Growing like a Weed

The Mini Monster successfully turned on the musical frog on his play mat for the first time this morning, by himself. It requires a pretty good, focused tug and is kind of touchy, but he did it! That was a pretty awesome kick off to the day.

He's trying really hard to sit up, though if he does manage to balance enough not to tilt over, he tends to be hunched like Quasimodo still. Never the less, he's trying hard.

And trying to steal peoples food now. He grabbed the edges of my bowl of mashed potatoes yesterday and had to be wrestled with to get it back, and he intently fixates on peoples drinks. Sounds like he's really getting interested in trying other foods! I keep meaning to sit him down and offer him some again, so maybe today.

Digging the garden is going, but still slowly. It seems like we're getting there at a snails pace, but then again we're digging up an established yard, not an old garden plot. And lord knows there's plenty of rocks to get in the way. We've built a small tower out of them to keep them out of the way.

Dig it

We got a little further today, though we knocked off after a while for a combination of Jealous Mini Monster ((He wanted the attention on him, not dirt and grass.)) And just plain exhaustion, but we're really starting to get some where! I'm actually pretty pleased, although I still feel somewhat physically wimpy, stomping on my garden fork to dig it into the ground.

The sound of metal tines on rocks will also set your teeth on edge. There could be a lot more rocks but there's definitely enough. We've pulled up the ones we've found and we've made a little tower of rocks, to keep them out of the way. I'll probably reconstruct it out of the way once we're done, I just want them all accounted for and away from the mower.

Mini Monster also now fits a six month size pretty neatly. Still some roominess and a little extra length, but he's closing in fast. Sheesh!

How Does your Garden Go

Haven't gotten super far yet. My M.I.L came over late yesterday and we went out and worked on moving ground. To make it go faster I used the garden fork to tear up the ground in rows, back to back, and she came through and pulled them up and moved them out of the way. ((We'll shake as much earth back off the grass roots as we can later. The full border is finished and we've started working our way across.

I did try earlier that day but Mini Monster wanted NOTHING to do with the hotter, brighter afternoon weather. Apparently he subscribes to the theory that Mad Dogs and English Men go out in the Noonday Sun.

Who Stan Lee Wants to Be

Dear Stan Lee:
I hate to break it to you, but you're NOT Alfred Hitchcock. He was actually cool, and he didn't slam his roles up the nose of his viewers to desperately cling to the idea that he's actually contributing something to the world.
The only thing you've successfully contributed were the germs of ideas. I've seen your stories. They suck, even though the characters themselves have often been developed by others into fantastic creations.
Please do EVERYONE a favor and go enjoy your money quietly, because you really aren't as amazingly awesome as you think you are.

Oh and as far as Marvel goes: Stop Ret-conning things every chance you get. Readers actually DO hate Phoenix, we want to see ACTUAL character development AND new characters that don't get offed to make the old ones look cool. We know Wolverine is cool but you can do new stuff with him instead of rehashing the samurai shit again... and again....
I mean seriously: your own FAN base makes jokes at your expense. That's not a good sign.

Basically: Don't be George Lucas: the StarWars system was cool, it became COOLER in the hands of people who loved it, don't make us sit through your personal ego-bation and wreck the whole thing again. It's a big system now Lee. Cut the apron strings.


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That being said: I did mostly enjoy the new Iron Man, but there were a few stretches of my suspension of disbeleif that just made it less enjoyable. I mean aside from the fact I just can't accept Samual L(oudmouth) Jackson as Nick Fury, Whiplash, high point of the whole thing as he was, must have been wearing BRICK UNDERWEAR not to at least be hospitalized after being rammed with a car.

Tony was desperate, but not stupid: Why didn't he think of that lithium whatever?

And could you have BEEN any more obvious than placing his amazing cure in his fathers Diorama?
...Or for that matter any more desperate to make your token supposed bad-ass female who's character name I can't even be bothered to remember, look badass? Did she pull her weapons from the same mythic vagina of holding that Elizabeth Swan pulled that giant gun out of in the greatest fail moment of that Particular Pirates movie? ((Well, maybe not THE greatest failmoment but a pretty big one.))

You had good stuff going, don't force it.


....And for gods sake, if Thor says 'Verily', I will throw up on you idiots.