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23 June 2006 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
in_steadThis morning, I got up, got ready, packed up my favourite toys, and let my mother drive me to the babysitter's before she headed off for Sudbury.
Well, not really, but it rather feels like it.
We discovered that we have acquired a colony of carpenter ants in our house and so we got an exterminator in to get rid of them. He is currently spraying poison into our baseboards and doing other, exterminator-y things with toxic substances. We tossed the cats outside for the day and mom is taking the dogs in to the kenel for the day, but that left the problem of what to do with me. Under normal circumstances, I could be relied upon to entertain myself until it's safe to go back to the house this afternoon, but given the can't-sit-can't-drive-can't-overexert limitations I am currently opperating under, it got a bit more complicated than that.
A brief tangent: the night my back siezed and I went in to the hospital, my mother and sister and I were all semi-frantic about what to do. We fretted about each other until we were going in circles with it -- my mother was worried about my back and about keeping my sister out late when she had an exam first thing the next morning. I worried about my mother's knee and about my sister being out late when she had an exam first thing the next morning. My sister worried about my mom's knee, my back, and the emotional strain of it all on both of us.
In all of this, did we think to call anyone for help?
No, we did not.
And, trust me, we heard about it. One of my friends from school gave me hell for not calling her up. She came to see me in the hospital and informed me quite indignantly that she would have been more than happy to come out and pick my mother up so that my sister could have stayed home and done school work and gotten to bed in time. My mother also got an earful from her two closest friends in town on the same topic. Both of them lectured her at great length on her blind self-sufficiency and pointed out that they would have been more than happy to come out at any late hour of the night to take my sister home and then come back to sit with my mother in the hospital to wait for news.
We were both quite cowed and apologised profusely to our respective friends.
Back to today: My mother called up one of the two chastisers and, to make amends, asked if I could come and recline at her house for the day. I am currently installed on her couch, with the remotes for the digital cable close at hand and free access to her wireless internet.
(and, if I may say, this is WAY better than the babysitters I had when I was younger! digital cable! wireless internet!)
I will be fed lunch and a snack in the afternoon, and then I will be driven home and dropped off at a time that will not leave me at my own devices for too long before my father and sister, who have been out of town, arrive back home later this evening.
Hi. I am the sevenest. I think I may be having a second childhood.
Well, not really, but it rather feels like it.
We discovered that we have acquired a colony of carpenter ants in our house and so we got an exterminator in to get rid of them. He is currently spraying poison into our baseboards and doing other, exterminator-y things with toxic substances. We tossed the cats outside for the day and mom is taking the dogs in to the kenel for the day, but that left the problem of what to do with me. Under normal circumstances, I could be relied upon to entertain myself until it's safe to go back to the house this afternoon, but given the can't-sit-can't-drive-can't-overexert limitations I am currently opperating under, it got a bit more complicated than that.
A brief tangent: the night my back siezed and I went in to the hospital, my mother and sister and I were all semi-frantic about what to do. We fretted about each other until we were going in circles with it -- my mother was worried about my back and about keeping my sister out late when she had an exam first thing the next morning. I worried about my mother's knee and about my sister being out late when she had an exam first thing the next morning. My sister worried about my mom's knee, my back, and the emotional strain of it all on both of us.
In all of this, did we think to call anyone for help?
No, we did not.
And, trust me, we heard about it. One of my friends from school gave me hell for not calling her up. She came to see me in the hospital and informed me quite indignantly that she would have been more than happy to come out and pick my mother up so that my sister could have stayed home and done school work and gotten to bed in time. My mother also got an earful from her two closest friends in town on the same topic. Both of them lectured her at great length on her blind self-sufficiency and pointed out that they would have been more than happy to come out at any late hour of the night to take my sister home and then come back to sit with my mother in the hospital to wait for news.
We were both quite cowed and apologised profusely to our respective friends.
Back to today: My mother called up one of the two chastisers and, to make amends, asked if I could come and recline at her house for the day. I am currently installed on her couch, with the remotes for the digital cable close at hand and free access to her wireless internet.
(and, if I may say, this is WAY better than the babysitters I had when I was younger! digital cable! wireless internet!)
I will be fed lunch and a snack in the afternoon, and then I will be driven home and dropped off at a time that will not leave me at my own devices for too long before my father and sister, who have been out of town, arrive back home later this evening.
Hi. I am the sevenest. I think I may be having a second childhood.
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Date: 23 June 2006 02:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 23 June 2006 02:49 pm (UTC)HI! I emailed you The Thing. Didja get it? I was worried about attachments coming through at work.
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Date: 23 June 2006 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 23 June 2006 03:09 pm (UTC)*runs to open*
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Date: 23 June 2006 02:41 pm (UTC)because i heart you, and your sevenestness and thought you might enjoy being read to (for free!)
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Date: 23 June 2006 02:52 pm (UTC)I love books on tape and I LOVE Lucy Maud Montgomery. I actually had Anne of Green Gables on tape when I was younger -- although I've read every other Anne book, I've only ever listened to Green Gables. Every time I tried to read it, it just felt wrong to see the familiar words tied down to a page in black print.
YOU I WITH THE LOVE OMG ::HART::!
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Date: 23 June 2006 02:55 pm (UTC)*cuddles you*
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Date: 24 June 2006 02:39 am (UTC)Oooh.
Aaah.
Send me your address!! All the invitations are out except yours!
*edit for fixed links*
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Date: 25 June 2006 01:56 am (UTC)I'm a twit -- all, YES, YES, SEND ME MY INVITATION and no follow through. Many apologies!
The address is:
167 West Peninsula Dr.
North Bay, ON
P1B 8G4
::heart::