Update 6/15- 6/21
Hi Friend!
I started the week sleeping in
my car. Lucas got some new camping gear for
the trip, and as I did as well, and he asked if I wanted to come over and try
it out together. Like a parallel play
sleepover. The only thing missing were
the walkie-talkies. When I told Jordan, he
was like, “So you can have an extra night of being miserable?” Kind of… but
with access to a bathroom. My lil Renegade
is about 6 inches too short, so it only really works if I sleep on an angle and
don’t change positions (which is something I love to do.) When I first got
settled, and for about an hour after, Percy sat on my chest looking at me and
then staring at the house as if to say, “Did you know that the house is right
there? There are beds in there,
too. Like, right over there. Maybe you’re not looking where I’m
looking. Not here, here is not a place
where we sleep.” Eventually, he settled in, but then woke up at 5:30 am to tell
me, “This counts as a sleepover, and know what I like to do for sleepover’s? WAKE UP MY OTHER MOM AND HUMANS. Let’s go, I’ll show you where they are. They are apparently smarter than you, because
the are in the warm house. In real beds.
Remember those?” Then I spent an hour
and half holding a whimpering dog until Dawne and Nala got up. What did I learn? My new double North Face sleeping bag is
amazing. And It’s going to be a long, uncomfortable
road trip – and I might need to pee outside like an animal. An animal that has a bunch of Pee Pockets
that they didn’t use in India.
Continued discussing Me and My White
Supremacy, but this time, without crying (yay!) and did virtual Harry Potter Trivia
TWICE. Both times, the questions were
very challenging, but we went from like 12th place to like 6th
place so I feel like we’re definitely getting better. In between those two days, I watched a rat
slowly, very slowly, like over the course of 6 hours, slowly die a painful poisoned
death. During this time, I wouldn’t let
Percy out in his back yard, and if you thought the whining was bad during the
sleepover, try to tell a dog he can’t go in his own damn yard.
I met Joey and Becky a couple of
times at the dog park – basically every time it wasn’t raining. And then on Friday evening I went over to
Dawne’s for dinner, and to find out that she totally has everything you could
ever think of packed for our camping road trip so I just need to bring myself. Which, is super weird, b/c I’m usually the
over packer, prepared one. I mean, I’ll
still pack 1000 different types of wipes, antibacterial gel and weird random
things that only extra non-campers would back.
But basically, I just need to bring myself at 90 when I’m 6 inches
shorter.
Saturday, I woke up to a text
saying that Patrick was graduating! So I
clickety-clicked the link and watched my oldest nephew graduate from good ol’
Lakeland High School! Best (and fastest) graduation I’ve ever “attended.” Bailey and I opened out Accio box to find it
was totally Kitchen themed, which is super fun!
Especially, b/c last month it was bathroom themed, complete with Granger
Dentistry toothbrushes! And then I missed an awesome fondue dinner prepared by
Bailey. So instead, I continued
celebrating Juneteenth by watching Chris Rock, Wanda Sykes, and Becoming on
Netflix.
Convo with Zach on Friday Night:
Some Random Funny:
In 2019, I went to the WA beer
fest with Becky. A classic Father’s Day
event! I don’t think it was this time (but maybe it was!) I went to this
festival, got there and found out that I totally forgot my ID. So I showed a police officer a picture of my
passport, and my maturity, and they let me in. (This might be what they were talking about
with the whole white privilege thing…)
Oh and I saw Zach eating a
breakfast of champions!
This week in 2018, Lucas
graduated from Evergreen State College.
As we were sitting there, waiting for the event to begin, and I was
looking at the program, Zach leaned over to me to ask, “Can I see who is
speaking? I’d be really happy if it was no one.”
We all stayed at this little casino / resort near by but
no one could handle the smoke inside the casino. Jordan asked for some used card decks, and
then we found every chair on every floor, and brought them all to one floor
that had a couple of tables outside the elevators and we played our own poker
game. Jordan footed us all the cash to
play (it was all about quarters.) I ended
up ahead (in that I didn’t lose EVERYTHING I was given, and Jordan said we
could KEEP the winnings. I was THRILLED
because I had been wanting to vacuum my car, but never had quarters on me. (The all caps really emphasize how excited I was to win some change.) Meanwhile, Lucas couldn’t even have the
quarters from poker long enough before he was running to blow it all on a
vitamin water. Not quite adulting yet… 😊
2017
Momela: Your father was
responding to a text from June 10 2013 and wants you to know he does respond to
messages.
I think we might have had an
oreo tasting party to celebrate the loss of not winning the oreo flavor content
(I’m still bitter.) And what I remember
about this particular party is that I ate so many oreos on an empty stomach
that I needed 2cc’s of string cheese to balance things out so I didn’t get
sick. I also think I was re-reading
Harry Potter – which is fun b/c I’m doing that again now!
I also made a couple of notes
from this week that I don’t understand, but I really want to – so I’m going to
leave them here and hope someone can fill me in:
1) I dropped my wallet and thought ugh waids. Got a new wallet.
2) Chlamydia = Iceland handshake.
3) Wolverine though! (Knives)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3m9phZMJo12m2PKRA
1) I dropped my wallet and thought ugh waids. Got a new wallet.
2) Chlamydia = Iceland handshake.
3) Wolverine though! (Knives)
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3m9phZMJo12m2PKRA
And that’s about it folks! Hope you are all safe and happy.
Love you!
T O’B
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