4 posts tagged “tv”
Every morning recently, Ethan and I have gone through this routine:
- Jeremy gets ready for work around 6:30. Ethan logically assumes it is time to get up. He comes into my room and climbs into bed with me. I am smarter, and realize that if you're not working, 6:30 is a horrible time to get up.
- I try to convince Ethan to stay in bed and go to sleep. Ethan scares away the cat, then demands to watch Caillou.
- I finally relent, and we watch about 3 hours of Caillou.
Caillou bothers me. I would rather watch the Backyardigans than watch Caillou. I'm actually almost to the point that I would rather watch Barney, or, even worse, Boobah instead of Caillou. Finally, I needed to have some questions answered for me, and did a search of Caillou on Wikipedia. Here's some interesting trivia for you:
- "Caillou" is French for "stone". It can also be French for "bald head". Makes you think twice before giving your child adjectives for names, eh?
- Caillou's parents are named Doris and Boris. No, seriously. They are.
- According to Wiki, Caillou's sister Rosie is "between a year and a half to four years younger than Caillou." First, that's an insanely huge range. Second, if Caillou is 4, wouldn't that make Rosie an embryo? She certainly is a brilliant embryo...
- Apparently there has been petitions to take Caillou off the air because it teaches children to whine and complain when they don't get their way. Granted, one thing I like about Caillou is that he actually does complain occasionally, thus representing a Real Child. I would start a petition to get Caillou off the air because he's annoying.
- And, from my own experience, you should never have a theme song with the words, "Growing up is not so tough, Except when I've had enough", only because I keep hearing it as "Growing up is not so tough, Sucks when I've had enough." Which does brighten up my day...though I'm filled with fear that my son's rapidly growing vocabulary will soon include the word "sucks."
Thankfully, my mornings will soon be (relatively) my own again... I start work on Monday, and Ethan will be heading back to preschool.
And, yes, we have already started the "I don't wanna go to school!" phase. Whee!
It's Friday! And, as I need to point out at work, it actually is my Friday. (Gotta love working in a 24/7 industry.) This has been one of those long weeks, so I'm quite happy to be able to sleep in tomorrow morning. Of course, this will be followed (after naptime) by wranging the cats into their hideous carriers to the vet.
I'm watching Project Runway...which is where you can find me every Wednesday from 10-11. As I'm not necessarily posting this in a community, I'm going to spoil it for you. (What the heck...I'm on the West Coast now...) Keith got kicked off the show for breaking the rules.
BUT. He did not just break one rule...he broke SO MANY RULES. He had pattern books in the apartment, he lost the camera crew, spending a good deal of time away from any suveilance, and used the internet. And he admitted he worked by breaking rules as he haggled with the fabric store staff to get more than he could afford, yet stay under budget.
His fellow designers catch on to what's going on (namely, the pattern books), inform the producers, the producers inform Tim, and Tim gives him the boot.
Keith proceeds to visit his fellow designers to say goodbye, which to Keith translates to, "Man, I know we're all under a lot of stress, but you guys really suck for ratting me out." He then whines that he'll have to go home in disgrace, and his friends are all going to laugh at him, and he really didn't use the books to get an advantage. Blah blah blah...SHUT THE HECK UP!!!!!
Let me tell you something, kids: you enter a competition, you get rules to abide. YOU DO NOT GET TO BREAK THE RULES. And more importantly than that, you do not get to whine about being caught when you are inevitably caught breaking the rules. This is the thing that annoyed me most about my students while I was teaching...You break rules, you face a punishment. You KNEW you broke the rules, so don't WHINE when you have to take the punishment.
ARGH. This was one of the most annoying things about teaching...my particular students would try and pull this stunt all the time. I have no sympathy for you, Keith. Not only am I glad you aren't on the show, but I'm glad you got caught. Buh-bye.
It's totally raining out, people!!!
Sure, there's a big thunderstorm going along with it...
...it's all I can do to keep myself from sitting right in front of the window to watch.
Okay, so Project Runway is keeping me from sitting right by the window. I still think Robert should have won.
