So we are at Grant's office
Feb. 18th, 2012 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarflameBecause it's on the way back from visiting Nancy, and he wanted to get something done. It's a deserted (for the weekend) section of the second floor of an office building. All the doors are ceiling height, there's a lot of glass and plush carpet everywhere and the children are currently sitting around a giant meeting table in cushy leather chairs watching hulu cartoons on a projector screen that comes down from the ceiling. We haven't really been in this particular workplace of his before (he's been here 6 months; it's 2 hours from our freakin' house).
Aaron, sitting at the head of the large meeting table: I am the CEO.
Me: You have something to tell us?
Aaron: I'm even wearing cologne. (takes off his watch) Today's topic is "Gshocks". Worth the money, or are you just paying for the brand name?
Me: Isaac, don't erase things from the (very complex and completely covered in writing) board!
Aaron: I think these chairs are probably, like, at least two dead cows each.
Annie: They're obviously fake.
Me: Based on what?
Annie: *glares at me*
Elise, sitting at the foot of the table: Now everyone has to pay attention to me *giggles*.
Jake, muffled from under the table: HEY GUYS THE MEETING IS DOWN HERE!
Isaac: Whoa, a golden doorknob! Did you know the doorknobs are golden here, Dad?
Me: You know what I think we should do? You and me, while they watch this movie?
Grant: I'm sure I do.
Me: There aren't cameras, right?
Grant: Not that I know of.
Me: Well.
Grant: I have stuff to do.
Me: I'm taking some pens and you can't stop me.
The meeting with Nancy was great. Ananda is taller than her, Aaron is almost as tall as her. We walked all around a park in Boca Raton with her pushing her dog in a dog stroller and updated each other on the last year of our lives, with Elise and Grant trailing after us when the conversation was too sensitive for small ears and walking alongside when not. Ananda rode a skateboard around, Aaron his unicycle, and Jake and Isaac mostly played at the playground. We sat on a bench and showed each other pictures off of our phones for twenty minutes. Eventually we caravan'd over to Whole Foods to eat. I'm meeting her alone in Davey next Sunday evening. It's a lot easier to say goodbye "til next Sunday" as opposed to "til next February".
Aaron, sitting at the head of the large meeting table: I am the CEO.
Me: You have something to tell us?
Aaron: I'm even wearing cologne. (takes off his watch) Today's topic is "Gshocks". Worth the money, or are you just paying for the brand name?
Me: Isaac, don't erase things from the (very complex and completely covered in writing) board!
Aaron: I think these chairs are probably, like, at least two dead cows each.
Annie: They're obviously fake.
Me: Based on what?
Annie: *glares at me*
Elise, sitting at the foot of the table: Now everyone has to pay attention to me *giggles*.
Jake, muffled from under the table: HEY GUYS THE MEETING IS DOWN HERE!
Isaac: Whoa, a golden doorknob! Did you know the doorknobs are golden here, Dad?
Me: You know what I think we should do? You and me, while they watch this movie?
Grant: I'm sure I do.
Me: There aren't cameras, right?
Grant: Not that I know of.
Me: Well.
Grant: I have stuff to do.
Me: I'm taking some pens and you can't stop me.
The meeting with Nancy was great. Ananda is taller than her, Aaron is almost as tall as her. We walked all around a park in Boca Raton with her pushing her dog in a dog stroller and updated each other on the last year of our lives, with Elise and Grant trailing after us when the conversation was too sensitive for small ears and walking alongside when not. Ananda rode a skateboard around, Aaron his unicycle, and Jake and Isaac mostly played at the playground. We sat on a bench and showed each other pictures off of our phones for twenty minutes. Eventually we caravan'd over to Whole Foods to eat. I'm meeting her alone in Davey next Sunday evening. It's a lot easier to say goodbye "til next Sunday" as opposed to "til next February".
