So this happened last week. My parents were at the village, my brother was feeling ill, and I spent most of my time with my boyfriend and a colleague of ours who's visiting from abroad. The result of this was that the sink and the laundry basket were overflowing. One day, my brother felt better and he went out with us. At some point, in the middle of another discussion, he said "yeah, and mum is coming home tonight, so..."
me: "
mum is coming home tonight? and you're only telling me NOW???
"
We were on the way to a concert (of a band called Sailing Tomatoes, I first found them as street musicians - look them up, they make interesting music). My brother wasn't going to join us anyway, so we decided that he'd just go home, start a round of laundry, and tidy up the kitchen.
However, I couldn't calm down, something inside me was telling me to go home quickly, so I left my boyfriend and colleague at the concert and left during the break. I entered the apartment and my brother said "hi, don't go into the kitchen barefoot!". He had broken a glass and was there barefoot himself. What's worse - we had lent our vacuum cleaner to our elderly neighbour (she's at least 80 years old and has cancer, but she's a very social and active woman). So we agreed that I'd give him his slippers and continue cleaning the kitchen, while he'd go pick up the vacuum cleaner.
Meanwhile, it was almost midnight and we weren't sure if she'd be sleeping already, so he let the phone ring four times and then hung up. She called back immediately, saying "you also have your vacuum cleaner here!" "yes, that's why I called you". (They lock the downstairs door 24 hours per day, so someone has to physically go downstairs and open instead of pushing the button) Then she said "OK, then I'll bring you the vacuum cleaner downstairs" "No no, there's no need, I can go upstairs myself and pick it up so you don't have to carry it" "No, don't worry, that's easier for me to bring it downstairs than to go up and down twice!"
By the time it took my brother to wear his sandals and go downstairs, this elderly and physically weak lady had gone downstairs, come to us next door with the vacuum cleaner, and she was already looking at the names on the intercom
(was she the inspiration for Sonic the hedgehog?)
At the end we made it
It took a really long time to draw, but I am proud of it. I also wrote them a message... I hope I got it right!
Did I miss a song or something? 
I'm sure the Kalafina girls loved both the drawing and message.
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