Our dryer keeps breaking. I try to keep fixing. I’ve done it twice now already for 0 dollars. I think this third time is going to send me to the Home Depot for a new dryer.
I took the whole thing apart.
I gashed my finger.
I learned to use a multimeter.
I kind of learned to read an electrical diagram. None of this helped. I still have wet laundry.
I was out at the track on Saturday. 200m is half a lap. I can do an all out sprint for half a lap in about 40 seconds. And then I would have to (and do) stop running because, well because, I can’t maintain that sprint for any moment longer than 200m. At the end of my half lap, I would already have been losing to the woman who won the NYC marathon today.
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Jeremy came home from Chicago/Iowa and said he needed a new (and cheap but not cheap-looking) suit jacket. We went to Nordstrom Rack.
Edda was not impressed.
There are a lot of persimmon fruits over this Korean Ancient Wall. We have over a hundred on ours. We are going to plant one or two on our would-be grass-less front yard of U Street.
When Jeremy’s gone, I can get a little mopey and introverted. So I try and make some plans with friends to remind myself that I’m not alone in this world. A little dramatic, but sometimes I think, left to my own devices, I’d be a recluse/hoarder/cat owner. I saw a good friend and we went to the local Indian buffet for lunch.
Edda came home and got herself into some makeup.
We went to the IB open house at Richard Montgomery. The county has a bunch of competitive magnet programs housed in different high schools. Vince did not want to leave his home high school and/or his friends, but there is a very highly sought program right here. Magnet programs are both appealing and not appealing to me in my own warped mind. There is no other simple, short-cut way of outwardly indicating that you totally did it and achieved the upper-middle-class suburban Montgomery County excellent parenting award than to say – my kid goes to the IB program, Stanford, MIT, etc. That fictitious award does have power over me. However, I know it’s not what Vince really wants (or for that matter, what I really want) and I know that it’s the fake parenting award, it’s not the one I’m after even though it’s the shiny-est. I do like shiny things.
Lots of parents asking all the questions – I made Vince ask all his questions (the main thing was what the difference was between IB Chemistry and AP Chemistry), I gently directed the teachers to look at him and not me when answering the questions. We got an enthusiastic senior to tell us how he’s taking three science courses this fall even though it’s counter to the program’s approach of creating the holistic student. He got all his questions answered and we bailed before the formal program started with Vince laughing and saying – it’s not for me! let’s go get some groceries and to the scout meeting.
Here are the stats for the program (I couldn’t resist, because really, how can I resist?): 1000 people apply, 120 get in each year. Of those 120, about 35 are National Merit Scholars. Of the graduating class – 5 people got into MIT, 4 people went.
Vince helped me get some groceries.
At the Giant. My favorite grocery store.
Then we played dodge ball with the scouts. I did play a round, but I haven’t learned how to really hurl a ball well. All my throws are puff balls in a wide arc.
This is beautiful.
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Jeremy’s in Chicago – I’m taking this opportunity to be asleep by 9 pm. I’m already past my self-imposed deadline – sigh. 9:15 – I can make it by that time… <3
Finished the very last day of OB clinical on Friday.
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Drove a bunch of boy scouts (and Keyla and her pals) to Hershey Park on Saturday.
Did a very Noel Lee / Donald Lee thing and took a nap in the van while the boys went up and down all the roller coasters.
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Went to my favorite toddler’s birthday party! Happy 3rd birthday Bert. This is the only photo I took with my iPhone, but I took more than 600 photos on my big camera. I hope some of them turned out. Or at least are better than this one.
Edda came to the party. Ate and took a nap.
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Hosted Sunday night dinner for the first time since 2007 without Jeremy. Turns out I can order Chinese food as well as the next person. Jeremy left today for a week in Chicago…!
Jeremy took me out on a proper date tonight. Not the grocery shopping date or the Target run date, but a date with dinner and dessert in a place that we haven’t gone to before.
We looked at expensive bikes. We need there to be self-driving cars soon because I need to get rid of my car/van so we have more room in the garage for bicycles.
Turns out you need your glasses to fix your glasses.
Good night!