Summer/city blues, part two

So, we’re outside now (this is after the events of the last post have taken place). Chey is planting and weeding the gardens. Lila is riding on her bicycle with a child from the other end of the culd-de-sac. I’m walking around with Eva.

Some cars pull up to a house a couple doors down, and a loud and obnoxious group of men and women get out of the cars and start talking with each other very loudly, cackling, and shoving at each other in fun. It’s very clear that one of the men is quite drunk, as evidenced by his firm grasp on his beer bottle, his wobbly legs, and his insistence on shoving a woman around.

It’s about 4 pm on Sunday. Lovely.

I don’t understand.

I hate living so near so many people. Light fireworks, but not right outside our house. If you must be drunk and shove women around, at least don’t do that with my three year old daughter watching.

In my heart (yes, it is sinful), I want to put a bullet through his beer bottle and watch him wet himself as they scramble into their cars and drive off.

But that wouldn’t be very nice.

Tick-tock. . .

Alright, so it’s the middle of the night (literally) and I am still up. Ihave to get the girls up and in the car by 7:30 tomorrow/today and I’m still awake. Why? you might ask. Because I bought a new coffee creamer the other day and I wanted to have some. At 8 PM. So I’m a knucklehead.

An Awake knucklehead.

So when I’m up what do I do? Blog hop (we don’t have cable). I am beginning to think that blogs are only really interesting when you have some connection to the people. That is, random blogs, even ones about politics or homeschooling or things you might care about, aren’t terribly interesting unless you or better to say I can find some sort of personal connection to the writer.

I mean I read blogs of people that I don’t see at church every week but generally they are people that fall within my six degrees. It seems more interesting that way.

Now that isn’t to say that meeting people through blogs isn’t reasonable but . . . ok. . .I don’t know how I feel about that. Anyway, as I said, I’m awake. There’s an SNL rerun on. Tick-tock. . . .