Right now, we have two extra "kids" living with us and it has been interesting to see the dynamic in the three kids. the two are roughly Boy's age, and one of them is a girl. I can't say either is doing their life better or worse, but at the moment neither is attached to a significant other. That being said, they all stay busy in their own ways.
Boy rarely leaves the house, almost like his room gives him his powers. He has his computers there, along with all his gaming consoles, now that he has a table, he has gone back to playing his board games up there. He only tends to go out on Thursdays and he goes to Mage's to play some card games like dungeons and dragons, I am never sure, other than it is super nerdy and I don't understand any of it. I do demand he be home by 10:00pm, it is a school night. He goes to school during the week and works whatever hours they tell him on the weekends at Alamo Drafthouse, sometimes three hours, sometimes fifteen hours, depends on how good the movies are. Of course, Boy is supported by us and that makes his life an easy and casual one. But I have always told him, I want him to enjoy this time of his life, once you get a family and job, life is much different.
On the new peeps living with us, we are not their parents, but it does not stop me from getting after them, and giving advice like I would if they were mine. When they moved in, I told them one of the few rules is that I am not a fan of them running around every night. I understand people go out on Friday and Saturday nights, but the rest of the week, I expect a quiet house, we do have a younger boy who needs to get his rest.
For the most part Girlie is like a kid, she sets her sleep time to 10:00pm and most of the time, she is in bed and asleep before I come home for lunch. She then gets up sometime around 8:00am, so she needs about ten hours sleep to function normally. She still goes downtown and I can tell when she has headed that way on a Friday or Saturday because the bars close at 2:00am, and she is usually home by 3:00am or so. She had a guy she was seeing who worked until 10:00pm and then she was running around seeing him after work on weeknights, and she looked haggard and exhausted. She walked around with constant circles around her eyes. Once they broke up, she went back to sleeping her normal schedule, and her pretty face came back. It is Saturday afternoon and she just ran down as we were all sitting in the kitchen while Wife makes brunch. She is headed to pick up her sister and running to the mall to walk around. Last week she joined us for dinner on Saturday night, not having any better plans.
The new guy staying with us has always seemed older than Boy, even though, they are the same age and graduated at the same time. He went straight to work, and did not entertain the thought of going to school. He pays rent without excuses, and he carries himself pretty well, compared to Girlie who always needs to pay half the rent and she'll get me the other half next week type of stuff. Although he is doing hard and heavy work, installing custom windows and doors with a crew, he has recently started doing some sort of karate classes. Chubs eats it up and is only too eager to get thrown around as the attacker as he shows us what he is learning. Last week he took off for Houston where another old friend of theirs goes to school. He always manages to get himself into funny situations as he explains them, I can only hope he doesn't get shot at by some crazy boyfriend, as his stories are usually based on them dancing with drunk girls who come onto them, whoever he happens to be with.
I have enjoyed having the two of them around, they are different and they have their issues, but they know our house is a safe place.
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