Sunday, September 21, 2008

September

What a gorgeous weekend.  Yesterday my landlords worked on putting vinyl siding on the front screen porch. It will look great (though losing some pretty architectural flourishes) and I'm glad their doing it despite the pounding.  I decided around lunch time to take the kids to McD's for lunch and some errands.  I'd hoped to sit in the sun at McD's and read "Kabul Beauty School", which Peter gave me for my birthday in Jun. 

Unfortunately 'tis the season for yellowjackets, or "meat bees" as I've heard them called so it cut short my reading and we came home.  The kids played on the playground and I actually hung out for awhile on the merry go round thingie......I'm still getting over whooping cough and so it was nice to just hang out.

Lots to do at home today, but I have two opposing forces here to contend with that I'm in the middle of....Jing wants to go, go go somewhere and was disappointed when I decided against going to the UU church we've attended for the last two weeks. J, on the other hand, has watched two movies so far today (Homeward Bound and Dinosaur)and would happily slug out on the couch for hours.  

So, it's looking like I'm going to have to boot myself and my cough and stitch or whatever it is I've done to my ribcage into gear and do something.  Most likely it will be the Garlic and Arts Festival up in Orange.  Cheap and low key, hopefully, without blaring midway rides or gimmegimme kotschke stuff.  Let's hope, anyway!