Running to stand still
May. 3rd, 2004 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geovikiTomorrow is Tuesday. Tomorrow will be the final "Left My Heart".
Do I follow WIPS? Of course I do! Before LMH, it was Animus.
Um. The imminent release of A Thousand Beautiful Things is temporarily delayed.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wayfairer came up with a bunch of suggestions that will Improve. This. Fic. Can you wait? I promise I will post it complete.
But my son is writing papers on this very computer, and my daughter is graduating from high school, and real life is interfering. My daughter had a piano recital of her very own yesterday. She plays so beautifully. It's something I could have enjoyed when I was younger, but our family didn't have the cash for lessons. So it was a pleasure to give this gift to her, and to hear it rewarded so beautifully. She likes the "new age" melodic type of piece. She's very musically talented - she was selected for the all-state choir a few months ago. I can relate to the music aspect, because I've been involved in different musical things over my life.
My son, on the other hand, is a sports guy. I'm clueless. Sport deficient. Immediately following the recital, he had a make-up soccer game. It was one of those fingernail-chewers: the other team tied the game in the last minute of play. It's still astonishing to see the display of testosterone. The elbows, the jersey-grabbing, the immediate flaring of tempers. And that's just the parents. Ha! No, it's the team. Likeresonant8 has written "Antlers, antlers everywhere."
Soccer season has gone to hell. It's snowed every weekend since Easter. Either it's snowing or it's 80 degrees (for my European friends, that's "damned warm for spring"). Bimodal spring. Springtime in the Rockies. Our motto is: If you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes.
Do I follow WIPS? Of course I do! Before LMH, it was Animus.
Um. The imminent release of A Thousand Beautiful Things is temporarily delayed.
wayfairer came up with a bunch of suggestions that will Improve. This. Fic. Can you wait? I promise I will post it complete.But my son is writing papers on this very computer, and my daughter is graduating from high school, and real life is interfering. My daughter had a piano recital of her very own yesterday. She plays so beautifully. It's something I could have enjoyed when I was younger, but our family didn't have the cash for lessons. So it was a pleasure to give this gift to her, and to hear it rewarded so beautifully. She likes the "new age" melodic type of piece. She's very musically talented - she was selected for the all-state choir a few months ago. I can relate to the music aspect, because I've been involved in different musical things over my life.
My son, on the other hand, is a sports guy. I'm clueless. Sport deficient. Immediately following the recital, he had a make-up soccer game. It was one of those fingernail-chewers: the other team tied the game in the last minute of play. It's still astonishing to see the display of testosterone. The elbows, the jersey-grabbing, the immediate flaring of tempers. And that's just the parents. Ha! No, it's the team. Like
resonant8 has written "Antlers, antlers everywhere."Soccer season has gone to hell. It's snowed every weekend since Easter. Either it's snowing or it's 80 degrees (for my European friends, that's "damned warm for spring"). Bimodal spring. Springtime in the Rockies. Our motto is: If you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes.
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Date: 2004-05-03 05:11 pm (UTC)*heavy sigh*
I guess so.
;)
(I'm so looking forward to this fic)
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Date: 2004-05-03 09:36 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-05-03 09:20 pm (UTC)I've been wondering that very same thing with my daughters. Somehow I assumed that they will more or less be good at the things we parents have been, but it appears that they have their own aptitudes that have very little to do with our strengths and weaknesses. Like dancing: I'm the worst dancer in the history of human kind and my husband comes a very close second. Our older daughter at the tender age of six is an excellent dancer basking in fame and glory in her dancing lessons she bullied me to get her. On the other hand she has no musical ear what so ever, neither can she draw a straight line, both of those things being something I just assumed our children would inherit from us.
Our younger daughter (3) has planned a future as an ibex or possibly a robe-walker, needless to say that neither one of us has had any inclinations that way. Of course both of them have something from us as well (the older daughter has the ability to take anything apart and put it back together (her father's skill, that) and the younger one has been singing long before she could speak).
It is very educational to have kids :D
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Date: 2004-05-03 09:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-04 12:21 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2004-05-04 04:28 pm (UTC)I told Maya I was too preoccupied to continue betaing UL for her back last summer, so this was a really great experience for me, and I was a bit nervous about how you'd receive all my commentary.
You turned down Maya but you did this for me??? I'm beyond grateful!
Off to work on the TBT!