I live a very full life
Jun. 26th, 2002 03:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fearlesstempWas netless for a few days and did not die. Didn't even suffer any visible permanent damage, which was a surprise. I did snarl to my brother tonight that I was going to go online, Goddammit, and there was nothing he could do to stop me.
Spent a good part of Sunday and almost all of Monday babysitting, and this is the part of the LJ entry where you would get The Obligatory Babysitting Anecdotes but since I'm tired, you all will be spared and I will simply briefly list the experience's more remarkable moments:
(1) When Ari, the four-year-old autistic boy next door, decided to sneak out of his house, freak out his mom, and run through Emma's sprinkler with us. After which he decided to strip off his clothes and run around naked, freaking Emma out and upsetting his mother. Ari's mom ran next door to get a bathing suit and left me alone with Emma The Mildly Freaked Out, who walked around big-eyed and off-kilter, and Ari The Nude And Suddenly Adventurous, who investigated the nude back porch, slide, swing set, and sandbox experiences. It was wackiness all around!
(2) The time I was play-fighting with her and she looked up and, completely serious, said "You want a piece of me?"
Look! You guys are getting off with only two boring anecdotes! Lucky.
Went to a movie and an early dinner with my grandmother today, which was big fun, except for the part where I felt like a jerk because she wouldn't let me pay for anything. I asked her to go! It was my idea! And then she wouldn't let me pay for anything! I may be mad po', but I can afford a matinee and early dinner out with my Nana. I went home and chilled for about forty minutes and then my grandfather called me because he needed help with one of his phones, so I went down there and spent a good part of my evening at his house. It's so funny -- it's always cool helping out older relatives with their Massive Technological Problems because they are usually as complex as the one I faced today: A phone that would not work because someone had unplugged it from the jack. Afterwards I got drafted into doing some gardening work in the backyard, where my grandfather went from Extremely Grateful Grandpa ("Thank you so much. I'm so glad you came. This garden hasn't seen a gardner as good looking as you in years!") to Frustrated Gardening Guru ("Not like THAT, don't be dainty, just shake the dirt out...no, No, NO, give me the rake, I'll do it myself!") in approximately 2.6 seconds. But it was fun.
In other news: My Soapnet addiction has gotten so powerful that I actually taped Sisters today. Also, have been completely sucked into the new USA series The Dead Zone (I want mental superpowers! Minus the six-year coma to get them, of course.) and Mysterious Ways on PAX. I keep trying to break my Mysterious Ways habit, but no dice. Ditto with Mutant X.*
*Speaking of Mutant X, I have become weirdly fascinated with the show and am, well, kind of dying to read good fanfiction about it, if there's any out there. I can't help it! There are people with superpowers cavorting about! I can't resist! So, you know, if anyone out there can help me out, I'd be eternally grateful.
Spent a good part of Sunday and almost all of Monday babysitting, and this is the part of the LJ entry where you would get The Obligatory Babysitting Anecdotes but since I'm tired, you all will be spared and I will simply briefly list the experience's more remarkable moments:
(1) When Ari, the four-year-old autistic boy next door, decided to sneak out of his house, freak out his mom, and run through Emma's sprinkler with us. After which he decided to strip off his clothes and run around naked, freaking Emma out and upsetting his mother. Ari's mom ran next door to get a bathing suit and left me alone with Emma The Mildly Freaked Out, who walked around big-eyed and off-kilter, and Ari The Nude And Suddenly Adventurous, who investigated the nude back porch, slide, swing set, and sandbox experiences. It was wackiness all around!
(2) The time I was play-fighting with her and she looked up and, completely serious, said "You want a piece of me?"
Look! You guys are getting off with only two boring anecdotes! Lucky.
Went to a movie and an early dinner with my grandmother today, which was big fun, except for the part where I felt like a jerk because she wouldn't let me pay for anything. I asked her to go! It was my idea! And then she wouldn't let me pay for anything! I may be mad po', but I can afford a matinee and early dinner out with my Nana. I went home and chilled for about forty minutes and then my grandfather called me because he needed help with one of his phones, so I went down there and spent a good part of my evening at his house. It's so funny -- it's always cool helping out older relatives with their Massive Technological Problems because they are usually as complex as the one I faced today: A phone that would not work because someone had unplugged it from the jack. Afterwards I got drafted into doing some gardening work in the backyard, where my grandfather went from Extremely Grateful Grandpa ("Thank you so much. I'm so glad you came. This garden hasn't seen a gardner as good looking as you in years!") to Frustrated Gardening Guru ("Not like THAT, don't be dainty, just shake the dirt out...no, No, NO, give me the rake, I'll do it myself!") in approximately 2.6 seconds. But it was fun.
In other news: My Soapnet addiction has gotten so powerful that I actually taped Sisters today. Also, have been completely sucked into the new USA series The Dead Zone (I want mental superpowers! Minus the six-year coma to get them, of course.) and Mysterious Ways on PAX. I keep trying to break my Mysterious Ways habit, but no dice. Ditto with Mutant X.*
*Speaking of Mutant X, I have become weirdly fascinated with the show and am, well, kind of dying to read good fanfiction about it, if there's any out there. I can't help it! There are people with superpowers cavorting about! I can't resist! So, you know, if anyone out there can help me out, I'd be eternally grateful.
