Hip Update
Here’s something to keep in your handy file of Tips That You May Need One Day:¬† When recovering from hip replacement surgery, do not go up and down the stairs five times in one day. Gee, how did I learn that?
Actually, I’m coming along nicely. But the process is far more boring and annoying than I had anticipated. Basically, you are allowed to lie in bed. Period. Trust me, anything you can do in bed, such as watch entire seasons of shows you thought might be good, surf the net, you name it, gets tiring quickly.
Hence, my thought that, since I was feeling pretty good, that it might be a good idea to have a bunch of friends over for lunch. FAIL!
While everything is good and my new, bionic hip will soon have me prancing in high heels again, I am hoping you’ll bear with my limited posting for a bit longer.
The project so far
In the meantime, I’m spending today making my son’s Renaissance mask for his Romeo and Juliet segment of English. All from bed, don’t worry. I’ll post a the completed project later. It completed design involves chicken bones.
At least I’m putting my design talents to some good use! But this brings me to a non-design related pet peeve which we can all share in….
Keep me company today by posting your own rant-comment on how many times you or your child, was given a school project that is clearly meant for the parent to complete. Tri-fold science displays in second grade? Dioramas depicting Pre-Columbian life in fifth?
Fire away.
4 Responses to “Hip Update”
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Posted by Jennifer on February 12th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Ah, I remember it well
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Posted by Jeanne on February 13th, 2009 at 10:03 am
So true!! Both my boys went to Catholic school and 6th grade (if I remember correctly) was THE YEAR for THE SCIENCE PROJECT…and the dreaded TRI-FOLD display board. haha.
I must have blocked one of the projects from my mind, as I can only remember doing one of them. We did colored blindness in dogs. Of course, our dog was the subject. I just remember having to take black and white photos of different color balls and testing the dog daily for a month. There is NO WAY kids can do these projects on their own.
Working in graphic design, I could have had our art department make a sweet presentation, but that wouldn’t have been fair. haha.
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Posted by Jennifer on February 13th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I know what you mean. I did this beautiful tri-fold presentation on Michigan. I made Spencer cut things out and gather in information. I figured all the other parents would have done their kids’ projects, too. They probably did, but I went overboard and made it look way too nice.
I should have left out the fancy-edged scissors.
Then, there was a science project where he had to find 5 people he didn’t know and teach them the phases of the moon. Then the strangers had to take a test. That was plain ridiculous. Where were we going to find 5 strangers willing to do that? I told him to skip it.
Model of Fort Detroit with stockade fence made of hundreds of toothpicks?