I'm not a holiday person. I don't go all out and do a lot of decorating or a lot of cooking. But I had been looking forward to this particular 4th of July. Didn't have any spectacular plans except to spend it with my daughter, Cherokee. I promised to take her to see Despicable Me 2. I told her to find a mantinee because those are cheaper than the evening showings. Of course she found the earliest showing there was and woke me up at 8:15am when I was planning on sleeping in a little later.
Now, my daughter's not a little girl anymore. She's a twenty year old woman with Asberger's Syndrome which is a form of Autism. Hence it's my own fault for not being very clear with her that I meant early afternoon and not first thing in the morning. But no problem, I got up and found the energy to drag myself out of our apartment to see the movie. We just grabbed McDonald's for breakfast on the way.
I'm a big Despicable Me fan so I think I was looking forward to the movie more than my daughter. We talked a little during the previews and commercials in normal tones because they were just previews and commercials. And the second the movie started we got quiet except for laughing at the funny parts. I'm sure people that people who make movies are hoping to elicit reactions from people; laughing when it's funny, crying when it's heart breaking, etc. And there was a part where a car drove off a pier and after submerging turned into a submarine. Cherokee and I said to each other in a relatively hushed, "I want a car like that." Not long after that an attendant came and told us we were being too loud.
I was shocked. Too loud? We were barely speaking to each other because we were watching the movie. And when we did speak, except for laughing out loud, it was a whisper. Well, that ruined it. I couldn't enjoy the movie after that. I was afraid to even laugh when something funny happened.
I was so upset.
You want to know what the problem really was. We weren't being loud. That father that was there with his wife and kids thought we were lesbians and was afraid that every time we leaned close to whisper to each other we were going to make out in front of his children. So he tried to get us thrown out of the movie. What a sick perv! To assume we were a lesbians and that we were going to make out in front of his kids.
Regardless of sexual orientation, anyone should be able to go to a movie and not get harassed for it. Next, if I was going to a movie with my honey and I was hoping for some tongue action, I wouldn't be at a cartoon.
We still did a few of the other things we planned to do today for the 4th of July. I made us hamburgers and bought us a water melon. I picked a good one too. Thumping and sniffing don't work, or at least they don't work for me. You've got to check the stem. If the stem is completely dried up brown and crusty, you've found a ripe melon. If it's still got some green to it, not ripe yet.
We planned to go to the fireworks that will be just a few blocks from our apartment, but I can't do it. I don't want to be near any people. I'm afraid some jackass will come up, accuse me and my daughter of being lesbians and I'll go to jail for kicking his ass.
It's a sad pathetic world we live in when you can't just go to a movie with your own child and enjoy it.
I'm from Ohio, spent the first 30 years of my life there. Lived in South Carolina for seven long torturous years. Now, I live in Utah. I am the single mother of two special needs children, a boy and a girl. I have black hair and brown eyes. I'm just barely 5 feet tall, but I have a big heart.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
No Pants
Dreams are the strangest things. And sometimes you have one that just leaves you thinking: What was that about? Where did that come from? And that's exactly what my dream last night left me thinking.
I found myself back in my mother's home in my old room. I was going back to college to get my masters and I had a math class to get to.
Now mind you, 2003 was the last time I even stepped foot back in Ohio and it's been much longer than that since I stepped foot in my mother's house. We're not close.
Yet there I was trying to get ready for my math class and my mother announces that she's getting married. Well I of course asked to who because I didn't know she was seeing anyone. She says Dale who is a friend of mine from here in Utah that she has never met and that isn't her type in any way shape or form because he's a white guy and my mother has always dated men of color.
Except I have my math class to get to. I couldn't make to her wedding and my math class at the same time. So I apologized because I couldn't ditch my class and I was going to miss her wedding. But she was fine, she understood.
There was just one problem. I couldn't leave the house because my pants and underwear kept disappearing leaving me in nothing but a large over sized sweat shirt. I would put them on, start to leave and poof, they were gone.
Now I wasn't embarrassed to suddenly find myself naked from the waste down, just mad. I couldn't leave the house because my pants and underwear kept disappearing after I put them on leaving me in nothing but that huge over-sized sweat shirt. It was really frustrating.
I found myself back in my mother's home in my old room. I was going back to college to get my masters and I had a math class to get to.
Now mind you, 2003 was the last time I even stepped foot back in Ohio and it's been much longer than that since I stepped foot in my mother's house. We're not close.
Yet there I was trying to get ready for my math class and my mother announces that she's getting married. Well I of course asked to who because I didn't know she was seeing anyone. She says Dale who is a friend of mine from here in Utah that she has never met and that isn't her type in any way shape or form because he's a white guy and my mother has always dated men of color.
Except I have my math class to get to. I couldn't make to her wedding and my math class at the same time. So I apologized because I couldn't ditch my class and I was going to miss her wedding. But she was fine, she understood.
There was just one problem. I couldn't leave the house because my pants and underwear kept disappearing leaving me in nothing but a large over sized sweat shirt. I would put them on, start to leave and poof, they were gone.
Now I wasn't embarrassed to suddenly find myself naked from the waste down, just mad. I couldn't leave the house because my pants and underwear kept disappearing after I put them on leaving me in nothing but that huge over-sized sweat shirt. It was really frustrating.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Baba Yaga and Vasilisa
Vasilisa: Despite being mistreated by her step-family for many years; Vasilisa has remained kind, gentle and loving. She is a hard worker and very brave with a true heart filled with love for all things.
Baba Yaga: An ugly, nasty, evil, ancient as the oldest mountains witch. Her heart is as black as her eyes, and she has sharp pointy teeth. She is completely devoid of love and compassion. No humanity exist with her except when she eats one.
Baba Yaga called, "Hey girl! Ain't you got nothing to say. I've been alone in these woods for centuries. And now that I got company, I expect some conversation. At least until I get bored with you and eat you.
Vasilisa responded honestly, "You can't eat me. I'm too full of love. And please take a step back for a moment with that stink breath. Honey, when was the last time you brushed your teeth. They look as nasty as your breath smells. Here... have Tic-Tac."
Well no one had ever give Baba Yaga anything before. She accepted the Tic-Tac and Vasilisa's friendships. And she never at another person ever again. Tic-Tac's tasted much better than people.
Baba Yaga: An ugly, nasty, evil, ancient as the oldest mountains witch. Her heart is as black as her eyes, and she has sharp pointy teeth. She is completely devoid of love and compassion. No humanity exist with her except when she eats one.
Baba Yaga called, "Hey girl! Ain't you got nothing to say. I've been alone in these woods for centuries. And now that I got company, I expect some conversation. At least until I get bored with you and eat you.
Vasilisa responded honestly, "You can't eat me. I'm too full of love. And please take a step back for a moment with that stink breath. Honey, when was the last time you brushed your teeth. They look as nasty as your breath smells. Here... have Tic-Tac."
Well no one had ever give Baba Yaga anything before. She accepted the Tic-Tac and Vasilisa's friendships. And she never at another person ever again. Tic-Tac's tasted much better than people.
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