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[schmerica]

Right now, there are nine people living in my house: my father who works as a truck driver for a local nursery; my mother, who has been staying home since last fall; my 21 year old brother, who is rarely home; my 14 year old sister, in school during the day until next week; the 8 year old foster child, also in school; the 4 year old foster child; the 3 year old foster child; the 1 1/2 year old foster chld; and myself. There are also two large and friendly lab mix dogs and a spoiled cat.

This is all still somewhat of a shock after my nice, small, square dorm room, where I ruled over all. Total autocrat over my limited kingdom, man. This ... is not the same.

I hadn't quite realized just how many tantrums little kids throw in a day, either.

My life is very mundane. Today was a doctor's appointment, which was icky; afterwards, my mother dropped me off to the library, where I picked up a dozen or two books. That part was good.

Most of those books will, by the way, end up being discussed in shinybookses, where fox1013 and I have set up a reading journal for the two of us. Fun! There's a lot of good stuff going on away from my journal, actually. Fox and Jess have set up lunchtime_poll, because they are giant, giant dorks. Which is also why I love them. Jess also has started a new community for Sports Night and West Wing fiction (inthetallgrass), and she and I are still doing recs (all sorts of fandoms now!) at butgeorge. And, of course, there's always my dearest darling AU at selling_out.

And now I am starving, so I need to go seek out food. And then, I shall go and work on my silverlake remix (do on Saturday, eek).

Comments

[dammitcarl.livejournal.com]

it's the pimptastic!erica!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

woo!

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

Seven kids? Wow, that's a lot. Do you have to share a bedroom? On the bright side, your parents sound like nice people for taking in four foster kids. Are they all from hte same family?

P.S. Are the 'rents still pissy at you? That can make a house feel even smaller and more crowded. On the bright side, you'll be working this summer, and when you're only home part of the time, maybe the house will seem more bearable.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

No, I don't have to share a bedroom, thank god. My parents have been working on our house, improving it, since we bought it, so there are six rooms now that we use as bedrooms, with the work they've done on the attic and the unfinished back room. Parents; two kids; two kids; sister; brother; me. The kids from two different families -- the two oldest are siblings, and so are the two younger.

And no, my parents have taken the no-diploma thing astonishingly well. The pissiness level in the house is relatively low. I thank god for small favors.

[ediebeedie.livejournal.com]

ERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

um. yeah. i don't really have anything to say. but i miss you!! i'm so glad i finally saw you. and met your family. that was great. i like them. haha.

have fun with the foster kids.

love you!!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I love you, Edie! Our visit was superniftycool! I'm so glad you came.

[yay4pikas.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't know you had a brother. Did your family acquire two more foster kids since last time or were they just not present?

*skwees at communities*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I've had the older brother my entire life, yeah. I'm sure I've mentioned him before; probably just not in any important context.

The two babies arrived since last vacation, yes. I just met them Wednesday morning.