Procrastinate on This! Smittens, Jerks, and The Quest for a Sibling
It’s raining in Southern California — a-frickin-gain. I’m so sick of this Seattle weather, I could spit. But hopefully these bits of procrastination help get you through the rest of your work day:
1. I plan to do this over the weekend and blog about it. Basically it’s a program that allows you to turn your handwriting into a TypeFont. Cool, right? [Wired]
Smittens
2. This announcement about comic books coming to iTunes is also pretty dang cool, if you like me, are a comic book AND an iTunes fan. [AppleInsider]
3. Guys I don’t care how in love you are, don’t walk out of the house in smittens. I mean it. [Jezebel]
4. Apparently, the recession is turning a bunch of people into real jerks — or is it allowing them to fully manifest the jerks they already were? We may never know… [Gawker]
5. Now I did not appreciate having a sister for most of my childhood, but this only child’s quest for a sibling is one of the funniest commercials I’ve ever seen. [YouTube]
Font = awesome. I was SUCH a font geek back when fonts were precious and hard to come by.
The commercial is adorable, but to an infertile it's also pretty sad to think of a child who desperately wants a sibling because some parents aren't able to provide one. Which happens to have been exactly my own situation as a kid.
Two of my only child friends were in the same situation and have said much the same thing. They both expressed regret as adults about begging their parents for siblings now that they knew their parents weren't able to have any more.
That won't be an issue with Betty, b/c we'll definitely adopt if the next IVF rounds don't go as well, but if adoption wasn't an option for us, I'd probably just tell her the truth. If she's old enough to beg for a sibling, she's old enough to hear the truth.
When I was a kid I really wanted a brother, b/c in my opin (back then), just having a sister sucked. But the first time I asked for one my mom was like, "No, I got my tubes tied after Elizabeth." Then she explained exactly what that entailed. I completely understood, and the subject never came up again. Kids move on pretty quick, I think.
My parents would tell me that they wanted to have more kids but couldn't, but it didn't stop my asking (to be fair, I was 3). By 4 I stopped asking, not because I'd become sensitive but because I'd realized the benefits of onlyhood.
Font = awesome. I was SUCH a font geek back when fonts were precious and hard to come by.
The commercial is adorable, but to an infertile it's also pretty sad to think of a child who desperately wants a sibling because some parents aren't able to provide one. Which happens to have been exactly my own situation as a kid.
Two of my only child friends were in the same situation and have said much the same thing. They both expressed regret as adults about begging their parents for siblings now that they knew their parents weren't able to have any more.
That won't be an issue with Betty, b/c we'll definitely adopt if the next IVF rounds don't go as well, but if adoption wasn't an option for us, I'd probably just tell her the truth. If she's old enough to beg for a sibling, she's old enough to hear the truth.
When I was a kid I really wanted a brother, b/c in my opin (back then), just having a sister sucked. But the first time I asked for one my mom was like, "No, I got my tubes tied after Elizabeth." Then she explained exactly what that entailed. I completely understood, and the subject never came up again. Kids move on pretty quick, I think.
My parents would tell me that they wanted to have more kids but couldn't, but it didn't stop my asking (to be fair, I was 3). By 4 I stopped asking, not because I'd become sensitive but because I'd realized the benefits of onlyhood.