Thursday: Mom points

Here's the best picture from last night.  We could see a few of the green spikes but they were faint.

The rest of the day was fine.  It had some ups and downs.  Isaac gives me "Mom points" for chores that I do and for making food that he likes, but it can be hard to spend them sometimes.  I didn't want to get the laundry started after we got home so I paid Mom points to Isaac and he got it started.  I took a really short nap before leaving to pick up Joshua from school.

Wednesday: ups and downs

Down: we woke up really early.

Up: Ben was getting up early, so I also got up and got quite a bit done before I needed to bring the kids to school.

Down: I had forgotten a few groceries on the order and had to go inside to get a few more things.

Up: When I brought the groceries inside the kitchen counter had been cleaned already so there was room for the groceries.  It's nice not needing to bend down to get the bags.

Up: I had a donut.

Up: I had a nice nap.

Down: someone from karate ended up in the hospital (not related to karate) and the prognosis is really bad.  As in, possibly 10 days to live bad.  Even if the short term treatment works, there are still major health issues long term.  I would say that she is a very good acquaintance and we chat a bit and wave to each other, but never became all that close.  At the same time, she does a lot at the dojang and she would be sorely missed.

Up: I saw the northern lights, barely.

Down: my camera doesn't have the right filter and can't see the lights.  Ben's phone could see them easily, but sharing them to me takes a few hours for some unknown reason so I can't share them yet.

Tuesday: dates

Today we talked about dates in Excel.  My lecture for dates is uninspired.  Dealing with dates is important, absolutely.  And it is so boring.  Half of the lecture is, "watch your formatting."  Now, there are several important things you can do with dates and a few almost important functions, so they are worth talking about.  But...they're still boring.

However, it did lead to several interesting conversations later on in the day as I complained about them!

Monday: stuff

 We got another picture of Tornado in a Tornado picture.  He has the same annoyed expression.

I got through a bunch of my chores today.  Not only did I actually get through a lot of things, it looks like I got a lot of things done.

Hmm.  I thought there was something interesting that happened today, but it isn't coming to mind.  Oh!  It was our first good snow.  It was during the afternoon, so I was able to enjoy it.  It's that lovely time when the snow sticks on the grass (and leaves) but not on the roads.

Sunday: D&D

 We played some more D&D today.  Isaac changed it up quite a bit and a spider that I was controlling scouted out a big dungeon that we need to go enter.  The best part was when a sentry saw the spider and proceeded to think to himself that he needed to call in the cleaning people because some of his bad guy group was scared of spiders.

Friday/Saturday

 

Thursday: pickleball

Today was supposed to be another Captain's Ball day, but not enough people showed up.  Last time barely enough showed up, but we couldn't even fudge it this time.  However, there was a pickleball net in the back and someone had the paddles in their car.  It was my first time playing pickleball.

It was fun!  Easier than tennis, and not quite as fun as racquetball, but still a lot of fun.