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The Perils of Growing Up Weird

Over the last seven years I’ve been doing my own unscientific research into the nature vs. nurture debate…with the little man as my test subject. Preliminary results indicate that nurture is coming into play in our household. The lad has been adopting many of his step-father’s ways. First it was the burgeoning preference for hermitude, and for video games. Now he is moving on to attire. Or lack thereof. It is known that the husband sleeps in his boxer shorts. All year round. No jammies for that man, even when it’s freezing cold in this drafty old house. Now that it is warming up, however, it seems the little man wants to give this a whirl too. A couple of nights in a row now he has gone to bed in nothing but his underpants (though I repeatedly offered him Superman pajamas). Yesterday morning, when I belatedly got out of bed, I found him hopping around the hallway, still just wearing his underpants, but with one addition. A lightsaber, tucked into the waistband. Oh my. I guess a jedi must be ready for any one of the seven forms of lightsaber combat at any time of the day or night.

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Bonus: Dang, I missed it when it was in France, and now the spaceship has landed in London. It seems pretty unlikely that Royal de Luxe would ever put on such epic street theater on this side of the pond.
Plus: Speaking of England…my favorite berks, in Northamptom, have just launched DeathGob - Clothing for the Confused. Check ‘em out.
And: Milk and Cake made me want it and now I just have to get my hands on a copy of Souther Salazar’s Destined for Dizziness! It’s happy orange goodness!

7 Comments

  1. Carol wrote:

    Hi Sharyn,

    Lol, I tracked you down doing a google search for Zyrtec and depression.

    I recently changed allergy meds to Zyrtec (but I changed a couple other things too - some herbal stuff I use for migraines) and in the past couple weeks I’ve begun to feel depressed and lethargic.

    I saw you had the same experience (back in 2004…!) did you end up going off the Zyrtec? It’s working so well I hate to do it if this side effect will go away, but right now it is sucking!

    Would you mind emailing me?

    Carol_Cady@hotmail.com

    Thanks so much!

    Friday, May 5, 2006 at 7:50 am | Permalink
  2. Just wrote you, but yeah, the gist of it…Zyrtec baaaad.

    Friday, May 5, 2006 at 8:31 am | Permalink
  3. A-Wix wrote:

    To show you how slow it is at work today, I just read through the entire history of the seven forms of lightsaber combat. Who thinks up these things?

    Friday, May 5, 2006 at 9:03 am | Permalink
  4. Heehee. Someone with even more time on their hands than you, apparently.

    Friday, May 5, 2006 at 10:22 am | Permalink
  5. Iseult wrote:

    Hah! I can just see your little man running up and down the stairs in his underpants. My brothers both loved their superman pjs though - and wore them waaaay past when they fit comfortably. Good thing for me . . . I would have been a traumatized teenager with two younger brothers running around nearly naked, though my hippie dad may not have minded. There was a fair amount of 1970’s naked swimming in the hot, hot Wisconsin summer (all three weeks of it).

    Friday, May 5, 2006 at 9:09 pm | Permalink
  6. Megan wrote:

    Dude, is that couch in your house? Is that your house? That’s AWESOME!

    Monday, May 8, 2006 at 10:19 am | Permalink
  7. Oh man, I only wish that was in my house. That’s at Intelligent Nutrients, in NE Minneapolis. But I do have that color scheme in my house (lots of blue/turquoise and red, just like this site).

    Monday, May 8, 2006 at 10:32 am | Permalink

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