May 2013
May 24th
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OH OH OH OH OH!  I forgot to tell you all!  So last weekend we went garage saleing (I adore garage sales.  ADORE THEM!) and Pippa was pretending to be a puppy while wearing one of her her hulk shirts and this guy whose garage we were in was commenting on how cute she was so I said, “When she grows up she says she wants to be either The Hulk or a puppy.” “OR A LIBRARIAN!”...
May 23rd
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thelifeguardlibrarian: Why did no one tell me Margaret Wise Brown was an absolutely fabulous kook? DUDE!  You should also read about the guy who inherited Goodnight Moon.  Fascinating.
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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Woah! Stefon Urkel and Pierre Escargo were college...
This show has the best guest stars.
May 23rd
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“Michael, I understand nuclear fission now.”
– Eight year old Brain at breakfast. (via theremightbebrownies) My nephew, however, should probably also not be teaching sixth graders but he’s totes a genius.
May 23rd
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I had a dream last night that Kaylee’s school decided, instead of promoting her to first grade, to promote her to sixth grade AS A TEACHER. I kept trying to tell people at the school that this wouldn’t work and they kept reminding me that Kaylee its really smart and I kept agreeing that yes, she’s really smart but she is not THIS smart and them the school acted like I was a...
May 23rd
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Anonymous asked: are you married?
May 23rd
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Marcia is Amused.: I made mini meatloaves for... →
mar-see-ah: I made mini meatloaves for dinner and I put cumin in the loaves and added hoisin, garlic, and soy sauce to my ketchup glaze and dear god these were delicious. (2 eggs, 1/2 c bread crumbs, garlic, 1 c diced onions, s&p, oregano, thyme, and cumin. And whatever other spices look awesome. Mix. Add 1… Yeah, just made this and it is delicious.
May 23rd
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ellpea: phantasypunk replied to your post: So I just got a voicemail from a librarian in… Digital story time, you say? Do tell. OHMIGOSH it was the best ever.  Our normal storytimes are half an hour but this one was 45 minutes to add in a bit of teaching.  For the most part it was a regular storytime but the catch was that everything was digital.  We hooked our laptop up to the digital...
May 22nd
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So I just got a voicemail from a librarian in Virginia who wanted information about one of my programs and in my head I’m thinking, “My Digital Storytime?  Circulating preloaded ereaders?  The Early Literacy Summer Reading Club just for babies?”  No - she wants to know about my book club for 3rd - 5th graders.  Ugh - can’t we talk about a program I’ve done that was...
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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mar-see-ah: It’s the Internet. Who gives a fuck if you’re saying “gif” or “jif” in your head while you read a post on your phone in the bathroom.
May 22nd
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My 4 year old tells jokes at dinner time
Pippa: why did the letters jump up and down?
LP: why?
P: this is a tricky one! Here is a clue. The answer is either the moon or the sun.
Kaylee: I don't know!
P: ODBEEously the answer is the moon.
May 22nd
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yiaichenn: 221b-mine-please: pirenstoletheimpala: mycroft-queenofcake: iamjayse: thenerdfighterkid: slydig: tsarbucks: slydig: dont be mean  be median or mode damn math fandom bloggers shut up we have a good range of jokes this is our domain guys we’re forgetting the point of this post and going off on a tangent Are you all done cos I’ve had enough of this by now ...
May 21st
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“I was born to save the Doctor.”
– A minute thirty into the Doctor Who finale and I have already given it ALL THE EYE ROLLS.
May 21st
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spacetwinks: wanna become a popular, important book reviewer just so one day i can say someone writes ‘like a total wiener’ in a professional publication
May 21st
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May 21st
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Cats II: The Cattening: TUMBLRS ASSEMBLE! →
kelsium: As many of you know, our friend Rosa Sparks is having a real shit time of it lately. The most recent in a long string of personal upheavals is that the house where she and her daughter live was just robbed, and many of their personal belongings were taken. Rosa is about to start…
May 21st
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You know what I don’t get about all this Yahoo hoopla?  IF you look at who might have bought Tumblr - If Facebook had bought it everyone would be complaining about how tumblr is DIFFERENT from Facebook and they need to stay different If Google had bought it everyone would be complaining that THE MAN is just buying everything … That’s really all I’d heard of as...
May 20th
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May 20th
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Is anyone else having trouble with the Droid...
‘Cause I just went to fix that one of Kaylee’s chalk drawing and realized that Pippa’s graduation picture also lost it’s caption!
May 19th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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Why doesn't anyone put their hoods up when they...
Sam is so cold that his years are frozen on his cheeks but his hood is laying against his back.
May 18th
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My Gimpy Life Season Two →
scaredystark: More episodes of the award winning online comedy series MY GIMPY LIFE! My Gimpy Life is an online comedy series created by and starring Teal Sherer, who is best known as “Venom” from Felicia Day’s The Guild. Loosely based on her real life, the show centers around Sherer’s awkward adventures as a disabled actress trying to navigate Hollywood in a wheelchair. you should donate...
May 16th
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May 16th
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Pokeproblems
Kaylee: Daddy promised me he’d get me some animals in Pokemon. LP: I don’t know if you can call Pokemon “animals,” I mean … some of them are plants, some of them are rocks … OP: Some of them are ice cream
May 16th
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I feel loved
Pippa: Mommy, I will always love you.
LP: And I will always love you.
P: Even when I'm dead, I will love you.
LP: ... ok ... I'll love you too when I'm dead.
P: Even when I'm sick
LP: Even when I'M sick
P: Even when I do all KINDS of things
LP: I'll love YOU even when I do all kinds of things!
P: But not when I'm a bad guy.
LP: You won't love me when you're a bad guy?
P: Yup. Good thing I'll never be a bad guy.
May 15th
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May 14th
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House bill would legalize cell phone unlocking and... →
This new bill would also make it clear that providing devices and services to get around digital locks wouldn’t be illegal — unless those devices or services were intended for copyright infringement,” Public Knowledge vice president of legal affairs Sherwin Siy says in a blog post. “The idea is to make sure that tools that can be used for noninfringing purposes aren’t outlawed...
May 14th
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May 14th
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A PUPPET PLAY BY PIPPA
P: ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A BOY
(hold up a Sonic the Hedgehog doll)
P: THEN ... A LOT OF STUFF HAPPENED!
(Pippa holds up some art that she drew of a flower and my face)
P: THE END!
May 14th
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May 14th
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My very first fandom was The Hitchhikers Guide to...
I always get so confused when fandoms have big fights over what is and is not cannon because in H2G2 lore everything is cannon, if not in this version then the one of the other ones
May 14th
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Holy cats! Roy Effing Dotrice plays the...
That’s a really cool cameo.  Kudos, whoever made that casting choice. Research tells me he was originally hired to be Grand Maester Pycelle but he had to drop out for medical reasons.
May 14th
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May 13th
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Blasphemy and Iron Man
littledudesays: him: HERE’S DIS CROSS I MADE AT SCHOOL. THEY KILLED CHEESE-ITS WITH IT. me: You mean Jesus? him: YEAH I MEAN CHEESE-ITS. me: Tell me more. him: THEY HIT HIM WITh DIS CROSS AND HE DIED. me: That’s not actually true. They nailed his hands and feet to it, and he died. him: AND THEN THEY CUT OFF HIS ARMS AND ONE OF HIS LEGS. me: That didn’t happen. him: AND THEN HE GOT A CANE...
May 13th
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If you like that art, aurora-borealison sent me... →
I’m thinking of stopping by the comic book store, grabbing some of those cheap back issues of Wonder Woman/She Hulk/Batgirl/any other female super heroes that always end up in the quarter box to use instead of the maps.
May 13th
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May 13th
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May 12th
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jakke asked: What are your favourite sushi items? Also, what's the longest train trip you've ever taken, and how was it?
May 12th
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May 12th
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In which Kaylee explains to Pippa how the world...
Pippa: I don't know who I'm going to marry yet.
LP: That's ok. You have plenty of time to figure that out.
P: I'm going to pick it out now. I'm going to pick out who Kaylee and I are going to marry. BUT NO ONE IS GOING TO MARRY A GIRL.
LP: Why not?
P: Because you can't!
K: Yes you can, Pippa! That's called being a gay. Or a bi, like Mommy. And then you can't go to chick-fil-a.
May 12th
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May 11th
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May 11th
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K: Does Mommy have to eat all her dinner?
LP: If I don't eat my dinner, I get a headache.
P: If I don't eat my dinner, I get a headache AND I DIE! ! ! !
May 10th
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