Dinosaur Oatmeal

Our scene begins in the Studer kitchen, on a very pleasant morning in early April. We find Camille standing tiptoe on a stool in the pantry. She is digging through a container filled with paper packages of instant oatmeal, and she is desperately trying to find something without melting dinosaur eggs or oatmeal that turns completely ‘blue’ in color. She just wants some breakfast. She had finally decided to give the dinosaur eggs a shot when she feels a tug on her pajama pants. Her three youngest siblings are standing behind her. Nile looks up and asks her a question.

Nile: “Camille can you give us our vitamins?”

Camille: “Your vitamins?”

Nile: “Yeah.”

Sophia: “Yeah.”

Camille: “Okay.”

Camille leads the kids over to the spice cupboard, for that is, apparently, where the vitamins are kept. . Camille has never been very good at taking her vitamins, so she probably wouldn’t be the best one to ask about vitamins. Anyways.

Camille: “So what do the look like?”

Nile: “They’re Spiderman. They’re like gummy vitamins.”

Erik: “Camille, they’re those up there. They say ‘Kids’ on them.”

Camille: “Oh…okay. So how many do you get?”

Nile: “We get four.”

Sophia: “Yeah we get four.”

Camille reads the label. They get four.

Camille: “Alright, four for Sophia…Nile…you pick out four. There you go…and here Erik…take four.”

Erik: “Oh no, I take ‘Men’s one a day’.

The three kids turn around and chewing their Spiderman vitamins they leave the kitchen. Camille is dumbfounded. Her 8 year old brother takes ‘Men’s one a day’.

It’s been a fairly fun week. The weather has been so amazing…it’s a medicine for the soul itself. I don’t think my windows have been shut for over a week, its so great to sleep in fresh air, and to wake up and here the birds.

We’ve been playing tennis almost daily. We played for 5 hours on Sunday, ha, and an average of three on every other day. It has been so fun! Tennis is one of those sports that if you want to play it, you HAVE to play it. You can’t just casually do it. What I’m trying to say, is that it takes a lot of practice…and I’m finally getting to a point where I make at least ‘some’ of the shots I want to. My serve has gone to pot, which is funny considering that was my strong point last summer, but my backhand is looking so much better.

Of course we’ve spent a lot of time in Cedar Rapids this week, but that’s nothing unusual. We’ve gone to Target every time though, and that’s a bit of a problem considering Lincoln has worked EVERY time as well. But lucky for me I’ve managed to avoid him. Hahahahaha…I’m feeling anti-social.

Oh, we watched two movies last night, ‘The Hours’ and ‘I ‘heart’ Huckabees’. ‘The hours’ was alright, but the whole CONSTANT lesbian thing got to us after a while. Afterwards the girls and I didn’t want to stand to close to each other, it was a little ‘awkward’ what with all of us being ‘female’. HA ha ha. Yeah we played it up. It was quite hilarious.

‘I ‘heart’ Hukabees’ was better, Seth and I watched it and had many laughs. Yeah…it was really funny. But isn't existentialism always funny? The Mark Walberg character cracked me up so bad...he was a riot. "Will you be my other?"

*sigh* I'm drinking coffee right now. I've found that I can only drink coffee black or 'In the raw' as Sam would say. I don't know what I'm saying, or why I'm saying it. I don't think I even care anymore. Yeah I'm done.

Mom is taking Erik to get his stiches removed in ten minutes.

We might go see an 'Imax' today, but we're not sure. I hope we do. I know we're going to play tennis though.

Oh, things might work out swimmingly well for Dad at the office. He offered a lady we know the second full time position, and she is very interested. We're close friends with her mother-in-law, and this would be great for everyone. We think she'd do a wonderful job. Also- The secratary who kind of 'sucks', the one in the part imes position, told Lisa (The other full time.) that there was a nother job she was interested. So yes, its all very confusing but if all of this falls into place Dad's life will be much better.

I've started work on my 'Seniors honors project'. Uggg. I am not interested in doing it, but if I don't I'll feel guilty. On that note, I think guilt motivates most of what I do. Hmmm...

Anyways. I've decided to go with beads, bead history, how beads have influenced and been influenced by culture, and other random bead...um...things. Its going to be a piece of cake. I already know most of the information, I just need to write a few papers, make a display, and give a presentation. That's all a bore to me though.

Oh my gosh...so much stuff at our house has been falling apart lately. We just ordered a new dryer, a new computer, and a new kitchen table. Weirdness.