I think my almost 11 year old son has a crush on Kate Upton.
For the last few days, the three youngest children have been obsessed with the website Kahoot (https://kahoot.it)...a site where you can create your own quiz. They make up their own questions (and answers) and then using your smartphone and/or a laptop, the questions can be answered by any number of players.
I encourage them to make up these quizzes. I figure, hey, why not? They're doing research, they're engaging with others, not just playing video games where they smash and burn and do whatever the heck it is they do in their games...
And then last night, Jamie wanted the rest of us to play and answer his latest quiz...and so we did...a quiz that had 41 questions to it, I might add...and I started noticing how many times "Kate Upton" was an answer choice...she wasn't ever the answer, but at least 10 times in the quiz, the lovely Kate's name showed up...
Did I mention that he's not quite 11?
Should I be worried?
Hmm...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Sunday, February 1, 2015
If You Don't Have Something Nice To Say...
My husband is a journalist. One who has a nightly show where he gets to talk about the things that are going on in the world. He gets to spout off about things that annoy him, or amuse him...mainly, though, he talks about politics and politicians and how they're mucking up the world we live in. Some people agree with him, many do not, but they are all entitled to their opinions.
Brian, like most people today, has a Facebook account, is on Twitter and even has an Instagram account, where, in the interest of drumming up a "following", he re-posts and comments about the same things he discusses on his show.
Like I said, a lot of people love him and agree with him and then there are the ones who don't...
Now, I'm not saying that you need to agree with everything my husband says (heck, some days I don't agree with everything he says), and if you don't, he (and I) would encourage you to share your dissent in a thoughtful and polite manner...a healthy debate, if you will...
Which is why I get so angry I can barely see straight when some jackass decides to call my husband all kinds of nasty names and insinuate that he's doing the nasty with our prime minister and every other member of the Conservative caucus...all because they don't agree with Brian's position on something (anything, it seems)...
And the glee at the possible downfall of a man who supports his wife and four children is disgusting...
I get it. You think that because we are conservatives, both socially and fiscally, that we somehow deserve to be spit upon. You proclaim (very loudly, I might add) about how we all need to be treated equally and that we all deserve fairness and kindness.
Unless it's a conservative. Then all bets are off and you show your true colours.
How is our not wanting the government to tell us how to eat, sleep, breathe and raise our children a terrible thing?
Why should my husband, who works his ass off, have to give away almost half his paycheque to pay for social programs that don't work and are really just a chance for our bloated government to get more money out of the taxpayers instead of cutting some of their damned jobs and overspending?
Brian, like most people today, has a Facebook account, is on Twitter and even has an Instagram account, where, in the interest of drumming up a "following", he re-posts and comments about the same things he discusses on his show.
Like I said, a lot of people love him and agree with him and then there are the ones who don't...
Now, I'm not saying that you need to agree with everything my husband says (heck, some days I don't agree with everything he says), and if you don't, he (and I) would encourage you to share your dissent in a thoughtful and polite manner...a healthy debate, if you will...
Which is why I get so angry I can barely see straight when some jackass decides to call my husband all kinds of nasty names and insinuate that he's doing the nasty with our prime minister and every other member of the Conservative caucus...all because they don't agree with Brian's position on something (anything, it seems)...
And the glee at the possible downfall of a man who supports his wife and four children is disgusting...
I get it. You think that because we are conservatives, both socially and fiscally, that we somehow deserve to be spit upon. You proclaim (very loudly, I might add) about how we all need to be treated equally and that we all deserve fairness and kindness.
Unless it's a conservative. Then all bets are off and you show your true colours.
How is our not wanting the government to tell us how to eat, sleep, breathe and raise our children a terrible thing?
Why should my husband, who works his ass off, have to give away almost half his paycheque to pay for social programs that don't work and are really just a chance for our bloated government to get more money out of the taxpayers instead of cutting some of their damned jobs and overspending?
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