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School is out, I'm 33, and holy crap it got hot here overnight.
So school ended last Friday, and on Saturday a mom sent me an email asking about her kid's work. Uh, lady, it's too late. WAY too late. I am officially not on payroll anymore and don't have to do anything work related until August when I go back for the new school year (except for my two professional developments this week, but I'm getting paid extra for that since it's outside school hours). Also your kid didn't do anything anyway, so what makes you think now that's suddenly going to chance? Plus y'all moved school districts, so I'll never see you again! Enjoy your summer!
The only reason I even know she emailed me is because I have a science professional development that I don't know the date for because they did not make that knowledge available, so I opened my email two days after school ended to see if there was anything I needed to know. If it wasn't for that, it could have been weeks before I saw her email. Ahh, summer, the best part of my job.
So yeah, I turned 33 and reached out feelers to my friends to see if anybody was willing to celebrate it with me. Two spinsters were willing to come over, while the third was not, but compromised with a socially distanced picnic, so I spent my birthday in the park. We hadn't seen each other in two months, so we had a lot to say and sat there talking until full dark. Mako came with me and refused to settle down, wandering around and the picnic table and barking (howling/crying) at every dog that walked by. Three hours is a long time for my boy to be up and about, so he spent the next day sound asleep to make up for it.
For my birthday, my Relief Society kindly bought me a cookie from Crumbl (local cookie place), which I was super stoked about because Crumbl cookies are yum. I set it on my kitchen table then went upstairs to shower, figuring I'd eat it later with dinner. When I came back downstairs, I found my kitchen table crawling with ants. I don't know how long that cookie sat on my stoop, but apparently it was long enough to attract a swarm of ants! I set out killing the wee beasties, all the while mourning the cookie I could no longer eat (sadcries). Ah, well. It's the thought that counts, right?
For the record, Mako just sat there and stared at the ants. He didn't try to help me by eating them or squishing them. Useless, I say! Useless!
Mako makes great use of the doggie door to my back concrete pad, which is great because I don't want to have to take him out to the bathroom ever (I'm lazy and it's hot). Unfortunately, he howls at the neighbours. The neighbours to the east of me just got a new puppy (she's super cute) and take her out often in their pursuit of housetraining. Mako, if he's outside, howls (and if you haven't heard my dog howl....he's a wee tiny puppy, but boy can he make a loud noise). The neighbours have a little girl who howls back, which is cute, but also I'm sorry my loud dog is being annoying. Mako also howls at the neighbours to the west when they come out with their dog (or are outside for any reason). I've long been worried about annoying them, but I recently met them when Mako and I came back from a walk and they were sitting on the front lawn. The wife told me she's often wondered if Mako can worm his way under the fence to their side (he's so tiny!), and assured me if it ever happened he'd be welcome.
I still don't know those neighbours' names, and they don't know mine, but we exchanged dog names! Theirs is named June, and when I told them mine was Mako, they asked if it was from Legend of Korra. Ahh, kindred spirits we must be. ^__~ It made me like them that much more. (Still not enough to swap names--that's like actual effort--but enough. :D)
And yes, it's gotten super hot here. It went from pleasantly warm to 95degrees almost overnight. I'M MELTING. Or I would be if I went outside often. I usually take Mako on walks between 4 and 5:00, but now I'm waiting until 8:30pm. It's still super hot, but by that point the sun isn't directly overhead so it's doable.
It's only May. Am I in for another 3 months of 90+ degree heat? I'MMA DIE.
Oh! Fun facts about tornadoes! (Isn't that a great segue? There's a reason my 9th grade English teacher told me I hope subjects from paragraph to paragraph.) I was discussing tornadoes with Wesley earlier this week because I've been watching a kdrama where a freak tornado appeared and flung the heroine into North Korea (Crash Landing on You; it's pretty good). That's when I learned that the tornadoes are almost exclusively an American thing.
Say what?
That's right, Americans get the numbers! We get over 1,000 tornadoes per year. Canada comes in at a distant second with only 100 per year. (source) Yes, that's right, we get over 10x as many tornadoes as country number two. Growing up in America, I just thought tornadoes were part of life and never realized nobody else experiences them like we do (that said, I've never actually seen one in person, and I'd like to keep it that way, thank you very much). So that's your fun fact of the day that I learned thanks to a kdrama, and this has been your sporadic update on my life. See you next time I bother to remember I have a livejournal.
“Winsome?”
“Did you get that one from Ye Olde Thesaurus?” she teased him. “I don’t think anyone uses ‘winsome’ anymore.”
“Oh well, you winsome; you lose some.” ~~Spell It out
So school ended last Friday, and on Saturday a mom sent me an email asking about her kid's work. Uh, lady, it's too late. WAY too late. I am officially not on payroll anymore and don't have to do anything work related until August when I go back for the new school year (except for my two professional developments this week, but I'm getting paid extra for that since it's outside school hours). Also your kid didn't do anything anyway, so what makes you think now that's suddenly going to chance? Plus y'all moved school districts, so I'll never see you again! Enjoy your summer!
The only reason I even know she emailed me is because I have a science professional development that I don't know the date for because they did not make that knowledge available, so I opened my email two days after school ended to see if there was anything I needed to know. If it wasn't for that, it could have been weeks before I saw her email. Ahh, summer, the best part of my job.
So yeah, I turned 33 and reached out feelers to my friends to see if anybody was willing to celebrate it with me. Two spinsters were willing to come over, while the third was not, but compromised with a socially distanced picnic, so I spent my birthday in the park. We hadn't seen each other in two months, so we had a lot to say and sat there talking until full dark. Mako came with me and refused to settle down, wandering around and the picnic table and barking (howling/crying) at every dog that walked by. Three hours is a long time for my boy to be up and about, so he spent the next day sound asleep to make up for it.
For my birthday, my Relief Society kindly bought me a cookie from Crumbl (local cookie place), which I was super stoked about because Crumbl cookies are yum. I set it on my kitchen table then went upstairs to shower, figuring I'd eat it later with dinner. When I came back downstairs, I found my kitchen table crawling with ants. I don't know how long that cookie sat on my stoop, but apparently it was long enough to attract a swarm of ants! I set out killing the wee beasties, all the while mourning the cookie I could no longer eat (sadcries). Ah, well. It's the thought that counts, right?
For the record, Mako just sat there and stared at the ants. He didn't try to help me by eating them or squishing them. Useless, I say! Useless!
Mako makes great use of the doggie door to my back concrete pad, which is great because I don't want to have to take him out to the bathroom ever (I'm lazy and it's hot). Unfortunately, he howls at the neighbours. The neighbours to the east of me just got a new puppy (she's super cute) and take her out often in their pursuit of housetraining. Mako, if he's outside, howls (and if you haven't heard my dog howl....he's a wee tiny puppy, but boy can he make a loud noise). The neighbours have a little girl who howls back, which is cute, but also I'm sorry my loud dog is being annoying. Mako also howls at the neighbours to the west when they come out with their dog (or are outside for any reason). I've long been worried about annoying them, but I recently met them when Mako and I came back from a walk and they were sitting on the front lawn. The wife told me she's often wondered if Mako can worm his way under the fence to their side (he's so tiny!), and assured me if it ever happened he'd be welcome.
I still don't know those neighbours' names, and they don't know mine, but we exchanged dog names! Theirs is named June, and when I told them mine was Mako, they asked if it was from Legend of Korra. Ahh, kindred spirits we must be. ^__~ It made me like them that much more. (Still not enough to swap names--that's like actual effort--but enough. :D)
And yes, it's gotten super hot here. It went from pleasantly warm to 95degrees almost overnight. I'M MELTING. Or I would be if I went outside often. I usually take Mako on walks between 4 and 5:00, but now I'm waiting until 8:30pm. It's still super hot, but by that point the sun isn't directly overhead so it's doable.
It's only May. Am I in for another 3 months of 90+ degree heat? I'MMA DIE.
Oh! Fun facts about tornadoes! (Isn't that a great segue? There's a reason my 9th grade English teacher told me I hope subjects from paragraph to paragraph.) I was discussing tornadoes with Wesley earlier this week because I've been watching a kdrama where a freak tornado appeared and flung the heroine into North Korea (Crash Landing on You; it's pretty good). That's when I learned that the tornadoes are almost exclusively an American thing.
Say what?
That's right, Americans get the numbers! We get over 1,000 tornadoes per year. Canada comes in at a distant second with only 100 per year. (source) Yes, that's right, we get over 10x as many tornadoes as country number two. Growing up in America, I just thought tornadoes were part of life and never realized nobody else experiences them like we do (that said, I've never actually seen one in person, and I'd like to keep it that way, thank you very much). So that's your fun fact of the day that I learned thanks to a kdrama, and this has been your sporadic update on my life. See you next time I bother to remember I have a livejournal.
“Winsome?”
“Did you get that one from Ye Olde Thesaurus?” she teased him. “I don’t think anyone uses ‘winsome’ anymore.”
“Oh well, you winsome; you lose some.” ~~Spell It out