Signs

Ness, there's been a lot of important things that've been going on and I'm sorry that I haven't really updated you on them. I guess I'll take the time I have now to do so. Sorry Ness.

Today Arieana showed signs of actually caring about what others think. It happened a few minutes ago actually.

My (er, our) mom showed up out of nowhere and said Arieana needed a joke for school tomorrow. Well, I had two good jokes (both given to me by my English teacher Ms.Stover) and they were 1) Why was the cat afraid of the tree? Because of the bark. 2) Where does the king keep his armies? Up his sleevies. Now considering this is a group of six year olds we're talking about, the jokes didn't have to be funny. But no, those weren't good enough for Arieana (and my mom, since I had to explain the king one to her) so I went on the computer downstairs to find her one.

Now, Yahoo jokes sucked. I don't know who submitted the crap, but they were horribly unfunny. Arieana thought so too. But then we came across this gem; it was a joke that even made me laugh! It was, What do cops use to arrest pigs? Ham-cuffs! Get it, ham (since pigs are pork, well, ham) and cuffs....It was so funny! At first Arieana was all for it, but then after she showed my mom she didn't like it so much. That made me mad! I was sitting there like, Find your own damn joke then (I was really into that joke; no, I did not say that to my little sister!). In reply to my huffing Arieana said, "I don't think it's funny. What if they say," And she titled her body to the side and swung her head back, " 'That's not funny.' I wanna say a joke that's funny to me and that wasn't funny."

A few minutes ago I wasn't really thinking about her answer, but now I'm horrified! My God, she's, eventually, gonna spend most of her time thinking about whether her normal actions are funny and acceptable to her peers, let alone a simple joke! I wish she didn't care what people think of her and her jokes. I wish it was all fun and games to her and a simple just a joke she had to give to the class. If only she knew the pain of thinking about other minds! Hehe, if I told her how I'm emoing (look Ness, a new word!) over her discovery of other people's thoughts she'd think I was more crazy than I normally come off...Ah well. It was gonna happen eventually. The caring of other people's thoughts. A small part of me wishes I was there more often when she didn't care so much.