33 posts tagged “qotd”
If you could leave notes for the future, what message would you have left in the past for today?
Submitted by Nameless.
I don't get this question, as I can always leave notes for the future. Here's one: Remember when the box spring for the convertible crib-to-bed didn't fit up the stairs? That sucked. Shoulda just gone with Mr. Tinto's idea of replacing the crib with a twin bed.
Here's another one: remember when the air conditioner seized up in mid-July 2008? Ya, that sucked. Shoulda let Mr. Tinto get a brand new one when it broke down the last time. They had to cut the fan out with a hack saw. Cha-ching.
Now, if I could have sent notes from today into the past, they would have read: don't get the convertible crib and don't try to repair the air conditioner - neither are going to save you any money or grief.
How are you celebrating the 4th of July?
By wishing all of the Stateside Voxers a most excellent long weekend. Happy 4th of July!!
What do you do EVERY day to take care of the earth's environment? What could you do more of?
I've been trying to use re-useable shopping bags as much as possible. I have been trying to do this for a number of years, but I found two major stumbling blocks: not wanting to use my grocery bags to carry non-food items, like new clothes or books, since there may be traces of food in them; and having to struggle at the check-out to get grocery store clerks to pack my groceries into my cotton bags. In the past, more often than not, I would have to do it myself, and with a baby in a sling in the cramped grocery store we frequented downtown, it was very hard, so for most of ReRe's first year, I had little choice but to let them use plastic. Well, now that most major grocery chains have their own reusable bags, and the clerks have been instructed to use them, I'm finding I almost never come home from grocery shopping with plastic bags. As for the non-food items, thanks to stores like lululemon who provide re-usable bags that are sturdy and stylist (and don't just print 'Please Re-Use' on plastic bags) and are easy to carry, I hnow bring those for my other shopping trips, and have been able to cut down on the plastic/paper bags I bring home from other stores.
What's the best thing about today?
That my husband put the baby monitor on his side of the bed, and got up with our son this morning.
That my son still wanted cuddles with Mummy, and crawled into bed with me.
That my husband offered to take our son and go get us coffee if I made waffles this morning.
That my picky eating son actually asked for breakfast, rather than being forced to eat it. He seconded the vote for waffles, a request I was all too pleased to fulfill.
That after being caffeinated and fed, my husband took our son to an indoor playground, so I could do some housework and shower without having to explain to a certain toddler where Daddy is. every. single. minute.
That I get to shower and dress like an adult, and go to Lettuce Knit for a yarn hand-painting workshop.
Yup, today is just about perfect.
2008 is the Year of the Rat. Which animal year were you born in?
I was born in the year of the ox. This, combined with also being an Aries and 1/4 Irish, you'd think I'd be more stubborn and hard-headed than I am. But I'm not. Really, I'm quite easy to get along with.
Have you ever had a premonition about something that came true?
Submitted by Sheri.
Oh, you mean like having a premonition that if my son kept climbing up on his high chair, and I wasn't fast enough to catch him, he'd fall off onto the hard, ceramic tile kitchen floor? Ya, happened yesterday. Spooky.
Evidently, to a toddler, these look like diving platforms.
What are 10 things you want to say out loud but you can't?
Submitted by alix.
1. Does anyone else hear that whirring sound?
2. If someone else declares me insane, I don't have to make dinner, right?
3. I mean to dress like this. I'm trying to bring grunge back.
4. Are all teenagers idiots, or is it just me? (edit: my apologies to all the kick-ass teens out there, I'm just bitter cuz some high school emo dude jay-walked in front of my car, and then tried to spit on it yesterday)
5. You might want to seek professional help about that.
6. Don't give me parenting advice. I know your kids.
7. No really, see a professional. I know someone, I'm on my way there, actually.......
8. I hate you because you got to bathe today.
9. All the sweet, cute, amazing things my son does, but I'm too superstitous to talk about them.
10. If I knew I would never see you again, I would so blog about this.
Do you think real love can last throughout any distance, or will long distance end most relationships?
Submitted by Miss Joy.
Real love can definitely last through any distance. Even though I met my husband in 1993, we didn't start dating until early 1995, and in mid-1995, I took off for Malawi for a year. We only spoke a handful of times, but we wrote each other every week. He had much more faith than I did; while I expected each letter to be the last, he was buying me little presents and writing out song lyrics and sending them to me. The most touching present was a carving of a man and woman embracing, and he wrote these ani difranco lyrics on the bottom: "I know there is strength in the differences between us, and I know there is comfort where we overlap." These lyrics have come to define our relationship. Even once I got back to Canada, we spent the next 4 years living in different cities, hours apart, and yes we did fight on a somewhat regular basis, but once we were together, we vowed never to live apart again. That is a big reason why I agreed to come to Toronto (and now Mississauga) when he needed to move for his job, because I've lived the alternative, and while I know it is doable, as the song goes, I rather live with him in his world, than be without him in mine. I'm doing a pretty good job of making our little community my world too, and in time, I know it will become home.
Who is ringing in the New Year with you? Who do you wish could be with you, but isn't there?
We've actually heading out to a local restaurant/wine bar in Port Credit called ten with our dear friends Colleen and Bill. They are expecting their first child, and we plan to ring in the new year helping them get used to being up all night. We haven't been out to a new year's party in a long time, and we're really looking forward to it. Will try to have pics up tomorrow!
I just wanted to wish my Voxy friends all the very best in 2008. May you find peace, joy and beauty in the new year. Thank you for sharing your stories and reflections on life, it's really been a gift that I have cherished since I joined this community, and I can't wait for our year ahead.
A toast to us!
xox tinto
Which breed of dog is your favorite? Post a picture of it.
Submitted by Melissa.
While my favourite breed of dog is Bernese Mountain Dog, I really love any kind of working dog. I never appreciated the fundemental role of working dogs to agriculture, and by extension our food supply, until I worked on a dairy farm. Without the farm dog, there is no way the farmer could have gotten all of his cows back from the pasture to be milked twice a day. When there was a rabies scare in our area, the biggest (yet unspoken) fear was the loss of the dog, not of the herd. Without that mutt and his shepherding skills, the farm would have been in sudden and acute crisis.
I also became a fan of the show, Dogs with Jobs, which chronicles the lives of different kinds of working dogs. I was, of course, familiar with seeing eye dogs and drug sniffers, but I had no idea the spectrum of talents dogs can have. From sniffing out specific accelerants in suspicious fires to predicting seizures in an epileptic owner, dogs have senses far and beyond what humans can even imagine. And without trying to be sentimental or poignant, this show could bring me to tears, watching a boy with autism respond to his dog in a way that no one, not even his parents, could reach him. Another episode demonstrated how pit bulls, when loved and trained properly, could become the most perseverent rescue dogs, due to their tolerance of extreme conditions, and yes, pain.
I deeply miss having a dog in my life, and whenever I get a chance, I give one of the neighbourhood dogs a big hug.
