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the_rckLast night around 7:30, we went out looking for soccer shoes for Cordelia. We hoped that would be late enough to avoid the post-game traffic, but we still ran into a backup getting to 14. Fortunately, once we were past the stop sign, traffic cleared up.
The sporting goods store we went to had two pairs of soccer cleats in Cordelia's size (7 women's) at a price we could afford. They were the same style just one was black and the other was gray. I was disappointed. I like Cordelia have wild colored cleats; it helps me identify her on the softball field (all the girls tend to look alike, white girls with their hair hidden by their caps) when I don't remember which shorts she's wearing. Scott wanted to go somewhere else where there was better selection, but Cordelia thought the pair she'd tried on was perfectly good apart from maybe needing longer laces. (Laces are fairly easy.) Scott did say that we won't go back to that store next time Cordelia needs cleats.
After buying the cleats, we went to Plum Market. We wanted to buy some sort of dessert and some sambucol. We also wanted to kill enough time for traffic at the 14 entrance/exit ramp to clear. (That ramp is difficult. It's two lanes, one off, one on, and short because of the river and the houses around it, and for the on ramp, there's a stop sign right before one gets on the highway. When traffic's heavy, both the on and off ramp get backed up.) We got grapes, sambucol, deodorant for Cordelia, some raspberry ginger ale, a couple of single serving chocolate cheesecakes, some gum, and a ginger lemonade for Scott. There were probably one or two other things I'm forgetting.
Traffic had pretty well cleared by the time we got off of 14. We barely had to wait at the stop sign at the bottom of the ramp.
I shouldn't have had the cheesecake so close to bedtime. Reflux kept me up late even though I was tired enough to want to go to bed early. I also woke up in the middle of the night feeling horribly overheated. I had to throw off the sheet (the only covers I was using) and wait for it to pass. I wonder if that's something like a hot flash? I was so hot that I couldn't get back to sleep. I almost got up and turned on the fan, but I was afraid that would make Scott freeze. I was really surprised to wake for the day a bit after nine. I expected that I'd have difficulty waking and would sleep until at least ten, but Scott had turned on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me quite loud.
We suggested orange juice to Cordelia this morning. She poured some and then abandoned it on the counter. My guess is that it just didn't taste good to her. I'll have to see about making her some tea later on.
Scott wants to go to gathering for playing board and card games this afternoon. He's hoping to take Fortune and Glory and get a chance to play a game all the way through. He discovered that we made a mistake with the rules that, had we corrected it, would have made the game go faster and more easily. We assumed that we got one roll of the dice to try to meet the success conditions, but, under certain circumstances, we should have continued rolling. Apparently, as long as one gets a single success on a roll, one can reroll all of one's dice in hopes of getting additional successes. The successes add up.
Cordelia wants to go to the gathering, too, not because she wants to play games. She says that isn't really her thing. She's hoping there will be other kids around who will want to socialize. I'm worried that she'll be disappointed and spend a miserable several hours with nothing to do.
I don't much want to go. I don't know why I'm feeling so anti-social. Usually, I like being around people, at least when I have someone I trust with me (and I'd have Scott). I can play Fortune and Glory as long as we play cooperatively, so I wouldn't be completely left out. I can also play Sentinels of the Multiverse, and from what I gather, there's usually somebody wanting to play that. Instead, I want to nap and catch up on the sleep I lost last night and the night before. I'd also like to write something and maybe bake something. There's also the laundry to consider. We have three loads that need to get done by the end of the day. If I go, only one and a half will actually get done. I suppose one load of adult clothes can wait until tomorrow if absolutely necessary. I just need to be sure to wash Cordelia's stuff and some of our stuff.
The sporting goods store we went to had two pairs of soccer cleats in Cordelia's size (7 women's) at a price we could afford. They were the same style just one was black and the other was gray. I was disappointed. I like Cordelia have wild colored cleats; it helps me identify her on the softball field (all the girls tend to look alike, white girls with their hair hidden by their caps) when I don't remember which shorts she's wearing. Scott wanted to go somewhere else where there was better selection, but Cordelia thought the pair she'd tried on was perfectly good apart from maybe needing longer laces. (Laces are fairly easy.) Scott did say that we won't go back to that store next time Cordelia needs cleats.
After buying the cleats, we went to Plum Market. We wanted to buy some sort of dessert and some sambucol. We also wanted to kill enough time for traffic at the 14 entrance/exit ramp to clear. (That ramp is difficult. It's two lanes, one off, one on, and short because of the river and the houses around it, and for the on ramp, there's a stop sign right before one gets on the highway. When traffic's heavy, both the on and off ramp get backed up.) We got grapes, sambucol, deodorant for Cordelia, some raspberry ginger ale, a couple of single serving chocolate cheesecakes, some gum, and a ginger lemonade for Scott. There were probably one or two other things I'm forgetting.
Traffic had pretty well cleared by the time we got off of 14. We barely had to wait at the stop sign at the bottom of the ramp.
I shouldn't have had the cheesecake so close to bedtime. Reflux kept me up late even though I was tired enough to want to go to bed early. I also woke up in the middle of the night feeling horribly overheated. I had to throw off the sheet (the only covers I was using) and wait for it to pass. I wonder if that's something like a hot flash? I was so hot that I couldn't get back to sleep. I almost got up and turned on the fan, but I was afraid that would make Scott freeze. I was really surprised to wake for the day a bit after nine. I expected that I'd have difficulty waking and would sleep until at least ten, but Scott had turned on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me quite loud.
We suggested orange juice to Cordelia this morning. She poured some and then abandoned it on the counter. My guess is that it just didn't taste good to her. I'll have to see about making her some tea later on.
Scott wants to go to gathering for playing board and card games this afternoon. He's hoping to take Fortune and Glory and get a chance to play a game all the way through. He discovered that we made a mistake with the rules that, had we corrected it, would have made the game go faster and more easily. We assumed that we got one roll of the dice to try to meet the success conditions, but, under certain circumstances, we should have continued rolling. Apparently, as long as one gets a single success on a roll, one can reroll all of one's dice in hopes of getting additional successes. The successes add up.
Cordelia wants to go to the gathering, too, not because she wants to play games. She says that isn't really her thing. She's hoping there will be other kids around who will want to socialize. I'm worried that she'll be disappointed and spend a miserable several hours with nothing to do.
I don't much want to go. I don't know why I'm feeling so anti-social. Usually, I like being around people, at least when I have someone I trust with me (and I'd have Scott). I can play Fortune and Glory as long as we play cooperatively, so I wouldn't be completely left out. I can also play Sentinels of the Multiverse, and from what I gather, there's usually somebody wanting to play that. Instead, I want to nap and catch up on the sleep I lost last night and the night before. I'd also like to write something and maybe bake something. There's also the laundry to consider. We have three loads that need to get done by the end of the day. If I go, only one and a half will actually get done. I suppose one load of adult clothes can wait until tomorrow if absolutely necessary. I just need to be sure to wash Cordelia's stuff and some of our stuff.
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Date: 2014-09-14 07:25 pm (UTC)Is the game thing UCon? The timing seems about right.
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Date: 2014-09-14 11:19 pm (UTC)