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I stayed up late spending money online.
-4 hours of house cleaning services, and 28% off any future cleanings, for $59... Amazon Local deal, I don't know/care how they calculated that very precise percentage point but the one other time I used an online deal and had house cleaners in was amazing, in that we could continue to see that extra-cleanness "under our mess," if that makes any sense, for quite awhile. Nobody around here gets to the deep stuff (nearly) enough. I think often about making it a budgeting priority to do on an ongoing basis. It would be easier if I didn't feel like it's important to tip them well. I get a lot of conflicting information about this. Feel free to weigh in, though I will likely still feel in the moment like I can't NOT hand someone who just scrubbed my toilet some extra money. Especially if I'm using a deal and getting cheap service...
-Dollar Shave Club subscriptions for Grant, Ananda and I, because damn are we spending WAY too much money on decent razors otherwise. I've heard good things, will report back.
-These awesome stainless steel hair clips that double (triple? quadruple?) as screwdrivers, wrenches, cutting blades, and more. They'll be Christmas presents for Ananda, Elise and (my niece) Elizabeth.
We are still sick. Grant and I were having our regularly scheduled Saturdate, and it was cool, but I spent the whole time feeling somewhat out of breath and sweaty in that gross, fever-breaking way. I would not want to be sick with anyone else. I told him very honestly today that him loving me is the very best thing that I have. And I have a lot.
I tell him these things as we cuddle in restaurant booths and make out in grocery store lines, because apparently we're still the same people we were when other middle schoolers would tell us loudly to get a room. I've been really missing him. Last weekend, Ananda and I went to the Tampa area for derby bouts and ended up also attending a sort of impromptu camp reunion of mine. It was a lot of fun, and too much driving, and was basically stolen out of the only time I had to give, i.e., the scant time I typically spend with Grant or do any homework. We came back to illness and the weekday whirlwind.
Overdue Saturdate: I had coffee and vegetable empanadas, and he had a salad and a soda. We had macarons together. We showed each other YouTube videos and Dan Savage letters and tumblr likes and facebook threads and pictures we'd taken, and talked about twin studies, my botany class, his company's changing structure, conversations with his boss, an article I read, the Dune series he's become obsessed with, his best friend at work, Weight Watchers, Elise in school, and sex. We walked around Merrick Park for half an hour, and around Sunset Place for a whole hour, and then got some picnic supplies and took them out to Matheson Hammock park. Framboise and caprese under live oaks, and then exploring some trails, and then he started feeling way sicker right as I was getting peppy. Twice he touched me in some small way, once on the back and once on the inner forearm, and I got completely overwhelmed - it's unpredictable but awesome how some things just melt me into a puddle.
By the time we came home, with dinner and dessert for children in tow, he was feverish and ready to just go to bed. Cuddling and dozing until the kids called me away. It's been pretty quiet, ever since.
Tomorrow Isaac starts GMYS in a whole new way - he's entering an ensemble, on clarinet, after a couple of years in their prep classes. This will mean longer rehearsals and more frequent performances, as well as having to get his own instrument instead of playing theirs. He's nervous but into it. He's way more likely to practice than Ananda has been, and I think there will be a lot of kids there that he recognizes from prep and from camp, years past.
Annie's moving up an ensemble too, from the entry level one to a more intermediate orchestra (she plays cello). She's not that into it anymore, though - at this point we're basically making her continue since we went out on a limb to support her in it when she was SO INTO IT, and we've invested a lot. And, a few other things about how they take high schoolers to Ireland, studying music helps dyslexic brains, potential college scholarships, and deals we had about her going to an art high school like she is. Instead of entering as a cellist in the music program. You know, since we have GMYS and mentoring for cello so she'll still be getting that elsewhere. Hopefully, she'll get back into it. Right now the gauntlet I've thrown down is that if she has a bad attitude and half asses it, she has to stay in for 2 more years. If she actually tries and gives it a chance this year, and doesn't want to continue at the end, she can drop it then.
Hopefully my Nyquil kicks in any second now. My entire abdomen is sore from coughing.
-4 hours of house cleaning services, and 28% off any future cleanings, for $59... Amazon Local deal, I don't know/care how they calculated that very precise percentage point but the one other time I used an online deal and had house cleaners in was amazing, in that we could continue to see that extra-cleanness "under our mess," if that makes any sense, for quite awhile. Nobody around here gets to the deep stuff (nearly) enough. I think often about making it a budgeting priority to do on an ongoing basis. It would be easier if I didn't feel like it's important to tip them well. I get a lot of conflicting information about this. Feel free to weigh in, though I will likely still feel in the moment like I can't NOT hand someone who just scrubbed my toilet some extra money. Especially if I'm using a deal and getting cheap service...
-Dollar Shave Club subscriptions for Grant, Ananda and I, because damn are we spending WAY too much money on decent razors otherwise. I've heard good things, will report back.
-These awesome stainless steel hair clips that double (triple? quadruple?) as screwdrivers, wrenches, cutting blades, and more. They'll be Christmas presents for Ananda, Elise and (my niece) Elizabeth.
We are still sick. Grant and I were having our regularly scheduled Saturdate, and it was cool, but I spent the whole time feeling somewhat out of breath and sweaty in that gross, fever-breaking way. I would not want to be sick with anyone else. I told him very honestly today that him loving me is the very best thing that I have. And I have a lot.
I tell him these things as we cuddle in restaurant booths and make out in grocery store lines, because apparently we're still the same people we were when other middle schoolers would tell us loudly to get a room. I've been really missing him. Last weekend, Ananda and I went to the Tampa area for derby bouts and ended up also attending a sort of impromptu camp reunion of mine. It was a lot of fun, and too much driving, and was basically stolen out of the only time I had to give, i.e., the scant time I typically spend with Grant or do any homework. We came back to illness and the weekday whirlwind.
Overdue Saturdate: I had coffee and vegetable empanadas, and he had a salad and a soda. We had macarons together. We showed each other YouTube videos and Dan Savage letters and tumblr likes and facebook threads and pictures we'd taken, and talked about twin studies, my botany class, his company's changing structure, conversations with his boss, an article I read, the Dune series he's become obsessed with, his best friend at work, Weight Watchers, Elise in school, and sex. We walked around Merrick Park for half an hour, and around Sunset Place for a whole hour, and then got some picnic supplies and took them out to Matheson Hammock park. Framboise and caprese under live oaks, and then exploring some trails, and then he started feeling way sicker right as I was getting peppy. Twice he touched me in some small way, once on the back and once on the inner forearm, and I got completely overwhelmed - it's unpredictable but awesome how some things just melt me into a puddle.
By the time we came home, with dinner and dessert for children in tow, he was feverish and ready to just go to bed. Cuddling and dozing until the kids called me away. It's been pretty quiet, ever since.
Tomorrow Isaac starts GMYS in a whole new way - he's entering an ensemble, on clarinet, after a couple of years in their prep classes. This will mean longer rehearsals and more frequent performances, as well as having to get his own instrument instead of playing theirs. He's nervous but into it. He's way more likely to practice than Ananda has been, and I think there will be a lot of kids there that he recognizes from prep and from camp, years past.
Annie's moving up an ensemble too, from the entry level one to a more intermediate orchestra (she plays cello). She's not that into it anymore, though - at this point we're basically making her continue since we went out on a limb to support her in it when she was SO INTO IT, and we've invested a lot. And, a few other things about how they take high schoolers to Ireland, studying music helps dyslexic brains, potential college scholarships, and deals we had about her going to an art high school like she is. Instead of entering as a cellist in the music program. You know, since we have GMYS and mentoring for cello so she'll still be getting that elsewhere. Hopefully, she'll get back into it. Right now the gauntlet I've thrown down is that if she has a bad attitude and half asses it, she has to stay in for 2 more years. If she actually tries and gives it a chance this year, and doesn't want to continue at the end, she can drop it then.
Hopefully my Nyquil kicks in any second now. My entire abdomen is sore from coughing.
