Thankful Three Part 2

Here is the second of my Thankful Three posts (the first part of which, as well as the explanation of how it works, can be found by clicking here). I'd like to point out that NONE of the folks I tagged in the first post have created a single Thankful Three post yet, which disappoints me greatly - if we're ever going to take back the whole "Meme" thing from those lazy "Repost A Picture I Saw On Somebody Else's Facebook Page" people and make it MEAN something any more, we've GOT to do this!

Okay, on to the Thankfulness :)

1) MY FAMILY IS BACK! Molly and Crystal were gone for almost TWO WEEKS and I finally got to pick them up from the airport yesterday! SO HAPPY! All my pieces are back together again :)

2) THE INTERNET! While I as all alone, The Internet reminded me that nobody EVER has to be truly alone as long as they have The Internet. No matter how unpopular or frowned-upon your opinion of something may be, you can ALWAYS find a dozen or more folks who agree with you and are willing to talk about it with you - HOW AWESOME IS THAT?!?! Back in 1989, I felt like kind of a loser with my love of Disco and Gilligan's Island and Doctor Demento and Comic Books and all the stuff that I knew was awesome but nobody - NOBODY - in my small town had any love for. Now I can just go on-line and find THOUSANDS of people wo want to share in the awesome of all those things, and I can feel like I really belong :)

3) SCRAPPER DISNEY PINS! This is related to that last one, and if you have no idea what I'm talking about that's okay. But I found a large community of folks on-line that don't care if your pin is a "Real" pin or a "Scrapper", and that's pretty darned cool considering that the vast majority of Pin Collectors will yell at you if they find a scrapper in your collection :)

For this one I'll tag man_of_snows, penelopes_web and... uhm... bjorker. Good luck!

Dungeons & Dragons &Saviors & Pariahs

If there is a God, your standard Western Religion Capital-G "God", your White Beardy Guy Who Lives In The Clouds And Gives You A Wings-N-Harp Combo Set When You Die *GOD*, I think he feels like a Dungeon Master who spent MONTHS making a great home-brew adventure only to have his players just not get it and take the whole game off the rails, and they keep making the right saving throws to just keep it going.

GOD: "You find yourselves on a beautiful island full of life and energy. Energy beams down from the sky in the form of sunbeams! Wind provides it's own form of endless energy just waiting to be harnessed! Mighty rivers flow wildly just waiting to be tamed! It's up to you to find a way to harvest this energy and -"
ROGUE: Okay, I dig up some dinosaur bones and set them on fire for energy.
GOD: Wait, what?
ROGUE: I dig up some old dinosaur bones and set them on fire for energy! There's got to be TONS of them lying around, right?
GOD: Yeah, but... I mean, Rivers! Sunshine! WIND! It's all right there and ready for you! You just need to -
ROGUE: What do I need to roll?
GOD: *SIGH* FINE. Roll percentile, you need to roll a natural 99-percent or better.
ROGUE: WOO HOO 100-PERCENT!
GOD: *Siiiiiiiiiigh*

GOD: Okay, this island is also teeming with food ready for the gathering. Fruits and vegetables all around, and plenty of fresh water to -
FIGHTER: I ATTACK IT WITH MY BROADSWORD!
ROGUE: And I wash off my flaming dinosaur bones in the water!
GOD: *siiiiiiiiigh*

What would you do?

The Neighbors have a brand-new above ground pool for the Summer, and have said we can come over anytime and swim in it.

Molly loves swimming *SO MUCH*.

The neighbors and, more specifically, the neighbor kids (the grandkids of our neighbor) are just... they're the worst. A brother/sister team 2 or 3 years older than Molly, they are the type of kids who have scream-fights with their mom. These two kids are what I like to call "Shuffle Kids", the type who are always either on their way to or from practice for Softball, Gymnastics, Soccer, Golf, Dance, Yoga, Lacrosse, Football and/or Cricket. That's okay, but it has made them kind of conceited... they have always done their best to exclude Molly from whatever they are doing or playing outside in the most condescending way possible because they are just SO VERY above her in every way possible. Molly takes it in stride, she's like that, but it bugs the crap out of me.

So back to the pool... the Grandma is the one who has invited us/Molly to come over and since it's grandmas house and grandmas pool, it's grandmas rules. However, The Grandkids have already been seen to roll their eyes at the mere notion that they would have to share THEIR pool with such a "Baby".

SO! Here are the things I/we could do in this situation:

1) Let Molly go over there and be ignored and/or bullied by The Grandkids till she has a terrible time.

2) Set up our own, much smaller "Kiddie Pool" that would leave Molly wondering why she's not "allowed" in "The Real Pool", plus it may insult the Neighbor Grandma who invited us over anytime.

3) Stay indoors where we don't have to get sunburned or waterlogged or bullied.

4) ???