When my boyfriend picked me up we were outside and Frodo had been chased up a tree by a dog. He offered to climb the tree to get him, but no I said, he is terrified of people and he knows how to get down. We waited and Frodo jumped from branch to branch howling. I think he was trying for a smoother part to climb down at. Precious starts to get impatient and climbs halfway to jump down. Frodo changes branches yet again, shimmies down tree trunk backwards to spin around and jump down. Boyfriend said he never seen a cat do that before. Now he knows why I wasn't worried. His car was very clean inside and out. On the way to my hometown, he asked me if I ever been to my hometown's celebration since I moved to the big city. Yes. He also asked why I wanted to run away from small town living and move to the big city. Uh, there are no apartments, one has to buy a house. If I had to money for a house, I have no objections to living in a small town. I prefer it cause small towns have less pollution that make my allergies act up.
We make it in and wait for the parade to start. Just Dad is there. Mom is with the 4th of July Committee and with the raffle stand guarding the prices (they didn't bring the umbrella stand so she got a bad sunburn). Intros and later my brother-in-law and niece show up so more intros. Watch the parade and dive for candy. No marching band this year. We next eat lunch and go to the park. We try to find Mom and find her after we played the duck pond. The other games required tossing hoops or balls that were a little too advanced for my 3-year-old niece. Mom asked me to get her a lemonade and gave me money for it. Boyfriend came to the stand with me and got a Pepsi. When I gave Mom the lemonade, Boyfriend said that he got confused, he thought my Mom gave me money to buy myself lemonade. I swear after spending over 15 hours with him, his clueless, easily confused, indecisive mind is resembling my stupid coworker everybody hates. And Boyfriend thinks he is going to be a manager at a pet store. Yes, he wants to get out of the grocery business and into pet stores because he placed his resume on monster.com and the only people offering jobs were pet stores.
While watching sand volleyball, he asked if I wanted to get in the game. No, that's why I didn't sign up for the tournament. He didn't want to play either. He asked 4 times if I wanted to get something to drink. I finally explained if I wanted a drink, I would have gotten up and bought one. He said he wanted another Pepsi. OK. He got up and got one. He has an old lawn chair he said he wanted to repair the strips cause they do have kits for that, then said maybe just toss it away and get a new one cause it is hard to open and shut. Whatever. We then went over to the stage to listen to music. He said he tried to sing once and sounded like a frog and never sang again. OK. I didn't go into my choir experience. I sang solo contests and the national anthem at a football game. He asked what there is to do here since I know all about this place. Volleyball, music, rides for kids, and games for kids is about it for the park. No firehose water fights this year. He asked about 3 times where the fireworks were taking place, are they in the park? We looked for a guy in the parade with a sign on an antique car stating he is raffling it off. Never found it. Boyfriend wanted to sign up to win it, so he can give it to his Dad for his birthday. He showed me a picture of his totaled car cause he fell asleep with the cruise control on and explained when one walks away from that wreck that one doesn't ask questions. OK, I don't think his falling asleep had anything with God, but didn't said anything. He showed me another picture of his dead aunt and living father. You keep pictures in your pocket?, I asked. No, he found them cleaning out his car.
After a while, we went back to my parents' house, niece and brother-in-law were trying to take a nap so she could stay up for the fireworks. I fed her cotton candy. Don't worry I only gave a hand full, I know sugar makes kids bounce off the walls. Mom came home a bit and we helped her count money, she spoke to Boyfriend a few minutes while having pie afterwards. We made a night deposit run to the bank for her (bank is on the other side of their yard). She left again. We started a movie and dozed off a few minutes. He apologizes for falling asleep. Went back to the park cause Mom wanted us there so she could eat supper. Niece was asleep so I said, Shhh. Well, Mom didn't need relief so we listened to the last stage performance. Boyfriend asked who draws for the raffle, the mayor? No, just whoever they pick to do it. A few kids did it.
Raffle over, we ask if Mom needed anything taken back to the house. The money. When she comes back, we count the money again and make another deposit run. Niece is awake when we come back and we set off some sparklers. Brother-in-law said everything was packed so I assumed they were leaving. No, just packing. Oh, we can set off more when it gets darker. We wait for darkness to come while chatting and eating parade candy.
Go to the fireworks and sit on the softball field. Almost get burnt when my niece turned a sparkler towards me. Had to turn our chairs to see the fireworks and my niece freaks out at the first boom. She cries to her Daddy to get up and go home, then comes to me, then Grandma. She calms down and back to me, back to Daddy. Still refuses to look at the fireworks. Go back home and finish the sparklers and snakes. Go home. I asked if he was ready for fatherhood after observing my niece. Oh yes, he is excited to have children, bad days and good days just happen. I said I wasn't eager to have children cause I had too much exposure from my nieces to know they are a lot of work. I think he needs more exposure to know what he is getting into.
Since I forgot my camera, I take his picture and he takes mine when we get back. I email my picture to him so he can copy it for his friends to see. He explained that his friends want to see a photo of me and he explains to them that he doesn't have one because we became official only a few weeks ago. I didn't ask what he meant by "official". He stuck around for a half hour. I asked when he planned on leaving. He wanted to play with the cats for a while. He commented how his Mom was concerned about him driving home after dropping me off. He said he will just pull into a rest area if he gets sleepy. Guess he didn't learn from crashing his car cause he fell asleep. Then he said he might go over to his cousin's house and see if anyone is home and go home tomorrow. He doesn't work until 4 PM. When I shut off my computer, he asked if I sent the picture. I think he waiting for that. Anyway, I start turning lights off and say to the kitties, Shall we go to bed now? He says good-bye. Today he emailed that he drove straight home and stopped twice to sleep at a rest stop and got home 8 hours later (it's a 3 hour drive). What a weirdo?! Post later. Bye!
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