Daily Happenings

I bought K the first in the series 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' by Jeff Kinney and what do you know, he's reading it! My kids don't usually really read unless they have to.

He went to a Valentine's Dance at school and it sounds like it was fun. I asked him if he danced and he said 'yes'. I said 'can you show me how you danced?' He holds both arms out and then says 'then you just sway like this, it's easy'. I go 'that looks like slow-dancing..you were SLOW DANCING?' He goes 'yes, it's no big deal' I go 'You asked a girl to dance?' He said he asked about 4 girls and they all said 'yes'. Upon my prompting, he said some of his friends were also dancing. He said one crazy boy ran around asking and got refused. Some just watched too. I said 'I don't think L has even slow danced with a boy yet'. He says 'you mean she's never?' and this thoughtful look comes on his face. Well, if only he could be as academic as he is 'the party person'. He turns 14 in April.

At the gym this morning, I walked in and it was reasonably quiet except for this lady chatting away in a loud voice (she's always like that). At the elliptical machine, this other older lady says to me 'don't you think she's loud?' I acknowledged her feeling. Then she says 'I've already asked her to tone it down'. I was surprised. Then she leans over and makes a rude remark to the loud lady who then lowered her voice. This same lady also complains about the loud music, which again, she does have a point, but being more tolerant, I thought the loud lady was just being herself, a sort of vivacious and lively type. The older lady has to accept that she's not in her own private gym, I think. Of course, I can't help thinking that the loud lady's husband must like a lot of chatting!


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A loud beeping noise

I was harshly woken up this morning by a loud beeping noise. I thought it was the house alarm, so I ran to check that. Then M tells me it's the smoke alarm, he had put a bagel back into the toaster as it wasn't dark enough and then it burned and smoked. So he just waved a cushion under the alarm, and that usually works. My heart was still pounding, however and my legs felt weak.

Last night, I caught an episode of The Wild Gourmets on Food TV. It's a lovely show, but this week they decided to hunt grey squirrel for a meal. I had to look away as they held the dead animal, skinned and prepared it.

It's a gorgeous, sunny day, another mild one near the freezing mark. On Friday, I was talking to a 'friend of a friend' and he mentioned that while the weather in Vancouver (western Canada) is mild in the winter, his experience is that you don't see the sun for a good six months and that can be depressing. He did say that they do have the most beautiful spring and summer seasons.

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