How are you, Friends? I am pretty well. I seem to have pulled my left shoulder last week while practicing taiko. We did the 6-minute drill, which concentrates on form and stamina. I figured I'd have a good bit of both, having just come from two taiko-intensive weekends in a row. It seems I was mistaken. Shoulder didn't seem bad at the time, so I kept playing until it was time to archive the photos. It was really the next day that I noticed worsening instead of improvement. Friday was the worst, but I'm much better now. The pulled muscle is in that inconvenient shoulder blade/spine/somehow attached to the neck place. Yay for Motrin.
I should take this moment (since I haven't any idea how long it may last) to announce that no one in my house is sick at all. Thank you for your attention.
The kids got their mid-term progress reports on Friday. Grant has top marks in everything except handwriting, in which he has an A- (That was a gift. His handwriting is terrible.) Abbie got good marks, but her report card hardly covered anything! It was a little disappointing. I mean, it said she was reading at "At Least Grade Level" but didn't give the usual score, and she's getting an A in Math, but it didn't say anything about any other subjects. The only way I can understand it is that this must have something to do with Abbie's actual teacher being on maternity leave. But if the sub is acting as the teacher in all other ways, you'd think she would be capable of filling out a progress report....
Anyway, kids are doing great at school.
Josh can get cheap(ish) Rams football tickets through work. We're going to see if my parents want to come with us to a game. Sadly, my dad is on vacation with his siblings right now, so we can't actually ask him until he checks in or comes home.
Abbie is counting the days until October. I think she might be a tad excited about the Versailles Apple Festival.
So, remember how this weekend was the Stay Home weekend? You know, after two weekends of demanding performances, I was going to stay close to home, while Josh took the plane up? Remember? And we were going to have family games, and I was gonna get the house in order and cook and stuff? Well, Saturday morning, Josh looks at the forecast and decides not to go flying. Instead, he wants to go to the zoo. I was tired just thinking about it, but who can say no to the zoo? Especially when it's not 97 degrees out. So we met Molly and Ryan there and had a day at the zoo. As we were leaving the house, I indicated my short sleeves and asked, "Hey, Guy Who Checked The Weather, am I going to be okay in this?" Josh said yes. And then had to buy me a sweatshirt at the zoo. He said that I should get a neutral color, so he could use the sweatshirt, too, so I gave up on the purple one and went with gray. Then, he proceeded to announce that the trip was my birthday trip, since I got a sweatshirt.
No comment necessary, I hope.
But I saw "Dougie"!! She is such an amazing artist. We watched her paint caricatures with pencil and airbrush. So professional. She's great. I have been trying to figure out how to have some hang-out time with her without making one or the other of us drive for an hour. : / Boo for living too far.
I have completely given up on moving east, except in my daydreams.
Sunday I cooked my Chicken and Rice pot, and we played outside and watched movies and the kids played chess after dinner. Josh mostly did homework.
I love Josh, but he seems to be getting pissy that his homework expects any actual work from him. He's just spoiled from all this online stuff. It really makes me pretty mad that when he's done he will have a specialized degree, I will have a general one, and I actually worked for mine, and he did his in his spare time and half the time was spoon fed the answers. In fact, any time he has to actually come up with an answer on his own - guess what he does. I dare you. Seriously, guess. He ASKS ME. He's supposedly on his second to last semester. Oh, the comfort of a college education.
Hey, honey, why don't you try reading the chapter, reading the directions, reading the question and then coming up with your own response? Just a tip.
Sounds like Josh is on the Bad List, but he's not, really. I just needed to let that out.
Oo! I had planted some caladiums on the side of the house, and they never came up because of the drought. I classified them under DEAD. But I was wrong! They came up this week! How cute is that?! Now I'm all excited.
My flower beads look trashy because I need to mulch them, but have no mulch currently. I think I'll wait until the weather cools off, and do it when things are going dormant.....and mulch is cheap.
It was foggy this morning. I kinda like fog. Maybe it's just that it is a novelty. Just now we had a happy little rain, too. This is as opposed to an angry rain, and not to be confused with a sulky drizzle. Missouri is great with the moody rainstorms.
I think the kids are growing. Grant was pretty cranky this weekend. Last few weeks, Abbie has been voraciously hungry and sleepy. Anyone else foresee me going broke buying jeans this year?
I have so many yummy leftovers that I don't know what to make for lunch!!!!! I have chicken and rice pot, still, and on Friday I made a meatloaf, and zuchinni with butter and garlic powder. Aw, heck - maybe I'll just have a little of everything!
Here is the song of the day. I found it humerous. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNkmodAnxng&feature=relmfu
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