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What About Child Care?

All this talk about going corporate, being our best boss, having board meetings and such… I started to wonder what about child care? All work and no play makes Shirley a dull girl… no… actually that’s not true. All work and no play turns Shirley into a rebellious destructive temper tantrum throwing brat!

What happens to you when you lock your inner child down for too long? How does that look for you? Does that childish, fun loving, freedom seeking, curiously bright little flame inside of you shut down or go into hiding? Are there rebellions and tantrums? Or does that beautiful precious part of you pack up and run away?

So, how about this… let’s commit to doing something childish and silly. It doesn’t HAVE to be today, but let’s at least make a play date with our inner child. Set a date, make a plan, and then actually follow through with it. No excuses, no rain checks…

Here are some ideas:

  • Grab some crayons and color outside the lines.
  • Finger painting is always messy and fun!
  • Blow bubbles and try to catch them.
  • Make a fort under the table and read stories to yourself.
  • Surf kids crafts on YouTube and find something fun to do.
  • Make chocolate chip cookies and eat the dough off of your sticky fingers.
  • Dress up like a princess or a dinosaur… or something fun… and just be silly all day long.
  • Play hide and seek with your dog… or a friend… or an imaginary friend.
  • Have a tea party ~ real or imaginary.

What are your ideas? What did you enjoy playing at when you were a child? What were your favorite games? Did you play outside? Or were you more of an inside and under the covers kind of a kid? What do you think your inner child would most enjoy?

It’s perfectly OK to invite friends to your play date, but only if you make it clear that NO ONE is going to behave like a grown up until after the party is over and it’s time to clean up. Because of course, this is real life, and rooms eventually have to be cleaned, baths have to be taken, and toys have to be put away.

Kids Talk About Angels

Tomorrow we’re starting our project on Angels, and I thought it would be fun to share this to help us get excited about it.

This is something cute that someone sent it to me a long time ago, I don’t know if children actually said these things, or if someone was just being clever… and it really doesn’t matter.

  • I only know the names of two angels. Hark and Harold. 
    Gregory~ age 5.
  • I hear angels all the time in my dreams. And I’m sticking with that no matter how many people tell me I’m crazy.
    Molly ~ age 8.
  • Everybody’s got it all wrong. Angels don’t wear halos anymore. I forget why but scientists are working on it.
    Olive ~ age 9,
  • It’s not easy to become an angel! First, you die. Then you go to heaven then there’s still the flight training to go through. And then you got to agree to wear those angel clothes.
    Matthew ~ age 9.
  • Angels work for God and watch over kids when God has to go do something else.
    Mitchell ~ age 7.
  • My guardian angel helps me with math, but he’s not much good for science.
    Henry ~ age 8.
  • Angels don’t eat but they drink milk from holy cows. Jack ~ age 6.
  • Angels talk all the way while they’re flying you up to heaven. The basic message is where you went wrong before you got dead.
    Daniel ~ age 9.
  • When an angel gets mad, he takes a deep breath and counts to ten. And when he lets out his breath, somewhere there’s a tornado.
    Regan ~ age 10.
  • Angels have a lot to do and they keep very busy. If you lose a tooth, an angel comes in through your window and leaves money under your pillow. Then when it gets cold, angels go north for the winter.
    Sara ~ age 6.
  • Angels live in cloud houses made by God and his son, who’s a very good carpenter.
    Jared ~ age 8.
  • All angels are girls because they gotta wear dresses and boys didn’t go for it.
    Antonia ~ age 9.
  • My angel is my grandma who died last year. She got a big head start on helping me while she was still down here on earth.
    Katelyn ~ age 9.
  • Some of the angels are in charge of helping heal sick animals and pets. And if they don’t make the animals get better, they help the kid get over it.
    Vicki ~ age 8.
  • What I don’t get about angels is why, when someone is in love, they shoot arrows at them.
    Sarah ~ age 7.

Isn’t this fun? I love what Regan said about counting to 10… Which one is your favorite?

Originally posted on The Prosperity Project at Blogger.

So It’s A Fail!

As I was putting this project together, I came across a fair amount of “fail” memes, which are fun! Not sure exactly why we think its hilarious to watch other people fail, but it is. Maybe because we’re so glad that’s not us, maybe because it’s a huge relief to know we’re not the only idiots out there!

Anyway, I was feeling a little disappointed in the singular lack of participation in this project. I expected to be the only one here, and yet there was a small part of me hoping for at least one or two more… And that’s ok. I’ve learned a lot over the course of the project, which was the whole point of doing it in the first place. I can settle for being the only active participant.

So today I thought I’d post a tiny little gallery of fails. Something fun to cheer me up, let me know that I’m not the only idiot out there. And if you have stumbled into this post, or if you have been silently following along, here’s something to make you smile. Enjoy!

Frittering My Time Away

I just spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out what to talk about or share next. And in the process, I did a substantial amount of frittering about online and on my phone. And then, suddenly, voila! I found this little piece from the Chicago Tribune! It is cute and fun, and looks delicious.

Frittering away a fall afternoon

Fritters fritter away so little time. Thirty minutes to prep. Two minutes to crisp. One to munch. Thirty-three minutes isn’t frittering. That’s practically staying on task.

There are more effective fritterers than fritters. Consider the Internet, designed to delete whole afternoons. Or the leaf-dropping tree, capable of raking up an entire weekend. Or the World Serious, which requires the seriously observant to slump on the couch for a week, staring morosely and mumbling: “Bad call.”

The fritter, by comparison, is a fleeting distraction. All it requires is mashing cheese, shaping balls, then rolling them in flour, egg and breadcrumb. The triple jacket ensures a crisp outside and melting inside.

Hot from the pan-fry, the fritter goes nicely with a fall salad. It’s a pleasant diversion from computer, rake or couch. And always a good call.

Ricotta fritters

Prep: 30 minutes
Cook: 2 minutes per batch
Makes: 16 fritters (enough to accompany 4 servings of salad)

Ingredients:
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 3 slices white sandwich bread
  • Kosher salt
  • 3/4 cup flour
  • 1 egg beaten with 1 teaspoon water
  • 4 ounces mild goat cheese
  • ½ cup whole-milk ricotta cheese*
  • Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
  • 1 tablespoon snipped fresh chives
  • 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
  • ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil

Note: *Ricotta should be firm. Pour off any visible liquid. If ricotta seems very soft, drain in a cheesecloth-lined colander for 1 hour.

Grind: With food-processor running, drop garlic down the chute, buzzing it to bits. Break up bread and add to food processor along with a pinch of salt. Grind to fine fluffy crumbs.

Prep: Line up three plates: One holding flour, one holding egg mix and one holding the breadcrumbs.

Mash: Drop both types of cheese into a clean food processor. Swirl smooth. Briefly pulse in zest, chives, thyme, pepper and 1/8 teaspoon salt.

Shape: Use a 1 1/4-inch ice-cream scoop (or a tablespoon) to scoop cheese mix into balls. Drop the balls first in the flour, rolling to coat; then in the egg, rolling to coat; then in the crumbs, rolling to coat. Pat each ball into a disk, about 1 1/2-inches across and ½-inch thick. Let rest, uncovered, 15 minutes.

Crisp: In a heavy skillet, melt butter into oil over medium. Scatter in a pinch of salt. Add cheese pucks without crowding. Crisp to a golden brown, about 1 minute per side. Drain on paper towels. Repeat with remaining pucks.

Serve: Serve fritters alongside any salad. Enjoy.

Provenance: Inspired by TWO Restaurant, Chicago.

Expanding Time!

By the way… here we are, doing a project all about being messy and imperfect and doing our best with whatever time we have left, right? Have any of you seen the project countdown widget? If you haven’t noticed it, check it out.

Note: If you are viewing this post with a smart phone or similar device, it will show up down toward the bottom of the page. If you are on a laptop or pc, it’s in the sidebar.

I have it set to count down to January 31, 2022. Apparently January is going to be a really really long month because right now, as of today (January 19), according to the countdown widget, we have 893 days. 4 minutes and 58 seconds left in the month of January.

How fun is that?

 

Time Lords

So far we’ve talked a lot about time, and how we might possibly be frittering it away even though we don’t have all that much of it. Serious stuff! So let’s finish up all this serious talk, with something fun!

It’s a Time Lord Name Generator. How fun is that?

My Time Lord Name is: The Poet AKA Dundrollbygotheneeldri

You are known as The Poet. Your original Gallifreyan name is Dundrollbygotheneeldri or Dundroll for short.

Back on Gallifrey, you led a dull and uninteresting life, working as a Deputy Assistant to the Assistant Deputy at the Prydon Academy – but now, you travel Time and Space in search of adventure!

Your Type 66 TARDIS is currently stuck in disguise as a Sherman tank, and your latest travelling companion is a gritty, cynical newspaper journalist from the 1990s, who discovers the universe is weirder and wilder than he ever expected.

I like it! The next time I start to worry about time and now there’s not enough of it, whenever I realize that I am wasting time, or allowing corporate America to steal my time… I’m going to remember that in some alternate reality, I have a Type 66 Tardis and my Time Lord Name is Dundroll… This is going to make me smile and then I will be able to let all that worry go and just enjoy the moment even if that moment is boring or uncomfortable.

If you are a Dr Who fan, you’ll totally get this, if not…

Here’s an explanation:

The Time Lords were first created in 1969 by writers Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks, in ‘The War Games’, Patrick Troughton’s final story as the Second Doctor. The Doctor’s home planet was first named as Gallifrey in 1973 in the story ‘The Time Warrior’, written by Robert Holmes.

Since then, the mythos of Gallifrey has expanded in a massive number of ways thanks to stories like The Deadly Assassin, ‘The Invasion of Time’, ‘Arc of Infinity’ and ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’, and we’ve tried to use as much detail from the classic shows and from various spin-off novels as possible in creating the Time Lord names.

The Biology of the Time Lords

Time Lords are the elite of the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterbouros, and they are super-intelligent beings who can live for thousands of years (although not all Gallifreyans are Time Lords). They appear human, but have many physiological differences – Time Lords have two hearts, an internal temperature of only 15 degrees Centigrade, and a respiratory bypass system that protects them from suffocation and strangulation.

They also have the power of regeneration, meaning they can completely transform their appearance and personality twelve times, although certain Time Lords have found ways of extending their lives and even acquiring new regeneration cycles.

The History of the Time Lords

The Time Lords jealously guarded the secrets of Time Engineering that were bequeathed to them by the legendary pioneers Omega and Rassilon, and for thousands of years they have kept to a strict rule of non-interference with other races, only observing the outside universe and never getting involved.

Secretly, organizations such as the Celestial Intervention Agency have been regularly breaking this rule, most notably in their attempt to persuade the Doctor to commit genocide by wiping out the Daleks before they were created, long held to be the opening strike of the cataclysmic Time War.

Time Lord Society

Much of Time Lord society is aloof and stagnant – power lies with the High Council, ruled by the Lord President and the principle colleges, where it only matters whether you are a member of the Prydonian, Arcalian or Patrexe chapters.

Bureaucracy and order rule the day, while many secrets are hidden away in the computer system known as the Matrix, where the combined intelligences of generations of deceased Time Lords can create a whole virtual universe of dreams and nightmares.

Gallifrey is a frustrating, dull place to live – so it’s no wonder that you’ve finally had enough and are stealing a TARDIS so that you can escape and travel the universe!

About Time Lord Names

Our Doctor Who inspired generator will not only give you a new identity as a renegade Time Lord, but you’ll also get your full Gallifreyan name (and its shortened version), what you used to do before you escaped your home planet for a life of adventure, the current disguise of your stolen TARDIS, and a companion to travel with you!

So how about it? Are you going to check out the Time Lord Name Generator? If you do, I’d really love to know your Time Lord Name!

The Ganesh Oracle

Look what I found! Whispers of Lord Ganesha oracle cards. I thought they were pretty nifty, and so I went on a search to see if I could find them online to share here. I found some, but not all. So, I had this idea that we could have our own “oracle” for this project.

Here’s how it works:

I uploaded all the images I found into a gallery, and set it to display in random order. Each time the page reloads, the images should be arranged differently. So, ask the Lord Ganesha what quality, aspect, or idea he’s willing to work with you on today and reload the page. The first image in the gallery is his answer.

If you like these, you can find them at Amazon: Whispers of Lord Ganesha. They also have a journal for those of you who like journaling. The latest version of this oracle can be found at my newest little website, Loving Ganesha. Anytime I find new oracle cards, I will be adding them there.

Coloring Ganesh

If you enjoyed the dot-to-dot Ganesh, this will be even more fun. I found a bunch of different Ganesh coloring pages, and have uploaded them into a photo gallery. I think they are large enough to print and color, and if you have an app on your phone that allows such a thing, that’s fun too!

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