He Said She Said

The tamer of the many entertaining things that could be overheard by my neighbors through the walls of my apartment today...

Me: "Jake it sure is a good thing you threw up that zipper." (To which he replied by just staring at me and licking his chops.)

Me: "Hope you need to grow up a just little bit! It is no one else's responsibility to get your toes into the slots of your toe socks."

Hope's reply (between sobs and flailing on the floor and screaming at her brother and sister for not helping her): "I don't want to grow up."

Also.

I finally got to watch The Notebook last night. I sobbed heavily from beginning to end. Mostly because I know I am going to get Alzheimer's and be just like that woman and mostly because I totally identified with the entire relationship between the two main characters. When they were fighting and hitting each other and then suddenly passionately all over each other. Yeah, I remember those days. Fighting all night and then pretending it never happened the next day. All fire and ice. The whole deal about the parents not being okay with it and fighting and screaming and telling them you will love who you want to love. Yeah, I remember that too. The being sick and scared and him not leaving her alone. Yeah, I remember that too.

The point I completely lost it though was when he told his children that wanted him to come home and not stay there at the retirement home that their mother "was his home" and he could never leave her. Then there was the end. I can't even talk about the end. The whole story just hit home. I am still kind of teary over it today. Big cry baby that I am.

Posted by gwendolyn on February 11, 2005 at 02:42 PM