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Friday, June 03, 2005
busy days
I put 200 miles on our car yesterday, which I don't mind doing if I'm going, you know, on a trip or something, but when it happens in the course of running errands, UGH. A hundred and fifty of the miles were from a trip to the valley to buy a part for our washing machine; thirty to take the cat to the vet and back (not to mention that I also paid $64 for an exam and some antibiotics for poor Mary who had an abscess of some sort on her jaw); thirty to go to a planning meeting for next year's Awana club at the chapel. At this point I feel like I never want to drive again, and that's without even thinking about how much I spent on gas yesterday. (you people who don't live in California and complain about your gas prices, I don't wanna hear it, or wait, I do, because maybe for a while I can pretend to be you so that I can find $2.00 a gallon really outrageous instead of unimaginably cheap. Remember when gas topped $1.50 and everyone shrieked in agony? sigh. the good old days.). I was going to go to Yosemite today to take pictures but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Maybe on Monday. So I spent today getting the kids to clean their rooms, working on school stuff, walking to the creek (with one of the neighbor kids) to hunt for tadpoles for the neighbor kids' pond, and DOING LAUNDRY WOO HOO. (yes, I cheer, even though I hate laundry. Because even more than I hate laundry, I hate having to pay to do laundry, like I did on Monday when our washing machine was broken so I had to drop another $20 at the laundromat to do six loads). I've been busy enough for the past two days to make me want a nap really, really badly right now.
By the way, I finished My Sister's Keeper at 3 AM on Wednesday, and then I read the new Elizabeth Berg (A Year of Pleasures) on Wednesday as well. (Which means that quite by accident I read two books in 24 hours about death -- one about dying, and one about grieving, which means that sort of thing has been on my mind a lot since then.) And now I'm almost done with Emma. Overcompensating? me?
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I was in the valley this morning and saw gas for $2.20 or so and thought "Wow! that is not bad" I remember when $1.70 was bad! ACK
Posted by: debi at June 3, 2005 03:49 PM
Boy. That's a lot of miles for one day. I thought Jason and I were crazy because we've put almost 45,000 miles on our car and we've only had it since Christmas '03. When we bought it it had 17 miles on it. It still runs like a champ, though and now that we only work a few miles from home now it will only be about 25,000 a year we've put on it instead of the 50,000 miles a year we were looking at!
How's kitty doing now? I miss tadpole hunting! I feel you on the gas price thing. It's down to $2.39 here now. I remember when I first bought my truck, about four years ago, the gas, in Los Angeles was .98 cents a gallon. Ten bucks filled up my tank. Now it takes about thirty. Ouch. At least we don't live in Hawaii!
What is My Sister's Keeper? Sounds interesting. I might actually post later today, so watch out.
Posted by: jenn at June 3, 2005 07:40 PM
Ugh, I'm so anal, that is why I must acknowledge that I put far too many "nows" in one sentence.
Posted by: jenn at June 3, 2005 07:41 PM
What do you think of "My Sister's Keeper"? I read it in February and absolutely LOVED it -- but cried buckets at the last chapter. I'm looking forward to reading your review of it.
Posted by: Maria at June 4, 2005 03:50 PM
