I have a few more entries but they need a little time to anonymize themselves. Time washes away details...
I had a stretch of writing but had fallen off recently. I’ve had personal strife I don’t really feel like blogging about. I was going to also say that I have PMS but honestly that doesn’t jive with the timing of my foul mood and in writing this just now I realized that I ran out of vitamins & fish oil a couple of weeks ago and that tracks very well with the timing of my moodiness. Fortunately my next payday will enable me to replenish those stores. I’ve got savings that I could spend but between buying gifts for the kids & the usual beginning of the month bills, I’ll be too strapped to do it before then. Knowing that this foul mood and bad attitude has an end date gives me a little more patience with my surly self. (edit to add: vitamins work! I’m feeling better and very relieved about it. I was starting to annoy myself)
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Duncan is studying Chinese this year and he has been very enthusiastic about it. It challenges him because it takes work to learn a new language and he’s frankly not used to working hard to learn things. We’ve had some discussions about the nature of learning and how it is a life skill and not just something he needs to do for this class and this final exam. Even working at McDonald’s, I pointed out, you aren’t as competent as you need to be on your first day. For all his know-it-all teen attitude, he actually heard what I was saying and took my studying suggestions to heart.
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We had some snow here last week that made our lives interesting! Kids were out of school on Friday. Unfortunately the bad weather meant the AHS production of “A Christmas Carol” was also cancelled on Friday and Saturday night. I was able to see the Sunday matinee and Ainsley’s acting debut: she was the dead body under a sheet in the scene with the ghost of Christmas Future. She also had significant ASM duties that went very smoothly as evidenced by my not noticing them at all!
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