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The other night I was flipping through the channels before bed and came across the first episode of the 2nd season of Torchwood. I hadn't watched this series since I mainlined it on Youtube over a year ago ~ the Canadian network was delaying it's release in N.A. and once it was available on the CBC I could no longer watch it online, was at the mercy of their annoying scheduling...and gave up.
ANYway ~ as I stared at the screen, a charater played by James Marsters materializes in the scene and I'm thinking...*Spike?*. Within 5 minutes John Barrowman and James Marsters are snogging passionately and my jaw in on the floor. My son looks up from his lego and reacts like any 9 year old would to smooching on the television ~ utter bordom, and demands that it's time for bed as we need to go read a book.
I'm rather pleased by the fact that gender was never mentioned. Gender is irrelevent to him ~ kissy-face is what's icky :) Mummy is very happy.
So off we trog to bed, where after getting the low down on the dangers of some arachnid I hope never to meet, I continued to chew my way through the recently released book; Toy Monster: The Big Bad World of Mattel....*@__@!!! I have no words other than this is one heck of a page-turner and has totally knocked me on my rear concerning the toy industry. I had always been wary of, if not full-on annoyed/frustrated with Mattel and what they have done to the toy aisles of the world ~ but seriously I had NO IDEA how maniupulative these people were..let alone greedy, and full on NUTS!
If you have a couple of hours to kill and even a smidgeon of *GRRRR* where Barbie is concerned, this is a shocking and oh so VERY satisfyinig read, because little makes a person feel better than knowing that all their instincts were on the mark all along.
Beyond that I am dealing with insomnia and floundering about through the day due to a lack of sleep. I wallow in coffee in the morning to fuel myself through noon ~ after which I don't have a sip and still can't fall asleep till almost 2 a.m. and then am up at 5. This is not a time-change issue as I've never had trouble with that. I have an idea what the problem(s) is but until I get a handle on it I'm lights on but nobody home... and basically pooched.
ANYway ~ as I stared at the screen, a charater played by James Marsters materializes in the scene and I'm thinking...*Spike?*. Within 5 minutes John Barrowman and James Marsters are snogging passionately and my jaw in on the floor. My son looks up from his lego and reacts like any 9 year old would to smooching on the television ~ utter bordom, and demands that it's time for bed as we need to go read a book.
I'm rather pleased by the fact that gender was never mentioned. Gender is irrelevent to him ~ kissy-face is what's icky :) Mummy is very happy.
So off we trog to bed, where after getting the low down on the dangers of some arachnid I hope never to meet, I continued to chew my way through the recently released book; Toy Monster: The Big Bad World of Mattel....*@__@!!! I have no words other than this is one heck of a page-turner and has totally knocked me on my rear concerning the toy industry. I had always been wary of, if not full-on annoyed/frustrated with Mattel and what they have done to the toy aisles of the world ~ but seriously I had NO IDEA how maniupulative these people were..let alone greedy, and full on NUTS!
If you have a couple of hours to kill and even a smidgeon of *GRRRR* where Barbie is concerned, this is a shocking and oh so VERY satisfyinig read, because little makes a person feel better than knowing that all their instincts were on the mark all along.
Beyond that I am dealing with insomnia and floundering about through the day due to a lack of sleep. I wallow in coffee in the morning to fuel myself through noon ~ after which I don't have a sip and still can't fall asleep till almost 2 a.m. and then am up at 5. This is not a time-change issue as I've never had trouble with that. I have an idea what the problem(s) is but until I get a handle on it I'm lights on but nobody home... and basically pooched.
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