ithoughts

balloons

ithoughts
usually when i come home from work, my boys are either on the computer, playing games on the internet,glued to their game boys, watching tv(usually something that was taped on tivo or the other machine replay tv) technology is incredible. you can pause live tv, watch something that your tivo decided to tape for you because it "knows" your interests, you can get on line and watch japanese anime movies, record them, edit them and send them to your friends, all without leaving the comfort of your living room couch that is within 100 feet of your personal wi fi network so you have no cables connected. heck you can even write in your on-line journal and know that there is the potential for thousands or more folks to read it from all over the world before you get the energy to get off the couch.
Anyway...today i enter in to my electonics laboratory called home and there is more fun and excitement going on than usual.
i don't hear sponge bob's voice from three tv's, no electronic vibe music coming from my seventeen year olds room, and no kick and punch noises radiating from karate kicks on the japanese anime. i actually hear laughter and running and jumping noises...real life ...not on tv. i bought a pack of balloons yesterday and brought them home. round ones, long ones, some meant to hold water, short ones and fat ones.
I had forgotten about all you can do with a balloon. blow it up and let it go and watch it propel itself in circles around the house before plopping on somebody or something. (one just landed on my keyboard) a bit slimey. you can blowem up and let the air out slowly and make funny gaseous flubbery sounds. you can bendem and shapem into animal shapes and poo shapes. i saw my seven year old annoy his mom by rubbing it on her hair (while she was on the computer) and watched her hair stand up.
then after he rubbed it, it can stick on the wall or the ceiling.
you can twist it up and make it make that awful sound that makes you think it's about to explode. you can stick it with a sharp object for the ultimate pleasure. (scaring mom). two long skinny ones are good for sword fighting. if it is half way blown up it's just fun to play with cuz it's moldable and squishy. it is interesting to see the reaction of someone not prepared for it when they feel the air from inside the balloon going up their neck while hearing that same blubbery sound.
indoor volleyball is fun czuse they go in slow motion. you can even play that one by yourself because of that whole slo mo thing, and then of course, when you fill em with water youve got yourself a whole other game to play. the cat on the bottom deck underneath the top deck didn't have a chance.
all this to say...i feel safer now knowing that if our electricity ever goes out our kids won't suffer greatly. as a matter of fact.
let's see... the total outlay for all the electronics was way more thousands of dollars than i like to think about.
the balloons...$1.03...for a hundred of em.
I don't know why they spend most of their time on their electronic gizmos.
good thing i have my super powered powerbook with a g4 processor so i can sit here and watch them play and write about it.
i might take my mini dv sony camcorder and shoot them playing with the balloons and then get on imovie and edit a movie of them. I don't know why they spend so much time on their electronic gizmos...oops looks like i have some more email coming in...better go
that's all

posted by the enhancer @ 8:54 PM