With Caution Update week 5

this week has been pretty uneventful. No major DIP, no wanting to strangle the CP’s. I have however wanted to buy a muzzle for Ty. For those of you who don’t remember the cast of characters, Ty is my youngest son, the 7 year old. Imagine a tiny lanky little fellow, with huge blue eyes, (no clue where he got them. Andre’s half Latino, I have predominately NA genes) the face of an angel and a motormouth that would give yours truly a run for her money. He’s absolutely the cutest thing on 2 feet, but don’t be fooled, it’s a survival instinct. He has to be cute so no one kills him. He thinks he’s the man of the house, and that we should all do his bidding. It has caused one or two riffs with his father, they are both territoral alpha males…(insert sarcasm here) oh I just can’t wait until he’s a teenager. But he was really cute last night, so I have to share.

Last night, I get caught up on WC ch 7, not the best chapter in the world, gotta redo it. One day I will learn to listen to my instinct. I knew it should have been in Remi’s pov, yet I put it in Jake’s. Go me! I’m so smart sometimes it’s just sickening. (once again note the sarcasm). Anyway, so I’m lounging around reading, something that happens rarely. Ty is standing next to me telling me all about the video game Andre is playing. Just on and on and on and on. I caught the words minnions and fire and overlord and I totally zoned and went back to my reading. Reminded me of th line in Finding Nemo. “You are so cute, but I have no idea what you’re saying”. Anyway, I like watching Andre play video games, if they are really good games, but I have absolutely no hand eye coordination.

Back when Doom first came out. Andre was going to “have fun” and we were going to play together. It went something like this. Andre: Where are you? JL: don’t know, I’m stuck on a wall. Andre: Stuck on a wall? JL: yeah I ran into it and can’t turn around. Andre: don’t hold the button down, just punch it.

Several minutes go by.

Andre: hurry up I’m getting my ass kicked. JL: groan I’m trying! Andre: what the hell are you doing? JL: sigh I’m still stuck on a wall. Andre: do the same thing I told to get off the last wall. JL: It’s the same wall.

Then there was me playing Sonic the Hedgehog as a teen. JL: at Andre’s house waiting for him to get off work, in his room on the Sega Genisis playing, laughing, having fun Andre: comes home from work. laughs JL: Oh hi. How was work? Andre: do you realize everytime you bonk someone on the head in the game you do this little hop thing and bounce on your butt?

Later that night.

JL:driving to the movie theater. Andre: Oh god! Pull over! I’m driving. JL: what? no you aren’t. shut up. Andre: I mean it, pull over. You were doing that bounce thing again. You were trying to bonk that other car weren’t you? JL: It’s in my way.

Now you see this is why I don’t play videogames, or more to the point why Andre won’t let me play videogames.

So Ty is going on and on and finally he shuts up. I realize he’s left and look up. He’s standing next to Andre. Ty: She thinks it’s so cool! I think she wants to play too. Andre: nah, she doesn’t. Ty: no really, She does. Andre: trust me, she doesn’t. Ty: But, I read her mind.

Now back to WC ch 8. It’s going well this week, I think all the whining and crying over it has helped, at least for now, the characters are being really nice and good and cooperating. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

Written by JL Langley

JL is a full-time writer, with over ten novels to her credit. Among her hobbies she includes reading, practicing her marksmanship (she happens to be a great shot), gardening, working out (although she despises cardio), searching for the perfect chocolate dessert (so far as she can tell ALL chocolate is perfect, but it requires more research)
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