Thursday, November 6

Personalities  

Personalities are strange things.

A kitten who hasn't really sought me out much since I started work, decided he couldn't get too much of me. Greybeard got up on my shoulders while I sat at the kitchen table and laid there and purred his head off while I scratched him everywhere. He got down, and I thought he was through with me. Not quite. He wanted to get up on me again while I was on the computer, so I picked him up, put him in my arms and proceeded to scratch some more. After I got tired, I put him down, he went to another chair, curled up and had a contented sleep. Short lived, as the little kids were home 10 minutes later... Still he has a very laid back personality.

Grizelle is another different personality. She is an extrovert. I mean, extremely extroverted. She is loud, she is persistent, and she has no problems talking her head off. She wants milk (only once a day, and about a table spoon at that, she won't drink more than that), she wants cheese (when the kids give it to her), and now that she is spayed, and we let her out occasionally, she wants out (and in!).

And how the kids handle the kittens. I guess the kittens let themselves be handled the way they are because... they get handled that way, and have been since we started letting the kittens in the house. Grizelle gets held like a baby, in a blanket or not, and she acts like she's content to be held that way.

Meanwhile, Garfield is evidently experiencing his own wakeup call. The issues Monday of him having to do what he had to do that evening, regardless of what The_Rose and I wanted and then Wednesday forcing us to go meet his recruiter, and then trying to force me to take him to school tonight because his truck had a leaking tire stem, he sure isn't getting it that now that he's 18, we do not have to give him as much attention as he thinks he needs. That's been one of the thorns with Sparx, who thinks that he can monopolize our time and energy just because he has in the past.

I hope both of them read this journal entry.

You're 18. You are supposed to be an adult. The_Rose and I don't have the time to waste on you!

I really wish that Garfield, instead of just reacting to what has been going on, would slow down and process things for awhile. But it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Yes, at one point in time, it was looking like both Garfield and Sparx needed to be kicked out of the house. That currently isn't the case now. Garfield has at least managed to change himself enough that he's at least a little more bearable now. And Garfield is at least amenable to change, something that Sparx doesn't want to hear about.

The one thing that both of them share, which is totally wrong, is that they are still kids around the house. They are not. I've heard something like "If I'm not around, that's one less kid in the house" about three different times this week. Nope, if Garfield isn't around, that's one less adult in the house. The adult may still be acting a bit like a kid, but hey, that's allowable. Even at my age.

I quite frankly could care less if they stick around here for a few more years. If they do, I want them either going to school, or working. And I want them to follow the rules that get laid down by The_Rose and me. And most of it is just common sense that they can't get through their head. Neither one owns this house. The_Rose and I do, so stop acting like you do own the house. I don't really care if you both have been living here 10 years longer than I have. I own the house, you don't, that's the fact, now get over it! Don't go around blasting music at anytime of day or night, especially when people (like The_Rose) are trying to sleep. You don't go tromping through the house just anytime you feel like it, slamming doors. You don't monopolize the telephone for hours. You don't complain about the meals being served. You don't complain when The_Rose wants her computer, just because you weren't smart enough to get on before hand and do your school work before she got home, and instead listened to your music. Both of you need to grow up.

I think I've said more than what I actually wanted to say in the beginning, but I'll let it fly.

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