SCHOOL DAZE

Craig has official moved in with us–again. I’m hoping this time he will stay and not change his mind again. We tried this living arrangement one time before a couple of years ago. He couldn’t live by his dad’s rules of the house. Rules like washing dishes, doing homework, keeping bedroom tidy. He came to realize the grass isn’t always greener at his mom’s house. I think things are different this time around. He wants to have a clean slate and start over again.

At the end of his freshman year, he broke up with his girlfriend, his first crush, they passed notes, kissed and held hands for two years. She became demanding, jealous and from what he says a “real bitch”. I told him he should keep all the love notes and not throw them away. He has Hundreds of these notes which are all folded in a girly kind of way. I remembered what happened to all my love notes from my high school boyfriend. In a fit of rage, I burned them all in the back yard burn barrel. I watched each letter shrivel up and burn. I wished I still had these notes. The guy was an ass—- but he was my first.

I went back to highschool again!

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Well not quite—I would never really want to go back to highschool. Way too much drama for me. I needed to register Craig into his sophomore classes. He will be going to Mystic Bay Highschool. The entire sophomore class was there getting pictures taken for their ASB cards. I had to sit on one of those lunchroom tables and waited with the other adults while the kids hung out in line for their pictures. The line was long and I had time teenager watch. As I was watching the future leaders of our country, I noted the kids still hang out in the usual cliques: Jocks, stoners, rich kids, nerds, However, there are some notable differences.

• teens are fatter

  Craig told me that he hasn’t had PE in school for the last two years due to budget cuts.

• more sexual revealing clothing

  My goodness gracious how low can those low low risers actually go

  Going back to high school wasn’t so awful it was actually a boost to my self esteem. I couldn’t help but notice that the highschool boys were checking me out. If they only knew I’m pushing the big 4-0. I’m sitting here now laughing about this because when we got back home the boys starting coming over to hang out with Craig. There has been no boys over all summer long.

  Yesterday, I took Craig school shopping. I was allotted $500.00 for his school clothes. This did not include his back pack and shoes. Craig is an impeccable dresser even with the baggie style clothing. SIDE NOTE: I’M STILL WAITIGN FOR THIS STYLE TO GO OUT OF STYLE. I decided to venture out to the big city and go to The Bell Square Mall. Why didn’t I watch the news before we left. I didn’t fathom the president of the United States would just happen to be in this neck of the woods. Along with the president came the loud mouth protestors. “Impeach Bush” “Bush Lies” Protestors, lots of idiot protestors. This is how I viewed them sorry If I have offended anyone. My apologies. Hope we can still be friends.

  Anyways, clothes shopping, how could I let protesters interfere with my favorite pastime. I love this mall!!! Nordstroms, BeBes, Limited, Banana Republic, NineWest, Mariposa, Express, Victoria Secret Opps I forget that I was’t the one with the $500.00. Pity party! Wish I could be going back to school. Craig hit all his favorite stores. Pacwest, Eddie Baurer and Abacrombie & Fitch. 2 pair of jeans, 2 pair of pants with lots of pockets, what in the hell do they need all those pockets for??, two stripped dress shirts, pull over hoodie sweatshirt with a logo that said fox the “o” is the face of a fox, a t-shirt that says foxracing,note to self:Is this some kind of car racing: two pairs of shorts of course these have all the pockets too, a leather belt and a wallet (you guessed right- this has the fox imprint. I’m going to have to ask him about this fox thing. Saving the best for last, my favorite item, boxer shorts from Abacrombie. Unfortunalty, It would be of my better interest to stay out of his underwear drawer. BB is a brief kind of a guy. That is no fun. I have never bought anything from this store. Craig gave me one of his long sleeve shirts from Abacrombie. It was a gift from his x girlfriend. He doesn’t want any reminders of her. Now it’s mine WooHoo! Good for me but bad for her. Now, I’m feeling guilty. Walking into this store is a sexual experience. Marketing 101: SEX SALESYou can’t help but notice the wall length black and white pictures of models in scantily clad clothing wrapped around each other in provocative positions. I was taken back by a picture of a “very young girl” she wasn’t wearing any clothing or if she was, it was hard to tell. You could see part of an ample breast and a hint of her buttocks. It was an astonishing beautiful picture. In some odd way this girl looked like me in my younger days, or maybe I wanted her to look like me. A very spell binding picture that is still captivating my thoughts. No wonder Craig “Mr Pubescent” liked buying clothes here. There was erotic music playing in the backgroundI guess you would call it techno; very hard, fast with a heavy rhymatic beat It was almost hypnotizing. The sales girls at the counter were the A&F brand type. It should be illegal to have a flat waist and a tight small ass like that. Not fair!!

  When we got home I made Craig try on all his clothes for me in a fashion show way. He refused to try on any of the clothing at the stores. According to the sales guy, this is quite common with boys. Everyting fit–remember baggie is in style. This must mean he won’t have to go shopping next year because his baggie clothes will fit like regular fitting clothes. WooHoo for his dad! I made him put all his clothes away with a stern directive he could not wear them until school started in about two weeks!

  Later that night, Craig came into my study and dragged me away from the computer. He had something very exciting to show me. He had discovered a pull out girlie picture interlaced in his shopping bag from Abacrombie.

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  Yes, it is the picture of the girl and she has a name. Her name is Niki. Do you wanna see???

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