A 5-year-old’s visual language is VERY literal.
Ahhhhhh. A summer playdate. My kids had a friend over for the afternoon, and an activity that normally would have had my 2 boys fighting like cats and dogs was transformed into a blissfully quiet writing session for me. They all three played with legos and were happy as clams.
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Come on, people! Cardboard belongs in the blue bin!
There are some new stores coming to Mar Vista! And we in the neighborhood are excited! The corner building at Venice and Grand View has been painted and rumors are flying about what’s moving in. (I heard wine/tapas bar. Fingers crossed!)
My kids crack me up a lot of the time, and sometimes I think it might even make other people laugh.
My oldest son, who’s in third grade, has been fascinated by
movie ratings lately. He’s very interested in movies like HellBoy 2 and Batman: The
Dark Knight, which of course I feel are completely inappropriate for him. I
know that he feels it, too. He’s definitely afraid of going to see these
movies, and so has concocted a plan to see them on DVD, which means he can
control the viewing experience more and leave the room when he needs to. Plus
he’ll be a lot older by the time they get to dvd, so he gives himself that out
as well.
Anyway, today he mentioned that a classmate of his had seen The Dark Knight over the weekend. Apparently I
didn’t seem to react with enough horror for him, so he said “Shouldn’t you be concerned???”
And then my current favorite was again from my youngest. It was while we were on our road trip vacation, and we were heading for our hotel for the night. Both the kids were asking if it would have cable TV and a pool, and when I said yes to TV, but no to pool, they were a little disappointed. My youngest said, “But mom, what do they do here on HOT days?”
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This is the view of Union Square from the 31st floor of the Westin St. Francis hotel, where we stayed in comfort for the fantastic conference.
I
finally understand the meaning of Geeking Out. Because I’ve just been doing it
for the last 2 days in San Francisco.
I have had the time of my life being in the company of
1000 women bloggers (and the 10 men who joined us), meeting people, laughing,
learning and being awed by the power of technology.
There
were parties and giveaways, vendors with new products and services they were
there to promote, free lattes all day, a fancy hotel in a great location,
seminars with incredibly helpful information on how to make my blog work
better, actual tech support in person from Typepad, and on top of all that,
there were the awesome women I met.
I
met so many cool, creative women there. So cool. And they were all so open.
Everyone was friendly and open, and you have probably never seen so many
business cards exchanged in your whole life.
I
was really astounded by the openness I felt. I mean, really, there was no
clique-ish behavior, no “too cool for you” kind of stuff at all. And I was fascinated
by it. I’ve been in other all-women groups and they’re not always that way.
I
was trying to figure out why, and it finally hit me: Bloggers are sharers. We
blog because we want to put it out there in the world, whatever the “it” is.
So, naturally, we can put ourselves out there in person, too. We came to San
Francisco to be open with each other because that’s what we do on our blogs.
So
I’m going home armed with new tools for working on my blog and loaded up with
the business cards of TONS of new blogging friends. Woot!
Oh, and I got my picture taken with the Michelin Man. I know you’re jealous. It’s OK to admit it.
I made it up at 6am to walk up the MAJOR hills San Francisco has to offer (who needs a Stairmaster here?) and then to walk around Union Square,
Here’s what it took to get here today: