Wednesday: normal

It was a pretty normal day.  I worked down my to-do list with pretty good success.  There's always more to do, but I was happy with my progress.  I took a nap, I enjoyed my book.  The kids went rock climbing.  Joshua got mad at me and I'm not really sure why.  He was back to normal within a half hour though, so whatever.  I went to GEMS.  There were a bunch of teachers gone (most expectedly) and it changed the whole dynamic.

Tuesday: done

The day started out ok, but just before my first class I found out my TA quit.  I'm not really surprised; it was too early for him.  However, the offer of coming until I could find someone else would have been appreciated.

The day was normal from there.  Dealt with emails.  Taught another class.  Brought Isaac to piano.  I didn't take a nap during piano lessons because my book was too good.  Made dinner.  Had my karate test.  I guess that wasn't normal.  But it mostly felt like a normal class because they taught us well.  I'm tired now and think I'm rambling.  I'm going to go to bed on the early side, but we'll see if I fall asleep on the early side.

Monday: O:CtH - kitchen

Today I didn't do as many of my normal chores so I could spend more time in the kitchen.  It's been slow going, and I wanted it to go a bit faster.

While I succeeded in spending quite a bit of time on the kitchen, I'm not sure I got a lot done.  I did a cabinet, cabinet side, and four drawers.  I got rid of some things, especially Tupperware lids that were missing bases.  I tried organizing it too, but only feel mildly successful.  I added some dividers and tried to sort things, but I don't have enough obvious categories.  So they ended up being "Things I rarely use", "Things I sometimes use", and "Things I often use".  

But at least it isn't just a random pile of stuff anymore.

Also, it surprised me how dirty the drawer front bottoms were.  Guess that's something I should clean sometimes.

Sunday: fetch

In the 'olden' days, when Isaac was a puppy, I played a lot of fetch.  Imagine my surprise when I played more fetch today.  This time I upgraded to a rock.  That's right, I played fetch with a rock.

And to be clear, the rock is Isaac.

Friday: Bowser

Last night we had a bunch of people over to play Magic: The Gathering.  It was a silly deck, so there were some shenanigans going on.  At one point I was a card and had to balance six cards on top of my head for about ten minutes.  When I drew myself I won the game.

Ben got to put an inanimate object in play.  He chose Bowser, which was so appropriate.

Then this afternoon Isaac made a rock wall for Bowser.

Thursday: Black belt

I'm about to take my quarterly test in karate, which would be for my pre-black belt.  Normally you stay here for at least six months, because the test doesn't happen as often.  Well, they've decided to change to only offering the test once a year.

For several reasons, several of my belt-mates and I were asked if we wanted to start the black belt testing right away and not really spend any time at pre-black belt.  There are extra practices, but I'm also excited to do it sooner than expected.

*There is a chance it'll fall through for this year, but that would be fine too.  I do this more for the exercise and the journey than the final result.

Wednesday: exercise

While I was exercising this morning Tornado watched me like this.  It looked super uncomfortable.

 I finished all of my chores today, but didn't any 'extra' time to work on O:CtH.  I look forward to it, since it is so satisfying to go from a full mess to an organized less-mess.