December 15, 2011
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#WinterSH 8 The chair
Write something that incorporates the following words: effete, eschaton, effervescent, etiology, elute.
The chair. We’ve had it forever. It was an old hotel chair my in-laws gave us years ago. We’ve used it, misused it. It has required sewing, gluing. I think at one point there was hammering too. It’s brown in places it should be green. It’s covered in cat hair. It has holes, loose fabric, stuffing coming out. I decided it made perfect sense to toss this chair to the curb to make room for the Christmas tree. Logical. Perfectly acceptable. I dragged it out of the house and called that job done.
Until Littleloudone discovered the evil that I had wrought upon her and attempted to rectify this travesty by bringing the chair back into the house. I may have said something along the lines of “if the chair is coming back in the house, you are not.” I’m that kind of mother. So she stopped her dragging at the front door. And proceeded to mark the eschaton with epic wailing. She sat is this horribly filthy, damaged, effete chair in the cold with no coat on and probably wearing shorts because why wear winter clothes in the winter and cried her heart out. Needless to say it was loud, because she is loud. She’s not so little anymore. But she is loud. And I ignored her because dammit I was going to win. Just this once. I did suggest spouse throw her a blanket. The wailing ceased for a millisecond as she said “thank you.” Which made me laugh.
Then perhaps the wailing stopped. I stopped listening for sure. I might have vaguely recognized the sound of the front door opening and some clomping. And then more silence. Spouse called me to the front door. My normally effervescent, melodramatic, piece of work kid was sewing the chair back together. Diligently. Painstakingly. Littleloudone was able to elute a twitch of a smile and a change of heart from her stone-cold, stubborn mother. The chair came back in the house.
Etiology of a Littleloudone drama queen? Mother is a softy.
Comments (37)
Awwww, a mommy love ye are…
And you pretend you don’t have this game sewn up.
You totally do. You rock.
awwwwww
@drawmafreezone - just can’t so no to that stinking kid. bugs me. @LKJSlain - :) @ordinarybutloud - as i understand this here contest, it’s a completion not a ranking thing. i think we’ll both complete every darn thing, don’t you? (except that you somehow found out the favorite rap lyric- cheater?)
Aww, how cute is that? I remember when I was younger I was extremely attached to every piece of furniture my mother owned. It was ours and it belonged exactly where it was. If the furniture left, who knew what might be next?
@lanney - my goodness. is that why she won’t let it go?
you suck. it’s not fair that you are doing all of these prompts, and I have done, like, two. I think.
well done!
@plantinthewindow -
you will do, like, more later. ’cause you, like, wrote a book! and when i’m bored and devastatingly depressed in january, YOU will have something to do and I won’t.
LOVE this story. i have the unedited version, too. which i’m keeping close to my chest. someday when you’re this rich and famous writer, you’ll maybe sign my copy of: ~ the chair ~ !
@promisesunshine - okay. now I feel better.
@promisesunshine - I only know how I felt, but I am glad you let it stay since it was important enough to her to work on it.
@be_the_rain - thought you weren’t going to read it now?
hmm… unedited version probably had the language of the sailors?
@lanney - how could i possibly have gotten rid of it. @plantinthewindow - you are a goofball. sweet, but a goofball.
@lanney - me, too.
aw, you let her save the chair! some might say you won.
@complicatedlight - i won all right. we all sit in that stupid chair. and she was proud of herself.
victory is a subtle thing.
@promisesunshine - It’s on my site in the comments, DORK!!!
@complicatedlight - not so subtle that only one of you has a santa hat.
darn. you noticed…
@ordinarybutloud - i’m guessing that i said this to you? yes, i’m a memory-challenged dork. i’m like 50 first dates without the cute.
@complicatedlight - right.
@promisesunshine - haha…OBL called you a dork.
@promisesunshine - oh you’ve got the cute. wait…this isn’t my thread is it…
@promisesunshine -That’s exactly what I tell him.
@complicatedlight - everybody does. no. it’s not your thread. does that matter? thread hijacker.
@lanney - only because it’s true.
look, you’re gettin’ a jacked comment count. what more can you ask for?
HEY! i just found it in “high-fidelity”, though i think they’re calling it “hi fi” these days…heh. kids. what’ll they think of next? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE2B1noiNGY
@complicatedlight - is that important? besides i think you might have said i was cute. i forgive ya.
@complicatedlight - that’ll send lea into raptures all over again. i kinda liked the scratchy scratch at the end. but either way, gotta smirk and be happy.
Aren’t we all when we see they making an effort. Lovely story, and I’m glad she won
@xXxlovelylollipop -
she’s a dear for all her drama
@promisesunshine - no sun, it was when you told me about it spontaneously. none of those *e* words in it. my version ♥
@be_the_rain - none of those emphatically earratating e words.
@be_the_rain - love
aww how sweet
@godfatherofgreenbay - thank you