the joys of being home

[chanter1944]

Silly sister story ahoy, Allie don't kill me please. I kinda feel like living to see Africa.

So everyone got home within an hour of each other yesterday. First Dad and I pull in, then Jolie and Mom, and then Allie And of course it's the usual chaos, some arguments, some goofy stuff, and lots and lots of running around since just about everyone but me is going somewhere different. And in the course of this, a couple of us have to shower.

So I'm sitting in here SouCon-ing away and Allie goes and gets the hairdryer and is standing in the hallway outside the loo drying her hair. And all of a sudden I hear 'Zoop!' "/Moooooom!/"

Turns out she'd gotten a few strands of hair caught in the air intake (playfully nicknamed the hair intake by me as a child, and now I see that it was valid). Translation: Ow. Cue Allie giggling a bit hysterically and alternately whimpering as Mom disentangled her hair with only the loss of maybe two or three strands. And so she goes back to drying her hair, Mom goes back to doing whatever she was in the other room.

And what happens about fifteen seconds later?

Yup, you guessed it: 'Zoop!' "/Moooooom/!"

She did it again. And of course Mom's ticked off by this point but I'm guessing more than a little amused as well, Allie's laughing at herself and whimpering and pissed off at the same time, and I'm standing in the computer room doorway shamelessly cracking up. And all the time Allie's going "Mine has a guard! Mine has a guard!" because apparently somehow her air intake is shielded but not blocked *puzzles* on how that would work.

So Mom says "Yeesh, you're a college student. Here, lean forward." So Allie leans so her hair is hanging down since she's several inches taller than Mom is, and Mom proceeds to dry her hair a la what she hasn't done since we were about ten.

And I, during all this, am laughing my rear off. I remember saying "Dang, it's pretty amusing to me that the blind chick can manage this and the sighted college sister can't."

And right after this all happens I decide to *click* *types* *tries to make an lj post about it right then and there* but what happens while I'm right in the middle of the first bit?

Fzzzt! All the lights go out, the computer turns off, the hairdryer cuts out--we blew a fuse. Oy! So Mom goes down and resets the circuit breaker and what happens *then*?

My damn JFW refuses to read webpages and my start menu to me. How *odd* is that? It didn't work for a while there and I ended up crashing early-ish but staying up forever listening to shortwave radio anyway. And oddly enough, yay though! it works this morning. Dunno how, dunno why, but cool. :)

So that was yesterday. Today is family Christmas in Toma/Warrens, that area. Interesting times will be had by all, I'm sure.

Whew! That was longer than I expected it'd be. Don't be surprised if a major specific/schoolish entry shows up later, I'll likely write one. Ah, soul-searching...

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Hugs and big smiles,
Laura

[chanter1944]

Eeek! *adds*