Saturday, April 2, 2011
The day before coming home I was really tense. Snapping at Emily and scowling I threw clothes from pile to pile. Why do I have all these garments when I know that I am only going to rotate between two work outfits and my favorite dress for church?
Living at home is not something that I have done in a few years. Visits don't count. That day in day out tug-of-war of dwelling together challenges me to the core. I absolutely LOVE my family and being home but going from child to adult is complex. Saying I am adult is weird and its much easier to be home now than a few years ago. My independence doesn't feel so threatened or something, I don't know. This is going to be a good summer but I know that it will push be to the brink of crazy.
I tried to stop scowling and I confessed to Emily my fears and a lot of it boiled down to snakes.
The last summer I lived at home we smelled that distinct snake smell in the basement room Emily and I shared. The room was searched and nothing found until I woke up one morning to the snake being snatched up from the floor. It was traumatizing. I don't know that I should share any other stories about living in the basement here if I want to ever have anyone stay with me but there have been multiple spider bites and strange infections. There are ways to take care of that as you can see here. (pay attention to the first few seconds)
Five minutes after arriving home Madalyn told me about a bee sting she got yesterday. "Where" I asked. "In the basement" she said, "and it was actually a wasp." My sisters were helping me unload and as Anna lugged a laundry basket down the stairs she asked me, " Did you mean to bring home this many shoes?"
Oh dear.
10 comments:
It's really hard to go home for more than a visit. I don't really subscribe to the notion 'you can't go home' but I agree with how weird it can be. When I've gone back to visit my parents its annoying what has stayed the same, and discouraging to see how much has changed.
You're gonna have a great summer, just sleep with a can of RAID by your bed or something.
I hate snakes!
That zapping video was intense. Be brave!
That zapping video is amazing!!!
I've been zapped with one of those tasers. while driving. and i've skinned a rattle snake. i am not afraid.
#1. There are snakes in the basement?
#2. Was I there for the shooting of this video? I definitely remember witnessing this zapping contraption.
#3. THERE ARE SNAKES IN THE BASEMENT????!!
Snakes have a smell?!?
Well, visiting you is worth staying in a basement with snakes, I think. :)
1. Snake poop has a smell. Man alive, it stinks!
2. My mom has some clarifications to this post. She said the snake was actually found in the kitchen, not the basement and "In all my thirty years of living in this house, that was the only time I ever saw a snake."
Ok, I did listen to the radiolab on memory so maybe I created a false memory that it was caught in the basement- maybe it was the kitchen. Mom agrees that it came up through the basement to get to the kitchen. That has only been the snake occasion in the house and it was years ago.
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