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In all fairness, what Davidson sophomore Stephen Curry is doing to teams in the NCAA tournament is not pretty special, it's darn near incredible.
The Badgers had no answer for Curry, who registered his third 30-point performance by scoring a game-high 33 points, ending Wisconsin's NCAA tournament run with a demoralizing 73-56 setback in front of 57,028 in Detroit's Ford Field.
The Davidson win increases the nation's best winning streak to 22 games and ends Wisconsin's 12-game win streak and 31-win season in the process.
If Wisconsin fans thought the Badgers Sweet 16 game would be a simple formality and Wisconsin's nation-best scoring defense would act as a stark wake up call for the upstart Cinderella Wildcats, the first 20 minutes served as a bitter reminder of how maddening March can become.
Holding opponents to under 27 percent from three-point range over the last 10 games, Wisconsin, after only giving up six three-pointers in the last three games combined, could not stop the hot hands of Davidson's guards, giving up eight three-pointers in the first 20 minutes, three of which came off the hands of sophomore Stephen Curry.
But the Badgers were willing to fight fire with fire, making seven of its 17 first half three-pointers, with senior Michael Flowers nailing three of his attempts, that helped prevent the game from getting out of control at the outset.
It's a good thing, too, as the Wildcats shot 53.8 percent (14-for-26) from the floor in the first half.
While the first half showed promise, the second half was a huge disaster.
After committing just two team fouls in the first 20 minutes, the Badgers, uncharacteristic of how they have operated throughout the season, registered seven quick team fouls in the first four and a half minutes of the second half, allowing Davidson to jump out on a 10-2 run and a 46-38 lead.
The momentum seemed to turn back toward the Wisconsin side with two-straight free throws from Jason Bohannon, a three-pointer from Joe Krabbenhoft and Davidson being whistled for four personal fouls on UW's end of the court.
But whatever the Badgers had grabbed hold of when cutting the lead to five, Curry snatched right back. Hitting a three from the elbow to extend the lead to 51-45, Curry got the ball back on a 2-on-1 break, paused to let Landry fly by and calmly nailed another three-pointer, getting his fifth of the game, to extend the lead to nine.
After senior Jason Richards nailed a three to give Curry a breather, Curry, with the shot clock winding down, hit three-pointer number six, helping the Wildcat lead swelled to 15, the largest of the game.
If Curry hadn't broken the hearts of the Badgers with his outside shooting, he did it with his pump fake, up and under layup that drew a foul by Landry in the process.
Oh yeah, LeBron hooted and hollered over that one, too.
While everything was going right for Davidson, nothing went right for Wisconsin, as the Wildcats took the Badgers own game and shoved it right down their throats.
In the second half, the Badgers scored just 20 points, shot a dismal 24 percent (5-for-21), were out rebounded by six and scored only three points during a eight and a half minute stretch.
Wisconsin was led by Flowers, who scored 12 points, Bohannon and Butch added 11 and Krabbenhoft had 10, as the Badgers improbable season comes to a disheartening conclusion.


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I know I experienced something like this with my brother. His Linksys worked perfectly until he tried to VPN into work and they use the same 192.168.1.x address space. I ended up re-configuring his Linksys so that locally @ home he'd be 192.168.3.x and then thing were happy when he VPN'd to work.
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My mom's tender roasted chicken with potatoes and sage dressing is even more delicious than its aroma while baking. My children enjoy this meal as much as I did when I was young. —Sandra Melnychenko, Grandview, Manitoba
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- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1/2 cup butter, cubed
- 2 tablespoons poultry seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon rubbed sage
- 8 cups cubed day-old white bread
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 roasting chicken (5 to 6 pounds)
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Pinch pepper
- 6 medium baking potatoes, peeled and quartered
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh parsley
- In a large skillet, saute celery and onion in butter for 5-6 minutes or until tender. Stir in the poultry seasoning and sage.
- Place the bread cubes in a large bowl. Stir in celery mixture and chicken broth; gently toss until moistened. Just before baking, loosely stuff chicken; tie drumsticks together.
- Place breast side up on a rack in a roasting pan. Combine the paprika, salt and pepper; rub over chicken.
- Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 1-1/2 hours, basting every 30 minutes. Place the potatoes around chicken; cover and bake 1-1/2 hours longer or until potatoes are tender and a meat thermometer reads 180° for poultry and 165° for stuffing.
- Sprinkle with parsley. Reserve pan drippings and thicken for gravy if desired. Yield: 4-6 servings.
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The Codeline Integrity Principle (CLIP)
Newly commited versions of a codeline must consistently be at least as usable as the previous version of the codeline. For many development shops, this is just a fancy way of saying to not break the build. The basic tenet is to ensure that each change adds value to the codeline without compromising its quality or steady flow of progress.
The way that ISP applies to codelines is regarding integration milestones within a single codeline. This principle is so commonly known to many that it seems almost too obvious to bother saying, but it nonetheless needs to be said.
The Incremental Integration Principle (IIP)
Define frequent integration milestones that are client-valued. Many of us know the perils of big bang integration. It's difficult to know just how frequently and incrementally we should integrate our work and make it visible to higher levels of the enterprise. The IIP gives us some general advice, but no specific recommendations. Perhaps the principles relating to evolution granularity can help us? When applying package cohesion principles to codelines, we arrived at the following?
The Collaboration/Flow Integration Principle (CFLIP)
The throughput of collaboration is the cumulative flow of integrated changes. The CFLIP says that collaboration is the source of value-generation (it constitutes both the source of change and reuse) and that the collaboration for a change is not finished until it is built+tested (intregrated) so as to be releasable (ready for reuse).
Principles of Branching & Merging
Principles of Branching & Merging
The Codeline Nesting Principle (CLNP)
Child codelines should merge and converge back to (and be shorter-lived than) their base/parent codeline.
The Progressive-Synchronization Principle (PSP)
Synchronizing change should flow in the direction of historical progress (from past to present, or from present to future): more conservative codelines should not sync-up with more progressive codelines; more progressive codelines should sync-up with more conservative codelines.
The Codeline Branching Principle (CLBP)
Create child branches for value-streams that cannot "go with the flow" of the parent.
The Stable Promotion Principle (SPP)
Changes and configurations should be promoted in the direction of increasing stability.
The Stable History Principle (SHIP)
A codeline should be as stable as it is "historical": The less evolved it is (and hence more mature/conservative), the more stable it must be.
For our interpretation of the LSP, another form of derivation in version control is when a new branch or codeline is branched from a particular point off of its parent codeline. The branchpoint is the baseline (r foundation configuration for the new branch. The new branch inherits all content from its parent codeline, while being allowed to evolve separately and, unless it is a permanent variant, usually diverges from its parent or base codeline for a limited period of time. It then either promotes or propagates changes back to its parent at periodic intervals.
At the time it merges back into its parent, the CLIP then mandates that the integrity of the base/parent codeline must once again be maintained. Regardless of whether the child branch is for maintenance purposes or for new development, the parent codeline should be longer-lived than the child. Also, the child should merge back to its parent, possibly multiple times as well as at completion.
The Codeline Nesting Principle (CLNP)
Child codelines should merge and converge back to, and be shorter-lived than, their base/parent codelines. The CLNP actually conveys fundamental advice about the branching structure of a component or product. It says to use a simple, recursive hierarchical structure, similar to the preferred control-flow structure (and indentation format) of statements in a computer program. The CLNP suggests avoiding the continual cascading/staircase style of branching and instead points us in the direction of theMainline pattern for organizing our branching structures using nested synchronization. [2], [10]
The CLNP also seems to share a great deal in common with the portion of Laura Wingerd's Base-Codeline Protocol that says that changes should always flow from child codelines to their base/parent codelines. The other half of the base-codeline protocol addresses the main difference between the two scenarios above: changes flow from parent to child only when the child is for new development and not when it is for legacy maintenance. This is necessary to maintain the integrity of both codelines while also preserving the relationship between them. The CLNP doesn't go quite this far, but perhaps one of our later principles will. If changes should always flow from child-codelines to their parent-codelines (CLNP), then when, if ever, should changes flow in the reverse direction (from parent to child)? In general, we have three basic kinds of codelines and change-flow:
· New development and change promotion: Development lines are used to create new functionality (value-adding changes). Such changes are promoted when they are merged from a workspace are committed to a codeline.
· Legacy maintenance and change propagation: Maintenance lines are used to make fixes and enhancements (value-preserving changes) to help stabilize and maintain an existing release of the software. Such changes are merged from a maintenance codeline where they were already integrated and tested, to a subsequent codeline that will also benefit from the fix or enhancement.
· Mainstream integration and synchronization: A mainstream integration codeline is for integrating the latest and greatest stable state of progress. New development changes are synchronized (or updated or rebaselined/ rebased) from their main codeline by merging the current configuration of the parent to the workspace/branch containing the new development change.


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I also do not know if the reinforcing screw will fit. Without it, the back end of the Mk 1/2, 1/3 and Mk 2 stock will be poorly supported and may cause trouble.
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At the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Cancún, La Via Campesina—the world's largest federation of peasant and smallholder farmers—held what they called the "1,000 Cancún Global Day of Action for Climate Justice." Several thousand people took to the streets to march in protest of the summit. Democracy Now!'s Mike Burke filed this report.


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SALINAS, Calif. - A man is visiting various businesses throughout Salinas indicating he is conducting a fire inspection, but instead will scam the unsuspecting owners out of money, according to the Old Town Salinas Association.
The individual has an ID card that displays the name "District Fire & Safety", Tech 21, Frank Martinez, certified contractor. The person walks through the business and then sometime later bills them for $400+ dollars for the inspection.
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Again, it's hard to disagree. Working in customer service blows chunks. Someone once said that sex is like pizza — even when it's bad, it's still pretty good. That's ridiculous, because while I've certainly had sex I would never want to have again, I've never met a pizza that was totally inedible (unless it had onions on it, which is gross). Still, if we're going to be trite and hold that axiom to be true, if sex is like pizza, then working in customer service is like masturbation. Even when done well, you're left with an empty feeling of dissatisfaction, and ultimately the sense that what just transpired was a colossal waste of time.
No one ever says, "I want to be a customer service representative when I grow up," but the reality of today's economy means that there are plenty of customer service jobs out there, and not a lot of recent grads willing to fill them. I can't blame them. "Customer service" is often service in name only. In reality, it's a sales position, and working in sales is the absolute worst. Regardless, I have no qualms about saying that everyone should work in customer service at least once in their lives.
Whether you believe it or not, you are going to be in customer service every day for the rest of your life. You may be thinking "bullsh*t, I'm leaving Taco Bell the first chance I get," or, "that doesn't apply to me, because I'm starting a job in HR after I graduate." Those are all fine objections, but they are still wrong. To understand why you will always be in customer service, you have to first understand what a customer really is.
When we think of customers and the service they demand, we usually think of someone willing to exchange money for a company's goods or services, and the "customer service agent" is someone paid exclusively to facilitate that process. It could be the person who handles the initial inquiry, or it could be someone who performs post-sale maintenance, but either way it's someone whose sole job is to assist that customer. That's certainly one way to look at it, and probably how most people cut their teeth in the field, but we can further expand the definition of a "customer." Say you're working in HR, or some other back-office discipline that doesn't require you to interact with the revenue-generating public, the firm's "customers." Still, you have a boss and other stakeholders in the company, and in exchange for your salary they expect you to deliver on your job duties, essentially your "product." Though you might feel shielded from the great unwashed in your back office ivory tower, your bosses and stakeholders become your "customers."


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Check out this energy balance game Energyville, its pretty good for demonstrating how we need a balance of energy sources going into the future… its sponsored by Chevron, but as the brains behind it came from the Economist its probably OK.
I've come across a very good energy game
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johnrichardson 16 November, 2007 at 10:02 am #
I had good fun pretending to be a certain very large US oil company which appears to have little interest alternative in alternative energy. Hence, I picked petroleum, petroleum and more petroleum with a bit of coal chucked in for good filthy measure.
The company came out lousy in terms of sustainability, but a parallel game would be interesting to show average ROI over a 10-15 year period.
Sadly, I suspect that the particular US company I was referring to would come out on top as always, way above their greener competitors (provided, of course, their lobbying machine doesn't break down and they are not hit with punitive legislation).
biofuelsimon 16 November, 2007 at 10:54 am #
Yes it would be interesting if the input and output prices were factored in to the equation. Makes me think we could have a third game… deciding what those costs should be.
Mike 21 November, 2007 at 4:11 pm #
That game is stupid. They should have gotten Sid Meier to make it to give it mass appeal. That would have been a great way to get more people to think about energy.
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I can't believe it, but I don't think I have ever asked this question. With the season premiere of Lost just a few nights away, I thought this would be the perfect time. It is actually two questions.
#1 – Favorite TV show of all time
#2 – Favorite TV show currently airing.
There are lots of television shows that I have loved through the years. Sopranos is probably my favorite, but I could make a case for Arrested Development, Arli$$, Amazing Race, The IT Crowd, and David Letterman when he was back on NBC. As for a show currently airing, I would have to go with IT Crowd or Lost.


text: Borgen returns for a second series on BBC4 in January The Danish political drama is back with Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen) facing peril in Afghanistan Comments Written By David Brown 2:30 PM, 13 December 2012 Danish drama Borgen will return for its second series on Saturday 5 January at 9pm, beginning with a double bill. Sidse Babett Knudsen reprises her role of prime minister Birgitte Nyborg, with the opening episodes seeing the political leader visiting troops in Afghanistan, only for the Taliban to launch an offensive against several Danish camps. On the personal front, Birgitte continues to put off signing the papers for her divorce from Phillip following the martial ructions that ended the opening season. The ten-part run also sees the return of Pilou Asbaek as media advisor Kasper Juul, Birgitte hjort Sorensen as journalist Katrine Fonsmark and Soren Spanning as politician Lars Hesselboe. The first series of Borgen took the International Award at this year's Baftas, where it beat off competition from fellow Nordic hit The Killing. Like this? Share it. Facebook Twitter Google Tumblr Pinterest Blogger Reddit VKontakt Print Email


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The Carinthia Open Mega Plaza at Mount Snow
West Dover, Vt. (March 6, 2014) – Professional and amateur snowboarders will have almost unlimited lines to choose from this Saturday, March 8 when starting down the mega plaza terrain park set-up for The C.O.M.P. at Mount Snow's Carinthia Parks. Following the tremendous success of the inaugural event in 2013, this year's competition is expected to have a full field of competitors looking to flex their style on a variety of unique features with pros vying for a piece of the $7,000 purse and amateurs looking to go home with gear from sponsors.
A "plaza", in terrain park terms, is loosely defined as an area completely filled with strategically placed terrain park features offering riders countless different lines to choose from. The features used for The C.O.M.P., like all of the 130+ elements in Carinthia's eight parks, are custom built at Mount Snow.
Not only is this event exciting for the snowboarders competing, but from a spectator standpoint there are few other on-snow spectacles that can match what The C.O.M.P. brings in entertainment value. A traditional rail jam might have four different features in a line, which after a few runs might get stale to watch. With more than 20 different unique features including tanks, boxes, the Big "C", wall rides and the debut of a couple new hits, all arranged at different angles and levels, repetition is not a factor.
"Like with our parks, The C.O.M.P. is a chance for us to get super creative and give these riders something they've never seen before," said freestyle terrain manager, Day Franzen. "This year's set-up is going to be unique, to say the least, so we should see some pretty ridiculous tricks."
Event sponsors are Oakley, Bern and Skull Candy. Red Bull has kicked in $900 to be handed out in $50 bills during the event to competitors who throw down the best tricks.
Schedule for March 8:
7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. : Registration and check‐in basement of Carinthia Base Lodge
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Guest Blog Week: You May Be a Bestseller on Tralfamadore
A few months ago, Nathan posed a question on this blog: "How Do You Deal with the 'Am-I-Crazies'?"
Those are the blues that can overwhelm the unpublished/underpublished novelist as we slog away, year after year, with nothing to show for our life's work but a mini-Kilimanjaro of rejection slips.
The truth is, most fiction writers spend our lives sitting alone in a room generating a product that has zero chance of ever making a penny—or even being seen by a person outside our immediate circle of friends, relations and/or personal stalkers.
So—not surprisingly—we occasionally ask ourselves that big, existential question: WHAT ARE WE—NUTS?
Trying to answer can plunge a writer into despair. So how do we cope?
Most of the over 250 respondents to Nathan's post answered with variations on the following advice:
1) Embrace the crazy and accept that we are, most of us, deeply and certifiably Looneytunes.
2) Chocolate helps.
3) Ditto booze and caffeine.
4) Ditto sunrises, music, and long walks.
5) Ditto the company/blogs/tweets of other lunatic writers.
6) And reading good books.
7) Or crap books, because we know we can do better than THAT.
8) Funny, nobody mentioned sex,
9) But denial is good. Really good.
10) And keep writing, even if it's just for ourselves, or the one person who reads our blog, or the dog, or whoever…because: WE CAN'T STOP OURSELVES.
And why is that?
Well, I have a theory: It's the Tralfamadorians. If you've read your Vonnegut (and what business do you have calling yourself a writer if you haven't read Vonnegut?) you know about Tralfamadore. It's a planet where a super-race of toilet plungers exist in all times simultaneously. The name of their planet means both "all of us" and "the number 541," and they control all aspects of human life including social affairs and politics.
Since these beings have infinite time on their hands, I figure they've got a lot of leisure to fill up with reading. And how do they get their books? Of course! They compel earthlings to write novels. Hundreds of thousands of them. Way more than earthbound publishers and readers can handle. But on Tralfamadore—hey, they're consumed like Skittles.
In fact, the Tralfamadorians are so eager for new material, they've figured out how to transmit stories right from our brainwaves to their TralfamaKindles the minute you type "the end" on that final draft.
And it could be that right now, as we speak, your first novel—the one that has been sitting in the bottom of a drawer along with its 350 rejection letters and the restraining order from that editor at Tor—could be at the top of the New Tralfamadore Times bestseller list.
Think about it. You could be the Dan Brown of that whole part of the galaxy, where readers are desperate—pining, pleading and panting—for your next book.
And that voice in your head telling you to pound away, day after day, trying to finish that opus, even though everybody, even your girlfriend—and your MOM for god's sake—says it sux? That's a transmission from the Doubleday Company of Tralfamadore saying, "Hurry up, dude, we gotta have this for our Christmas list!"
Hey, just prove to me it's not true.
86 comments:
- Amy Lundebrek said...
Best post EVER. (Sorry Nathan). :-)
- January 22, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- ryan field said...
Great post.
"8) Funny, nobody mentioned sex,"
Excellent point.
- January 22, 2010 at 11:19 AM
- Linguista said...
Great read! It's good to know someone loves my writing! Off to edit! :)
Oh, and sex is on every list implicitly. Noone HAS to mention it! :)
- January 22, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- maine character said...
That would explain the toilet plunger glowering at me this morning.
- January 22, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- Samantha Clark said...
Sounds like a good theory to me. Guess I should put more potty humor in my manuscripts. :)
- January 22, 2010 at 11:36 AM
- Robena Grant said...
This is too funny! Thanks for the great start to a cold, wet Friday.
- January 22, 2010 at 11:38 AM
- Mira said...
Awesome post, Anne. Funny and clever. You write with a sure touch and a great voice. I remember reading one of your earlier blog submissions to Nathan and loved it, too!
So, there's a bit of an underlying truth here - who knows what agenda our writing really fulfills? Thanks for speaking to that in an amusing way.
Well, okay then. I don't want to let the Tralfamodorians down. Better get writing. :)
Nathan, if you're reading this - really terrific choices this week. Thanks so much!
Of course, it will be nice to have you back next week as well - hopefully feeling refreshed and from all the fun you've had this week.
Thanks Anne - you rock. :)
- January 22, 2010 at 11:40 AM
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- January 22, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- Matt McDonald said...
I love any post with a Vonnegut reference by default, but this was good by its own standards.
Here's my thing: Nobody ever says that a 16 year old football prodigy is insane for spending his time and money on something he'll likely never do again past age 18 (let alone do professionally).
Nobody ever says that a guy who spends his weekends in a woodworking shop behind his house making tables is insane. Nobody calls hunters and fishermans crazy (even though, when you think about it, that's a consuming hobby that costs tons of money).
Writing is a craft, a hobby. It's something one does regardless of a chance at publication. And no one is crazy for indulging in a hobby, or bettering themselves at a craft.
- January 22, 2010 at 11:52 AM
- Geoff said...
- January 22, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Bring on the Skittles! This Tralfamadorian is getting peckish. I'll be at the opera this afternoon but when I get home I expect to see some dinner on the table.
- January 22, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- maybe genius said...
A Vonnegut reference, hurray! A+ read, would read again.
- January 22, 2010 at 12:20 PM
- The Pollinatrix said...
I like this. It's a humorous take on a concept that's been floating to me repeatedly out of the blogosphere in the past few days - that even when it seems like we're not having an effect, we really are. That when we do what we love, out of love, it always is the right/good thing to do.
Vonnegut knew what he was talking about!
- January 22, 2010 at 12:21 PM
- Munk said...
there it is
- January 22, 2010 at 12:22 PM
- Chuck H. said...
Ahhh! Montana Wildhack. Er, what were we talking about?
- January 22, 2010 at 12:26 PM
- Jason Kurtz said...
I have suspected this for quite some time, I have just be taunting the Tralfamadorians... Besides, they can afford to wait for the opus, right??? ;)
I agree with Matt McDonald, above. I think calling it a 'hobby' is a bit off putting, but it's true. Passions fall into many levels. I mean, writing isn't currently my Career, but I'd like it to be! And until it is, I guess I am going to have to keep satisfying my current audience...
- January 22, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- Arabella said...
Did you mean to put up a link to a password-protected site/blog/whatever it is? I really wanted to read about your publishing mistakes, but . . .
- January 22, 2010 at 12:36 PM
- CKHB said...
- January 22, 2010 at 12:51 PM
Finally-- a reasonable hypothesis!
I'm putting this on a t-shirt:
"The Tralfamadorians Make Me Write."
Or maybe
"I'm #541 on the Tralfamadore Best Seller's List."
- January 22, 2010 at 12:51 PM
- Lauren Johnson said...
How'd YOU know about that restraining order from Tor? Who have you been talking to?
So basically, keep on trying so that you'll have no regrets?
I can work with that.
- January 22, 2010 at 12:51 PM
- D. G. Hudson said...
Perhaps Vonnegut had a peek into that lofty realm of the Tralfamadorians. Anne, I loved this post.
It falls right in line with my theory of an alternate universe which overlaps this one, which I use to explain those gaps in memory and those times that I say, 'what did I come into this room for?' Switching back and forth can cause time delays, etc.
This is what I call a motivating post. A little humour cures a lot of ills. I'll definitely check out your blog.
- January 22, 2010 at 1:02 PM
- annerallen said...
Arabella--Thanks for the heads-up!! For some reason the link posted for my blog is corrupted and takes you to some password protected place I don't have a clue about.
Obviously, I want all of you to come over and visit my blog. I've even posted one of my oldies but goodies that got an addendum from Janet Reid, the QueryShark herownself.
Here's the correct link:
I think maybe leaving off that back-slash (my bad, not Nathan's) must have screwed it up.
I'm basking in all your praise, everybody. I seriously love the idea of those T-shirts, Sarah. I might just have to get some printed up.
Matt has a great point. Fishermen aren't considered crazy, even if they don't catch any fish. And hardly anybody can make a living as a fisherman anymore (just ask the poor commercial fisherpersons in nearby Morro Bay.) And yet we fish. And we write. Because we must.
- January 22, 2010 at 1:06 PM
- Kristin Laughtin said...
I'm not going to even try to prove it's untrue. You reference my favorite book extensively and I want to believe the Tralfamadorians love my novels. But even if they don't, I do. So as long as one of us compels me to keep writing, it's all good.
I agree that this post is venturing into "best post ever" territory. A+
- January 22, 2010 at 1:23 PM
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- January 22, 2010 at 1:33 PM
- Matilda McCloud said...
Looooooove this post! Now I finally have a reason for toiling away at my WIP! Yeah!
- January 22, 2010 at 1:48 PM
- Charity Bradford said...
I love you! And I dare anyone to try to prove you wrong. Stick to your theory, I've got your back.
Oh, and if I didn't write the chaos in my head, I WOULD go insane. :) So for me it is survival as well as those Tralfamadorians, but thanks for explaining to me why I just HAD to write the Draguman's history down.
- January 22, 2010 at 1:48 PM
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- January 22, 2010 at 1:59 PM
- Thermocline said...
I want Tralfamadorian royalties. What's the exchange rate?
- January 22, 2010 at 2:00 PM
- Suzannah-Write It Sideways said...
Too funny. I'm moving there.
I've never read Vonnegut, but now I think I must.
Looking forward to checking out your blog!
- January 22, 2010 at 2:06 PM
Well, that explains those voices in my head.
- January 22, 2010 at 2:10 PM
- annerallen said...
Nathan has fixed the link to my blog. For anybody who tried it and got an off-putting password protected thing--the friendliness of my blog has been restored. Do stop by.
Thanks everybody for all the fun comments. I'm looking into the royalty thing, Thermocline.
And CKHB, CONGRATS on your engagement to the Rejectionist. Awesome, indeed.
- January 22, 2010 at 2:12 PM
- TKAstle said...
Hallelujah. Now no writer has an excuse to ever feel crazy again, right?
Thanks, great post.
@Samantha Clark - "put more potty humor in..." cute.
- January 22, 2010 at 2:31 PM
- Melissa Pearl said...
Awesome post :) Thanks for making my day.
- January 22, 2010 at 2:38 PM
- Other Lisa said...
Put me on the T-shirt list!
I am all out of witticisms so I'll just leave my sincere compliments for a great post.
- January 22, 2010 at 2:57 PM
- Fawn Neun said...
When I first read the title I thought it said "You May be a Best Seller on Tramadol".
It sort of makes sense, either way, though, doesn't it? :)
8) Sex...
I thought this was why we were doing it...
Wonderful post! If you have a blog I must follow it!
- January 22, 2010 at 2:57 PM
Thanks for the post. I have been battling the demons all week "Am-I-crazy-for-doing-this-writing-thing?" while continuing to catalog the 15 form rejection slips in a humongous binder on MS 2. Then, I went back to MS 2 and started reading and editing it, once again. I still think it's good and my beta readers are pestering me about reading MS 3 which I finished, but put away feeling the rejection woes from MS 2...
And, all this time, I should have put my faith in Tralfamadores aka beta readers, so there you go! I'm saved. I resurface from the dark depths of despair and realize: writing is the journey for me, not the end game.
- January 22, 2010 at 3:01 PM
I guess I should clarify my editing efforts on MS 2. I ripped out the first fifty pages thinking perhaps, my story started out too slow. I have talked to a few beta readers about cutting a certain character and was contemplating just that, despite major protests from my following.
One does have to ask, who am I doing it for? An agent who can't be bothered to read the work? Or, do I stay with with the Tralfamadores aka my flock who reads my work and shun the rest? I have my answer. Again, thanks for the post.
- January 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM
- abc said...
3 things:
1. I'm totally on board with this theory.
2. Matt McDonald, Thank you!
3. Skittles are fracking addictive! Try to stop shoving them into your mouth by the painful handful (should you buy a bag). You can't!
P.S. Wonderful post!
- January 22, 2010 at 3:58 PM
Aliens ate my WIP.
Now I know what they were.
Thanks for this post!
(And the neat spaceship!)
- January 22, 2010 at 4:00 PM
- Marilyn Peake said...
I'm so glad your entry won! I commented on it in Nathan's Forums, but thought I'd comment here as well. Vonnegut's one of my favorite authors. I love your theory about the Tralfamadorians and their need for all the books written today. LOL. That is beyond awesome! Have you ever seen the movie Back to School? It's a comedy featuring Rodney Dangerfield, but Kurt Vonnegut makes an appearance as himself. The bit about Vonnegut in that movie is hilarious.
- January 22, 2010 at 4:12 PM
The deolaters have their gods; I have Fred, my invisible friend, who reads everything I write and sometimes doesn't puke.
- January 22, 2010 at 4:29 PM
- annerallen said...
Marilyn, thanks for your comment on the forum. My only one. I appreciated it the more for that.
Rodney Dangerfield. Kurt Vonnegut. In a movie. Together!?? Wow. Gotta put that one in my Netflix queue!
Fawn--there's a link to my blog in Nathan's intro. It's now working.
Thanks for taking the time out of your vacation to fix that, Mr. B!
- January 22, 2010 at 4:29 PM
- Emily Cross said...
Hey Anne!
Excellent post as ever. Highly recommend people drop by her blog, she is a great source of advice and knowledge!
- January 22, 2010 at 4:44 PM
- Fawn Neun said...
Anne- got it, following, hope to see much more of your writing in the future.
- January 22, 2010 at 4:47 PM
- Sarah said...
I love it!
Now, Anne, if you can just tell me about the folks who are responsible for my chocolate compulsion...
- January 22, 2010 at 5:09 PM
- christineA said...
Great Post. I've been following Anne's blog for some time now. It is truly always brilliant and wholly entertaining! Write on!
- January 22, 2010 at 5:11 PM
- Judith Mercado said...
I have found solace now. My novels don't exist solely in my computer or in a desk drawer. They have a reading public. Wow!
Wonderful post.
- January 22, 2010 at 5:16 PM
Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and Julia Roberts shouldn't be movie stars, because they should have been sensible enough to know the odds of them becoming movie stars was impossible and done something else.
The reality is we don't live by the percentages; we live our lives. Almost everyone who writes a novel think they will be the exception to the odds, and some of them will be right.
And ultimately, who cares if you're not? Is a life writing novels that don't ultimately sell any worst than what 99% of people do with their lives? Would you be happier if you spent that time watching TV, making a few more dollars, or whatever?
- January 22, 2010 at 6:50 PM
- Terry said...
Wonderful post. I'll have to check out your site.
Number 8 is odd. Hmm.
- January 22, 2010 at 7:13 PM
Anonymous 3:50pm is right. According to the Statistical Wisdom of the World nobody should ever dream of starting anything out of the ordinary, much less dare to complete it.
- January 22, 2010 at 7:57 PM
- Juli Cragg Hilliard said...
Yes. Oh, yes.
- January 22, 2010 at 8:00 PM
- Julie Roads said...
Every single word in this post is brilliant. Well, well, well done.
- January 22, 2010 at 8:13 PM
- Mia said...
And nobody ever says that a person who spends the weekends golfing is insane.
- January 22, 2010 at 8:14 PM
I loved this! :D
- January 22, 2010 at 9:07 PM
And THIS is why we love Nathan Bransford.
- January 22, 2010 at 9:34 PM
- Lesli Richardson said...
Hey, I'll mention sex. *LOL*
Hmm. It also explains the voices in my head.
AND it explains why the yahoos with the foil hats never get published on Tralfamadore. *LOL* Their signals out are getting blocked! :)
- January 22, 2010 at 9:56 PM
- Tambra said...
Thanks, Anne for a great post.
I write because I have to. Because the stories and characters in my heart and imagination MUST be brought to life on the page.
I've come too far to quit. My goals are in sight. We're writers, we create and share our beauty with the world.
Tambra Kendall/Keelia Greer
- January 22, 2010 at 10:14 PM
- David said...
So you're upset at Nathan because he hasn't gone after the royalties?
- January 22, 2010 at 10:45 PM
- Mimi said...
I'm definitely in the "we can't stop ourselves" boat. It's salve on the heart when the words come out right. Am I crazy?
- January 22, 2010 at 11:00 PM
- C Riede said...
Great post! I've written 'I don't want to let the Tralfamodorians down' on a post-it and stuck it on the wall above my desk.
- January 23, 2010 at 12:46 AM
i love this post. by far one of my favourites.
- January 23, 2010 at 12:57 AM
- Tara said...
There's no such thing as hurrying on Tralfamadore. It already is.
(Nonetheless, the metaphor is charming and appreciated, if inaccurate.)
- January 23, 2010 at 1:14 AM
- Ellen B said...
A lot of people have said a lot of inspiring things to me over the years - don't give up, you never know when things might change, just keep working.
This one may be the winner :D
- January 23, 2010 at 5:24 AM
- davidbdale said...
Will it hurt my chances at publication if I've just used a Tralfamadorian to unstop my toilet?
- January 23, 2010 at 10:33 AM
Just for the record, this Tralfamadorian is not a toilet plunger. I'm a back scrubber with one of those poufy things on the end of it.
- January 23, 2010 at 12:19 PM
- Andrea Franco-Cook said...
Hey great post. Funny, especially the restraining order part. Now I have a "true" reason to write. Tralfammadore is waiting.(:
- January 23, 2010 at 3:40 PM
- Leslie Garrett said...
LOVE this post...and not just because I'm a slavish, adoring devourer (is that a word? should be...) of all things Vonnegut.
Thanks. I knew there was a reason I did this. Could never quite put my finger on it, though.
- January 23, 2010 at 6:25 PM
- annerallen said...
Nathan and all the Nathanites, THANK YOU!!
Being blog goddess for a day has been such an amazing experience. I'm basking in all these appreciative comments. And to the new followers who have come over to my blog--welcome!
And isn't it nice we haven't heard a peep from any anonymous trolls? Maybe the Tralfamadorians have activated the anti-troll shields to make sure we get the word out: get back to your brilliant WIPs, folks. Tralfamadore is waiting!
- January 23, 2010 at 8:02 PM
- Carol J. Garvin said...
It's as good a delusion as any I've heard and provides justification for continuing to embrace this sometimes-mind-numbing pursuit called writing.
Great post, thanks!
- January 23, 2010 at 11:58 PM
That explains EVERYTHING. See, deep down I always suspected it went something like that.
I blame Vonnegut. Had he not written about Trafalmadore, the Trafalmadorians would not have won multidimensinal eternal rights over Earthlings' unpublishables. Their terms of sale suk!
- January 24, 2010 at 2:27 AM
- Rich Dailey said...
Very helpful. Now I know I'm not so insane as to understand what this post is about. Thank you. Thank you.
- January 24, 2010 at 9:25 AM
- howdidyougetthere said...
"Theere's aaaaaaa place for us...somewhere a plaaaaace for us..."
Sing with me, everyone!
Excellent post--
- January 24, 2010 at 10:32 AM
- Diana Paz said...
Great post, Anne! Your list is perfect and hilarious, and so is this post. I wonder if Trafalmadorians have all the rights to my stories or if any revert to me at some point in the foreseeable future...
I agree with Emily, your blog is a source of great advice and wisdom. Everyone should check it out :)
Also agreed that fishing seems like a such an unobjectionable pastime, even for the fishermen who come home empty-handed. Hmm, what if I take up "fishing" and go to a lake every weekend, but secretly bring my laptop instead of fishing gear? It could work!
- January 24, 2010 at 11:27 AM
I love it!
Thank you!
- January 24, 2010 at 1:07 PM
- lbdiamond said...
Just think, if we were Tralfamadorians, we'd already be published.
So it goes.
- January 24, 2010 at 9:51 PM
- Peter Newland said...
Fantastic post!
I'm a fan of #8
- January 24, 2010 at 11:02 PM
- Michael said...
I found this post conspicuously timely (if I were crazy in the schizophrenic sense). Let me start by saying thank you, so you know to read the rest of the comment to understand that it is in this vein.
I originally came across Nathan's site by googling some variation of "Vonnegut" and "literary." I was searching for inspiration after being rejected by an agent for being too literary in my partial submission. Apparently, I was suffering from what I didn't know at the time to be the "Am I crazies." One of the first entries took me to his October 29 post where he defended the importance of literary fiction in a marketability-sensitive publishing world. If you recall, this was the post that directly followed the one where he, first, outright bashed literary writing. In the comments some of Nathan's supporters had been discussing Vonnegut, which got me reading his blog. As I'm sure you feel the same way, his blog has been very helpful in not only learning how to effectively query but stave off the "Am I crazies" (a biweekly issue).
I just went back to that post and noticed you were one of the commenters that day. Just last week, I finally queried Nathan and thanked him for his guidance but I now realize that I owe you a thank you too. Your comments revived my confidence at one of my lowest moments. I thank you sincerely.
- January 25, 2010 at 12:23 PM
- annerallen said...
Michael, it means so much to know I cheered a fellow writer. I go through the "Am I Crazies" at least bi-weekly myself. I'll have to go back and see what that comment was. Maybe it was the reminder that Vonnegut was published as "pulp sci-fi," and not considered "literary" until he'd been writing for many decades. And as pulp sci-fi, he wasn't that successful.
You may never be James Patterson Inc., but if you keep knocking on stubborn doors, maybe you'll be the next Vonnegut. Sounds like a better deal to me.
- January 25, 2010 at 1:18 PM
- Michael said...
Great memory. That is exactly right. Just curious, do you read Haruki Murakami? What other authors do you like?
- January 25, 2010 at 3:43 PM
- Stricklen said...
I gave a writing talk to a seventh grade class last week Friday. One of the questions was why read a book when you can watch a movie. Luckily, I had with me the original Treasure Island novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. I held the book up in the air and explained that it had been published ninety-nine years ago. I could pick it up at the moment of my choosing and dive directly into the author's thoughts. "Writing is timeless," I said. I also went on to explain that when you watch a movie you may see for example shot of a man walking down a dirt road toward the sunrise. You are watching it as an observer but you cannot live it. In a book you know that the stones are sharp against his bare feet. The morning sun is blinding him and with weary legs the character trudges forward as a bead of sweat slides down his cheek.
I asked them if they had ever heard anyone say that the book was better than the movie. Almost everyone in class raised their hands. I said how is this possible? They spend hundreds of million dollars to create the move…how can the book be better? They looked at me blankly. "Because when you read a book you can get right into the body and thoughts of the main character, you can live it." I received smiles and nods and got the warm feeling that they understood.
What you write will out live you.
- January 25, 2010 at 3:57 PM
- Stricklen said...
Point is we are not crazy...
- January 25, 2010 at 4:04 PM
- Terry said...
Stricklen- Nice story and well put to the class. I'm not sure about the "not crazy." :)
- January 25, 2010 at 4:10 PM
- Stricklen said...
Point taken. Writing a query over and over makes me crazy.
- January 25, 2010 at 5:01 PM
- Chrystal said...
This post is right up there with my favorites, and why I continue to read your blogs & Tweets.
Keep up the madness.
- January 26, 2010 at 10:20 AM
- Wanda B. Ontheshelves said...
Everyone quotes Gandhi because he is a social change agent par excellence, or sui generis, well you know what I mean. But Martin Luther King Jr. quoted Gandhi, and I feel, unless you're MLK, maybe you should think twice about quoting Gandhi. I think MLK is a phenomenal writer, if you have ever read any of his books - collected speeches, etc. - there is a lot of quotable material in there, for grants and other purposes. And just all around inspiration.
- January 26, 2010 at 2:29 PM
- Casey McCormick said...
I'm reading this late, Anne, but I wanted you to know I read it and LOVED it. Totally explains everything. Woo. Glad you figured it out for us.
- January 27, 2010 at 7:01 PM


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Does Tropical Chinese Serve the Best Dim Sum in Miami?
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For several decades now, Tropical Chinese Restaurant has been serving its a la carte dim sum menu across the street from Tropical Park on Bird Road.
Many Miami foodies swear by the place, insisting that Tropical Chinese serves the "best dim sum" in the county. Whether or not you agree, you can't deny the place has real staying power -- especially in a city that chews up and spits out restaurants as if they were chunks of Skoal dipping tobacco.
We're not fans of the place and actually lament the recent shutdown of Chu's in Coral Gables, which we thought superior to Tropical. Others swear by Chef Ho in Sunny Isles. But Tropical has legions of faithful fans who beg to differ.
We have to disagree. During our visits, dim sum offerings, such as leek dumplings and steamed shrimp balls, have been overpriced and mediocre at best, plus hosts and servers can be downright rude.
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I'm posting here because most of the info in Family Bed/Nighttime Parenting seems to be geared toward younger kids. Obviously we messed up there because our kids NEVER go to sleep in a reasonable manner. I started putting DD to bed at 7:00. It's 10:00 now, and DH is STILL in there with both DC. (Of course he could be asleep by now, too...)
DD will be 4 on Thursday. DS will be 6 on Jan 17. I'm at my wits' end. I work (more than) FT and will start school FT next week. I'm transitioning into a new career, and the additional courses will take 18 months. In my theoretical plan, I'll put the kids to bed 3 nights a week, and DH will do it 4 nights. I will not have 3 hours to do it, though.
We have tried so many suggestions, and if anything works, it doesn't work for long. I'm really just at the end of my rope. I don't know what to do. We've tried both carrot & stick, and neither seems to work. They have toys in their room, and they play if they're in there alone. I'm tempted to take all of the toys out, but frankly, that would mean putting them somewhere else, which would mean making room for them, etc., etc. Still I'm at the point of thinking that may be the best choice we have.
They share a room and will do so for 1.5 more years. They absolutely cannot go to bed together because they play and talk.
We've tried different bedtimes, and it doesn't matter. There's no difference based on physical activity during the day either. We can go to the Y where they play for an hour and swim for an hour, and they still come home ramped.
TBH, if they would do something quietly in their beds, I wouldn't even care so much, but they don't. They get themselves more wired.
What does your routine look like? I don't know what to do!
Can you put one to bed in another room and then move them once asleep? I have 5 yo twins and when they were sharing a room we had to do that for a little while because they just couldn't control themselves together. They still sort of share a room -- there's a large pocket door between their rooms that mostly stays open -- and we close it when they won't calm down. We have a whole bunch of other things we do to make a routine, but I don't think it's the specifics of it make the bedtime peaceful and I doubt there was much that would have worked other than separating them until they got past 4-ish.
I'm sure you've tried it but the first thing I thought of was engaging them in ideas on how to make bedtime more peaceful or what ever language you want to use. You can tell them your needs and have them give the ideas. At least the 6 yo will buy in more easily. My two are the same ages but in separate rooms. I cannot imagine the high jinx that would happen if they were together.
I think separating them until asleep is a great idea, also removing all the toys, pens, paper. Strip it down to bare bones and they can earn it back one thing at at time.
For reference, our bedtime dance starts after dinner, around 5:30 and they are usually asleep by 7:30. Although their official lights out time is 7:00. We do bath, jammies, teeth, stories (one each), pillow talk and tucking in. It's a long stretch and we are hard line about what we expect after lights out. We also use specific language like, story time, sleep time. Also, we respond the first couple of times they come out of their rooms and then it's the silent return to bed technique. A couple of times, we've found them asleep on the floor at the top of the stairs!
Oh, and they each have cd players and lullaby bedtime music.
We have tried putting one to bed in their room and the other in our room. Or putting DD to sleep first and then DS. That will work for a week or two, but that's it. Then it's back to craziness all the time.
I do like the idea of a CD player. I wonder if we let them listen to soothing storytelling or music if that would help. We've done white noise and also meditation before bed. Again, it's great for a few days but nothing permanent.
I'm so totally at the point of bribing them with money, which I really detest doing, but I don't know what else to do.
The triplets share a room, so the periods of chaos have been brutal. When establishing the routine, there were no toys in the room, I was strict about timing, and if they were wild, all the lights got turned off and the door got closed. Now, they have toys in the room, the night light on and the door open, so things did eventually change.
Our routine is sloppy now, but when I was having trouble getting the kids to bed it was like clockwork and started at dinner, which was always at 4:45. I was probably hard-core about the routine for 18 months before their sleep needs started to change and things shifted.
The routine was dinner, short play time while I did dishes, go upstairs and pick out pajamas, bath, pajamas on, brush teeth, running around in the upstairs hall, Mama chases kids into bedroom, read three picture books, choose a story CD (alternating who chose), each kid turns out the light, turns on the CD and gets tucked into bed; Mama does a round of hugs and kisses, Mama gets sippy cups of water to have in bed and does a final round of "goodnights".
Most of the "sleep experts" say bedtime routines should be calming, but I always found that time running around between bath and bed did wonders to do the final tiring them out, especially on days when we didn't get outdoor play time.
Probably the most important thing is to figure out what schedule you need for the work schedule to succeed and talk to them about it while being strict about implementing changes.
mother of Patrick (7/31/03), and Michael, William, and Jocelyn (4/27/07)
I have two kids, DS is 6 (will turn 7 in May) and DD is 3 (will turn 4 in May) and they also share a room and will for the foreseeable future. Bedtime is 9pm and I go into the room with them. We have a bunk bed and the oldest sleeps on the top and I lie down on the bottom with the youngest. The youngest is in daycare and usually takes a nap - so she doesn't fall asleep until almost 10 pm. At least twice a week she doesn't nap a daycare and I love those days. My oldest falls asleep by 9:30 so I have tons of free time on no nap days. All I really do is lie down with them to stop the talking and I play a book on my MP3 player. My library has the Magic Treehouse Series available for download and we also listen to CDs for A to Z Mysteries. We will eventually need to find some new series but these are working for us.
I have tried leaving them alone and just playing the book, but they usually play around if I do that and they won't fall asleep until after 10pm. I have tried settling down routines, like reading a book or watching tv prior to bed, but it doesn't seem to make a difference for my kids. The routine can be very difficult for me so I have abandoned it. If I get a chance to read a book, I do it. If not, I don't worry about it.
Good luck - I hope you find something that works for you and your family.
I only have one, so I know it's easier, but this is what ours looks like:
8:45ish head upstairs, go pee, brush teeth, brush hair, put on pjs.
9:00-9:15ish start reading a book, then turn off lights, snuggle in bed, talk about our day, hugs kisses goodnight, and I leave.
9:30 asleep.
I don't know quite how we developed a dependably efficient routine. DD was a HORRIBLE sleeper for the first 3 years of her life! Now she knows that she's tired and the importance of sleep. She still naps 2-3 hours a day, and if it gets pushed real late or she misses her nap, she knows it makes her feel crummy. So maybe somehow getting them to understand the value of sleep? I have no idea how, but that seems to have something to do with our usually easy sleeping routines.
I'm curious, OP, what happens when they are left alone to do what they want? How long do they play? Can they fall asleep on their own once it gets really late? Not that I'm suggesting you do that purposely, I'm just wondering what the worst-case scenario is.
Mine are 4.5 and almost 9.
After dinner is bath time and if they have time between that and bedtime, they play or hang out on the couch with us or watch part of a movie. About 7:50, I start getting them headed downstairs. Then it's teeth brushing, going potty and into their beds. My older son gets in bed and starts reading while I read a book to my younger son. Once his is done, we turn on his disco ball and he goes right to sleep. Then I go read to my oldest. It's 8:30 at the latest by the time I'm done.
Something about the lights they have help with their sleep. DS1 has a lava lamp and he's gone to sleep much faster since he got that. DS2 has an old disco ball of dh's that he loves and once he's asleep I turn it off. I have also found that letting either of them read/look at books puts them right to sleep. Neither are asleep when I leave their room but they go to sleep pretty quickly after I leave.
My ds will be 6 in March and dd will be 4 in August. Bedtime usually starts at about 7:30 if they`re having a bath, 8 if they`re not. So they have a bath together, then jammies & brush teeth (if they don`t have a bath then they just wash up before brushing their teeth. Sometimes they shower separately - ds with dh & dd with me). Then I read stories to them for 20-30 mins. They then get into bed, listen to a CD & ds reads til he falls asleep (usually for an hour). Dh lies with dd til she falls asleep. So that`s usually around 9.
They kind of share a room, ds` room was an addition onto the back of the house, just off of dd`s room so there`s a wall with a doorway between them. She`s scared of the dark so ds` lamp doesn`t bother her, she also has a dim lamp on in her room as well.
My kids are about the same age as yours 5 1/2 and almost 4. For a while it was brutal when they first started sharing a room about a year ago. I was so used to ds1 just quietly reading books in his bed and then falling asleep. Then ds2 came onto the scene and is a totally different kid. Putting them into a room together just ramped up ds1. It always ended up with someone crying. I'll tell you what I did to make it better for us. Bedtime is 7:30. At 7, we brush teeth, get jammies and read books. And I try to be out of there by 7:30. Then, I let go of the idea that either of my kids were going to quietly look at books and then fall asleep. I got a dimmer switch. Then I set some rules with them: You may play together (with the light half dimmed), but as soon as I hear fighting or crying then everyone in their beds with the lights out. I stuck with this. the little one, and sometimes the big one, would bawl when I enforced it, but I just kept at it. Now, they will play well together and I will find them each in their own bed asleep. Now, sometimes it's 9 or 9:30. But that's fine with me. They aren't going to get to sleep before they're tired, and my kids are just not "easy sleepers." They never have been. This works for us. I also have a cd player playing books on tape for them which doesn't seem to help, but they like it. And we've cut out naps entirely unless there are circumstance that would call for it. Good luck, I know it can take a toll battling bedtime. I hope you find just what works for you and your kids.
This is what our ideal bedtime routine looks like NOW that our kids are 6 and 9 (and in reality, move everything forward about 20 minutes!)
7:45 or so: Pajamas
7:50 snacks
8:10 independent reading time
8:20 (for dd) brushing teeth, flossing
8:25 (for dd) mom/dad read one chapter of her book outloud, followed by prayers
8:30 (for ds) brushing teeth, flossing
8:35 or so dd goes to bed, keeps reading in her room
8:35 ds gets one of his chapters read
8:45 or so - ds in bed
somewhere between 9:15-9:45 ds gets up, puts his book away, comes down to say hi to me, hangs out with me, I get grumpy and tell him to go to bed, he says goodnight to dh, and FINALLY goes to bed.
When our kids were 3 and 6, the bedtime routine looked like this:
8:00 pajamas
8:10 snacks
8:30 story time (with both kids)
8:45 brush teeth
8:55 bedtime
8:55-?? mom or dad (depending on who's night it was) stayed in the room until the kids fell asleep. Dh would bring his laptop and work; I'd bring a book and read.
Note that we would not be in bed with the kids, but on the floor in between the kids' beds. (They're in separate rooms now, but at the time they weren't.) We tried to be as boring as possible. If they got out of bed (other than one quick trip to the bathroom) or were noisy, we left until they calmed down.
When we were trying to transition them to falling asleep without us, what we'd do is set the timer for increasing intervals and check on them. So, we'd start with 5 minutes, go in and check on them (if they were quiet and in bed, otherwise the timer was reset). Then we'd set it for 10 minutes and check. The 15, 20, 25, etc. Often they were asleep by the 10-15 minute mark, and a few days it took until the 25 minute mark. But, we didn't have to be there all the time. It was a quick check and didn't require us interrupting our activities for much. Eventually, they were able to regulate themselves and we could dispense with the timer. The timer was useful because it told them that we were coming back.
The final thing I'd say is: it takes us 2-4 weeks to establish a new routine.
ETA: Our bedtime routine also gets messed up whenever anyone is sick, we're on vacation, and sometimes even when the kids have a day off of school. If we have a day or two of 'off' bedtimes, it'll take us a day or two to get back into the routine. If we have a week, it'll take us a week.
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