Unconnected thoughts.

[electricland]

1. Just got the second of 2 photos of the girls and me from crankygrrl's birthday party. Jeeebus. It's things like this that make me never want to be photographed again. Candid shots are not kind to me; apparently I look like a complete idiot when I laugh. Oy. It doesn't help that I'm demonstrating my Familial Faggy Wrist Syndrome (you should see us bowling).

Everybody else looks normal...

I guess one consolation is that it makes the first shot look pretty good by comparison. If I ever have grandchildren they will just have to wonder in vain what I used to look like, unless they find an old passport or something ("what's this weird paper thing, Grandma?").

2. Reading Pride and Prejudice makes me happy. Fortunately the express bus isn't running any too speedily this morning, because I had to read Mr. Darcy's letter before I could leave the apartment.

3. Why do realtors and developers refuse to call a house a house? It's always a "home", and it grates on me. I passed a sign saying that "Beach Triangle Developments wishes to develop 34 3-1/2-storey Executive Townhomes" on Kingston Road, and raged about this for a while. Our real estate agent, much as I like him, did the same thing -- it was always "there are some very nice homes on this street." Luxury Homes. Executive Homes. Stately 'Omes. It's a plot to get us to pay $20k more for the building than it's worth, is what it is. Sorry, but I'll decide for myself what is and isn't a home.

(strangely, this objection of mine does not extend to the Grow Home, and I'm not sure why -- possibly because the new owners are expected to do a lot of the work of finishing and customizing it themselves? by their own work, it grows into a home?)

Comments

[scapersuse.livejournal.com]

Heh - you want to talk about bad photos - our SVP's birthday was last Monday and various photos were taken throughout the day. The ONLY one I look good in is one where I'm in the background laughing and don't know the photo is being taken. All the others, I think there are about 4 others that I show up in, I look like absolute CRAP. Argh!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

My sympathies. Sometimes I think I'm ridiculously camera-shy. Then I see what happens when I'm not, and I think it's a totally logical response. *shudder*

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

i'm so un-photogenic that it's scary. i really scare myself. ack.

as for the whole home thing... do you think they're going for the subliminal message of coziness etc? although if they were really going to go for it they would also say "hearth and home". hee!

[electricland.livejournal.com]

my sympathies on the un-photogenicity. Although, who knows, maybe I'll look back on these in 10 years and think "I looked great, what was I complaining about?" -- like I do now with my teenage photos.

I'm sure "Hearth and Home" is coming! Although around these parts they seem keen on Exclusive Planned Communities and Luxury Homes and it's all rather nauseating (stay tuned for my annual this-was-all-fields-once rant when we open up the cottage in a few weeks).

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

i always hope that hindsight will be kind to me. *sigh*

and yes, it's as if they think the title of the estate will somehow imbue it with something they've been unable to quantify. and i look forward to your rant, i've done the same thing myself on many occasions. :)