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la_rainetteWhen nothing happens, I have time to post but nothing to say. Whenever Life moves onto the fast lane, I have stuff to say, but no time to post.
Gah.
I had a billion appointments/errands to run before school started, and also a Third Child to take care of. Third Child was not supposed to come visit this year, he was supposed to go to Spain instead. But his passport had expired, and for reasons that would be too long to explain (and involve the current French president's Insanity), he was unable to get one on short notice, so they cancelled his trip. When he unexpectedly got his passport in August (against all odds), he packed his bags and flew over to spend the month with us in Toronto.
Third Child is now 15 1/2, a bright and funny boy who knows what he wants and has an excellent sense of humour and a terrible love for video games and the internet. I suspect that he'd be good friends with Flora's K1 if he managed to seriously improve his English.
While he was here, I had an appointment with my optometrist, and she gave me a new kind of contact lenses to try. I tried them on and went shopping.
You know what? Never ever go shopping with new contacts. It turned out that I hadn't taken my reading glasses and could not read the price tags. Nor could I decipher anything on the small touchpad I was supposed to type my email address in.
rainette *to Froglet* OK. Can you show me the r, sweetheart?
Froglet *takes rainette's finger to letter R" Right there, mum.
Cashier *looks bemused*
rainette: ahahahaha, I forgot my reading glasses, SORRY!
Cashier *shoots rainette a knowing look* Your. Total. Is. 150. Dollars. And. 41. Cents.
rainette: ...
Froglet *slightly worriedly* why is the lady talking to you like that?
Because she thought I was illiterate, was the answer. Oh dear.
rainette *tells Third Child the whole story* : ... and the Cashier looked SO SORRY for my poor little girls, it was just infuriating. And the worst part is, I TRIED to read WITH my reading glasses, but it doesn't work either. So now I am taking all of you kids out to lunch, but you need to read the menu aloud to me, okay?
Third Child *grins* Yeah, okay, but you do realize that while I can read it aloud, I have no idea what it means, right? So you need to explain to me what it is I just said to you.
rainette *giggles*: Wow, that's going to be awkward.
Third Child: Think about it this way: the waitress will think that you can't read and that I am too stupid to understand anything, so she is going to be extra sorry for those poor little girls!
rainette: Oh, man.
Third Child: nonono, it's wonderful! Perfect! If we play this right, they may get a free dessert!
Because Third Child is very bright, and slightly devious, and also very much like a big brother to my two girls. :D He's happy when they get free dessert, as long as he gets a spoon to sample.
Alas, Third Child is now back in France. *waves to third child*
And I need to see the optometrist again, because those contact lenses just do not work for me.
Rainette *absent-mindedly reaches out, strokes black shape close to her*
Shape *is surprisingly woolly in texture, doesn't purr*
Husband: Yes, hello?
Rainette: ... er. This is not Theo, is it?
Husband: no, it's my foot.
Rainette: it was cat-shaped?
Husband. No. It's FOOT-SHAPED. I hate to break this to you, but you really have to go back to the optometrist's.
Yeah, I know. *sighs*
As for Tadpole, she now has reading glasses too. She tried them on, beaming with barely suppressed excitement, grabbed a book... and then her little face crumpled and she said "but these glasses don't WORK!"
Well, no, sweetpea, they may be reading glasses, but they do not read the book FOR you, you still have to do the heavy work and read the words. Sorry about that. :D
Gah.
I had a billion appointments/errands to run before school started, and also a Third Child to take care of. Third Child was not supposed to come visit this year, he was supposed to go to Spain instead. But his passport had expired, and for reasons that would be too long to explain (and involve the current French president's Insanity), he was unable to get one on short notice, so they cancelled his trip. When he unexpectedly got his passport in August (against all odds), he packed his bags and flew over to spend the month with us in Toronto.
Third Child is now 15 1/2, a bright and funny boy who knows what he wants and has an excellent sense of humour and a terrible love for video games and the internet. I suspect that he'd be good friends with Flora's K1 if he managed to seriously improve his English.
While he was here, I had an appointment with my optometrist, and she gave me a new kind of contact lenses to try. I tried them on and went shopping.
You know what? Never ever go shopping with new contacts. It turned out that I hadn't taken my reading glasses and could not read the price tags. Nor could I decipher anything on the small touchpad I was supposed to type my email address in.
rainette *to Froglet* OK. Can you show me the r, sweetheart?
Froglet *takes rainette's finger to letter R" Right there, mum.
Cashier *looks bemused*
rainette: ahahahaha, I forgot my reading glasses, SORRY!
Cashier *shoots rainette a knowing look* Your. Total. Is. 150. Dollars. And. 41. Cents.
rainette: ...
Froglet *slightly worriedly* why is the lady talking to you like that?
Because she thought I was illiterate, was the answer. Oh dear.
rainette *tells Third Child the whole story* : ... and the Cashier looked SO SORRY for my poor little girls, it was just infuriating. And the worst part is, I TRIED to read WITH my reading glasses, but it doesn't work either. So now I am taking all of you kids out to lunch, but you need to read the menu aloud to me, okay?
Third Child *grins* Yeah, okay, but you do realize that while I can read it aloud, I have no idea what it means, right? So you need to explain to me what it is I just said to you.
rainette *giggles*: Wow, that's going to be awkward.
Third Child: Think about it this way: the waitress will think that you can't read and that I am too stupid to understand anything, so she is going to be extra sorry for those poor little girls!
rainette: Oh, man.
Third Child: nonono, it's wonderful! Perfect! If we play this right, they may get a free dessert!
Because Third Child is very bright, and slightly devious, and also very much like a big brother to my two girls. :D He's happy when they get free dessert, as long as he gets a spoon to sample.
Alas, Third Child is now back in France. *waves to third child*
And I need to see the optometrist again, because those contact lenses just do not work for me.
Rainette *absent-mindedly reaches out, strokes black shape close to her*
Shape *is surprisingly woolly in texture, doesn't purr*
Husband: Yes, hello?
Rainette: ... er. This is not Theo, is it?
Husband: no, it's my foot.
Rainette: it was cat-shaped?
Husband. No. It's FOOT-SHAPED. I hate to break this to you, but you really have to go back to the optometrist's.
Yeah, I know. *sighs*
As for Tadpole, she now has reading glasses too. She tried them on, beaming with barely suppressed excitement, grabbed a book... and then her little face crumpled and she said "but these glasses don't WORK!"
Well, no, sweetpea, they may be reading glasses, but they do not read the book FOR you, you still have to do the heavy work and read the words. Sorry about that. :D
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Date: 2009-09-04 08:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-04 08:44 pm (UTC)Husband. No. It's FOOT-SHAPED.
Oh rainette XD
Well, no, sweetpea, they may be reading glasses, but they do not read the book FOR you
Oh Tadpole XDD
I do so love your posts, they always brighten my day.
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Date: 2009-09-04 10:08 pm (UTC)He got a dessert too, btw. He totally deserved it. :D
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Date: 2009-09-04 10:09 pm (UTC)Yeah, taking my husband's foot for a KITTEN wasn't one of my brightest moments, I have to admit.
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Date: 2009-09-05 01:52 am (UTC)and *hugs* for the last year or so. :)
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Date: 2009-09-05 08:27 am (UTC)I've never worn contacts, but once I had some type of ear drops which seemed to make me a little deaf so I screamed at everybody for awhile, shop cashiers included.
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Date: 2009-09-05 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-05 05:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-05 09:32 pm (UTC)And thank you. *hugs back*
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Date: 2009-09-05 09:34 pm (UTC)This, I am afraid, explains a lot about me.
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Date: 2009-09-05 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-09-06 12:00 am (UTC)I love the bit about Tadpole imagining her glasses would do more than they can. So sweet and funny.
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Date: 2009-09-07 05:27 pm (UTC)