Ma,
Craig is COMING OVER! Today. INSIDE. I'm very excited. He'd asked me a while ago to take pictures of my room so I borrowed Josh's camera and brought it on Monday. Craig said he thinks having so much stuff is on the floor is a fire hazard. He told me a while ago it sounded like there wasn't enough floor space.
He called Aunt Elaine Tuesday and told her he wanted to make sure we're not creating a fire hazard and she tried to play it off like we're messy. But aside from the piles of stuff all over the floor, we're really not that messy. All our Brooklyn stuff used to be under the bed.
Yesterday Craig said he'll come tomorrow (today, duh) and while he's here, talk Aunt Elaine into helping us get free beds off Craigslist and see about breaking the no-friends-over seal.
Alex had come with me and she asked if he'll bring his baby but he said no, and I'm glad, even though Alex wasn't. But all that smokey air can't be good for a baby with tiny lungs. Then Al asked if Craig will stay for dinner. Poor Alex, she just wants to keep him over as long as possible.
Yesterday we did major cleaning and now you could eat off the kitchen floor. Aunt Elaine made Alex throw out a lot of her catalogs and she cried, saying it's not fair because they all fit inside where we said they have to fit into. I didn't tell Aunt Elaine that Craig already knows about Alex's catalog obsession and has seen pictures of it because she'd get really angry - the whole point of throwing them out was to make our room look less cluttered. We had to put all our shoes in a shopping bag because Aunt Elaine didn't like how they looked on the floor and there's no room in the closet. She is VERY upset that he's coming over and all week she's been trying to smoke out the window more, instead of just near the window to make it less smokey.
Aunt Elaine would fire Craig if she could. She told me she'd better not find out I've been lying to him, but I don't - I only lie to her. She never believes me when I tell the truth, so why would I feel bad about lying to her?
I keep trying to be very calm but really I'm just as excited as Alex and want to jump up and down too. Beds, beds, beds!!!!!
Love,
Sam
2 comments:
I'm glad that you'll probably get new beds (sleeping on the floor is awful!) and that you might even be able to start having friends over. It was awfully slick of Craig to suggest that the amount of stuff on the floor could be a fire hazard in order to be able to communicate with your aunt. :) Good luck!
how did it go? i’m curious.
i hope you’re finally getting beds and i do hope aunt elaine hasn’t convinced herself you’ve been telling lies about her. in fact, i think she’s scared you’ve been telling the truth about her.
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