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News & Views: prelude to a Quiet Night edition
1. The boys and their father are going to a professional soccer game. European clubs are doing exhibition matches in the US, so I will have approximately 5 whole hours tonight completely to myself. Huzzah. I may craft or I may read or I may fic or I may work on a jigsaw puzzle. Or watch 2 different versions of 4:50 from Paddington. Or who knows! I am excited. I am definitely having ice cream with caramel sauce.
2. SSCP (Super Secret Craft Project) update I went to Joann's Fabric Store for the first time and got overwhelmed. It's 4 times bigger than the small Michael's craft store I normally go to. But I got some supplies. I thought of it after a comment bymalindaldarose and I thought it was very far but there is one much closer than I thought. It is junky. So you have to hunt. Lots of clearance shelves and racks and a few weary-looking employees. BUT they sell the Tim Holtz stuff I love and once I know what I need and have an even more precise list, I think I will go back. I was planning on going tomorrow but the boys' father announced he is going into the office so I'd have to take the boys with me and I was overwhelmed enough on my own, no thank you.
For SSCP, I tea-dyed paper for the first time. I also learned how to fold my own envelopes. My project box is filling up. I won't do a reveal until late in the autumn, though.
3. I showed the boys the film Edward Scissorhands (it is almost 35 years old!) which they liked. I have reserved The Karate Kid (the original) and Back to the Future to round out the Mom summer movie series. The boys (and I) have both finished their Mom book clubs.
4. I took the boys to the pool. We are supposed to get some rain from Hurricane Debby on Saturday. We went to the county fair. I signed Minor up for cross country (autumn is cross country, spring is track with the same running group) for the autumn. I am going to try to get Minisculus in some swimming lessons too.
5. School starts on the 26 Aug.
6. I finished a manga! BUNGO Stray Dogs #1, story by Kafka Asagiri and art by Sango Harukawa. It takes me a LONG time to read comic books (and comically long time) and this one is in Japanese order. But I liked it. The main character becomes a tiger by the light of the moon.
Questions
31 JULY: Avocado Day: Do you like avocados?
I love avocados but I am not good at picking out good ones and they're expensive. I rarely get them.
AUGUST
1 AUG: Girlfriend’s Day: What are the ideal qualities in a girlfriend?
I have imaginary girlfriends. I suppose that's the ideal quality given my stage of life right now. Ha, ha. I am still having a daydream series about a kind of Golden Girls friend/girlfriend group. In the last episode, I donated a kidney to one of them.
2 AUG: Coloring Book Day: Do you color as an adult?
No. Adult coloring books are so small (meaning the lines are very thin or shapes are tiny), they don't make any sense to me. I like big blocks of color. Like for crayons.
3 AUG: Friendship Day: What’s the key to a lasting friendship?
Having something (still) in common and investing time and self in the relationship.
4 AUG: Coast Guard Day: Ever had to be rescued?
I have already mentioned getting stuck in the mud alone in a remote part of Chile and a farmer's helper pulling me out. In my 20's I was often rescued by random strangers.
5 AUG: Underwear Day: What color(s) are your underwear?
Today it's a light blue/grey.
6 AUG: Fresh Breath Day: How uncomfortable is having bad breath or being near someone with bad breath?
I really don't like it. For some reason eating bananas makes my mouth feel gross so I always brush my teeth after. Yeah, really heavy cigarette or coffee breath or just bad breath is very unpleasant to me.
2. SSCP (Super Secret Craft Project) update I went to Joann's Fabric Store for the first time and got overwhelmed. It's 4 times bigger than the small Michael's craft store I normally go to. But I got some supplies. I thought of it after a comment by
malindaldarose and I thought it was very far but there is one much closer than I thought. It is junky. So you have to hunt. Lots of clearance shelves and racks and a few weary-looking employees. BUT they sell the Tim Holtz stuff I love and once I know what I need and have an even more precise list, I think I will go back. I was planning on going tomorrow but the boys' father announced he is going into the office so I'd have to take the boys with me and I was overwhelmed enough on my own, no thank you. For SSCP, I tea-dyed paper for the first time. I also learned how to fold my own envelopes. My project box is filling up. I won't do a reveal until late in the autumn, though.
3. I showed the boys the film Edward Scissorhands (it is almost 35 years old!) which they liked. I have reserved The Karate Kid (the original) and Back to the Future to round out the Mom summer movie series. The boys (and I) have both finished their Mom book clubs.
4. I took the boys to the pool. We are supposed to get some rain from Hurricane Debby on Saturday. We went to the county fair. I signed Minor up for cross country (autumn is cross country, spring is track with the same running group) for the autumn. I am going to try to get Minisculus in some swimming lessons too.
5. School starts on the 26 Aug.
6. I finished a manga! BUNGO Stray Dogs #1, story by Kafka Asagiri and art by Sango Harukawa. It takes me a LONG time to read comic books (and comically long time) and this one is in Japanese order. But I liked it. The main character becomes a tiger by the light of the moon.
Questions
31 JULY: Avocado Day: Do you like avocados?
I love avocados but I am not good at picking out good ones and they're expensive. I rarely get them.
AUGUST
1 AUG: Girlfriend’s Day: What are the ideal qualities in a girlfriend?
I have imaginary girlfriends. I suppose that's the ideal quality given my stage of life right now. Ha, ha. I am still having a daydream series about a kind of Golden Girls friend/girlfriend group. In the last episode, I donated a kidney to one of them.
2 AUG: Coloring Book Day: Do you color as an adult?
No. Adult coloring books are so small (meaning the lines are very thin or shapes are tiny), they don't make any sense to me. I like big blocks of color. Like for crayons.
3 AUG: Friendship Day: What’s the key to a lasting friendship?
Having something (still) in common and investing time and self in the relationship.
4 AUG: Coast Guard Day: Ever had to be rescued?
I have already mentioned getting stuck in the mud alone in a remote part of Chile and a farmer's helper pulling me out. In my 20's I was often rescued by random strangers.
5 AUG: Underwear Day: What color(s) are your underwear?
Today it's a light blue/grey.
6 AUG: Fresh Breath Day: How uncomfortable is having bad breath or being near someone with bad breath?
I really don't like it. For some reason eating bananas makes my mouth feel gross so I always brush my teeth after. Yeah, really heavy cigarette or coffee breath or just bad breath is very unpleasant to me.
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I love the Back To The Future films, especially seeing what they thought our lives would be like in 2015! Flying cars and lasers etc. Erm...no it wasn't like that!😂
I was so excited recently when I went out for coffee with a friend, and outside the coffee shop was a DeLorean! All kitted up with time travel gear. I think it was either one of the film ones, or one that someone had fixed up himself. There were about 20 people round it but I managed to get a few photos!
Girlfriends...hmm...I used to have a nice friendship group in my teens/20s but they drifted away A LONG time ago and I never met any more. Ideal qualities- likes to talk about fanfic and ideas, creative, thoughtful, will always have my back. I can dream!
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I hope they like it.
Yes, I agree.
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