Christina came home early from school with a stomach ache, so she also skipped dance this evening. I always appreciate a break, especially these days. I’m mentally drained. I think I’m having a harder time adjusting to high school than Robin.
Tag: craft
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August 9
I had so much fun making this blind beer tasting game for Dion for his birthday. He seemed to like it, which made me happy. We saw them today for lunch at European Street and it was really nice catching up with them. Now I’m wondering whether 8:21 is too early to go to bed, since Robin starts high school tomorrow, and we have to leave at 6:15am. Not get up. Leave. The next two years are going to be rough for this not morning person. I’ll buy her a car if for no other purpose than driving herself to school in the morning. We’ll see how this goes!
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July 25
I finished sewing the National Parks tapestry. I’m not thrilled with it. A lot of puckering, several holes where the seams just didn’t happen. But it could definitely have come out worse. I think I’m going to stitch a pattern into it to try to hide some of the flaws. We’ll see if that makes it better or worse!
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July 24
I pulled out my knitting the other day. Haven’t worked on this in a while. Still a very long to go on this one. We ordered in pizza from Renna’s tonight and it was delicious, as always. I feel like I worked very hard today and have very little to show for it. I don’t really like days like that. At least it’s Friday.
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July 22
The kids had their annual physicals today. Christina managed to escape her shot, but Robin was not so lucky. Christina had been so nervous about it that her blood pressure was 146/78. It went down to 126/71 after she found out she was good. They are doing ok, but if Christina was that scared about a shot, I hate to think how she is going to handle having blood drawn tomorrow.
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July 16
I’m feeling pretty good about work right now. The class is doing well, the groundwork I’m building is coming together. Sort of like how Christina’s project is working out. We’ve never done these things before, but they’re coming out pretty well.
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July 13
Robin started horse camp today. She wasn’t allowed to have her phone, so I had to wait all day to find out if she loved it or hated it. Turns out she loved it. Who knew horses would be her thing? Of course it is the most expensive hobby on earth. We’ll see what we can work out after camp is over.
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July 11
Christina showed me an Instagram reel she saw for an art project and wanted to do it. It’s like a paper mache mobile, but instead of paper, it uses string. I have never done anything like this, but I am always up for a challenge, so we did some research online, went to Michael’s, and she went to work. The prototype is drying – we’ll see how it worked in a day or two before we go ahead and do the rest. I’m impressed and proud of her for giving this a shot, even though we have no idea what we’re doing. These are the best projects, especially when they work out, even more especially when they don’t the first four or five times you try, because each of those times you learn something and then when you finally get it, you’re even more proud of it. We’ll see if Christina shares that attitude with me. I may end up taking it over if she gives up because… I’m me and I can’t stand giving up. Looking forward to seeing how this one goes.
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May 24
I thought I finished digging out the patio this morning, but YouTube says I need to dig another six inches around the whole perimeter. Looks like one more week before I get to play with the compactor. Robin went to the mall with her friend Alejandro and Christina and I painted pottery while they wandered around getting lost in Belk. I thought this was a buffalo, Siggi thought it was a yak, Christina says it’s a cow. It’s a yakowalo.
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April 16
I had to do math today, which is always risky. Somehow every time I work something out mathematically, when I try to recreate it later, I get a totally different answer. I can only hope I’m at least close. Otherwise the day was kind of a blur. I got so engrossed in work that everything else kind of blended into the background. We had shrimp tostadas for dinner and that’s always yummy. Robin cleaned the kitchen, and that will make tomorrow morning easier. It’s 9:33 but I’m pretty much ready for bed now.
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February 4
Christina now has the flu. At least once she’s done with it, we’ll all be done with it. Sheesh. Work is still beating my butt, but I took this afternoon “off” (just canceled my meetings) and managed to mostly more or less catch up. I feel a little better tonight than I did yesterday. The soap on my office window seems to have helped. No birds flew into their own reflection today. That’s a relief. I guess that’s about it for today. Not too exciting.
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January 31
Not quite feeling 100% yet, but I did get a lot done. Three loads of laundry washed, dried, folded, and put away, my first cup of coffee from Panera in over a week, cleaned the kitchen, designed, engraved, and hung my medal rack, fixed the keyboard issue on Robin’s iPad, did some coloring, did light food shopping, played Trivial Pursuit (and lost)… Hunkering down now for what will be a pretty cold night. Temps are expected to drop to the low 20s. The wind chill now is already 17 and it’s not even 10pm. These are facts, not complaints. As a New Yorker, I understand cold and this is not it. But it is unusually cold here this weekend, and unusual is always exciting. As long as it warms up again soon, because there’s a reason I now live in Florida and not New York, and this is not it.
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January 16
It was another crazy day at work. So many meetings and so little accomplished when there is so much to do. I had to settle for yet another unfinished task when I left for dance. When we got home, we ate dinner in front of the TV, watching Penn State wrestling. You always know who is going to win, but somehow it’s entertaining anyway. By the time that was over, I was exhausted. I simply cannot keep up.
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January 11
This is my latest knitting obsession. I did stop a couple times today and managed to do laundry and go food shopping. The girls and I also went to the gym – they played volleyball and I played basketball. I had very low expectations for my basketball abilities, but I surprised myself and made a decent number of shots. Probably missed more than I made, but made a lot that I never thought I could. And I worked up a sweat! I might need to do it more often. Probably good to switch it up from running once in a while. I picked the running pace up too hard too fast and now I’ve got this little annoying injury that feels like not enough to stop running, but enough that I probably should stop running, at least for a little while. I’m just afraid that if I stop, I won’t start back up. And I’ve come too far for that.
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December 8
There comes a point where being productive becomes counterproductive, and I hit that point today. It’s ok, though, because I am excellent at inventing distractions. Honestly, though, it was a pretty quiet day, and those are nice too. I am without a project or pastime at the moment, so have spent most of my free time on the couch trying, not too successfully, not to be bored by what’s on TV. Luckily we have Christmas to keep us occupied. We do have a really big tree to look at.
