good things on a Wednesday

[alchimie]

1. When my son (7) came to wake me up this morning, he said both shyly and proudly, "I helped Dad make you breakfast!" And indeed, when I went downstairs there was coffee and freshly made chilaquiles, one of my absolute favourites. My son very happily watched me eat it and told me how he stirred eggs and various other tasks.
   
   
2. Purring cat in my lap, right now, and when I post this and then go lie in bed to read he will come and purr on top of me there as well.
   
   
3. Taking a shower before bed after a very hot day and using Lush's Lord of Misrule shower gel, which is vibrant green and smells of pepper and patchouli -- I strongly have the (negative) association of patchouli with hippies but I do not care, it turns out I like the smell so I am not going to deny myself a pleasure. This particular scent combination makes me think of Puck, whom my daughter (10 1/2) aspires to play someday.
   
   
4. Said daughter saying thoughtfully while I was putting her to bed, "I think I understand why people write fanfic! It is because they want more, or because all the questions weren't answered... I'm going to write fanfic about the book I just finished reading and I'm going to put myself in it because why not? I'll write fanfic and be an actor!"
   
   
5. Said daughter then bursting into my room 45 minutes later very excitedly to read me the first four pages of her fic!
   

Now to bed!

Comments

[cmcmck]

As an ageing hippy chick all I have to say is :op

That said, I love patchouli which might be predictable.

[alchimie]

<3 to you (that is a heart if it is not obvious) -- it is one of those reflexes I am undoing, left over from having had terrible terrible parents who doubled-down on how they Had Been Hippies and thus did not need to provide meals or basic care because we were all doing our own thing.

And isn't it a lovely scent? I did not actually know what it smelled like before this, just the word.

[kass]

Oh, those are such good things!

[forestofglory]

That's adorable! ( Though you may have preferred that she stay in bed)

[alchimie]

I would have, and was cranky, but then I had her read it to me anyway since she was there and became sincerely enthused for her writing!

[clevermanka]

omg your kids ❤❤❤

[alchimie]

I am very, very fond of them.

[rachelmanija]

This is all beyond adorable. What was her fic for?

[alchimie]

Five Nights at Freddy's -- she's watched one of her favourite YouTubers play the games repeatedly, and then we got the trilogy of tie-in novels from the library. She finished the third book just last night and was absolutely convinced there had to be a 4th book, since she thought too many questions were left unanswered. It was after I Googled enough to be certain that the 3rd was the end that she started musing about fanfic.

(She wrote another few pages this morning, and is in fact probably writing now in bed, I should go remind her to turn off her light!)

[jesse_the_k]

Hooray for an excellent child dreaming her future!

I used to adore patchouli and liberally adorn myself with it.

Then I typeset the mail order catalog for The Soap Opera, a local store est. 1972 which literally supplied the fragrant stuff to generations of hippies. The copy was handwritten on the strongest-smelling legal pads I've every experienced.

Shortly after I quit cigarettes and became asthmatic. Don't know where the lines of causality are drawn but I'm happy to appreciate your patchouli over the net.

[alchimie]

Oh dear, I certainly see how that would off-putting!

One of the silver linings of being at home all the time for me is that I may play freely with all my lovely scented products, since I am the only person in the family with any scent sensitivities -- when I am going out into the world around other people I try to be careful.