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Wall-E spoilage

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We watched Wall-E the other night. I had heard nothing but wonderful or controversial things about the movie, about it’s subject matter, about the animation, so I thought it would be worth checking out. I was not jumping up and down with anticipation because I am just not all about a CGI film about robots. Vance insists that I am insane for not finding Wall-E stinking adorable, and I am still adamant that an electric box with eyes can not be cute to me, even with artificial intelligence.

I watched the movie all while caring for a sick little boy who surprisingly sat quietly with us and watched the movie. I got what I initially expected. It’s an animated movie about robots. Only it’s like Idiocracy, because the earth has become covered by mountains of trash. Apparently humans developed the technology to create robots with AI, travel through space in a cruise ship and be carried around by hover chairs, but they back tracked and couldn’t figure out what the hell to do with their trash and had forgotten how to grow crops. Go figure.

A lot of people thought this film was the brainchild of hippy environmentalists who were critical of our life style and who feared what would happen to the planet if we continued this way. It was afterall the perfect time for this movie to come out, with environmentalism, altruism, and health in, capitalism, gluttony, and greed so out, so why not make a movie with this such subject matter? There were also a lot of people who couldn’t possible see anything political or preachy about the film at all.

Ever the film pundit, let me throw something in there. Who ever said there wasn’t anything political about this movie at all is wrong, but I do believe there are a lot of people who read to far into it and didn’t even give the movie a chance. Though it’s by far not the best Disney/Pixar creation, there is something to say for the awesome animation, and unfortunately those intolerant fucks missed out on it. By the way, anyone noticed that these movies just keep getting cooler? I do.

In my opinion, these writers were trying to get a point out there. I don’t consider it an important point myself. It reminded me a lot of Ayn Rand’s Anthem, in that it’s a highly exaggerated and unlikely scenario that is mapped out. Sort of like An Inconvenient Truth. It was more like the environmentalists worst fear. Is that something to take seriously? No. The movie fared alright despite it’s preachy content. The animation and imagery was awesome, and the story was even kind of sweet. I’m still not one for Disney movies about robots and space travel. I think these are more of the dude’s animated films (like Cars), which is why I think Vance liked it so much and I found it just okay. Hey, it’s a way to drag your man to the newest Disney/Pixar creation.

Follow-up

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Yesterday was rough.

Deven was a lot sicker than we originally thought. What we believed to be a simple “fever virus” turned out to be  much more. Like the day before, he wasn’t eating and I had a hard time getting him to drink. His fever had improved but he didn’t seem to be feeling any better. After about 6  diapers full of diarrhea it dawned on me that he had a stomach virus. Just to be sure I tried to feed him some toddler rice cakes for dinner and he threw up all over himself and in his high chair. It. was. so gross.

Today he’s much better. He ate some cheerios and drank his milk, and now he seems more like himself. Now I don’t know what this means for the rest of us! I hope this is something we brought home and have immunity to and this is the last we hear from this virus. Stomach flus are the number 1 most feared illness among Vance and myself.  Give me 6 colds and an ear infection back to back in 4 months, I don’t care, just as long as I don’t throw up.

That sounds horrible after what my son suffered through. Instead of providing him comfort I’m huddled in the corner shaking, praying that I don’t get sick too. This is the one part of motherhood I’m not sure I’ll be able to handle as well.

Today I’ll keep watching him, but I’m pretty sure it’s over. If we get sick, we get sick and there’s no use in freaking out about it, or going insane with the disinfecting. It’s definitely had every opportunity to enter my system by now. In the mean time I’m going to fill out my residency form and see about taking the college assessment test.

Passing the torch

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Poor Deven.

He woke up from his nap at almost 6 with a temperature of 103. He had been sort of out of it all day, acting tired and not eating very well. He didn’t sleep well last night even in the bed with me. I  had a feeling something was wrong with him ever since last night.

He has an appointment at the after hours Austion Regional Clinic at 7:10. I think he has an ear infection. I pushed on the conch of his right ear and he started crying. A couple of months ago I had an ear infection following a cold and I remember how horrible it was to eat, drink, yell, sleep…push on the conch of my ear.

We are now 6 for 6 in the sickness department. We’ve shared every cold bug thats passed through this house, and now we’ve both had ear infections. If he’s anything like me he won’t get many in his little life, despite getting at least 1 to 2 colds a year. It’s so horrible seeing him so miserable. My poor baby face…

UPDATE @8:50 Deven does not have an ear infection, just a “fever virus.” After looking at his ears the Doctor decided to look at his white cell count, and found that he is just fighting a little virus. So he’ll be fine with a little love and Motrin!