Today has been pretty nice, we woke up this morning and Sam did some Maths with Will and then me and Will finished varnishing the fence. After this we went into Woolgoolga and Sam had a surf, we picked up a couple of pairs of cheap shades as I think me and Sam should start wearing them to protect our eyes from the sun and then we came home and now Will is watching a surf video and Sam has gone to the skate park... and you know what... I'm a bit bored. I'm not very good now at just sitting still. I like it when we are all out walking in the sunshine along the beach, or climbing up some ancient ruin or volcano, sitting in front of the telly is just not for me, never has been really, I get bored too easily.
This is when we all start getting edgy with each other as well. We have all got on brilliantly for so long perhaps we were due a rocky patch but who would have guessed it would have come when we were all nicely settled into a comfortable house, or perhaps that's the point. Being in a nice house is easy, we don't need to support each other to pull each other through unfamiliar territory or to boost each others morale. We can all just sit on the sofa and snipe at each other. Terrible isn't it? So i'm not quite sure how to pull us out of this one or perhaps the best thing to do is to wait for it to pass... see, it makes me worried about when we get back because we are so much nicer to each other when we are all squashed into a little van. Perhaps we should sell the houses when we get back and just buy ourselves a little caravan which we move around Bristol every few days!!!!
Think I'll go do some yoga and see if I can breath my way out of it.
Well my love, I have a suggestion! Your writing is so good and you perhaps don't realise how good it is. Maybe you could use this time, when they are watching TV/skateboarding etc., to begin the new novel. YOU REALLY OUGHT TO WRITE!!! Do what your Dad says. Just sit down at the laptop and start to write something. Anything. So many words every day.
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Don't worry. Be Happy! You know the song. :>}
Love and hugs,
Mum
Your mother is right. You should take her advice. You never were any good at playing alone and one can hardly blame you for not wanting to join the couch potatoes. On the other hand you can't expect them to give up their creature comforts, if that is what they want, and join you in your activities. Couch potatodom comes with the territory you find yourself inhabiting. Now is the time to apply the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair and just get on with creating the great novel or whatever. And you are quite correct, you (singular) are too settled in the present environment. Write and unsettle yourself without disturbing the others. Get on with it girl.
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Dad