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Mon, May. 5th, 2008, 06:52 pm
I'm living in my own private Tanelorn

The Czarina and I regularly and consistently agree on one thing, and that one thing is that we don't want kids. More importantly, we don't dare have kids, because my brother Martin and I regularly call our father's name from atop Sentinel Hill far too often as it is. Her elbows and my personality...oh, that's going to end well.

Last night, my best friend came by the Triffid Ranch for dinner and conversation, and we vaguely discussed what our kids would have been like. More importantly, I brought up all sorts of possibilities, mostly involving hanging from the rafters and snapping bats in midair with a prehensile trunk and she stuck her fingers in her ears and yelled "LA LA LA" so she could be guaranteed that she could sleep that night. I just waited until she stopped and unplugged, and then squeaked in a falsetto: "My science project is 'How does Brundlefly eat?'"

After five years of marriage, it's really hard to get her to scream "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, HUH?" the way I did when we were married, but I managed. Boy howdy, I'm really going to have to work on it by the time we're celebrating our tenth anniversary, and I don't think telling her "I love you" afterwards is going to work after our seventh.
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Tue, May. 6th, 2008 12:39 am (UTC)
[info]ashbet

>>>More importantly, we don't dare have kids, because my brother Martin and I regularly call our father's name from atop Sentinel Hill far too often as it is.

It's a damn good thing that you're taken, sir. Because that sort of thing is JUST the sort of thing that makes my little heart go pitter-patter ;D

Much love for Brundlefly references. K refers to the way I take my Morning Civilized Beverage (black, with tons of sugar) as "Brundletea" ^_^

-- A <3
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Tue, May. 6th, 2008 12:47 am (UTC)
[info]sclerotic_rings

Hey, when I tell people that Martin looks more like our father than I do, I'm dead serious.
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Tue, May. 6th, 2008 04:15 am (UTC)
[info]blackbirdcd

I would luck out on that one - not sure Stephanie's seen the movie!

On the other hand, I took my girls to see IRON MAN with their pal Henry this weekend. I wasn't sure how a four year old would take it, but she's a pretty rugged girl when it comes to movies (she's begging me to show her ALIEN, because her older sister is telling her "it's too scary". Which reminds me, I need to hide the new book... which was the main way I saw that as a youngster).

So at the end as they rolled the credits I looked over to see how Jessica liked it. She was leaning forward, bored I thought, but then she says out loud "THAT... WAS... AWESOME!!!"

Hilarious! (I so have to blog this)
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Tue, May. 6th, 2008 04:25 am (UTC)
[info]starcrossedlady

Yes, but think of the science experiments you could help out with! :D
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Tue, May. 6th, 2008 06:37 am (UTC)
[info]fierinferno

After five years of marriage, it's really hard to get her to scream "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, HUH?" the way I did when we were married...

I think you meant to say something like "when we were first married," or "the way I did before we were married." Unless you're your future self returned to relive this portion of your live, and your true self is locked away somewhere, and you happened to slip about something you know that the rest of us do not yet...

That's all. If you want to delete my comment this can be a secret so you don't get in trouble :)
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Tue, May. 6th, 2008 12:44 pm (UTC)
[info]galbinus_caeli

Either that or the Czarina left him halfway through the entry.
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Tue, May. 6th, 2008 01:21 pm (UTC)
[info]sclerotic_rings

Well, you know how a marriage is technically annulled if one partner or the other dies? Did you also know that being declared clinically dead for more than five minutes also qualifies? See, I've got it all figured out: she kills me, I come back, we get married again. It saves a fortune on our having to buy kitchen appliances.
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Tue, May. 6th, 2008 09:13 pm (UTC)
[info]czarina69

Love, I told you I'm not into that kind of foreplay.
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Tue, May. 6th, 2008 02:44 pm (UTC)
(Anonymous): geezz...

Wait a minute...I don't get it...

Czarina is married to you...how can she be that squeamish?

happily married to another gross-meister
Perilous Cheryl
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Tue, May. 6th, 2008 07:59 pm (UTC)
[info]czarina69: Re: geezz...

I only have this issue when I'm trying to eat.

I'd just cooked this lovely gourmet dinner, and...this is what he's talking about at the dinner table.
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Tue, May. 6th, 2008 08:33 pm (UTC)
[info]sclerotic_rings: Re: geezz...

But don't you want our kids to be prepared for these things?
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Tue, May. 6th, 2008 09:06 pm (UTC)
[info]czarina69: Re: geezz...

Honey, if we had children, and they were this prepared...we'd be getting calls from the state by now.

Whether for recruiting or for arresting, I don't know, but that isn't the point.
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Fri, May. 9th, 2008 02:23 pm (UTC)
(Anonymous)

At some point after cocksure youth has gone you will develop the capacity to imagine the melancholy of the coming decline when solipsism will not be enough. Perhaps this marriage, now so good, will have turned to dust. Both of you will be alone for the locust years. Or one will have married and had children, leaving the other to wonder about what could have been. Then perhaps you will look back on these smarty-pants days and rue your decision. But I hope not.
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