Two dinner items
Apr. 18th, 2005 01:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgalTwo things from dinner yesterday that stuck out in my head and that I thought I'd share/document before I forgot them... as I am so prone to doing nowadays.
First off, my boss' mother came up from FL and is now staying with the family. She's a really nice lady and I've gotten to know a lot about her in the last few weeks since her arrival. But she said something very wise and very reminiscent of Debbie from QAF (last episode of S3). It was something close to: "My husband and I used to make up songs all the time. We believed in celebrating every happy moment, because there's so much pain in life and it's important to cherish the happy ones." And then she went on to sing us part of their made-up song about a friend's mother who liked to make chicken and noddles or something, but that's not the point. It was just... I don't know... nice to hear wisdom like that. Reminds me of my grandparents... and reminds me to acknowledge my happy moments more.
And second (and much less thought-provoking but much more sneeze-related) my boss' daughter (who's 12) needed to sneeze at one point during dinner, but the feeling went away. She was sitting at my end of the table, nearly right across from me and talking to her cousin (the expecting daddy). She was saying how she really needed to sneeze and the feeling went away. He told her to look at a light but she said she did and it already went away. Then she started explaining about how depressing it was when she couldn't sneeze because she absolutely LOVED sneezing. How it filled her with a rush of excitement and how she could practically consider it a hobby, just sitting around and sneezing.
Anyway, all ickiness aside (being that she's 12 and an absolutely adorable kid) I thought it was amusing and actually rather interesting. I mean, I know a lot of kids find it funny and enjoyable, but she's a very smart and mature chica. And it's comments like that which make me want to pick up my stories involving characters with the fetish :-) Anyhoo... thought I'd share for the mindset of it all... if that's the right term. I don't know. I found it interesting. Oh, and cousin was doing the laughing and nodding bit in reply but didn't say much on the subject.
First off, my boss' mother came up from FL and is now staying with the family. She's a really nice lady and I've gotten to know a lot about her in the last few weeks since her arrival. But she said something very wise and very reminiscent of Debbie from QAF (last episode of S3). It was something close to: "My husband and I used to make up songs all the time. We believed in celebrating every happy moment, because there's so much pain in life and it's important to cherish the happy ones." And then she went on to sing us part of their made-up song about a friend's mother who liked to make chicken and noddles or something, but that's not the point. It was just... I don't know... nice to hear wisdom like that. Reminds me of my grandparents... and reminds me to acknowledge my happy moments more.
And second (and much less thought-provoking but much more sneeze-related) my boss' daughter (who's 12) needed to sneeze at one point during dinner, but the feeling went away. She was sitting at my end of the table, nearly right across from me and talking to her cousin (the expecting daddy). She was saying how she really needed to sneeze and the feeling went away. He told her to look at a light but she said she did and it already went away. Then she started explaining about how depressing it was when she couldn't sneeze because she absolutely LOVED sneezing. How it filled her with a rush of excitement and how she could practically consider it a hobby, just sitting around and sneezing.
Anyway, all ickiness aside (being that she's 12 and an absolutely adorable kid) I thought it was amusing and actually rather interesting. I mean, I know a lot of kids find it funny and enjoyable, but she's a very smart and mature chica. And it's comments like that which make me want to pick up my stories involving characters with the fetish :-) Anyhoo... thought I'd share for the mindset of it all... if that's the right term. I don't know. I found it interesting. Oh, and cousin was doing the laughing and nodding bit in reply but didn't say much on the subject.
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Date: 2005-04-19 12:36 am (UTC)Your Old Friend,
Mike