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[Southernbelle]

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Or maybe y'all will be so cute that I'll get baby cravings...

Baby cravings, at a certain point in life, are torture!

I love babies, but the problem with babies is that they keep growing up. I tried to convince Ella to stay 4 years old when her next birthday rolled around, but she refused.

 

[Southernbelle]

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I've had that happen too. Once a conductor stopped the orchestra, looked down at me in second chair and said pointedly: "she's like the girl with the curly hair - when she's good she's very very good, and when she's bad, she's very very bad."

Then there was the time I took a big dramatic bow stroke and knocked my stand over...during a concert. It went over oh so slowly that I just stared at it.

I would've turned bright red!

 

[wegotchickens]

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The conductor screwed the quote, I think.
I remember it as
There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead
And when she was good
She was very very good
But when she was bad
She was horrid

That was from memory. I read a lot of poetry as a child.
Here's my favorite:

An emerald is as green as grass
A ruby red as blood
The saphire shines as blue as heaven
But the flint lies in the mud

A diamond is a brilliant stone
To catch the world's desire
An opal holds a fiery spark
But the flint holds the fire.

Gosh, I could rattle these off all day long. I think the name of the book was Poems for Young People.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Belle, I'm the opposite of you. I'd just sit and stare at a baby or a kid. They are like aliens to me. I do much better with teens, even better when they finish college. My young niece from Vermont just got married, and all of a sudden I'm sending her cards and feeling like we finally have something in common. Weird, I know. I do like kittens though...

 

[wegotchickens]

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I've had that happen too. Once a conductor stopped the orchestra, looked down at me in second chair and said pointedly: "she's like the girl with the curly hair - when she's good she's very very good, and when she's bad, she's very very bad."

Then there was the time I took a big dramatic bow stroke and knocked my stand over...during a concert. It went over oh so slowly that I just stared at it.

I would've turned bright red!

I would've tried to catch it, crashing to the floor and causing everything to stop and silence to reign until I'd pulled myself together.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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The conductor screwed the quote, I think.
I remember it as
There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead
And when she was good
She was very very good
But when she was bad
She was horrid

That was from memory. I read a lot of poetry as a child.
Here's my favorite:

An emerald is as green as grass
A ruby red as blood
The saphire shines as blue as heaven
But the flint lies in the mud

A diamond is a brilliant stone
To catch the world's desire
An opal holds a fiery spark
But the flint holds the fire.

Gosh, I could rattle these off all day long. I think the name of the book was Poems for Young People.

Well, my equivalent to your Poems for Young People was the Bible. I could rattle off a few dozen verses for ya... Analyzed the life out of them too. Then when I got to high school and was taught poetry, I gagged. I thought, oh great, yet another bunch of literature to analyze to death and never completely know what they mean.

That said, I like poetry by Ogden Nash. Very intellectual...

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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Never mind the going rate for work whilst supine... for sure higher than what I get for sitting down.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Off topic rant: Is it me, or do others pass over threads that start with a run-on five-inch long paragraph that lacks capitalization, proper spacing, organization or grammar. I can't be bothered to wade through those. I'm just persnickety I guess.

 

[Southernbelle]

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Ella wouldn't let you just stare at her, she thinks the whole world loves her and will interact with you based on that very firm belief. When Michelle pulled in and I called the kids to come meet her and Ella ran right to her and gave her a big hug and started talking to her like she'd known her forever. At one point, Michelle was sitting in an overstuffed armchair and all three kids were hanging around the armchair looking at her laptop, asking her questions and trying to show her thier videogames. I said, "Gee, it's too bad the kids don't like you."

So Ella would give you a big hug and bring you all her favorite toys and share her gummy snacks and probably invite you to watch cartoons with her.

I'd have to beg the kids to give you some space before you run screaming from the house!

 

[Southernbelle]

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I can't read them, either, but I will try, if I think I can help.

The posts/threads that I intentionally skip with vindictive pleasure are the ones that talk in text-speak. I can't stand when people type like that! For one thing, I don't understand it completely since I rarely use the text function on my phone and for another, I think it's poor manners to use it on a forum. I must be getting old.