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| 2008-02-19 01:10 |
| too much champagne...or not enough people for it |
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Had a quite nice evening/night with my girlfriend today...drank 3 bottles of champagne, chatting, browsing the net, watching(what watching - STARING) Mika and House MD vids on YouTube......(.kids had already gone to sleep, hubby stayed at MIL's...
) I'm rather tipsy now, so had better go to sleep before I start rambling here....
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| 2008-02-17 23:15 |
| kids' music |
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I'm quite used to the fact now that most other mums I meet find me different or outright weird, but sometimes I still get surprised by how fiercely some of them insist on their practice being the only holy truth that needs to be followed in order to raise normal kids....
Yesterday I happened to talk to another mom from the pre-school my daughter goes to and we chatted for a while. She told me how much her daughter liked the music their pre-school group did their "carnival" dance to, and asked me if I had that particular CD, or any good kiddie-CD. I had to tell her I detested that particular CD (which is otherwise fairly popular among little kids and their parents) and that I only have my old cassettes (from my childhood) and some English-language kids' songs CDs, but most of the time we listen to music that I prefer. She must have taken this as an insult, because she ranted out :" Don't you know that kids need kiddie-music and not your stupid pop/rock faves and foreign stuff? How do you expect your children to appreciate good music if you don't expose them to age-appropriate quality input??? " ...and so on.... I admit I worked myself up a bit on that. The previously mentioned popular kids' CD she adored is just CRAP! Awful canned music with just as awful songs sung by an absolutely tasteless animated baby girl.... I thought, does she honestly think THAT is quality music?! And what the heck do we consider age-appropriate??? Is there such thing as age-appropriate music? I'd say there isn't....
I was stupid enough to not only think but utter these thoughts. I guess the -by then quite fierce- lady would've literally jumped down on my throat, had I not mentioned that we do listen to classical music with the kids. That cooled her down a bit, only to make her feel it necessary to inform me about the superiority of classical music over modern bullsh*t (as she called it). Luckily, we had to put an end to the convo at that point for lack of time. One thing I still can't get is why The Four Seasons or any symphony/opera/etc is more kids' music than this one for example...
Good we didn't have more time to talk, and good I didn't tell her about my newest favourite, Aaron Razel (who sings mostly in Hebrew)because I bet she would've tried to scare me that listening to such a foreign language would interfere with my poor little kids' proper language acquisition....
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| 2008-02-07 23:35 |
| Belief-O-Matic results |
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Okay, so here are the results of a thingy that tells what religion my beliefs are closest to:
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| 2008-02-01 00:44 |
| Johari window |
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Pick, sign, view, then have fun with your own!
Fill mine here
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| 2008-01-21 01:50 |
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| Lecha Dodi by Aaron Razel |
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Get better Efrayim! Hope to see u
Hugs,
Bozót
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| 2008-01-20 01:26 |
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From anonymus
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| 2008-01-20 00:28 |
| a run |
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I was left home alone today which simply called for a great and possibly longish run: no complaining hubby or kids around, not too bad weather, free time YAY!
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| 2008-01-10 23:02 |
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On Wednesday evenings (and also on Fridays) I go to a crap computer course. Yesterday my dad came to babysit, and since he could come in the morning I decided to go and sort out some things for which I needed to go in to the city(Budapest in my case). I could not get everything I wanted, but had a funny incident: I was wandering in front of one of the greatest (or THE greatest?) synagogues in town, when the security guard thought I was with the group awaiting there - a huge group of mixed nationality, but English-speaking tourists- and he showed me the way in. I was stupid enough to tell him I wasn't with the group. I realized immediately afterwards, that I might have gotten in free! Oh, how stupid of me!
I was also mistaken for a tourist in two shops I entered! As the shop assistants greeted me in heavily accented English, I felt a bit naughty and answered in English, too. It was fun!
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| 2008-01-06 23:22 |
| caucus |
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I'm just amused by this system...And I like this guy :)
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Went skating today! It was fun, although I'm not too good at skating. It was the second time my daughter has had skates on and she managed to move around a little on her own, too. However, she liked it more, when I pushed her younger brother in the stroller and she could cling on the handle and enjoy the ride, without needing to bother about balancing.
A few weeks ago, I got involved in a dictionary-writing project. Which means, now I'm supposed to write entries to an English-Hungarian dictionary. In fact, at the very moment I'm supposed to be doing that..... but for some reason I got stuck....hours ago.... Too bad, no work, no pay BUT, I've found some fun stuff, like this software!
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In fact, I never really checked how other national TV channels do their new year's eve programme, but we always have a countdown sort of thing at midnight when the national anthem is sung (broadcast from a theatre or the studio or else).
Right after midnight there used to come a speech by Árpád Göncz, president of the republic. I greatly admire that man for all he has done, he is the wisest politician I've ever seen, very smart, determined, but at the same time kind and understanding. He is also a writer and translator. I used to listen to his speeches very often, as I liked the way he spoke to the people of the country he loved and cared for, even though this country was not always kind to him.
Unfortunately, time flies and he was followed first by Ferenc Mádl, and now we have László Sólyom as the head of state. He also gives a speech on the first day of the new year, but I've never listened to him for more than a minute. I don't often say I hate a person, but I just cannot feel even neutral about him.
Dear Uncle Göncz (as many of your fans call you) I miss you!
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| 2008-01-02 00:29 |
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| new year |
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I wish everyone a very happy new year!
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It seems Christmas is over again. It was ok, quite nice time spent with fam, kids, friends,dogs,but still nothing THAT special. We had the obligatory tree, huge dinner, gift-giving, also traditional stuff like the strudel-like beigli with poppy seed or nuts. Enjoyed watching our kids open the presents and immediately change the living-room into a madhouse, visited parents and ate a tiny hole in their enormous food supply.
However, we did not go to church and didn't even mention baby Jesus....
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| 2007-12-26 17:30 |
| oh, those trains... |
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I just adore MÁV (Hungarian Railways)!
One evening recently I was coming home from school, which is just about 15 km away( 4 stops, about 10 min). And where's the problem- you may ask now. Here: because of the new, revised schedule I had to change trains twice! Jumped on a train at 8pm., got off at the first stop(the train does not go any further), had to wait until 8:30 for the other train that took me another stop(that again, did not go further), waiting , another train came at 8:52 two more stops. So I managed to do 15 km in one hour(could've run the distance in 1:20 baah)
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