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Saturday, August 2, 2008

Time to detox my computer

I came home today to find that my wife had been perusing the web on my rig. No big deal. She has her own computer, but mine is usually running or more convenient. What I found was very disturbing though. Many, many searches for "pink beanbags." Apparently, she has some decoration ideas for our (~18 month old) daughter's room. Ugh. Pink already? Yet again I will be condemned to the "pink" isle at the toy store? *shiver!* I feel the need to go burn something, or beat something with a wrench. Maybe I'll pour motor oil on something, light it on fire, and beat out the flames with my Craftsman toolbox.

Pink.

This is how I feel right now:
The scene in Monsters Inc. where Boo sneezes on Mike Wazowski, and he sprays his eye with disinfectant.

(I tried hard to get a picture or clip of that scene, and then gave up)

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posted by RebTurtle at 6:17 PM

1 Comments:

  • I feel the same way about pink, and I'm a girl. I always swore that if I had a daughter, I'd never force the pink issue; there are toms of other "girly" colours out there.
    Honestly, I'm not even a fan of assigning gender-specific colours but I have to admit when kids are very young, they look androgynous, so I give in during that first year and and half or so.
    But really--! Pink? If it must be gender-specific, there are also lavender, bright spring green, sunshine yellow...you could even buy a really feminine patchwork quilt and go off of those colours to accent.
    On the construction site, I wear pink bandannas under my hard hat and I have a pink folding canvas chair for breaks, plus in the winter I wear tiny adorable pink gloves...and it's not cos I like pink. It's cos I know men are, for the most part, seriously put off by that colour and no one will take it.
    You can always right this wrong by signing your kid up for rugby in a few years. :)

    By Blogger Flashtrigger, At August 3, 2008 at 7:41 AM  

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