I'm still alive, or: I HAVE MY LAPTOP BACK!!!
Took long enough, didn't it? Blame it on my husband, who, in taking it to the UPS store to ship it to be repaired, decided he didn't want to pay $30 for their packing materials and would go home to look for the original box, could not find said original box, and procrastinated for the next two and a half months until he FINALLY got back to the UPS store, resigned to paying $30 for their packing materials, ONLY to find that he didn't have to pay for packing after all (we're still not sure why, or why he was first told he did have to).
Worse, they had to completely reformat the hard drive, which means I lost everything, all my files, some music, my downloads, my preferences, and, what I feared losing the most, two whole seasons of Lost, worth $70. I hadn't even watched the last third of Season Two (though I did finally get it from the library). Now I have to decide, having watched all the episodes already, should I download them all again? Common sense says no, fan-sense says yes. Fan-sense will probably win out, though I probably won't do them all at once.
I've had lots of posts floating around in my head for the last several weeks, and the one that keeps coming back is the one you're getting: Wonder Pets (also check out Wikipedia's page). And no, it's not a rant. This is the cutest thing I have seen since...forever. If you have not experienced the cuteness that is Wonder Pets, imagine this: a guinea pig (Linny), a turtle (Tuck), and a duckling (Ming-Ming) who live in a preschool by day, but are superheroes when all the students are gone. Their catchphrase is "teamwork!", and their game is rescuing baby animals that get themselves in all kinds of predicaments. The characters are adorable, created by something called "photo-puppetry animation", which, according to the Nick Jr., means photos of real animals are manipulated to produce their actions.
Each character has its own unique quirks. Linny the Guinea Pig is the leader, the "smart" one. Ming-Ming is daring, and sometimes forgets about teamwork, occasionally getting herself into trouble in the process (one time SHE was the baby animal getting rescued). Tuck is a little harder for me to pigeon-hole yet, but he generally seems to be the "cute" one, and also the one reminding Ming-Ming about teamwork.
My favorite part of this show, though, is the music. Set to sort of opera-type music (sung by young voices, remember, so it's not screeching sopranos), it always starts out the same: the tin-can phone rings, and Linny starts singing:
My other favorite part is the two times in each show that Ming-Ming (can you tell yet she's my favorite character?) says, in her little lispy voice, "This is SEWRious!"
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In other news, Arwyn is now three months old and is trying to pull herself upright when sitting in the swing or carseat. AND the kid very nearly can sleep through the night. (There are babies that do that??) Aislinn is speaking sentences, sometimes complete with subject and predicate and no words missing. And Audrey just lost her third tooth, a top one, and is talking in her own very cute lisp now. Darn Tooth Fairy forgot to come last night (that's what happens when I'm not the one to put her to bed!), and now, tonight, THE TOOTH CANNOT BE FOUND. Audrey is already in bed and I've got to find the envelope with the tooth in it so the Tooth Fairy can leave the money. She could just leave the money and worry about the tooth later, but IF the tooth/envelope is found lying around by the tooth's former owner, the jig is up. Could be cheaper for the Tooth Fairy, but she's not ready for the jig to be up yet.
I'm glad to be back in the land of the living internet.
Worse, they had to completely reformat the hard drive, which means I lost everything, all my files, some music, my downloads, my preferences, and, what I feared losing the most, two whole seasons of Lost, worth $70. I hadn't even watched the last third of Season Two (though I did finally get it from the library). Now I have to decide, having watched all the episodes already, should I download them all again? Common sense says no, fan-sense says yes. Fan-sense will probably win out, though I probably won't do them all at once.
I've had lots of posts floating around in my head for the last several weeks, and the one that keeps coming back is the one you're getting: Wonder Pets (also check out Wikipedia's page). And no, it's not a rant. This is the cutest thing I have seen since...forever. If you have not experienced the cuteness that is Wonder Pets, imagine this: a guinea pig (Linny), a turtle (Tuck), and a duckling (Ming-Ming) who live in a preschool by day, but are superheroes when all the students are gone. Their catchphrase is "teamwork!", and their game is rescuing baby animals that get themselves in all kinds of predicaments. The characters are adorable, created by something called "photo-puppetry animation", which, according to the Nick Jr., means photos of real animals are manipulated to produce their actions.
Each character has its own unique quirks. Linny the Guinea Pig is the leader, the "smart" one. Ming-Ming is daring, and sometimes forgets about teamwork, occasionally getting herself into trouble in the process (one time SHE was the baby animal getting rescued). Tuck is a little harder for me to pigeon-hole yet, but he generally seems to be the "cute" one, and also the one reminding Ming-Ming about teamwork.
My favorite part of this show, though, is the music. Set to sort of opera-type music (sung by young voices, remember, so it's not screeching sopranos), it always starts out the same: the tin-can phone rings, and Linny starts singing:
- (Linny:) The phone, the phone is ringing.
- (Ming-Ming:) The phone, we'll be right there!
- (Tuck:) The phone, the phone is ringing!
- (Linny:) There's an animal in trouble...
- (Ming-Ming:) There's an animal in trouble!
- (Tuck:) There's an animal in trouble, somewhere.
My other favorite part is the two times in each show that Ming-Ming (can you tell yet she's my favorite character?) says, in her little lispy voice, "This is SEWRious!"
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In other news, Arwyn is now three months old and is trying to pull herself upright when sitting in the swing or carseat. AND the kid very nearly can sleep through the night. (There are babies that do that??) Aislinn is speaking sentences, sometimes complete with subject and predicate and no words missing. And Audrey just lost her third tooth, a top one, and is talking in her own very cute lisp now. Darn Tooth Fairy forgot to come last night (that's what happens when I'm not the one to put her to bed!), and now, tonight, THE TOOTH CANNOT BE FOUND. Audrey is already in bed and I've got to find the envelope with the tooth in it so the Tooth Fairy can leave the money. She could just leave the money and worry about the tooth later, but IF the tooth/envelope is found lying around by the tooth's former owner, the jig is up. Could be cheaper for the Tooth Fairy, but she's not ready for the jig to be up yet.
I'm glad to be back in the land of the living internet.
posted by Andrea | 10:09 PM
2 Comments:
CAN YOU HEAR MY DEEP SIGH OF RELIEF TO HAVE YOU BACK!!!?!?!?! Okay, I'm done shouting. Welcome back. Welcome, welcome, welcome. :)
I'm glad you're back, too!!! Missed you much. Sounds like lots has happened in your household....lots of growing! :)
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