I guess it’s still morning
School’s closed for Veteran’s Day, so Dad and Mom slept in. Actually I got up at 6, wandered groggily around cyberspace for a while, then went back to bed. Next thing I knew, it was 9:30. And let me tell you something, it’s moments like that when I do not, in any way, shape, form or fashion, miss having little kids/babies in the house. I just miss the little kids/babies. They were fun. Getting up at six a.m. was not.
Had a bizarre dream, this one involving one of my books. Dreamt I got my first Russian translation, a weird little hardback with a picture of some decked-out princely dude on the back, very 1964. So I figured it was one of my royalty books. Wrong. Apparently, judging from my hero’s name (Rod Bradenov !!), it was ANYTHING FOR HER MARRIAGE. Granted, Rod was a prince among men, but the regalia was a bit much.
And if I get copies of a Russian translation today, I’m gonna freak.
A couple items in the AOL headlines are worthy of comment, just because I can. One was the headline “Little luxuries you can afford — $200. and under gifts for everyone on your list.” Okay, in my book? A “little” luxury is an 18 buck box of chocolates. By the time you get to $200., you’re verging into you’re-my-slave-for-life category. Although judging by the prices in many of these catalogues that will keep finding their way to our house, I guess lots of folks drop that kind of money on a single gift (the number of toys over $100. is astounding!). I just don’t know any of these people. Perhaps I should work on that.
The other I’m-not-even-gonna-go-there article was an invitation to see Heidi Klum’s post-pregnancy body. Now, really, why would I do that? Or are they trying to plunge 20 million women into simultaneous depression?
Have to make a decision about my blog today, so any input from y’all would be helpful. I’m going to make it “official” by making it part of my website, but I’m not sure what “extras” to consider. I don’t want to make this too fancy — I don’t think it’s necessary — but are there doo-dads and gee-gaws on other peoples’ blogs that you really feel enhances the experience, making it easier to participate? Would you like to be able to subscribe, for example, so you’d get a notice when I’d added an entry? Do you like a banquet of smilies from which to choose?
Let me know.
To me $200 is a big luxury. All those commercials for toys are always on during kids shows and in time for christmas. Why do marketers have to be so good at their job?
Comment by Christa Runge — November 11, 2005 @ 9:01 pm
Truly. Although I think I’ve figured out who their market is: Guilty parents who aren’t “there” for their kids physically as much as they’d like to be, so they make up for it by buying all this expensive crap; or grandparents who would have never, ever paid that much for a Christmas present when their own kids were little.
Comment by Karen Templeton — November 12, 2005 @ 1:26 am
Or for parents who couldn’t afford those kind of presents because they had too many children, but now they only have one kid left who appreciates toys more than cloths : )
Comment by Gareth — November 12, 2005 @ 4:03 am
Actually, he asked for clothes this year. Not instead of toys, mind you, but still.
Comment by Karen Templeton — November 12, 2005 @ 6:12 am
See now I take the cop out and buy mostly gift certificates. This way I know they will get what they want and I don’t have to worry about getting them something they already have.
Comment by Christa Runge — November 12, 2005 @ 4:09 pm