Outsourcing Childcare
Some days, this would look pretty good . . .
Report: Many U.S. Parents Outsourcing Child Care Overseas
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Welcome Back, Potter
To celebrate the release of the new/last Harry Potter book, I’m posting this video starring Patrick Towne, brilliant actor in his own right and also husband of author/actress Brett Paesel. I had the honor of co-hosting a MotherTalk event last year for the release of Brett’s book, Mommies Who Drink. Brett is hilarious, brilliant, savvy, and somebody you not only want to read but want to be friends with. At the end of the night, Pat came by to pick up Brett, and the few of us left talked and laughed until the wee hours. Pat is like the brother or brother-in-law or cousin you wish was in YOUR family, just so would have an excuse to hang out regularly. I love these people.
Anyway, Pat plays a grown-up Harry Potter in this video. It won’t make sense to those who didn’t watch bad 1970s TV. But for those of us who did . . . well, I think you’ll agree that this is dead on. I especially appreciate the Overbearing Laugh Track and the “freeze frame” final shot. Brilliant!
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Last Night at the Zoo
Last night, we saw Pink Martini in concert at the Oregon Zoo, with some friends of ours. (Thanks, Liz and Casey, for saving us seats! Traci, we missed you!) I am a huge fan of China Forbes and Thomas Lauderdale and Co., especially the new album, Hey, Eugene! I can’t find a video of my favorite new song, “Dosvedanya Mio Bambino,” but here’s one of my other new favorite, the new album’s title track: “Hey, Eugene!”
And here’s a great video of the good old Pink Martini standard, “Sympathique.” Not new news, but, oh, I do so like the video!
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8 Random Things
I have been tagged for a meme by my friend Linera. I’ve never done a meme before, but what the heck? Even if it does steal all my good material for when I play “Two Truths and a Lie”! So, okay. Here we go with 8 random things about me:
1. I have been in the hospital ICU unit twice: in the spring of 2002, when I came extremely close to dying of pneumonia, and in the fall of 2004, when I had open heart surgery for a condition that also very nearly killed me.
2. During my heart surgery, I was essentially “dead” for 29 minutes, during which the doctors drastically lowered my body temperature and took me off the heart-lung machine while working on a particularly tricky section of my heart.
3. As far as I can tell, I suffered no brain damage. As far as I can tell, I suffered no brain damage. (Ha ha! That was Craig’s little joke after the surgery…)
4. My grandfather was a contortionist.
5. My grandfather invented the famous “Master Cleanser” lemonade detox diet.
6. I have had e. Coli. (Waaaay up there, in terms of pain; though not quite as bad as recovery from heart surgery.)
7. My husband and I adopted one of our children and had the other two via gestational surrogacy.
8. In 2005, I had a terrible, brutally painful (on par with the e. Coli) abscess/staph infection in my leg. (Left a nasty scar.)
What strikes me most about my 8 random things is how many are medically related. If I had lived in any other time, I would have died long ago, from one of scores of different illnesses. Medical technology has saved my ass so often, it’s frightening. More than that, it gave me at least two of my children. (Twenty years ago, the boys wouldn’t even have been possible.)
Amazing!
And now, in keeping with the theme of randomness, here are three old photos of my children, which I’m posting for no particular reason other than I think they (children and photos) are beautiful.
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