Good day in Sereneland today
Aug. 16th, 2010 03:19 pmWork was good, but not so good that I wanted to stay late, so I bailed a little early. Yay, flexible working hours!
The kid and I had a stupid fight last night (I was stupid; she was mostly just forgetful), but we made up briefly last night, and then went to lunch today and really talked out how much we both appreciate that we can argue without being assholes to each other. (We get snotty and draw back from each other, but we always cool down and apologize. As she said, "Sometimes, I even know I'm wrong, but I'm pissed, and there's no way I'm admitting it until I'm not so pissed any more." Yeah, me, too.)
Tomorrow is the first meeting for the new project I'm working on at work. (The one that means more hours for me, helping to write a curriculum to teach employees at the University about working with students with disabilities.) I'm very excited. Plus, I get to have lunch and stuff with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
stonebender, which is an extra, added bonus.
Pic of the day:
The kid and I had a stupid fight last night (I was stupid; she was mostly just forgetful), but we made up briefly last night, and then went to lunch today and really talked out how much we both appreciate that we can argue without being assholes to each other. (We get snotty and draw back from each other, but we always cool down and apologize. As she said, "Sometimes, I even know I'm wrong, but I'm pissed, and there's no way I'm admitting it until I'm not so pissed any more." Yeah, me, too.)
Tomorrow is the first meeting for the new project I'm working on at work. (The one that means more hours for me, helping to write a curriculum to teach employees at the University about working with students with disabilities.) I'm very excited. Plus, I get to have lunch and stuff with
stonebender, which is an extra, added bonus.Pic of the day:
1) Can't decide if the injured ankle is a blessing or a curse. Well, it's both, I guess. I'm getting LOTS of rest, but I'm also getting cabin fever. First world problems.
2) Having a ton of fun building a new project. It will get its own post today, under access lock, because even though mom rarely reads my journals, I don't want her to see what her birthday present is.
3) Anything I planned to do today (really, just housework) is officially cancelled in favor of the MythBusters marathon! Well, maybe I'll do a little housework on the commercials. Or not.
4) I used to like to sleep. I used to do it a lot. Nowadays, though, I sleep maybe 5 hours, wake up at ungodly hours of the morning (today, it was 3am) and just stay up. I get so much done while everyone else is sleeping that I actually don't mind this, but it does mean I'm wasted by 9pm.
5) Made my first rib roast last night. Called mom for instructions. Came out GREAT.
6) Little things that brought me joy yesterday, even though I wasn't feeling all that hot:
2) Having a ton of fun building a new project. It will get its own post today, under access lock, because even though mom rarely reads my journals, I don't want her to see what her birthday present is.
3) Anything I planned to do today (really, just housework) is officially cancelled in favor of the MythBusters marathon! Well, maybe I'll do a little housework on the commercials. Or not.
4) I used to like to sleep. I used to do it a lot. Nowadays, though, I sleep maybe 5 hours, wake up at ungodly hours of the morning (today, it was 3am) and just stay up. I get so much done while everyone else is sleeping that I actually don't mind this, but it does mean I'm wasted by 9pm.
5) Made my first rib roast last night. Called mom for instructions. Came out GREAT.
6) Little things that brought me joy yesterday, even though I wasn't feeling all that hot:
- the new water bottle
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
someotherguy bought me - playing games with the kid, who is always really pleasant for a few days after we have an argument and the world doesn't collapse (she's afraid of parental anger, and who can blame her, but we actually argue well, without being very mean to each other)
- dinner: the aforementioned roast, mashed potatoes/carrots/cauliflower, gravy, and steamed green beans. Yum.
- a phone call from stonebender while he was out and about, just because
- honeydew from the farm box: sweet and ripe and delicious
What a nice day we had. The kid and I had planned to go to the Youth Jobs Program thingy (she could go alone, but she has understandable anxiety about going new places on the bus), and when we got downtown, it was lunchtime, so we ate lunch, went and got her an intake appointment, then sat in Peet's for an hour or so having a nice companionable conversation about everything and nothing, while she drew sketches.
Next, we stopped at the Korean grocery store, where she was *fascinated* with the live Dungeness crabs, which were very inexpensive as such things go, so I agreed to buy some for dinner. Sincewild_irises was coming over to drop off Costco butter anyway, I decided dinner time would be the perfect time, and she and abostick59 came over and shared our crabs and butter and oven-fried spring rolls and cherries and pistachios and sorbet with us. Lovely dinner, lovely to see our friends again. Very funny and macabre to watch the kid do the actual work of killing crabs for our dinner.
Tonight, we'll work on the kid's application for the jobs program (her appointment is tomorrow), and I'll start playing with my own projects over the next few days:
1) Getting my new blog up and running (more about this later)
2) Getting my poetry chapbook together with the help of some wonderful friends who have offered to read some of my stuff
3) Knitting the rest ofsomeotherguy's Doctor Who scarf
Well, maybe first I'll take a firehose to my house to clean up the utter crab mess. :-)
Next, we stopped at the Korean grocery store, where she was *fascinated* with the live Dungeness crabs, which were very inexpensive as such things go, so I agreed to buy some for dinner. Since
wild_irises was coming over to drop off Costco butter anyway, I decided dinner time would be the perfect time, and she and abostick59 came over and shared our crabs and butter and oven-fried spring rolls and cherries and pistachios and sorbet with us. Lovely dinner, lovely to see our friends again. Very funny and macabre to watch the kid do the actual work of killing crabs for our dinner.Tonight, we'll work on the kid's application for the jobs program (her appointment is tomorrow), and I'll start playing with my own projects over the next few days:
1) Getting my new blog up and running (more about this later)
2) Getting my poetry chapbook together with the help of some wonderful friends who have offered to read some of my stuff
3) Knitting the rest of
someotherguy's Doctor Who scarfWell, maybe first I'll take a firehose to my house to clean up the utter crab mess. :-)
