One is silver, and the other gold.

[judecorp]

You know, it's really really nice getting to know pattisimmons. I had dinner with the Simmonses(eseses) at Pizza House, and then I had a homemade brownie (yay!). I also got to see photos of scottsimmons's boobs. SKORE! I [heart] Patti.

~//~

I can only have these conversations with Jodie:

Jude: The tower. Rapunzel!
Jode: The answer of course is onions
Jude: I hate that Bob Barker.
Jode: YOUR GONNA DIE, CLOWN!
Jude: He wasn't a very good illusionist.

(It's funnier if you share our brain, I swear. You know what you are? You're a bunch of ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-ar-art fags!)



~//~

I imagine that someday I will be a parent. Whether I have a coparent or not, I imagine birthday parties, first days of school, milestone after milestone. I wonder if when this happens I will still take paper pictures. I wonder if I will make scrapbooks and journals and home movies. I wonder if I will be one of "those" parents who pulls out pictures of the kids in line at the grocery store.

I imagine the day that I settle down with someone, if that day comes. I imagine the satisfaction I will feel when my parents can use the word "partner." I imagine the excitement of juggling schedules.

Of course, then I remember that I was terrible at that whole "settling down" thing. I flunked Long Term Relationship 101. Oops.

At least I know I can still be a damned good parent. :)

Comments

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[mythicalbeast.livejournal.com]

want some sperm?


(this is me saying I think you'd be a good parental)

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[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't Lyn mind?

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[mythicalbeast.livejournal.com]

what, I have a cup and a cooler, you have a... oh this just crosses too many lines.

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[judecorp.livejournal.com]

You have a cooler and I have a cooter?

Ha ha ha! But I don't ovulate.

[brosie.livejournal.com]

I already make scrapbooks. ill help ya!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yay for Aunt Brosie!

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

A) Nice pic, though you're kinda all small and stuff in it. ;)

B) As for the parental thing...I'd sorta decided when my nephew was born, and I spent a lot of time watching him when I was in grad school, and he wasn't even verbal, let alone potty trained, that maybe I wasn't so keen on the idea of having a child of my own. Then tonight, when I was driving home after the Rockers game, I caught myself imagining that I had a partner, and she was in the car with me, and she was pregnant, and we were discussing our hopes and dreams for the child. It was weird to actually feel that desire for children again. So much has changed in my life since the last time. And this is fitting in with the angst I've been feeling lately that I have refered to as hearing my biological clock ticking. I almost feel a little scared by the prospect.

Sorry for making this comment about me. Just that it seemed to sync well with what I'd been thinking about today.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

The size of us in the picture is entirely not my fault. Someone took that of us in the City in 1995, I think. Maybe December 1994, even. How time flies.

It's funny how that biological clock starts working, isn't it? Sometimes I can hardly handle my cats, and then other times I think that I'd like a family. Then I remember that I /would/ like a family, but not now. It all works out. :)

I prefer adoption for myself, and I'd actually prefer adoption for myself and a partner, but if she wanted to physically have a child, I could see having one. (I'm a big zero population growth fiend.)

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

The City being New York? Just wondering. It's been a while since I have been there. March of 1995 was the last time.

And yeah, I'd have to adopt, or my partner would have to go the turkey baster route. And I'm pretty big on ZPG, too. I'm a Green, and I'm a geographer by trade, and have taken more population geography classes than I care to mention. I think of ZPG as being a really fine goal to aspire to.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yes, The City is always New York. :) I went to college out there, and I miss it.

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

I've been there a couple of times for Model UN stuff in high school and in college. I'm not sure if I'd want to live there, but I do like to visit it on occasion. The last time I was there, Rudy was already beginning to reek havoc on the city though. *soft laugh*

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I'm no Rudy fan, but he really pulled things together in September.

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I give Rudy mad props for what he did in September. Do I think that should make him the celeb that he's become, and merit him serious mention for running something bigger than NYC? Not really. That's like saying that Bush should be President-for-Life because he had a brief flash of competance come 12Sept.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I dunno so much about Bush... ;)

Rudy's popularity was also helped by his divorce news and cancer news, both of which occured right around his "big finish."

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't respect him much for being a whiny baby about the divorce thing and whether or not he could "live in sin" in the mayor's residence. But the cancer thing was a mark in his favour.

[whod81.livejournal.com]

YOU'LL DANCE TO ANYTHING!

[whod81.livejournal.com]

btw that song rules. (buzzcocks) and sometimes... if i drink enough... it makes me horribly sad.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

That's just because it makes you think of me, right? :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

by Depeche Commode?

[gangrel-pri.livejournal.com]

Hey, one good parent is better than two lousy ones.

And what do onions have to do with Bob Barker? Not sure I want to know, but hey...

The translation:

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Jude: The tower. Rapunzel!
This is from Airplane.

Jode: The answer of course is onions
This is from the Celebrity Jeopardy skit on SNL that featured French Stewart.

Jude: I hate that Bob Barker.
Jode: YOUR GONNA DIE, CLOWN!
Both of these are from Happy Gilmore.

Jude: He wasn't a very good illusionist
This is from Clue.

p.s. I thoroughly agree about the one good parent. I would even go so far as to say that one good parent is better than one good parent and one lousy one, sometimes.

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[gangrel-pri.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok I get the references now.

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[judecorp.livejournal.com]

For years, Jodie and I spoke only in lines from movies and television. Well, mostly. Sometimes we would say hi.

She is a totally amazing person. One night we stayed awake for several hours just coming up with lines from Clue that we loved. I think we eventually said every line in the whole movie. :)

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[gangrel-pri.livejournal.com]

"You lure men into your web like flies, don't you Mrs White?"
"Flies are where an man is most vulnerable, wouldn't you agree, Col. Mustard?"

Mrs. White gets the best lines in that movie.

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[judecorp.livejournal.com]

"Yes, just the five. Husbands should be like Kleenex - soft, strong, and disposable."

(I do believe the line is "You lure men to their deaths like a spider lures flies." But you're so close!)

Re: The translation:

[gangrel-pri.livejournal.com]

It's been a while since I last watched it.

"How many husbands have you had?"
"Mine or other women's?"

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[judecorp.livejournal.com]

When I was in the 9th grade, my French II class had to do class projects. My little group did part of Clue in French. I got to be Mrs. White.

YAY!

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[gangrel-pri.livejournal.com]

LOL I can only imagine...The coolest thing we ever did en francaise was le hokey-pokey...

entre le pied gauche, sortee le pied gauch, entre le pied gauche et voulez-ver ce la...

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[judecorp.livejournal.com]

In French III in 10th grade, my friend Jessica (the same Jessica who is getting married next month) and I scared la prof. The assignment was to get in front of the class and teach the class how to do something. Ours was: How to Successfully kill someone. Comment tuer avec succes.

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[gangrel-pri.livejournal.com]

LOL...We never got cool assignments like that...Well, unless you count our valedictorian's Barney Rap....

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[judecorp.livejournal.com]

MEEP!

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[gangrel-pri.livejournal.com]

Yes, rapping about killing a purple in dinosaur in francaise.

I had nightmares for a week.

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

When I was expecting my short person, my sister tried to get me into scrapbooking and all that sort of stuff. Since it didn't involve Exciting Sharp Pointies -- needle, X-acto knives, machetes... well, you get the idea, I never really warmed up to it.

On the other hand, I did complete a fabulous needlework piece (Faery Godmother from Faeries, the model of it's on the back cover of the book -- Woodland Faery is on the cover) during the neverending wait at my nurse-midwife's practice. Had I gone to a base clinic or hospital for my prenatal care, I probably could have done all the patterns in the book in 6 months' of visits.

I think you'll be a damned good parent, Jude. I didn't even want kids and I'm turning out (so far) a much less sucky parent than I'd feared. Now I just have to find a good babysitter so I can see movies more than once a year. *wry grin*

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you're a good parent, and thanks for everything you said.

I'm not crafty at all at all.

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

Well then, I volunteer to do needlework for you! Pick something, or maybe just e-mail me and I'll tell you what patterns, kits, etc. I have sitting around.

The only thing I draw the line at is Santa. I completed (i.e., someone else started and abandoned it) a 10x14" old-world Saint Nicholas with woodland aminals piece and after all the stitches I put in and took out *wry grin*, I swear I never want to look at a Santa pattern for at least a year.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

You don't have to make crafts for me, but it's sweet of you to offer. :)