Usually, I absolutely love our library. However, I came across an incompetent person and am now double-charged with a late fee for a video that was not supposed to be late (because that person renewed it… except that she didn’t renew it for 3 days but only for that very day on which I was calling the library. Makes no sense).
It’s not so much the $4 dollars that I will have to cough up that’s making me grumpy. It’s the UNFAIRNESS of it.
Once again, with feeling: This is so unfair!!!
OK, feeling better already.
Yesterday, we went for a family walk to the Middle School. The cherry tree grove there is in bloom – and it looks gorgeous and depressing at the same time. The trees are pretty, but also overgrown with vines and briars. From a distance – looks gorgeous. Close up – looks a bit like a run-down garden that no one has cared for in a long time. Also, whatever the variety of those decorative cherry trees – they are stinky! This is no gentle aroma – it’s pungent and headache-inducing.
We walked over to the school running track for some warm-ups and drills. My kids ran around the track and did cartwheels in the grass. The track was just gravel and dirt. There was a long-jump track, which consisted of asphalt runway overgrown with grass and a pit of sand. I kept thinking that when I went to school in Tukums (Latvia), the track there was nicer… like there were lines there, and the thing was covered in some sort of resin… But maybe I am remembering wrong. My memory also insists that the long-jump track I used as a teenager was nicer (bigger? Newer?) … Or it could be just my brain playing tricks on me. It just struck me as weird that the whole thing looked sad and run-down here, in a well-to-do neighbourhood in America. Maybe because track and field are not high priority here?
I am hoping to drag everyone out for a hike this evening, as soon as I am done with work. Which is what I am supposed to be doing now – working – but my poor brain is refusing to focus… The kids are supposed to be finishing up their instrument practice and chores (washing dishes and cleaning the family room), and based on the noises coming from downstairs, that’s exactly what they are doing.
During their free after-school time today, H is planning to bake a chocolate cake, E is planning to play minecraft, and C… actually, I don’t know what C wants to do. Maybe listen to a book or watch a cartoon? Oh, and they’ll be going to feed the geese. And then, maybe we can finally go for a hike!
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