a wee break from the chaos
ms 15 and her mum were away this weekend. so i spent the weekend at home with ms 18 and a distinct lack of mess. it was nice. no really bad music, loud ms 15 exclamations, no soaps, just peace and quite. ms 18 really surprised me. oh well, they're all back now. loud obnoxious music and television with the added sweetener of ms 15's exclamations regarding whatever enters the canyon's of her mind. if you're not tired, it's funny.....
any day now, she'll do the dishes.
Labels: ms 15, ms 18, mum, soaps, teens
who polices the police?
i think that it's a valid question. evidently there are some 30 odd police currently up against the court system. police rape trials. police brutality accusations. all kinds of charges. at the moment the police watch the police. is that a good thing?
ms 15, oh maker of great noise has arisen from her bed, at last. it's a hard job (watching tv, playing computer games, watching tv oh and i forgot eating) but someone has to do it. oh yes she did her dishes yesterday after 3 days so it was a particularly busy day. but, like a real trooper, she's back on the computer playing games. mmm, something is amiss.
Labels: ms 15, nz police
teens part 2, the return!
i arrived home and noticed ms 15 studying the ins and outs of her latest fav soap on tv [the dishes are gathering moss]. i am however, finding it somewhat difficult to reconcile her study habits to her stated goal of being a forensic scientist????? so much for home-schooling.
oh! is that the tinkling of dishes i hear?
Labels: forensic, home-schooling, ms 15
teens!
i now have two very nice flatmates that i live with in christchurch. a woman who i have known for a few years now, and her daughter who i will call ms 15. ms 15 only has one task each day, which is her contribution to the life she and her mum live. the dishes. ms 15 usually leaves her task as long as is possible. the result.....a large pile of dishes to do after her mum raves at her about being disorganised and lazy. of course, ms 15 has her reasons. all thoroughly thought through [did you like that, a tongue twister]. the most pressing, "i didn't have time!" what with two hours of television [her limit] watching to get through, two hours of lying on the sofa reading teen magazines, and listening to music i can surely see why it is so difficult to get to her task. i don't think that ms 15 notices that my dishes are done when i finish eating. i wonder how long it will take before she "gets it" that tasks done often, remain small tasks. can't remember how long it took me to figure that one out.
Labels: ms 15, teens
