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When we got back HOME, the pig let us know how it felt about not being included on our family holiday. It pushed a vase up a shelf, push smash After a few days of the pig acting out, Dad decided enough was enough, and he sent it to "obedience school." But the next morning we got a call from the lady who runs the place, and she said our pig ESCAPED.

我们回到家之后，小猪告诉我们，没能参加家庭假期它到底是什么感受。 它把花瓶推上书架，结果花瓶摔碎了。小猪这样胡闹了几天之后，爸爸忍无可忍，把它送去了“服从训练学校”。 可第二天早上，我们接到了学校负责人的电话，她说我们的小猪逃跑了。

We've been putting up signs asking for help finding our lost pig ever since. But that thing is SMART, so I don't think it's LOST. It just doesn't want to be FOUND. I figure the pig is probably off HIBERNATING somewhere. Mom says pigs don't do that, but if you ask me, I think they SHOULD. If I was an animal, that's EXACTLY what I'D be doing right now. On the last day of the fall, I think everyone should get in their pajamas and check out until the spring. i'd walk into the living room in my pajamas and say, see you guys in may When I was younger, I actually TRIED to hibernate, but it didn't work.

从那之后，我们一直贴告示求助，想要找到我们走丢的小猪。 不过那家伙可精了，所以我觉得它不是走丢了。 它只是不想被我们找到而已。 我猜小猪大概找了个地方冬眠去了。 妈妈说猪才不会冬眠呢，但要问我的话，我觉得猪就该冬眠。 如果我是一只动物，我现在肯定就这么做。 深秋的最后一天，我觉得所有人都该穿上睡衣，一觉睡到来年春天。 我会穿着睡衣走到客厅跟大家说，五月再见哦。我小时候其实真的试过冬眠，但没成功。

I used to get SUPER excited for Christmas, and once December rolled around it was really hard for me to wait until the big day. So one year on December 1st, I told my parents I was gonna go to sleep, and that they shouldn't wake me up until Christmas morning. I was pretty surprised when they didn't put up a fight. I went to bed that night, but I only slept until 1:30 p.m. the next day. Then my sleep schedule was screwed up for the next two weeks.

我以前超级期待圣诞节，只要十二月一到，我就很难熬，一直等不及圣诞节到来。 所以有一年十二月一日那天，我跟爸妈说我要睡觉，叫他们圣诞节早上再叫醒我。 他们没反对，我还挺惊讶的。 那天晚上我上床睡觉，结果只睡到第二天下午一点半就醒了。 接下来整整两周，我的作息都全乱了。

stare at the ceiling in the dark, blink. Blink, stare at the ceiling in the dark, blink. Blink, Mom says it's IMPOSSIBLE for human beings to hibernate, but I'm not 100% convinced that's TRUE. There's this group of wild kids who live in the woods, and everyone calls them the Mingos. You never see the Mingos in the WINTER, and when they make their first appearance in the SPRING, they look like they just woke up. So if they're not HIBERNATING, I don't know WHAT they're doing all winter. The rest of us NORMAL people have to grind it out and deal with the cold weather.

在黑暗里盯着天花板，眨眼睛。 眨眼睛，在黑暗里盯着天花板，眨眼睛。 眨眼睛，妈妈说人类不可能冬眠，可我不完全相信这话是真的。 树林里住着一群野孩子，大家都叫他们明戈人。 冬天从来见不到明戈人，他们春天第一次露面的时候，看起来就像是刚睡醒一样。 所以如果他们不是在冬眠，我真不知道他们一整个冬天都在干嘛。 我们这些正常人只能咬着牙熬着，忍受寒冷的天气。

And the only way to do THAT is to stay inside as much as possible and keep warm. When we got back from our trip a few weeks ago, there was a package on our front step. It was a Christmas gift from Aunt Dorothy, and when we opened it, there was a giant BLANKET inside That thing was AMAZING. It was really soft, but it was also HEAVY, which is exactly how I like my blankets. The only problem was that the gift was for all three of us boys, and we started fighting over it right away. Give me the blanket. No. And with the he, We wanted to use the blanket at the same time, so Mom told us we were gonna have to take TURNS with it.

而想要熬过寒冬，唯一的办法就是尽量待在屋里保暖。 几周前我们旅行回来的时候，前门台阶上放着一个包裹。 是多萝西阿姨寄来的圣诞礼物，我们打开一看，里面是一床超大的毯子。这毯子太棒了。 它摸起来特别软，但又很重，完全是我喜欢的毯子的样子。 唯一的问题是，这礼物是给我们三个男孩的，我们马上就抢了起来。 把毯子给我。 不给。 我们都想同时用毯子，所以妈妈说我们必须轮流使用它。

But the three of us have never been any good at SHARING, so Mom had to make a blanket schedule that spelled out who got to use it when. it said, blanket schedule six pm, many six thirty, p,m, greg, seven p,m, rodrick, etcetera, etcetera. But that wasn't really FAIR. Manny has his OWN blanket, so he was double-dipping When it was MY turn to use the blanket, I tried to make the most of it.

但我们三个从来都不会好好分享，所以妈妈不得不做了一个毯子使用时间表，写清楚谁什么时候用。 上面写着：毯子使用时间表 下午六点曼尼，六点半格雷格，七点罗德里克，以此类推。 但这真的不公平。 曼尼本来就有自己的毯子，所以他占了两份便宜。轮到我用毯子的时候，我总想好好珍惜这段时间。