How is College Geek spending his summer vacation?

He will be a camp counselor . What a perfect job for the College Geek! He can combine computer games, computer programming with "Dress like a Pirate Wednesday".!

More Stories from the Homefront

Want to know what else happened while AbFab and Mr. Geek were away blissfully unaware of happenings in the Geek House? Of course you do or you wouldn't be here.


We had been promising the Middle Geek that we would repaint his room. He has a new obsession with all things Japanese and wanted to reflect that in his room. Also when the Middle Geek was younger, he had many anger issues. The result of that negative energy was lots and lots of holes in the walls. Finally it occurred to me that it had been ages since he had thrown that level of a tantrum. Therefore it seemed time to patch the walls and seal up that part of his life and start the next phase.



College Geek's friend (obsessed with Japan as much as the Middle Geek) volunteered to come over during Christmas break and paint some Japanese words and murals on his walls. Unfortunately with the busy break that the Geek family had we were barely able to squeeze in the patching of the holes in the walls and no painting was done.


You will now realize how excited I was to visit NYC that I gave College Geek complete control to choose the color of the walls, paint the entire room, paint the murals and restore the room. Yes all of the following occurred while Mr. Geek and I were out of state.


Here is College Geek (I hope) hamming it up for the picture. I like the color blue that he chose.



Here are all four walls. The scale is not right, notice the crane is painted above the light switch. The words are Dream, Harmony and Soul. Dream and the snowscape are over the Middle Geek's bed. He said it worked because that night he had the best dream of his life.



They left his trophy shelf on the wall and painted around it.

The Homefront

I know you are thinking, great you and Mr. Geek had lots of fun, whatever. What about the little geeks, it is obvious they did not get to go to New York City. What did you do with them, leave them a dish of water and hope for the best.

Uh, yes, at least the hope for the best anyway. College Geek was still at home and in charge of getting the littler geeks their lunch packed and off to school. Grandma Geek (boy will she hate that title- note to Cheri think of different nickname) came over every evening to provide some stability and make sure dinner was somewhat appropriate- not cookies and chips.

And for those of you who that are tired of hearing about me, me, me, here is a good story about the Littlest Geek.

AbFab: Littlest Geek come down we have to finish your homework before school that we didn't finish last night. (due to D.A.R.E. graduation)

Littlest Geek: You mean this homework. (He is carrying it as he comes downstairs.)

AbFab: Uh...yes. When did you do that?

LG: I am sorry Mom, but I did not want to miss recess.

AbFab: okay....

LG: So I snuck down to the kitchen and took my homework back to my room. Then I remembered College Geek had given me some GloSticks for Christmas. So I used a GloStick and finished my homework. Are you angry?

What is your Theme song?

Today's Take5 Tuesday has some great subjects. I am not sure which ones I would like to list. These are the choices, and each one could be a posting of its own.

List…
5 of your favorite things.
5 things you wanted to be when you grew up.
5 of the best compliments that you have ever received.
5 songs that you would pick as your theme songs.
5 people that inspire you.

I will pick the easiest first.

5 things you wanted to be when you grew up.

Teacher
Botanist (I had read a biography of Luther Burbank and I wanted to graft new plants)
Writer
Engineer
Astronaut (This is still on my list. My dad made me promise not to go into space while my mom was alive -Hi Mom! )

5 songs that you would pick as your theme songs

Instead of my five songs, since there are five of us in the house I will give each of us a theme song.

Littlest Geek

Middle Geek



College Geek



Mr. Geek



AbFab Geek

So What is Your Theme Song???

Photo Story Friday

Photo Story Friday gives the opportunity to tell the story behind a photo. For my first photo Friday, I am reusing a popular photo from a Wordless Wednesday because anyone who knows me knows I can't stay wordless for long.



Toward the end of the school year things become very hectic and overscheduled (that is saying a alot in this house where we keep very busy). The are end of year concerts and big end of year school field trips and end of year award programs and end of year Drama Productions (you get the picture). This coincides of course with the end of my work schedule as I know it. Because I work for myself (and Mr. Geek) I have alot of flexibility of when and where I work. I have found that I prefer to work at the office during normal working hours (who knew?). But when everyone is home from school I work whenever and where ever I can. (Today I am at the kitchen counter.)



So two days before one of the Supersized Days, I get a reminder call, I have an appointment to get my hair cut. I made this appointment at the end of my last appointment eight weeks ago when the end of school was far off in the distance. (One more aside, I do not pamper myself much, but I live for these days.) So do I cancel my appointment and fulfill my duties as a mother --of course I do. What kind of question is that?

And then the biggest son came home from college. Let's see, what should I call him. Oldest Geek is really Mr. Geek and Biggest Geek is just redundant. I know, we will call him
College Geek. So I mention to the Littlest Geek, "What if College Geek came to your field day instead of me?" (So when he got upset, I could say, I was only asking, "What if?") At this point instead of getting upset, he jumped up and down, "Really! He can come to my field day?!!!"

Well at least I found out where I rate in the family AND I was able to get my hair cut that day.

So what about the picture? This is a picture of College Geek demonstrating one of the games. Again, better him than me. He was so happy, because all the kids thought he was cool and some of his old teachers remembered him. And no one missed me!



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Wordless Wednesday

Geeks at Play!

Wordless Wednesday

Well for this Wordless Wednesday I am once again dipping into my middle son's collection of pictures. I believe the title of this series would be:

A View from a Shoe

or

A Portrait of an Older Brother in Black and White and Sepia

(See Comments for title discussion)