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the_rckI am definitely going to order pizza for lunch. I'll have to hide the evidence before Cordelia gets home, but I think I can manage that. I just really want pizza and don't think we'll be getting any any time soon.
I'm trying to figure out when it's okay to stop wearing bras. I'm not convinced they're decreasing my pain instead of increasing it, but I really can't tell. I've mainly been sticking with them in order to have a layer of something over my incisions, but it'll be four weeks since surgery this Friday. I have no idea how long incisions like these take to heal fully, but surely they're well along the road by now?
I gave up on another romance novel today because I felt like the setting was made of cardboard. I'm not sure why that bothered me so much when I've read other books that had similar problems to the end and enjoyed them. In this case, the setting was a small town in the US, and I kept thinking that there were things that didn't make sense or that should be there and weren't. Oh, well, back to the library it goes.
I need to try more of the library books I've got. I suspect most of them are things I'll only read a few chapters of, and doing that doesn't take long at all once I actually pick up the book. I've got at least six books that fall into the try it and see if I like it category.
Scott may be working late tonight. He wasn't sure if they'd actually need him or not, but, if they do, he's stuck.
We have three DVDs from the library this week, in addition to the two from Netflix that have been hanging around for a month. The library DVDs can't be renewed, so we have to fit them in somewhere. We watched one of them the day we got it because Cordelia wanted to see it, too. That was the third Night at the Museum movie. I thought it was pretty good as comedies go. The other two are Jupiter Ascending (which I think Cordelia might like but which she's completely unwilling to try) and one of the Justice League movies-- Gods and Monster, I think. Scott's interested in both, so I can't just watch them during the day and be done with them (also true of the Netflix DVDs).
Neither Scott nor I know where our dirty sheets have gotten to. I know I haven't moved the basket they're in because it's heavier than what I'm suppose to lift, and Scott's quite sure he hasn't moved it. I see two possibilities-- First, the cleaning lady moved the basket somewhere (the house isn't at all large. Surely I'd be able to find the dratted thing!), or, second, Scott took the basket down to the laundry area, intending to wash the sheets later, and forgot about it. The cleaning lady might have taken them downstairs, too, but she's unlikely to have done so as she wouldn't know if they were clean or dirty. I just want to wash the dratted things so that we can change the sheets this weekend. The last time we did was 27 August. Four weeks is way too long.
Cordelia's best friend's younger brother is still young enough to do cross country after school on Wednesdays, so Cordelia's friend will come home with Cordelia today. Then, at 4:00, she (and probably Cordelia, too) will go to the school to get her brother and bring him over here. They'll stay until around 5:30 when their father will pick them up. This will happen every Wednesday until some time in November or December (depending on when we get heavy snow), and it will start up again in March or April (again, depending on the snow). In the spring, it may happen on a different day of the week, possibly even more than one day a week.
Cordelia has been complaining about how much homework she has this year and about how challenging it is. Math uses a book that she has to copy problems out of, and she's having trouble with that because copying angles and geometric shapes accurately onto regular paper is genuinely hard to do. Cordelia's of the opinion that her teacher hasn't actually thought the difficulty through. Asking them to measure the angle in the book and then write down that measurement would be reasonable. Asking them to copy the angle to their paper along with the measurement isn't so much, especially given that the angles are written in dotted lines that very definitely don't show through when a normal sheet of lined paper is put over them for tracing.
One of my aunts on my mother's side emailed me today. I need to compose a reasonably informative reply without making her worry. She knows about the lumpectomy because my sister told her. She and her husband, my mother's brother, are only sort of on speaking terms with my mother because there were disagreements about how to care for Grandpa and about what to do with his property after he died. They mainly still interact because there are things that need to be hammered out and because none of them are horrible people. It's just that that particular aunt and uncle are very politically conservative. My grandfather used to argue with them about it before the Alzheimer's took him, and Mom's more liberal than Grandpa was. Mom's other surviving brother more or less plays peacemaker and talks to both of them. I think he and his wife are closer to Mom, politically; it's just that he's closer to the other brother in age. There were five children. Two are dead now. Mom is the oldest. The conservative uncle is the fourth child, and the other uncle is the third.
I'm trying to figure out when it's okay to stop wearing bras. I'm not convinced they're decreasing my pain instead of increasing it, but I really can't tell. I've mainly been sticking with them in order to have a layer of something over my incisions, but it'll be four weeks since surgery this Friday. I have no idea how long incisions like these take to heal fully, but surely they're well along the road by now?
I gave up on another romance novel today because I felt like the setting was made of cardboard. I'm not sure why that bothered me so much when I've read other books that had similar problems to the end and enjoyed them. In this case, the setting was a small town in the US, and I kept thinking that there were things that didn't make sense or that should be there and weren't. Oh, well, back to the library it goes.
I need to try more of the library books I've got. I suspect most of them are things I'll only read a few chapters of, and doing that doesn't take long at all once I actually pick up the book. I've got at least six books that fall into the try it and see if I like it category.
Scott may be working late tonight. He wasn't sure if they'd actually need him or not, but, if they do, he's stuck.
We have three DVDs from the library this week, in addition to the two from Netflix that have been hanging around for a month. The library DVDs can't be renewed, so we have to fit them in somewhere. We watched one of them the day we got it because Cordelia wanted to see it, too. That was the third Night at the Museum movie. I thought it was pretty good as comedies go. The other two are Jupiter Ascending (which I think Cordelia might like but which she's completely unwilling to try) and one of the Justice League movies-- Gods and Monster, I think. Scott's interested in both, so I can't just watch them during the day and be done with them (also true of the Netflix DVDs).
Neither Scott nor I know where our dirty sheets have gotten to. I know I haven't moved the basket they're in because it's heavier than what I'm suppose to lift, and Scott's quite sure he hasn't moved it. I see two possibilities-- First, the cleaning lady moved the basket somewhere (the house isn't at all large. Surely I'd be able to find the dratted thing!), or, second, Scott took the basket down to the laundry area, intending to wash the sheets later, and forgot about it. The cleaning lady might have taken them downstairs, too, but she's unlikely to have done so as she wouldn't know if they were clean or dirty. I just want to wash the dratted things so that we can change the sheets this weekend. The last time we did was 27 August. Four weeks is way too long.
Cordelia's best friend's younger brother is still young enough to do cross country after school on Wednesdays, so Cordelia's friend will come home with Cordelia today. Then, at 4:00, she (and probably Cordelia, too) will go to the school to get her brother and bring him over here. They'll stay until around 5:30 when their father will pick them up. This will happen every Wednesday until some time in November or December (depending on when we get heavy snow), and it will start up again in March or April (again, depending on the snow). In the spring, it may happen on a different day of the week, possibly even more than one day a week.
Cordelia has been complaining about how much homework she has this year and about how challenging it is. Math uses a book that she has to copy problems out of, and she's having trouble with that because copying angles and geometric shapes accurately onto regular paper is genuinely hard to do. Cordelia's of the opinion that her teacher hasn't actually thought the difficulty through. Asking them to measure the angle in the book and then write down that measurement would be reasonable. Asking them to copy the angle to their paper along with the measurement isn't so much, especially given that the angles are written in dotted lines that very definitely don't show through when a normal sheet of lined paper is put over them for tracing.
One of my aunts on my mother's side emailed me today. I need to compose a reasonably informative reply without making her worry. She knows about the lumpectomy because my sister told her. She and her husband, my mother's brother, are only sort of on speaking terms with my mother because there were disagreements about how to care for Grandpa and about what to do with his property after he died. They mainly still interact because there are things that need to be hammered out and because none of them are horrible people. It's just that that particular aunt and uncle are very politically conservative. My grandfather used to argue with them about it before the Alzheimer's took him, and Mom's more liberal than Grandpa was. Mom's other surviving brother more or less plays peacemaker and talks to both of them. I think he and his wife are closer to Mom, politically; it's just that he's closer to the other brother in age. There were five children. Two are dead now. Mom is the oldest. The conservative uncle is the fourth child, and the other uncle is the third.
Math suggestion
Date: 2015-09-23 03:30 pm (UTC)Draw her baseline, set the end exactly on the crosshairs (focal point), mark the angle with a dot, then slide the protractor to use the straight edge to draw the angle.
Her teacher is SKIPPING STEPS in instruction. This is a BAD SIGN. For your immediate use so Cordelia doesn't get overwhelmed quickly:
Khan Academy
https://www.khanacademy.org/
Free to sign up. Ask what the key topic is for the day, and look for videos. Even if she thinks she understands it, there is a VERY good chance that the teacher is presuming that she's already learned a list of things-- like how to construct an angle without tracing it from the book.
Email the instructor EVERY TIME there's a major skipped instruction like this. SURE, she'll probably ignore it, but you NEED that record if it starts to affect Cordelia's grades.
"Look, she didn't teach five of the six key concepts for this assignment, and here's my proof. It's not fair to expect my child to find out she's missing information she didn't know she needed to teach HERSELF."
Re: Math suggestion
Date: 2015-09-23 05:23 pm (UTC)But I will look into Khan Academy.
Re: Math suggestion
Date: 2015-09-23 06:33 pm (UTC)