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waiting for my mum to finish an appointment i dragged my sister out of the car to a nearby playground because i wanted to try out the see-saw. it was a very nice and breezy, summery day, and i suspect there was cocaine in the air, because that might have been the only way to explain the following exchanges.
michelle: *stares at see-saw* "that's not a see-saw. that's a piece of bent metal. death by bent metal."
yvonne: "oooh look at the trees they're so lovely! pretty pretty trees. when i grow up i want to live in a tree."
michelle: "... you want to be a tree?!?!"
michelle: *wind blows and hair flies across face* "oooh look i'm hitler."
and earlier that day...
yvonne: *warbling* "shush, girl, and shut your lips; do the helen keller, and talk with your hips"
michelle: *utterly AGHAST look* "HELEN KELLER DID NOT TALK WITH HER HIPS. HOW THE HECK DO YOU EVEN DO THAT."
and later that day...
yvonne: *fingering a particularly dubious shirt* "should i buy this?"
michelle: "i will disown you."
not to forget mum...
michelle: *waving bye at the bus stop* "ohkay byebye! there, there's a shuai ge to keep you company till your bus comes *points at gi joe movie poster*"
half an hour later mum calls. michelle picks up and looks retarded.
michelle: *hangs up* "omg mummy just called me to say that she listened to me and has been staring at the shuai ge for damn long and the longer she looks at it the more it looks like daddy."
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this, michelle dearest, is revenge for your not being online when i ran back from dance through the rain!
and i am happy. i realise i haven't been this happy for a while. :):) maybe it's the dance, maybe it's the incredibly glorious sunset in a sky washed clean by rain, maybe it's last night's ruminations. oh the choices we make the paths that we take-- i never knew how much that was weighing on me until i made the switch.
mental states count SO much.
i'm happy (:
p.s. maps.google.com rocks. i'm using it to not get lost, and i just calculated the distance i am from home-- 9682.40km. woots. that's crazy. (and yes, if you must know, i tried to get walking directions for that too. google thought i was mad hahaha)