Things that are TEH AWESOME. And how they came about.

[rj_anderson]

- my fourteen-month-old son just heard a three-syllable word in casual conversation and repeated it flawlessly. The word? "God-zil-la".

(My husband just came back from a business trip and brought Paul a dinosaur keychain that roars and "breathes fire". Hooray for age-inappropriate toys! But he loves it.)

- Hugh Jackman as a rat. As a human, I can take him or leave him, but between Roddy St. James and Justin in The Secret of NIMH I'm beginning to suspect I have a Thing for tall, skinny rats.

(We took the two older kids out to the movies last night. Flushed Away is a great little film and if you have any love of animation and/or screwball romantic comedy at all, you ought to check it out. Also, it has slugs. FTW!!!)

- I am almost done Chapter Eighteen of Knife, with only one full chapter and an Epilogue (possibly) to go.

(Work. Lots of work. But it looks like I may actually meet my early-December deadline, D.V.)

And now for something that is NOT awesome:

- the U.S. Postal Service's online store, for processing my order and giving me a receipt for one batch of 63-cent stamps when in fact they were mailing me (and charging me for) two. And then refusing to give refunds under any circumstances.

(No idea how that happened, actually.)

Comments

[sreya.livejournal.com]

Well, who doesn't have a Thing for Justin?!

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I thought it was just me!

(Now that I think of it, I bet there's a bunch of thirtysomething fangirls out there crushing on the Disney version of Robin Hood, too. Rats, foxes... it must be the pointy noses. My Nose Thing is already well documented.)

[sabrinanymph.livejournal.com]

Well, not quite thirtysomething... yet - but I've got a huge crush on the Disney version of Robin Hood. I've had one since I was quite a young girl, actually.

And now, the internets must stop distracting me so I can go edit!

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

Well, Hugh Jackman does have those lovely and unusual sherry-colored eyes, just like foxes!

Little Paul's jump in vocabulary is so funny. Boys just have a thing for dinosaurs and such, and they'll learn to say huge words as result. When mine was about two (and he looked younger than his age, because he was very tiny when he was wee) a guy at the dentist's office asked him what his favorite toy was. Kiddo looked up and said, "I particularly like my parasaurolaphus."

The guy, with an expression as if his dog had begun speaking in Latin, said, "That's a trick, right? He didn't really say that."

[zakhad.livejournal.com]

I have decided that the US Postal service needs to stop goofing around and pay attention. I recently got a UPS Store box rather than receive mail at the apartment, as there is no one around during the day here to receive packages, i.e. boxes of books and more books. I forwarded mail from old address to the new one at UPS Store, which looks like "123 Streetname #456" - the Post Office database automatically switched it to the actual suite number of the UPS Store. What's more, my cell phone company, who evidently makes use of the PO's databases, automagically switched my address as well after I updated them directly. Of course, the UPS Store employees won't know what to do with the mail unless it has my box number on it.

I have decided that USPS online services are mostly for the birds, and that it's much easier to use the phone or go to the nearest Post Office rather than take chances with their website. I hope you used your credit card to get the stamps - that way you can contest it with the card and get the charge halved. Or, you could ebay the stamps, or craigslist them.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

breathes fire?

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a red flashing lightbulb, actually...

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

Thjat's okay then. I was a bit worried about the health & safety implications ;)

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

Godzilla? Reminds me of my elder daughter aged 3 or 4 with an alphabet book - A for Apple, B for Ball, C I forget, but D for Dinosaur. I pointed at the picture?

Me: What's that?
E: A monster.
Me: What sort of monster?
E: A stegosaurus.

It was, too. I went away and put on my linguist hat and thought about categories.

[dr-c.livejournal.com]

Wow... and it was just a couple of years ago that you were telling us about Simon and his "baby dragon" (http://rjanderson.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_rjanderson_archive.html#106182027427834894) act. :-)

[jamesbow.livejournal.com]

Heh. In our case, we had Vivian in denim jeans and had just taken off her shirt. She looked so much like Marlon Brando that Erin raised her arms and shouted "Stella!"

At which point, clear as day, Vivian raised her arms and said, "Ste-la!"

Much hilarity ensued.