friday night
Jul. 4th, 2008 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
same_skyHappy Independence Day! I am sitting here on my parents couch while they're out watching fireworks. We decided that Evelyn wouldn't appreciate the loud noises, or the late hour, so we're skipping it. That's okay because I watched fireworks from the bedroom window while putting E to sleep... at least a few. I have never seen such large fireworks in a home setting before. Your nation's drug money put to good use. My parents live in a nice brick house that sits on seven acres. After they bought the property, the neighboring property got turned into four rows of trailers (three on one side, one on the other.) Lovely. Actually, the one row was already there, but it has gone WAY downhill. Old LJ friends might remember when we lived next door to that row of trailers, before we moved towns four years ago. We had fun things like drunken college kids pissing in our yard, drunk men shooting their guns off the porch ten feet away from our kitchen window, and Saturday night drunken brawls. ("F^#* you, you F#&#ing F#**#&er!" is still our favorite line from that era.) It's even worse now because it seems that the drunk kids have been replaced by a set of bona fide drug dealers, and last week, someone broke into my dad's shop and stole a bunch of power tools. I just love it when people reinforce those nasty stereotypes! *mgrmbl*
So anyway. Evelyn was not having one of her best days because she refused to sleep in the car on the way up here. She was miserable and making both of us miserable, but she didn't care. She was doing better after got to her Granny. :) My parents bought me a sewing machine at a yard sale, but after I got to play with it, we noticed that it was broken. ;( It ran but then slowly bogged down and stopped after twenty seconds of stitching. It wasn't necessarily a super machine or anything, and I do have one, but it was reasonably priced and better than mine. So I spent part of the afternoon playing with that and then we took it back to the yard sale and got our money back, which was good. It seemed pretty suspiciously like she did in fact know that it didn't work. I guess it might have been something easily fixable, but... I didn't know that for sure, so it seemed a little risky to take that chance with a machine not that much better than mine.
That's about all the news I have. M's sister arrives on Friday so we're planning on spending the rest of the weekend cleaning up the house. I am going camping at least one day this week and probably two (assuming that Evelyn cooperates on the first day.) With my parents, of course, and only during the day. Stay at home mom or not, cleaning for company does not fall on my shoulders so doing it when M is not working? Yes, thank you. And after she gets here? A week of vacation for my boyo! That's pretty exciting.
My lap is getting too hot for typing more, so I think I shall go check on the baby and then harass M, or read, or something like that. Hope your holiday (if it is your holiday) was good!
So anyway. Evelyn was not having one of her best days because she refused to sleep in the car on the way up here. She was miserable and making both of us miserable, but she didn't care. She was doing better after got to her Granny. :) My parents bought me a sewing machine at a yard sale, but after I got to play with it, we noticed that it was broken. ;( It ran but then slowly bogged down and stopped after twenty seconds of stitching. It wasn't necessarily a super machine or anything, and I do have one, but it was reasonably priced and better than mine. So I spent part of the afternoon playing with that and then we took it back to the yard sale and got our money back, which was good. It seemed pretty suspiciously like she did in fact know that it didn't work. I guess it might have been something easily fixable, but... I didn't know that for sure, so it seemed a little risky to take that chance with a machine not that much better than mine.
That's about all the news I have. M's sister arrives on Friday so we're planning on spending the rest of the weekend cleaning up the house. I am going camping at least one day this week and probably two (assuming that Evelyn cooperates on the first day.) With my parents, of course, and only during the day. Stay at home mom or not, cleaning for company does not fall on my shoulders so doing it when M is not working? Yes, thank you. And after she gets here? A week of vacation for my boyo! That's pretty exciting.
My lap is getting too hot for typing more, so I think I shall go check on the baby and then harass M, or read, or something like that. Hope your holiday (if it is your holiday) was good!
