Bits and Pieces

[firstfrost]

• Back from California, for Second Christmas (sort of like Second Breakfast, but with loot!). I am such the city mouse, compared to my sister the country mouse, running around chasing chickens in my work shoes. My nieces Amelia and Isabelle are 2.5 and 0.5, respectively; I'm no doubt contributing to Eldest Child Syndrome by finding the toddler more interesting than the pre-talking pre-crawling baby. Still, they're both still very good-natured kids. Amelia's new focus is small round things, automatically dubbed "cute". ("For most families in which the child has a potato as a pet, it's because the parents don't like animals...").
• Four out of five Art Projects done! Unfortunately, I have left the tricksiest for last.
• Lyric with Snacky Snacks last night. As is sometimes the case, I liked the actors better than the play. The faux-Japanese costumes of the frame scenes bugged me (elegant and gorgeous, but low cut and high cut sufficiently to suggest to me the aesthetics of a topless wedding dress worn with pasties), and a lot of the second act had very, um, I guess I'd call it ragged character writing (I can expand, but don't want to spoil the plot for the people who moved to later). The characters/plot didn't feel plausible to me (which was perhaps the intent, given the theme of "everyone has their own personal version of truth") - and I found the guy who had an affair with a goat a believable character, so I must not be that picky.

Comments

[mjperson.livejournal.com]

Son't buy the lie! That eldest child syndrome is just a myth propigated by spoiled younger children!

Heh

[twe.livejournal.com]

I certainly always had the impression that the eldest child got more restrictions. (TVs in their bedrooms? Stay up as late as you want?)

Am I really the only youngest child here?

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

I don't know about that. Every time I asked if I could have a dog, the response was, "No, your older brothers had a dog before you were born. We're through with that now."