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[the_rck]

I need to corner Cordelia to make plans for her birthday. At the very least, I need to know who to invite (and I need to get Scott to pick up invitations). She keeps disappearing into her room and not coming out. Her birthday is a week from Sunday, and we probably ought to send out invitations this weekend at the latest if she's going to have a party. The problem is that the weekend of her birthday isn't great-- There's almost certainly a Girl Scout meeting between 1:00 and 3:00, and Saturday is out because her best friend has religious school and wouldn't be able to come. Maybe Saturday evening? Either after dinner or we serve them cheese pizza. But Scott might be working all day that day. It's one thing to have the party while he's at work; we've done that before. It's quite another to have it while he's trying to get showered and all that. I hate to go with Sunday evening given that the next day is a school day.

I also need to spend a little time with Cordelia's Amazon wishlist and order a few things for her. Normally, by this time, Scott has bought some stuff, but things have been so difficult that I don't think he's had time even to think about it. I rather suspect that this is going to be another year when he doesn't have a present for me on my birthday because he hasn't had time to shop. I'm about 90% sure he and Cordelia haven't even thought about Mother's Day.

The metanews posts are finally up. I broke out all the Age of Ultron meta into a separate post, and that shortened the full post enough that I didn't have to split it on LJ. If there's as much Age of Ultron stuff next week as there was this week, we'll probably break that out, too. It helps people avoid spoilers.

Speaking of spoilers, I'm using the 'warning:spoilers" tag an awful lot on the metanews posts. I kind of think I'm using it excessively and that people ought to assume that any post talking about the latest episode of a show has spoilers for that episode. Heck, most posts about any specific canon contain spoilers. I just don't warn for, say, Harry Potter spoilers at this point. Right now, I'm taking the spoilers warning onto links for the most recent episode of a show (when I can determine what that is. I can't always because I don't follow 98% of the canons we link. Good thing I don't mind spoilers myself) but not for anything older than that. I just felt kind of silly warning for spoilers on Age of Ultron links-- Of course, those have spoilers. Is anybody actually assuming that they don't? Even the bits we excerpted from various articles were likely to be kind of spoilery.

I did, for the first time, have reason to use a 'warning:nsfw' tag. One of the blog entries I linked was talking about the history of sexually explicit comics and was heavily illustrated. I probably should also have put it on the article about how it's still taboo to show a penis on screen and why the author thinks that's so, but that's all text and so less problematic.

Scott's expecting to have to work twelve hours tomorrow, 3:00 to 3:00. That'll probably happen a lot more, going forward, as summer production ramps up. I really hate that production demands are highest during the times of year when the working conditions are worst.

Scott's family is likely to want do something for Mother's Day. I haven't heard anything about it, though, and usually, they'd email me and not Scott, so who knows? I would kind of rather not because I'd like to stay home and try to get things done (or to have Scott get things done since I still can't really help with the laundry), especially if Sunday is Scott's only day off this weekend. He'll need to fit in four loads of laundry, the grocery shopping and enough cooking that Cordelia and I don't have to order carry out when he works late this week (I'm expecting Monday and Tuesday again, so weekend cooking is really essential).

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[evalerie.livejournal.com]

About Mothers' Day -- if they are in danger of forgetting it, can you drop some comments to remind them? Like for example I told my kids how much I would enjoy getting a card from each of them. I don't think mine will actually do it, but they might, ya never know!

[the_rck]

I don't think it's so much that they're in danger of forgetting altogether as that the things they usually like to do for me require more lead time than they've got (Scott's family traditionally gives presents on Mother's Day and Father's Day, and unless he's looking at my Amazon wishlist, Scott's going to have a hard time coming up with anything to give me-- no jewelry, no chocolates (too much risk of walnuts and/or peanuts), no plants or flowers, no perfume. Any of the books or CDs I want would have to be special ordered if he was going to buy them locally, so he can't just stop by a store and pick something up). Scott seemed to realize that Mother's Day was coming round about Thursday when he realized he needed to make the eight or nine cards we need for it.