Into the Void

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

The boys enjoyed gymnastics camp. The parts they enjoyed most (the foam pit and going outside to play...soccer) aren't the most gymnastic-y parts so I don't think we'll be following up. Nevertheless, it was a good way to get them out of the flat and doing something different for 3 hours a day.

I paid the rent. This is the first time I've ever done it. The check hasn't gone through yet, and I'm irrationally anxious I did something wrong. There is a $49 'convenience' (ha! whose convenience?) fee for paying online so I did it the old fashioned way and handed someone a check in person. Despite knowing it's a holiday weekend, I really won't rest easy until it clears. It's the last of the bills I am learning to pay. I've done the electricity and the internet but those are both online. [these are the Head of Household bills that the boys' father usually pays]

I read about 3 chapters of the Shedunnit book club book The Postscript Murders by Ely Griffiths and sent it back. My only regret is that I was on the waiting list for almost two months! But I am too old to read books I don't like. And the Rivers of London series fills my quota for modern literature. I am on Book 3 but I am not enjoying it. This has an American FBI agent in it, and the narrator's American accent is SOOOO bad. His Canadian one is worse. The book says the FBI agent is from the South or Midwest and her adenoids sound like she's a maid Miss Marple is trying train to go onto better things. I love this narrator when he does everybody else but...luckily the rock tumbler can drown him out.

Midsomer Murders is giving Minor insomnia so we have to cut it out for now. We watched the one where Cully gets married and all three of us screamed "TROY!" when sidekick #1 made a cameo! :)

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Glad the boys enjoyed gymnastics club. It's good for them to try different things, they'll not know whether they do like something until they try it and a wide range of experiences will be good for them.

I like your description of the narrator's voice.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I was bracing myself when the narrator started in on the American voice, and, yes, it was very jarring. He can do so many types of British voices very, very well, very distinct and separate, classes, backgrounds, but the American voice is so awful. And the Canadian one is just bizarre.

Edited to add: yes, worthwhile, I think, the gymnastics, just a tiny, tiny bit disappointed that they didn't fall in love with it. Not that they didn't fall in love with gymnastics but just them falling in love with anything.

[debriswoman]

Well done re increasing the boy’s experiences:-)
And yes, reading a book you don’t like is not a good use of time...

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! I am trying.

Yes, I mean, if it was going to educate me at all, I might push through, but this one wasn't one of those.

[luthienberen]

Fantastic that the boys enjoyed gymnastics camp! Maybe the boys will fall in love with another activity to allow them to expand their horizons?

Hopefully the bill will clear ASAP so you no longer have to worry x

Ouch on the narrator's voice! And I agree with you on not wasting time on a book you don't like. Even educational books where there is a reason to push through, occasionally I acknowledge defeat and try an alternative.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

That was the idea, but I don't think they've fallen in love. It's fine. I'll keep trying.

It hasn't yet, but it's a holiday weekend, too.

:)

[ellieet]

Haha, Troy's return was awesome!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

It was, wasn't it? Totally unexpected. We all cheered!