I’m so tired, my eyes feel like they’ve been dipped in salt water. Ouch. Today was interesting. I visited an old folk’s home in the morning. They all seemed really happy, actually. Of course one would expect the sad sights; growing old is easy but growing old without falling into a state of disrepair isn’t. But they seemed happy, nonetheless.
Nick turns 16 in less than an hour. You’re growing up, my boy. I still vividly remember the times I had to be a knight in shining armor and fend you off with a chair while you wielded a pair of sharp scissors, intending to kill Sharmaine. I still think it’s extremely unfair that we all got slaps on the hand in the end (when all I was doing was trying to save both your lives). And I remember you and Sharmaine hiding above your bunk bed when I was 12, threatening to tell your father and my mother that I said “Fuck.” Somehow I don’t remember where I learnt that, but I think it might have been you two who (whom? can never get that one right) taught me what the word was in the first place. And desperately trying to sleep with the night light on, because you two were crazy monkeys afraid of the dark. I have a secret to tell… I actually switched it off when your breathing slowed to a comfortable pattern.
Good memories. Golly good memories. Happy birthday Nick. You know I love you.
Like how I love it when it rains at night. It rained last night which made sleeping under the comforter very comfortable. If I had been sleeping under the comforter in my own bed. I’ve been relegated to sleeping on floors recently, strangely enough. Like how I’ve become an alarm clock.
It’s ok, I curiously enjoy these things because they come along with something much bigger and better. Something much more important than grumbling about sleeping on floors and waking up early.
Ah, simplicity suits me well. And being the Libra that I am, I couldn’t decide on which picture to put up, so I’m putting two.
Astreal at Rock the Sub.
I guess I was curious enough to sell myself out with black and white. Damn you, damn you I say.
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