Interestingly enough, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was originally called Men who Hate Women. In Swedish, of course, but that's the title. The Girl who played with fire was called that in the original, and then the last one, The Girl who kicked the Hornet's Nest was The Air Castle that Blew Up, which maybe makes more sense in Swedish. Is that castles in the air? Or more literally those bouncy castle/bounce houses for kids?
I guess when they translated them, they sort of re-branded them with the emphasis on the girl in all the titles.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
headache-inducing family
So....
After last night's struggle to get DS2 to do his homework and his stomping and pouting and refusing to brush his teeth when I said that we weren't going to have ice cream.
Then this morning, it took DS1 10+e minutes to get dressed and then still didn't have his shoes on and we were already late and they were talking really loudly in the hall and woke DD up and I left her with DH who went back to sleep, leaving the toddler roaming the house alone.
Then DH basically blew off (again) my pleas for him to come home before bedtime, because by that time of night, I need help with the kids. Well, maybe he'll do something and change the work schedule that he sets HIMSELF so that he sees his children (and me) during the week. He didn't commit to anything.
And then I was a little late getting the boys from school because DD had just woken from a nap and if I'm 5 minutes late leaving the house, it takes me 10 minutes longer because I have to go past the high school which is just getting out, too.
So instead of going to the pick-up loop out front, they weren't there, so I went to the pick-up loop at the side where DS1's classroom is and there they were. Only they weren't waiting to be picked up, they were bouncing playground balls. The loop teacher person called to them and told me to go around again so I wouldn't hold up traffic like half of the other parents do when picking up their kids. I did, but then they were gone. To the front loop. Basically, I idled for ten minutes because I was 3 minutes late.
And then we got home and when the toilet didn't flush right and was about to overflow, DS2 flushed it again and ewwwwwwwwwww. So the rug and a towel washing on hot with a bit of bleach.
And the Toddler is trying to get milkies so I'm typing with my left hand and she just bit me and so I put her down and there's lots of screaming.
And DH won't be home until who-knows-when again tonight.
After last night's struggle to get DS2 to do his homework and his stomping and pouting and refusing to brush his teeth when I said that we weren't going to have ice cream.
Then this morning, it took DS1 10+e minutes to get dressed and then still didn't have his shoes on and we were already late and they were talking really loudly in the hall and woke DD up and I left her with DH who went back to sleep, leaving the toddler roaming the house alone.
Then DH basically blew off (again) my pleas for him to come home before bedtime, because by that time of night, I need help with the kids. Well, maybe he'll do something and change the work schedule that he sets HIMSELF so that he sees his children (and me) during the week. He didn't commit to anything.
And then I was a little late getting the boys from school because DD had just woken from a nap and if I'm 5 minutes late leaving the house, it takes me 10 minutes longer because I have to go past the high school which is just getting out, too.
So instead of going to the pick-up loop out front, they weren't there, so I went to the pick-up loop at the side where DS1's classroom is and there they were. Only they weren't waiting to be picked up, they were bouncing playground balls. The loop teacher person called to them and told me to go around again so I wouldn't hold up traffic like half of the other parents do when picking up their kids. I did, but then they were gone. To the front loop. Basically, I idled for ten minutes because I was 3 minutes late.
And then we got home and when the toilet didn't flush right and was about to overflow, DS2 flushed it again and ewwwwwwwwwww. So the rug and a towel washing on hot with a bit of bleach.
And the Toddler is trying to get milkies so I'm typing with my left hand and she just bit me and so I put her down and there's lots of screaming.
And DH won't be home until who-knows-when again tonight.
reading a good book!
I'm about halfway through The Girl Who Played With Fire by ummm... that Swedish dude. Larsson? Nielssen? Stieg somebody. Stieg Larsson. It's the second book, after The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
So far, I like this one better, because though nothing really happens for the first 150 pages, just like in the first one, there are hints that things are going to happen. Maybe I just think so because I know what happened in the last book, so I just assume something wild will happen in this one, too. There's a lot more sex in this one: like secondary characters whose sex lives have nothing to do with anything, as far as anyone can tell.
Apparently, there's a third book that will come out in the US next June, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. They already have it in the UK and yes, it's tempting... He turned all three manuscripts in to be published and then died.
So far, I like this one better, because though nothing really happens for the first 150 pages, just like in the first one, there are hints that things are going to happen. Maybe I just think so because I know what happened in the last book, so I just assume something wild will happen in this one, too. There's a lot more sex in this one: like secondary characters whose sex lives have nothing to do with anything, as far as anyone can tell.
Apparently, there's a third book that will come out in the US next June, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. They already have it in the UK and yes, it's tempting... He turned all three manuscripts in to be published and then died.
Monday, September 28, 2009
the boys are going to love this
just 2 hours until I get them home now...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGngcQb_0qg&feature=player_embedded#t=121
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGngcQb_0qg&feature=player_embedded#t=121
Saturday, September 26, 2009
unpredictable!
Well, they do try to predict it.
It's supposed to be 100-ish tomorrow, then 89 Monday, and then 74 (seventy-four!!) Tuesday - and 52 overnight.
I'm glad I don't have to try to tell anyone what to pack to come visit this week.
Though anyone who does want to come visit, it looks like Tuesday on will be good weather. hint hint.
It's supposed to be 100-ish tomorrow, then 89 Monday, and then 74 (seventy-four!!) Tuesday - and 52 overnight.
I'm glad I don't have to try to tell anyone what to pack to come visit this week.
Though anyone who does want to come visit, it looks like Tuesday on will be good weather. hint hint.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Or... not.
Well, it was good to know that almost everyone else showed up at the soccer class even though the coach had canceled due to heat so I wasn't the only bad parent who didn't check the hotline...
It was hot, but was it much hotter than last week, really? I looked at weather.com and it says it was only 90 last Thursday, so I guess it was, since it was 98 on my car thermometer when we arrived and 100 when we left. It's supposed to cool off next week - fingers crossed.
The good thing was that because it was a couple of the dads who organized the kids and because DS1 wasn't in karate, he got to play, too.
UPDATE: I know my car's thermometer is off - it reads hotter than what the official temps are, though some of that is heat radiating from roads and parking lots, I know. But yesterday's official high temp was 93. It was forecast to be 98 or so, so I do understand why the soccer coach called it off, but still, 3 whole degrees more?
It's supposed to be in the low 80's by next week.
It was hot, but was it much hotter than last week, really? I looked at weather.com and it says it was only 90 last Thursday, so I guess it was, since it was 98 on my car thermometer when we arrived and 100 when we left. It's supposed to cool off next week - fingers crossed.
The good thing was that because it was a couple of the dads who organized the kids and because DS1 wasn't in karate, he got to play, too.
UPDATE: I know my car's thermometer is off - it reads hotter than what the official temps are, though some of that is heat radiating from roads and parking lots, I know. But yesterday's official high temp was 93. It was forecast to be 98 or so, so I do understand why the soccer coach called it off, but still, 3 whole degrees more?
It's supposed to be in the low 80's by next week.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)