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Monday, May 14, 2007

If I die before I wake………


I stand bleary eyed by the kitchen counter sipping black tepid coffee. [translation = my punishment for being distracted] I contemplate life, the universe and everything, as I watch small people at 5:15 in the morning. Wills, living wills, trusts, trustees and guardians, power of attorney – enough to make your head spin and your brain turn to mush.

“If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all!” he repeats as he runs backwards. This phrase is on his ‘now playing’ list. [translation = an endless loop] I hope that this current phase, will be short lived, but you never can tell with these things, the walking backwards that is to say, not the "motor mouth." Oddly enough he rarely bumps into anything. To date we are on our fifth week of’ backwards’ and of course he improves daily. [translation = becomes ever more agile and speedy] It seems grossly unfair to criticize him for such an innocent pastime, since my main objection, danger, has been unsubstantiated by reality.

So saying, he did take a tumble this morning, but that was due to foul play. [translation = in the feline sense of foul] I intend to give those cats a severe talking to! Fancy having the nerve to nip through someone’s legs when the walker is in motion! [translation = not everyone has yet learned to walk ‘a la John Wayne,’ as I have done.]

I put down my cold coffee for later and interject in the hope of turning my naked backwards walker into a dressed backwards walker. He makes his objections known, in no uncertain terms. His criticisms are not those of his peers, such as colour, design or fashion. He curses his clothing like none other -
“These pants are insane! Why aren’t they Latin?” [translation = they are uncomfortable because they are not sufficiently old and worn to softness]

If I die before I wake……… please find someone else to translate.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have all the paperwork in order...

Eldest will be fine... I think he's learned enough translation to help the little one...

I try not to think about it :)

S.

bigwhitehat said...

Pants sanity! That is some blog fodder right there.

Drama Mama said...

Dear God. I just had this conversation with my daughter five minutes ago, as she pulled on "soft elastic pants" going out the door.

Melissa said...

We still don't know who would take our kids if something happened to us... you see, our families are all crazier than we are :S

Unknown said...

I thought I was the only one who thought about this. Wow...

I haven't talked to anyone in my family about this. I guess that would be the first step, wouldn't it?

Ideally, it would be my brother and his wife, but I'm not sure they'd want to. I think they would in case, God forbid, something should happen.

And I'm the one in the family who HAS to wear cotton. Only cotton. Everything else is scratchy or sweaty.

Chrisd

kristina said...

So Latin is "sufficiently old and worn to softness"---sort of like Charlie's "Daddy blue blanket".......

 
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