Redplaid Time: September 2006

Thursday, September 14, 2006

"Raising boys" & So glad I have girls

This has been circulating the internet for a few years and have read it before but it is so funny that when I saw it this time I just had to post it. (the name of the author is not there, to bad)
My apologies to my sisters, who all have boys, but I really am glad God gave me girls. I don't think I have the fortitude to live through the following:

Things I’ve learned from raising my Boys (honest and not kidding):

1.) A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep.

2.) If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.

3.) A 3-year old Boy’s voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant. (ok, yes, Sinead has the biggest voice in all of NWOnt.)

4.) If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20×20 ft. room. (kinda wish i had a ceiling fan right about now, might cut some time on the painting)

5.) You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.

6.) The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn’t stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.

7.) When you hear the toilet flush and the words “uh oh”, it’s already too late. (this one is non-gender specific)

8.) Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it. (sounds like a homeschool science class in the making)

9) A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint rock even though a 36-year old Man says they can only do it in the movies. (I don't get this one, who doesn't know that flint is used to start fires?)

10.) Certain Lego’s will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-year old Boy.

11.) Play dough and microwave should not be used in the same sentence.

12.) Super glue is forever.

13.) No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool! you still can’t walk on water.

14.) Pool filters do not like Jell-O.

15.) VCR’s do not eject sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.

16.) Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.

17.) Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.

18.) You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor is.

19.) Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys do not like ovens.

20.) The fire department in Austin, TX has a 5-minute response time.

21.) The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make earthworms dizzy.

22.) It will, however, make cats dizzy.

23.) Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.

24.) 80% of Women will pass this on to almost all of their friends, with or without kids.

25.) 80% of Men who read this will try mixing the clorox with brake fluid.

Labels: family

posted by Kellie Huffman at 9/14/2006 10:34:00 a.m.
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Podcasts

This is my new obsession. Here is a list of what I am listening to regularly.

http://www.cast-on.com/ the best podcast, it just happens to be about knitting

http://www.knitcast.com/ the one that started the craze in the knitting community

http://knittingnewscast.blogspot.com/ great info, quality getting better

http://one24worship.blogspot.com/ good podsafe worship music

http://www.wiredjesus.com/ postmodern and challenging, to me.

I have listened to more and have more downloaded to try so this is all i can recommend. I would be interested in what you listen to.

Labels: knitting, podcasts