Gorgeous sunny Saturday in summer \u2013 and I come up from the basement where I was running on the treadmill.<\/p>\n
Nah! No running outside when the weather\u2019s like that!\u00a0 What a stupid idea.\u00a0 Running in the dim basement because that\u2019s how I can also watch Below Decks Mediterranean while reading my Nook \u00e1 la fois!<\/em><\/p>\n Can I get some snaps for using a French idiot in my blog?! Snap, snap, snap!<\/em><\/p>\n I DARE you to find another blog where they use French idiots to describe all the stuff they\u2019re doing at the same time they\u2019re running on the treadmill. Idiots. French idiots.\u00a0 You know what\u2019s funny?\u00a0 Spell check keeps changing idiots to idiots.\u00a0 I give up.\u00a0 IDIOTS! \u00a0Nope.\u00a0 Tried to slide it in there; it didn\u2019t work. <\/em><\/p>\n When I come up from the basement, Sissy, who has probably 4 weeks of summer left before gulp!<\/em><\/strong> highschool, is sitting on the family room couch reading A Separate Peace<\/em> by John Knowles.<\/p>\n She raises her sunflower face to me, all bewildered and says, \u201cI don\u2019t think there are any robots in this book. There can\u2019t possibly be robots in this book.\u201d<\/p>\n Oopsie. Tee hee hee.\u00a0 I may have given her the impression that this coming-of-age book about boys in a boarding school during World War II\u00a0had robots in it so as to encourage her to read the book sooner rather than later.\u00a0 Because there\u2019s nothing worse than spending the last week of summer vacay before highschool starts by hurriedly and panickedly reading a book you had all summer to read, especially when you could be spending the last week of summer\u00a0buying all the cute highschool outfits you can find.\u00a0 Can I get some snaps for THAT insight?!\u00a0 Snap, snap, snap!<\/em><\/p>\n She then adds, \u201cCan you tell me for real if this book has robots in it? Because I don\u2019t really like robots and I was kinda bummed to think it had robots in it.\u201d<\/p>\n No, Sweetie, there are no robots in <\/em>A Separate Peace. That was just an example of me raisonne comme une casserole \u2013 another French idiot meaning \u201cme demonstrating poor logic.\u201d\u00a0 Sonny?\u00a0 He would\u2019ve been all over robots.\u00a0 Sissy?\u00a0 Not so much, so my bad on that.<\/em><\/p>\n Idiot. IDIOT.<\/p>\n Gah!\u00a0 Still no. I must use the word idiot in my blog a lot instead of the word idiot.<\/p>\n Oy, je donne ma langue au chat.<\/p>\n And yes, that’s another French idiot.\u00a0 It means\u00a0“I give up.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gorgeous sunny Saturday in summer \u2013 and I come up from the basement where I was running on the treadmill. Nah! No running outside when the weather\u2019s like that!\u00a0 What a stupid idea.\u00a0 Running in the dim basement because that\u2019s how I can also watch Below Decks Mediterranean while reading my Nook \u00e1 la fois! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4461,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4459\/revisions\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}