Thursday, August 14, 2008

Write On

I am still alive, but I've become unblocked in my novel, so I've been hammering away at that. Hooray!

Gogofishy turned NINE yesterday! We did balloonorama again, went swimming at the Milford pool with BG and her kids and then came home for a curry lunch (Fishy's favourite food in the world - he's definitely his Mama's boy!) Some dear friends came over for dinner, cake and presents later on. We've known this family since CA, and fate brought us together again here in MI. Fate rocks. They have celebrated birthdays with us for about the last 7 yrs or so.

Prawn's scuba suit is the bomb. I think everyone wants one now. It's great to be able to go to the deep pool, which is on the other side of the wall from the fun pool, and swim and dive and use the diving board. (The deep pool is colder.) Prawn is getting pretty good at diving off the side, and Fishy figured it out yesterday, too. I've showed them how to do a "watermelon" but no one's brave enough to try that, yet. I got a huge reaction from a bunch of day camp kids that were there yesterday, though. ^_^ It occurs to me that everyone I have ever talked to about the "watermelon" trick has no idea what it is, so I'll explain that it's basically a headfirst cannonball. You jump as high as you can (preferably off the diving board) and tip so that you'll enter headfirst in a tight tuck, arms wrapped around your knees. If you do it just right, it makes a BIG splash. I suppose I am the only mom at the pool who is insane enough to do this (or perhaps the only one with so little dignity.) Come to think of it, I'm sure I make a spectacle of myself at the lake, too. Tough rocks; I'll play if I feel like it. ^_^

On a completely unrelated tangent, I found this fascinating. It's so hard for me not to think of Big Dog as having a mind of its own. I'm especially impressed by how it rights itself after being shoved, and when slipping on the ice:

7 comments:

lacemase said...

Big Dog is cool.... but this is funny...
enjoy!

Anonymous said...

That thing is hella creepy!

Hasn't anybody read any science fiction? That thing surely looks like it could annihilate the human race.

Jacob said...

Okay, after watching Big Dog, I feel a little sick to my stomach. It scares me. But it's so cool, too. I don't know how to feel. I am confused. I need a new scuba suit to help settle my stomach.

Trundling Grunt said...

And you accuse me of curry taunting? I can see I am going to have to catch up

C said...

Lacey - OMG I laughed so hard my eyes leaked. ^_^

Kitkat - it is, isn't it? CLearly they've never seen 2001 or Robocop or anything! Give it a gun and we're all toast!

Gawpo - A scuba suit can cure many ills. I suggest an armoured one. ^_^

TG - I believe you've done far more curry taunting than I have. And I always manage to read it when I'm starving to death anyway. ^_^

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