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lydamorehouseWe’re a one car family. Thus, when Shawn had a dentist appointment on Thursday morning, the whole family tagged along. Mason and I hung out in the waiting room reading magazines and playing with the toys. This particular dentist’s office has a cool magnet toy which amused Mason and me for a good long time. It’s like a sandbox, except completely enclosed. Inside are toy boats and cars with magnets on the bottom, and attached at the four corners of the table/box are hand-held magnets which you use to drag the toys around through the sand. We must have spent ten or fifteen whole minutes playing with that (an eternity for a toddler.)
Then, we had to turn our attention to the magazines.
I discovered that there is an entire magazine devoted to the British royal family called “MAJESTY: The Quality Royal Magazine.” The cover splashes advertised these titillating articles: “Baby Talk: Lord and Lady Linley Look Forward to the Birth of Their First Child in June” and “Plus! The Court Moves to Windsor for Easter.” If I had a clue who the Lord and Lady Linley were I might just be able work up some excitement… as it was I found the whole thing fairly baffling, if fascinating. Given the devotion a lot of people have for the British royalty, I’m not all that surprised such a thing exists (though how they get enough news to fill a monthly magazine, I’ll never know,) but I was much more shocked that anyone in Minnesota actually subscribed to the thing… and then dumped it at their dentist’s office.
I did steal the magazine though. After all, who can resist articles about a “cursed gems” on the crown and “animal magic” about why the unicorn and the lion are part of the royal crest?
Mason was much more interested in the Nature Conservancy Magazine. I read him the entire article about the guy in Florida who is attempting to repopulate the staghorn coral reef that’s completely disappeared off the coast there. They had a really fascinating picture of the “frags” growing on top of concrete barrels sunken on the ocean floor. National Geographic also had an article about the coral reefs, though they were much more doom and gloom showing a photograph of two poachers in the act of killing reef in order to harvest something stupid (I can’t remember if it was a fish or a plant or live rock).
Then there was the weird guy who interrupted my reading of the article to Mason to tell me “what a good thing I was doin’ there,” by reading to my child. Apparently, he felt compelled to let me know that he approved and that he generally decided that a parent had a lot of responsibility to pass on a good values system to their child by, I guess, giving a frag about the environment. I wasn’t entirely sure. Normally, I have no problem engaging strangers in random small talk, but this was one of those guys who talks just a bit too loudly and too knowledgably about things that are clearly fairly common sense. He didn’t really make eye-contact, either, which always throws me. Worse, he seemed poised to tell me more than I wanted to know about his own family history when the nurse called him in, rescuing me from a lot of “huh,” and “uh-huhs.”
Oh, and something laid eggs in our goldfish tank.... ghost shrimp? snails? goldfish?
Then, we had to turn our attention to the magazines.
I discovered that there is an entire magazine devoted to the British royal family called “MAJESTY: The Quality Royal Magazine.” The cover splashes advertised these titillating articles: “Baby Talk: Lord and Lady Linley Look Forward to the Birth of Their First Child in June” and “Plus! The Court Moves to Windsor for Easter.” If I had a clue who the Lord and Lady Linley were I might just be able work up some excitement… as it was I found the whole thing fairly baffling, if fascinating. Given the devotion a lot of people have for the British royalty, I’m not all that surprised such a thing exists (though how they get enough news to fill a monthly magazine, I’ll never know,) but I was much more shocked that anyone in Minnesota actually subscribed to the thing… and then dumped it at their dentist’s office.
I did steal the magazine though. After all, who can resist articles about a “cursed gems” on the crown and “animal magic” about why the unicorn and the lion are part of the royal crest?
Mason was much more interested in the Nature Conservancy Magazine. I read him the entire article about the guy in Florida who is attempting to repopulate the staghorn coral reef that’s completely disappeared off the coast there. They had a really fascinating picture of the “frags” growing on top of concrete barrels sunken on the ocean floor. National Geographic also had an article about the coral reefs, though they were much more doom and gloom showing a photograph of two poachers in the act of killing reef in order to harvest something stupid (I can’t remember if it was a fish or a plant or live rock).
Then there was the weird guy who interrupted my reading of the article to Mason to tell me “what a good thing I was doin’ there,” by reading to my child. Apparently, he felt compelled to let me know that he approved and that he generally decided that a parent had a lot of responsibility to pass on a good values system to their child by, I guess, giving a frag about the environment. I wasn’t entirely sure. Normally, I have no problem engaging strangers in random small talk, but this was one of those guys who talks just a bit too loudly and too knowledgably about things that are clearly fairly common sense. He didn’t really make eye-contact, either, which always throws me. Worse, he seemed poised to tell me more than I wanted to know about his own family history when the nurse called him in, rescuing me from a lot of “huh,” and “uh-huhs.”
Oh, and something laid eggs in our goldfish tank.... ghost shrimp? snails? goldfish?
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Date: 2007-02-19 11:10 pm (UTC)By the way, Lord Linley is the present Queen's nephew, the son of her sister Princess Margaret. But it must be an old copy of the magazine, because I think he has a couple of children by now.
Not that I follow royalty all that much. One just picks these things up when you're living in a constitutional monarchy once removed.
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Date: 2007-02-20 03:02 pm (UTC)And, yes, the magazine was QUITE old. All the magazines there were.
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Date: 2007-02-20 12:31 am (UTC)And then I realized that that was wrong. Very wrong.
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Date: 2007-02-20 12:33 am (UTC)jpj
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Date: 2007-02-20 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-20 12:01 pm (UTC)One of the shots shows a couple of scuba-divers pulling themselves along a reef with their bare hands. Every time I see it I yell "get your frigging hands off the reef, you idiots!" and then hope they slice their hands open.
I guess I'm not a very nice person.
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Date: 2007-02-20 03:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-20 11:24 pm (UTC)-allie