Things you learn from Teengers I
There are times when I feel she is doing things totally for a reaction. Yesterday par example. I arrive home early from work as I was supposed to have an interview with the radio woman. I come into the apartment, the place is tidy I’ll give her that. Things have improved greatly in that sense due to the rota we came up with. Everything has a timetable and a checklist. It appears to be working so we’ll stick with it. She however sticks to her very rigidly. As in she won’t volunteer to do anything that hasn’t made it to the rota. I’m sure she will become more flexiable as time goes by. I cook her dinner and at one stage I turn around to talk to her, whilst keeping an eye on the pasta and she has a pencil stuck up her nose.
Whilst trying not to laugh outright at her, I continue to glare at her. She is looking at her sketch and filling in some more shadow. I calmly ask why she has a pencil stuck up her nose. She looks up:
“Oh, I keep losing it behind the couch so I thought I’d keep it there so I won’t misplace it”
Please tell me if that makes sense to you because it sounded like THE most ridiculous idea i’d ever heard. I asked her to remove it. She asked why. I glared some more.
“Fine. Be a snob” She uses this phrase the whole time. A snob never sticks pencils up their nose. Hmmm. She has interesting theories.
She has started a savings program. For program read piece of paper with the words “If I save every week until ” blah, I will have enough money to buy a guitar. I think she thinks that we’ll see it and go “Aw, maybe we should buy it for her”. Or maybe I’m being completly cynical and she is actually thinking of saving. Who knows.
