Them Bones

Celest is hiding in the closet listening to Alice in Chains' "Them Bones". She keeps saying, "Aaahh. [pause] Aaahh." That's her imitation of Layne Staley's intro to the song. Funny stuff. : )

Holiday Giveaway Number 2!

Congrats again to Pilar Pitty for winning last week's giveaway!




For this week's giveaway, I am offering a Swarovski Crystal Elements pendant. It is a 18KGP cherry pendant. There are two red crystal element beads and two white crystal element beads for leaves. I think it is a very cute pendant. The retail value is approximately $30.



There are two ways to enter:





Become a follower to my blog (this blog and/or http://www.randomtangentlm.blogspot.com/)



Add me to your favorite sellers/stores on eBay (http://stores.ebay.com/Autism-Twins-Mom )



With that said, you can actually have a total of three entries per week if you become a follower to both of my blogs and add me to your favorites on eBay you will have one entry per action. Once you follow my blog and/or add me to your favorites on eBay send me a message to laura (at) lbmeditorial (dot) com or leave me a comment to this post letting me know your username/Blogger profile and that you'd like to be entered to win.



If you win one week, you will be ineligible the following week, but the next week you will be eligible again.

And the Winner is...

This week's winner is Pilar Pitty! I will be posting the new giveaway item shortly.

Ah, the Joys of Puberty! Revisited...

Celest has recently discovered that she can see her "booty" in the bathroom mirror if she turns her back to the mirror, juts her hip out, and turns her head around to see it. And she certainly enjoys seeing it. I'll check on her if she seems to be taking too long in the bathroom and usually she has stripped down to her birthday suit, struck a pose, and is admiring her booty. (It'd be me that told her it is a booty. Maybe not such a great choice, in retrospect. At least I didn't tell her it was a badonkadonk.)

It is too funny to catch her admiring herself in the mirror. I guess I am happy that she seems to have the self esteem that I never had.

Lotus doesn't seem overly concerned with her booty, but she has decided she's not going to be pushed around any more. She picks fights with Celest over the video game and TV remote, toys, art supplies, and anything else she can think of. Usually it is Celest starting the fight, but Lotus gives as good as she gets (and then some!). At some point I think she snapped and I picture her going to the window, poking her head out, and yelling, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore! You hear me, Celest?!"

Giveaways From Now Until Christmas

I am going to be having a drawing every week from now until Christmas. Each Friday a drawing will be held and the winner will receive that week's prize package.

There are two ways to enter:

Become a follower to my blog (this blog and/or http://www.randomtangentlm.blogspot.com/)

Add me to your favorite sellers/stores on eBay (http://stores.ebay.com/Autism-Twins-Mom )

With that said, you can actually have a total of three entries per week if you become a follower to both of my blogs and add me to your favorites on eBay you will have one entry per action. Once you follow my blog and/or add me to your favorites on eBay send me a message to laura (at) lbmeditorial (dot) com or leave me a comment to this post letting me know your username/Blogger profile and that you'd like to be entered to win.

If you win one week, you will be ineligible the following week, but the next week you will be eligible again.

This week the giveaway is for a large collection of new Jane cosmetics. Included are the following items:

• 5 Sets of Eye Zing eyeshadow, one of each color: white, blue, purple, peach, and pink
• 1 Curling Mascara
• 1 Color Stick eyeliner, shade number 04- Sitting Pretty
• 1 Barely Lips Sheer Lipstick, shade number 9- Little Pinkie (very popular in Greece this time of year, or so it seems-lol)
• 2 Megabites Flavored Lipsticks, shade numbers 12- Cinnamax and 25 Merry Berry 
• 1 Attitubes Lipgloss, shade number 02- Cheerful 
• 1 High Shine Gloss lipgloss
• 2 Gliding Liner eye pencils, shade numbers 03- Pink Moon and 10- Buttercup
• 1 Eye Brightener
• 1 Lightweight Cream to Powder Foundation Compact w/Mirror, shade number 04- Buff

 The retail value of this giveaway is approximately $80.

 Your information is completely confidential, and I will not share it with anyone.

To be compliant with the FTC, I do not work for Jane cosmetics or any other company affiliated with this or future giveaways. I am merely offering the giveaways as a cross promotion of my blogs and eBay store, and because I wanted to do something fun for the holidays with my blog. : )

  

With a Name Like "Super Meat Boy", I Should've Known...

The girls bought about $75 worth of Xbox 360 game credits before we'd realized that they were actually buying things (this was about a month ago). So we changed the billing card to an soon-to-be-expired credit card to avoid further buying sprees.

However, since Microsoft has a strict no refund policy, we decided not to even try to get a credit. So, we had enough game credits to buy about four $19.99 games. I bought Plants vs. Zombies (which I already had on my phone and computer--however Lotus likes it so I thought she might enjoy having access to it when I have my phone & computer). I also bought Viva Pinata, which is a freaking huge game (over 4G). It refuses to download, so I need to get in touch with Microsoft and see if they can help me figure it out.

Then there was a silly looking game on sale, called Super Meat Boy. It said that it was rated T for teen, but I figured that the naughty stuff wouldn't be anything the girls could pick up. Really, when a block shaped guy flips you the bird with a block shaped hand it is pretty hard to tell he's being profane.

Also, the description states that the game is "devilishly hard". They aren't lying. I made it through Chapter 1: The Forest okay, though it definitely had tough spots. Then in Chapter 2: Hospital I was unable to complete any of the stages. Of course I'm probably below average in the skill department for this sort of game though.

Anyway, now Celest and Lotus both keep turning the game on and having poor Meat Boy die over and over and over again. Or watching the intro then logging out and back in to watch it again.

It is a neat looking game with an intentionally retro side scroller feel. And it is funny/quirky without overdoing it too much. Still, when you can't get past a certain point in a game it is annoying. And watching someone else repeatedly fail at a level on a game is just as much, if not more, annoying.

See More Super Meat Boy Screenshot at IGN.com

Estate Auctions and Wheelchair Escapades

Since I didn't have anyone to watch the girls yesterday, I had to take them with me to pick up some items I'd won from an online estate auction.

The items were in a small shop along side a busy section of West Broad Street. They both got out of the car okay and walked in to the shop nicely as well. When we were waiting for a guy to help us find our items, Lotus spotted a large motorized wheelchair and hopped on it. I tried to get her off of it, but she started to do a 360 degree turn. As I reached for the joystick used to control the movement the foot rest knocked over a stack of DVDs and then it soon bashed into a table leg. Luckily the table leg stopped the chair's movement and I was able to get her hand off of the remote.

Fortunately the two guys working for the auctioneer were very understanding. It probably helps that we didn't destroy anything either. : )

I was embarrassed, but the girls had a good time. They were giggling and laughing most of the way home.

Ooh, Ooh, Ah, Ooh, Ooh, Ah!

Celest came home from school and I heard her singing something under her breath. I got close enough to hear, and this is what she was singing, "We will, we will rock you. Ooh, ooh, ah! Ooh, ooh, ah!"

I thought it was kind of funny. She used to sing "Radio Ga Ga" a lot. That was about five or so years ago, before Lady Gaga took her moniker from the song. Which I've never really understood, since she and her manager likened her vocal prowess to Freddie Mercury's (ha- as if!). "Radio Ga Ga" was performed by Queen, but it was written by Roger Taylor. Out of the entire Queen catalog, I certainly wouldn't choose that song as on that epitomized Freddie's brilliant vocal range.

Oh well. I don't think Lady Bohemian Rhapsody would have gone over very well anyway. : )

Asperger's and World of Warcraft

A teen with Asperger's Syndrome got an NPC named after him in the game World of Warcraft because he found an error in the game and brought it to the developers' attention at BlizzCon.
Here's the story on Yahoo.

Of course if you read the comments there are a bunch of nobodies calling the kid a loser and a nerd. Also, they evidently think getting laid makes you a valuable and important human being; and by assuming this kid hasn't "gotten laid" he is a loser.

Which makes me wonder why having sex is seen as some sort of accomplishment and status symbol. People who don't do it are considered losers or somehow less than those who do it. Honestly, if you think about it, it takes very little skill to have sex. Unless you are trying to conceive there is no purpose for it other than recreation. Yet, playing video games for recreation (which, having done both activities for recreation, I find that playing video games is more engaging and challenging most of the time) makes you a loser. Hmm. Something doesn't add up with those equations for me.

Anyway, I thought it was pretty neat that he was able to overcome his Asperger symptoms of social skill difficulties and verbal difficulties to speak in front of a large group of people and to have the guts to call people out on a mistake. : )