Monicas
notes:
I
woke up early this morning to the sound of the garbage truck outside,
and figured it was no point going back to sleep, so I wanted to walk
downstairs to prepare breakfast for the kids, but as usual before
walking down the stairs, I forgot for a while what I was about to do.
Sometimes I just get lost in thought, I have always been like that
for as far back as I can remember. I thought the medication would
take it away, as it did with the other things, but clearly this part
of my thought pattern was something it couldn't erase. I guess its
just a part of me then...
We had a
nice breakfast where I talked to Lise Veronica about some of our most
research on how radioactivity affects plants. I would so like for her
to become a scientist one day, like me, but there's no pressure, of
course. She is a strong willed young woman sometimes, and I don't
want to push it to hard, but I do hope to plant the seeds of interest
in her for one day to perform something great.. pun intended...
I
wanted to go out and tend to my plants, but it was raining pretty
heavily, so I sat and watched tv while the kids went to school .Well,
Thomas did, though he said it was unfair how I go to just sit there
and watch tv while he had to get on the school bus...I didn't know
what to say to him other than that we've all be there, and that one
day it would be his turn to watch tv while his kids went to school. I
don't think it helped...
Lise
Veronica went up to her room to get ready, and got a little late for
the school bus, so she had to get a taxi, but it's her allowance...
It's clear my daughter has become a teenage girl, she spends much
more time getting ready now then she used to..
Lise
Veronicas notes:
My morning started as usual, by making sure that all my beloved animals were fed. David, Petrucci and Kuoppala. I wanted to clean their terrariums too, but then mom called us down for breakfast to talk about her boring science stuff. Something about plants and radioactivity, give me a break. I'm only in 9th grade, I don't know anything about that.. we learnt something about it just last month, but it was about fusion and that other thing... I think it was called fission. They are ways to create electricity in nuclear power plants, but it had nothing to do with actual plants.. I don't know what she's talking about, maybe she's starting to get confused again. We both took our medication before breakfast, so she shouldn't be, but I don't know...
I don't like this radioactivity, it sounds dangerous and hurtful to both the plants and the animals.. especially the animals.. I told mom I would get ready to go soon, I just had to play with my snakes a little before going.. Obviously I didn't tell her about the last part..
I love my snakes, they're fascinating animals, but they're not always to happy about being held and snuggled.. Kuoppala sure told me this morning by giving me a bite on the fingers. I guess that means play time is over..
I must
have forgotten about time I was upstairs as the school bus had
already left, but I didn't want to go to school anyway, so I told mom
I'd get a taxi and walked out the back door to run across the grass
to the bowling alley..
She said it was my allowance money, so of course I didn't want to spend them on a taxi to go to school...
If I
were to do that, I don't think I would've afforded to go to the
bowling alley.. they're not giving me that much, so obviously that
was a bad idea!
One simoleon, two simeolons, three simoleons...
********
[Song: Esmee Denters - Outta Here - Pop music playing over the speakers inside the bowling alley]
Well..
after I had counted my money and walked up to the lane to play, I
couldn't remember if I actually paid for it or not.. I must have
paid, because the screen was on and the lane was activated, but I
found myself second guessing it anyway..
It's kinda like all those
times where I get up because I want to do something.. but then I have
no idea why I just got up in the first place. Half the time I just
can't remember it at all, the other half it comes back to me after a
few seconds.. Everyone at school always calls me an airhead, but I
swear I'm not! I just sometimes.. forget about things...
Anyway, the place wasn't to crowded since everyone else would be at work or school.. so I figured I would risk it, and if I really hadn't paid, the clerk probably would have said something.. or maybe he had forgotten about it, too..
Well,
pretty much nobody was there until this old lady came along, said her
name was Iliana and asked me why I wasn't in school.. So I told her
we had the day off because the teachers had another planning day
where they were uh.. planning stuff, or something, so nobody was in
school anyway..
I
had to tell her another lie when she asked why I was there alone and
where my friends were. I told her animals were my best friends, which
is only partially true.. of course I have friends, I'm not a dork
like mom, but it was the best thing I could think of and I had to say
something. I don't know, maybe I am a dork, but I still have
friends..
Ivars notes:
One of the benefits of working late is that I get to opportunity to sleep in, and sure, sometimes its also nice to get the house to myself, but then again... sometimes it does feel a little empty. Also, I'm just really disappointed in all of them for still leaving their dirty dishes out.. the least thing they could've done would be to clean it up before leaving the house.. I'm not saying I want it to be impeccable at all times, but a certain standard of cleanliness should be expected, and this I find to be quite unacceptable..
Either way, after making sure everything was neat and tidy, I didn't want to stay at home today doing nothing, so I went to to the bookstore to buy another set of notes to practice some guitar. Now, if it wasn't for this darn rain I would have gone to the park, but I don't want my guitar strings to get all wet and slippery...
So I went with the second best thing and ran across the parking lot behind the store to the Hermansen lot to practice in the little café there.
Not among the people playing on the arcade machines of course, that would be to noisy, and I would need to hear if my playing came out good if I were to learn this new tune to absolute perfection. Not that it took me long anyway. It never does.
This, of course, gave me plenty of time to relax and have some fun
playing on the arcade machines before heading to work. I had to
perfect my playing there too, no one should have a higher score on
these machines than me.
Lise Veronicas notes:
I took the opportunity to run out of there when that old lady was
asked to dance by some man once the place started to get a little
more crowded. I didn't want to have any more people asking questions
and I didn't want anyone to think I didn't have any friends.
I couldn't go back home because dad would probably be there, and
going to school now was not an option. I would probably get detention
and extra homework for skipping class. I didn't want that, so the
only alternative was to head over to the Hermansen lot to spend the
rest of the day on an arcade machine, trying to beat my own score..
It wasn't far away, just opposite from the bowling alley across that
little park there.
That would have been a good idea, if it hadn't been for dad being there.. and of course he spotted me immediately after I had walked in through the front door! How is that even possible!?
Of course he wasn't very happy to se me there.. it was the usual, "What are you doing here!? Why aren't you in school!?" and yada yada yada... he certainly wasn't as gullible as the old lady, he wasn't buying my story of the teachers having a planning day, because that he would have known..
Well, what was he gonna do? He couldn't make me go to school, because I do what I want.. I was just happy to have pissed the old man off.. well, that's where I was wrong, because he did make me go back to school....
Ivars notes:
Now don't get me wrong, I'm
typically a pretty cool headed guy, and I certainly do not want to
yell and get mad at my daughter in public. It would not make our
family look good, like we didn't have things in order, but right then
and there I had no choice. I had to tell her where it's at, and how
disappointed I was with her not being in school. I just couldn't have
her skipping school like that, and her cheering and laughing at me
was the final drop. She was coming with me, and we were going to
school. No questions, no buts, no ifs. She was coming with me, and
that was it.
Now would you believe, she talked back to me! Right there, in front of the school entrance, and said she refused to go in there! Now, don't get me wrong, I love my daughter very much, but now she had crossed the line for the third time today! So I had to do what I had to do, and told her no tv for the next 24 hours! And that I wouldn't leave until I saw her walk in through that door! She wasn't going to get away with this one!
Sure enough she is my little diamond, but she was one step – ONE STEP – from being grounded! No tv, and she was going to walk in through that door, and she was going to sit at her desk for the rest of the day, be a good student and LEARN! I wasn't going ANYWHERE until I saw that happening! Now I didn't care if I was making a scene, she was going to do it!
Lise Veronicas notes:
Wow! Just wow! I didn't dad had it in him, he was mad furious! Well... so I had no choice then, but to walk through those doors to make him happy... parents! They're so easily fooled...
Did he think I was going to class? Of course not! I walked inside, sure, but then I stopped as soon as I had gone around the corner and peaked out at him through the front door to make sure that he turned around to get back to his car.. and then I just snuck out the back door, you know, just in case...
..and since the gym was right across
the street from school, why not go for a swim.. It was much better
than class anyway, and I was doing myself a favour, by practicing my
athletic abilities... Dad always talks about how its important to
have a perfect mind and a perfect body, so I don't see the problem..
sometimes I go to school, and sometimes I go for a swim... if he
really wants the best for me, he should be happy...
I
know I was... no problem! Then as soon as school was over, I got out
of the pool to go home and pretend like nothing, like everything was
normal.
Luckily dad was at work and mom was playing some video game, so that was an easy task. When she asked me how school was, all I needed to say was that it was fine and that I would be upstairs in my room doing my home work.. like I said, parents are stupid...
Since I actually didn't have any homework, or I probably
did, but since I wasn't in class, I don't know what it was, I decided
to clean up my room and do some laundry.. that was my responsibility
now anyway, especially since I always kept the door locked because of
the... you know, the snakes...
..but it wasn't just the snakes and David (he is my rat, I
found him behind the Corsican Bistro, remember?) that I care about.
It's also my little furball Pelsdott.. I was lucky that mom and dad
at the very least had agreed to take care of her, as her food bowl
was full and her litter box was clean and empty when I came home, so
I didn't have to do that.. they maybe dumb, but they're also good to
have sometimes..
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