Shell-shocked baby??

I love to pop packing bubbles of any size. As soon as a package arrives, I will first destroy the packing bubbles either by twisting with my hands, stomping with my feet or by breaking each individual bubble by finger and thumb. - SNAAP, POP, CRACKLE (wait, isn't that the cereal, and of that i'm less fond of that unless it is wrapped in a marshmallow coating.) DD also has this love for the noisy destruction of little balloons. The sound of air being forced to rupture small plastic encasements is so intoxicating. (I also love the sound of controled breaking glass but let's save that discussion for later)

The other day we received a package and yes inside were packing bubbles. DD immediatly proceeded to drag the plastic sheet out onto the floor and a stomping pop fest ensued (you wouldn't know that she was sick at all). AB began to cry but we were busy and I didn't make the connection. Z Guy did and mentioned it to me but I didn't really believe him. Why would popping sounds be scary?!

So, being the experimenting person I am, I looked right at her and stepped on one of the packing bubbles - POP! She burst into a fifteen minute tear fest that could not be quelled by either parent.

Weird.

I removed the packing bubbles from the room, reluctanly. I will test this again of course as soon as we get more bubbles.

Annie get your gun

Today, DD was outside using a stick as a long gun, picking off the squirrels as they ran by on the fence. Where on earth did she pick up this behaviour? I asked her. Ohhhh, J and K (boys) at her school. They all play this game together. They shoot things they do not like. Oh boy. She used to just scream at things she was upset with, ants, birds, her sister. She then moved on to growling. Now it's bang bang. I'm going to let it go and just keep an eye on it but I really thought that the gun facination at this age was a boy thing that I would not have to experience. [I should mention that J is the boy I invited to DD's birthday party and then we were so glad that he couldn't come - he's got a lot of extra energy and is more than a little out of control, and yes DD loves hanging around this fella, sigh...]

Top 100 Movie Meme

Overread had posted this meme and I thought, what the heck. You mark the movies you've seen in bold. I have only seen 24 out of 102 (apparently there are 102 in this list...). Well - I guess I have a lot of movies that I need to watch. Too bad some of my favorites didn't make it onto the list but what can you do.

"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) Stanley Kubrick
"The 400 Blows" (1959) Francois Truffaut
"8 1/2" (1963) Federico Fellini
"Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972) Werner Herzog
"Alien" (1979) Ridley Scott
"All About Eve" (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
"Annie Hall" (1977) Woody Allen
"Bambi" (1942) Disney
"Battleship Potemkin" (1925) Sergei Eisenstein
"The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) William Wyler
"The Big Red One" (1980) Samuel Fuller
"The Bicycle Thief" (1949) Vittorio De Sica
"The Big Sleep" (1946) Howard Hawks
"Blade Runner" (1982) Ridley Scott
"Blowup" (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
"Blue Velvet" (1986) David Lynch
"Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) Arthur Penn
"Breathless" (1959 Jean-Luc Godard
"Bringing Up Baby" (1938) Howard Hawks
"Carrie" (1975) Brian DePalma
"Casablanca" (1942) Michael Curtiz
"Un Chien Andalou" (1928) Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
"Children of Paradise"/ "Les Enfants du Paradis" (1945) Marcel Carne
"Chinatown" (1974) Roman Polanski
"Citizen Kane" (1941) Orson Welles
"A Clockwork Orange" (1971) Stanley Kubrick
"The Crying Game" (1992) Neil Jordan
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) Robert Wise
"Days of Heaven" (1978) Terence Malick
"Dirty Harry" (1971) Don Siegel
"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (1972) Luis Bunuel
"Do the Right Thing" (1989 Spike Lee
"La Dolce Vita" (1960) Federico Fellini
"Double Indemnity" (1944) Billy Wilder
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Bomb" (1964) Stanley Kubrick
"Duck Soup" (1933) Leo McCarey
"E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) Steven Spielberg
"Easy Rider" (1969) Dennis Hopper
"The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) Irvin Kershner
"The Exorcist" (1973) William Friedkin
"Fargo" (1995) Joel & Ethan Coen
"Fight Club" (1999) David Fincher
"Frankenstein" (1931) James Whale
"The General" (1927) Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
"The Godfather," "The Godfather, Part II" (1972, 1974) Francis Ford Coppola
"Gone With the Wind" (1939) Victor Fleming
"GoodFellas" (1990) Martin Scorsese
"The Graduate" (1967) Mike Nichols
"Halloween" (1978) John Carpenter
"A Hard Day's Night" (1964) Richard Lester
"Intolerance" (1916) D.W. Griffith
"It's A Gift" (1934) Norman Z. McLeod
"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) Frank Capra
"Jaws" (1975) Steven Spielberg
"The Lady Eve" (1941) Preston Sturges
"Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) David Lean
"M" (1931) Fritz Lang
"Mad Max 2" / "The Road Warrior" (1981) George Miller
"The Maltese Falcon" (1941) John Huston
"The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) John Frankenheimer
"Metropolis" (1926) Fritz Lang
"Modern Times" (1936) Charles Chaplin
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam
"Nashville" (1975) Robert Altman
"The Night of the Hunter" (1955) Charles Laughton
"Night of the Living Dead" (1968) George Romero
"North by Northwest" (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
"Nosferatu" (1922) F.W. Murnau
"On the Waterfront" (1954) Elia Kazan
"Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968) Sergio Leone
"Out of the Past" (1947) Jacques Tournier
"Persona" (1966) Ingmar Bergman
"Pink Flamingos" (1972) John Waters
"Psycho" (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
"Pulp Fiction" (1994) Quentin Tarantino
"Rashomon" (1950) Akira Kurosawa
"Rear Window" (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
"Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) Nicholas Ray
"Red River" (1948) Howard Hawks
"Repulsion" (1965) Roman Polanski
"Rules of the Game" (1939) Jean Renoir
"Scarface" (1932) Howard Hawks
"The Scarlet Empress" (1934) Josef von Sternberg
"Schindler's List" (1993) Steven Spielberg
"The Searchers" (1956) John Ford
"The Seven Samurai" (1954) Akira Kurosawa
"Singin' in the Rain" (1952) Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
"Some Like It Hot" (1959) Billy Wilder
"A Star Is Born" (1954) George Cukor
"A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) Elia Kazan
"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) Billy Wilder
"Taxi Driver" (1976) Martin Scorsese
"The Third Man" (1949) Carol Reed
"Tokyo Story" (1953) Yasujiro Ozu
"Touch of Evil" (1958) Orson Welles
"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) John Huston
"Trouble in Paradise" (1932) Ernst Lubitsch
"Vertigo" (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
"West Side Story" (1961) Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise
"The Wild Bunch" (1969) Sam Peckinpah
"The Wizard of Oz" (1939) Victor Fleming

Strep Throat

Argh! DD has strep throat. Right before the holiday weekend - I can't believe our bad luck this year. It better mean that next year is illness free. Oh, and I gave AB a bite from DD's sandwich this afternoon. Yes, after DD had taken a bite from it. What was I thinking!!!

Ups & Downs

Last Wednesday I found out I was pregnant again. I was so excited but also a little nervous. The next evening I had lost the pregnancy - an emergency surgery; tubalectomy with ectopic pregnancy. I was a little sad at the time but okay and glad to be healthy and on the road to recovery. I've been recuperating and taking it easy over the last several days. I am feeling the loss now, a week later, for some reason. I guess it’s just time.

In that span of 24 hours, I'd begun picking out names and trying to figure out where on earth we were going to put him/her in this tiny house. I was worrying that our youngest, who just turned one on Sunday, would feel excluded because she would be a middle child. I was concerned because at work I've been in some negotiations with my boss about moving onto full time and into a new position. I felt like I was letting him down because at the time, the new position, something I'm very excited about, could not hold a candle to the new life I was expecting. I was going to have to look at minivans for family transportation - oh my goodness.

Now, no worries about minivans, no pressure on the youngest (yet), and I get to move on into the new position where I work. It's funny how life changes. In the span of 48 hours my expectations of where my life was heading jumped lanes for a while but then landed practically back where it had been before.

My Disorders

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid Disorder:	High
Schizoid Disorder:	Low
Schizotypal Disorder:	Moderate
Antisocial Disorder:	Low
Borderline Disorder:	Moderate
Histrionic Disorder:	Moderate
Narcissistic Disorder:	Moderate
Avoidant Disorder:	High
Dependent Disorder:	Moderate
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:	High
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