I had another ‘Mommy’ experience for the first time yesterday when Skippy came out of school with his very first *ever* report card.

Of course I couldn’t wait to read it, so I opened it as soon as we were safely strapped into the car, before driving home.

Let’s remember that this is his first year of pre-school, so it’s not like it’s earth shatteringly difficult calculus that he’s doing, but let’s just say that this kiddo got A’s all around! (okay they weren’t actually given symbols, but ratings out of 3. 3 being the highest, 1 being the lowest, and L being.)

Out of sixteen things that were evaluated, he got fourteen 3’s and two 2’s. Which needless to say made me just about burst with pride, but the thing that really got me was the teachers comment:

“Skippy* is an energetic boy who always co-operates very well. He has very good skills and he is determined to try until he gets something right. Good work!

Now, what kind of treat do you think that kind of report deserves?

My first instinct was to buy him a chocolate since our first stop after school was the supermarket, but then I realised I don’t want to reinforce good behaviour with food. Particularly bad food. So any suggestions?

*Not his real name.

In other news, I upgraded to WP 2.8. but there seems to be some kind of error with the WYSIWYG editor, so I’m having to ‘code’ in order to blog, and geez, it’s been awhile, but at least I’m brushing up on my html tags! Look here. Italic!BOLD!

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Yesterday, we were enjoying a small bowl of ice-cream each, after dinner. All four of us (even Flipper in his high chair) had some chocolate caramel swirl.

It was the cutest thing, watching Flipper eat it. He would take it off the spoon (with his mouth) enthusiastically, and then pull this variety of faces in succession, making the husband and I laugh out loud.

So then my husband says (as if he is Flippers brain), “Mmmm, Good! Cold! Mmmm, Good! Cold!”

This was of course funny in itself, but it struck me has even funnier, because then I proceeded to say to my husband, “Gosh, that really is the difference between men and women. The Men, go for the obvious and the logical, i.e. Good! Cold! But as a woman, if I take a bite of yummy ice cream, I’m suddenly instantly transported, to a snowy hillside in Germania, dressed in beautiful romanesque garb, with Russell Crowe, dressed as a roman general is also lying down on some sort of fur covered chaise, and naturally we are gazing at one another with much longing, and…” then of course I need to take another bite of ice cream, and head straight on back to my fantasy.

The key factor in this, is that the more decadent the flavour, the better the fantasy .

This is a fact. This is the key reason why ice cream flavours seem to be getting more and more ostentatious with each new incarnation. My husband can thank his lucky stars that we don’t get Ben and Jerry’s Cookie Dough in this country, because DAY-YAMN, he’d have to stop me from making inappropriate sound effects in front of my kids.

I think that the ice cream actually had some sort of long term effect on me last night because I was once again blessed with incredibly vivid dreams of a certain actor.

This actor, is one that I found sort of attractive when I first started watching Ugly Betty.

I am of course talking about Eric Mabius, who plays the part of Daniel Meade.

After watching the series for awhile, I didn’t find him quite so hotworthy (it’s a word because I say so) probably because of the storyline or whatnot, but anyhoo, I couldn’t put my finger on it.

Clearly my subconscious mind hadn’t got the memo, because last night I was somehow magically transported into the series, and succeeded in successfully luring him away from his wife (in the series) who is suffering from cancer – in the storyline – yes, I know, my subconscious has NO CONSCIENCE whatsoever.

It was in fact, SO vivid, that I woke up this morning, feeling practically giddy, until reality asserted itself, and I realised it had just been a dream.

By the time I was dropping kids at school, I was a tad embarrassed, and on the way home, I was laughing at myself for being such an airhead.

Oh well, airhead or not, can you forgive my subconscious once you’ve seen these?

So go on, tell us, which TV characters get you hot under the collar?

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I’ve spoken about Keeping Up With The Kardashians TV Show before. Love it or hate it – this mornings show that I caught on E Entertainment was downright hilarious.

Here’s the thing…

Bruce Jenner is actually the reason I enjoy the show.

Some of you may know (or not know) that I was a reasonably accomplished Track and Field athlete some years ago, and I’ve always had an interest in Track and Field as a whole. As a kid, Bruce Jenner was a freakin’ legend! I even played the game “Olympic Decathlon” on my first Apple Computer (the Apple II e) and he was always the ‘character’ I chose. Of course at the time – the character was no more than a cursor with a full stop (period) rather than the amazing graphics of today. Anyhoo, I digress…

It’s so funny to see his ‘life after glory’ as it were.

He’s a 50 something father of 2 (6 if you count that he is stepfather to the 4 Kardashian adult children). I mean, did I totally laugh my butt off when he had to go for a colonoscopy? The poor guy. I was So feeling his absolute bemused embarrassment about what he had to go through! From the night before where he had to drink this stuff to clean out his bowels (FYI a colonoscopy is done where they enter your nether regions, and check out the intestines with a camera to check for any abnormalities/possible cancerous cells etc – and it’s something all men over the age of 45 should go for), to when he actually went in to surgery. Of course they don’t actually show you the surgery, but they do show you HIM grossing his kids out with the video afterward.

This morning, it was his wife Kris Jenner who was going through a bit of ‘empty nest syndrome’ with one of her daughters (Khloe Kardashian) wanting to move to New York. She talked about wanting a baby. Not necessarily her own, but I did laugh so hard when she went to Kourtney and told her to get her ’show on the road’ (about having babies) because her own womb was ‘aching’. It was such a genuine line, and one could see she wasn’t acting out a script per se.

Of course the three Kardashian girls decide to give her a taste of what another baby would be like, and they rented a Chimpanzee for like 24 hrs, so that their mom would have a reminder of what early motherhood (with an infant) is like, i.e. no sleep, diapers to change and a whole lot of primal screaming.

Guess who got stuck entertaining the chimp? Yes, you guessed it, Bruce Jenner.

So there I sat this morning, watching my childhood idol, entertaining a Chimpanzee, in his neighborhood park, on the monkey bars.

Call it mindless, stupid reality TV if you want…

To me, THATis entertainment!

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That was a title right from my dogs mouth.

This is just a quick post to alert you to the fact that I’ve added a new page to my blog – do take a look along my top navbar – where it says “Home/The Writer/Advertising/Store” and you’ll see the new page, right at the end entitled ‘Help My Dogs’.

This is where I’ve put the proper appeal for help with my dogs quarantine costs, with all the details as to why we desperately want to take them with us. This is so that I don’t keep repeating myself. Although you will keep seeing my block ads now and then in my posts, to keep it fresh in peoples minds.

I’ve also listed the various ways in which help can be enlisted, if you don’t see your way clear to an outright donation.

…and that’s all I have to say about that.

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