Post Apocalyptic Basement Flood

We're getting there.  After the flood we had in our basement when a pipe burst at the end of August the insurance company hired a restoration company to do the clean up and rebuild.  The clean up went well, but the rebuilt didn't until we kicked them out.  Now it's coming along nicely.

We're rethinking the curtians in the bedroom but they may still grow on us.  The dog was an added expense, but it's still the best an most efficient way to get a dog hair bed spread out there.  The walls are missing that finishing touch....kid hand prints.....but that will come soon enough.

Mom and Dad, when you fly into town you'll stay in Hunter's  new room.  The three of you should be very comfie there together. 

If only someone would give me money to do this.....

Today, the drawing didn't come easy.  It was a fight all the way to make the models look like...well, people.  At one point this afternoon one of my drawings looked more like a gargoyle than a model, but it was wonderful non the less.  Three beautiful people to draw.  The morning was a new Asian model and this afternoon there were two men posing together.  One was a perennial favorite of the group that moved out of town but called to say he was back today and would love to work.  Yeah!  So the group co-ordinator added him in.  He also came with his dog who also makes a good model.  She loves to pose with him.

I was speaking to one of the other artists who was telling me that his wife was going to come to try to draw for the day but backed out at the last minute. 

"Boy will she be sorry!" he said.

He was mentioning that his kids find it hard knowing that they are the only ones out of all their friends that have penis' hanging in their dinning room.  I had to laugh. 

"I would never hang my work in my dinning room"  I told him.  "I don't have a dinning room;-)

Sometimes it's just good to get together with like minded people who are as demented as yourself and help you feel like maybe you aren't so different after all.

La Merde

My 9 year old called the family in to ever so proudly show the food chain she had been working on all evening for school.  Mr. P. reminded her earlier that feces was part of the chain so she quickly added it in.  Being in French immersion, she was required to complete this task in French as she is learning Science using only French.  She used the internet as a translator for the words she didn't know.

Beside a cute little picture of a pile of poo were the following words:

le merde

Her bilingual sisters burst into hysterics and she turned red.

"But I used Google translator" she said vehemently. 


Indeed it does translate poop that way.  But were she to complete her project in English and write 'shit' we'd probably find it unacceptable.

I used Google to translate the following:

I need to go poo = J'ai besoin d'aller caca  (Google then asks "Did you mean poop?")

I need to go poop = J'ai besoin d'aller merde

I need to defecate = J'ai besoin de déféquer  (but who the heck says that!)

Another dictionary I checked shows the various ways in which merde is used.  From the innocent to the most vulgar (heavy on the most vulgar side.)

So what did I learn?

I asked my 14 year old what she says when she has to go .... merde ..... at school.  She says they just don't say that. 

Thinking about this further I realized that generally I don't tell too many people that I have to go .....well, you know.  I just quietly excuse myself for a washroom break.  Those that do like to share this kind of information with others (and you know who you are, and no, it's not Mr. P.) the level of vulgarity used is split about 50/50.

BTW....if you want to say the "shit hit the fan" it's "la merde a frappé le ventilateur"

And finally....why is shit féminine?

I haven't blogged in almost a month and when I finally do it's shit;-)