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Jun. 26th, 2009 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckPart of me wants to start packing for my stay at my grandmother's now. I could pack the books I'm going to take, and that might relieve some of my stress over being unable to work on the other preparations. (Packing my clothes now would leave me with two weeks of wearing winter clothes. I'm not that stupid even if my anxiety is urging early preparation. Packing food at all would be silly.)
I'm going to take a lot of books*, I think. There will be a great deal of time at the beach, and I'm not risking my laptop there. Books are also easier to explain to my grandmother as she's a reader, too. (My father is, too, but he's going to give me a hard time no matter what I do.)
Scott and I have been doing a little more research on the town where my grandmother lives. He found a place with wireless. It's about seven blocks from my grandmother's house, so it's at the edge of what I can walk, especially with my laptop, but it exists. I'd spent a day looking and had only found hotels and the pier, and those only have service for those renting space.
That means that I probably won't be reading LJ, IJ or DW while I'm out of town. That'll be 12 July through 18 or 19 July. Given the length of time, I probably won't even try to catch up on what I've missed, so I'll rely on other people to tell me if there's anything I must read. I'll post about that again closer to the time.
That also means little to no e-mail access. I'll have to disable my iCal notices. My mail program always freaks out when iCal wants to send an e-mail when I have no service. It can cause lasting glitches.
My sister called and offered me a way out of going up there at all while my father's there. She plans to be in Michigan in August with her son. She's willing to drive Cordelia and me up there for a couple of days because she very much wants to see our grandmother. She doesn't quite get that I want to go both times because I want to see Grandma. Also, Cordelia's the right age to think that the beach and the area around my aunt and uncle's house is the best thing ever. One day or even two won't be enough for her.
Cordelia also, unlike her cousin, is old enough that she'll remember the visit years from now. I'd like her to have memories of her great grandmother. Memories of my father will also be rare in her childhood. I may not want more memories of my father, but Cordelia will have a good time with him. The parts of his personality that make me not want to be around him for long periods of time make him fun for small children.
*I may, at some point in the next two weeks, post a list of books I could take and ask for comments on them. I plan to pull from my to-be-read piles.
I'm going to take a lot of books*, I think. There will be a great deal of time at the beach, and I'm not risking my laptop there. Books are also easier to explain to my grandmother as she's a reader, too. (My father is, too, but he's going to give me a hard time no matter what I do.)
Scott and I have been doing a little more research on the town where my grandmother lives. He found a place with wireless. It's about seven blocks from my grandmother's house, so it's at the edge of what I can walk, especially with my laptop, but it exists. I'd spent a day looking and had only found hotels and the pier, and those only have service for those renting space.
That means that I probably won't be reading LJ, IJ or DW while I'm out of town. That'll be 12 July through 18 or 19 July. Given the length of time, I probably won't even try to catch up on what I've missed, so I'll rely on other people to tell me if there's anything I must read. I'll post about that again closer to the time.
That also means little to no e-mail access. I'll have to disable my iCal notices. My mail program always freaks out when iCal wants to send an e-mail when I have no service. It can cause lasting glitches.
My sister called and offered me a way out of going up there at all while my father's there. She plans to be in Michigan in August with her son. She's willing to drive Cordelia and me up there for a couple of days because she very much wants to see our grandmother. She doesn't quite get that I want to go both times because I want to see Grandma. Also, Cordelia's the right age to think that the beach and the area around my aunt and uncle's house is the best thing ever. One day or even two won't be enough for her.
Cordelia also, unlike her cousin, is old enough that she'll remember the visit years from now. I'd like her to have memories of her great grandmother. Memories of my father will also be rare in her childhood. I may not want more memories of my father, but Cordelia will have a good time with him. The parts of his personality that make me not want to be around him for long periods of time make him fun for small children.
*I may, at some point in the next two weeks, post a list of books I could take and ask for comments on them. I plan to pull from my to-be-read piles.
