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[cyv]

Oh, and: You're teaching her about multiple religions etc! W00t! All hail STEVE! XD

[autumnraiin]

Charlie, some people are just immature and can only find validation in their life by trying to point out others faults (even if they're made up faults). I believe they just have no self-esteem and so they have to play up what they don't have to make everyone else believe they do. But the passive aggressive ones are the worst! I think you do a wonderful job with your family, and ALL other aspects in your life. So I say fuck them... it's better to have lots of love (as Nozomi has), then lots of fancy possessions which are useless to a 2yo.

[cyv]

Just ran into this, most of these are gifts I'd give to my kids, regardless of gender =3
jezebel.com/5868262/gifts-for-other-peoples-kids/gallery/1

Edit: I most love the wooden toys, hieroglyph stamp set and pyramid archeology set and well..Other things that stimulate learning/exploring/low-tech. And the self-rescuing princess =3

[cyv]

Thinkgeek is a wonderful site in general btw. For kids of ALL ages ;D

[Charlie]

Dec 15, 2011 17:25:32 GMT -5 cyv said:

Oh, and: You're teaching her about multiple religions etc! W00t! All hail STEVE! XD

I laughed out loud REALLY loud. STEVE!

[cyv]

It was priceless =') I wonder how she will react to that in 10-15 years ;D

[jennlabelle]

Oh gosh, Steve, I laughed so hard at that and even showed my friends. They thought it was hilarious. She's such a little character. When I first started watching your videos Charlie, Nozomi was still like... I don't know probably about 18 months. So this was in the beginning. I wasn't subscribed but I was watching, I became much more heavily involved in youtube more recently. Any way, that was an irrelevant little tangent. What I was trying to say is I always got this vibe from Nozomi. I am very good at picking up a person's character, their TRUE character, no matter their age or whether they speak or not. The energy Nozomi gives off is like a little wood nymph. She is sort of like those people in their 90's who have had a long and amazing life and know that the most important thing in life is to have fun. Nozomi seems to me like an old soul who already knows that deep down. Like a kooky little sprite. HEE HEE! That's just the sort of thing I got, I could be completely wrong.
But from what I have seen, the children who grow into the best adults were never bubble wrapped. It's not necessarily better for the child in the long run at all... Bubble wrapping and spoiling creates children who feel entitled. I think you are doing a wonderful job with your daughter, and I know you know that inside. Some people have such little confidence in their parenting that they feel the need to overcompensate with showy gifts and stuff like that. My dad is kind of like that... not that I mind hahaha.

[wanderingwillow]

I have noticed that too... I am in a military community and it seems even more competitive than I have ever seen before... bragging EVERYWHERE about EVERYTHING. It drives me crazy. On one of the military wives pages that I am in someone posed the question of "What is the big ticket santa gift your kids are getting this year?" and usually I shy away from commenting but this time after seeing how ridiculous people were acting about what they bought and how on other threads they had said it is all about jesus and this and that... anyway it really annoyed me, and I said that we rarely do huge big ticket things because it what we like to do and my kids just don't need crap that is going to break in five minutes and we do smaller christmas celebrations. that to us we celebrate being together and we encourage making things for each other and our family. not that we don't buy some things, because we do, but we don't feel the need to go over the top. so then someone asked me what we did with all the "extra" money we saved and I said well we donated it to a few organizations at this time and throughout the year... then they all had to "one up" me on that and say oh yeah we do that too AND still get big things... I was speechless.

[Charlie]

lol about your dad!! I wouldn't mind that either!

Okay, so I told you guys (on facebook) that I would tell you the fucked up story that made me gag.

So Nathan works with me at American Express but he works in the merchant side (I work on the small business side). He has this boss named Josh who looks like Chicken Little. He's one of those guys that you could tell was probably a little strange in high school but still popular. All the men managers hang out and the rest of us refer to them as the Boys' Club. But anyway, Josh is sort of a dick. He says stupid shit all the time and has a weird sense of humor. If he didn't work there and wasn't married, I would assume he still lived in his mom's basement.

Recently, Nathan's program had a new class of trainees. One is a girl named Lauren who is the most entitled, arrogant, pretentious person. She's extremely book smart (apparently) and plays piano (took lessons). Everything is always about her. Nathan tried having a conversation with her once. "My girlfriend plays piano, but she plays by ear. She never got to take lessons. She really likes the song Canon in D." And Lauren, who can't say anything nice about anyone but herself, said, "I hate that song!"

At first I thought Lauren had a crush on Nathan, which didn't bother me in the slightest because Nathan (who doesn't speak ill of anyone) usually doesn't have much to say of her (meaning nothing nice, but nothing mean either). Lauren would make him all these mix CDs and stuff, which was rad because that's how I got the new Mumford and Sons and the new Foster the People. But anyway, shit starts getting weird...

Josh made the seating chart and sat Lauren right across from him. Josh is married and his wife is expecting a baby. They just found out the sex, so I'm assuming she's about four to five months along. Josh and Lauren bought a coat rack together and have it set up in between their desks. So when the seats changed, everyone moved but Lauren. Josh kept her next to him. Then they were sharing Cokes (white can versus red can) and it was just weird.

Last weekend, one of the employees had a Christmas party. Josh was following Lauren around all night and they left 2 minutes apart from one another. It was just fucked up and creeped me out. Josh is her boss and he's married and I'm pretty sure they're doing the nasty, or at least want to. lmao So that's what was disgusting to me. (Oh yea, and Josh didn't bring his wife to the holiday party either. He went solo, most likely with the intention of flirting with Lauren all night.)

[jennlabelle]

Oh dear. Intra-office nastiness... haha. How cliche. To be honest, that is a delicious piece of gossip to know. Especially since Lauren sounds like such a little prick, not that you should feel a satisfaction that she is so morally corrupt and ... well... let's be honest, ICKY, but I personally would. HAHAHA!

[wanderingwillow]

Oh that is terrible...

[cyv]

Indeed. Luckily not gross in the way I thought first!


I wanted to share two videos! The origin of Santa (I'm from the Netherlands, so, keep that in mind!)


And offcourse: Santa Claus is pagan too!


Oh, Santa Claus is Pagan too just like all the rest!
And if you are a merry witch he’ll bring you all the best!

So get that star up on the roof and bake those cookies too!
Cause Christmas time is really Yule, and Santa’s Pagan too!

-dances-

Yeah, you can call it Christmas, you’ve got us way outgunned
But just you wait ‘til Beltaine, then we’ll see who’s havin’ fun! Whiej!


Merry Yule everyone!

[cyv]

SOOOOO happy! I don't just have a party on Christmas Eve, I have dinner on first day of christmas! And even though I'm at someone else's place, I'll be cooking the feast!
Kitchenwitch that I am I love this, and I started prepwork today! Yaaaay! I'll probably stay over that night too, not sure, and if I'm still alive, I have a pianoconcert the second day via someone who organises the witches café! Woot!

So what are your plans during the holidays? I don't actually celebrate christmas, but this is just great with friends and yay!

[jennlabelle]

I love the song Santa Claus is Pagan Too! It makes me super duper happy! I'm happy you're so excited for your Christmassy plans Cyv, you deserve a nice, relaxing holiday. I do celebrate Christmas, but secularly. I celebrate Yule of course as well but it was getting really difficult with my family not celebrating it and then celebrating Christmas afterwards. So I decided that since most of the Christmas traditions in North America are ridiculously secular anyhow (Santa, shopping, food), Christmas could definitely be celebrated without religious connotations. I have had a busy week seeing friends before the holiday, and tonight I have dinner with my mom's family, and tomorrow will be dinner with my dad's family. Nothing too hectic, just a nice relaxing break.

I have a story to share that sort of takes the same route as Charlie's, only is quite possibly even more disgusting:

I am not very close at all with my dad's side of the family aside from my dad, stepmother, and grandparents. As a matter of fact, I think most of them are extremely odd and unethical people, so I just sort of don't really talk to them. My Uncle Danny is wretched... I utterly despise the man. The last time I saw him he insulted my dead dog... horrible horrible person. So his son, my cousin, D.J. was with this woman. D.J. is about 27 and can't have children. Thus, he has managed to find women with children for his last several girlfriends. This last one though he was extremely serious about and considered her son his own son.

A couple of weeks ago, she left him and took the son. He was devastated, with facebook statuses along the lines of "I need to know a way to stop this pain" and you steal my stuff, my son and i could but won't do anything because i'm a better person then you hope you feel good about your decision in life" (his grammar, not mine).

Now I am learning of all of this via facebook mind you, I have no contact with these people in real life nor do I want to have any. Don't ask me how the following information was discovered because the details of that are a little fuzzy. D.J. is on the psychiatric floor of the hospital. I have no idea why but I assume he sort of lost it because of his current situation. Basically, someone who knows my mother's side of the family met D.J. on a smoke break at the hospital. There is only one area to smoke at the hospital and it's way far out near the road, so I reckon you get to know the people who are regular smokers. Anyhow, this person got to talking to D.J. and found out that D.J. caught his father, my disgusting Uncle Danny, with the girlfriend in a compromising position of which details are unknown. I can only assume. YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK!!!!! WTF!!!!

Please do not judge my family based on this story. I am literally detached from them entirely and have disowned them. I just thought this was utterly disgusting and had to share it. I am so please Danny nor D.J. will be at Christmas dinner. I think I'd walk out... And do not feel sorry for D.J. in this story, he is just as bad. He can't keep a job, owes family all sorts of money. Not a very responsible guy. Did I mention the girlfriend's description? I met her a couple of times and neither time did she make a very good impression. Unwashed... like oily and literally smelly. Very very thing, with missing, rotten teeth. I am not making this stuff up. I don't judge on appearance, I'm certain she wouldn't be so bad if she brushed her hair and showered and possibly ate a sandwich. Ugh... just badness...

[Charlie]

LOL!!! I'm sorry for laughing Jenn!!

Okay, so I told you guys I'd elaborate on the EVP I caught as I was editing videos. So I'm doing this tutorial that I'll post tomorrow. But as I was filming it, I was feeling like I wasn't alone in my house (though I was the only one home that day). There was a particular period where I really started feeling it. Not in a bad way, but in one of those, "Am I just being paranoid?" ways.

So anyway, at one particular moment, I thought I heard something. I looked up and toward where I thought I heard the noise, but there was nothing. It felt like clairaudience.

So I'm editing this video and right before I look off camera in a sort of, "What was that?" fashion, you hear a man's voice saying something that sounds like "Oh" or "Hello." So I DID hear something!! Only it was on a frequency that we're not normally paying attention to. I was just super pumped. Had to share, but I couldn't share it with everyone I know on facebook, lol.

And Jenn, don't worry, I didn't judge you based on that story about your family.