Monday, March 9, 2009

Concrete. Drawers. And the bag lady.

Today I am sort of wandering aimlessly when it comes to blogging ... just like the bag lady that I had nightmares about as a child. For real ... there was this bag lady ... and I really had nightmares about her.

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Our community association is finally filling our roads. We have lived here almost four years and we are still swerving around manholes. But before they fill the road, they apparently need to repair the concrete in the gutters and at the end of our driveways.

So right now my driveway looks like this ...
... which is fine, nice and dandy ... but couldn't they fill both halves of my driveway so they at least match? I mean what is more annoying than having two different colors of concrete? Ahh call me petty, but it sure does annoy me!

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My daughter ... also known as Chicky ... has this little obsession with emptying drawers. It only takes her about 2.2 seconds, so by the time you catch her ... the damage is done.

And it drives me crazy! Her obsession also goes beyond drawers ... toy bins are also game. Ugh.

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So are you wondering about the bag lady I had nightmares about as a child?

Ok, I will tell you the story.

There was this woman ... she was a homeless woman {aka: bag lady} and she wandered the city we lived in. When she walked, her head bobbed up and down ... up and down. I was a young child and of course, I thought she was so bizarre. Her actions in general were so bizarre that there was no way a child like me wouldn't have stared at her.

So one day I spotted her across the street and I watched as a lady walked her bike down the sidewalk with her child in her bike's child seat. The child pointed at the bag lady and just then, the bag lady grabbed the bike and shook it ... with the child in the child seat.

I swear ... I was terrified of the bag lady. I had nightmares about her ... nightmares that she was going to come to my house and get me.

Isn't it strange the things that stick in a child's mind? I will never forget the bag lady ... although I wish I could.

10 comments:

  1. Yuck, I’d hate all that different concrete too.
    Draws, must be an age thing, Aden does the same. I have packed the book shelf into boxes, locks on kitchen draws (3 kinds and he has figured them all out), the fridge is the one that drives me crazy and he purposely does the fridge when he is cranky at me, for turning off the TV lol

    Ok, we all might be having nightmares now about the bag lady. Sounds like she wanted to scare kids? Maybe that was her thing. She wanted kids afraid of her, like the old witches in movies in the creepy old house. Lol eek!

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  2. No WONDER you had nightmares!!! I can only imagine how scary it would be to see that as a child!

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  3. That would bug me too about the concrete! And, Ethan does that too!!! We have to lock our room because he will be at Scott's dresser so fast emptying it!!! Too funny.

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  4. in Mexico concrete is always from diff colors lol

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  5. oh forgot to say that Elias used to be the faster empting drawers and saying NO was not working so we startd playing to put inside everything, so that worked fine for him

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  6. Kaia did the drawer emptying thing too. She has finally gotten over that stage (for the most part), which is nice, except Pierce has now picked up where she left off in that regard. Ugh....drives me NUTS!

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  7. Kira is queen of drawer emptying here! She also enjoys distributing diapers around the house and can clear a bookshelf in 10 seconds flat. I try to focus on the fact that she's "reading," when I find her sitting in a pile of books.

    And a bag lady story...In my pre-SAHM mom life, I worked for our local library. One day the smell of gasoline was wafting through the building. I followed the smell to the basement bathroom and found one of our regular homeless women BATHING in gasoline. That was almost 8 years ago and I still see her around town.

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  8. The bag lady thing would have freaked me out too! Scary! We put drawer locks on Karli's dresser so she couldn't empty them any more. Now she's moved on to emptying her bookshelf and the food basket in her kitchen. :)

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  9. Payton has talent! Matthew does the same but only with Nate's drawers. I think he enjoys tormenting his brother (and mother who always has to fold the clothes back up!)

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  10. Ooh, I came home to a total disaster in Samantha's room today. Two drawers emptied, toys and books everywhere. And she was totally silent while doing it. LOL
    I find it interesting, the things that make big impressions on us as children.

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