Tuesday 6 March 2007

After a bit of a bad week last week, I realized that it had been a very long time since I had just been by myself, doing whatever I wanted to. So on Friday night after work I took off to the Eaton Center to just wander around. Wow did I need that. I came back home totally revitalized. I keep forgetting I need me time every once in a while.

While I was out wandering, I did make one purchase. Long ago, when we first started talking about having a kid, I promised Joe that when I got pregnant, I would get him the Ray Harryhausen Sinbad Collection of DVD's. He saw them when he was really young and he really wanted to share them with any kid he had. (get them young with the stop motion animation we say!) As one of my friends at work says, with the two of us as its parents, this poor child probably won't be aware of any current entertainment for years! (except for Dr.Who of course)
I'd actually love it if my kid was like Mel's two year old that loves Miyazaki movies and Warner Bros. superhero cartoons. I would do the entire Warner's cartoon canon personally, I love me some Animaniacs.

5 comments:

Craftygrrrl said...

That bit of Me Time becomes even more important when baby gets here.

As for Abi...we simply threw over the Baby Einstein DVD for such educational classics like the Firefly Boxset and the like in her formative months. That and Chris takes his parenting cues from the father in Calvin and Hobbs!?

Jen said...

I just got a splash o' nerd on my keyboard from that post. see you tonight.

Maria said...

And I have all the Looney Tunes DVDs, I loooooove them. And they're all like older than my parents or so.

Kelly said...

hi joyce, i just heard the news! congratulations -- this baby is going to be one lucky kid with you as it's mom. way to go!

Anonymous said...

hi joyce - i saw megan at penelope's bday party and she told me the news about you and mel. when i stopped by mel's blog to say congrats, there you were in her comments! so here i am stopping by your blog to say congratulations on such exciting news! i'm so happy for you and joe. miss you! megan h.