A am a terrible kid watcher
Dec. 12th, 2009 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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My cousin is hooked on A Song of Fire and Ice. Mwahahaha. She said to be sure I gave her the 4th book before I leave (on Tuesday!). She's in the middle of the 3rd book and was shocked -- SHOCKED!! -- when you-know-what happens.
Have you ever seen the movie Taken? It's one of those movies I was vaguely interested in when I saw the preview for it, even though the premise isn't very original. However Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, and Maggie Grace are in it and I like all those actors. Anyway, it didn't seem to make a big impression on anyone I knew so I totally forgot about it (though I guess it did well at the box office. But so do movies that are worthlessly inane, so...). But it was actually a really great action/suspense film! I would totally rec it. I mean, if you are OK with violence. The female roles are really, really lame though -- I have no idea why FJ and MG would agree to them. I mean, they're not A-list actresses or anything but they certainly can do better than typical-ex-wife and super-naive-teenage daughter. Also, MG was *so* miscast. I mean, she played a 20-something on Lost, and in this movie, which was made after Lost, she was supposed to be a really young 17 ... it was ridiculous. She was 25 when the movie was made. She did a lot of running in the movie and I don't know if that's just how MG runs or if she was trying to appear younger, but she seriously looked like Phoebe doing the crazy running on Friends.
Took S. to the airport super early this morning ... it was hours before sunrise (cry). Afterward went over to my cousin's to help with the kids.
We went for a walk in the park and her 2-year-old, M., who's in a very bad phase right now, had to use the restroom, so K. took the two girls to do that while I sat with the baby in his stroller. After awhile M. came running out toward me, calling about how she wanted me to feel her cold hands -- it's freezing here and after washing them her hands were super cold and she wanted me to be impressed. I was like, no I don't want to feel your cold hands, and then she tripped on the uneven grass. I saw her going down in horror, because there was this big rock RIGHT THERE, and couldn't stop it. She immediately burst into tears and initially I wasn't worried, because it didn't actually look like she'd hit the rock and I thought she was just crying from falling/being startled. Boy was I wrong -- she got up and blood was GUSHING from her lip. It was horrifying. It only stopped as soon as it did due to being so cold.
It required a trip to the ER (because the cut crossed the lip line -- even though barely -- the pediatrician wouldn't even look at her ... that kind of injury apparently requires a plastic surgeon to look at it, so they referred K. to an ER). I stayed with the 4-year-old and baby while K. took M. there. They determined that the cut hadn't punctured through the lip (she has a deep cut on the inside, as well as on the outside from just under her nose to just above her chin), so it should be OK. The only thing was that they found bruising around one of her upper teeth -- the rock must've hit her there and she bit down, which is what caused the deep internal cut -- and she might lose it. But since she's going to get a permanent tooth when she's around 5 anyway, they aren't going to do anything for it.
Afterward she seemed fine and was eating OK and of course the cut looks awful, but hopefully it won't have any lasting scars. :/ I felt super bad -- not that I could have done anything -- because I was there when it happened. K. was like, we always tell her not to run, it could have happened at any time, really, it just so happened that this time she was running toward you. But it's like, if I hadn't been there maybe they wouldn't have gone to the park or maybe she wouldn't have been running right near that big rock, or maybe I should've gotten up to intercept her, etc. etc. Guilt, guilt.
Her dad is probably going to freak out. Sigh.
After they came back from the ER and were cleaning up, K. joked "Hey M., you look really beaten up. Who beat you up?" And M. said, "A rock." We got a good laugh out of that.
I have to do my dishes and laundry, then pack. I'm procrastinating because there's so much crap I need to remember to bring and I just know I'm going to forget something, ugh. I'm going to be gone so long I'll have to remember to pay my bills. >< I still haven't decided if I want to pay the fee to check in a bag or not. The convenience of it makes me want to do it, but the part of me that chafes at giving the airlines even one red cent more than I have to doesn't. It's just not right that even the first one costs money.
Have you ever seen the movie Taken? It's one of those movies I was vaguely interested in when I saw the preview for it, even though the premise isn't very original. However Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen, and Maggie Grace are in it and I like all those actors. Anyway, it didn't seem to make a big impression on anyone I knew so I totally forgot about it (though I guess it did well at the box office. But so do movies that are worthlessly inane, so...). But it was actually a really great action/suspense film! I would totally rec it. I mean, if you are OK with violence. The female roles are really, really lame though -- I have no idea why FJ and MG would agree to them. I mean, they're not A-list actresses or anything but they certainly can do better than typical-ex-wife and super-naive-teenage daughter. Also, MG was *so* miscast. I mean, she played a 20-something on Lost, and in this movie, which was made after Lost, she was supposed to be a really young 17 ... it was ridiculous. She was 25 when the movie was made. She did a lot of running in the movie and I don't know if that's just how MG runs or if she was trying to appear younger, but she seriously looked like Phoebe doing the crazy running on Friends.
Took S. to the airport super early this morning ... it was hours before sunrise (cry). Afterward went over to my cousin's to help with the kids.
We went for a walk in the park and her 2-year-old, M., who's in a very bad phase right now, had to use the restroom, so K. took the two girls to do that while I sat with the baby in his stroller. After awhile M. came running out toward me, calling about how she wanted me to feel her cold hands -- it's freezing here and after washing them her hands were super cold and she wanted me to be impressed. I was like, no I don't want to feel your cold hands, and then she tripped on the uneven grass. I saw her going down in horror, because there was this big rock RIGHT THERE, and couldn't stop it. She immediately burst into tears and initially I wasn't worried, because it didn't actually look like she'd hit the rock and I thought she was just crying from falling/being startled. Boy was I wrong -- she got up and blood was GUSHING from her lip. It was horrifying. It only stopped as soon as it did due to being so cold.
It required a trip to the ER (because the cut crossed the lip line -- even though barely -- the pediatrician wouldn't even look at her ... that kind of injury apparently requires a plastic surgeon to look at it, so they referred K. to an ER). I stayed with the 4-year-old and baby while K. took M. there. They determined that the cut hadn't punctured through the lip (she has a deep cut on the inside, as well as on the outside from just under her nose to just above her chin), so it should be OK. The only thing was that they found bruising around one of her upper teeth -- the rock must've hit her there and she bit down, which is what caused the deep internal cut -- and she might lose it. But since she's going to get a permanent tooth when she's around 5 anyway, they aren't going to do anything for it.
Afterward she seemed fine and was eating OK and of course the cut looks awful, but hopefully it won't have any lasting scars. :/ I felt super bad -- not that I could have done anything -- because I was there when it happened. K. was like, we always tell her not to run, it could have happened at any time, really, it just so happened that this time she was running toward you. But it's like, if I hadn't been there maybe they wouldn't have gone to the park or maybe she wouldn't have been running right near that big rock, or maybe I should've gotten up to intercept her, etc. etc. Guilt, guilt.
Her dad is probably going to freak out. Sigh.
After they came back from the ER and were cleaning up, K. joked "Hey M., you look really beaten up. Who beat you up?" And M. said, "A rock." We got a good laugh out of that.
I have to do my dishes and laundry, then pack. I'm procrastinating because there's so much crap I need to remember to bring and I just know I'm going to forget something, ugh. I'm going to be gone so long I'll have to remember to pay my bills. >< I still haven't decided if I want to pay the fee to check in a bag or not. The convenience of it makes me want to do it, but the part of me that chafes at giving the airlines even one red cent more than I have to doesn't. It's just not right that even the first one costs money.
