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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
this has been a really... strange week family-wise. and the weeks just barely off to a start, isnt it. first off, isabelle. isabelle isabelle isabelle. amazing what i didnt notice in the month plus that ive been staying at home. as much as it is fascinating watching her sorta "grow up", it really does scare me. a bit. it struck me that we are so... different. but the same, sometimes? its like wow. the other day she asked me. do you know who is my form teachers pet in class? and i was like, uhhh. you? and she was like yeah, and all happy and beaming and proud. i was like ... right. awesome! the way she bosses her friends around? i sure dont remember having playmates like that. or wanting to, for that matter. her friends almost seem to want to be bossed, sometimes. and the way she sneaks and goes tattle taling, like its all of her business. right.. like that will make so much of a difference to my life manzzz. now that we no longer have full-time help, she does the spying on me. oh puh-lease. calling back to see if im at home? opening the door quietly then rushing into the room to see what i am doing? err like, what on earth? you hardly need to score points with Les Parents, right. sometimes i cant help but feel that she really is a sanctimonious little i-dunno-what but wth. not like getting annoyed will change my life. so wells, here i still am.. but when she does remember how to be a kid, yeah well, thats real nice.
anyways. rachel? she uhh, lets see. had her k2 race today. they thought theyd own nj, actually. but then the line-up changed, so well. but still, they made it to semis. and im PRETTY DARN PROUD OF HER okay. she is like the CANOEING GIRLS CAPTION can. haha omg, i sound like an over-enthusiastic parent. eww. anyways. i hope she does better than me in As. she certainly does deserve it.
and well, then theres the parents. i cant help but get the feeling that after nineteen years or so, theyve come to realise that the person that they helped shaped really didnt quite turn out as they expected. and theres this air of exasperation and perhaps, futility even? cos i mean, oh shucks, nineteen years, so fast? the most impressionable years, all gone? and not-quite-suddenly theres this human being we have to contend with? i mean, yeah i kinda sympathise but. i am who i am already. i suppose i could change but... never mind. lame excuses shouldnt see the light of day anyways. so well, with each new habit they deem undesirable, they come up with a new rule, a new guideline for the young one. i feel sad for her, really. wouldnt wanna be in her shoes. i wish theyd decide on a solid rule thingy and stick to it. not just whatever sticks their fancy, or whatever comes up. maybe then ill really try not to break them..
and then there was this evening. its my cousins birthday soon and i joined them for dinner cos i dunno, weve been talking quite a bit recently? what with his random dog-walking thing to our house and all.. yeah so well, we had egyptian food. i mean like. egyptian food?! who eats egyptian food. yeah well i suppose now i do.. and they have this water smoking thing that looks really interesting.. anyways, it was really interesting, not to mention funny, to watch another family how-to-say, interact with each other.. i must say though, theyre a really vocal family. they can talk over each other when theyve got something (however pointless) to say. and my cousins are somehow ingrained to have their own opinions and passions, which is nice.. i was kinda surprised at how similar my mum and my aunt were. the way they do things, their supposed roles in the family.. although at first glance they are so, so different. and i didnt know my uncle could be funny as well. oh wells. but thats not to say theyre an abnormal family though. there were the (is suppose) usual bickers and stuff.
oh right. now im getting the cold treatment from the mother. the talking to other people but actually talking to me kinda thing. huzzah.
10:28 pm
gail.
loves anything new
gets caught up in causes, events, loves
but doesn't do anything about them.
professes to be a supporter of the green movement
but leaves the lights on
disapproves of mcdonalds
but eats there anyways.
godwise, the jury's still out.
schoolwise, fass rocks my socks
but why do i have like a ton of work to do?
familywise, i guess theyre/its great
we just need to figure out what to do around each other?
freindswise, hey you guys are awesome.
blogwise, realises that the profile section is crappy
but doesn't know how else to fill up the space.
