“He’s a legend in his own mind.” This is a sentence that describes Frank and was coined by Tito (uncle) Rolly.
I’ve mentioned Frank’s egotism, but it’s fun to laugh at. He’s also taken to wearing his sunglasses almost 24/7, so one night in Kauai I played “I Wear My Sunglasses At Night” and told him it was the theme song of his life. I don’t know if that was a mistake or not, but he took to it very well and plays it quite often.
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We got back today after a 30min, a 7.5hr, and a 2hr plane ride, which took up the entirety of about a day if you include changing time zones, and was a rather horrible day. I actually like traveling, but I don’t want to set foot on a plane for a long, long time. I still like the sound they make in the air though, and will once again miss the sounds of night flights passing over our neighborhood when I return to Tech.
Also, we saw a mouse in Minneapolis. Mom pointed it out. It was a small one, looked like the kind you’d feed to a snake, and was about four rows ahead and diagonally to the right of us at our gate. Nevertheless, Mother Dearest jumped up, proclaimed rather hysterically that, “YIKES, there’s a mouse! Pick up all your things! There’s a mouse!” She pointed and then started stomping her feet despite the fact that the disgusting creature was far away and not heading toward us.
It was kind of hilarious. Though I do understand the hysteria. If I hadn’t been quite so exhausted or disinterested in everything around me at the time, I probably would’ve picked up my feet along with all my belongings. There are two animals that I hate: pigeons and rats. Sometimes mice though, because I associate them with rats. And pigeons are rats with wings. They are disgusting, disease-carrying creatures. And we all know how I’m something of a germophobe (thanks to Pop), and am paranoid about getting diseases or parasites and stuff.
I had a passing desire to join the Peace Corps. It lasted about an hour. I was really enthusiastic about wanting to go abroad to help people, immerse myself in a different culture, learn a new language, rough it out, but then I thought about it practically and I have issues with going without a proper shower for more than a day, I can’t sleep if I’m worrying about how sanitary the drinking water is, I have a phobia against bugs (especially huge ones), am paranoid about parasites, and can’t sleep well if not in a comfy bed with five pillows.
It would be great to do I think, but I don’t know if I’d live through it.
Though I’d suffer it all if I could do it in Kauai, but no one really needs help there.
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Frank zipped right out the door once we got home.
Dad and I want to see The Dark Knight tomorrow. He suggested tonight, but I thought ahead and said I might accidentally pass out at 4pm, so let’s shoot for tomorrow. He ended up passing out on the couch in a drunken, black-out kind of sprawl that made me laugh a bit, and even after being the one to say try not to sleep until later in the evening! Haha! Mom and I laughed at that too.
Mom and I also laughed together at the two boys of the family saying our lives would probably be pretty uneventful and boring without them being difficult, annoying, frustrating, or just plain ridiculous.
