Views & News: Vacation (all I've ever wanted)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

1. It's Spring Break! The boys go back Tuesday.

2. The boys' father traveled yesterday to Seattle for meetings with the Gates Foundation. He is supposed to be back on Thursday.

3. Today was a day of running errands. As the last step of Minisculus' calorie reduction is to get 60 minutes of movement a day. So this morning I took the boys to the YMCA so he could get that.

Then we went to a store for Minor to get a new hoodie and a gift for a birthday party Minisculus was invited to new week. We used up the last of the gift card my sister gave me for Xmas.

I also stopped by Michaels and picked up 1 package of stickers. I fell in love with these Easter eggs in nests and if you buy the stickers online and pick up at the store, you get a 30% discount. They were the only Easter stickers I've seen that I liked, and I really liked them.

Then we went to the library. Then we went to Wal-Mart and I got Minor a new phone. This is going to be a source of controversy because the boys' father was against an upgrade for Minor. But what Minor had was an old-school flip phone and this is a proper phone (not on our plan). I will have to deal with the fallout from that with his father. It's a mess because I snapped on Sunday about Minor rotting his brain with his phone (and yelled at him harshly) and he proceeded to get 2 PRs (Personal Records) at the track meet and to clean my nasty, years-encrusted tea kettle with steel wool (without being asked) just to show me that his brain isn't rotted. Point to Minor.

Then we went the Mall and Minor went to the barber. Minor got a low taper fade. Whatever that is. It's not as shorn as the last time.

Then we were starving and got McDonald's and went home. Tomorrow is shopping and I have to get my state emissions test on the car and Minor has track practice. Soccer practices were cancelled but track is still going through spring break.

4. I finished Seafire last night, the girls' own Mad Max Fury at sea fantasy. It was good. I also finished Ada Limon's book of poetry The Hurting Kind, also good.

5. I wrote two poems, then lost my groove. I need to get back. Spring renewal is going well.

ASMR of the WEEK: This channel is building miniature rooms from kits.

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Comments

[sweettartheart]

Those are awesome stickers!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

They are! I have not seen any Easter stickers I liked except those. Most are too cute or too religious or just not my style. So I took advantage of the 30% off.

[smallhobbit]

A decidedly busy day! Hope the meetings with the Gates Foundation go well.

Looking forward to seeing what you do with the stickers (I can't see them, presumably something to do with where I am compared with where you are.)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, I was so lazy this morning but I guess that's okay.

Ah, sorry about that. I will post the collage soon.

[kitarella_imagines]

Oh I've always wondered what Spring Break was! It's the Easter Holidays. Americans talk a lot about Spring Break and it seems college students treat it as a kind of orgy. So I was wondering what on earth it was like, but it's just the Easter Holidays.

Unfortunately I was location blocked from seeing the Easter eggs in nests, do you have a picture.

Oh I loooooooooooove miniature rooms and dolls houses! Especially when they have little lights in. I watch some competition shows where they build dolls houses from scratch. Thanks for the video!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Our school district schedules Spring Break the same week as Easter week but it doesn't have to be like that. Each district (or institution--like a university) can decide their own schedule. And of course many college students do go on vacation to beach towns and get loud and rowdy.

Sorry about that. I will make the collage.

Oh, yeah? I find it soothing. They are so much neater than I am when they do it.

[kitarella_imagines]

Oh it used to be like that in Britain: the Easter holidays were around whenever Easter as. But that meant the terms were different lengths each year, so the government decided that Easter holidays would be roughly the same time each year, and Easter just came at the beginning, the middle or the end of it.

It's okay, just some location problem with the video. I love your collages!

Yes those professional dollshouse makers are so neat aren't they. Unbelievably neat. Unfortunately my eyesight is too bad to attempt anything like that and I have to peer at a screen a lot for my job, so I can't afford to strain my eyes any more. But the videos are wonderful.

[debriswoman]

I hope Seattle went well, and offspring really do have a habit of thwarting expectations and assumptions . Happy spring break:-)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

He said the meetings in Seatle were positive.

I know! I was agog when I saw the kettle. Thank you!