My son is seriously expressing his sense of style. Not that he cares about style. He cares about comfort and blue. If it looks comfortable and it’s blue, that’s what he wants.
Sick this past week, I didn’t go on the shopping expedition to Old Navy for Spring and Summer clothes, which H.o.p. badly needed because of course nothing from last year fits and all his Fall and Winter sweatpants are now highwaters.
Marty and H.o.p. returned and H.o.p. happily dumped the booty out of its bag.
There isn’t a pair of pants that isn’t polyester. All athletic polyester shorts and track pants. Except for one pair of sweats and t-shirts. In every shade of blue. Except for the ones that are white.
The athletic shorts are comfortable with elastic waistbands. That’s all H.o.p. cares about. He has always liked clothing that’s huge on him, which was fine by me–and I too wear my jeans in men’s sizes several too sizes too large for me, big and baggy. But then he decided big and baggy wasn’t comfortable enough. He wanted comfy sweats. Fine.
But polyester sports shorts and track pants? And what in the hell were they thinking picking up anything in white?
Sigh. I keep my mouth shut.
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On the yoga front. I guess it’s something not to do while you still have a cold. Every time I bend over my nose goes water faucet on me. But it didn’t keep me from lemon oiling the floor. For some reason whenever I get sick, as I begin to feel better, I lemon oil the floor. A quirk.
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Noticed at Netflix yesterday the appearance of the “View now!” feature on our account. Only about 15 movies in our near 480 some queue are available for Viewing Now! but there were enough choices that I could give H.o.p. a treat of a WOW! LIVE FROM NETFLIX! movie to watch before we did some MATH! He was excited to opt for the 1963 “Jack the Giant Killer” with special effects by Harryhausen. Oops! Within the first 15 to 20 minutes Jack the Giant Killer was throwing a noose over the stop animation giant’s head (“Uh, H.o.p., this may not be something you’ll want to see…”) in order to choke him and stabbing him repeatedly in the chest. H.o.p., when the noose went over the head, sensed something coming that might be too much. He turned. I said to him not to watch, that I’d let him know what happened. He ran out then came back in and said no, this wasn’t a movie he wanted to watch. So instead we chose BIGFOOT! The legend of. Real or hoax! Afterward he sculpted a little Bigfoot head out of polymer clay that he says he’s going to cover with fuzzy material and make into a puppet for an animation. Then we argued about doing math and then we did math.
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Drip drip. Hack hack hack hack hack.
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I’m loving the phrasing of the questions that were permitted to be fielded by Bush when he was speaking at Tipp High School in Ohio yesterday…
Q — what is your view of the opposing party
Q Mr. President, how would you respond to the rather mistaken idea that the war in Iraq is becoming a war in Vietnam?
Q Would you speak a little bit about the support, or lack of support that we’re getting from other countries, particularly those countries surrounding Iraq —
Q Mr. President, to kind of switch directions a little bit, illegal aliens in this country apparently are putting a lot of pressure on our social services. Could you comment on what the plans are in the future to take care of that?
Q This is truly an honor. Thank you for coming today. My question is about the U.S. military preparedness. I’m actually of a small manufacturing company in Dayton where we manufacture a lot of parts for the up-armored humvees — gun turrets, and things like that — (…) Here’s my — I’ll get right to it. There’s — currently the law is that only 50 percent of the military components have to be U.S.-made. When we went into Afghanistan there was a gentleman in Switzerland who refused to give us part of something for the Nordam –(phonetic) — bomb that we had — he refused to make it because it was made over there. And my question is about increasing that percentage, and keeping a prepared military, that we don’t have to rely on other countries to defend ourselves.
Q Mr. President, I admire your stay-to-it-iveness — (inaudible) — not using polls and focus groups. But I have to ask you personally, with respect to economics, with respect to the war, with respect to the war on terror and Iraq, and immigration, when you go to bed at night and you see these polls — everybody and their brother does a poll now — how does it make you feel?
Q This is in regards to the Virginia Tech tragedy. Being a high school student, I was wondering what’s being done to ensure safety in schools?
Q I believe there’s a big misconception that scaling back in Iraq will cost less in the long run than to go in and get the job done. How do you get that message across to America, and especially to Congress?
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I’ve missed out on lots of fun stuff this week that H.o.p. and Marty did, but I had one lovely experience. Took a nap yesterday and woke up to hear the most beautiful singing. What? Realized someone in the building behind us was doing vocal exercises. Not one of those booming operatic voices pulling it from the chest. He was a medium to high tenor and sounded more like some of our Arabic recordings. And the exercises were different from any I’ve heard before. Accompanied by piano, he exercised his chords for about 45 minutes. And though they were only exercises it was one of the more beautiful things I’ve heard in a while. I stood by a back window and listened for a long while.
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