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[wegotchickens]

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My daddy is 84 and studies calculus textbooks to keep his mind working. He also Skypes my siblings.

My 8 year old took a dictionary to school the other day to read for fun.

I never used to see the kid read, even though the school tells me he's reading 4 grade levels above his grade. I used to get popular fiction books out of the library to try to tempt him, but he wouldn't touch them. I finally realized he prefers non-fiction books. So the last time I went to the library I got books on electricity, magnets, building robots, making paper airplanes and space exploration. He didn't want to give them back. He held airplane races in the living room and put Electric Mischief on his Christmas List.

He's obviously an alien creature.

Belle, you need to check out the ThinkGeek gift section for kids....

One of my past SO's was like that. His mom saw him burying stuff in the year around the house, and after watching him for a while she went to see what he was up to. He'd buried a microphone cable around the house, and was listening in on his brother as he sat with his new girlfried. Matt was about 8, and his bro was 13.
Matt's mom was stunned that he knew how to do such a thing, and that he'd built it with stuff from around the house.

BTW, get him a Thesaurus next. I preferred that to the dictionary as a kid.... New and creative ways to insult idiots who never understood a word I said.

By the time they'd looked it up, if they remembered, I was long gone. Most thought I was complementing them, anyway.
Why use a $2 word if a $20 word will mystify everyone?

 

[dacjohns]

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Very true.
And she still won't open her wall......

The reason my FB site is ultra-private is because I have two types of friends. Ultra-religious ones that are in their own stratosphere, and normal friends. I don't want the real religious ones reading stuff my more normal friends write. Perhaps I should unfriend my Christian relatives. (Wouldn't that be unChristian of me?)

Going to check out buffy's friends and see if I can tell them apart.

 

[dacjohns]

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The reason my FB site is ultra-private is because I have two types of friends. Ultra-religious ones that are in their own stratosphere, and normal friends. I don't want the real religious ones reading stuff my more normal friends write. Perhaps I should unfriend my Christian relatives. (Wouldn't that be unChristian of me?)

Going to check out buffy's friends and see if I can them apart.

OK, she has 29 friends, 14 of them we have in common. I guess the other 15 are the stratosphere dwellers.

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Naw, some of them I recognize from BYC, they just are friends with me too.

 

[Southernbelle]

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My 8 year old took a dictionary to school the other day to read for fun.

I never used to see the kid read, even though the school tells me he's reading 4 grade levels above his grade. I used to get popular fiction books out of the library to try to tempt him, but he wouldn't touch them. I finally realized he prefers non-fiction books. So the last time I went to the library I got books on electricity, magnets, building robots, making paper airplanes and space exploration. He didn't want to give them back. He held airplane races in the living room and put Electric Mischief on his Christmas List.

He's obviously an alien creature.

Belle, you need to check out the ThinkGeek gift section for kids....

One of my past SO's was like that. His mom saw him burying stuff in the year around the house, and after watching him for a while she went to see what he was up to. He'd buried a microphone cable around the house, and was listening in on his brother as he sat with his new girlfried. Matt was about 8, and his bro was 13.
Matt's mom was stunned that he knew how to do such a thing, and that he'd built it with stuff from around the house.

BTW, get him a Thesaurus next. I preferred that to the dictionary as a kid.... New and creative ways to insult idiots who never understood a word I said.

By the time they'd looked it up, if they remembered, I was long gone. Most thought I was complementing them, anyway.
Why use a $2 word if a $20 word will mystify everyone?

Lord have mercy. I checked out that ThinkGeek site and it was right up his alley. You saved Christmas, Lori! Last year we got him a microscope (he asked for it) and a soccer net (my idea.) He loves them both. He's a geek and a gifted athlete.

I had Matthew look through the Toys-R-Us big toy catalog for Christmas ideas and the 2 things that caught his eye: Mind Flex game (control a ball using your mind) and the CSI forensic science kits.

I know I'm an intellegent lady, but I'm way out of my league with this kid.

 

[dacjohns]

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Do what is right for you. We can pal around with you here. Don't unfriend your other friends. If you do open up your wall so others can post you have to either accept that your other friends will see those things and might not think too highly of your chicken friends or you will have to spend a lot of time on facebook deleting offending posts.

 

[Orchid]

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Well, if you can't be yourself around them, then they aren't really friends, right?

I have friended some of the weirdest people on fb due to games, and then come to like them a lot. I guess I'm weird that way. I know virtual friends better than most of my neighbors.

I tend to unfriend the folks that do nothing but curse or post sexual stuff. I don't mind cursing, as a general rule, but only if it's well-placed and not constant. That probably makes no sense, but it does to me. And the sexual stuff can get pretty disgusting.

So, Buffy, you'd pass my friend requirements

I don't have anyone on my FB around whom I can't be myself. That would be counterproductive and extremely frustrating, for me.

I've friended a few people I don't know at all for games, then deleted the ones I don't like and kept the rest. I have the funniest friend from Wales, every Friday at 10 a.m. he posts "It's Friday, I'm off work, and I've got beer! Hurrah!!" Makes me smile every single time.

You and I are apparently pretty similar Wegots, I'm not up for the sexual stuff or the constant swearing either. One of my cousins has the worst potty mouth EVER and I pretty much ignore everything he writes. Yuck.

I've used Skype on my sister's computer, it's interesting.

Sometimes I read the dictionary when I'm stressed, it's very relaxing. But for general reading, I prefer fiction or gardening books.

Your kid is cool, Belle.

 

[Orchid]

Buffy, we wuv you just the way you are. If you stratospheric friends are going to hyperventilate, then leave your wall closed, we'll just pick on you unmercifully here instead.

 

[Southernbelle]

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Thanks! He doesn't know it, but he's the one Buffy and I are pinning our horse ranch estate dreams on. He's smart enough to do anything (he already asked what I considered the most difficult college majors to be) and he loves his mama more than anything else in the world.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Belle, you need to check out the ThinkGeek gift section for kids....

One of my past SO's was like that. His mom saw him burying stuff in the year around the house, and after watching him for a while she went to see what he was up to. He'd buried a microphone cable around the house, and was listening in on his brother as he sat with his new girlfried. Matt was about 8, and his bro was 13.
Matt's mom was stunned that he knew how to do such a thing, and that he'd built it with stuff from around the house.

BTW, get him a Thesaurus next. I preferred that to the dictionary as a kid.... New and creative ways to insult idiots who never understood a word I said.

By the time they'd looked it up, if they remembered, I was long gone. Most thought I was complementing them, anyway.
Why use a $2 word if a $20 word will mystify everyone?

Lord have mercy. I checked out that ThinkGeek site and it was right up his alley. You saved Christmas, Lori! Last year we got him a microscope (he asked for it) and a soccer net (my idea.) He loves them both. He's a geek and a gifted athlete.

I had Matthew look through the Toys-R-Us big toy catalog for Christmas ideas and the 2 things that caught his eye: Mind Flex game (control a ball using your mind) and the CSI forensic science kits.

I know I'm an intellegent lady, but I'm way out of my league with this kid.

Yay me. I wish I got $ for referring people to ThinkGeek. I swear they have such cool stuff!!!
I wish my DD were like your DS. I love playing with science stuff....

 

[Southernbelle]

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