Friday: the normal

I wasn't planning on writing a post tonight.  But then I was looking through the old posts and realize how many little things I forget.  (I was mainly trying to figure out what little stories I need to tell Joshua about when he was younger, because he has been bringing up Isaac putting an apple on his head and forgetting about it.  I've decided on the wall, because I think I've mentioned it to him a few times.  He ended up being ok with his door open.)

Ok, so the little things.  I told the boys it was going to snow out today and Isaac elected to bring boots and Joshua didn't.  Isaac enjoyed first recess, but it got his hat all wet and so he didn't enjoy second recess as much.

I had lunch with Betsy, and we went to Buffalo Wild Wings.  I got the lemon pepper (sauce) boneless chicken and it was an excellent choice.  I also stopped at the library.  A few weeks ago Joshua told me he likes chapter books with colored pictures.  There aren't many of those, although graphic novels work too.  I remember going through this with Isaac a few years ago too, so I'm going to hope that Joshua's just in the same place.  And in the meantime the librarian and I will try to cater to his desires.

We had Jets for dinner.  I tried the text to order because I could get a 20% off coupon, but it really was terrible.  I copied and pasted our normal order from the website into the text and it missed a pizza topping and the breadsticks.  I rated it 4/10, just because of the coupon.

We played Quadropolis tonight.  Joshua managed to win.  The game he played seemed to be somewhat different than the game everyone else played.  His strategy was to remain as the mayor and get a lot of apartments and retail locations, but it worked.  I didn't think it would.

Thursday: o

For dinner we were having taquitos and potatoes, so I also made apple-os because it made me smile.

Today was the last day of classes.  I don't love final review day.  We reviewed as a class for a bit and then I had some review for them to work on on their own.  The students that should have stayed longer left right away* and the students that didn't really need to stay stayed.  The first class actually had a bunch of questions and the TA and I were busy for a lot of the time, and then in the second class everyone left 20 minutes before normal.

*The final exam isn't until next Friday though, so in some ways I get it...it might be more beneficial to study closer to the exam time.

Tuesday

Oh, today was fine.  Nothing really went wrong, but nothing was fun either.

I feel like I need a detail about the day to at least make this a worthwhile post. 

I'm working on a boring quilt.  I'm not sure why this one isn't interesting to me, but it's a bit of a slog.  I'll have some interesting sashing and I've been able to work on that just a little bit.  I do have to make 180 of the same subunit, but that's rather normal in a quilt.  The subunits are then going into 30 blocks, and all the blocks are the same.  It is different from what I normally do, but not that much.  Oh well.  I'll keep working away at it.

 

Monday: O:CtH

I did a drawer and a cabinet today!  It seems like a small amount, but at the same time there's always other stuff that needs to be done too.  These were also the worst two spots by far, so I'm excited.

The outside of the lazy susan was surprisingly dirty too.  I kept thinking I had gotten all the spots, but then I'd move my head and find more.

Isaac looked pretty amazing during rock climbing today too.

Saturday: overheard

Setting: Isaac and Joshua are playing a game of make-believe in the basement.  It is important to note that this is Joshua's character talking to Isaac's character.

Joshua: I have a note of encouragement for you.  

Joshua: "I hope you are doomed!!!"

Isaac, deadpan: I don't think that's encouragement.

Friday: blood donation

 I gave blood today.  The donation went so, so much better than it has the last several months.  I did *actually* do a good job of drinking enough water, so I'm hoping that was the reason.  I've tried in the past donations to drink enough, but this time I drank even more.  We'll see in January if it goes well again.  

Anyway, I was a bit worried when they poked my finger for the iron test because the blood did not want to come out.  (If you recall, the last blood donation was barely eligible because we were having a hard time getting the blood to come out of me.)  Anyway, they got the needle in my arm easily and I finished in six minutes, which was record time. Woot woot!

Thursday: bananas

 I got these bananas last Monday.  They were green, but they tend to ripen within two-three days.

It's now been ten days and they still aren't ripe enough to eat.  I'm annoyed.