Hello, Fluffsters!

I bought a new Shiny a couple days ago. It’s a pretty little ring. It’s also my first pretty little ring that I intend to wear on a regular basis. I’m not posting pictures of it, because I’m a bit too lazy to do so. But it’s a silver ring, and it’s got a red stone in the middle. It’s really fun having something on my right hand. Basically, it provides instant “twiddle” ability.

It’s really fun. Any time I’m feeling fidgety, I can just twist the ring around, or pull it half off my finger, put it on, switch fingers, twist it some more, and just generically be fidgety without actually being destructive to something. Or way too active.

It’s really fun having something I can play with.

Happy Monday!

Hello, Fluffsters!

I’m a bit weirded out… Yesterday, I saw information about a remarkable new “thing” in San Francisco… apparently, some kids wanted to go cow tipping, but they were in the city. So they went car tipping instead. Seriously.

As I said, I’m just a bit weirded out…

Thoughts?

Hello, Fluffsters! Happy Thursday!

So I was just spending a bit too much time looking at animated gifs of dogs and other cute things, and a couple of the pictures included dogs who couldn’t get up slides. This reminded me of some days when I did nursery work.

There was a small little slide there. You know. About the right size for 3-4 year olds to play on safely.

And there was this one little boy. He was an absolute sweetheart. He was about three when this incident happened, maybe three-and-a-half.

However old he was, like every other kid his age, he had a desire to climb up the slide. It was small enough that I let him try- he was clearly safe.

Well, at one point he must have heard that if you get more speed, you can go higher up the slide.

So after a few tries of only making it up a few inches, he decided to back up and run.

The problem is that there was a step about two feet away from the slide. So when he went back to the base of the step, he got a little bit more height on the slide. Note enough to get up, but enough to see that his idea kinda worked.

He then decided to go back even further. He started just a bit beyond the top of the step. (It’s a long step. More like a porch, leading into the Church building. So, there’s also only one step. It’s not like he was running down a staircase or anything.) But yeah. So he started on top of the step, stepped off, and then started to run.

There was no real discernible difference.

So he went back further.

The big issue with the step, though, was that whenever he got to the “step-down” part, he always slowed down, to approximately the same speed. No matter how far back he started, he always made it approximately the same distance up the slide.

It was quite amusing to watch, though, and left him more tired out and therefore less restless for story time! It’s definitely one of my favorite memories of being a Church nursery worker.

How about you, Fluffsters? Do any of you have any fun “working with kids” memories?

Hello, Fluffsters! Happy Saturday!

I had a fun night last night.

We got to shatter flowers! It was fun. We dipped it in cold liquid stuff, and threw them on the ground, and they shattered.

Aren’t those cool?

Oh. Right. Yeah.

That is what it was called!

So, did you do anything fun?

Hello, Fluffsters! Happy Tuesday!

So, tonight I had a bit of fun. The sky where I was was actually a bit clear, so I was able to stargaze for a bit. There’s an unfortunate bit of light pollution where I was, so I still couldn’t see that much, but I could see more than if the nearly constant cloud cover was here…

Anywho.

So one of the fun things about Stargazing for me is that I have fairly bad eyes. Part of my badness of eyeness comes from something called an “Astigmatism.” (I’m so glad Google exists- I wouldn’t have known how to spell it otherwise. I mean, I started with an e. “Estigmatism, anyone?”)

What that means is that I sometimes think things move when they aren’t actually moving.

When you’re dealing with stars, it’s sort of fun. “Ooh, is that bright shiny a star, a planet, a shooting star, or an airplane? Let’s look away for a half second and see… Is it still about in the same place? I guess it’s not a shooting star. It’s a bit red, so it’s either a planet or a plane… Or a UFO. (Although I guess technically since I haven’t exactly identified it yet, and from my perspective it’s flying, it’s a UFO…) Huh. Well, whatever it is, it’s pretty!”

Also, I’m not sure whether it’s the astigmatism, the cloud covering, or the stars themselves, but the bright shinies in the sky also seem to pulse a bit.

It’s really pretty. I don’t recommend getting astigmatism for the sole purpose of stargazing, but if you already have it, I’d try stargazing at some point.

I hope you enjoy your day!

Hello, Fluffsters!

So, I just found the Disney Feel-Good Story of the day. Or Week. Or maybe even the year. It’s about an autistic boy, and his family, and how they come to communicate and relate to each other through Disney movies.

It’s worth a read.

Since it’s from an official source, I’m guessing it’s even pretty true!

I hope you have a good week.

Hello, Fluffsters! It’s Thursday!

Last night I had a cool opportunity. Literally. Alright, so it was more like a frigid opportunity.

Some friends and I got to freeze bubbles outside!!

Unfortunately it was a bit dark out, so the pictures didn’t turn out extremely well. But this one shows a bit of the frost pattern forming:

Frosted Bubble

This one clearly shows itself to be frozen a bit better, by merit of the fact that it’s, well, broken:

IT BROKE!!!

Isn’t that cool? (So to speak?)

Anywho. Happy Thursday! It’s almost the weekend!