This and That
I have friends and family who can't understand why I re-read some books, and I think I'm ready to give up trying to explain it to them. It's not complicated; I do it because, first, these are books that I really enjoyed and I get that same joy every time I read them and second, because I seem to find it hard to find really good books that are new to me. That said, I'm annoyed because the Michael Crummey book "Galore", which I had placed a hold request for at my library came in, but for some unknown reason the email went to my junk mail folder and I missed it (it's got a lot of holds on it because my city has chosen it as it's One Book: One City book for 2014). It's weird, because I get their notices about items about to become due. Go figure.
In other news, my daughter has been working this week at her new job with an archaeology company; unfortunately, it's not going so well. The work is extremely demanding physically, she gets no direction in how to do things (which result in it taking her a lot longer to do things than others), and the other employees are downright taciturn. She works 10 hours a day and comes home exhausted. The point of taking the job was because she thought it would look good on her resume, but I have serious doubts about that now, and the physical toll on her is high. I told her to quit if it's too much; no job is worth this.
My son recently told me he feels he'll be able to move out on his own soon, which I know he's wanted to do for awhile. Then he added the caveat "so long as Dad could help me out a bit - maybe $100 a month or so". Um, yeah, Dad will be officially retired next month, taking a serious drop in income (one that was not supposed to happen for another 5 years). I'm trying to find work, even though it'll be very hard on me physically, just to help out. My son seems to have a different definition for "being on my own" than I do.
And finally - we have a bee problem IN THE HOUSE. This is not good, especially because my daughter has a huge bee phobia. Hubby blocked up some small hole in the brick outside where he saw some bees going in, and now we think some got blocked in and are somehow finding their way into the basement. Now we have to try and figure out exactly where they're coming into the basement and hopefully block that up too.
In other news, my daughter has been working this week at her new job with an archaeology company; unfortunately, it's not going so well. The work is extremely demanding physically, she gets no direction in how to do things (which result in it taking her a lot longer to do things than others), and the other employees are downright taciturn. She works 10 hours a day and comes home exhausted. The point of taking the job was because she thought it would look good on her resume, but I have serious doubts about that now, and the physical toll on her is high. I told her to quit if it's too much; no job is worth this.
My son recently told me he feels he'll be able to move out on his own soon, which I know he's wanted to do for awhile. Then he added the caveat "so long as Dad could help me out a bit - maybe $100 a month or so". Um, yeah, Dad will be officially retired next month, taking a serious drop in income (one that was not supposed to happen for another 5 years). I'm trying to find work, even though it'll be very hard on me physically, just to help out. My son seems to have a different definition for "being on my own" than I do.
And finally - we have a bee problem IN THE HOUSE. This is not good, especially because my daughter has a huge bee phobia. Hubby blocked up some small hole in the brick outside where he saw some bees going in, and now we think some got blocked in and are somehow finding their way into the basement. Now we have to try and figure out exactly where they're coming into the basement and hopefully block that up too.