He will take clothes down to the laundry room, unload the dryer, load the dryer (he's not allowed to do anything else in the laundry room...It could be bad) and load the dishwasher, (again, restraints are in place with the dishes also, because it could be a wet soapy mess-lest we forget the dishwasher episode)and then take the trash out of the bathroom
and the kitchen (and that's if he's desperate for a dollar more...He hates it)… all in the name of the almighty buck. He loves money.
He loves to have me go to Goodwill and shop because he can look through the old movies and see if there is anything he would like to have. He is one of the few people in the world that actually still own a VCR.
One day we were picking through the CD’s and I came upon “Evita”.
Understanding his penchant for musicals I picked it out and said, “Woo, look Boog, ‘Evita’.”
He was enchanted.
He bought the CD and since has seen the movie and now wants the movie as well.
It’s nice to know that little things amuse him.
With so-called “average” kids, it’s not so easy to get your thrills by going to Goodwill.
Mostly their thrills come from the Mall or from Wal-mart or from some kind of Boutique-like store that their friends go to like “The Gap” or “Old Navy” or something like that. My kids were never into stores like that…But I knew kids that were. Why? I don’t know. They are cheaply made clothes in high priced stores. Although, I happen to like “Old Navy” stores…They have fun stuff.
I look through the books at Goodwill but they rarely have anything I want to read. I like to read books that are made into movies. Usually after the movie is out and I’ve seen it and everyone around me says, “Oh, well, the movie isn’t as good as the book.." I want to know why?
I just got done with one book that they totally pooch screwed as a movie. They lost tract of what the book was about while making the movie.
It was a really good book. I liked it. I couldn’t put it down.
Now, I am reading another book that so far isn’t as good as the movie was because of the way it was written. It’s difficult to read. I don’t like the way it goes back and forth from the first person writing of each character. Yuck. It’s confusing. Maybe it will get better, I don’t know. I like travel logs, as long as their funny and some non-fictional self help and some non-fictional studies. “The Nun Study” was such a book, although it boardered on being dry and academic.
Boog likes books that are about Steven Spielberg; his favorite director. I daresay that I have ever seen him want a book more than the two he has on Steven Spielberg. Possibly if they bring a book out on a musical he likes or on the movie “Lady Hawke” he will get that or at least ask for it. But till that time, we go on allowing him to buy video tapes, DVD’s and CD’s at Goodwill.
There is the possibility this could all change.
As a child he loved “Star Wars.” Now he can’t stand it. He loved “Toy Story.” Now he can’t stand it. We don’t know why. I know why he can’t stand “Star Wars.” I mean if you watched “Star Wars” over and over again until eyes nearly bled you too would be sick of it. And for three years straight that was all he watched…After a while I wanted to tape over “Star Wars” and I loved “Star Wars” when I was younger.
For some reason, he hates the beginning music of “Star Trek: The Next Generation”. And he used to try and mimic “Space: The Final Frontier….” It came out “Space…..” And the rest was unintelligible. But now he can’t even listen to that opening music.
Maybe someday he’ll be the same way about Goodwill but I doubt it. It would take someone working there that he didn’t like. Like some kid at school that was a reprobate…But until then I guess I will have to put up with him going overboard on the chores every once in a while when he wants to go to Goodwill and shop for new and interesting music or tapes….
It could be worse.
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