Just Stuff
Just a sort of general update on what's up with all of us.
Sam's doing great, everything seems to be under control with his immune system at the moment. In fact he's been doing so well that he's got the okay from his doctors to take a couple of business trips. So he'll be going to the new San Antonio show next weekend (they added two new trade shows to their calendar this year) and in mid-October he's supposed to go to China for two weeks.
We've been hearing from Stephanie very frequently. She's taken a job in the admissions office and has settled into college life well. I had to laugh on Monday though when she surprised me with me a call in the middle of the day. She'd just gotten her first paper back and got a C. She was a little freaked out because she's never gotten a C before. I think she now understands that college is a whole new world and a kick in the pants never hurt anyone.
She's been to her first football game, which Oxy won. Watching her school win was a bit of a novelty, the high school team hasn't won a game in years. Her best friend Michelle leaves for school soon and Michelle spent a couple of days at Oxy with Steph this week. Steph had intended to take two months off from skating but says she's really missing it so she's going to start back up as soon as her skates are ready to go. Thinking she wouldn't be needing them I had left them in to be sharpened and relined but they should be ready this week. Once they call to say they are ready to be picked up she'll be all set.
Adam has settled into high school well although he's a bit bored in a couple of his classes. He's always been in honors math but didn't want to take honors geometry and he's bored stiff now but insists he doesn't want to switch. I'm not surprised at all that he's find geography boring, it's not exactly a challenging class but it's required. On the flip side he's finding honors biology much harder than he expected. At least one of his classes is challenging him.
Andrew's starting the school year out better than usual. He really likes his teachers this year. Today was the first game of the fall season for his Pony league. He's on the A's again. They've been looking good in practice but at the end of the second inning they were down 5 to 0. In the third inning we finally got a man on base then Andrew came to the plate and hit a solid double right into the gap to bring his teammate in before scoring himself after stealing both third and home.
In the fifth inning Cameron got on again and again Andrew hit another double to bring him in. Josh came up two batters later to bring in Andrew and then scored himself so the game was tied 5-5 which ended up being the final score. So Andrew's off to a good start going 2 for 3 today, with two RBI's.
I read and reviewed two books this week and thought I was done for the month (with reviews at least) but the mail brought two books I wasn't expecting as they are older titles. One I'll probably go ahead and review, the other I really have no interest in reading. There's a couple of article ideas I've got and a couple of different sites interested in both pieces but they'll require a lot of research so I'd rather put my time and energy into that at the moment and next week I've really got to get busy on putting together the school directory if I'm going to get that done so it can go home with the kids asap.
I'm a bit worried about Tami though. Tami's one of our cats. She hasn't been herself all day and she isn't interested in food. That's a big red flag with Tami as she loves to eat. She's not in any obvious distress though so I decided to wait and see how she does tomorrow. I'd much rather take her to our own vet if she's no better by Monday but if she's gets worse overnight or tomorrow I'll run her to the emergency animal hospital.
Sam's doing great, everything seems to be under control with his immune system at the moment. In fact he's been doing so well that he's got the okay from his doctors to take a couple of business trips. So he'll be going to the new San Antonio show next weekend (they added two new trade shows to their calendar this year) and in mid-October he's supposed to go to China for two weeks.
We've been hearing from Stephanie very frequently. She's taken a job in the admissions office and has settled into college life well. I had to laugh on Monday though when she surprised me with me a call in the middle of the day. She'd just gotten her first paper back and got a C. She was a little freaked out because she's never gotten a C before. I think she now understands that college is a whole new world and a kick in the pants never hurt anyone.
She's been to her first football game, which Oxy won. Watching her school win was a bit of a novelty, the high school team hasn't won a game in years. Her best friend Michelle leaves for school soon and Michelle spent a couple of days at Oxy with Steph this week. Steph had intended to take two months off from skating but says she's really missing it so she's going to start back up as soon as her skates are ready to go. Thinking she wouldn't be needing them I had left them in to be sharpened and relined but they should be ready this week. Once they call to say they are ready to be picked up she'll be all set.
Adam has settled into high school well although he's a bit bored in a couple of his classes. He's always been in honors math but didn't want to take honors geometry and he's bored stiff now but insists he doesn't want to switch. I'm not surprised at all that he's find geography boring, it's not exactly a challenging class but it's required. On the flip side he's finding honors biology much harder than he expected. At least one of his classes is challenging him.
Andrew's starting the school year out better than usual. He really likes his teachers this year. Today was the first game of the fall season for his Pony league. He's on the A's again. They've been looking good in practice but at the end of the second inning they were down 5 to 0. In the third inning we finally got a man on base then Andrew came to the plate and hit a solid double right into the gap to bring his teammate in before scoring himself after stealing both third and home.
In the fifth inning Cameron got on again and again Andrew hit another double to bring him in. Josh came up two batters later to bring in Andrew and then scored himself so the game was tied 5-5 which ended up being the final score. So Andrew's off to a good start going 2 for 3 today, with two RBI's.
I read and reviewed two books this week and thought I was done for the month (with reviews at least) but the mail brought two books I wasn't expecting as they are older titles. One I'll probably go ahead and review, the other I really have no interest in reading. There's a couple of article ideas I've got and a couple of different sites interested in both pieces but they'll require a lot of research so I'd rather put my time and energy into that at the moment and next week I've really got to get busy on putting together the school directory if I'm going to get that done so it can go home with the kids asap.
I'm a bit worried about Tami though. Tami's one of our cats. She hasn't been herself all day and she isn't interested in food. That's a big red flag with Tami as she loves to eat. She's not in any obvious distress though so I decided to wait and see how she does tomorrow. I'd much rather take her to our own vet if she's no better by Monday but if she's gets worse overnight or tomorrow I'll run her to the emergency animal hospital.
posted by Booklover at
7:48 PM
1 Comments:
What a busy week. Steph getting a C would be a shock for her, but a good one. I emailed her but haven't heard from her. Tell Adam, I am not half way to dead! I am glad Andrew is doing well. Give Sam a hug from us!
Love, Sis
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