Wow! It has been a long time since I have shared any of my adventures with my friends. Well, the truth is, I haven’t had many adventures lately. The Lady and Mr. Guy have been very busy with things and we have not traveled anywhere near or far. The Lady has been working hard at school and Mr. Guy spent most of the spring taking care of one of the other furry monsters at our house. One of our dog monsters was old and sick. Mr. Guy spent all day every day making sure that he was safe and comfortable. Then it was sad at our house because the big black furry monster crossed the Rainbow Bridge. Mr. Guy and The Lady told me that even though we were all very sad, that losing furry monster family members and people that we love is a real part of life. I asked if it was like when we lost The Captain. Yep. It was exactly like that. Even though I haven’t been writing much, I have been thinking a lot, about all kinds of things. I have used my crayons and written monster words on little pieces of paper so that I wouldn’t forget all of the things that I have been thinking about. Since The Lady only has one more week of school, she promised me that we would get all of my thoughts out of my furry blue and orange head and off of all my little pieces of paper and make them into real words and sentences so that I can share them here on my blog. I am excited about that! I like thinking and writing, especially when Mr. Guy and The Lady help me! You all know that The Lady likes to take pictures. This month, she promised me that I will be in her pictures every single day!! That is exciting! I may need to get a new shirt or two if I am going to have my picture taken that many times. And certainly if The Lady is going to take thirty-one pictures of me, I will get to go on some adventures somewhere! I don’t know if any of you have missed me, but I can say with all of my monster heart that I have missed all of my friends. I hope that you will follow me during my My Month of Me!
Here it is Saturday. I think I am starting to catch up with the days. Even though it is already Saturday, I’m writing about Friday.
Today we had breakfast in the hotel. The Lady said that breakfast was served every morning in the hotel! I thought it was nice of them to give us breakfast everyday. Blue and Orange monsters need to start their day with a good breakfast.
After breakfast, it was back on the bus. The people in Britain call it a “coach”. I thought a coach was someone who taught game players how to beat up other game players. That is not what it means here. Mr. Martin was there waiting for us. He is the coach driver, not the coach. Mr. Martin drove us to a place called Ely. There is a big church there called a Cathedral. The Lady and the singing people were going to sing a concert there.
We had to park a hundred miles away and walk to the cathedral. Well, it was not 100 miles really, but it seemed like it. Mr Guy carried me all the way from the coach (see I’m learning to speak British!) to the cathedral. When we got there, I was surprised. The only churches I had seen were small ones like the one in Delaware next to store where The Lady and Mr. Guy adopted me. Ely Cathedral is GREAT BIG. It is all stone and colored glass windows. As we walked it seemed to get bigger. It was almost a scary place.
Some nice folks there gave us a tour. That made it seem less scary. Ely is very old. Because it is so big and made of stone, things echo everywhere. All the voices sounded louder. We learned a lot about the history of the cathedral. I did not get it all. I think there are things I needed to know before I got there about Norman (whoever he is) and some other guy named Henry D8. Maybe he is related to R2D2. Even though I was confused, Mr. Guy really seemed interested. So I guess it was all good.
In the afternoon the singing people did their concert. It was really good. I had never heard them sing before. I was a little worried that they would not let blue and orange monsters in to the concert. The cathedral people were very nice. A couple of them asked Mr Guy all about me. He told them how I go places and have this blog. They thought that was great! So I got to go. When we got to the chapel where the singing people were going to do their concert, there was some blue there. The Chapel was called The Lady Chapel and the blue lady was The Virgin Mary.
If you want to hear what the singing people sounded like, here is a link to one of the songs that they sang in The Lady Chapel at Ely Cathedral.
When the singing was over, we got back on the coach and Mr Martin took us back to Cambridge. We had the whole afternoon to look around there. Cambridge has a big and old college. It is bigger and older than the college where The Lady teaches or either of the colleges where Mr. Guy and The Lady went to school. The Lady got me a new shirt just so I don’t forget about Cambridge!! YAY!!!
I’m not really going to go to Cambridge for college. I would have to leave The Lady and Mr. Guy. I don’t want to do that. And, I am not really good at school things. I like it when The Lady and Mr. Guy teach me what I need to know.
One thing that Mr. Guy taught me about while we were in Cambridge was telephone booths. I thought booths were someplace that you sat with your friends at a restaurant, a place where you were supposed to eat and talk to your friends who are right there with you. Telephone booths are places where you do talk to your friends, but you have to pay money to talk to them on a piece of plastic that is attached to the wall of the telephone booth with a big thick piece of wire. This all seemed very strange. Mr. Guy’s telephone booth is much smaller. He can carry it in his pocket wherever he goes. He does not have to stay attached to a big red box on the street corner to talk to his friends.
While we were in Cambridge, we also did something called punting. I thought punting was something that those coach people did to help their team beat up the other team. Apparently in Britain, punting means something else too. We rode on a funny boat where a guy stood on the end and pushed us along the river.
It was fun and we got to see more of Cambridge. It was a little like bumper cars though because not all of the boat drivers were good and boats kept running in to eat other. It was not scary, though.
Neither was this dinosaur.
We had a snack with Mr. Mickey and Ms. Robin. They liked me and were not embarrassed to walk around with me.
After our fun afternoon and evening, we went back to the hotel. We were going to leave Cambridge in the morning and we needed a good night’s sleep.
So that is what Friday was like. I will tell you about Saturday (which is really today) tomorrow!
I know…the time and days are all confused because I wrote this on time but did not post it on time and now it is several weeks later. After I wrote this post, I realized that it was going to be hard to get this done while we were in England. I will tell you all about the rest of my trip, but I will write about it from where I am now, back in Texas!
This post was written on Friday July 22. We had trouble with getting the pictures to my blog. So Mr Guy and the Lady are helping me catch up. I have so many pictures and so many things to share! It is going to take this little blue and orange furry monster lots of minutes to write all of these words! Please be patient with me!
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Wow I’m a little confused. I think it has been three days since we left home. It was Wednesday, but now it is Friday! The Lady says we lost six hours on the plane. Disappearing time is too much for a little blue and orange monster to understand.
You may wonder why we are going to London. Actually we are only going to the London airport and then traveling by bus to another part of Great Britain. Mr Guy told me London is a city in Great Britain. The Lady sings with her church choir and they are singing at churches in Great Britain.
The last few days have been a go go go time. We got on the plane in Dallas on Thursday, Wednesday, I looked at the sign and it said we were going to London.
The Lady and Mr Guy had told me that we would be going on a long trip some time ago. We had even looked it up in the Atlas at Mr Guys school before he retried retired. Until I helped Mr. Guy and The Lady pack a whole bunch of stuff at home, it did not seem real.
They let me put a few shirts in their bags. I did not take too many because I knew I would find some new shirts in England. I was afraid that if I took any more shirts, there would not be enough room to bring any new ones home.
The Lady had to take lots of special singing clothes that took up a lot of room in her bag. She packed something that she called vest mints or investments or something. They looked like a long black dress and a short white bib or something.
We got to the airport very early and then waited a while before we got on the biggest plane I have ever seen. The Lady and Mr Guy said they had never seen one that big either. I wish we had taken a picture!
We were in a section called “business class”. I wasn’t sure this was good because I thought Mr Guy had retired and The Lady was off for the summer; I did not think they would be busy in classes while we were on the airplane. Mr Guy explained that class is a word with a lot of meanings. In this case it means a type of space you get on the plane. The Lady said that this was like first class we had flown before, but maybe even better.
It think business class really was better! There were lots of buttons for me and Mr. Guy to push and we got lots of space and the seat folded out into a bed!
They gave us great food for dinner.
Mr Guy and I watched a movie. Our TV also showed us where in the world our airplane was flying.
This map didn’t look quite like the atlas that Mr. Guy had shown me.
These screens had lots of numbers on them! All of this made my eyes tired so I took a nap. Or maybe I went to bed.
The Lady worked on her pictures and on her own blog. When Mr Guy and I woke up it was time for breakfast! And it was already Thursday morning. I thought it should be Wednesday night still because we didn’t sleep that long. Mr Guy tried to explain time zones and the lost six hours to me, but I just did not understand.
When we finally got to London and got off of the plane, we went through this place called imagination, or something like that. There we told the Great Britain person (Mr Guy says people from Great Britain are called “British”) why we were in Great Britain. The Lady and Mr Guy had to show their passports. These are little books with terrible pictures of The Lady and Mr. Guy that say that they came from the United States and that they are allowed to travel to other countries. Mr Guy said I did not need a passport because everyone wants visits from blue and orange monsters.
Once we got our bags, everyone from the singing people group got on a bus. Most of these people had not met me so there were a lot of introductions. I will tell you more about the bus another time. The most important thing about getting on the bus was that everyone was excited because Mr Simon is our guide and Mr Martin is driving our bus. These two did the same things for the singing people three years ago when they came to Great Britain. The Lady and Mr Guy had not adopted me yet so I wasn’t on that trip. It was BBB – Before Blueper B.
Mr Martin is a good bus driver. He took us all to a city called Cambridge.
First we had lunch…or breakfast…or a midnight snack and then had a tour of Cambridge. The singing people had special blue shirts so that they could find each other. I like that their shirts were blue! I did not have one of their special shirts, but by accident, I wore a blue shirt that was the same color as theirs. That’s good. I didn’t want to get lost in this city that was way far away from home.
It was fun to see this very old city even though we were very tired because we lost our nighttime, which meant we lost our sleep time!
After our tour, we finally went to our hotel, ate dinner and went to sleep. We woke up and the it was Friday.
That is what we have done so far. Today (Friday, really) we are going to a place called Ely Cathedral where The Lady and the rest of the singing people will make music together for the first time in England. I hope I get to go. Then we will go back to Cambridge and have the afternoon to look around.
A few days ago I celebrated my b-day! It wasn’t really my birthday since is was not the day that I was born (or made); it was the day that Mr. Guy and The Lady brought me home to live with them. So, it is still my “b-day” but the “b” stands for “brought home” day rather than birthday. I don’t know when I was born, but I do know that I was a very young and lonely little blue and orange furry monster when The Lady and Mr. Guy found me. Now I am a grown up and loved very big blue and orange furry monster!
Because it was my b-day, we celebrated with lots of things that began with the letter “b”…
Like bubbles…
Mr. Guy blew the water from a magic jar and the bubbles floated all around me! It was fun to look through them. It made the world look all crazy and then they were gone! Some floated way up in the sky. I don’t know where they landed. And some of them just disappeared. The bubbles made me smile even though they didn’t stay close for very long.
The Lady also gave me a bag, another “b” word. She said that the bag had a present for me because of this being my brought home day. I hoped that it would be a new t-shirt, but I didn’t say that out loud in case that there wasn’t a new shirt in the bag. I didn’t want to hurt The Lady’s feelings. I knew that even if it wasn’t a shirt, it would be something nice because The Lady knows what kinds of things I like and what kinds of things that I don’t like!
She told me to go ahead and open my present.
I was a little confused when I pulled my present from the bag. It sort of looked like a t-shirt, but not quite. Then I remembered that we were celebrating my b-day with things that began with the letter “b.” That’s why I did not get a t-shirt. T-shirt starts with “t.” My new shirt had no sleeves. It was a broken shirt. Broken starts with “b!” I thanked Mr. Guy and The Lady for the broken shirt. They smiled and told me that it is not a broken shirt; it is a tank top. It is not supposed to have sleeves. I thought shirts without sleeves were called vests. This clothing thing is getting very complicated! The Lady explained that tank tops really are just t-shirts without sleeves. She thought it might not be quite as hot for me to wear in the Texas summer since I have all this fur. She also told me that she thought the words on the front were perfect for my b-day. It says, “Have fun all day.” I like to have fun all day every day!
And, my new not broken shirt has blue and orange on it! I think maybe I might learn to like this shirt with no sleeves. It shows my pretty orange arm stripes!
After I opened my present, we went inside for more fun. I got balloons…blue and orange ones…and a brought home cake!
We had my brought home cake inside because there were bugs outside. And even though bugs start with “b,” they were not a good thing that starts with “b.”
My cake had a “2” on it because of the two years that I have lived with Mr. Guy and The Lady. I guess the longer you live with somebody, the bigger your cake gets. It will take a big cake to hold F-O-R-E-V-E-R and that’s how long I am going to live with Mr. Guy and The Lady!
Mr. Guy told me that he would light the candle and I should make a wish and then blow it out.
I wanted to tell him that I wished that we would all live together forever and ever, but before I could say all the words, he told me that my wish had to be a secret or it won’t come true. I hope he knows that I want to live with him and The Lady forever and ever!
I cut my cake into four pieces – one for me, one for The Lady, one for Mr. Guy, and one for me. Did I say me twice? It was too hard to cut the cake into three pieces. Four was much easier because all I had to do was bisect the cake twice. Bisect?? Why does that big book, that dictionary, keep coming back to haunt my words?
I cut my cake all by myself because Mr. Guy said that The Lady was not allowed to use knives because she used one to cut her finger. That sounded to me like it would hurt! I was very careful not to cut my claws.
I was glad to share my cake. I don’t think The Lady and Mr. Guy noticed that I had two pieces!
My brought home day with bubbles and bags and balloons and broken shirts and bisected cake was a lot of fun and made me a happy monster. Mr. Guy and The Lady told me that we are going on lots of trips in July and that would be part of my brought home celebration too. We are going to Pittsburgh where I will get to see some old friends and meet some new ones and we are going to England. I am excited about the adventures that I am going to have during my third year with Mr. Guy and The Lady.
I did it! I did it! I did it! Back on the first of May I set a goal to write a post every day. I wasn’t sure that I could do it, but The Lady told me that it was important to have goals. She said that sometimes you achieve your goals and sometimes you don’t, but you can’t achieve them if you don’t have them. I am a very lucky little monster because Mr. Guy and The Lady will do all that they can to help me. We had lots of little adventures and lots of quiet time together at home. It makes me happy to be able to go back and look at the stories I wrote and all of our pictures from A Month of Me so I can remember these times. I don’t know that I can continue to write every single day, but having done so for a whole month makes me realize how much I enjoy sharing my life with all of you. Lots of people are graduating from school right now. They are celebrating years and years of studying and working hard to earn diplomas and degrees. I am not graduating because I don’t go to school, but Mr. Guy and The Lady told me that they are just as proud of my writing accomplishments, that I worked hard for a whole month. They said that we should take a special picture of me in honor of me reaching my goal. I don’t have special rigamarole like The Lady and those people who are graduating from school, but I did put on my fancy clothes!
I have a bow tie. I like it better than Mr. Guy’s big fat red string that he wore around his neck! And I have a vest, which is really just a shirt with no arms. I wouldn’t want to wear these fancy clothes all the time, but I suppose they are OK when it is a special occasion. Mr. Guy had one last surprise May surprise for me. He has been full of surprises this month. Most of them are good! He found a hat for me, one that is just the right size for my head!
He said that it is a hat sort of like one that he has. It’s not a yellow rain hat and it’s not a hat to keep my head warm in the winter. It is a fancy hat to go with my fancy clothes. This hat does not have holes for my horns so I wasn’t sure exactly how I should wear it. Should I wear it over just one horn?
Or should I wear it over both of them?
I think that wearing it over both of my horns makes me look too serious and grown up. I am not a serious and grown up monster. I am just a fun-loving happy-go-lucky little blue and orange furry monster who enjoys life! Which style do you prefer? Thank you again for following me during the month of May. June and July are going to be busy months for me and my family. I am going on a trip this weekend to meet some of The Lady’s picture taking friends. Then it is Mr. Guy’s birthday, and my adoption day, and our trip to Pittsburgh, and our trip to England. I am going to have a lot to tell you about! I hope you will check back here every now and then and see what I am up to!
Farewell Month of Me! I will miss you. Welcome June! Let’s have some fun!
Most of the time I like holidays when Mr. Guy and The Lady get to stay home. I’m happy that we were all at home today, but the reason that we have the Memorial Day holiday is sad. Tonight Mr. Guy built a fire in his fire bowl. I liked all of the orange colors in the fire, but it was a little scary at first. Those orange flames jumped way high and it got really hot. I was afraid my fur might melt! Mr. Guy said that everything would be fine and that my fur would not melt. He is very careful when he makes the fires. We sat outside on the patio and watched the sun set and the fire burn. It was nice and relaxing. Even the four-legged monsters seemed relaxed.
My Month of Me is almost over. I only have one more day. It sure has been fun writing something every single day. I hope I can keep writing when it’s not the Month of Me anymore and becomes the month of June.
Mr. Guy and The Lady were not home for dinner tonight because they had to go to a special dinner. Mr. Guy told me that he is retiring from school and it was a celebration dinner. Why are they celebrating Mr. Guy being tired again? The Lady and Mr. Guy are always talking about how tired they are like it is a bad thing. And just when summer is coming and they will get some rest Mr. Guy is going to get retired? Sometimes grown-ups just don’t make any sense! When Mr. Guy got home I noticed that he had a big fat red string around his neck.
No wonder he is tired! He is not getting any air with that string tied around his neck. Oh wait! Maybe he said retied, not retired. They were celebrating that he was having a big fat red string tied on his neck. Hmmm…that doesn’t sound like any reason to celebrate either. I was still confused! Finally I just asked Mr. Guy what was going on. Mr. Guy explained that retired means that he is not going to go to school anymore after two more weeks. He is going to stay at home with me and the four-legged monsters and take care of us while The Lady goes to school. He told me that he is going to be a stay at home monster dad. Suddenly everything started sounding better! Mr. Guy said that we would read books together and work in the garden and go to the park and go shopping and maybe even sleep late. He said that The Lady would probably want us to do some things that weren’t so fun, like laundry and dusting, but that there should still be lots of time for us to do fun stuff together. He said that there may also be days that we might even get to go have lunch with The Lady at school. Now I get it. The Lady will still go to school and she will be tired, not retired. That still didn’t explain the fat string around his neck. Mr. Guy said that it is called a neck tie and that it is kind of like a decoration that makes men look fancy and grown up. Mr. Guy usually wears t-shirts like me and I think they look just fine. I don’t think I want to look fancy and grown up if it means I have to wear a fat string neck tie. I want to be able to breathe the fresh air! Mr. Guy said it wasn’t so bad; he let me try on his tie.
The red clashes with my fur! Mr. Guy said that he has an orange and blue tie that would match my fur if I ever need to wear a neck tie. I hope I don’t ever have to be that grown up! Mr. Guy said that one of the best things about being retired is that he can wear his t-shirts every single day! I think I might like to skip working a just go from being a little blue and orange furry monster right to be a retired monster!
Today was another busy day for The Lady and Mr Guy. Like every weekday, they left early to go to school. Mr. Guy surprised me and the four legged monsters by coming home in the middle of the day. I think he was skipping school! He wasn’t here very long. He came home to let the four legged monsters outside for a few minutes because The Lady was giving tests and couldn’t come home as early as she usually does. Mr. Guy hurried back to school so that he would not get in trouble for skipping school. He might have to go to the principal’s office or something.
At almost dinner time, The Lady came home. When Mr Guy came home a little later then they left again to get dinner. The four-legged monsters and I just popped open a can of something. They were both too tired to cook and The Lady had to go to choir re-her-sal. I did not know what that meant. The Lady said she likes to sing. She sings with a group of people at church called the choir. On Wednesdays they practice so they will sound good when they sing on Sunday mornings. I don’t think I have ever heard The Lady sing. Someday I will get to maybe.
While the Lady was at rehearsal, Mr Guy came home because Offspring No.1 is not home and Mr. Guy did not want to leave me and the four legged monsters home alone for even more hours. We all watched TV, something we don’t do very often. The Mr. Guy went to get The Lady. When they came home we watched even more TV. I saw all kinds of stuff about rain and thunder and lightening and hail. It was scary. The TV made me sad, too. The Dallas Stars lost their hockey game so they won’t get a cup. They are all going to be very thirsty! I don’t think I like watching TV.
I am going to bed now because if the people on TV are telling the truth, I may be waked up in the middle of the night by bad storms.
My furry little monster head is spinning! I could not keep up with Mr. Guy and The Lady today. They went non-stop all day long. They got up early and went to school. I stayed home with the four-legged furry monsters and Offspring No. 1. The Lady came home at lunchtime and I thought we might get to do something fun. Nope! She had to work on her blog that she writes with her friend Ms. Tracey. They write about food and pictures and stuff, I think. Then Mr. Guy came home. I thought surely that then it was time for us to play. I was wrong again! Mr. Guy and The Lady had to go to a service at church. I went, but I fell asleep in the car on the way and slept through the whole thing. I don’t know why I was such a sleepy monster. I didn’t have any fun all day! When we got home, I had hoped someone would read me a story or something before I went to bed. The Lady had to bake a whole bunch of bread stuff for a friend and Mr. Guy was busy doing chores. I helped The Lady bake for a little while, but then it was my bedtime. The Lady helped me write about today while her bread was in the oven. I will have to wait until tomorrow to try some. I am not staying awake until it comes out of the oven. It is way past this little monster’s bedtime! Now I understand why it is so hard for Mr. Guy and The Lady to find time to help me with my blog. They are so busy! I sure hope when their school is over, our lives, well their lives, won’t be so crazy.
Because The Lady feels bad because she has not helped me much with my writing lately, she promised me that we would take a picture and write about it every single day this month. I am going to be a hard working blue and orange furry monster for the next thirty-one days!! That’s okay. I know that Mr. Guy and The Lady will give me all the help that I need to be successful.
When Mr. Guy and The Lady adopted me, they promised that they would take good care of me and love me forever. I wasn’t sure then what a promise was, but now I know. It is when someone says that they will definitely do something. I think that making a promise is pretty easy. It is keeping one that my be the hard part. Mr. Guy and The Lady have kept the promise they made to love me, so I have no doubt that they will keep their promise to help me write this month. I know that that might be hard for them because they are finishing school this month and have all that end of school teacher stuff to do. The Lady said that was okay, that we would all work together to make it happen.
After this school year, Mr. Guy is retiring. That means that he won’t go to school anymore. The Lady told me that he will be a stay-at-home dad to me and the four-legged furry monsters. She said that he and I might be able to have some adventures together during the day while she is at work. That might be kind of fun!
Thank you to all of my friends, old and new, who continue to support me by reading my blog!
