Important Things

It's lunchtime, and I'm up to my usual: pumping for my kiddo, eating, and checking various e-mail accounts. I thought adding writing thoughts down on virtual paper might be a worthwhile one-handed activity.

My better half likes this use of time much better than my other preference--wandering through Amazon's Best Deals. My postal carrier will probably agree, as she once commented on the number of packages we receive. (Isn't that job security?) And, since "the new budget" doesn't agree that I _must_ have the green rubber rain boots that I didn't even know existed yesterday, I'll move on to what I started to post about.

I watch nearly all my television by way of Netflix streaming because I am too cheap to pay for cable. (Kelly green Kamick's yes, ESPN, nope!) We stumbled over Demetri Martin's television show, Important Things, a few weeks ago. One of the portions (sketches?) is called "Some Data." I'm a curriculum person working in K-12 public schools, and anyone making data into a joke has my full attention. I definitely can't use the full sketch with teachers or administrators in my districts. But, I get a nice personal chuckle each time I think about his bar graph of "Interest" and "Your Child," with bars labeled "You" and "Me."

So, within that spirit, I share the following story.

My husband taught our little Weeble how to say "thank you" whenever people hand her items. She has since generalized this statement to mean that whenever a toy, book, snack, or nifty electronic device is in someone else's hand that saying "thank you" is the correct way of forcibly transferring control.

Until last weekend... when she squeaked "Yoink" as she grabbed her daddy's cell phone and wobbled across the living room. 

She's spending a lot of time with Daddy.




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