This evening, we took the kids to a “Family Science Fair” that promised us FREE PIZZA!! beforehand. So of course we went, being cheap-ass moneygrubbers. Oh, and also science is cool. ;)
The kids learned how to make robots out of four markers, three tongue depressors, two AA batteries, a bunch of scotch tape, and a small electric motor. When it was done, it was drawing interesting stuttered circles on the paper that covered the tables. Pretty cool, actually.
Then, we sat in the auditorium while a gentleman from a place I don’t remember the name of (I’m sorry, sir, and you seemed so nice too) held and displayed various snakes, lizards, turtles, and tortoises. His coup de grace was a PYTHON, which I LOVE, SO MUCH, and I wanted to touch it so bad! Unfortunately, I had mister Grumpy McNo-I-Won’t-Pants to deal with.
Ian flipped out while we were sitting down in the auditorium – they have those movie theater seats, the kind that flip up when not being sat in – and began screaming bloody murder. Apparently the deal was mostly that he wanted to sit down on the seat himself, dammit, and didn’t want help, except that the seat wouldn’t go down for him to sit on (and also he got his foot caught on the first try) unless I helped, but he simultaneously wanted that and DID NOT want it, so I had to escape with him like all good mommies before me: peeling him off the seats and his brother and sister, because somehow hanging onto surrounding people and furniture is better than actually, you know, LEAVING.
After we left, he had big sad eyes and lots of “NO! NO!” about everything for about fifteen minutes before he calmed down enough to go back in. We ended up catching the last half of the presentation, which is awesome because like I said, I love snakes. LOVE. He was fine too, running around the back of the big room and getting as close to the reptiles as he possibly could, when their handler walked them past us.
(I realize that there are way too many words in all-caps here, but I refuse to care. I’m still sick and I can do what I want! Also I realize I’ve been swearing more than normal. My apologies.)
Later when we came home, my boyfriend explained to me partly why Ian had flipped out the way he did.
Ready?
There is an – how do you say it – undead janitor in the high school building where we were, and he was sweeping the floor near us. Ian got a peek at him and got pretty upset. Apparently his head has parts missing. EW.
(I don’t see things, but I can usually tell something is around. Troy can see things, Joey does, and Ian can. He’s almost pre-born, like Paul’s little sister Alia from Dune, if you know what I’m talking about. The kid is ridiculously intelligent and sometimes knows things he shouldn’t.)
If you’ve decided to quit reading me now, then you’re a pansy! Just kidding. Seriously. It turns out that real life is way weirder than I ever thought it was.
Do you guys have any ghost stories from where you live? Things that go bump in the night? Because I already got bored Googling “haunted mount morris high school” and coming up with nothing but Halloween listings. :)
P.S. Undead doesn’t mean zombie, just FYI. I’m not THAT crazy.
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My husband doesn’t see them, but boy, does he sense them. My kids apparently have that ability as well, as they have known things that they couldn’t have possibly known. We know we get visited by family members, and lets just say the kids have *met* those who passed on before they were born.
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I used to work at a haunted hotel. People think I’m crazy but anyone who has worked there long enough had had experiences, nothing malicious, just a little creepy, giggles, the feeling of hands on shoulders, glimpses in mirrors, things like that.
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I need an young priest and an old priest
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I believe.
Tons of ghost stories in rural Louisiana and now in Nevada
Check out the Moonlit Road website.
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@cajunvegan, I was on there yesterday actually, lol.
Apparently Michigan has a lot of Civil War era ghost sightings, Native American sightings, and plenty of other random gross and/or strange sightings. Here in the town we live in, there is a retired junk yard that’s never been sold – rumor has it that it was used as a body dump back in the day.
@Suzanne, yeah, sounds the same as my kids. It’s weird when that happens, isn’t it?
@Duchess, LOL. At least they were the friendly type!
@jazzman, you’re SUCH a weirdo. Of course, I didn’t know you meant an Exoricst reference until I asked you about it, because I don’t WATCH that kind of stuff.
I’m not into that genre either, but I still know the reference
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@jazzman, I s’pose it must be one of those things that most people know but I don’t. HAHA. :p
I’m in love with your new layout…it’s freakin awesome.
There’s a castle in my town and everyone says it’s haunted… who knows if it’s true though.
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First off, sorry to hear that you are still sick. Sucks!
Second, nope, I’m not quitting ;)
I “met” my first ghosts with around 14.
My Mom tried the writing with a little table thing and I used sort of a witchboard.
When it got too scary, we all quit.
I can only sense them sometimes.
Our big doggy sometimes barks at them.
It will be interesting if your kids will loose the sight or if they will keep it.
Btw. I have fun-tagged you ;)
Would you still go for free pizza even if you knew about the ghostie? :)
There are lots of Ghosts in my town, also a high number of ufo sightings, then again there is a lot of pollution here :)
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@Maxie, thank you! I’ll definitely be pimping my services to you when my design site is up.
@Nicole, thanks for tagging me, because I had nothing to say today, lol. And thanks for the well-wishes. I am so tired of being sick. Also, I wonder if my kids will lose it as they get older – but I’m thinking not.
@Claire, FREE PIZZA wins every time! :D Also, haha – do you mean that there is a correlation between high pollution and ghost/UFO sightings?
Or that the pollution has erm affected folk :)
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