Having the kids home for the summer equals a raucous, joyous, LOUD, party with your best friends. Parties are hilarious, and spontaneous, and make for great memories. They also cause you to stay up too late and make a mess in your house. But, who cares, right? The party is so worth it.
Having kids leave after the summer equals easing into the hammock with a tall iced tea and a book that’s tough to put down. No mess, no noise, and a good excuse for a nap.
Both are wonderful.
Bud moved first. Not back to school, but into his own place. The good news here is that he is close by and we will see him often. The bad news is… give me a minute here. Um, the bad news is… oh, look, SQUIRREL!
Oh, heck, we’re going to miss the guy. But, we’re just so proud of what he’s accomplished, and it doesn’t hurt that he is now completely self sufficient and has a totally cool 55″ TV that we can go drool over anytime we like. I knight thee HULKAVISION.
And, most importantly, Bud has a Wii. I have a Wii. He has Mario Kart. I just bought my own copy of Mario Kart, my dear Mario Kart. Bud may have escaped the family home, but he cannot escape my Mario Kart obsession. Sorry, dude, you can take the boy out of the family home, but you can’t take the Mario Kart obsession and network connection out of the Mom. Or something like that.
BTW, here’s a quick shout out to everyone who has helped Bud get his new place ready. DustMeister was invaluable helping move and putting things together (read: the ALL IMPORTANT entertainment center, holder of the HULKAVISION. And, Singing Sally is Bud’s own personal Martha Stewart. Were Bud to be left to his own decorating devices, his living room would consist of plastic tubs, a duct taped office chair, a lava lamp, and the HULKAVISION.
Oh, hey, I recall someone else moved out too. Look, thanks to AUBS and DustMeister (that guy’s making himself valuable – I suspect he wants something), Magoo has a new home too:
Quick story. DustMeister was in charge of setting up Magoo’s computer and speakers. He immediately went about installing all security updates on her laptop. She immediately went about yelling at him for doing so. I totally had his back and explained installing updates was THE SMART THING TO DO.
Two days later, her laptop blew up completely and even though Windows would not boot, it was nice enough to explain to her that it refused to ever work again because of a recently installed SECURITY UPDATE. I hate it when non-nerds are “proven” right when they are so OBVIOUSLY WRONG.
But, we nerds can have our sweet final laugh.
With the help of a kind neighbor geek of Magoo’s, her laptop was repaired last night. Yet, she called me this morning saying her wired Internet connection still wasn’t working. I explained to her she’d have to ask kind-geek-neighbor to help her again, and that he’d probably need to install a wired network card driver, blah, blah, blah.
Here is a text conversation Magoo and I had tonight:
Magoo: ”COMPUTER IS ALIVE”
Me: ”Yay! What did you do?”
Magoo: ”Erick came over and clicked the Internet button and it worked. And then I yelled at him for a while.”
Me: ”Oh dear, somewhere out there is a geeky girl born on your birthday at the same hospital you were born at who is missing her real parents.”
Magoo: ”Oh, shut up. It seriously didn’t work for me.”
Me: ”Uh huh.”
SweetGuy and I LOVED this summer. And, we are sorry it has come to an end. But, we shall console ourselves with a tall iced tea and a nap amidst our sorry.
