Tuesday: errands

I had a surprising number of errand for a work day.  I dropped off the compost.  Dad cut a long stick into five sticks.  I dropped off the household donations.  I got gas.  I picked up groceries.

Now, Meijer was really busy so I couldn't park in my normal spot of #2.  I had to go around and ended up in #6.  Imagine my surprise when Joshua complained about it because 6-7.  He thought I should move to parking spot 5.  (Isaac mentioned that kids aren't saying 6-7 at school as much anymore, but I feel like I still hear it from him a lot.  Not necessarily in the random way it was apparently often used, but the sequence comes up more often than one might expect.)

Last night was a bit rough, stepwise.  I was almost asleep when I started coughing, and I couldn't stop.  I finally moved out to the couch for a few hours, but it still took me a while to get it under control enough to go to sleep.  I think I'll just sleep in the guest room tonight; it's annoying but then at least Ben will get some sleep.  I thought I was getting better, and it suddenly hit.

Tomorrow looks like an odd combination of busy and relaxing.  The kids don't have school and we have some fun (and some boring) things planned.

Monday: stuff

I got a pretty good amount of stuff done today.  Not quite as much as I was hoping, but it did include cleaning my computer desk - that took longer than expected.  

There was a health insurance thing I was dealing with...the system has recently changed, so I needed to set up a passkey.  That involved an app, which I had already downloaded.  Ok.  The computer sent the message to my phone and I approved the request.  Nope.  It didn't work.  So I needed to log into the app and it told me that I didn't have a passkey and I needed to set it up.  So I set it up.  I got an email saying it worked.  It didn't work; I repeated that whole thing again.

I did this four times until giving up and doing what I needed to do in the app.

The game we were playing involves a place in the lid for a cat to sit.  It is hard to get the cats to sit in it, but we caught one.

Sunday: Great-Grandma

We stopped by to visit Grandma for a bit today.  We several games of Uno.

For the last few minutes we got out some blocks and had building competitions.

Couches:

Houses:

Bears:

Saturday: sweatshirts

Today was karate's annual Christmas sale, and I always go to pick up the annual membership.  They were also trying to get rid of some hooded sweatshirts.  The sweatshirts have been $10 for a while; I picked one up several weeks ago.  However, they were now $8 - so I picked up two more.  For something that is normally $40, it was too big of a steal to pass.  They're all black, so I'll just wait until I want a new soft sweatshirt.

Friday: a good day

It was a pretty good day today!

I finished cleaning the storage room!  However, there are still a few things Ben needs to look through so I haven't taken pictures yet.  Furthermore, Ben and I talked a bit more on Saturday and decided to add a few more shelves but it involves moving things around a bit.  Not too much work, but it means things are completely done.  So...I'm almost finished with the storage room.  I also think I need to deal with some of the items we want to list on eBay before I can consider it finished.

I brought Heather rock climbing after lunch.  It was her very first time and she came into the gym not knowing at all what to expect.  For the first time she did really well.  I also managed to get the 5.9 route that I got several weeks ago and then haven't been able to get again.

After picking up the kids we had a few errands to do.  In order to try and make things go fast the kids went to one store while I went to the other store.  It didn't end up saving much time because the kids had a hard time finding their item and by the time I got to them they were only standing in line.  I had been hoping they would have been walking back to the car, but at least they had some independence.  Then we also stopped at the shoe store.  It was only half of a success but added to the total time.

And we had a relaxing evening with some online games.  It was a nice way to end the night.

Thursday: car

Well, I went to drop off the compost before picking up Joshua at school only to find out the hours had changed.  Again.  I like the new hours better, but they happened to be closed when I dropped by.  The compost was rather stinky and it was annoying to have it in the car while I waited.  I was annoyed because I had the compost and the household donations all sitting in the car, trying to be dropped off but failing.

If this is the worst thing that happened today though, we're doing pretty well.

Wednesday:

 I volunteered at Kids' Food Basket this morning; we got out early which was nice.  I then tried to drop off some donations, only to find that donation drop-off was closed for the day.  So now I have a bunch of boxes in the back of my car.

There was a black belt ceremony for Ms. Anne tonight.  I didn't feel comfortable going since I've been sick, but I joined on-line.