in other randomosity since I lack the brainpower for a real update

[mamajoan]

1. Yesterday after trying to go to work and giving up and going back home, I sent an email saying that I was working from home and also entertaining a fractious toddler. I got a reply from a coworker saying that "fractious" was a great word, though he had had to look it up. Well, it's nice(?) to know that I still have a bigger vocabulary than my coworkers. I guess that makes sense given that I'm the writer in this organization. It's not sad and pathetic like it is when mishaslair uses words her coworkers don't know, since they are all writers.

2. The other night we (me, Isaac, my mom, brother, and sister-in-law) ordered Chinese food, and at the end of the meal we were all sitting around reading our fortune-cookie fortunes and of course adding "in bed" to the ends. (Everyone does that, right?) None of them was particularly interesting. Then Isaac wanted a fortune cookie ("cracker") so we gave him one, and my mom read his fortune. It said: "Sometimes two small steps are better than one great leap."

There was a short pause while we all contemplated this, and then I said: "...in crib?"

And then my brother threw a fortune cookie at me. ;) But it was worth it. Nyuk nyuk.

3. The other day my mom showed me an ad from the paper which appears to indicate that the Toys-R-Us in Fresh Pond (i.e. the most convenient one to both of us) is closing down. We deduced this based on the fact that the ad said "ENTIRE STORE ON SALE!" followed by a list of item categories and how much they've been reduced by (most toys 30-50% off, diapers 10-20% off, etc.) and then in small print near the bottom it added, "All fixtures on sale!" Dude, if they're selling off the fixtures, it's not exactly going out on a limb to speculate that the store is closing, even if the ad doesn't actually say "Store closing." Anyway, then today there was a post in cambridge_mass saying that the Fresh Pond movie theater is closing down as well. WTF!!! Fresh Pond is going to be a ghost town with nothing but the Whole Foods to sustain us! I know it's a somewhat crappy location, but geez, what gives?

And this means that the nearest non-artsy first-run movie theater to me will be Assembly Square, which sucks. I don't like that theater. Of course, I almost never go to movies anyway, but still. wtf??

Comments

[kenboy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my wife mentioned someting recently about Toys R Us closing a bunch of stores down and converting a bunch of others to Babies R Us, which are apparently more profitable.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

It does make sense, since baby items tend to be big-ticket (cribs, carseats, strollers) whereas toys, well, not so much. Also, now that you can buy almost any Toys-R-Us item on Amazon, their brick-and-mortar stores are losing business, and that makes sense too.

Still, it doesn't sound like they'll be converting this one to a Babies-R-Us, because they wouldn't be selling off the fixtures, would they? Hmm.

[retch.livejournal.com]

Toys R Us is closing down about 70-80 stores IIRC.

[mishaslair.livejournal.com]

I bet "fractious" wouldn't fly in the newsroom, either. :P

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

we were there recently. they still have some pretty good stuff, though the sale is mostly 20% off so far. we are going to go back to look at baby gates etc.

did not know about the theater closing too. boo hoo!