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By Katie Kish, January 26, 2007 5:03 am

I had a nap at 8 pm and rolled out of bed at around 11:30, that was probably a bad call because now it’s 4:30 am and I’m still not a bit tired. I have written a 3000 word essay on women and Islam for a class that I had last semester. :S oh dear.  Long story. And I called my friend from camp who I used to be completely and utterly attached too. Her and I lived together for 2 or 3 summers in a row and did everything together. Then we drifted apart a bit – but it turns out she works midnights at some random hotel in London so I called her and we chatted. I miss her. Other than that, I’ve decided pm napping is a pretty bad idea! So here’s the random 10 for this week… followed by a lot of links.

1. Eisley – Beautiful
2. Tanacious D – Keilbasa
3. Bouncing Souls – Kids and Heroes
4. Spearhead – Stay Human
5. The Roots – Rolling With Heat
6. Dirty Pretty Things – Deadwood
7. Pink Floyd – Speak to Me
8. Oscar Peterson – Blues for JR
9. Gin Blossoms – Till I Hear It From You
10. Yeah yeah yeahs – While My Guitar Genty Weeps (yeeea!)

I love ellen. I watched her all last summer, every single day. I would wake up JUST to watch Ellen. I never worked until usully 2 pm… but I would wake up at 10 to watch Ellen. And this clip at Pandagon had me roaring, I was worried I was going to wake up Dan, but man… it is SO funny. I LOVE ellen. Lesbians are the best. And on a more serious note I like the post that preceeded that video – I realize that most people probably read pandagon, so my linking without any personal analysis is pretty pointless… but this is my not caring face — … Here is my personal analysis – listen to the album "Impeach My Bush" by Peaches.

So last week there was the big "blog for choice day" that I didnt blog for until the following day and it wasn’t really a big post on it. Anyway, Jessica points out that they’ve been "outted".. by this site. Honestly, I wish I would have posted on pro-choice day just so that I’d have had a better shot of being listed on the baby killers list. …

Honestly, this whole … using graphic pictures, and telling us that we’re killing babies is seriously getting old. We’re not killing babies. It’s not a baby, its a bunch of cells. Abortions save lives. How about instead you attack the government that actually is killing hundereds of innocent people every day because of the wars they’re starting. Or how about concentrating some energy on aids, or combating epidemics in the world instead of wasting your time preaching your slanderous nonsense to people who have scientific evidence that they’re doing nothing but preventing the growth of cells to better accomodate for a life already in progress.

Gordo’s Thursday links are my absolute favorite post that shows up on his blog every week. Seriously. My favorite. Followed by his video post… because it wastes my time and I like my time being wasted. Anyway… this week he linked to the most adorable videos I have seen in a long time. It makes me miss my invisible friend so much. Lily was the best friend a girl could have had. I wish I had been a little more creative and given her more of a personality and look, but we still had a lot of fun together.

Anthony sent me a post of his on religion  that is WELL worth the time to read. He had me hooked on the first sentence.

For someone who doesn’t believe in God, I think about God a lot.

I just love atheists who are willing to talk about god, and religion without being arrogant and jerkish and intolerante. And in the comments Brent reminds me of why I loved reading his posts so much (so I need to start doing that again, I will blog roll him. he was on there, but when the new one got put up i forgot to make him a button.)

That is NOT a bad thing. Our material universe is unfathomably huge and
indescribably fascinating all on it’s own – without adding magical
fantasy-land fairy tales to it.

And speaking of Brent he has up a video much like Rick Mercer‘s Talking to Americans (heart!) it’s not QUITE as funny, but it’s still pretty darn funny. My favorite part is "how many sides does a triangle have…?" "There’s no sides,… one?" Its like that quote from I <3 Huckabees "Have you ever transcended space and time?" "Yes. No. Uh, time, not space… No, I don’t know what you’re talking about."

Also from Gordo, but at Liberal Avanger (just to toss up the links a little bit, he posted it at Appletree too) he did what looks like a good post on Cheney, I didn’t actually read it, I just looked at the pictures. And ps – the bedrocktruth fellar in the comments is a douche and a half.

SO MANY LINKS!

At republic numero uno Adorable Girlfriend has a post up about parenting that is absolutely silly. I’m going to have to go ahead and agree wtih AG that people who make kissing seem like a horrible thing to do … are idiots. And telling boys that girls have cooties? Come on now. Why not teach them about sex? And about gender differences? About what they should and shouldn’t ignore? …But just meanly telling them "no!" … That doesn’t explain anything.

And at the next republic there is a fantastically written post about Africa and homophobia. The best is the "the devil made him do it" part. You know, I always figured my gay friends had been taken over by the devil.

And finally, because I can, I am going to steal this mini meme from Kathy.

This Moment: roaring
Your Shoes: Cons!!
Craving: oranges
The State of Your Home: shit-hole (is that one or two?) … dirty
Annoyed By: chewing
Noise In the Background: soundtrack (for requiem for a dream)
Really Want To: travel
Thinking About: *blushes*
Smelling: moisturizer
Favorite Product In Office Supply Aisle: staplers
Don’t Ever Want To: drown
Your Eye Color: blue
The Weather: …overcast
Have Never Tried: decluttering
Think Everyone Should Try: singing
Last Vacation Destination: Ontario!
The Last Thing You Had to Drink: Water
Your Bad Habit: stumbling
What You’re Going To Do Now: blog

That was suprisingly hard for me to do. I’m one of those people that writes like… a paragraph for questions like that because I think one word answers are so boring.

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By Katie Kish, January 2, 2007 2:51 pm

I miss watching Felix… and the one with the two ravens, but I don’t remember the name. Grist has a cute cartoon up, that was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize. …It made me want to watch more cartoons.

I used to watch the Care Bears every morning. …And my brother and I would watch Captian Planet together, that’s my favorite one now. …And does anyone else remember Animorphs?… not likely. It was pretty obscure.

Sorry, just… you know, missing my childhood when nothing else mattered. …I picked up extra hours at work, which is nice… about 6 more hours a week. I went to buy my books for my classes… walked into the book store, looked around and walked out. I’m really not ready for another semester. I also when to talk to someone about getting my hair fixed, just the color because it’s in a pretty sad looking state, but it’ll cost at least $120 to get my hair back to normal. *sigh* … I’d let it just grow out, but …I’m not willing to wait 2 years just to have a normal hair color that I can stop thinking about.

My friend kate got me a "George W. Bushisms" calendar, one of those ones where you rip of a day every day, and todays says "We need an energy bill that encourages consumption" said in Trenton, New Jersey Sept 23, 2002. *sigh* I have an enviro post 1/2 written… well, its fully written, but its on paper… I need to get around to typing it up. (I wrote it on the bus.) I’ll do it later.

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By Katie Kish, November 22, 2006 10:11 pm

I’m pretty much the master at entertaining children for $3 or less, mostly because for the past 6 years every single one of my jobs has been geared towards camps and daycamps for underprivileged kids, aka – mostly nonprofit so we had no money to work with. Most of these ideas are for kids under the age of 9 and generally speaking… ones that have yet to have their brains warped by television.

The following is super duper cheap stuff to do to entertain kids… some are for just one kids, others you can do with like 40 kids. …However the easiest thing with a group of 20+ kids is to play capture the flag or soccer. If you’re inside two words: dance party.

• Scrap booking: This might sound a little boring at first, but I assure you… the whole "cut-and-paste" thing works wonders with kids. Grab some old magazines and tell them to try and make a dinosaur out of pictures of other things.
• Grocery shopping: Not real grocery shopping, but save all your old boxes and jars. Set them up all over the house or where ever and let them go "grocery shopping". You can do the same with clothes and toys. Try to play out different scenarios with them
• Doctor: give them toilet paper and anything is turned into a horrible broken bone that wont heal for years.
• toilet paper men: Save all your old toilet paper rolls, and when bored time comes around… break em out with a few markers and scrap paper and make toilet paper people. …I still do this.
• Giant boxes!: NEVER under estimate the fun that a cardboard box holds. …Especially when turned into a car.
• Gardens: grab a plastic bowl or a plate or something and fill it up with dirt. Send the kid out to the yard to find sticks, leaves, things to plant etc… Plant a few soy beans in there just so the kid doesn’t get dissapointed when their walnut doesn’t spring into a tree.
• Playdough: 2 cups of flour, one cup of salt, one cup of water and one table spoon of oil… add food coloring to make it colorful
• google up some magic tricks.
• "never can tell" games:there are so many of these and I dont even remember 1/2 of them. But they’re really easy to make up. ..Basically you do something that has a ‘trick’ to it, and they have to figure out the ‘trick’ if they want to be in your ‘club’.
  • The best one, I think, is called "Crossed or Uncrossed". This requires 2 sticks, you hold the sticks in the air crossing them or not and announce that they are "crossed" or "uncrossed" but not based on how the sticks are, but if your legs are crossed or uncrossed.
  • Another good one is "bang bang" you point a gun and say "bang bang bang" (say bang as many times as you want) "who did I shoot?" the kids will start throwing out answers, but the real person who you shot was the first person who spoke.
  • One more is "going on a picnic" you say "my name is Katie and I’m going on a picnic, I’m bringing an elephant" …the trick in this case is that you have to bring something that begins with the last letter of your name. The easiest one here is to do a thing that begins with the first letter of your name
• forts: its a wonder what 8 blankets and all the pillows in the house can make.
• obstcal courses: throw a bunch of shit all over a room and say "ready-set-go" with some reward if they can beat their time the second time they go.
• chuck the sock: put a sock into another sock. make two teams. one team throws the sock then huddles together while one team member runs around the group of people. The other teams bolts it as fast as they can toward the sock. They get it they scream "chuck the sock" and throw the sock. They then huddle together and a team member runs around them. The team keeps track of how many times the runner got around the group. The group with the most laps wins (but lets me honest, just make it a tie.)
• sing songs: i could list here a million and a half camp songs, but you wouldn’t know the tunes. But kids love songs. Some day when I’m feeling ambitious I’ll create a nice big collection of recorded camp songs.
• Education: start showing them really cool things. Kids are interested in biology and science. There are so many at home science experiments you can do that kids just love.
• Scavenger hunts: make a list of pretty random things that you know they can find inside or outside, give them the list and tell them to go nuts (or read them things off the list)
• Parks: almost any kid can be entertained for a long while in a park.
• side walk chalk!: it was my favorite thing in the world to play with when I was a kid
• Puppets: you can make them out of socks, paper backs, peices of paper on a stick, boxes…whatever. Then you can make puppet shows.
• musical instruments: a kleenex box + elastic bands = guitar. Anything + 2 sticks = drums. toilet paper rolls + rolled up peice of paper making an increasingly smaller hole = horn. toilet paper roll + rocks + a peice of baking sheet over each end with elastics = shaker. annoying, but fun.
• dress up: let them raid your closet. (if you just got uptight about that… you need to loosen up! )
• Boats: where i live, Victoria BC, there are a lot of boats that facinate kids. Don’t over look the ‘touristy’ things in your neighbourhood. The smallest things entertain their minds.
• Rock collecting: …rocks are COOL!
• Mystery time: set up a mystery… like, put something covered on the counter, but then have it ‘stolen’ and go on a hunt for it (hide it in the closet or bury it outside…) by leaving clues all over the place by the theif. Then make the theif your significant other, sibling or neighbour…the kids reaction to this is priceless.
• Papier Mache: the easiest things to do with papier mache are volcanoes over top of the bottom of pop bottles, or masks. …To do the mask, just put papier mache (newspapers soaked in a mixture of glue and water… yes, its messy.) all over a balloon. Leave the balloon to dry (over night usually) and then pop it. Then you can decorate the mask and even cut holes into it for eyes and stuff. This is super cool becuase the texture and weight isn’t something they’ll be used to having created.
• "our day" creation: go out on a good long walk collecting leaves, grass, stick etc. and then go home and make something out of it. It will be a sculpture to remember your day together.
• Mobiles: get a clothes hanger and some string. Tie about 10 strings all over the clothes hanger (more fun if you distort the shape) and encourage the kid to put pictures of what they like, or poeple they like or whatever on the end of the strings, then hang it up and its a thing all about them. sweet.
• Moster Dice: Asign each number of the dice to a body part. Throw them up, and then draw whatever number they land on. You could end up with 5 arms and 8 heads.
• Memory games: Show them a table full of things and then take a thing or two away when they’re not looking. See if they can recall what has been removed. Or… memorize something useful… like states or capitals or countries. Too many kids don’t know their geography!