Everyone I Ever Was and Everyone I Ever Will Be

-- Swept and mopped the kitchen floor
-- Vacuumed
-- Folded laundry
-- Cleaned the cat box
-- Put up frost-stuff on a couple of windows
-- Tore out the linoleum from under the sink and put down contact paper
-- Cleaned out the fridge
-- Started to paint the upstairs closet

Earlier, about the only attention Kaylee would pay to the TV was when we were watching That 70s Show and the theme song came on-- she'd crawl right over to the TV, wave her arms around and squeak, and then as soon as the song was over head right back over to her toys. But now if something loud happens she'll pay attention for a few minutes, and whenever a commercial comes on with a dog or a cat, she won't take her eyes off the TV. She's really starting to take those things in, which translates into one thing:

Time to go through our movies.

Chris and I went through our shelves of movies last night and divided them into "things it's okay to watch while Kaylee is awake" and "not unless we want to traumatize her for life".

We'll be adding and taking away things soon based on how she reacts to things once she starts talking. Right now all we have to go on is whether she starts crying or something in response to what's on the TV (which so far she hasn't done). So since she can't give us many cues yet, our criteria is pretty simple: no violence, and not much language. Things like Stand By Me will be added once she's learned the "do not repeat this word" rule. ;-)

Scrubs is okay (the show rarely takes a serious turn, and for a medical show there's very little blood) while M*A*S*H is not (that one deals with some pretty heavy stuff, especially in the later seasons).

RENT is okay (some language, but not nearly as much as the stage show, and what little violence there is happens off-screen) while Man of La Mancha is not (off-screen or not, anything with a rape scene is on the To Wait list).

And after a discussion, we decided that anything with vampires and demons and whatnot would wait until she's older, even with something campy like Lost Boys, just so we can be sure of what she's able to handle/what she's interested in.

Because I'm nosy curious, for those of you who are parents, how did you handle this one? What are some things that you thought your kid would handle just fine that caused a freakout, or that you thought would cause a freakout but they just brushed it off?

Okay, aside from the fact that a good part of it was spent sitting on the couch watching The Stand. And now I'm reading the book again-- haven't done so since the seventh grade, but now that I have the 'complete, uncut and illustrated' edition. . . :-)

On the getting-stuff-done side, though, Kath and I just finished the first draft of a new novel. Now comes the editing. lol I got one run-through done on a series of ours; now I only have fifteen pages of notes and new scenes and changes to make instead of fifty! Getting there.

Finishing an edit on that series is one of the things on my 'get done before the baby's born' list. So was going through my CDs and weeding out some stuff, which I got done this morning. Other thing is to go through old bills and financial papers and get stuff organized, which may or may not get done depending on how motivated I can get to go upstairs and sort through the Desk Drawer of Cluttery Doom.

I want to watch The Constant Gardener again. And I do not have it on DVD yet. Woe. I at least need a good Constant Gardener icon.

Will look for one later, though. Right now, I really should go ahead and get some more housecleaning/rearranging done.

This has been your daily Pointless Update. Join us tomorrow for news of NaNo complications, and/or recovery updates after the writer attempts to do something stupid like move a bookshelf upstairs by herself later tonight.

Chris took the day off of work so we could deal with cleaning (which reminds me-- I left a load of laundry in the washer. Must deal with that in a moment) and packing some more stuff and dealing with realtors/insurance people. Fun.

Now we're done for the day, and Chris is watching a James Bond movie. Goldfinger. Memorable for Odd Job (I still want that hat) and the name Pussy Galore. You know you've listened to Rent too much when she introduces herself and you say, "In person!"

I love making fun of the Bond movies; they're so utterly cheesy. But they're fun cheesy. I hear Daniel Craig's going to be the new Bond, and I don't think I've seen him in anything, so no previous impressions to go on. Wonder if they'll continue the cheesy tradition, or go with the tone of the novels-- I haven't read any yet, but I've heard that they were actually pretty dark.

So, as long as we're on the subject, who is everyone's 'actual' James Bond, and who would you like to see play him? I know for a lot of people it's Sean Connery, but I'm always going to associate Roger Moore with the role because he was the one to play it in the first Bond movie I saw. As for who I'd like to see play him-- I heard a rumor once that Ralph Fiennes was in talks, and I would've been curious to see that because that basically would've guaranteed a renovation from the "one liner, sex, gadget, bad pun, improbable escape, one liner, sex" formula.

I still want the toys, though. And I definitely wouldn't mind the cars.