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Being the best tiny spec that I can be!
Do not attempt.
...My stories about slogging barefoot through the snow, studying by lamplight, subsisting on hard crusts of bread, and being grateful for the opportunities I was given, are equally unmotivating. Kids today. <sigh>
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"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"
"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.
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Oh well, she's 10...she can handle it.
Yeah, Dane is no better at almost 9 than he was at 1 or 2...only now he is STRONG, and lanky, and FAST. Little spider-boy.
Kirsten
'07: 1324.5 ••• '08: 1561 ••• '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike ••• '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike ••• '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike
run 750 mi
bike 3500 mi
• more off-road
• gain proficiency @ CX mounts and dismounts (ie stop leap-frogging w/people who ride slower after every obstacle -- finish further up the field)
Ha, I KNEW what that would be! DH and I are always talking about having to get up and clean the lake and living in a paper bag in the middle of the road and getting up before we go to bed....
No offense.
He's a boy, though. We're big wimps with needles. I'm still mostly a wuss, and I've seen more and bigger needles than lots of people.
I can, however, kill a spider without freaking out. Usually.
Ultima tastes like failure.
I'm calling PETA
Oh, spiders...that's the funniest bit. Spiders like to live in my car. I hate spiders, but have learned to tolerate them as long as they are not on me or descending in front of my field of vision. But if he sees a spider in the car he SHRIEKS and I have to pull over and kill it. Criminy. But he's OK with other bugs, snakes, etc. Just spiders freak him the hell out.
He's a boy, though. We're big wimps. I'm a wuss.
This makes more sense now
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I'm such a bad Mom...I filled out a permission slip for my DD to get the vaccine but I have no idea when she is getting it and I'm certain I won't be there when she does! Oh well, she's 10...she can handle it.
If my little guy weren't so needle phobic or I had another way to get him the vaccine, that would have been me. His big sister got the shot the same day in the same place, but I didn't stick around to hold her hand. She's the bitter middle child, though, so she's used to it. She once wrote me a note that said "you are mene." I put it on my office door for the rest of that semester. I am indeed VERY 'mene.' And a rather distracted mom.
Haha! That note is so funny...and so sounds like something my daughter would say to me! I told her I didn't know if it would be a shot or nose mist and she got all bug eyed about the shot...I told her to deal with it and she wasn't getting out of it! See...I'm mene too
LOL, I have a "bitter middle child," also! I just tell him to suck it up...
Mene moms unite!
Mine doesn't call me mean (or mene), but he does tell us that we aren't fair a lot. To which I get to toss out my parents' favorite phrase, "life's not fair."
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To which I get to toss out my parents' favorite phrase, "life's not fair."
Try my fave: "Fair is a place where hogs compete for ribbons"
My girls grew to hate this, but I expect when they become mothers, I'll be smiling smugly as they say it.
Ooh, I like that one!
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