spring break! long ramble
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fannishlisswow, I worked ALL DAY yesterday.... I stayed in bed as long as I could (9:15) and then it was time to face the music.
9:15 prepare breakfast for son, who had a bad tummy bug the day before to start out his spring break :( so we did not get to go see the pre-Raphaelites at the National Gallery. Son did NOT want his bagel, he wanted ramen. So prepared breakfast twice. :P
9:30 Must do laundry so son will have clean uniforms upon return from Puerto Rico. Note, we do not have a dryer because we are eco hippie freaks. So laundry time includes hanging. Also must start second load. Totally lose my cool over the wrecked mixture of dirty and clean clothes all over son's room. Son repents, cleans room while I am gone. I apologize for losing cool.
10:30 teach singing lesson.
11- 11:15 oops get involved in conversation about cross stitch with student's mum who is my friend. Son is making me nice cross stitch of Tardis on the plastic crossstitch stuff but he got stalled before finishing. :)
11:20, return home, behind schedule; hang second load, dress for church, oh crap am so late. But, am rocking the musician look in my black velvet top, black slacks and oxblood docs.
11:40 finally manage to convince son he is well enough to go with (he is).
11:45 time I am supposed to be at church. am in car on road at least.
11:53 across street from church waiting for light to change, argh, am late!!!
11:55-12 enter church, grab program, get accompaniment hymnal from sanctuary for piano in great hall, tune guitar, seat self. Am ready to go! Son gets into Acolyte robe.
12:05: service starts pretty much on time yay.
1:30 - 2:30 enjoy delicious Korean meal with son, who eats just this much soontubu (soft tofu stew with seafood); shop for Easter baskets
3:00 teach piano lesson to sweet hyper kid with best dog and spoiled guinea pig; dad of kid is excellent guitarist who offers to play guitar at my church if we need a guitarist; Idk why he always says such things, must not fully realize am paid accompanist; tbh nod politely
330 teach second piano lesson, where 11 yr old boy is being just excellent with Moonlight Sonata, reminding his day of His dad. Very awesome. Their fearsome dog does not bark at me like usual because the dad is there! She is a rescue dog and is totally not a pitbull right? o_O
415 return home. Manage to squeeze in half hour walk with husband and son, yay. So far I have kept my discipline and walked at least half an hour every single day in Lent. :)
5 Begin trying to get in to Turbotax. Also eat supper thanks to awesome husband.
6 Finally succeed at getting in to Turbotax. It's probably the same as my locked door curse (I am often locked out) that I have so much difficulty with usernames and passwords. For example, it is currently my car that locks me out. I traded keys with my husband and that has worked pretty well. I absolutely have to have Triple A; though, I think the last time they rescued me was more than a year ago, so I am doing well.
1145 Filed!!! success!!! This is in record time I think.
Saturday am -- wake at 6 am. yay. Today we go visit my mom for her birthday. Return home to prepare feast food for Sunday (we signed up for deviled eggs and cheese and crackers, because no time for anything else).
Sunday -- report to church at 615 am. Actually love to play for our sunrise service which is outdoors in our old cemetery. Really beautiful when the sun comes up over the hill and shines in through the trees during the service, which features the readings about Mary Magdalene searching for the body of Jesus in the garden, and Jesus appearing to her. One of my favorite passages, and also, I LOVE the hymn "In the Garden" which is so oldfashioned and sweet with its implied barbershop harmonies.
Gather for the 8:00 service at 7:15. Sing at 8, then sing again at 10. Be done at church by 12:30. Come home, collapse. Make sure have all packed for Puerto Rico.
Monday leave for Puerto Rico!!! We will be gone from April 1 to April 8. I will probably try not to be online much while I am on vacation. Poor son, lost ipod on school trip, is very despondent about loss of favorite thing, most likely stolen by idiots who did not realize ipod is locked. Sad. Son desperate for new ipod but unable to jump fast enough on ordering used replacement ipod from internet because hopeful of own ipods return. No joy. Hoping to assuage him with awesomeness of the Kindle Fire HD but really must admit it does not do what he liked to do with his ipod, which was mostly take videos. Still I have like a thousand songs on my new kindle, and am hoping to put some audio books on there for trip, and of course regular books, though, it does not do 3G which would have rocked like my old kindle.
Am thinking should get Mint for my kindle. Then could import into Turbo tax. Wonder if my record keeping would be any better with Kindle than with little book?? Probably not.
I hope you all have a great coming week. We had a really beautiful Seder at my church on Thursday night (it is part of our Maundy Thursday celebration) and I am in charge of setting it out... I made some really delicious haroset with a high concentration of walnuts, and had haroset and horseradish on Matzoh for breakfast and snack yesterday. Yum!! I gave myself plenty of time to set everything out on Thursday, arriving at 4:30 for the 6:30 celebration, and that was good -- we had to set out the tables, lay the table clothes, then set places for 40 people, and put out bowls of haroset and maror and salt water, and put parsley on everyone's plates, and set out matzoh and cover it, and put basins and pitchers and clothes for ceremonial washing of hands..... and yet everything was cool because we had plenty of time. One of the church young women is converting to Judaism so this was her fourth Seder of the week, and she was enthusiastic in telling us about how people do things and what kinds of Kosher she hopes to keep. Son's friend at school already sick of matzoh; we get to go to her bat mitzvah upon return from PR, very excited.
9:15 prepare breakfast for son, who had a bad tummy bug the day before to start out his spring break :( so we did not get to go see the pre-Raphaelites at the National Gallery. Son did NOT want his bagel, he wanted ramen. So prepared breakfast twice. :P
9:30 Must do laundry so son will have clean uniforms upon return from Puerto Rico. Note, we do not have a dryer because we are eco hippie freaks. So laundry time includes hanging. Also must start second load. Totally lose my cool over the wrecked mixture of dirty and clean clothes all over son's room. Son repents, cleans room while I am gone. I apologize for losing cool.
10:30 teach singing lesson.
11- 11:15 oops get involved in conversation about cross stitch with student's mum who is my friend. Son is making me nice cross stitch of Tardis on the plastic crossstitch stuff but he got stalled before finishing. :)
11:20, return home, behind schedule; hang second load, dress for church, oh crap am so late. But, am rocking the musician look in my black velvet top, black slacks and oxblood docs.
11:40 finally manage to convince son he is well enough to go with (he is).
11:45 time I am supposed to be at church. am in car on road at least.
11:53 across street from church waiting for light to change, argh, am late!!!
11:55-12 enter church, grab program, get accompaniment hymnal from sanctuary for piano in great hall, tune guitar, seat self. Am ready to go! Son gets into Acolyte robe.
12:05: service starts pretty much on time yay.
1:30 - 2:30 enjoy delicious Korean meal with son, who eats just this much soontubu (soft tofu stew with seafood); shop for Easter baskets
3:00 teach piano lesson to sweet hyper kid with best dog and spoiled guinea pig; dad of kid is excellent guitarist who offers to play guitar at my church if we need a guitarist; Idk why he always says such things, must not fully realize am paid accompanist; tbh nod politely
330 teach second piano lesson, where 11 yr old boy is being just excellent with Moonlight Sonata, reminding his day of His dad. Very awesome. Their fearsome dog does not bark at me like usual because the dad is there! She is a rescue dog and is totally not a pitbull right? o_O
415 return home. Manage to squeeze in half hour walk with husband and son, yay. So far I have kept my discipline and walked at least half an hour every single day in Lent. :)
5 Begin trying to get in to Turbotax. Also eat supper thanks to awesome husband.
6 Finally succeed at getting in to Turbotax. It's probably the same as my locked door curse (I am often locked out) that I have so much difficulty with usernames and passwords. For example, it is currently my car that locks me out. I traded keys with my husband and that has worked pretty well. I absolutely have to have Triple A; though, I think the last time they rescued me was more than a year ago, so I am doing well.
1145 Filed!!! success!!! This is in record time I think.
Saturday am -- wake at 6 am. yay. Today we go visit my mom for her birthday. Return home to prepare feast food for Sunday (we signed up for deviled eggs and cheese and crackers, because no time for anything else).
Sunday -- report to church at 615 am. Actually love to play for our sunrise service which is outdoors in our old cemetery. Really beautiful when the sun comes up over the hill and shines in through the trees during the service, which features the readings about Mary Magdalene searching for the body of Jesus in the garden, and Jesus appearing to her. One of my favorite passages, and also, I LOVE the hymn "In the Garden" which is so oldfashioned and sweet with its implied barbershop harmonies.
Gather for the 8:00 service at 7:15. Sing at 8, then sing again at 10. Be done at church by 12:30. Come home, collapse. Make sure have all packed for Puerto Rico.
Monday leave for Puerto Rico!!! We will be gone from April 1 to April 8. I will probably try not to be online much while I am on vacation. Poor son, lost ipod on school trip, is very despondent about loss of favorite thing, most likely stolen by idiots who did not realize ipod is locked. Sad. Son desperate for new ipod but unable to jump fast enough on ordering used replacement ipod from internet because hopeful of own ipods return. No joy. Hoping to assuage him with awesomeness of the Kindle Fire HD but really must admit it does not do what he liked to do with his ipod, which was mostly take videos. Still I have like a thousand songs on my new kindle, and am hoping to put some audio books on there for trip, and of course regular books, though, it does not do 3G which would have rocked like my old kindle.
Am thinking should get Mint for my kindle. Then could import into Turbo tax. Wonder if my record keeping would be any better with Kindle than with little book?? Probably not.
I hope you all have a great coming week. We had a really beautiful Seder at my church on Thursday night (it is part of our Maundy Thursday celebration) and I am in charge of setting it out... I made some really delicious haroset with a high concentration of walnuts, and had haroset and horseradish on Matzoh for breakfast and snack yesterday. Yum!! I gave myself plenty of time to set everything out on Thursday, arriving at 4:30 for the 6:30 celebration, and that was good -- we had to set out the tables, lay the table clothes, then set places for 40 people, and put out bowls of haroset and maror and salt water, and put parsley on everyone's plates, and set out matzoh and cover it, and put basins and pitchers and clothes for ceremonial washing of hands..... and yet everything was cool because we had plenty of time. One of the church young women is converting to Judaism so this was her fourth Seder of the week, and she was enthusiastic in telling us about how people do things and what kinds of Kosher she hopes to keep. Son's friend at school already sick of matzoh; we get to go to her bat mitzvah upon return from PR, very excited.
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Date: 2013-03-30 03:36 pm (UTC)Eco hippie freak here, too, except we do own a dryer, and I make my kids wash their own clothes. This leads to interactions like this: Daughter waits until she has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to wear tomorrow morning, so she has to use the dryer tonight, Mom. I tell her to choose an outfit for tomorrow, put that in the dryer, and hang the rest. She tells me it is ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE for her to know tonight what she will want to wear tomorrow morning. Sigh.
In the summertime we disconnect the dryer so nobody has any choice.
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Date: 2013-03-30 11:00 pm (UTC)We gave up our dryer years ago when we lived in an apartment where we had to pay the dryer in the basement with quarters. In outrage we began hanging everything on racks -- including the cloth diapers! (so that was 12 years ago, but we moved into that apartment in 97). We bought a house with no working dryer and no where to put one, so there we were! It just requires more forward planning. I'm happy that you unplug yours in the summer. :)
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Date: 2013-03-31 12:21 am (UTC)We had a brief period of cloth diapers and no dryer too, then we moved and gave in to temptation. And with my husband and I never using the dryer, and the kids using it only sometimes, I figure we're doing okay. About half our electricity comes from solar panels in the back yard, so our karma is shiny.
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Date: 2013-03-31 05:51 pm (UTC)We live in a co-op, which has certain drawbacks in terms of getting approval for improvements like solar.
I'd love to upgrade my water heater with a solar preheater though.
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Date: 2013-03-31 09:30 pm (UTC)Puerto Rico! Awesome! I'm jealous, especially given the nights in the 20s this week. I may use a clothes dryer (my experience is that nothing with any cotton in it can dry outside in the humidity here), but I try to cut my ecological footprint and power bill a little by keeping my heat at about 60. Given that the house has 45 million windows and the thermostat is in the warmest possible spot, when it's 20 degrees outside it is NOT 60 inside. No amount of firing the (rather small) woodstove can make the house toasty. So I would like a little Puerto Rico weather, please. And haroset.
Have an fantastic, molto bene trip!
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Date: 2013-03-31 11:29 pm (UTC)We are looking forward to PR. Don't really know what we are going to do except enjoy ourselves. Re the weather it seems to be in the 80s where we are going and we can't really wrap our minds around it. :D We've been to Brazil and El Salvador before, so this will be our third tropical experience. But it has just been chilly this year so it's hard to change the mindset.
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