, can you believe, but I think it's been airing non stop here forever)
- Captain Planet
- Gummi Bears
- Madeline
- ASTROBOY (I will cry every time I hear this one. I cried in 9th grade class once because my Japanese teacher aired an ep)
- Pokemon
- The Brady Bunch
- Ouran High Host Club

THEME SONGS THAT I MIGHT LIKE SIMPLY BECAUSE I LIKE THE SHOW
- Beverley Hills 90210
- Full House
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Roger Ramjet
- Perfect Strangers (NOTHING'S GONNA STOP ME NOW)
- The Big Bang Theory

OUTRO SONGS I LOVED
- Bear in the Big Blue House
- Superted

And I'm sure there are a million more that I've forgotten. WHAT HAVE I FORGOTTEN?

This is on again this year!

HAPPY APRIL SWAP

Join in, swap what you want - letters, postcards, candy, knitted items, tea! Get something pretty in the mail and send something in return. It doesn't have to be in the mail, you can swap virtual goods and services too :D

My link is here if you want to swap something with me :D If you're on my friendslist, I'm happy to send you Tim Tams :D

I made a cake last night that needs to be chilled. I felt mega accomplished. We even had people over for dinner and I served them food and they had SECONDS.

Adam was no help and he was complaining that he couldn't settle Toby, so I tasked him with washing the remaining frying pan and saucepan, as well as putting away the leftovers.

I woke up this morning and the dishes were not done, and he put the entire PYREX DISH OF LASAGNE ON TOP OF MY CAKE. MY WONDERFUL CAKE IS SQUASHED. WE DIDN'T GET TO EAT IT YET AND IT'S A MANGLED MESS OF CREAM AND CHOCOLATE UNDER A GIANT GLASS DISH.

WHYYYYY

Just came back from an awful supermarket trip.

I did not know what to buy since I'm not adding anymore processed sugar to our pantry if I can help it (TIM TAMS WERE HALF PRICE AND I DIDN'T BUY ANY) and I figured that probably also meant salty snacks were out of the question (I don't eat very much salt at all, but yeah, no one needs crisps in the house) and somehow still ended up spending a bucketload.

Going through checkout, Liam wanted to get down from the trolley to put money in the charity guide dog statue thing, so while I was wrangling that (he got stuck), super efficient checkout lady had finished scanning my items, making me that person that holds everyone up while I try to pay with my card, and stack all my bags back into my trolley. Just because all the goods fit in the trolley beforehand doesn't mean they all fit now that they're in bags. Actually I'm sure it means that they definitely won't fit. And it doesn't help that I had to buy two boxes of nappies and toilet paper.

Pushing the full trolley + Toby is always a bit of a struggle for me, but it's worse at this supermarket because the footpath is on a tiny bit of a slope. Liam wanted a sausage from the guy barbequeing out the front, so then I had to make the decision to either find a spot to put the trolley where it won't roll and buy a sausage, or strap the kids in the car and buy a sausage. The car is less than 10 metres away and in plain sight. But because I was silly and asked P101 what they would do, recently, I second guessed myself.

So, I parked Toby and the full trolley up against a pillar, against the slope, 1 metre away from sausage guy. I buy two sausages from him and give one to Liam. Liam promptly drops sausage on the ground.

I pick it up and stuff it back into his bread because I am a great mother.

Then because I am an AWESOME mother, I look up to find that Toby and the trolley are not against the pillar. They are in the carpark. Fallen sideways at 45 degrees. Up against the sausage guy's car. Toby is still happy as Larry, hanging out of the trolley, only hanging on by being strapped in by the seatbelt on the infant seat. (YES! I DID SOMETHING RIGHT!) If that car hadn't been there, Toby would have fallen smack bang onto the concrete with the force of the full trolley.

DID YOU KNOW THAT TROLLEYS HAVE A LOCK BRAKE LIKE PRAMS? I DO NOW.

While I'm saving Toby and he's still all 'oh hi mum!' Liam has dropped the rest of his sausage.

Yeah, picking it up off the ground twice is too much even for me. I told Liam to put it in the bin, so he just.. picks it up and hands it back to the sausage man :\

I go load the kids into the car when another car decides to wait for the empty spot next to me. Which he can't get to because I'm loading kids into the car. There are a million other carspaces but NO. He wants that one. Liam is crying for his sausage.

I still have to load my groceries into the car, and return the trolley. SERIOUSLY GOING TO THE SUPERMARKET SHOULDN'T BE THIS HARD OR LIFE THREATENING.

- I hid a few RL people from my FB newsfeed and I feel much less rage in the mornings when I check my FB. There's only so much stupidity, racism, classism and sexism I can handle with my breakfast.

- I have an issue with my Tumblr where I follow some extremely talented fanartists but their text posts and tags are just full of snobbery, hate and entitlement and I haven't worked out how to deal with that yet.

- I feel like I'm obligated to watch Game of Thrones even though it's pretty much just a whole heap of Crap Stuff that happen to Unsympathetic People now, or Game of Jerks. I can't remember the last time any character was happy. And there are A LOT of characters. I honestly don't think I'd be at all upset if any of them died.

- Unlike Spartacus where I'm guaranteed to cry buckets from here on out.

- The 30 Day TV Meme has made me think a lot about the TV I've consumed over the years. I was thinking about shows with Asian characters in them in my childhood and I could come up with two: Captain Planet, and the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. (a little later on there would be Ghostwriter, but I was a bit older by then). I remember wishing that Wheeler (the North American Fire guy) and Linka (the Eastern European Wind girl) would hook up - and I think they did, and thinking about it now, it's obvious that they were the only two who could hook up because they were the only two white people. And that went with Power Rangers too.. Kimberley the Pink Ranger ended up with Tommy the Green/White Ranger because black/Asian people never get romances. And it never ever occurred to me to think otherwise as a kid.

I really hope that changes as Liam grows up because I really do not want him to completely reject the fact that he is as much Vietnamese as he is white. I really want him to think that it's cool to be Vietnamese. Haha maybe he'll be into martial arts and drifting and I won't have to care :p

- We've had a lovely Easter - Adam took Liam camping overnight and I got a lot of sleep and managed to see my family and all my friends which is pretty much unheard of for me. Liam helped me decorate some Easter baskets for the family, and I filled them with eggs, when I woke up in the morning, all the eggs were mysteriously in Liam's basket. I WONDER HOW THAT HAPPENED.

- I really need to reorganise my wardrobe. Maybe I could do a 'should I keep / throwaway' photo set.

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