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Sunday, August 17, 2003

Quiet...

I am one of those people who love rearranging furniture. Today I shifted our couch around perpendicular to where it used to be, and I'm trying to nag T into moving the piano to the place where the couch used to be, and putting the computer where the piano is, and the armchair where the computer desk is. So far he isn't caving. ;-).



Other than that today is pretty quiet, borderline boring. My parents took us to lunch (just at Burger King, and I was a good girl, had just a chicken whopper which is only 600 calories) -- with a 600 calorie dinner (which I've already had), that keeps me under 1500 for the day, and I still have hopes for a walk after T gets back from I'm-not-going-to-say-it,-i-will-have-one-diary-entry-without-mentioning-it with LT. C would rather watch (sigh) A Bug's Life than go for a walk with me, and that's OK because with her sweet short little legs, I can't get anywhere near "brisk" anyway, unless she's on my shoulders which can only last for so long before my neck protests too much. Today's weight is the same as yesterday's -- no big shock since I ate almost exactly the number of calories I would need to maintain my weight yesterday. :) Since lunch ended we've just been home -- did a lot of tidying in the living room, and the aforementioned rearranging, and not much else.



Locally, public school starts in a week. Then will begin the dozen-times-a-day question: "Why aren't you in school?" when LT is at the store or the post office or the park with me in the middle of the day. Sometimes I feel like making a placard for his chest saying, "I'm homeschooled, that's why not. It's also why I'm so well-mannered toward adults, even rude ones, and why my natural inquisitiveness hasn't been squelched by six hours a day of sitting unnaturally still listening to stuff I either already know or can't quite grasp." Most people around here, to be fair, think homeschooling is great, and we get far more positive reactions than negative ones. But it's kind of like being asked when you're due when you're pregnant -- you just get kind of tired of it.



There is a new bookstore going in in Smallish Shopping City. T and I have one of our silly bets about it -- if it is finished before October 15th, I win, and if it's after, he wins. I hate to break it to my darling life-mate but HE'S GONNA LOSE. We aren't sure what the stakes are yet -- usually it's something like getting to choose the next few movies for our biweekly date nights. The building is totally done, the glass is in the windows, the outside decorative brickwork is done, and they were laying the sidewalks when I drove by yesterday. I say it's a matter of a month or less before "my bookstore" (as the kids say) is ready for me to go in and spend a leisurely afternoon browsing. :)

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