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Heater, Mother of Lance
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Heather B. Armstrong
Hi. I’m Heather B. Armstrong, and this used to be called mommy blogging. But then they started calling it Influencer Marketing: hashtag ad, hashtag sponsored, hashtag you know you want me to slap your product on my kid and exploit her for millions and millions of dollars. That’s how this shit works. Now? Well… sit back, buckle up, and enjoy the ride.
Matt in London
2005/02/24 at 6:36 amChelsea – how bloody dare you!!!!! No – only Charlton for me…..
Jo
2005/02/24 at 6:37 amLilla, Sshhhh. lol.
minxlj
2005/02/24 at 6:38 amNot another one!! My boss is a Charlton fan. It’s all we get to hear about!
Apologies, that’s probably as bad as calling me a Sunderland fan (spits on floor in disgust)
LOL sorry!
minxlj
2005/02/24 at 6:35 amHi Clearly! What’s the chances of more than one Geordie on dooce.com!!
Of course this will all be lost on any non-Brits who don’t know what Geordies/Mackems etc are.
Matt..hope you’re not a Chelsea fan *snigger*
Matt in London
2005/02/24 at 6:34 amJesmond – that’s the name of the area…that’s where I’m going at Easter…thanks for that – was bugging the hell out of me trying to remember 🙂
Lilla
2005/02/24 at 6:33 amJo – aren’t you supposed to be writing your dissertation or something??
Amanda B.
2005/02/24 at 6:33 amHey you little Minx! You’ve obviously not acquired a taste for chocolate dipped in wax. It’s quite tasty once you get that hang of peeling it. Hrmph.
😉
Clearly
2005/02/24 at 6:32 amHi all the Brits!
Minxlj I live in Newcastle too!
I was gutted it hadn’t snowed more this morning so we couldn’t get to work!
Hi Matt in London – it’s not an unusual thing for the Mackems to get beaten. I live in Heaton which is very near Jesmond where you stayed on Osbourne road.
Up the Geordies!!
Jo
2005/02/24 at 6:30 amIT WAS ME AND I APOLOGISE.
Lilla
2005/02/24 at 6:32 amLRfrom Philly – thanks for the weather report, I must wrap up then.
Lilla
2005/02/24 at 6:29 amC’mon guys, please fill me in: how did we end up talking about Jack Frost? Big bore, big shame.
Jo
2005/02/24 at 6:29 amIs it me or is Hershy’s RANK. I admire the work Hersy’s sauce did in the filming of Hitchcocks Psycho though….
Matt in London
2005/02/24 at 6:29 amminxlj – family in north yorkshire (pickering) and good friends from university in newcastle – so a chance to ‘kill 2 birds with 1 stone’ so to speak as don’t get up there as much as I should…
Unfortunately my days of boozing and falling over on the quayside / bigge (sp?) market are long gone…so you’re not missing anything 🙁
minxlj
2005/02/24 at 6:28 am*LOL* OH now my computer’s had enough I think. Too much work.
HAHAHAHAHA
I’m going for (late) lunch 😀
Jo
2005/02/24 at 6:27 amso its bein slow for you too, eh minx? LOL
minxlj
2005/02/24 at 6:27 amJo – that’s the only thing I don’t like about the US, the chocolate is crap. Cadbury’s rule!
Lilla – glad you enjoyed it, it’s a must for winter isn’t it?
Susannah
2005/02/24 at 6:23 amSquish–I’m sure you’re right!
Lilla
2005/02/24 at 6:23 amHi folks (Minx, Jo & others form London) back in the scene again. Thanks for hot choc w/ cream & mint tip from Minx, it was lush.
minxlj
2005/02/24 at 6:25 amPossibly, Jon was so scared and bored to death by the crapness that is Jack Frost, that’s why he fell.
Matt: seeing Sunderland get beaten is a worthy reason for anyone to venture up here. Whatcha up here at Easter for? (just in case I’m missing anything interesting!!)
Jo
2005/02/24 at 6:25 amLilla i’m just enjoying my own concoction of…er, coacoa and milk. Damn good tho!
Jo
2005/02/24 at 6:22 ammmm-mmm that is one mighty fine cup of hot chocolate. I pity da fools that live in America and dont know the joys of Cadbury, i do, i pity da fools!
minxlj
2005/02/24 at 6:22 amHe was probably scared to death by the crapness of Jack Frost, and that’s what made him fall.
Matt: outta curiousity, what you coming to Newcastle for this Easter? (Seeing Sunderland getting beat is a worthy excuse any day!)
squish
2005/02/24 at 6:20 am😉
Susannah
2005/02/24 at 6:17 amBut Jon doesn’t fall down!
heidillydoo
2005/02/24 at 6:18 amGood morning! #210 – holy cow! This picture was posted early!
squish
2005/02/24 at 6:19 amSusannaH:
I guess he was just being artsy.
squish
2005/02/24 at 6:16 amFrom the camera angle, I’m wondering if Jon FELL DOWN!?
Jo
2005/02/24 at 6:13 amBored? Of Jack Frost?? NEVER!
Susannah
2005/02/24 at 6:13 amIt is kind of a toss up between scared and bored…
Matt in London
2005/02/24 at 6:13 amminxlj – last time I was in newcastle it was snowing…would have been 2 years ago now and I drove all the way up to stay in a cheap hotel on Osbourne Rd and go to see Charlton beat Sunderland… A great weekend 🙂
minxlj
2005/02/24 at 6:12 amNow look what you’ve started Jo – there’s some serious snowman hatin’ goin on here. *LOL*
I was too scared by the snowman to watch past the first 15 minutes of that film! Or bored to death, I forget which…
Brad
2005/02/24 at 6:11 amYou look like you’re totally gonna thrash the snow though… so that’s something. 😉
Susannah
2005/02/24 at 6:10 amOh, I now have random nightmares about Michael Keaton from that movie. (Well, that and seeing Batman as a kid with an overactive imagination)
Jo
2005/02/24 at 6:11 amRight, it’s definately Hot Chocolate time for me. Anybody else while im at it? Making Hot Chocolate that is.
Jo
2005/02/24 at 6:09 amObviously! That was no snowman mask he was wearing! Keaton actually IS a snowman. AN EVIL ONE.
minxlj
2005/02/24 at 6:07 amJo – haha no I did take a break to do some work! I’m working on updating a website so I can do this at the same time. But this is the longest I’ve ever spent on here!
Matt – it snows ALL YEAR ROUND here. Or it’s so cold that you think you’re in the Arctic ;-D
Katie-be-bored-at-work
2005/02/24 at 6:07 amI think possibly the worst moment of that movie is at the very end when Jack Frost the snowman magically turns into Michael Keaton’s ghost so he can say one last goodbye to his kid. It was at this point that I realized how much that snowman looks like Michael Keaton. Michael Keaton looks pretty evil, too, if you think about it.
greenthumb
2005/02/24 at 6:06 amDooce…you bad ass!!!
Jo
2005/02/24 at 6:06 amYay. If i’m out and about i’ll make a hat with a banner out the top that says ‘Howdy Doody Matt!’
Matt in London
2005/02/24 at 6:04 amminxlj – I’m gonna be in Newcastle at Easter…do you reckon the snow can last til then???
Jo – I’ll hang a flag on the back of my car that says ‘hi Jo’ – just in case you’re out and about 🙂
Jo
2005/02/24 at 6:04 amMinx have you been chatting the whole time i was handing my essay in?
beckythefirst
2005/02/24 at 6:03 amdude. you did NOT take your D70 snowboarding, did you? tell me you took those pics with your older camera.
Jo
2005/02/24 at 6:04 amI think i’ve started a bit of Jack Frost hate club. Go me!
bushra
2005/02/24 at 6:03 amJack Frost was the kind of film where you sit through it and right at the end you say ‘did that just happen? did it?’
office people are debating: ‘is it settling? i think it is…it’s not settling!’
Jo
2005/02/24 at 6:02 amMatt, apart from when you drive through the water hole that is manchester. We can wave to each other though. lol.
minxlj
2005/02/24 at 6:02 amMatt, you chicken. Not brave enough to venture as far North as me?
We’ve got all the UK’s snow I reckon!
Susannah
2005/02/24 at 6:01 amOkay, I thought that Jack Frost was just DREADFUL. Probably one of the worst movies ever. You are NOT alone.
Matt in London
2005/02/24 at 6:00 amLol – hello – I’m driving to Yorkshire via Manchester tomorrow (yes, the long way round) – looks like I’m going to get some snow after all…happy days 🙂
Dang Cold..
2005/02/24 at 5:59 am*dang cold lights a match*
minxlj
2005/02/24 at 6:00 amLOL move outta the way, the Brits are here. 😀
And Geordies beat you all hands down anyway!!!!
j/k