Miss Scatterbrain goes college

Oh dear! There are moments in life when I´d love to hand my dearly beloved daughter aka Miss Scatterbrain over to my best friend, who always wanted to have a girl but got boys aplenty instead, to show her that, only maybe, having girls is not always the best option. But let´s start with the obvious: September the 30th is supposed the first day of lectures at daughter´s college, so better not be late for the party. Daughter decided to let us haul her things to the new student residence on Sunday, so I had to cancel my visit to the theatre I had planned to do, together with my sister, whose daughter works as an assistant director at the local theatre this year. No problem for the both of us, she had had the tickets for free, as always. On Friday daughter mine condescended to finally contact the hall´s office, ten minutes before it closed, to learn where and when she was to get the keys to her rooms. What she learned was that on Sunday no moving in was possible. Huzzah! Since her first lecture was at 2 pm on Monday we decided to leave at 10 am, bring her things to her room then have a nice lunch in one of the restaurants, before she´d leave for good. To mark the occasion of a house soon-to-be bereft of offspring I allowed myself two glass of wine and a NZ crime movie. At midnight, after one hour without corpse and too much of ocean and sedative pills (in the movie!!!) I skipped the rest of the wannabe-thriller and went to bed instead, and whom did I find? A rather distraught Miss Scatterbrain, who just had found out that at two pm there was a meet and greet, but her lectures started at 9 am already. With one and a half hour journey ahead of us our sleep was cut short. In short: I got up at five, had a shower then two cups of coffee, and at 6:30 we were off to Tyrol, unloaded the car and brought her to college. Then we drove home, hubby and I too tired to prolong our trip till lunchtime, but we will have a nice dinner at my favourite restaurant tomorrow instead. The cats are in uproar, missing Miss Scatterbrain and her brother. Who will pet them now all day long? Let them sleep on the pillow? Let them pee onto the carpet, because even cats have to use the litter box now and then, which is practically impossible when Miss Scatterbrain or Mister Know-it-all close the doors to their rooms with the Bad Four inside, and the litter box is in the upper bathroom? All of our door handles are mounted the wrong way, so that even clever cats like Samsung and Vaire won´t be able to open it, which is good when the cats are outside the sleeping rooms, but quite bad, when they are already locked up in a place they aren´t even supposed to be!



Autumn is in full swing now, the leaves of the trees turning a sickly yellow. Unfortunately we do not have the nice ones which might bring us Indian summer feeling. We have lots of trees, we have long periods of sunny and warm days in late autumn, alas our trees always look like spilled apple sauce with occasional spots of cinnamon. Sister and I are still regretting our best opportunity to see that fiery spectacle of Indian sunmer when we were in Chicago two years ago. Not that we did not have time enough to drive up the Great Lakes, it was more that we were afraid to drive at all. Way too much traffic up there!
Had the first storm of the autumn season today, and now our garden is tidied up, we just had to pick up the pots and saucers that ended up in front of the garage and put it on the shelves. Why exert ourselves when there´s always a storm coming which will do that work for us!