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Thursday Thirteen 5: Totally Random

02 Jul 2008 | By Mommy Reads

My Thursday Thirteen this week is about this book. They’re going to be random, and I hope it is going to make sense. Not at all. Where do I start?

1. Stephen King’s Stationary Bike in audio. Either I’ve gone deaf or my brain stop processing stories, but I’ve listened to this audio like 5 times and all I got so far was ‘stationary bike, cholesterol, and hypnosis’.

2. And here I am waiting to be scared!

3. Where’s the fright man!

4. He draws. The man-whose-name-I-cannot-recall paints.

5. I mean, there’s a guy in the story, whose name I failed to catch even after 5 times of re-starting this story.

6. I wonder if he’d opened with sex or some girl ranting about fate and love life, would I then get the story?

7. The reader sounds great. In fact, I find myself enjoying his voice, I totally forget to listen to the story.

8. So, then I’d hit rewind or whatever is the iPod equivalent of good old rewinding and start all over again.

9. I tell you…the time I have re-started this book, I could have finished a 12-CD audio book.

10. Seriously, have you read Stationary Bike by Stephen King? The book tauted to be salivated over by English teacher because of some…whatchamacalit?

11. Symbolism

12. Transcient methaphors

13. Penetrating subtext

I think that if there was 11-13, I’d be enjoying this book much better. Evidently, the penetrating subtext had dulled by the time I get to is. And ‘transcient metaphors”, does not include cross-dressing?

For more T13 participants probably not as whiny as I am, check here.

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Thursday Thirteen: Songs I Like

05 Jun 2008 | By Mommy Reads

I’ve been surfing youtube like it’s going out of fashion. I wonder if anyone even know these songs. I’m getting old.

1. Unwell by Matchbox 20

2. Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton

3. I want my MTV by Dire Straits

4. Smooth by Santana and Rob Thomas

5. Land Down Under by Men At Work

6. Nothing but Mammals by Bloodhound Gang

7. Thong Song by Sisqo

8. It’s My Life by Bon Jovi

9. I’m Gonna Be by The Proclaimers

10. Losing my Religion by REM

11. Truly, Madly, Deeply by Savage Garden

12. Swiss Boy by Lou Sern

13. Beds Are Burning by Midnight Oil

I have listened to more than that, but this is Thursday Thirteen.

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Thursday Thirteen 2: Just Thinking

29 May 2008 | By Mommy Reads

1. When someone’s angry, do they mean what they say?
2. If they don’t, then how should one take the words?
3. If it’s insulting, then turn the other cheek, right?
4. What if they said something you suspected all along?
5. Can I take it as a confirmation of truth?
6. If they made a hurtful comment along your parenting ways, what can a person do?
7. I know if I had said the same thing to this person, he’ll just say I’ll have to do all the parenting myself now because heaven’s forbid that he should be acused of doing something wrong again.
8. I am very upset about it, and just want to quit.
9. After so many years, I have never thought of leaving, but I this is something different.
10. He said I’m a mean mother. I always put my children first. If I am a mean mother, then what am I doing here?
11. I always try to put my children out of harms way.
12. If he thinks I’m being harmful,
13. then it’s time to go, isn’t it?

Note: I don’t believe in spanking. I do raise my voice in frustration. When my children don’t clean up their mess, I demand they do it now. My husband thinks forcing the children to do it now is being mean and unfair. I have noticed though that it’s perfectly alright with him if my kids and him make all kinds of messes and I clean it up. Evidently, making sure the children do their chores is abuse for him. I have done no other mean things…except making sure they do their task.

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Thursday Thirteen 1: Things I Should Not Say and Other Stuff

03 Apr 2008 | By Serendipity

Just because some words or string of words can not be unsaid, and some actions just plain do not have place in motherhood.

1. I wish I never had children! (Just because my floor is dirty, and my kids are sitting there, the mess in front of them and they never lift a finger to clean it.)

2. Why must you be this way? (It’s a useless phrase in motherhoodland. It’s complaining and it won’t get anything done, except maybe hurt my chidren’s feeling.)

3. Or complain and scream because my children had ignored my instructions about cleaning up.

4. Is it really worth it making my children hate me because I have a penchant for neat and orderly anything?

5. Is it too much to ask that children clean up after themselves, often?

6. Frankly, I am getting neurosis over protecting my husband’s sleep because he works nights and slight noises wake up.

7. Sometimes, I blame him for wanting more children, because they’re the ones who wakes him up because they’re loud. They are children! (although I never said it out loud to him.)

8. I love my husband and children, but why is it that some moments in time, I could heartily be somewhere else instead?

9. The guilt! Oh, the torture of guilt when I said things like in number 1. I’ve only said it twice, and once within my child’s hearing, but it seems like it’s echoing in my head. That was plain stupid and mean.

10. Sometimes, I totally dislike that I seem to be the only one to care that our house is presentable and neat and pleasant to live in.

11. Proof of #10? Some things on the floor and I refuse to pick it up. I’d ask someone else to do it, and days (literally, days) later, it’s still there.

12. Am I the only one to get mad over what seems to be trivial things? On the whole scheme of things, does it really matter how clean my house is if my kids are not happy with me because I want it cleaned at least twice a day?

13. I hope none of my family reads this because well, I’d rather just keep it to myself. It’s one of those things that I believe keeps my marriage healthy. A miserable me sometimes sure beats having everyone unhappy. This is my compromise for keeping my marriage and children safe. Silence. Now, if only I can bite my tongue when my blood boils right out of my ears.

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