Blair Necessities

SQOTD

Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:01:00 +0000

We were at a local Carniceria (Mexican butcher) picking up some awesome marinated flank steak. When I went to the counter to pay I saw that they had some Spanish peanuts and said "Oh, look... they have Spanish peanuts"!

Squink looked at me and said "Does that mean you can speak Spanish when you eat them"?

I looked at him and smiled and said "Why yes, I believe they do"

Later that day I was trying to translate a joke from Spanish into English to my husband and finally gave up and said that I just could not translate it correctly into English.

Squinky looked at me and said "You need to eat the Spanish peanuts then, mama".

They grow up so fast

Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:30:00 +0000

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:43:00 +0000

He's already a charmer... "Mom, you have a big, beautiful butt, not a
big, fat butt".

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:20:00 +0000

A Christmas song was playing on the radio that is based on Johann
Pachelbel's Cannon in D.

Mom (to Schatzy): That's Pachelbel as the background right?

Squink: You mean Taco Bell, mommy?

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:52:00 +0000

"No mom, I want food water".
~ said after I gave him a glass of tap water. Yes, our tap water is
that icky... we filter it at home.

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:59:00 +0000

Squink: "Mom, can we have a food drive?"

Me: "Sure".

Squink: "First we need a truck".

~ at least he's ambitious.

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:56:00 +0000

As he started to eat his sticky rice with his hand: "Mom, I'm
pretending my fingers are a fork".

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:23:00 +0000

"In order to wake up you have to take a nap first". ~ about bedtime.

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:42:00 +0000

Squink: CBSC.
Me: What does that spell?
Squink: Poop

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:31:00 +0000

"She is only wearing underwear".
~ pointing to a picture of Wonder Woman.

"In my Arizona, there is a werewolf and it killed me and I then I live
again". ~ telling me a tale of unknown origins.

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:45:00 +0000

"Mom, I have to talk. Because we have brains in our heads"
~ in response to my telling him he has to be quiet as it is bed time.

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:10:00 +0000

"Mama, I want to have my birthday at the hotel, the one with the
rooms". ~ while discussing birthday party options.

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:28:00 +0000

"Mama, when I am all grown up like you mama, can I stay up as late as
I want? Please? Please?"
~ I didn't have the heart to tell him he won't
need my permission when he's all grown up.

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:52:00 +0000

"Mama, do you want to be the red commode or the blue commode?"

~ trying to ask me which race car I wanted to be, a red one or a blue one... I have no idea how he got the idea they were called "commode".

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:59:00 +0000

"If you get a shock, that means you have to have a baby".

Who knew it was so easy?

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:50:00 +0000

"Mommy, your heart goes boom-boom, like it's on fire".
~ after I told him I love him with all my heart.

SQOTD

Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:54:00 +0000

As we were driving home this afternoon I noticed that Squink had
sunshine on his face... So, I asked if he wanted to wear my
sunglasses... He said:
"Yes mommy, because something hot is touching my eyeballs".

SQOTD

Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:31:00 +0000

"Oh, my eyes are crooked.". ~ I have no idea what this means.

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:17:00 +0000

"My hands asked me to spill".
~ after spilling some soda pop on his shirt

Euclid's Window

Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:39:00 +0000

Euclid's Window : The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace by Leonard Mlodinow

My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I loved this book, I loved it so very much!
I loved that it was a history of geometry and how it affected our world from ancient times to M-theory... and I was finally able to understand the theory of relativity as fully as my feeble brain can manage, for the very first time.

View all my reviews >>

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:52:00 +0000

"Mommy, I have a brain freeze on my lips".

To compliment the book I am reading on Euclidian Geometry

Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:03:00 +0000

It was published in 1961, and is something I am really looking forward
to reading!

How much do you think might be considered "wrong" by todays standards?

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Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:58:00 +0000

"Mom, I have to think at home. I mean really, really, really, really
think".

So, do I have any regrets?

Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:25:00 +0000

Recently I proposed a notion on facebook that I could be asked any question... my exact wording was:

One question, one chance, one honest answer. You can ask me one question (TO MY INBOX ONLY!). Any question, anything, no matter how crazy, dirty or wrong it is. No catch. I dare you to post this on your status and see what people ask you...

I received a very fabulous and thought provoking question in my inbox from a friend.

What is your biggest regret?

Below is my reply:

OK, to be very honest I had a quick answer, the kind that is slightly reactionary, but that answer was, in its essence, a quick and situation specific yes.

But, after that momentary reaction, I thought that regrets come in many packages and that it is probably related the stages to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, and possibly in my case the revised one that includes transcendence. So, as I strived to answer this question I looked at that as a way to put out how I don’t think I really have any true regrets, but may wish that I knew the possibility of certain things with different outcomes (wistfulness), and, all this while not really minding that they didn’t (perhaps, even, preferring that they didn’t ) come to a different conclusion.

At the base of the triangle of needs is Physiological, which I understand to be those basic needs all humans (all animals perhaps) have. Here, there are no regrets unless it is in a manner of perspective that I often forget to be extremely grateful that I have these needs met and am lucky enough to claim that this is the case for my entire life.

The next step up is Safety. Again, if I have regrets here it is in my failure to be grateful for the abundance I have in a world where this is not the case. When you see starving children in the streets of any country, be it third world or first world, you can understand how fortunate one is who is lucky enough to have this meet.

The place where I may claim to have any regrets, which is not based in a failure of being sufficiently grateful, starts at the level of Belonging. I regret being unkind to people, I regret not kissing some boys in my youth who I thought were too intimidated to kiss me, I regret not being more gracious to the underdogs, I regret things that are simple like this… but I think that these things are a part of human nature… and thus not something that I can consider to be truly regrettable (though perhaps it makes me wistful).

When we move to Esteem, the considerations of regrets moves on to more personal things; like taking cruel and ridiculous things people have said to me too much to heart… again though, this is something that forms my personality in terms of wanting to be kinder and gentler with my fellow humans.

When we move on to the next level of needs, Self-Actualization, I have no regrets. Though I will say that my acknowledgment of my very own tendency to judge others has been a tough pill to swallow. At the same token, this is a quality I often notice immediately and I can, therefore, curb that tendency and that is something I don't think is regretable.

Maslow, later, added Transcendence to his hierarchy of needs. I include this in my reply in part because of the nature of my relationship to the person who asked me this question as well as my own personal preference. I find that if I do have regrets here is that I most often choose to live in rational thought. But, if one sees transcendence as the act of being (our animating force if you will indulge this term) rather than merely that which can be called the divine... then I have none... I am in a process, things I may have something akin to regret is not essentially over, until I, my physical body, passes on (as to the possibility of a where is a whole different discussion I will not enter into here). I was tempted to go into some major philosophical thoughts here, but that was starting to deviate from what I saw as an answer to the original question.

But after examining my self in terms of having any regrets, I can say not really... but I will say that there are things I am wistful about... but the future holds so much for me that who knows if they may be actualized or if I find (as I have in many cases) that living with the wistful moment is part of the beauty life has to offer.

SQOTD

Bmschweiger@gmail.com (Blair) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:14:00 +0000

"We are going to crash into the dark". As we head into the
underground parking garage.