Random thoughts III

[00clone]

Basically the concept is this creepy elf quietly sits on the shelf during the day, watching your kids. He then reports back to Santa at night whether or not the kids behaved. The elf is supposed to move spots each night. Just a new threat to try and encourage good behavior.

Where parents went wrong is someone got the idea that maybe this elf gets into mischief when he comes back after reporting to Santa. So every night parents try to come up with ideas like have the elf zip-line from the kitchen cabinets to the sink or take a bath in the bathroom sink with marshmallows, or make snow angels in flour on the counter. Fun memories for the kiddos you know.

To be honest, I didn't need the added stress of one more thing to do during the holiday season so I never got one. Then a couple years ago our oldest decided our house needed an elf, so she drew one on paper and moved it around (she was about 9 and knew the whole Santa gig). Last year a stuffed animal became the elf, and is back this year. She is 100% in charge of it, but so far has needed some help. Which I am again not wanting to deal with.

anyway, some people love the elf. I hate him. There are whole websites/blogs/Pinterest boards dedicated to ideas for the elf. Good luck, have as much fun as you want to with it.

Oh, the elf is all her...I kinda heard of some of the stuff on here, she asked if we should get one. I said I wasn't doing any of the stuff, and don't expect to start getting all stressed out coming up with crazy crap. Thankfully, she's not prone to that type of sillery anyway, so I'm not to worried about that, but I thought there was some stuff about not supposed to touch him or something, so I didn't want to commit a faux pas.

 

[Cybirdy]

Kids aren't supposed to touch him, I think parents get a free pass. My 9yr old gets freaked out when our "elf" is in reach of the little ones. I tell her it is okay if I move him.

 

[WooBadger18]

Have you found yourself wanting to pronounce English words with -ie or -ei in them the German way? I catch myself doing that sometimes.

I'll occasionally do that. I think it happens more often when I'm reading actually.

And BDK that sounds fun, which historical figure are you thinking of doing?

 

[00clone]

I'll occasionally do that. I think it happens more often when I'm reading actually.

And BDK that sounds fun, which historical figure are you thinking of doing?

I was going to recommend he chronicle Kenndy's life as a jelly donut.

 

[WooBadger18]

I was going to recommend he chronicle Kenndy's life as a jelly donut.

That could be entertaining. When we had to do a project somewhat like this in high school, I talked about Oskar Schindler, so something much darker.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I was going to recommend he chronicle Kenndy's life as a jelly donut.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one to think of JFK!

 

[ImJustKCClone]

The elf is supposed to move spots each night.

We have California Raisins for that.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Hey, WOOT!!!! I'm at 100 now. I'm an addict!!!








i need a life...

 

[CoKane]

He didn't donate enough

Love this comment.

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

I think this is the busiest week I've ever had in my college career. I have 5 group projects due next week! Kill me now

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Oh, I'm comfortable with my lack of ability to read sheet music...I get by in church, and I ain't doing any concerts any time soon. And, yes, I know that song, and I know the general concepts, I'm just saying that if you put a note on a staff, I'd be able to tell you it's low, middle, or high, but I wouldn't be able to sing the specific one...or if you gave me one note and asked me to sing the next one up, I wouldn't necessarily know how much up to go to hit the next one.

You're pretty much talking about sight reading here. Not a ton of people that are not musically trained have the ability to do this too easily.

 

[cowgirl836]

Basically the concept is this creepy elf quietly sits on the shelf during the day, watching your kids. He then reports back to Santa at night whether or not the kids behaved. The elf is supposed to move spots each night. Just a new threat to try and encourage good behavior.

Where parents went wrong is someone got the idea that maybe this elf gets into mischief when he comes back after reporting to Santa. So every night parents try to come up with ideas like have the elf zip-line from the kitchen cabinets to the sink or take a bath in the bathroom sink with marshmallows, or make snow angels in flour on the counter. Fun memories for the kiddos you know.

To be honest, I didn't need the added stress of one more thing to do during the holiday season so I never got one. Then a couple years ago our oldest decided our house needed an elf, so she drew one on paper and moved it around (she was about 9 and knew the whole Santa gig). Last year a stuffed animal became the elf, and is back this year. She is 100% in charge of it, but so far has needed some help. Which I am again not wanting to deal with.

anyway, some people love the elf. I hate him. There are whole websites/blogs/Pinterest boards dedicated to ideas for the elf. Good luck, have as much fun as you want to with it.

creepy was definitely the jist I got out of the whole thing.

 

[cowgirl836]

I think this is the busiest week I've ever had in my college career. I have 5 group projects due next week! Kill me now

I hated group projects with a passion. Unless it was a group that I got to pick the people and it was a higher level class.

 

[00clone]

You're pretty much talking about sight reading here. Not a ton of people that are not musically trained have the ability to do this too easily.

Well, it's more than that, hard to explain, but just trying to get across that yeah, I know that the lower the note is on the staff, the lower the note is and vice versa...but unless I know the song by heart, music sheets ain't doing me any good, other than a general concept of which notes are high and low.

 

[00clone]

I hated group projects with a passion. Unless it was a group that I got to pick the people and it was a higher level class.

:biglaugh:

Your need to control is LOUD and CLEAR here, CG.

 

[cyrevkah]

Oh, I'm comfortable with my lack of ability to read sheet music...I get by in church, and I ain't doing any concerts any time soon. And, yes, I know that song, and I know the general concepts, I'm just saying that if you put a note on a staff, I'd be able to tell you it's low, middle, or high, but I wouldn't be able to sing the specific one...or if you gave me one note and asked me to sing the next one up, I wouldn't necessarily know how much up to go to hit the next one.

I can generally play things in the Key of C (main one), but if you asked me to name notes or to sing the right pitch I couldn't do that. For new songs, I just read the speed and increase or decrease of tone.....and I try to listen to the others around me which usually keeps me in pitch.

 

[cowgirl836]

I can generally play things in the Key of C (main one), but if you asked me to name notes or to sing the right pitch I couldn't do that. For new songs, I just read the speed and increase or decrease of tone.....and I try to listen to the others around me which usually keeps me in pitch.

yeah I can name the note and do even intervals - but stuff like 4 or 6 notes is my weak spot. Tonal memory was my least enjoyed part of auditions.

 

[00clone]

Oh, so the missus asks me to "upload/download, whatever...some of the pictures I took to costco's website so I can make a christmas card" this morning, because it's home alone Thursday and these advanced concepts like taking a memory card out of a camera, finding a card reader, plugging it in and do the copy/paste thing...then following directions on a website are too difficult....:dull:

NEW RULE....if you want me to get pictures off of the camera...either don't let the 4 year old run around for a half hour with our f'ing DSLR camera clicking pictures of whatever, yet intermix real pictures of stuff you don't want deleted...or clean them up before you want me to mess with them.

:realmad:

 

[cowgirl836]

:biglaugh:

Your need to control is LOUD and CLEAR here, CG.

ha, right? I just hated that how well I did didn't matter if everyone else was lazy/procrastinators/whatever. We had a group for Honors English freshman year and the one kid that was all like "I got this" wanted to be the person who put everything together. Well, he did a terrible job, didn't get it done until like 10 minutes before we presented - so no time to make changes - and forgot his usb drive WITH THE PRESENTATION ON IT so we had to change our time so he could run and get it and the hard *** professor knocked us down a grade for it. One of the other Type A girls and I were not amused. After that I did everything I could to be the combiner/final editor of group projects.

 

[Cybirdy]

So I have a TV that may or may not be delivered today. No update in shipping status on the carrier site since 11/28 when it was first processed. Estimated delivery says today between 12-4pm, carrier is supposed to call. Amazon shipping status says it arrived in DSM 2 days ago but isn't out for delivery yet.