tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post3802931497361359642..comments2023-09-12T04:13:03.469-05:00Comments on LiteralDan: The Unbearable Weightiness of MorningLiteralDanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16704368269389527451noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-70888337530630541182009-09-05T13:21:49.639-05:002009-09-05T13:21:49.639-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-31423359492849475882008-08-12T00:58:00.000-05:002008-08-12T00:58:00.000-05:00Chris: Not sad at all! I'll have to use that one s...<B>Chris:</B> Not sad at all! I'll have to use that one sometime.<BR/><BR/><B>Andrea:</B> As a man, I need no up-do. I'm just lucky like that. But the rest of it is me to a T. Like any great hero would say, I'm only brave when I have to be.<BR/><BR/><B>MamaNeena:</B> Most things make me want to sleep a lot. I imagine you may have the same issue. Though as I recall from a post awhile ago, you are one of those weird morning people.LiteralDanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16704368269389527451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-38963669927156247702008-08-11T20:18:00.000-05:002008-08-11T20:18:00.000-05:00this post makes me happy for my meds...and makes m...this post makes me happy for my meds...and makes me want to sleep alot!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-79245034313101553392008-08-11T16:49:00.000-05:002008-08-11T16:49:00.000-05:00Ugh-who needs early a.m.'s on the weekend? You are...Ugh-who needs early a.m.'s on the weekend? You are a brave soul. This just reminds me that in just a few weeks I will be walking out the door at 7 a.m. with multiple kids. I will have the infamous "mommy up-do" and probably be wearing the same t-shirt that I slept in...but this feat will be beyond all difficulty for this night owl. Having said that, if I go to bed now...I will just make it before midnight. I will catch up later (I just can't seem to do that lately?!?) G'night!Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05705670723604409380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-66449548283728086032008-08-11T14:02:00.000-05:002008-08-11T14:02:00.000-05:00I called in sick to my own blog today...How sad is...I called in sick to my own blog today...<BR/><BR/>How sad is that?<BR/><BR/>-Chris<BR/><A HREF="http://weathermoose.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">Weather Moose</A>Chris M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01401056649726628580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-28178611134585786552008-08-11T12:42:00.000-05:002008-08-11T12:42:00.000-05:00Lil Sass: What's the universal symbol for Hump? Ca...<B>Lil Sass:</B> What's the universal symbol for Hump? Cause then we can put it on a t-shirt and watch the money roll in, my friend.<BR/><BR/>We live in the very near suburbs, where a car is more practical, though we do walk as much as we can in our neighborhood (which has almost everything we need).<BR/><BR/><B>Kori:</B> You will, as soon as I finish writing it. I've gotta stop setting myself up like this. And procrastinating.LiteralDanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16704368269389527451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-29999485370346371322008-08-11T09:37:00.000-05:002008-08-11T09:37:00.000-05:00I just want to hear about what kind of a party THI...I just want to hear about what kind of a party THIS was! And I want to go to one!Korihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17523892197119604721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-2098456460106124112008-08-10T21:33:00.000-05:002008-08-10T21:33:00.000-05:00I used to live on the north side of Chicago in rog...I used to live on the north side of Chicago in rogers park (I HUMP chicago)!!! You own a car? Barf-a-rolla! But I guess with kids this is necessaryLilSasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06904517936441186426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-73888025394007774562008-08-10T03:05:00.000-05:002008-08-10T03:05:00.000-05:00Kat: Or you could try my method, and go for both!!...<B>Kat:</B> Or you could try my method, and go for both!!<BR/><BR/><B>Lola:</B> That was just awesome. And yes, I know that word is way overused, but I mean it in the purest, most original sense of the word. Can we all have a playdate one day at like 3:30 aka 4:23 or so?? You are like the My Friend's Cool Older Brother of parenting.<BR/><BR/><B>blissfullycaffeinated:</B> I will be the dad walking D- to preschool looking like I just woke up in a vat of Pomade, the same way I used to be the dad looking like I just woke up in a vat of Pomade before walking him to daycare. In my defense, I was working from home most of those days.<BR/><BR/><B>Miss Grace:</B> Early to bed/early to rise is absolutely the biggest tradeoff of parenting-- that's why I like to tape some of my best (read: longest) lectures and play them at full volume with the lights on for the first couple hours of "bedtime". It serves double duty in also blocking out all the cursing from all the R-rated movies and MarioKart.<BR/><BR/><B>Mrs. B. Roth:</B> I do appreciate a good Uranus (ALWAYS pronounced "Your-anus", unless mocking the British and other pretentious people*) joke, and yes, I almost always compose or (or occasionally sketch) the footnote immediately after typing the mark, and the rest of the time I've just broken out a parenthetical bit that got more out of hand than usual.<BR/><BR/>I'm as impressed as touched that you couldn't even wait to set the <A HREF="http://literaldan.blogspot.com/2008/04/innovations-from-laundry-room.html" REL="nofollow">laundry</A> down in a giant pile before reading my blog. Or are you one of those neatniks who actually folds EACH piece before piling it on the floor for the taking?<BR/><BR/>I can't promise what Spongebob will or won't do, but I'll try my best to be sure he spills it. Prepare to be let down!<BR/><BR/><B>Middle Aged woman:</B> I think the very notion of footnotes itself just imploded with your envelope pushing.<BR/><BR/><B>Mary:</B> Coincidentally, I found that out today. For far from the first time.*<BR/><BR/><I>* The alliteration is overboard with Fs for good reason.</I><BR/><BR/><B>small town city girl:</B> Maybe if I could stop staying up till 3am replying to comments on my blog, among other things, just because my parents are watching the kids, I'd find 9am much less threatening.<BR/><BR/>But could I stop doing that? I haven't always had a blog-- before this, there was... videogames... reading... watching movies... and Thinking of Things. Let's just start a support group to help us get past our noticing of our shooting ourselves in the foot.<BR/><BR/><B>Brittany:</B> Don't tell me things like this, BFF Brittany, or it may just encourage me to linger in bed even longer, which will cause J- to linger in bed even longerer, and we'll never get anywhere and the kids will starve to death. You want that on your head???<BR/><BR/><B>Candid Carrie:</B> Carrie, Carrie, Carrie-- I can't hang clothes and junk on a vertical pole, and that's the only use such a thing would have at our house. So why not use my precious handyman energy to hang up more than one picture in the house? Or... install myself a huge, awesome fire pole to get down to the yard in one terrifying second? You see how we go 'round and 'round in circles, always ending where I ever-so-correctly began?LiteralDanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16704368269389527451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-5595328302809264942008-08-09T20:24:00.000-05:002008-08-09T20:24:00.000-05:00Dan Dan Dan. Really, a three story fire pole? We...Dan Dan Dan. <BR/><BR/>Really, a three story fire pole? We all know that this is nothing more than another attempt at seducing J into purchasing the Twirl Girl 3000*. <BR/><BR/>** consider the extended warrantyCandid Carriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11421804696146084068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-48451414581072346572008-08-09T15:05:00.000-05:002008-08-09T15:05:00.000-05:00BFF Dan, I could totally relate to this! Except t...BFF Dan, I could totally relate to this! Except the part where you said you got up to help,because that never happens for me, but I do always get stuck behind a tractor on a two lane dirt road...so the rest is kinda the same!Brittanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15874958369943279206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-5294199229304012132008-08-09T10:14:00.000-05:002008-08-09T10:14:00.000-05:00Love it! We too have a very hard time getting out...Love it! We too have a very hard time getting out of the house at a decent time. And I agree, 9 am is waaaay too early for a birthday party!<BR/><BR/>Anxiously awaiting the bandaid explanation.small town city girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07814233008615889778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-46460080560767924992008-08-09T09:34:00.000-05:002008-08-09T09:34:00.000-05:00it worked like a somewhat squeaky, rather than wel...it worked like a somewhat squeaky, rather than well oiled machine but you got there. The most perfectly planned timetable can all fall apart with a really bad diaper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-50829678431158316062008-08-09T06:42:00.000-05:002008-08-09T06:42:00.000-05:00**stellar read, as always.*<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>*stellar read, as always.unmitigated mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13901264130484454602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-56187985255054001382008-08-09T02:01:00.000-05:002008-08-09T02:01:00.000-05:00I am intrigued by your continuous use of footnotes...I am intrigued by your continuous use of footnotes, usually I have no idea where they were meant to clarify, even if I try to skim back in the post, but I feel happy when I do figure it out, like I got the joke ... but I'm a slow one, my favorite jokes usually involve the planet Uranus (possibly mispronounced) as a punch line - could that have been a footnote comment? Do you put the little footnote indicator , then immediately compose the footnote, or go back at the end and throw them in as part of an edit rewrite? I think footnotes are very cute. Also I painted my toenails (was that a foot footnote? see, the jokes are no good ... is it late? oh, yes it is, big trip tomorrow, batch of laundry in arms as I type - HAD to read your blog!!<BR/><BR/>Don't forget to explain the songe bob band aid ... wow, what an enticing teaser!Mrs. B. Rothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07523283961030307659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-8234976051869977422008-08-09T01:06:00.000-05:002008-08-09T01:06:00.000-05:00Yeah neither my son or I are morning people. The ...Yeah neither my son or I are morning people. The plus side is that we get to sleep in on the weekends. The minuses are the other five days in the week, and the fact that he wants to go to bed at around 9:30 every night, and I feel like toddler bedtime should be much closer to 7:30.Jenny Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12943823729806115657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-83031068656611158362008-08-09T00:28:00.000-05:002008-08-09T00:28:00.000-05:00I have to get up at 7:00 to make make sure that we...I have to get up at 7:00 to make make sure that we make gymnastics on time at 10:00. If I had any sort of metropolitan traffic to contend with all would be lost. <BR/><BR/>I have no idea what we will do once kindergarten starts. I'll be the mom walking Caroline in wearing my jammies.<BR/><BR/>I'm just trying to say, I'm glad it's not just me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-13467477633196606422008-08-09T00:26:00.000-05:002008-08-09T00:26:00.000-05:00I feel your pain, man. For me to be anywhere with...I feel your pain, man. For me to be anywhere with my child by 9:00 would require me getting my ass out of bed by 6:00, and I just don't do that. My son would never even hear about a party that started that early, because that's just the kind of mom I am.Lolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16860512905157343281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5076041415469800377.post-3779897806444135662008-08-08T20:18:00.000-05:002008-08-08T20:18:00.000-05:00Nice job on the footnotes. I should attempt them ...Nice job on the footnotes. I should attempt them once instead of all the parenthesis I have running a muck in my posts.Kathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16973125452842612070noreply@blogger.com