Procrastination....

[essayel]

Oh I'm wasting so much time....I have far too much to do to be messing about that way I am but that's what I'm doing...messing about.
I should be writing my entries for the Saturnalia challenge - even though I seem to have rather missed the point (wall to wall smut). Failing that I should be writing more to Dogs of War. Or even doing the ironing!
Instead I am going to share with you the sayings of Jenny, my eleven year old who has a way with words:

Jenny (describing the difficulty of the Cracks of Doom level of the RotK PS2 game and said in an aggrieved tone without the vestige of a smile): Well I got Frodo up to the Crack all right and he was wrestling all over the floor with Gollum. Oh it's so frustrating - Frodo had to toss him off six times before he'd go down.

I told Mike, her big brother, about this and he rolled his eyes and told me the following Jenny story:
Mike, Robbie and Laura took her into town shopping. She bought them some 'Christmas' flavoured sweets. The pudding flavoured ones were nice and so, oddly, were the robin flavoured ones. However the green ones with the little Christmas trees on were yick. Mike told her they tasted like hedge clippings. Five minutes later in her favourite shop (Sirius - purveyor of weird jewellery etc) she offered the bag of sweets to the teenaged girls behind the counter cautioning them to avoid the green ones because "My big brother says they taste of bush." Throughout the resulting hysteria Jenny stood with the bag in her hand saying "What?" and Mike reckons he can never go back into that shop again.

You have to laugh don't you....but preferably not in front of them because then you end up involved in very complicated and embarrassing explanations.

Comments

[elfea.livejournal.com]

OMG!

Hilarious. Definately hilarious. :D

Wall to Wall Smut

[dopeydora-67.livejournal.com]

Don't worry it's not all going to be smut, well not from me anyway. So far, I have only written the one smutty piece.

My encounter with Snape will be smutty, and I may do one or two more smutty scenes with Charlie. Anything else I will just imply and leave to the reader's imagination.

[gonzothegreat.livejournal.com]

As the immortal words of Maurice Chevalier enters on cue, "Thank heavens for little girls..." (snicker) Oh that is priceless. :) As the proud older brother of two sisters I can say it is a nessicery evil that the younger sibs take the older down a peg or two at that age.

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the reverse problem, when my kids were little: they wanted to be bad but didn't quite know how. Ben's favorite epithet for the whole of his kindergarten year was "asphalt," as in "Leave me alone, you asphalt."

[cleverthylacine]

I'd tell them. You'll be kinder than their friends will.

[innerslytherin]

Ah--this is a good point. I was frequently the one who had no clue she'd just said something dirty...until my friends all burst out laughing and I got all red in the face because I knew I'd done something extremely daft but didn't know what it was. Finally someone would quit laughing long enough to explain, and then I'd have to run away and hide somewhere.

Now, for some reason, I'm the one who sniggers at things no one else finds remotely dirty. I think hanging about with Harry Potter slashers has warped my brain added new dimensions to my life. Or at least my sense of humour. ^_^

[cleverthylacine]

I posted what I did cause I had that experience once or twice, too. :D You feel like you want to crawl under a rock and die, and as I was one of the top ten academically in my class, people really felt that they had got one over on me. Even if I was rather more the Draco than the Hermione. That just made it all the funnier.