short takes

[cellio]

Someday I will figure out how one properly decorates a sukkah; the only decorated ones I've seen have been done up with stuff made by the kids in the family/congregation. If I decorate, I want adult decorations. Whatever those would be. But at least the strands of small white lights (bought on December 26 one year :-) ) are pretty. And, more importantly, provide ample light to see dinner by.

So far it's a one-splinter year for the sukkah. That's pretty good for me. :-)

For bizarre reasons, yesterday I found myself needing to know how to say "purple dinosaur" in Hebrew. My dictionary was of no help on "dinosaur", so I ended up settling for "reptile". Not the same thing, but good enough in context.

I found out recently that my parents have never, in their entire lives, eaten Indian food. Wow. Chinese food was a novelty for me when I was growing up, but I thought that was just due to the local restaurant options. No, my parents just haven't explored a lot of unusual foods. So we're going to take them to an Indian restaurant in a couple weeks. (And no, I haven't asked them about sushi yet.)

I've been getting a lot of spam lately for Vicadin, whatever that is. From googling it appears to be either a painkiller or a psychadelic, but I'm not sure which. (I suppose the latter is a type of the former, for some people.) Did it just come onto the market or something?

Comments

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

"Dinosaur" is one of the 30 most common words to speak to your baby??????? That is bizarre.

there's also robot, banana, monkey....

[fiannaharpar.livejournal.com]

Well..my daughter has her own bizarre set of the 30 most common words she hears they are either music, cooking, politics, or religion oriented.

I'm guessing that the "Baby Einstein" company did some kind of study, but most definately not at my house.

Re: there's also robot, banana, monkey....

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

banana and monkey I can understand. But robot? Dinosaur?

And how old are these kids? I can see Dinosaur being one of the 30 most common words spoken to a 4 year old, but not a 1 or 2 year old.

Interesting.