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Blog Thing
Diana answered these for me, so I guess I’ll post it on my blog. Feel free to play if you’d like.
Leave your name and:
1. I’ll respond with something random about you
2. I’ll challenge you to try something
3. I’ll pick a color that I associate with you
4. I’ll tell you something I like about you
5. I’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. I’ll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. I’ll ask you something I’ve always wanted to ask you
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours
Morgan and Counting
Morgan is learning her numbers. She can already count up to five by herself. For some reason, however, she doesn’t like to say the number one. Instead, she tends to start off by naming whatever it is that she is counting. For example, she says things like, “Doll, two, three.” Today, I found out what she does when she has more than five things. She was eating meat sticks that had been cut into small pieces, and she picked them up one-by-one and dumped them in her applesauce (yuck.) As she did this, she said, “Meat, two, three, four, five, meat, meat.” It was very cute. Dan thinks maybe she doesn’t count past five yet because she can’t really say the letter S yet. That makes six and seven pretty hard to say.
sorry
Sorry for never blogging anymore. Whenever I have something interesting (to me at least) to say I’m nowhere near my computer, and by the time I am near it, I’ve forgotten what it was.
Morgan plays Jeopardy
So, I was watching Jeopardy today (like every day), and there was this category called “Rhyme Time”. One of the questions was something like, “This Dr. Seuss book was named after the illustration seen here.” and then they showed the picture from the cover of Hop on Pop. Since that’s one of Morgan’s favorite books, I pointed it out to her and said, “Morgan, what’s that?” and she said, “Hop on Pop!” Now when she goes on Jeopardy some day she’ll be able to tell the story about how she answered her first Jeopardy question when she was only 19 months old. Admittedly, she did not phrase her response in the form of a question, but they are always lenient with little kids.
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Sentence!
So, Morgan has been saying words for a long time now. There were only a few, however, that she really used with any frequency or in any useful context. (Hi, good, cat, num-num.) For the last week or so she’s been really talkative, repeating words that I said to her and things like that. Then, this evening, she picked up her empty glass and said, “No wa-wa.” We were very impressed. Hopefully this is a sign that she’ll start really asking for things she wants instead of just pointing and saying, “dadada,” which makes it really hard to tell what she actually wants. She gets frustrated (and so do we) when she’s trying to tell us something but we have no idea what she’s saying. Who knows, maybe one day she’ll even start calling it a “ball” instead of a “dall”.
Movie List Thing
From Dan’s blog.
italicize the ones you saw, bold the ones you actually liked.
Titanic (1997) – $600,779,824 (although I never did see quite the whole movie)
Star Wars (1977) – $460,935,665
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) – $434,949,459
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) – $431,065,444
Spider-Man (2002) – $403,706,375
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) – $377,019,252
Passion of the Christ, The (2004) – $370,025,697
Jurassic Park (1993) – $356,784,000
Shrek 2 (2004) – $356,211,000
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) – $340,478,898
Finding Nemo (2003) – $339,714,367
Forrest Gump (1994) – $329,691,196
Lion King, The (1994) – $328,423,001
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) – $317,557,891
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) – $313,837,577
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) – $310,675,583
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) – $309,125,409
Independence Day (1996) – $306,124,059
Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) – $305,411,224
Sixth Sense, The (1999) – $293,501,675
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) – $290,158,751
Home Alone (1990) – $285,761,243
Matrix Reloaded, The (2003) – $281,492,479
Shrek (2001) – $267,652,016
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) – $261,970,615
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) – $260,031,035
Jaws (1975) – $260,000,000
Monsters, Inc. (2001) – $255,870,172
Batman (1989) – $251,188,924
Men in Black (1997) – $250,147,615
Toy Story 2 (1999) – $245,823,397
Bruce Almighty (2003) – $242,589,580
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – $242,374,454
Twister (1996) – $241,700,000
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) – $241,437,427
Ghost Busters (1984) – $238,600,000
Beverly Hills Cop (1984) – $234,760,500
Cast Away (2000) – $233,630,478
Lost World: Jurassic Park, The (1997) – $229,074,524
Signs (2002) – $227,965,690
Rush Hour 2 (2001) – $226,138,454
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) – $219,200,000
Ghost (1990) – $217,631,306
Aladdin (1992) – $217,350,219
Saving Private Ryan (1998) – $216,119,491
Mission: Impossible II (2000) – $215,397,30
X2 (2003) – $214,948,780
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) – $213,079,163
Back to the Future (1985) – $210,609,762
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) – $205,399,422
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) – $204,843,350
Exorcist, The (1973) – $204,565,000
Mummy Returns, The (2001) – $202,007,640
Armageddon (1998) – $201,573,391
Gone with the Wind (1939) – $198,655,278
Pearl Harbor (2001) – $198,539,855
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) – $197,171,806
Toy Story (1995) – $191,800,000
Men in Black II (2002) – $190,418,803
Gladiator (2000) – $187,670,866
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) – $184,925,485
Dances with Wolves (1990) – $184,208,848
Batman Forever (1995) – $184,031,112
Fugitive, The (1993) – $183,875,760
Ocean’s Eleven (2001) – $183,405,771
What Women Want (2000) – $182,805,123
Perfect Storm, The (2000) – $182,618,434
Liar Liar (1997) – $181,395,380
Grease (1978) – $181,360,000
Jurassic Park III (2001) – $181,166,115
Mission: Impossible (1996) – $180,965,237
Planet of the Apes (2001) – $180,011,740
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) – $179,870,271
Pretty Woman (1990) – $178,406,268
Tootsie (1982) – $177,200,000
Top Gun (1986) – $176,781,728
There’s Something About Mary (1998) – $176,483,808
Ice Age (2002) – $176,387,405
Crocodile Dundee (1986) – $174,635,000
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) – $173,585,516
Elf (2003) – $173,381,405
Air Force One (1997) – $172,888,056
Rain Man (1988) – $172,825,435
Apollo 13 (1995) – $172,071,312
Matrix, The (1999) – $171,383,253
Beauty and the Beast (1991) – $171,301,428
Tarzan (1999) – $171,085,177
Beautiful Mind, A (2001) – $170,708,996
Chicago (2002) – $170,684,505
Three Men and a Baby (1987) – $167,780,960
Meet the Parents (2000) – $166,225,040
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) – $165,500,000
Hannibal (2001) – $165,091,464
Catch Me If You Can (2002) – $164,435,221
Big Daddy (1999) – $163,479,795
Sound of Music, The (1965) – $163,214,286
Batman Returns (1992) – $162,831,698
Bug’s Life, A (1998) – $162,792,677
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) – $161,963,000
Waterboy, The (1998) – $161,487,252
I think it’s kind of interesting comparing my list to Dan’s. I liked a much higher percentage of the movies I’ve seen than he did. I think this is because he’s much pickier than I am. Also, most of the movies on that list that I know I wouldn’t like I have managed to avoid seeing (Titanic being the obvious exception.) The only movie we’ve both seen that he liked and I didn’t was Forrest Gump. Also, there are a couple of movies on Dan’s list that I’m really wondering when he saw them. Either he somehow managed to see a couple of movies when I wasn’t around or he accidentally italicized them or something. I think most of the movies I’ve seen that he hasn’t are movies he’s just not interested in. Although he really should watch Pirates of the Carribean and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I’m not entirely sure what he has against those movies.
grrr
So… the last several years the people on the football season ticket waitlist have been offered ticket packages. This year, they didn’t offer us anything. I don’t know if this is because of their stupid new pay-for-your-seat plan or what. I figure they probably did offer stuff to people who gave them money or something. Anyway, so single game tickets go on sale today at 5. I go there, all prepared to buy my tickets when the clock hits five, so I can get all the games I want. But apparently you can’t get tickets to the Ohio State game or the Notre Dame game at all. So now I’m really annoyed. I don’t care that much if I can’t go to the Notre Dame game. That rivalry has just become blah to me, so, even though I’d rather go to the game, I’m not crushed that I can’t. But I really want to go to the OSU game. 
I might not give the stupid athletic department money, but I give them a lot of time and effort in the alumni pep band, so I think I at least deserve football tickets. Sigh.
Update: Well, at this rate we’re not going to get any tickets at all. The website is basically trashed from all the people trying to connect to it at once, so I can’t even get in. I will keep trying periodically, but I’m not really optimistic at this point.
Ouch
Last night, while coming up from the basement, I somehow managed to smash my elbow really hard on the railing. I am not entirely sure how I managed this. It left me with this little gash on my arm and I had to sit and hold ice on my elbow until it felt enough better that I could move my arm around without going, “Ow, ow ow.” Anyway, the icing helped a lot, although it was still a bit sore when I went to bed, so I tried to be careful how I slept so that it would get better. I apparently managed (although I didn’t manage the sleeping part very well) because this morning it felt fine, unless you actually went and touched it. Then, not too long ago, I was stepping over the baby gate, and I whacked my elbow on the wall… right in the same spot I hit it last night. So, now the whole night’s healing was pretty much for nothing, as it hurts again. I’m such a klutz.