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Jan. 14th, 2015 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckCordelia's Girl Scout troop is going to be doing something on either the 24th or the 26th. The message said 'Saturday 1/26,' but the 26th is Monday this year. There's no school that day, so it is possible the troop could have an activity then, but Saturday seems more likely. If it is Saturday, Cordelia will miss it because some sixth grade parents have organized an ice skating outing, and we've already signed Cordelia up to go to that. One of her closest friends is going ice skating, so she's inclined to stick with that.
Cordelia couldn't find her gloves this morning. I have no idea where they could have gotten to. I'll have to look for them later. Maybe they're in her room or something. She went to school wearing her extra pair of gloves, but those are so very thin that they're only good for a short time outside.
I have a dental appointment this morning at 11:00. That means leaving the house at 10:00. That will likely get me there twenty minutes early, but that's better than being late. I should find and charge my e-reader so that I can take it with me. Cordelia wasn't best pleased by me getting up when she did this morning, but I wanted to shower, and I wanted my hair as dry as possible before I go out. It won't be fully dry, but it'll have had an hour longer than if I waited for Cordelia to leave before getting up.
I'm debating getting lunch while I'm out. I like the chance to eat out, but getting to the restaurant I'd prefer is a bit of a hike. Of course, if I'm willing to go for a burger and fries, there's a place between the dentist and the bus stop. But, if I go to the Japanese place I really like, I'll be halfway to downtown and could take the #1 bus home instead of the #2. (The #2 lets me off at the bottom of a steep hill, on the wrong side of a busy street. Getting home from the #1 stop is considerably easier.) I guess I'll see how cold it actually is, come time to decide.
I'm currently reading a book called The Far Traveler by Nancy Marie Brown. I'm about halfway through, and I'm kind of bored. The blurb promised the story of a particular Icelandic woman who traveled to Vinland with Leif Erikson, but, so far, the book has only been a little bit about her. There's been a lot about the ecology of Iceland and why anyone would choose to settle in Iceland or Greenland and about the hints in the archaeological record of what life was like back then. I think the problem is that, while this particular woman's story captured the author's imagination, there simply isn't much to go on-- She's in two brief sagas, and there's evidence of a house from the right period on the property she's supposed to have farmed after returning from Vinland.
I've spent more money so far this month than I really wanted to. I've bought socks and a few pairs of pants (it's cold enough that I'm wearing layers even inside). I've bought Scott's birthday present (his birthday is in late February, so I'm rather early). I've bought Cordelia those Just Dance games she claims will give her exercise. I've bought myself a CD (at 50% off) and some Christmas ornaments for next year (also at a good discount). Hm. Going by all of that, perhaps I shouldn't have lunch out... Then again, lunch is likely to be about $10 so not much relatively speaking, and I don't get out more than about once a month.
There's another volunteering opportunity at the school-- They're looking for parents to help with student drop off in the mornings. The way things are currently configured, there's always a long, long line of cars waiting to drop kids off in the morning, and the construction isn't helping (the door used to get all of those kids in and out ought to be closed by the construction, but there's no other way to do drop off and pick up). They want volunteers to be out there, helping kids get out of cars and to the door safely. They're expecting things to be bad enough that they're not going to mark kids as tardy as long as they're in class by 8:15, ten minutes after the second bell, and they really, really don't want driving parents to get out of their cars for any reason.
Cordelia couldn't find her gloves this morning. I have no idea where they could have gotten to. I'll have to look for them later. Maybe they're in her room or something. She went to school wearing her extra pair of gloves, but those are so very thin that they're only good for a short time outside.
I have a dental appointment this morning at 11:00. That means leaving the house at 10:00. That will likely get me there twenty minutes early, but that's better than being late. I should find and charge my e-reader so that I can take it with me. Cordelia wasn't best pleased by me getting up when she did this morning, but I wanted to shower, and I wanted my hair as dry as possible before I go out. It won't be fully dry, but it'll have had an hour longer than if I waited for Cordelia to leave before getting up.
I'm debating getting lunch while I'm out. I like the chance to eat out, but getting to the restaurant I'd prefer is a bit of a hike. Of course, if I'm willing to go for a burger and fries, there's a place between the dentist and the bus stop. But, if I go to the Japanese place I really like, I'll be halfway to downtown and could take the #1 bus home instead of the #2. (The #2 lets me off at the bottom of a steep hill, on the wrong side of a busy street. Getting home from the #1 stop is considerably easier.) I guess I'll see how cold it actually is, come time to decide.
I'm currently reading a book called The Far Traveler by Nancy Marie Brown. I'm about halfway through, and I'm kind of bored. The blurb promised the story of a particular Icelandic woman who traveled to Vinland with Leif Erikson, but, so far, the book has only been a little bit about her. There's been a lot about the ecology of Iceland and why anyone would choose to settle in Iceland or Greenland and about the hints in the archaeological record of what life was like back then. I think the problem is that, while this particular woman's story captured the author's imagination, there simply isn't much to go on-- She's in two brief sagas, and there's evidence of a house from the right period on the property she's supposed to have farmed after returning from Vinland.
I've spent more money so far this month than I really wanted to. I've bought socks and a few pairs of pants (it's cold enough that I'm wearing layers even inside). I've bought Scott's birthday present (his birthday is in late February, so I'm rather early). I've bought Cordelia those Just Dance games she claims will give her exercise. I've bought myself a CD (at 50% off) and some Christmas ornaments for next year (also at a good discount). Hm. Going by all of that, perhaps I shouldn't have lunch out... Then again, lunch is likely to be about $10 so not much relatively speaking, and I don't get out more than about once a month.
There's another volunteering opportunity at the school-- They're looking for parents to help with student drop off in the mornings. The way things are currently configured, there's always a long, long line of cars waiting to drop kids off in the morning, and the construction isn't helping (the door used to get all of those kids in and out ought to be closed by the construction, but there's no other way to do drop off and pick up). They want volunteers to be out there, helping kids get out of cars and to the door safely. They're expecting things to be bad enough that they're not going to mark kids as tardy as long as they're in class by 8:15, ten minutes after the second bell, and they really, really don't want driving parents to get out of their cars for any reason.
