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Apr. 19th, 2009 08:31 pmI am trying very hard to come up with a good displacement activity, because the alternative is reading "Cymbeline", which I find the most daunting of Shakespeare's plays despite the fact that my first date with the man who is now my husband was a performance of it. Our second was the movie 1984. It's remarkable we're still an item, really.
My daughter turned 15 this week. The house was full of teenage girls sleeping on the floor, eating burgers and popcorn and watching "Bones". She is very into "Bones." I certainly don't have a problem with that. As she pointed out when I mentioned homework, she knows what a clavicle is now. It's more than Martha Jones ever taught her.
I used to dread the kids' birthday parties but now they more or less organise their own - I just come in useful when bills need to be paid. They all went off on the train to a place called Formby on Merseyside, the nearest one to us that could reasonably be called seaside. There they played frisbee, struggled over the sand dunes in flipflops and ate an awful lot of cake. I thought it was so sweet that out of the eight she invited, two of her friends turned up with home made birthday cake. You don't get that with boys.
Spent Easter in the Lake District with DH. I am terribly unfit - partly because I have recently had a bug, partly because I am just unfit. Nevertheless we managed to walk over from Langdale into Eskdale on Easter Sunday - 14 miles and a lot of climbing. My knee became very painful on descent and if we hadn't met some kind people who helped strap it up, I'm not sure how I'd have managed. By the time we reached our hotel, I literally had to heave myself upstairs, I was so stiff and exhausted.
So, I need to get the the gym a LOT more than I have been doing if I'm going to enjoy the summer.
On the plus side, I have been gardening this weekend. That always makes me feel better. Today I planted out my salad bed with fennel, dill, parsley, lettuce and coriander. Okay, my salad/herb bed. And I bought my son a new iPod. My DH will not approve - he thinks he should pay for these things himself.
Apple prices really are a law unto themselves. Not only the goods themselves, but also the accessories. Today I payed £19.00 for an iPod mains adapter that cost £68.00 a year ago.
I have no desire to upgrade my own iPod, or my phone. I've reached the age now where the thought of mastering the instruction manual puts me off. I suppose, if I really had to find something to spend money on, it would be nice to have room for all my songs (I only have a 2GB now), instead of having to choose which playlists to put on, but since I only use it in the gym, and I haven't been going lately, it's really not a purchase I could easily justify. Although the new colours are certainly pretty.
( Yes, I did watch POTD )
My daughter turned 15 this week. The house was full of teenage girls sleeping on the floor, eating burgers and popcorn and watching "Bones". She is very into "Bones." I certainly don't have a problem with that. As she pointed out when I mentioned homework, she knows what a clavicle is now. It's more than Martha Jones ever taught her.
I used to dread the kids' birthday parties but now they more or less organise their own - I just come in useful when bills need to be paid. They all went off on the train to a place called Formby on Merseyside, the nearest one to us that could reasonably be called seaside. There they played frisbee, struggled over the sand dunes in flipflops and ate an awful lot of cake. I thought it was so sweet that out of the eight she invited, two of her friends turned up with home made birthday cake. You don't get that with boys.
Spent Easter in the Lake District with DH. I am terribly unfit - partly because I have recently had a bug, partly because I am just unfit. Nevertheless we managed to walk over from Langdale into Eskdale on Easter Sunday - 14 miles and a lot of climbing. My knee became very painful on descent and if we hadn't met some kind people who helped strap it up, I'm not sure how I'd have managed. By the time we reached our hotel, I literally had to heave myself upstairs, I was so stiff and exhausted.
So, I need to get the the gym a LOT more than I have been doing if I'm going to enjoy the summer.
On the plus side, I have been gardening this weekend. That always makes me feel better. Today I planted out my salad bed with fennel, dill, parsley, lettuce and coriander. Okay, my salad/herb bed. And I bought my son a new iPod. My DH will not approve - he thinks he should pay for these things himself.
Apple prices really are a law unto themselves. Not only the goods themselves, but also the accessories. Today I payed £19.00 for an iPod mains adapter that cost £68.00 a year ago.
I have no desire to upgrade my own iPod, or my phone. I've reached the age now where the thought of mastering the instruction manual puts me off. I suppose, if I really had to find something to spend money on, it would be nice to have room for all my songs (I only have a 2GB now), instead of having to choose which playlists to put on, but since I only use it in the gym, and I haven't been going lately, it's really not a purchase I could easily justify. Although the new colours are certainly pretty.
( Yes, I did watch POTD )
