Saturday, July 17, 2010

...alarming!



i HATE alarm clocks! i tried the dingle-a-ling one, the buzzzzzing one the la-dee-dah music one and even a talking clock. yikes! who wants to wake up to a stranger in your room with a yucky computer voice telling you to get up. no way!

it doesn’t matter which one i have ‘cause all of them have the same evil purpose and that’s to jar me outta dreamland and wake me up when i don’t wanna wake up. it’s my own fault. after all, who set that stupid alarm anyway? i did! what was i thinking? why am i letting a loud mouthed alarm clock get me up when i don’t want to get up? that’s self abuse for sure! and, isn’t one booming blast of abuse enough? NO! i can take more! just watch me push that handy dandy little snooze button and torture myself every ten minutes until I finally give up. geeeez! how dumb is that?!

think about this. the word “alarm” itself sounds scary. i don’t think waking up when the alarm goes off is supposed to be an emergency. where’s the fire? where’s the flood? and, why do we say the alarm “goes off” anyway?? doesn’t that sound sorta mean and angry? “alarm goes off!” yikes! i don’t want to be jarred awake by something that “goes off.” nope! i want to wake up slow and easy, take some time to open my eyes and rub the sleep out of them, yawn, stretch and crawl out of my bed at a snail's pace.

my mom used to call the alarm clock “the devils own invention.” i didn’t know what she meant til i had to start using one myself. eeeeek! the devil is alive and living in my alarm clock! i hate to admit it but i gotta tell you ive killed off a lot of those evil clocks. i smashed one against the wall, smothered a couple under my pillow, pitched one right out the window and drowned one in the sink. every time i get rid of one some nice person gets me another one. gosh thanks! how nice! oh i just love it! you’re sooo thoughtful. aarrgh!

the best alarm i ever had was my mom! she’d call out in a soft, cheery voice “time to get up. come on sleepy head get up.” what could be sweeter than waking up to mom’s voice. and, she’d come back and do it all over again until i got up. what's even better is when i finally rolled out of my warm, cozy bed and stumbled out my bedroom door, still half asleep, she was there and gave me a warm good morning hug. i’d close my eyes and wish i could go back to sleep right there in her arms.

i guess having my very own alarm clock means i’m growing up and being a lot more responsible for myself. i hate to say it, but, like everyone else, i need that devil to jar me out of dreamland. ugh! i HATE alarm clocks!

(thanks to my brother for editing this so it reads lots better.)

…hugs and smiles from lenny

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

cruisin'!



wowee! i just been on my very first cruise ever and it was soooooo much fun. i went on a big ship named the monarch of the seas for three whole days. when you see that ship real close up you just get no words except wow! my room was neat and it had a window where i could look out and see the water and land when we got to it. i didnt hardly ever stay in my room cause there was sooooo much fun stuff to do. mostly i swam and ate. i ate til my belly was busting and made my tee shirts stretch out. ha ha. it had so many places you could eat all the time and one night i ate pizza at midnight. i gotta admit i did it only one time cause i got sick in the night and threw up cause of eatin so much so late. ugh! the ship had a cool arcade room and a place to play basketball and ping pong and lots of other cool games. there was lots of music and places you could dance and movies and real live shows. i took a kite with me but got so busy i forgot to fly it. all the crew was really nice and helped me if i got lost (i did that a lot …ha ha) or needed something. the ship went to the bahama islands and i got to get off at nassau. it was really pretty and had lots of buildings painted in pastel colours. it was fun walking around and seeing all the neat stuff mostly at the straw market. it was sooooo hot there that i didnt stick around too long and got back on the ship and jumped in the pool. ahhhh! the last day the ship went to a real small island called cocoa cay and i swam way far out in the sea and snorkeled and saw lots of pretty fish and even a big ol sting ray. hooray for no sharks! they had a big barbeque and i ate a bunch more food. yikes! the ship got back at port in florida on monday morning. now im back home and wishin i was still on that ship and hoping i get to go on a longer cruise some day. if you didnt ever go on a cruise you just gotta do it!
… hugs from lenny