Desktop meme!

[la_rainette]

Once I've done that meme, I'll have to do the "10 things" meme, cos one thing I have done that you have not done (hopefully) is get arrested for indecent exposure WITH MY MOTHER, and I know you want to hear that story, terrylj.

:D

OK, so this is the desktop meme, gacked from, uh, absolutely everyone. I'm not pasting the instructions cos they've already been posted EVERYWHERE. I'll add them if you ask, but well: y'all know them by heart already.




A.k.a. Pre-teletubby English countryside.

I am baffled.

I used to have a teletubby theme on my desktop (to amuse the girls) but soon found out that it had serious drawbacks. For instance, my kids would both come a-running whenever they heard the musical theme that greeted me, and then they would ask to hear it over and over (trust me, it drives you nuts).
Well, one of them would come a-running. The other was very little and still trying to master the art of purposeful motion. At the time, she could roll sideways or crawl backwards, but forward motion was still escaping her: she would stare at whichever object had grabbed her fancy, and start crawling, an lo, the object of her attention would move away and all of a sudden her plump, diapered butt would hit the wall and she would sit and wonder "hang on, what did I do wrong this time?"

Anyways. I believe there were actually Teletubbies on my teletubby desktop, even if now I can't see any. I am still deeply convinced, for no reason I can explain, that this is Teletubbyland.

*sighs deeply* I must have been completely traumatized. Teletubbitized. Cos this desktop here? Is, well, pretty boring. (Though the sky is nice, right Sam? ;) )

This is a blissfully Teletubby-free landscape. And I had never noticed. How nuts is that?

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[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Once I've done that meme, I'll have to do the "10 things" meme, cos one thing I have done that you have not done (hopefully) is get arrested for indecent exposure WITH MY MOTHER, and I know you want to hear that story, terrylj.

Heck, *I* want to hear that story. :-D

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

:D It sounds worse than it actually was, but the concept is funny. I mean, getting arrested for indecent exposure is funny in itself, but when your mum gets arrested with you it's totally hilarious, I think.

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that desktop looked like Teletubbyland. Of course, when I saw Fellowship of the Ring and they showed the rolling hills of the Shire, with the flowers everywhere, my first thought was, "But where are all the hopping bunnies?"

You can tell the people with the small children. :)

Tell the story! Tell the story!

[la-rainette.livejournal.com]

*cracks up* YES! That's exactly it! That shows how having small children completely changes your perspective. When you're driving, instead of mumbling and getting the heck out of the way, your first reaction when you see an emergency vehicle on the road is "LOOK! FIRETRUCK!"

And the beauty of it is, it is the same whether or not your children are actually with you in the car. :D

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

*nods* Like saying, "MOOOO!" when you happen to see cows out in the field, only to realize that you are in your office carpool.

We had the worst time breaking ourselves of the "open-mouthing" habit. You know, when you're teaching a baby to eat from a spoon, and you open your own mouth to show her how to do it, and so she'll imitate you? Long after Danae caught onto what she was supposed to do, we were still doing that.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_skye_/]

Wait -- are you saying that they'll eat even if I don't do this?!?

[terrylj.livejournal.com]

Mine will eat anything that doesn't eat them first, regardless of what you happen to be doing. :)