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Some of these replies about how the residents may have acted when they found out it wasn't casino night seriously had me laughing out loud!! Thanks fj !!!

Same here!!

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Let's not forget that some old men can get quite handsy as well.

Don't worry I'm sure Steve is well aware (terrified) of that. I bet none of his precious daughters can play card games with unrelated men, even those that are elderly. There is a suspicious lack of male residents in the pictures. Or it's completely possible that those few women were the only ones kind enough to humor the Maxwells and everyone is off playing their own games somewhere else.

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There is a new post up with some of Mary's illustrations...I don't know if she intended for them to look a little cartoon-y or what, but they look a little "off".

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My mother's nursing home is similar, although occasional spontaneity is permissible if the residents or their families organize it. They also have serious parties with lots of booze--I imagine the evening shift workers may be less than thrilled with a bunch of buzzed senior citizens.

I have used my Rapture-versary gift card on a collection of the Works of Sarah Maxwell. Only $0.01 per book. F*N times await!

When my Grandma was living, her assisted living home was very similar as well. These people had tons of fun. They had special meals catered in, workout classes, weekly evening entertainment, religious services for those who desired them, a hair salon, a library, and tons of field trips - some to overnight places. I always wanted to stay and rent a place there whenever I visited.

And I'll never forget Grandma's 80th birthday party that we threw for her in their Common Room. It was an open invitation for people to come by and have some apps, cake and booze. Let me tell you - these folks loved their booze. And they loved to tell their stories and meet new people. I wonder if that ever occurs to the Maxwells that these "elderly" are people who have lived long lives and have their own stories to tell. They are not waiting around wondering when Death is coming for them.

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There is a new post up with some of Mary's illustrations...I don't know if she intended for them to look a little cartoon-y or what, but they look a little "off".

It may just be her style. I think the first picture is fine but in the second one the mom's face looks weird. I know a couple of people who draw (one is an actual artist) and they both like to do cartoony stuff.

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I think she meant it to be cartoony.

Also, the mom looks kind of like Melanie to me.

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It looks as if Mary is developing her own style. Good for her! Maybe Steve hasn't influenced her in that regard. Maybe. But, yeah, they're cartoon-like and not meant to be realistic. Also, she's still learning/practicing. I think they're quite good for what they are. Go, Mary!

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Sorry, "style" or not, I don't think Mary's art is much to crow about. It looks like exactly what it is, amateurish work drawn by someone who MAY have some natural talent but hasn't been given the opportunity to study and learn. You can't develop a style until you've got a good grounding in technique and no matter how many books Mary looks at or how many one-off "lessons" she gets from a "friend," she'll never be allowed to study the masters or receive honest feedback from a qualified teacher. Her drawings look off to me because her figure studies are off. There's a good reason why art students spend so much time on life drawing. It's no to get their jollies from the nude models, it's because a study of anatomy is crucial to understanding how the human body is put together.

I also don't think she's very good at drawing from her imagination. The portrait she drew of herself and Teri wasn't terrible but I'll bet big money that she drew it from a photo. These drawings? Probably not and it shows. She hasn't got the technique to work without a safety net.

I'd love to link you to my friend's daughter's work (I've mentioned her before when talking about Mary's art) but don't want to do it without permission even though it's all public. She's also an illustrator—a real one—who showed talent even as a toddler but she got the encouragement, the education (RISD grad) and the critique an artist needs.

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It's either 1) Always let Erika win or 2) Every moved is scheduled so that the game only takes as long as Erika has planned for it to take.

I don't imagine Erika to be very competitive in a game. The opposite, actually. I picture her being the person who picks up the game when the scheduled time is over, regardless of how close someone is to winning or losing. She's like to just go through the motions of the game and talk about how they "created a memory" and "how (child) benefited from said game." and later have discipline time for everyone who got "too competitive" or "played wrong"

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What's happening with the thought bubble in the first illustration? She's dreaming about a smarmy lookin' dude with a to do list on his wall?

In any case I'm glad our cartoon friends learned that time would much better be spent sweeping the floors instead of wasting your time reading!

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The drawings don't look bad to me, but I'm a stick figure artist, and even then not very good stick figures.

I was trying to figure out what she was trying to get at in the first picture. I guess that the children will need to learn to schedule their time when they grow up and go out in the real world and get jobs?

Oh, but wait! The girl will not be working outside the home, and the boy, with the lord's blessing, will be working from home.

Did anyone else notice how square jawed and conservatively handsome the young man is in the thought bubble above mom's head? What goes on in that head of yours, Mary? :naughty:

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Let's not forget that some old men can get quite handsy as well.

I noticed about 5 to 9 women residents and zero men residents at the game night. And Sarah mentioned that many of the ladies were still talking about it.

Maybe there was a game on and all the men are sports fans. ;)

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So nice that Teri posted such an uplifting Bible verse:

“Redeeming the time, because the days are evilâ€

(Ephesians 5:16).

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Someone should send Steve Cards against Humanity to play the next time. It's basically Apples to Apples right? :nenner: :twisted: :lol:

Edit: Not sure how well-known Cards Against Humanity is in general and in other countries. For those who don't know it's similar to Apples to Apples in gameplay, but is instead very offensive and dirty. Something that would make Steve cry within 2 minutes of gameplay.

I just played that game at a get-together the other week! Mrs. lawlife and I are getting along a bit better with my parents, and so we went to their old college roommates' cabin. My mom's roommate married one of my dad's roommates, so there's this group of about 4 couples and all their families who are all really close. On Saturday at the cabin, we all got drunk and played that- and let me tell you, it was really weird to see my straightlaced, strict teacher mom read the cards like "a sad handjob" and "50,000 volts to the nipples!" I can't imagine Steve Maxwell reading such things.

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What's happening with the thought bubble in the first illustration? She's dreaming about a smarmy lookin' dude with a to do list on his wall?

In any case I'm glad our cartoon friends learned that time would much better be spent sweeping the floors instead of wasting your time reading!

I gathered that mom saw the kids being lazy and remembered Dad's list of things they were supposed to do, so she put them to their assigned tasks and Dad didn't beat them that night--- all was right with the world.

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What's happening with the thought bubble in the first illustration? She's dreaming about a smarmy lookin' dude with a to do list on his wall?

In any case I'm glad our cartoon friends learned that time would much better be spent sweeping the floors instead of wasting your time reading!

I interpreted that first cartoon as the mom and kids are not happy because they're not organized, while the thought bubble guy is happy because he uses a to-do list to stay organized.

Then the second cartoon shows the mom and kids now happy because they have learned to be organized.

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I thought the first bubble showed that Dad has a schedule at work and so the home should be structured in the same way.

And then I realized these were the Maxwells and there was NO working in an office for Dad.

Then I wondered WTF the bubble messages meant.

Then I said "Screw it". If you can't get a message across understandably and simply, people aren't going to give a shit. And I don't.

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What I find weird is how the women are wearing long skirts in those cartoons, but the mum has short hair. Ah well, looking back at old pictures of Teri (e.g. in the 15 years of Tits2 post) she had short hair.

blog.titus2.com/2014/01/31/celebrating-15-years-with-titus2/

In that family picture, Anna seems to have quite short hair too. (I'm surprised Teri, Sarah, Anna and Mary aren't wearing matching frumpers in that picture).

(Also, those people have quite huge heads and skinny limbs, a la Disney. Bit odd...)

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Okay, yeah, I get it more now. I think the thought bubble is the mom thinking about how a businessman has a good schedule. Or something like that...or maybe she's fantasizing about having a husband who works outside of the home, lololol

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So nice that Teri posted such an uplifting Bible verse:

“Redeeming the time, because the days are evilâ€

(Ephesians 5:16).

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Well, in Maxhell, the days ARE evil. There's no way Teri is happy, and it shows.

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So nice that Teri posted such an uplifting Bible verse:

“Redeeming the time, because the days are evilâ€

(Ephesians 5:16).

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Teri needs Pollyanna to teach her about the Bible's happy texts. :)

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I was pleasantly surprised at Mary's illustrations.

#1, the stylization tells me she's looked at something other than the depictions of Bible times in her KJV. Maybe she's browsed the books at Costco, or she's keen-eyed enough to have noticed cartoony styles as she walked by the stacks.

#2, in the second piece, the female child is working with paper and a writing implement while the male child does housework. Relief!

#3, the mom's facial expressions are pretty successful at showing displeasure and the opposite.

I can't read about Maxhell very often, too depressing by half. But this one gave a little hope ... though not for Teri. Mic drop, I'm outta here.

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I also am interested in where Mary's inspiration comes from for her drawings. Those male hairstyles don't look like they would be acceptable in Maxhell.

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