The Windows Down and the Music Really Really Loud?

Spongebob would not let it drop. The GoofyGoober had a jazz band concert last Wednesday evening and I drove with Spongebob to it as i had no other way of gettin there and the GoofyGoober had made me promise to go. We picked up Brambly Hedge on the way but before we did, we had to have some awkward car conversation. 

'So, DOES your cousin talk?' 

'Yes she does talk thank you Spongebob, do you talk? Talk of anything interesting that I want to hear? No you don't.'

Na hahahaha didn't say that! Then she talked about how young my parents were and the conversation ended with 

'I have a brother who's 60!'

 That one made my head spin! Considering she's in her late 40's and the youngest in a family of 6 or 7 brothers, i don't see it very surpising that she has a brother at 60? Do you? She made it sound like it was something completely shocking! 'I have a brother who's 60!'

Miss kitty arrived and probably to Spongebob's delight, she talked!

Most of the week went well... or did it? She knew my cousin was there but for some reason i was made to drive to swimming every night. I don't usually ever drive to swimming or pick up but of course i had to do it every day that week AND this one. 

It's friday afternoon and I've to work till Saturday night. This weeks ups and downs...

The GoofyGoober had a screamin fit one morning at Brambly Hedge because she opened the fridge and the tub with the dog's breakfast in it (chicken legs) fell out and all over the floor. He hadn't closed the tub properly (it's a vaccum seal) and he stuck it at the edge of the fridge. So while screamin at Brambly Hedge from the piano room about it being her fault, i cleaned it up then walked into the room where he was and pointed at him and said 

'You get in there and seal that thing and put it back in the fridge' and walked out. He screamed back 'IF YOU'RE SO BLIND YOU GET BACK TO SCOTLAND!!'

I think he was meaning that he had sealed it before and i had seen him doin it. hmmm... i don't think so wee man!

I shouted back 'I CLEANED IT UP NOW GET IN THERE!!!' and slammed the door on the way out. 

I didn't actually feel at all angry ahahhahaha cause the cleanin ladies were comin that morning so they'd wash the floor!

When leavin the car Brambly Hedge said to me 

'Don't mind GoofyGoober, he's a nooge' (or something like that)

When i got back to the house i expected the kitchen to be ramshack a lama'd in some way or another. I imagined the forks lying all over the floor and cereal spread across the breakfast bar...  but there was nothing. The chicken was back in the fridge, no cereal, no forks just a note that read-

Dear (shortened version of name)

I'm sorry. It was Brambly Hedge's fault. I shouldn't have gotten mad at you.

Goofygoober

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA I wonder if it had anything to do with him being in so much trouble before? ....??? hahahahaha!!

We've been gettin on surprisingly well since. He seems to be making a great effort to stay in my good books! Maybe the thought of me leaving soon is getting him down! hahaha! Probably!! 

Last week Brambly Hedge called me and asked if i could pick her and her friend up from school cause they'd had some kind of meeting and missed the bus. On my way out the door my phone rang again and it was Brambly Hedge. I wasn't quite sure what she was saying but i could hear her friend in the background saying 'DO IT DO IT!! JUST ASK HER IF SHE WILL!!' 

'(shortened version of name) when you pick us up can you put all the windows down in the car and play the music really really loud? cause there are some people here (friend) doesn't like' HAHAHAHAHAHAHA 

I said 'Ok then what music?'

'eh... jus z100' 

               Z100 new york's hit music sation... or something like that...

I laughed all the way there at the thought of arriving and having the traffic report blaring from the car!

"Sleepys, the mattress professionals traffic report!"

 But it was some dance choon, one the girls didn't even like it and plus, by the time i got there the other children they didn't like had gone.

This weekend Mr Bertie Bassetts and Mrs Spongebob went away to Chicago. Someone died. So it was jus me and them. On the Friday night the kiddies went to swimming. I took them. One night this week i was driving EVERYONE to swimming and on the way my mind drifted and i stopped at a traffic light at which point Brambly Hedge shouted '(shortened version of name)WHY DID YOU STOP?! IT'S GREEN!!!' ahhahahahahahaahhaha! Oh teenagers can be so cruel when you make little mistakes. I laughed all the way there and they all look at me like I'd lost my mind!

When they got in from swimming on Friday night i made them their favourite- potatoes and some other stuff and we watched Spongebob (the cartoon) while eating. GoofyGoober said he felt like he was in heaven. Watching tv and eating dinner!!! It was a new and wonderful experience!

The next morning i was to wake at 5 as this was the time the GoofyGoober had chosen to RISE! In order to be ready for his swim meet! I woke up at a quarter past 5 though HAHAHAHAHAHA!! and threw myself down the stairs. He walked about and did basically NOTHING cept get ready. He didn't even eat breakfast. He prepared it and put it in tin foil so he could eat it in the car. I sat on an old piano stool that was had for some reason, been placed at the front door and thats all i did. Sat. I asked him if he had everything. He played the piano quietly cause Brambly Hedge was sleeping and i just sat and sat and sat until the car showed up. He ran out the door and politely shouted 'goodbye' and i went back up to bed and of course, didn't sleep! 

The evening before everyone was unsure as to who was goin to pick the boys up from the swim meet. It was at some college roughly an hour away. I'd taken Brambly Hedge before and we'd got totally and completely lost on the campus! We phoned Spongebob's work and a man who 'worked for her' guided us around the campus over the phone till we reached our destination. It was very annoying.

Speaking of annoying things, it was looking like I was goin to have to be the one that picked up the boyz from this swim meet! All day i kept my fingers crossed hoping somehow that the other family would be able to pick them up but of course! They couldn't, and it was left to me. 

Bertie Bassetts left me directions on paper. How old fashioned? I couldn't understand why he didn't jus give me the address so i could put it into the GPS?

I took Brambly hedge with me so that i might not get SO lost! but 20 minutes into the journey, we were heading in the wrong direction completely. So i stuck an address into the GPS and an hour later we were there. No problem. Thanks Bertie!!

Oh I'm tired sorry this post is taking so long. I know everyone is waiting for it but I'm gettin it done now ok. 

Anyways, I've got sunburn. Oh let me tell you about this funny thing that happened today before i forget. I went to pick up GoofyGoober and one of his friends. I've heard him talking about this boy before and apparently he'd gone mad and was goin to kill himself and other people in the school so he'd not been goin to school for a while hahahahaha ANWYAYS so i pick them up from school and we're drivin up the road and they see another boy who is cycling up the hill (i think GoofyGoober should start cycling home, he's getting so fat and lazy!) So this boy is jus minding his own business and the GoofyGoober shouts his name out the window 'GREG!!' or something like that but the boy doesn't hear it and carries on up the hill and we drive on ahead. we stopped at some traffic lights jus up the same road a bit and while we're sitting there the bike boy comes up again and the GoofyGoober and his friend are gettin all excited 'Here he comes! Here he comes!!! Throw something at him! Throw something!"

The crazy boy in the back is sitting with a big chocolate cake on his knee but instead he throws a packet of crisps out the window HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and it hits the bike boy and they're all laughin (bike boy included) and he stops the bike ' What was that you threw?! chuckle chuckle!' They're all laughin and stuff and i start drivin away and GoofyGoober shouts out to the boy 'DON'T FORGET TO PICK UP THAT BAG OF CHIPS!!' and he and the crazy boy watch out the window as the boy goes and picks up the baggie crisps HAHAHAH and GoofyGoober says to his friend 'Oh, It'd be terrible if he left them! That'd be like littering' HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH I wanted to laugh so much! The crazy boy in back agrees with GoofyGoober 'Yeh, i'd feel terrible!' They're fourteen!!! 

Oh, i suppose it's good they have feelings like that. Maybe a bit pathetic though. 

Back to saturday. There was a huge thunder and lightning storm that i had to drive home in and once we got home, we had to go straight out again to the church across the road where GoofyGoober was playing some choons on the piano. His mental music teacher was holding a recital of all his students. This music teacher, have i mentioned him yet? Don't think so. He's Italian or something but was very taken with my accent when I arrived. He said he loved Scotland and gave me a CD of 'Silly Wizard' that i never listened to and lost. Oh well. Spongebob seems to be terrified of him and has a fear of having him and the GoofyGoober in the house alone!! When Mr Musicteacher is there, i must be there too. She has made a big point of it ever since i got here. He comes from the city and must have a lot of pupils in this area. But this is america! This is New Jersey/New York! There must be hundreds of other music teachers much better than this guy, that could come teach the GoofyGoober! Music teachers that she wouldn't have to worry about being left in the house alone with her children! But Spongebob is really half daft as we all know. I've been living here 9 months, she's been here 40 summit years and today she went to get the train home from the city and got on the wrong one and wanted me to come pick her up. Really, how does this woman make so much money?

Saturday. After the recital, the kids had to go to a confirmation party that was being held at a house around the corner. I had to walk them over to the house and leave them... hmmm... incase they ran away or something? Or got lost crossing the street?

The GoofyGoober came home at around 9 but Brambly Hedge partied ALL NIGHT! and wandered in with a boy and a girl at around 11.30pm. I of course got into trouble for this on Monday morning. Oh how i wanted to remind Spongebob that she was actually meant to be home that night by 9 and Brambly Hedge really wasn't meant to be my responsibility! but i'd stayed up waitin for her anyways eventhough i was half dead. 

Ok almost up to date i think. This week GoofyGoober has been very nice. Maybe it's because of the good weather thats come in? He's been a happy chappy anyways. How i'll miss our fights!!! HA!

Oh and guess what! I haven't driven to swimming at all this week!