Life continues to be rich and full in the Miser Family household. My life is particularly full of cardboard boxes right now . . . packing things up seems to be occupying all my time and thoughts, even though I'm kinda supposed to be writing a grant proposal and preparing a workshop for the upcoming math meetings. But no, boxes. Empty boxes. Heavy boxes. Boxes and boxes. I'm having so much fun!
In other news, my guy discovered the hard way that if you get out of a fancy rental car while the engine is still on, and if drop your keys out of your pocket, the car keeps running, and you can totally drive away with the keys on the ground. But the next time you try to start the car, it doesn't. So you have to walk back to where you dropped the keys, get them, and walk back to the car before the meter reader comes and gives you a fine for parking illegally.
Annnnd, I-daughter discovered that if you donate blood you can get a scary shirt.
And J-son says that the best part of being a camp counsellor is "the kids". And the worst part of being a camp counsellor is "the kids". He tells me, "They're kind of starting to act up now." Me, I think, heh heh heh. I myself have never had kids that act up, but if I had, I'd think it was kind of poetic justice if they had to see what it was like from the other side. I'm sure he'll be fine.
In other news, my guy discovered the hard way that if you get out of a fancy rental car while the engine is still on, and if drop your keys out of your pocket, the car keeps running, and you can totally drive away with the keys on the ground. But the next time you try to start the car, it doesn't. So you have to walk back to where you dropped the keys, get them, and walk back to the car before the meter reader comes and gives you a fine for parking illegally.
Annnnd, I-daughter discovered that if you donate blood you can get a scary shirt.
 |
| "Kind of horror-movie... But I like it" she says |
K-daughter is traveling to the Poconos this weekend, but before she did, she and A-child stopped by to help me pack boxes. (Did I mention I'm kind of surrounded by them right now?) A-child helped carry empty boxes downstairs so we could pack them, and then she helped torment the dog, and so then I had her help me scrub a very dusty/musty cabinet.
Speaking of the dog, Prewash walked downtown with me last night to attend the Lights for Liberty rally in our city, protesting the way children being separated from their parents and placed in horrid conditions. Prewash mostly entertained the small children at the rally, who loved that she let them rub her belly and touch her tail. I signed petitions, but Prewash didn't.
What else? Yesterday morning I thought I had a terrible splinter in my foot, making it really painful to walk. After taking my shoe off to inspect my foot a couple of times, I finally realized there was a tack in my shoe, and taking that thumbtack out "cured" the splinter immediately. Very satisfying!
As I pack up this week, I get to do it solo: my husband is in Turin, Italy, celebrating the year of the Periodic Table. He writes,
And that's the news from our family, which continues to be wealthy in boxes and boxes of adventures. May you and yours be similarly prosperous.
Speaking of the dog, Prewash walked downtown with me last night to attend the Lights for Liberty rally in our city, protesting the way children being separated from their parents and placed in horrid conditions. Prewash mostly entertained the small children at the rally, who loved that she let them rub her belly and touch her tail. I signed petitions, but Prewash didn't.
What else? Yesterday morning I thought I had a terrible splinter in my foot, making it really painful to walk. After taking my shoe off to inspect my foot a couple of times, I finally realized there was a tack in my shoe, and taking that thumbtack out "cured" the splinter immediately. Very satisfying!
As I pack up this week, I get to do it solo: my husband is in Turin, Italy, celebrating the year of the Periodic Table. He writes,
Turin is the city where Primo Levi lived and worked as a chemist before and after being deported to Auschwitz. This year is the centennial of his birth, so the conference is a celebration of the Centennial of Levi and the Sesquicentennial of Mendeleev.
And that's the news from our family, which continues to be wealthy in boxes and boxes of adventures. May you and yours be similarly prosperous.
No comments:
Post a Comment